Chapter 63 What Do They Have That I Don't?

What Do They Have That I Don’t?

“I’m home.”

“Ah, Nii-san, welcome home.”

When I opened the front door, Yoka was there as usual.

I don’t know why, but after the incident, Yoka became even more involved with me than before.

I’m grateful to Yoka because I wouldn’t have been able to save them if she had not guided me during the incident, and I have thanked her many times since then.

But, is she trying to get involved with me because just thanking her is not enough? I wondered if she needed money, so I told her that.

“No, I don’t need money or anything, just please give me the right to be involved with Nii-san. I haven’t really had that until now.”

That’s what she said.

I really didn’t know what she meant.

The right to be involved with me?

Yoka asked for the right to be involved with me, but I wonder why she would say such a thing. I think I should be able to ask her, who has much better grades than me and impeccable morals, to let me be involved with her.

No matter how much I think about it, I can’t come up with an answer.

I guess that’s to be expected.

It’s impossible for me to understand what Yoka is thinking.

“Where did Nii-san go today?”

“I went to see a movie with Aoi-senpai and Shinomiya-san.”

I took off my shoes and put them together before entering the house.

As I started to walk, Yoka walked a few steps behind me and arrived in front of my room. She never comes into my room, but she always follows me this far.

As I was about to open the door to my room, she said,

“Did Nii-san have fun today’s outing with the student council president and Shinomiya-san?”

She asked me something like that.

Did I have fun with Aoi-senpai and Shinomiya-san?

They were laughing all the time. I’m sure that’s the feeling of having fun. But was I smiling today? I wondered if I could smile like them.

Even when I thought about it, I couldn’t see myself smiling.

But…

“It was fun, I guess.”

I answered.

I don’t understand the feeling of having fun right now. But the two of them said that they were friends with me even though I was such a hopeless person.

If that is the case, I think I need to understand that feeling.

It’s not the same as obligation.

It’s a thought that is hard to put into words.

“I see. I’m happy for you. I’m glad you feel that way too.”

With that, Yoka left, and I opened the door to my room and quickly closed it.

Yoka’s PoV

I went into my room and immediately locked the door.

It had been years since I had heard directly from my brother that he was having fun. It may have been over a decade.

I thought I would use that incident as an opportunity to close the distance between me and my brother, but it didn’t work out that way.

I won’t be arrested like Akasaka and Amane. After all, I didn’t leave any evidence behind. We didn’t communicate on LEIN, I just talked to her directly and gave her some advice.

That’s all.

I don’t know why I don’t feel closer to my brother, even though I should be his benefactor because of that incident.

What is the difference between me, the student council president, and Shinomiya Saya?

I don’t think I’m inferior to those two in terms of looks, and I can’t imagine that my brother cares about looks right now.

If that is the case, what about intelligence? Grades?

I must be ahead of those two, and that doesn’t matter to him, does it?

If so, what is it?

Kudo Aoi and Shinomiya Saya.

What do they have in common? And what do they have in common that I don’t?

First of all, I don’t know much about them.

So, let’s explore the past a bit more…