Chapter 31: Why Did the Plot Go Off Track Again?

“Bro, brother? You, you, you came to deliver tea to me?”

“Heeheehee, what is there to be so puzzled about, Ritsuki-chan? Aren’t we just seeing how hot the weather is right now, and fearing that our family’s little star would get hot and tired, so we specially brewed a big pot of herbal tea and brought it over.”

“For me, brewed herbal tea? Brewed by brother?”

That bastard Aikawa Yoji actually brought tea and water to Ritsuki for the first time in forever?!

This time, not only did Miyatsubaki Keiko’s face petrify, but even the victim—no, wait, even the beneficiary herself widened her eyes, pinching Keiko’s cheek with all her might to test if she was currently dreaming.

“It hurts, Ritsuki.”

“Ah, oh, oh, I’m sorry.” Aikawa Ritsuki was overwhelmed by the unexpected favor, as the huge stone in her heart that had been suppressed by Kurosawa Shizuka for a long time suddenly crashed to the ground.

At this moment, she only felt that the world was wonderful! The sky was so blue, the clouds were so white, and Keiko’s chest was so… ahem!

Ritsuki offered her trembling hands, and tears were almost squeezing out from the corners of her eyes: “Brother!”

“Ah! Little sister-chan!”

“Onii-chan!”

“Imouto!”

“Clack.”

The sound of the bottle cap being flicked off by a finger knocked away this romantic and emotional atmosphere.

Draped in one extra coat compared to other students—a white long robe embroidered with golden borders—Suzuki Yukina squeezed right between the two of them, flicking open the cap of the thermos bottle using just her finger.

With her hands on her waist, she stared at her companion with a bit of astonishment: “Wait, Ritsuki, uh, are you really so moved by your brother showing uncharacteristic kindness? You don’t suspect him even a single bit?”

“I seem to remember hearing from Keiko that this Senior Aikawa usually treats you with an attitude that can be called venomous, either beating you or scolding you. Are you not suspecting him at all when he suddenly changed his nature during this exchange event, Ritsuki?”

“I also seem to have heard that this Senior Aikawa has been getting very close with Tanaka during this period of time.”

Aikawa Yoji’s face flushed red instantly, turning a shade of purplish-red as he raised his fists and swung them left and right: “You can’t slander me, don’t slander people! On what grounds are you defiling a person’s innocence out of thin air here?”

“Ritsuki ah, Ritsuki, don’t be driven apart by this little woman’s provocation. We’ve known each other for fifteen years, surely you won’t let a little woman you just met ruin the relationship between us!”

His anxious appearance was like a wolf that had its tail stepped on, jumping up and down.

Insisting as he spoke, he even wanted to reach past Suzuki Yukina’s body to pour the herbal tea directly into Ritsuki’s mouth.

But how could Yukina let him have his way.

“Aha! Sure enough, there’s a problem, right! Keiko, come over here, let’s stop him together and take this thing to the teacher for testing! Let’s see what kind of trick is actually in here!”

“Ah, ah, okay, I’m coming!”

“No way, no way, you can’t do this! I am a scholar, I would never do such a dirty, low-class thing!”

Aikawa Yoji’s arms were instantly trapped by Suzuki Yukina. The phrase about sending it to the teacher for testing made his entire body panic…

Ah, wait, no, his expression suddenly became delightfully relaxed and dazed.

Suzuki Yukina rushed to the front of Yoji with a quick step, turning her body sideways to control the other party with both hands.

This was originally an action done word-for-word according to the plot, but the technique of trapping him seemed to be a tiny bit marvelous?

Suzuki Yukina directly bound Yoji’s arms—pressing them firmly against her chest.

“…”

“…”

‘Holy crap, holy crap! What on earth is touching my arm! Don’t do this! Don’t block me like this! Don’t use your two lumps of extra fat to—ugh, eek—’

“Don’t move! Aikawa Yoji!”

Miyatsubaki Keiko, who squeezed over right after, was an even heavier weight class!

Those two terrifyingly large weapons and their indescribable tactile feel directly wrapped his right hand tightly into her bosom, swaying left and right, instantly reddening the roots of Yoji’s ears.

His brain lost the ability to think in a split second, and gibberish spilled out of his mouth without him even knowing what he was blabbering about.

‘Holy crap! What the heck are you two doing, you bastards! You’re selling fan service to the wrong guy, hey! Can’t you just execute me on the spot instead! Press my head! My head, hey! Eek! Pervert, help me!’

