Chapter 255: Big Brother, You Got Kicked Out of the House by Utaha-nee!?

8:30 PM, outside the cafe.

“Did you really kick Miyahito-kun out?” Crossing her arms, Machida Sonoko looked at Utaha beside her, who was wearing a slim-fit trench coat and a red scarf, with a slightly surprised expression.

“Of course.” Utaha nodded with absolute certainty. “We agreed to have a date just like normal high school couples. What kind of high schooler lives with their lover!”

Seeing Utaha’s self-righteous attitude, yet her words giving off a chuunibyou vibe, Sonoko shook her head speechlessly and said in a tone like a worried old mother, “Utaha-chan, leaving other things aside, do you think there’s any high schooler who can confess to you in front of so many people, including teachers, like Miyahito did?”

“Besides…..”

‘Look at yourself. What girl accepts a confession in front of that many people?’

Enduring Sonoko’s calm yet slightly disdainful gaze, Utaha paused, then subconsciously reached up to pull her scarf up a bit over her mouth. Lowering her eyelids, she spoke in a tone resembling a coquettish little girl.

“Hmph, mind your own business… (30-year-old spinster).”

Fortunately, Utaha remembered to utter that last ‘spinster’ in a voice too low for Sonoko to hear.

Otherwise, the next second, she would deeply understand the unspeakable, indescribable pain in the heart of a career woman who ‘gets nagged every time she goes back to her hometown, can only drink alone on her days off, and has no activities other than working overtime.’

Unable to hear that final murmur, Sonoko tilted her head, tapping her slightly puffed cheek with her fingertip. She looked at Utaha’s current girlish display with keen interest and said, “Let’s go, Utaha-chan.”

“Eh.” Caught off guard, Utaha responded blankly. Following Sonoko’s lead toward a familiar direction, she asked the editor walking ahead of her, “Where are we going?”

“Taking you home, of course.” Turning her face, Sonoko raised her hand with five fingers spread, smiling coolly at the author behind her.

“Did you think I was taking you somewhere else? Sorry, but the place big sister is going to later isn’t really suitable for high schoolers.”

“Besides, big sister really doesn’t want to be chased with a wooden sword by Miyahito.”

“…”

To be honest, it was a good thing the uninhibited person in front of her was her editor… well, a woman.

Otherwise, based on what this woman said and her expressions and gestures, it would be enough for Utaha to call the police and have them come calm this woman down.

“Sigh…”

There was a hint of a tired mother’s exhaustion in Utaha’s sigh.

“This is why your weekend activities, aside from browsing the internet and complaining, consist solely of drinking alone, Wako-san.”

“!”

Shocked! This brat knows about my weekend activities!?

Ah, no! That’s not the point! This damn brat is mocking me!

“Utaha-chan, you…..”

Before the words could fully leave her mouth, Utaha’s hand gently resting on her shoulder interrupted Sonoko.

Raising her eyebrows slightly, her eyes carrying a mix of smugness and pride, the corners of Utaha’s lips curled as she spoke with a faint, unshakeable confidence.

“How about we take this opportunity, while you have free time on your day off and don’t have to deal with a date, to slightly improve your ‘womanly charm’?”

“My dear editor-san.”

…..

After taking a bath, Miyahito, whose entire body was warmed up, returned to his second-floor room looking somewhat listless.

Throwing himself onto the bed, he lay face down on the mattress and weakly reached out toward the desk by the bed. After struggling to grope around the surface for a moment.

Grabbing the air conditioner remote, Miyahito sluggishly turned his head to check the heating temperature displayed on it.

Pressing a few buttons at random, he heard the air conditioner by the wall emit a ‘beep’ as it continuously pumped out warm air. Miyahito’s hand holding the remote then ‘thumped’ directly onto the cotton quilt.

After lying quietly for a while.

Suddenly, Miyahito started rolling around on the bed.

Rolling left and right, he casually snagged a corner of the blanket. Riding the momentum, he bundled himself up until he looked just like a blanket caterpillar.

“Ah! I’m so boooored!!”

Breaking free from the blanket roll, Miyahito spread his limbs out, lying on his back in a () character shape, staring at the ceiling with a look of utter despair, and shouted loudly.

“Being alone is so boring!! Utaha! Utaha! Utaha!”

Shouting his girlfriend’s name three times, Miyahito didn’t actually expect Utaha to appear just because he called out.

After all, he knew Utaha wasn’t in this house right now.

“So boring!” Flipping over to hug a pillow, Miyahito clamped the quilt between his thighs. Like a mischievous brat, he ruthlessly crushed the pillow in his arms and the quilt between his legs, complaining dissatisfiedly about being bored.

After acting crazy for a short while.

Calming down, Miyahito turned his head with a somewhat aggrieved expression, resting his cheek on the pillow, and stared straight at the black screen of his phone in his hand.

“Utaha, why haven’t you called me yet, seriously.”

After nagging about his irresponsible girlfriend, Miyahito gave up and casually tossed the phone aside, then rolled over again.

Suddenly.

The phone he had casually tossed aside suddenly vibrated.

Before the screen could even light up and ring the first ringtone, a hand lightning-fast grabbed the phone and lightly tapped the answer button on the screen.

“Eh? So fast!”

“Utaha?”

The person on the other end of the line and Miyahito spoke at the same time, and then both fell into a simultaneous silence.

‘Huh? This voice…. doesn’t seem like Utaha’s.’

His brain a bit slow, Miyahito was silent for a fraction of a second. The moment his brain started working again.

A familiar face quickly matched with the voice he heard on the phone in his mind.

At the same time.

“Sorry, Big Brother, I’m not Utaha-nee.”

“…Eh, well, um, Ayase.” With an expression so embarrassed he wanted to bury himself, Miyahito scratched his cheek, his voice hesitant and stammering.

“Um, well, yeah….. I didn’t mean to, I just didn’t recognize Ayase’s voice all of a sudden, really! I, um, didn’t do it on purpose….”

Hearing Miyahito’s awkward and flustered voice on the phone, Ayase, sitting at her desk in her room, sighed like a little adult and comforted him.

“It’s okay, Big Brother, no need to explain. I’m not that petty.”

“Right, haha.”

Hearing his sister comfort him, Miyahito scratched his hair in embarrassment, then very naturally skipped the topic.

“By the way, Ayase, aren’t you supposed to be reviewing your lessons around this time? Why are you calling me now?”

“Can’t I call Big Brother even if there’s nothing specific~?”

“Of course you can. I was just curious why you called at this time.”

“Hehe, it’s not like there’s nothing, though.”

“Oh? Do you need life counseling from Big Brother? Big Brother welcomes it with open arms.”

“Not at all! Big Brother, be serious for a second.”

“Alright, alright, go ahead.”

Clutching her phone, a mischievous, schadenfreude-filled smile on her little face, young Ayase spoke cheerfully to her brother on the other end of the line.

“Hey, Big Brother.”

“I heard you got kicked out of the house by Utaha-nee!?”

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