Chapter 256: Chika's Little Sister
"Hello, two servings of takoyaki please."
In front of a stall, Shirogane Kei heard the call, she lifted her head slightly, then revealed a delighted expression.
"Eh! It's Saki-nii!!" As soon as she spoke, she glanced at Shirogane Miyuki standing beside Sakurai Saki: "Aniki, why did you also come here today?"
"…" Shirogane Miyuki looked at Sakurai Saki.
Both were older brothers, even I was real siblings, yet why was the gap so huge?
Shirogane: (╥﹏╥)
Sakurai Saki smiled and said: "Don't say that, I came here today because your brother invited me."
"Really~" Shirogane Kei skillfully turned the takoyaki balls, then picked up the ones that were ready and placed them into a tray.
After finishing, she handed the takoyaki to Shirogane Miyuki.
"Here, the money, this should be enough." Sakurai Saki glanced at the price list next to him, 400 yen per serving.
He handed over a banknote.
"Sakurai-nii, do you still remember me?" The one speaking was a girl standing behind Kei.
Short pink hair down to her shoulders, tied into two bunches on each side, with a slightly round face, looking very much like Fujiwara Chika, their whole faces quite similar.
"Moeha-chan?" Sakurai Saki blurted out.
He had met the girl before, when she came to the senior high division to visit Secretary Fujiwara. At that time, Shirogane Miyuki had also seen her.
"Hum hum!" Fujiwara Moeha nodded.
So handsome!!! No matter how many times she looked, he was still so handsome!
Moeha: (∩˃ω˂∩)♡
Student council president Shirogane was also very handsome, no wonder Kei always talked about her brother.
"Have you seen Chika?"
"She's upstairs, let me take you two up." Fujiwara Moeha energetically moved to Sakurai Saki's side, "Kei, remember to call me when it's my turn later."
"Got it." Shirogane Kei replied.
Shirogane Miyuki actually wanted to wander on his own, but Fujiwara Moeha was too enthusiastic, and he was dragged along upstairs.
Finally, the three of them stopped in front of a classroom with a sign [Short Love Film].
"This is the film club's program for the cultural festival, every 30 minutes there's a screening, only 300 yen, Chika-nee just went in, she should be coming out soon." Fujiwara Moeha explained.
She was overly enthusiastic, even holding on to Sakurai Saki's arm at this point.
The Fujiwara family members were naturally a bit ditzy, Sakurai Saki guessed she didn't mean anything by it.
"Fujiwara-san, buying tickets, right? EHH!! Sakurai-senpai!!"
Ramdom JK: ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!
Sakurai: (¬_¬")
Hey hey hey, isn't that reaction a little too much? Sakurai Saki silently sighed inside.
Could it be these junior high kouhai saw him as some kind of rare creature? Like a nationally protected animal?
"This one, this one is the student council president Shirogane!!??"
"Hello." Shirogane Miyuki gave a slight nod.
"Three tickets." Fujiwara Moeha waved her hand, directly paying and buying the tickets.
"How much longer until it ends?" she asked again.
The girl in charge of ticketing lifted the black curtain, peeking inside: "A few more minutes."
"Then let's wait here."
There were quite a few people waiting for the film, the three of them stood at the end of the line.
"Sakurai, we came here to find Secretary Fujiwara, right?"
"Chika is inside there."
"But by the time we go in, she'll already be coming out."
"Moeha already bought the tickets, it wouldn't be polite to back out now."
Before long, the film ended, and there was still some time before the next screening.
"It was so touching." Fujiwara Chika walked out of the classroom, lightly rubbing her slightly red eyes.
Chika: (˚ ˃̣̣̥⌓˂̣̣̥ )づ♡
She hadn't expected a film made by the junior high students to be so moving.
"Hm?"
As she walked past, she happened to go by the three of them, then quickly realized, like rewinding, she turned back and retraced her steps.
"Saki-kun, why are you here?"
"And the president too."
A few seconds later, she finally remembered—they had promised before to go together to the junior high cultural festival.
Sakurai Saki: "Came to find you."
Shirogane Miyuki: "I don't even know how I got dragged here."
