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Revision as of 14:55, 20 October 2013
Status: Incomplete
Cooperative tactic!?
Recently I feel like I’m losing my dignity as a man.
Speaking frankly, I’m being made fun of.
And that’s because.
The pretty freeloader ghoul girl that came suddenly ― Zonmi Ra McKenzie.
The devil-like little sister that lurks inside the Kusumi home ― Kusumi Manami.
Currently trapped in these two’s pace, my life of being dominated goes by without issue.
Hey, hey.
What a situation I, whose catchphrase is “To hell with sissy main characters” and does not want also to be known as a “bossy husband in the flesh”, have ended in…
It’s an urgent matter that must not be left unresolved.
… Nevertheless.
A ghoul and my blood-related sister. That pair of selfish-to-the-core pretty girls that are constantly letting out sighs of ‘Something must be done about this personality…!’ are impossible to be kept in check.
In the end, I ― today like always I can’t help but being controlled.
“Chiharu. Are they going to celebrate a festivity soon in this town?”
Morning. While on the bus heading to the station.
While standing to my right, the one who asked me that was Zonmi the ghoul.
Straight long silver hair reminiscent of white snow, slender limbs.
Her features without flaw, her dignified gaze gives her a cold aura ― a beautiful girl with the atmosphere of a cool beauty.
“Aah. You mean the Saegusa festival. It’s a big festival that encompasses the Tanabata Festival, a summer festival and a fireworks rally.”
The preparation being made in Saegusa city as the day approaches have greatly changed the town scenery.
Though there’s still time until Tanabata, the hastiest shops have already started to place the stalls.
“I see. It’s a festival overflowing with greed. By the way, Chiharu, are you planning on going with someone to it?”
“Nope. No one in special at this moment…”
“Is that so? That’s surprising.”
“… Izzat so?”
Could it be that inside Zonmi’s head I give an impression of having many friends?
Though that said, it’s not very wrong.
Zonmi, pondering about something for a moment,
“By the way, Chiharu, are you currently seeing someone?”
That’s quite the sudden question she has made.
“In the least. That’s not possible…”
Simply look at my usual lifestyle and you’d understand!
Even if I’ve been truthful, for some reason Zonmi’s expression harbors suspicion.
“Chiharu… It’s not good to lie to me. Wouldn’t it be better for you to tell me the truth?”
“I’m not lying…”
Isn’t that because I couldn’t get a girlfriend for 16 years?
“I see. I’ve got a gist of the situation.”
“Hoo, so you’ve finally understood?”
“Yes. There’s no ‘person’ you’re going out with, because it’s a ‘monster’ who you are going out with. Isn’t that what Chiharu means?”
“Wouldn’t it better be if I have neither a human girlfriend nor a monster girlfriend!?”
“… Muu.”
Even when I explained myself without delay, Zonmi seems like she’s still not convinced.
Why does Zonmi distrust me that much.
Or rather, that about a ‘monster girlfriend’ gives the impression of having a highly destructive potential…
“―Ah!”
I’ve just realized something.
“Could you be talking about the pendant?”
So it was that. I had totally forgotten that I’m wearing the pendant I found yesterday.
When I asked, Zonmi nodded with an embarrassed face,
“Yeah. No matter what, it doesn’t seem to suit Chiharu…”
“… Perhaps a little.”
I’m not someone who wears many accessories, for starters.
“Could it be something you received from a past lover?”
“Hardly, since as I’ve kept telling you, I’m a male virgin who’s been 16 years without a girlfriend.”
Don’t make me say it. It’s embarrassing.
“…”
“…”
“……”
“…… Wha?”
Even though I’ve said the truth, it seems as if the air around us instantly froze.
It seems that “male virgin” is a taboo expression to Zonmi.
“So it’s like that. It seems that I became oversuspicious. Of course someone that speaks with no delicacy… Won’t be able to get a lover. No doubt I must excuse myself.”
Zonmi looks like she despises me.
“… No problem.”
Looks like I’ve cleared her doubts, but… What the heck. This is surely very complex…
“Haah…”
I let out a deep sigh.
No matter what, I didn’t think this pendant would raise so much suspicion.
Do I look like an outsider to fashions?
Since it appeared out of nowhere inside my room and it surprisingly fit me nice, I tried wearing it, but… Truth to be told, I didn’t think it would cause such a fuss.
Have I to conceal it under my shirt[1] so to prevent someone else from seeing it, getting suspicious and causing a riot?
“Going back on track. So, you are not going to participate this year?”
“Nope. I had planned on going, at least…”
Maybe I’ll go together with my classmate Youhei… I believe that, him being him, it seems that he won’t let the chance scape.
“I have been asked by Manami, like a demon, day after day, but… Going to a festival with my little sister at our age is of course embarrassing… I think I better pass.
“I see. I think it’s a commendable judiciousness.”
“If you’re interested, would you like that we two went together?”
“… Wha?”
As it seemed that Zonmi became momentarily speechless and had her mouth agape, soon after she became panicked with her face pure red ―
“Whawhawha, what the heck do you plan by saying that!? Maybe, what you mean with those words… Do you have the intention to be on a date with me!?”
“… No. Nothing so flashy.”
My intentions.
“Wasn’t only recently that Zonmi came to Saegusa city? You’re still not familiar with this area.”
Needless to say, my aim is that if I have someone that I planned to go with, it will be easier to fend off my sister’s approaches.
“… Th-thank you very much from the bottom of my heart.”
Totally in disarray, Zonmi took a deep breath in.
“Sadly, I must decline. Because basking under the summer sun while taking a stroll in the middle of a crowd… Is life-threatening to a ghoul…”
“Ah―”
That’s right, didn’t she tell me before? That each year on summer 100,000 ghouls were sent to hospital?
If it’s like that, then there’s no way around.
And recently it’s been abnormally hot.
To the human-hating + weak to heat Zonmi, an event like a festival could be like hell.
“Then… Though you can’t attend to the summer festival, what if we go somewhere indoors―”
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References and Translation Notes
- ↑ I don’t know whether what Japanese call Y-Shaatsu is a WHITE shirt or a short-sleeved shirt; I only know that the term does not exist on the main English-speaking countries. - In English speaking nations, what the Japanese call a Y-Shirt is called a button up shirt, or dress shirt. And English speaking countries have no clue why the Japanese call them Y-Shirts.
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