8 Watch and Learn

A few days have already past since Eru started hanging out at Seki's house and today was no exception.

"Nii-san, I'm hungry!"

Seiji tugged Seki's sleeves as he demanded for food.

"Here, go buy some candy or something."

Seki handed a few coins to his brother but instead of accepting it, Seiji simply pouted with tears in his eyes.

"Cook something!"

"You little... Don't forget to use 'please'!"

"Eru-neechan, he's shouting at me!"

[A.N. - Nee-chan is basically the shortened version of onee-chan which is used to refer to your older sister. Note that Nee and Nii is different though.]

Seiji ran to Eru, somewhat crying, so she started comforting him.

"Oi, don't just run to Kasumi-san whenever I scold you. And when did you started calling her your big sister anyway?"

"None of your business!"

"Brat."

"Calm down, you two."

Eru quickly got in between the two of them.

"Hiromata-kun, I didn't know you can cook."

"At such a young age Seiji was such a glutton so I learned to do so a few years ago."

"Ehhh... I've never been good in the kitchen so I'm really jealous."

Hearing this, Seki's face lit up as if he had an idea.

"Since Seiji is hungry, maybe I'll cook something then. I can even show you, you know."

"Nii-chan just want to show off to Eru-nee."

"Don't ruin this for me, you brat. This is my only chance to impress someone."

Hearing this, Eru made a small chuckle.

"I don't think you should let the girl your trying to impress hear that though, Hiromata-kun."

"Ah, crap. You're right."

They head to the kitchen and Seki grabbed a knife and a piece of onion.

"First, cut the onion in half. Then, in chopping it, use your left hand as a paw and grab the onion and let the knife do the work. Watch and learn, Kasumi-san."

Seki proudly proclaimed as he slowly sliced through the skin.

"I'm bleeding. Seiji, call an ambulance."

It seems that he made a cut in his finger instead. Watching Seki bleed, Eru naturally panicked.

"E-Eh? W-What do I do?! His finger's bleeding! I don't think I have any bandages with me. But first I have to stop the bleeding, I need a piece of fabric!"

She quickly grabbed a piece of white cloth and wrapped it on Seki's bleeding finger.

"Uhm, Kasumi-san. What are you doing?"

"I'm putting pressure on it to stop the bleeding."

"I see. But isn't this the cliché part of the novel where you suck my finger?"

"Eh? Why would I suck your finger?"

"A relevant question. Fair enough, moving on, I think that cloth you're using is my school uniform."

Eru looked down and indeed, it was a white polo with a Migi Highschool seal on it.

"Ah! I'm so sorry!"

"Nah, it's fine. I can just—"

"What will I do?! Can blood even be washed? I'll look it up!"

Eru was about to grab her phone and search it but Seki stopped her.

"Please don't search that on the internet or else the police will go after you."

Indeed, a search in the internet like that would certainly be suspicious.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it can be washed off. If it can't then I can always just buy another one."

"I'm really sorry, Hiromata-kun."

Eru bowed once more, trying to express her apologies.

"What food are you even making, nii?"

"Actually we don't have anymore ingredients."

"Then why were you cutting an onion?"

"I wanted to show off."

As soon as Eru heard Seki's reason, she couldn't help but laugh.

"K-Kasumi-san, please don't laugh at me. Trust me, I can actually cut an onion. Here, let me try again."

Before Seki could grab another knife, Eru quickly grabbed his wrist.

"No, no, I wasn't laughing at you per se."

"Ehh..."

"Hey, hey! That doesn't change the fact that I'm hungry, nii-chan!"

"I told you not to forget 'please'."

"Pleaseee..."

Seeing Seiji ask for food, Seki was pretty much obliged to make some.

"Alright, I'll go buy some ingredients."

"I wanna come!"

"Stay here and play with Kasumi-san."

"I want to come along too, Hiromata-kun!"

Standing in front of Seki was a ten year old kid begging for food and a sixteen year old highschool girl asking for attention.

"...Fine."