Fujiwara Moeha: "I brought Sakurai-nii to watch the film."
Fujiwara Chika looked at her younger sister, then caught sight of her clinging to Sakurai Saki's arm.
Chika: ∘ ∘ ∘ ( °ヮ° ) ????
Why did it suddenly feel like she was being "robbed"? Wasn't today supposed to be the key turning point for her date with Saki-kun?
"Moeha, what are you doing?" Chika pointed at her younger sister's hand.
Chika: (｡•̀ ⤙ •́ ｡ꐦ) !!!
Moeha: ╮(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)╭
"Just proof of friendship!" Fujiwara Moeha played dumb.
This was the Fujiwara family's inherited skill of feigning ignorance, and since Chika and her little sister were trained in the same school, she didn't notice anything unusual.
"When did you two get to know each other?"
"The chance was last summer, in the student council room." Fujiwara Moeha replied, her face filled with the look of a maiden in love.
Moeha: (ꈍᴗꈍ)♡
In fact, from the first time she met Sakurai Saki last year, she had already liked him. Of course, it was only the fangirl type of affection for that handsome face.
"Everyone!! The next showing is about to start!!"
The girl selling tickets at the front loudly announced.
"Wait for me! I want to watch too!"
Fujiwara Chika sensed something was wrong, she immediately rushed to buy another ticket, then hurried back just in time before the next screening began.
Seeing her buy another ticket, Sakurai Saki asked curiously: "Is this film really that good?"
Did she really have to watch it twice?
"It's great."
If it wasn't, wouldn't her younger sister become her love rival?
'Damn you, Moeha! How dare you steal a man from your big sister!'
(╬` 益 ´)
Fujiwara Chika thought that, trying to squeeze herself between Sakurai Saki and her younger sister, but failed miserably.
With no other choice, she picked the second solution: clinging tightly to Sakurai Saki's other arm.
"Chika, you're holding too tightly, I can't even walk."
She was clinging so tightly he couldn't move at all.
Standing beside them, Shirogane Miyuki, like a human-shaped light bulb, watched the two pink-haired girls fighting over his best friend, and fell into deep thought.
'Just what's so great about this Sakurai guy anyway?'
Aside from that face.
In the end, Fujiwara Moeha still couldn't win against her sister, because it was her turn to switch shifts.
After finishing the film, Shirogane Miyuki, being sharp enough, said he would go wander on his own, leaving private space for Sakurai Saki and Fujiwara Chika.
Shirogane: 三三ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ nigerundayo Saki-kun~~~
...
In the hallway.
"Saki-kun~ don't you go liking Moeha, okay!" Fujiwara Chika warned.
Chika: ( ｡ •̀ ⤙ •́ ｡ )
"Yeah yeah, you've said that several times already." Sakurai Saki replied helplessly, his face showing he had nothing left to say.
The Fujiwara women—just one liking him was already troublesome enough, how could he handle two?
"Moeha kept staring at you just now…" Chika muttered, voice as tiny as a mosquito's.
"Chika, if simply staring counts as liking, then in Shuchiin the number of girls who like me must be no less than a hundred. Didn't you forget about that mass confession incident?" Sakurai Saki tried to reason with her.
The result? Of course there was no way to reason with women.
"You really don't understand your own charm at all." Chika huffed lightly, her tone full of reproach.
Moreover, this was also a man who couldn't restrain himself—otherwise, he wouldn't have ever let slip the words "I want to two-time."
"Right now we should just enjoy the cultural festival, shouldn't we?" Sakurai Saki took the initiative to change the subject.
"Umu." Chika gave a slight nod.
With the senior high cultural festival coming up, she might not be able to go with him then, so she had to take this chance to enjoy herself to the fullest.
"Is that a haunted house?"
Chika pointed at a dark, slightly chilly entrance, and asked.
As soon as her words fell—
"Ahhh!!!" A boy and a girl screamed, dashing out of the haunted house.
"Eh!! That looks so fun!"
ヾ(｡✪ω✪｡)ｼ
Chika was instantly drawn in.
"Super scary haunted house…"
Heart rate rising, adrenaline bursting—in a situation like this, anything that happened wouldn't be strange! Right!?