Out of the corner of his eye, he managed with great difficulty to glimpse Ritsuki’s increasingly dark face, and only then did he ruthlessly bite down on the tip of his tongue! Letting the pain bring back his entire consciousness.

—Woman, yakamashi [shut up]!

Squeezing his head out from the encirclement of the two, he smiled sheepishly toward Aikawa Ritsuki, hurriedly trying to match the most important line of dialogue.

“Ritsuki, are you really unwilling to…”

“Stop messing around, all of you! Stop!”

However, Yoji’s words were cut off ahead of time.

The young girl raised her sleeve and waved her hand. Beside the three of them, several sharp ice spikes instantly surged up from the ground, pointing directly at their throats and transforming into a cage that bound and surrounded them.

Her deep black hair was once again dyed with the color of snow, and the young girl walked to the front of the three with heavy steps.

A smile hung on her pretty face, and the loose strands of hair falling across her forehead made this beautiful smile look abnormally cold.

“Stop messing around, you two, can you please let go of my brother?”

“Yoji is my brother and we have known each other for fifteen years. I know better than anyone what kind of person he is. I hope everyone won’t view my brother with incorrect thoughts, alright?”

“Even if you two are my best friends.”

Opening her eyes, her deep red irises brought forth a blizzard from atop a glacier, freezing all things.

Suzuki Yukina froze, remaining motionlessly sluggish in front of the ice spikes. It was Miyatsubaki Keiko who grabbed the conversation ahead of time, letting go of Yoji’s right hand and helping Yukina surrender: “We understand! We know! We know we were wrong!”

Only then did the cold chill around them vanish, returning to the warm lounge.

“Mm, that’s more like it.”

With a raise of her hand, the terrifying ice spikes shattered into a cool mist. Aikawa Ritsuki pushed past the two and switched back to her touched expression, hopping in front of Yoji as if nothing had happened.

“Really, do you really want to give it to me, Brother?!”

—Suzuki Yukina suffered true damage, feeling so cold-hearted and aggrieved that she just wanted to cry.

“What the heck, Kurosawa Shizuka is like this, why are you like this too? Was all my goodwill fed to the dogs?! Humph—”

Miyatsubaki Keiko hugged her tightly: “It’s okay, it’s okay, Yukina. Ritsuki, she… Ritsuki’s brain just can’t turn the corner, she has a somewhat extreme protective desire toward that bastard brother of hers. Don’t blame her, okay?”

“I… sob, sob, I don’t blame her, I’m just…”

Suzuki Yukina squeezed out tears, staring fiercely at Aikawa Yoji.

“Bastard, bastard!”

Yoji: “…”

‘Why are you scolding me! I’m very confused too! Damn it, the script wasn’t written like this at all!! Ritsuki was clearly forced to reluctantly take it and drink it because I used my identity as her brother and the one who adopted her to threaten her!’

‘It’s messing up my lines and I’m very desperate too!!’

The ups and downs of life.

Earlier, Yoji was still enjoying the lucky pervert treatment that a villain shouldn’t be enjoying, but turning around, another huge chunk of the plot was eaten away, making his mood extremely tense.

‘Damn it, that was a very important line! I remember the text afterward wrote it very clearly—it was precisely starting from this unfolding of coercive framing that made Ritsuki feel disappointed in this brother time and time again, all the way until Yoji’s final inevitable death ending!’

But what about now?! What on earth is going on now?!

Not only did I not have time to threaten you, but you actually activated your ability to threaten your harem instead?

Emmm, is there a possibility that I’ve become the number one female lead of this book?

Right now, Ritsuki is just short of crooking her mouth and writing a line of text on my face.

My woman—don’t come near her.

‘Like hell! Why are you all messing around!’

Yoji was truly dumbfounded. This scene that clearly belonged to him—serving as the beginning of the brothers’ sibling rift—was ruined. How should things proceed in the future? How can the plot be pushed forward?

‘No, calm down, calm down, there are other ways! There must be other ways to let Ritsuki plant the seeds of a rift, there must be! Calm down!’

Yoji swallowed his throat.

Drink, take a sip of tea to calm down properly!

“…”

“…”

Wait, what was I drinking again?

Yoji lowered his head, looking at the thermos bottle that had its cap unscrewed and was still billowing with steam, and licked his moist lips.

“…”

—GG! [Goner!]

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