Ren Blushes

"Eh?!"

Hearing his words, Yotsuba stopped descending and stared at Ren and Ichika sitting on the sofa in disbelief.

Although Ren wasn't speaking loudly now, everyone could hear him clearly at the moment.

"What did you say?"

Itsuki hastened her steps downstairs and rushed towards the sofa.

"Ichika, what did you do to Ren?"

Miku was quite suspicious that Ichika had deceived Ren.

At the moment, Ichika's attention was not focused on Yotsuba and the others at all. She didn't even hear what they were saying clearly. Her mind was filled with "Onee-san."

"Ren-kun, can you say it again?"

Ichika blushed and asked him hopefully.

"As promised, only once."

Raising his head, Ren explained in a low voice.

He remembered it very clearly.

"I couldn't hear you clearly earlier, can you shout again? Just say it again!"

As she uttered the words please, Ichika suddenly noticed his cheeks: "Ren-kun, are you blushing?"

His face was initially very bright, but the red hue was very conspicuous.

"NO."

Ren's eyes wandered slightly and he lowered his head again.

He clearly felt his emotions fluctuating significantly when hearing the mention of Onee-san, which was an emotion he had never felt before.

But this emotion was not what he wanted.

And he didn't know what this emotion was called.

Clearly, when he called Gabriel Onee-san before, he never felt this emotion, but why did it arise this time?

"I can touch it..."

"Ichika, stop what you're doing to Kamikawa-kun!"

Before Ichika could speak, she was interrupted by Itsuki who came in front of her.

"I didn't do anything." Ichika defended herself, "Ren-kun and I were just chatting."

"Then why did Ren call you Onee-san?"

Miku also rushed forward and asked angrily.

"Mhmmm..."

Ichika felt a little guilty, after all, she had pleaded with Ren.

"You step aside. You are prohibited from making any contact with Ren now."

Miku escorted Ichika to another sofa and took her place without hesitation.

Seeing this, Itsuki sat on the other side of Ren.

"Where should I sit?"

Yotsuba, who was a step late, found that the seats around Ren were already full.

"Yotsuba, go and call Nino. We're going to judge Ichika."

As Ichika became a suspect and Nino was not here, Miku took charge here.

"Wait a minute, it doesn't need to come to this." Ichika objected, "I just asked him to call me Onee-san."

If there was a conflict that arose between their sisters, usually she, the eldest sister, decided what was right and what was wrong.

But she never imagined that she would be judged one day.

"Let Ren-san call Onee-san..."

Yotsuba imagined what this experience would be like.

"Of course it's necessary. You not only asked Kamikawa-kun to call you Onee-san, but you also made his face turn red!" Itsuki emphasized.

It was the first time she had seen Ren blush.

It must be admitted, Ren was very cute when his face blushed, making people want to pinch his cheeks.

"I'm not blushing."

Ren denied firmly.

"Here."

Yotsuba took out her phone, turned on the selfie camera mode, and handed it to him.

After taking the phone and seeing himself with slightly red cheeks in the camera, Ren fell silent.

It seemed like this was the first time he had blushed.

Indeed, that's why he laughed the last time, wasn't it?

Since then, the change in his mood seemed richer than before.

At least, he would never blush in embarrassment over this issue again.

"What are you debating about? I heard it from upstairs."

As soon as Nino came out of her room, she heard noise from below.

"Nino, come down quickly, we have to judge Ichika."

Seeing Nino appear, Itsuki greeted her.

"Judging Ichika? Okay, I'll come down right away."

Hearing this, Nino immediately ran downstairs.

"Why are you so interested in judging me?" Ichika complained to Nino, who came down.

"It'll be fun, and in this case, I'll be the chief judge."

Nino replied casually, sitting next to Ichika, surveying the crowd, and asking, "Tell me the story of the case first."

So Miku, Yotsuba, and Itsuki looked at Ichika together.

They didn't know what had happened before, so the suspect Ichika could only narrate her story.

"It's actually nothing. I just asked Ren to call me Onee-san..."

Under their gaze, Ichika roughly described what happened.

Of course, she omitted the part about the drink.

"So, Ichika wickedly persuaded Kamikawa-san to call her Onee-san, and she succeeded."

After listening, Nino concluded.

"That's not wicked persuasion, I just wanted to hear him call me Onee-san."

Ichika wanted to sound normal about her behavior.

"Your words can be considered a wicked deception. Never think of denying this."

Nino wouldn't be fooled by her words.

"And you-"

After saying this, Nino looked at Miku, Itsuki sitting on the left and right of Ren, and Yotsuba who kept glancing at her.

"Is it because you're jealous of Kamikawa-san calling Ichika Onee-san, so you want to judge her?"

"No!" Yotsuba retorted, "We genuinely think what Ichika did was wrong, that's why we want to judge her."

"Of course, I don't mind if Ren-san calls me Onee-san."

"Wait a minute, when you mentioned me in the previous trial, it was still us. Why are you using me as the subject when it comes time to talk about Onee-san?" Ichika found an issue in Yotsuba's words.

"It's because I don't know what Miku and Itsuki think. I can only express my own thoughts." Yotsuba explained, "Besides, I don't mind."

Miku said seriously, "It's okay for me. It's okay if Ren calls me Onee-san."

"I've never been called Onee-san by anyone..."

Saying this, Itsuki couldn't help but glance at Ren.

She was the youngest of their five sisters, and no one could call her Onee-san.

Ren regretted agreeing to Yotsuba coming to their house to play.

Did he disagree to come to their house to play?

Why is the situation like this?