Hidan no Aria:Volume11 Chapter2

2nd Ammo - Sports Festival -La Lissa-

Kaname had experienced two failures recently. Arcanum Duo, and the Lumberjack. It seemed that these experiences had 'cured' her, so to speak. She realised that she was worthless as a weapon, and losing in the duel broke her self-confidence. She seemed to living a normal middle-school life. The middle-school she's going to is far from normal, though. I started to see less and less of the scientific swords she was so proud of. Well, it's a good thing though. Aria, who starts firing over who gets to use the remote, or Riko, who sets up landmines for fun, are the ones in the wrong. Kaname should live like a normal person. I really thought that way. She's at an age where she can still turn her life around.

I also felt like Kaname's attitude towards me had changed dramatically. I kind of felt like she had started keeping a little bit of distance from me, appropriate to the brother-sister relationship she insisted we were in. She stopped clinging to me the way Riko did, which was a huge relief. But still, she was a total kid, and very attached to me. From time to time I would catch her doing some incomprehensible things, like staring at me from hiding. It was the kind of action that I would see in Jeanne's shoujo manga, plotlines like: "I've fallen in love but my crush is my brother so I can't show it." There were a lot of things like this that made it hard for me to stay home, but it was better than when she used to threaten to stab me thirty times because I was hanging out with other girls. I suppose I could bear it.

...I was careless.