I really don't want to be reborn.

Kirino Kousaka smiled in response, her ears turning red.

The two stared at each other, and she knelt in front of him, her hands still on his shoulders, frozen in that position.

Oh?

Were they talking about me back then...?

In other words, Yu Jing got beaten up for nothing?

Not only did he beat him up, but he also indirectly smashed his stall. After showing off his power like a thug, he even wanted to treat him to a meal.

—Wow, I'm getting all the star treatment I deserve!

……

Okay, that's not the point.

Kousaka Kyosuke scrutinized his sister like never before, from head to toe: her smooth forehead, her slightly moist eyes, and her long, fluttering eyelashes.

A straight line leads down to a high nose bridge, and her slightly round face is flushed with an unusual blush. The fear in the corners of her eyes is like a cloud of worry in the darkness.

He then realized that their faces were only a few centimeters apart. Those last few dangerous centimeters were like a spring compressed to its limit, which bounced the brother and sister, who were so ambiguous that they were about to die apart, away.

Kirino seemed to wake from a dream, and hurriedly grabbed the cotton swabs in her hand, her voice barely audible: "I've...I'm done, brother."

"Oh, thank you."

"Ah."

Kyosuke Kosaka thanked him as if he were hiding something, while his sister absentmindedly tidied up the medicine, and his room returned to calm.

I need to re-evaluate my younger sister.

He needed to re-evaluate his relationship with his sister—he thought to himself, because just now, he had actually had the urge to kiss her.

Is this really a good idea?

This self-reflection came to an abrupt end at dinner the following day.

"Going to America? Kirino?"

"I heard that it's so that they can receive guidance from a famous track and field coach and live in the United States before entering high school."

Mr. Daisuke snorted: "Anyway, I really can't accept it... Don't you think this is too exaggerated?"

My sister went to America...

Yes, it seems that in many previous resets, Kirino did indeed go to the United States at the beginning of this year.

It's that damned fate again, like a maggot.

Kousaka Kyosuke relaxed, glanced at his younger sister who was talking to their mother, and expressed his opinion.

"Can I not go?"

He couldn't bear to part with it.

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I'm taking a break today.

This is just a dry draft, please don't mind it.

Chapter 41 There is nothing new under the sun.

"I think if I want to go abroad, I should at least wait until I graduate from junior high school."

"I agree!"

“I’ve spoken with the track and field team’s advisor several times, and he said that this is a very good opportunity for Kirino.”

"You believe what consultants and experts say?"

"Oh, Kyosuke, so you don't want your sister to fly away, huh?"

"Not at all!"

The two men in the house were taking turns speaking, Kyosuke looking unhappy, and Daisuke looking equally unhappy.

It's rare to see a brother who's obsessed with his sister and a brother who's obsessed with his daughter standing on the same side.

Kirino winked at her brother and went upstairs, while Kano's mother buried herself in cleaning the dishes, completely ignoring the unreasonable father and son.

Mr. Daisuke sighed, "There's no way to apply for scholarships or study abroad grants, so it costs a lot of money, about five million yen a year."

"no big deal."

"Enough, Kyosuke! I've had enough of your nouveau riche attitude!"

Calm down!

Eat some shit to calm down!

Kyosuke Kosaka smiled wryly. Even a father's anger should be subject to basic laws.

"Anyway, I told her I wouldn't pay the money, and I'm not joking, I really wouldn't. I don't want my fourteen-year-old daughter to go to such a faraway place."

This is also something he, as the older brother, cares about.

The United States is too far away; if an emergency were to occur, he wouldn't be able to fly there immediately...

"But you still agreed to her request in the end?"

"Hmph, her stubbornness is inherited from me. She actually pushed a savings book with five million in it in front of me, saying it was money saved from modeling work and novel royalties, and that I should use it to pay."

"It's true that women tend to go bad when they have money; it's not surprising."

Kyosuke Kosaka sighed and fanned the flames, stirring up the doting father's nerves: "Who knows, she might meet some scumbag boyfriend in America and bring him back for us to see."

Daisuke groaned, clearly hurt by what he had just heard.

But then he pushed up his glasses and sneered, "You really think you can stand it? I'd like to see your expression when Kirino finds a boyfriend—you're the one who's embarrassing yourself with the fight on the 28th, Kyosuke?"

Kyosuke fell silent, his expression resembling a table leg that had been violated by a dog—unable to be touched.

Well, he didn't want his sister to have a boyfriend, nor did he want her to go to places he couldn't control.

But that's just Kirino's personality; once she's made a decision, she won't listen to anyone else's opinion.

"I'll go talk to her again."

Kyosuke walked up and stood in front of his sister's room, hesitating for a long time before knocking.

He was thinking about what reason he could use to keep her here.

What does it feel like to have your sister away for a year? — That feeling is too distant to recall.

But I still have a general impression.

He stood at the airport to see his sister off. The morning air was thin and calm, like clear flowing water.

As Kirino looked back with her suitcase in hand, he felt as if a long river stretched between them, flowing between the moon in the sky and the moon reflected in the water.

That left a very bad impression.

"Come in, brother."

The girl, sitting upright on the bed, watched him walk in, but her mood was not as calm and indifferent as she appeared.

She wants to leave for a while.

Some things can have multiple starting points, and can begin in different ways.

Sometimes you might think she's just repeating the same steps she's taken before, but in reality, her life has already turned a new page.

Kirino smiled and clasped her hands together: "Please, Onii-chan, this is the first life consultation of the new year!"

…………

As the saying goes, "The plan for the day is made in the morning, and the plan for the year is made on New Year's Day." A few days after New Year's Day, Kyosuke Kousaka was a little confused.

It wasn't because he lost too much bodily fluid, but because he was stunned by his sister's life advice.

Looking at his younger sister, who was pleading with him with her hands clasped together, Kousaka Kyosuke felt like he was in a state between dreaming and waking, like a willow branch, like a gust of wind, or like the shiver of being hit in the face while half-asleep while playing on his phone in the middle of the night.

"What did you just say? Say it again?"

Kirino was too embarrassed to ask for anything at first, and stammered for a long time before finally saying it. Kyosuke was still wondering what it was that was so hard to say...

In any case, according to Kyosuke Kosaka's prediction, it should be related to her going to the United States.

For example, ask yourself for some living expenses.

For example, you have to help take care of her adorable, furry collection.

He was even prepared to go to America with her to work as a nanny—but he didn't expect his sister to be as unpredictable as ever.

"I hope you can buy me an adult game."

"..."

You know that feeling, right?

I spent a full fourteen hours downloading resources using a garbage 300kbps internet speed. Excitedly, I took off my pants, had already poured lubricant into the mold, and opened the player to find—a Blu-ray compilation of eight Teletubbies movies.

"You... this is what your life consultation is about?!!"

He muttered to himself, "Should I say it was unexpected, yet reasonable?"

Sure enough, Kirino is still the same Kirino! My sister is still my sister!

"I guess so... What's with that expression on your face? You look like you've lost all your strength."

"I was just all fired up and ready to go all out, but I didn't expect... Seriously, why didn't you just buy the game yourself? Why did you ask me to do it?"

Then he saw his sister's shy expression.

Her toes, clad in white cotton socks, rubbed together: "I...I'm only seventeen, I can't buy adult games, can I..."

"What about those 18+ games you played before?"

Kirino fell silent. It was hard work for her to buy those games; she even had to dress up specially.

"Time and place?"

Kyosuke was at his wit's end with this guy.