6. Lover



Translated: Sei, Google-sensei
Edited: Sei, Grammarly no Danna
Source: Syosetu


"Is it…. not okay?"


　After moistening her eyes painfully, she asks with a thin voice.

　The expression, voice, and quivering shoulders that makes someone desire to protect her, make me feel sick.


　But I shouldn't give a hasty reply.


　There is no way a side character like me could be popular.


　So, for what reason did she confess to me?

　...... I had one idea.


"Why me?"


"You are strong, but quiet, but you also have humor. Besides, my brother always said, 'Yuuji is a good guy, you can count on him.' ... I thought it was fine."


　She answered my question bashfully.


　……This is it.

　I don't know how serious she is, but she must have confessed because I'm trusted by Ike Haruma.


　I see. In other words, her purpose is ...


["She'll make a fake lover and make her favorite Onii-chan jealous! "]


　This is an effective technique that was also practiced by the famous light novel sister character.

　After all, she is a very easy-to-understand sister character.


　She can't be honest, but she wants him to be aware of her feelings, care her.

　Our main protagonist, Ike Haruma. After all, was the younger sister character already captured?

　Well, the only drawback of the perfect protagonist Ike is that it has a dense side, so he probably won't notice it.

　No matter how much Hasaki appeals, he doesn't notice anything.


"... Then, can you tell me what your real purpose?"


　In my words, she stiffened her smile for a moment.

　Perhaps it was hit the mark that she had a real intention apart from the matter.

　And she smiled perfectly again, as if to repair it immediately.


"... Isn't it terrible, senpai~? The answer to the confession of the maiden in love is that, I'm really hurt right now~?"


　With a weak smile, she said so.


"That's fine .... I understand."


　I didn't continue to say that she was as likely to be in love with her brother.


　When she heard my words, she erased her smiling face and turned into a cold expressionless expression.



"... Hmm, is that so. Unfortunately, I was thinking of getting cooperation with a good mood, but you are surprisingly sharp."



　I am not a side character of the main protagonist for a show only.

　It's not difficult to read the psychology of a person from the relationships around him.


"It's annoying, isn't it? Going out with someone or being told like that."


　Ha~a, after sighing, she mutters abominably.


"I've been confessed by eight people three days after I entered high school. That's because of all the people who don't know my inner self. What do you think?"


"You are very popular is what I can think of.... Oh, maybe you were boasting it?"


　I envy you being confessed.

　Far from three days, you were the only one who talked to me in a favorable manner, in the past year, Ike and Makiri-sensei, just two of them.

　The difference is great.


　But she is,

　Ha~a, after sighs outright and tells me that she's tired of it.


"I'm not happy if I get confessed by people who approach me just by looking without knowing my personality. It's troubling ... annoying!"


　…… A change from the energetic, bright and cute character that I mentioned earlier.

　Rough, she said it.


　I felt like I could understand her resentment.


"That's why I decided to confess to senpai and use you as 'fake lovers'. If I decide to be a senpai’s girlfriend who has a bad physiognomy and a bad reputation, no one at this school will come near me. "


　She reopens and continues her words with a cruel smile.


"And that damn aniki said "good guy", so I was wondering if you did something terrible. When I actually talked to you, the only scary thing was your face. "


　I listen to her talk and think.

　Indeed, now is the real intention prepared outward.

　However, my expectation is that this is also a premise to hide the true intention.


"Now, I've confessed so far. Senpai? Will you be a "fake lover" with me quietly? Or, if you don't, I will spread a rumor that I have been done cruelly by senpai?"


"Are you going to threaten me?"


"It's okay to receive like that. Nobody listens to the words of senpai who are full of bad publicity, and maybe they will drop out because of that rumor, but you hate that, right?"


　While making a cute expression on her upper eyes, she asks me with a cat-stroking voice.

　I'm sure she's confident that I'll be compliant.

　……However.


"You are stupid than I expected, you"


　I laughed and then answered.


"……Yes?"


"My reputation is as bad as it gets. I'm not going to drop out when there are one or two rumors without definitive proof, so the threat is meaningless."


"……Ah"


　Her expression was impatient for the first time when she came here.

　It seems that she didn't really notice it, there is something unexpectedly missing.


"And no one listens? No. At least Ike should believe me."


　Yes, the right guy is never fooled by a malicious lie that his sister says.

　If Ike believes in me, I don't care what anyone else thinks.


　I wondered if my words would make her angry, but in front of me, she clenched her teeth with regret, and just looked down and looked down at her feet.


　When I saw her looking lonely, I told her.


"Even so. It's okay to be your lover."


　I don't know what I can do. It is difficult to communicate properly with people.

　Still, I want to give back to Ike that made my shit life better.

　I can't think he's okay as it is, being avoided by his sister.

　Then, I want to make Ike and this girl closer somehow.


　Whether that brings it closer to her true wishes ... is another story.


　When she heard my words, she opened her eyes as if she couldn't believe it.


"Eh? ... is it okay?"


"Yeah"


　I look at her and nod deeply before answering.


"... Maybe you're going to threaten me and do something strange to me? As I said earlier, there's no influence on senpai's words, so it doesn't make sense to expect that? "


"I'm not expecting anything, rest assured. I'm just a 'fake lover'."


"... Why? Why can you say that when you hear my true intentions?"


　Ask me with an uneasy look.

　Well, is that question natural?


"I want you and Ike make up"


　If I said like that, she will be displeased.


　So I'm ... a little embarrassed.

　I will answer another reason.


"This is the first time I have been asked by kouhai."


　When I answered, I had a stunned expression on my face.


"……Yes?"


　It doesn't matter if it's Ike or little sister.

　I was just happy to be asked personally.

　After all, it is embarrassing.

　It might have been better not to say such a stupid reason.


"... Isn't you stupid, senpai?"


　She said, with a turbulent look at me.


"This is a coincidence. I was just thinking I was a fool."


　When I answer ...


"... Fufu, what's that? Aha, it's funny, that! After all, senpai is an interesting person!"


　She said.

　This time she was carefree and smiled.


　I decided to tell her with a resolute expression while facing her smile.


"Then, from now on, you and I are 'fake' lovers .... Please be kind to me."


"Please treat me well, senpai! ... But can you stop calling me ‘you’ ?"


　She had a sullen look at my words.


"... Then, Ike-san?"


"It's rejected. It's not like lovers at all, and I do not forgive senpai for calling me the same as aniki."


　She made a batten with her arms in front of her chest.

　I was wondering what to call her ...


"Touka"


"Eh?"


　She was a little embarrassed when she saw her cheeks dyed vermilion.


"Although it's a fake, we're a lover? I think it's natural to call me by name, so from now on..."


　Once she separated the words there.

　After showing a slight hesitation, he smiles with a mischievous smile and says.



"Please call me Touka .... Isn't it fine?"



"... I understand, Touka"


　When I called her Touka, she had a relieved expression on her face.




　――Thus, I and Touka became "Fake" Lovers.


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