01: Sister Leveling

"So, I lost my virginity to my sister."

No one in their right mind would start a conversation like that. It wasn't normal, not even in sweet home Alabama.

"Correction, my stepsister." Just try to imagine this; you sleep with a girl, only to find out a few days later that she had suddenly become your new stepsister. That was exactly the situation Natsuo Fujii was dealing with.

The lights in the corridor were off. Natsuo leaned against the wooden wall, holding his head.

Although he also liked to joke about the porn trope of helping your stepsister stuck in the washing machine, he did not actually mean he really wanted to fuck his own stepsister. 

What the hell was his father thinking?!

What were the odds that the daughter of his father's girlfriend would turn out to be the only woman he had ever had sex with in his entire life?!

"When you put it this way, it sounds scandalous," Interrupting his thoughts was the stepsister in question. She leaned casually from the bathroom door while speaking with a completely blank tone that gave nothing away about her true feelings on the matter.

"Because it is scandalous!" Natsuo wanted to scream, but he forced himself to keep his voice down to avoid alerting the others in the living room. Instead, he hissed the words in a low voice.

"So I lost my virginity to my stepbrother. Hmm, that does sound scandalous. It could really get you thrown in prison if it were taken out of context."

The girl stepped closer and leaned against the wall beside him.

She was quite beautiful, with short blue hair cut into a bob and sharp eyes. She gave off the impression of a cute girl anyone would want to get close to, if not for the face she was making.

Her face is almost always neutral with a faint perpetual frown that seemed to drive people away long before they even had the chance to approach her properly.

"What should we do now?" Natsuo gave her a sidelong glance and asked.

"Don't tell anyone about what happened. In fact, forget it ever happened. Let's just act like a normal family from now on," Rui Tachibana answered calmly.

"That's easy to say. Isn't that how dramas always start? We try our hardest to hide something like this, and somehow it ends up getting exposed in the end," Natsuo said, shaking his head with an extremely serious expression.

"You are indeed right. Perhaps in a few weeks my sister will find out that I did not get my period," Rui agreed with him as she brought both hands up to her face, and suddenly her tone changed dramatically, "Rui-chan! What is the meaning of this?! Are you pregnant?!"

"No, Hina-nee! I can explain everything!"

"How could you do this?! You are still so young! Who is the father?! Tell me right now who it is?!"

"It is... It is... Natsuo."

"Na-natsuo-kun?! I-impossible! He is your stepbrother! Since when did this happen?!"

"Natsuo-kun, is that true? You slept with your stepsister?!" Rui held tightly onto Natsuo's shirt and spoke in a shaky voice filled with emotion, even though her facial expression remained almost completely neutral as always.

"Wait, let me tell you something! Let me tell you something! I can explain everything! Hear me out, please! It is not how it looks at all!" Natsuo grabbed her hands and said in a panicked tone.

"What are you going to explain?! You slept with your stepsister! Natsuo-kun! You're the worst! You disappointed me! I was wrong about you all this time!"

Rui shook her head and pushed his hands away. She took a step back, her body swaying slightly. Grabbing the wall for support, she looked at him and asked, "What are you going to do about the child?"

"Hina-nee, I will keep the child!" Rui suddenly changed her tone back to normal and said it firmly as she looked straight at Natsuo with determination. "Even if it means that I have to raise it on my own!"

Right after that, her tone shifted completely back to that of Hina as she continued, "Rui... You! You are still so young!"

"Natsuo! Say something!" She pointed directly at him while saying, "You are responsible in this matter!"

"If she wants to keep it, then it is her body, her choice, and I am not interfering in that at all," Natsuo shrugged his shoulders as he spread his hands wide while shaking his head slightly. "I am pro-choice from now on."

"You want me to raise the child on my own?! Natsuo, I knew you were a loser, but I didn't think you were a scumbag, too!" Rui grabbed his shirt with both hands and shouted.

"You are the one who chose to keep the child. I myself still consider myself a child, so how do you expect me to raise one? Ridiculous!" Natsuo slapped her hands away and glared at her.

"Hmph! As expected of you, Natsuo-kun. Your scumminess is on par with my father's. You're more his child than I am." Rui returned to her normal tone. She leaned closer until their faces were only a few inches apart and asked, "Do you get it now?"

"Alright, nothing ever happened between us," Natsuo nodded, then he pushed her aside and walked into the bathroom. He paused, saying, "Also, you are the scumbag here. You took my virginity and don't want to take responsibility."

"..." Rui's neutral face flushed slightly. She hurriedly turned around and walked away. "Hurry up and come downstairs. Don't make them worry!"

With the sound of water flowing steadily from the faucet, Natsuo splashed the cold water over his face repeatedly and looked at his own reflection in the mirror with a heavy sigh. "What a complete mess."

"Well, a stepsister is still better than her turning out to be some long lost biological sister who came out of nowhere."

Staring at the mirror, Natsuo touched his reflection with his fingers. He was quite handsome, with black hair and olive green eyes. He had a soft, approachable look combined with firm gazes that had a fatal attraction, especially to mature women.

He always gets groped by milfs whenever he goes outside.

