Quiet time for two visiting brothers and sisters in the midst of a rushed day.
They walked shoulder to shoulder and residential neighborhood, taking a trip to the mall.
"Brother, let's shop for dinner!
"Aye."
I will be buying vegetables, meat and fish from the nearest store in order, not only for dinner today, but until tomorrow's minute.
However, it would be curry or hamburger for dinner today.
With that in mind, I was receiving my luggage.
"What would you like to eat today?
I've been questioning potatoes with one hand.
You siblingly expect me to say curry already......
But it's the quality of you that doesn't make you do what you expected.
"Hamburg."
"Bubble, it's curry today"
... No, I knew that, didn't I?
Today's dedication was set in the maple.
But, brotherly, you're asking me once, so am I the only one who thinks you'll take this hope into account?
Point that gaze at your sister.
"It's a joke, let's hamburger"
Maple laughed bitterly and said that pure eyes worked like my boy.
For some reason, I feel complicated because I wasted time.
"No... curry's fine"
Hand the bags of vegetables to the store owner and receive another bag from the hand of the maple who has done the accounting.
Listen to my words, Maple looks back.
Walk shoulder to shoulder next to walk out of the store silently.
"Sounds like a tough one...... I can't believe it's a battle with Yudo"
……
At the time Shizuku was in touch, I knew he was telling me how it was going.
So there shouldn't be a maple bothering to take you to Sakura no Hill School opposite.
If we talk at home, we'll be fine, because we have time because we're brothers and sisters.
But Maple would have guessed that I wouldn't talk at home about making time outside my home this way.
"You can talk to me..."
Whimpering words pierce deep into the back of my chest.
I'm sure Maple thinks you didn't rely on yourself.
But I had my reasons, too.
My parents are overseas with my brother and I are entrusted with most of the chores and there is also school life.
My sister already has enough support for me from my point of view.
I didn't want to bother my sister any more.
Maple is an excellent kid, I know best about those fruitful brothers and sisters.
If you talk, you might think firsthand, explore ways, and find possibilities.
But I... they didn't think my brother was any more helpless.
I am aware that I never think of myself as a brother or sister due to differences in appearance from around me, or that I am a sister full of talent and talent with a brother who has no talent.
Still, I always wanted to be a good brother in front of my sister.
"Bad... know you don't even think maple is unreliable or that kind of fine dust"
"I know I'm the one who can't possibly think that... but if I could just tell you the truth, I could have helped you."
My sad eyes are pointed at me.
I take those eyes from the front and gently stroke my sister's head with my empty right hand.
For a long time, it's like a habit when I can't say anything anymore.
Without refusing, Maple, who can stroke his hair, said bitterly.
"That's how your brother deceives you for a long time..."
When Maple says that, he grabs my stuff with his little hand so he can take half of it.
Pass the lighter one as you can, you two walk like sewing a crowd in the mall.
It'll start to get dark and the mall will peak when it's time.
Still, I felt a slight loneliness in the crowd that had become less than I used to.
"Is the election going to win?
Potty and squeaky maple with an indelible amount of voice from the stores around him, he turns a serious eye.
"It's up to Yudo... if he stays like this, there's a good chance he'll win"
"Really..."
Nod and zero a breath that seems a little relieved.
I know you heard the majority of the story from Shizuku, but what you heard from my mouth looks reassuring.
Yes... if Yudo doesn't change like this, maybe he can win.
But the moment I mouth it myself, the emotions that make it difficult to fit the words swirl through my chest.
"But your brother doesn't seem happy"
……
"Did you even do something to feel the burden? Or was there something else going on?
From the mouth of the maple with his gaze back in front, an inquiry is thrown that pokes at the nature of the problem.
I don't remember doing anything to feel the burden.
The use of videos for publicity, on-campus broadcasts using the broadcasting room, and direct exchanges of words with Yudo were also carried out within the scope of the rules.
"Shizukuishi also told me that you bumped into Yudo and his supportive students"
"You talked that far..."
I'm free to tell my sister how far they are, but I'm also honest with you that I don't think I need to talk that far to Maple, who has known Yudo for a long time.
Even for Maple, Yudo is a senior, a friend of his brother, and himself is close.
It's not a pleasant conversation to hear such a person confront his brother from the front.
"When I heard the conversation, I honestly thought," I guess so, "not to your brother, but to Yudo."
Listen to the Maple words that speak quietly.
"I couldn't go to the same high school as my brother, but there is Shizuku. And I know that Kirasaka-san will support you... but then no one will support Yudo."
"He's got enough help around him..."
"No, you don't... it's the support of my heart"
When I say that, Maple stops.
And when I turn my body toward each other, I stick out my empty hand and add it to my chest.
"No matter how many people are around, no one can reach this far"
The little palms that accompanied my chest felt different in strength than my sister I knew.
I realized that she wasn't always a little sister when she was growing up as well.
"I think maybe the only person for Yudo to reach out to is his brother...... maybe he's not Shizukuisha or Kirasaka, he's the only one"
In a word of maple, the environment surrounding the previous Yudo plunders the back of his brain.
Pushing admiration and ideals, troublesome roles and jobs turn to him, and when it's convenient for us to smile and come close to Nico.
Of all the friendships that were equal to Yudo, who wouldn't refuse, who couldn't, I certainly might have been placed in a different category.
"They are two totally clumsy......"
Hearing the maple sigh, there was zero bitter smile as to why.
No, really, as a brother or senior, I guess if I tried maple, we'd be two troublesome and clumsy people.
"Your brother's pissed off because he admits you're an amazing guy, isn't he? So my heart is teetering when I see you impudent"
"... Buddha or you are"
"Listen to me properly"
"Yes......"
There is no such thing as majesty as a brother in a situation that my sister would understand.
I tried to change the atmosphere on the field a little bit and they looked at me with completely cold eyes.
... My sister seems better not to piss me off.
Shut up and sharpen your nerves so you don't overhear every word that follows.
"Now all my brother can do is beat Yudo in his own way. After that, it's okay, because I have Shizukuishi and Kirasaka."
Softly attach the hand on my chest.
There is warmth in my cold hands.
The frustrating identity is exactly what Maple said.
The only way to get rid of this frustration is to win Yudo in the first place and then change it with the help of the people around you.
We must change the environment now and abandon our greed for him to compete as he is.
"Will you review the speech when I get home... can you listen to me?
"Of course, think together after dinner!
Naturally, the sight I had in mind and the sight Yudo had in mind is something different in reality.
But that's what we call reality, and that represents what we thought was still a very young imagination.
But if you can't seem to frustrate it and focus on the immediate battle, you can't have a mediocre student like me winning the election in the first place.
It's impossible to solve a problem from the start without scratching anything, including the relationships and impressions around you.
So all I have to do is figure out how to get beyond the person in front of me.
And then we'll think about the problem then.
If you can't do it alone, you can rely on your sister.
If you still can't, you can rely on childhood training and classmates.
Hate, I'm used to people hating me and blurring me out of groups.
Otherwise, you can't spend time in an environment full of extraordinary people around you.
Well, for now, I'm going to explore my best hand so Yudo can do everything he can to make me regret it.
So I went home and spent a long time with my sister.
Reviewed the speech, reconfirmed my anticipated situation, and worked out a response to the risk.
While we were doing that, time passed and we both went to sleep in the living room.
The next day, until Shizukuishi picked me up as promised, it was the only secret here that I was going to be late for a blast of sleep to the maple where I never slept.