Unfortunately, even though he was good looking, he had not gotten laid during the first sixteen years of his life.

"Should I move out? I can rent an apartment and find a girlfriend as well." Wiping his face with a towel, he muttered to himself, but then he shook his head. "If I move out right away, my old man will overthink everything and assume that I am opposed to his marriage."

Natsuo had a secret that he had never told anyone. He was someone who had reincarnated from another world. Well, reincarnation is not exactly the correct term to describe his situation.

Since he was a baby, Natsuo had always possessed a much clearer and more mature mind than everyone around him. He always felt that children his age were far too childish and uninteresting in their behaviors and conversations.

Then, around a year ago, he suddenly fell into a coma for two full days. When he finally woke up, he discovered entirely new memories flooding into his mind that changed everything about how he viewed his current life.

Strange memories that seemed to come from another life or perhaps an entirely different world flooded his consciousness. They appeared to be memories of his past life. However, the truly weird thing about them was that those memories did not include anything at all about his personal life, such as his original name, the family he once had, or any other details related to his identity in that previous life.

Since then, Natsuo had used these memories to accumulate a decent sum of money for himself. He started publishing novels based on stories from his past life memories, which generated enough income for him to become financially independent at a young age.

He was also seriously thinking about investing in other promising ventures, but he had not accumulated sufficient capital for any major real investment opportunities just yet.

The reason for that was that when he tried to copy popular novels or manga from his past life memories, he discovered that about 90% of them already existed in this current world. All the truly famous and iconic works were already present here, so he could only select and adapt some decent but lesser known works that did not exist in this world in order to generate a reasonable amount of money.

The only real investment he had made so far was buying Bitcoin.

"Natsuo, come sit! Everyone is waiting for you!" When he returned to the living room, his father called him over to sit at the table. His father's face was flushed bright red; it seemed that he had drunk quite a bit of alcohol already.

He was laughing loudly and cracking silly jokes, which his new wife Tsukiko Fujii found amusing as she laughed along with him.

"Yes," Natsuo sat down, glanced at Rui, who gave him a blank look, then turned to Hina, "Sensei, do I have to stop calling you Sensei now?"

Hina was his English teacher, and she fit the stereotype of an English teacher perfectly. She had all the "qualifications." She was a beautiful young woman with exquisite features, dark brown hair like her mother's, and emerald green eyes that were even more vibrant than Natsuo's.

More importantly, she was incredibly thick! Her curvaceous body had the perfect amount of flesh distributed in all the right places. She was wearing a sleeveless white shirt and a pair of dolphin shorts, the low neckline revealing quite a bit of cleavage.

His relationship with Hina had always been quite close, even before she suddenly became his older stepsister. In fact, they could almost be considered close friends.

"Haah! That hit the spot!" Hina brought a can of beer to her mouth and tilted her head back, downing the entire bottle in one go, letting out a long, satisfied sigh afterward.

Then she grinned playfully at Natsuo and leaned closer to him, saying, "Of course! We are now family; you don't have to be formal. Come on, say it."

"Should I call you onee-chan, onee-san? Or perhaps..." Natsuo leaned closer as well and whispered into her ear, "Onee-sama?"

"Huh! Natsuo-chan, you're such a tease!" Hina's heart skipped a beat for a split second. She quickly pulled back, pouting as she glared at him. Picking up another beer can, she said, "It's not good to tease your older sister like this!"

The five of them continued chatting while eating. When Tsukiko finished cleaning the table, Hina pulled Natsuo to the sofa to watch TV, laughing at the comedy show while drinking more beer.

"Don't stay up late," Tsukiko said as she and his father headed toward their bedroom.

"Yes, yes," Hina waved her hand without looking at them, leaning on Natsuo. "This is so nice. I always wanted to have a younger brother."

"So you can boss him around?" Natsuo moved his butt to the side to create some distance from her and said sarcastically with a smirk.

"How mean! I want to dote on my younger brother, you know? I already have someone else to boss around!" Hina pouted cutely. The table in front of them was filled with empty beer cans that she had drunk, so she was, of course, quite drunk by now and spoke without any filters whatsoever.

"Oho? So that is what you think of me?" Rui's head suddenly inserted itself between the two of them from behind the sofa.

"Rui-chan?! I didn't mean to! Ouch! Ouch, don't, don't!"

Hina stiffened, trying to force a smile, but Rui directly pulled her off the sofa and dragged her by the leg.

"Onee-chan, you're drunk. I'll take you to your room."

"You too, you should go to sleep early. You have class tomorrow," she glanced at him and said before leaving, taking with her the struggling drunk English teacher.

Natsuo cleaned up the table and threw the empty cans in the trash. He picked up a bottle of mineral water from the fridge and went to his room as well.

Thud!

Falling heavily onto his bed, Natsuo stayed there for a long while before turning onto his back and staring at the ceiling.

Not going to lie, suddenly having two beautiful women under the same roof, with no blood relation, was starting to feel a bit strange.

Ding!

Just then, his phone rang, interrupting his thoughts. He crawled across the bed and picked up his phone from the nightstand. There he saw a new notification displayed on the screen.