The way Shinichi became an older brother
As soon as Rui finished speaking, a whooshing sound was heard.
The apple on the fork disappeared, and Shinichi chewed it, and said disdainfully.
"Don't think that Onii-chan alone can seduce me. What will I do if I'm deemed Siscon… That's right, Rui?"
Hearing his hint, Rui was both amused and helpless.
"Yeah, Onii-chan isn't a Siscon."
Shinichi spun his pen in satisfaction and swallowed the apple in his mouth.
Rui turned around and returned to the table. After thinking for a moment, she took a plate of whole fruit, crouched beside Shinichi, raised her head like a kitten.
"You read your book, I'll be back after I finish feeding this plate of fruit... Onii-chan." Rui tilted her head slightly, "I always feel like I'm playing some kind of strange game. Like a role play?"
Rui looked at Shinichi, thought for a while, and said, "Because you're not Siscon, Onii-chan is... Have a strange fetish?"
"No!" Shinichi angrily took the fruit plate from her hand, "I told you I'm normal, every older brother in the world treats his younger sister like this, whether it's a cousin or a younger sister, don't think about it."
Rui's eyes shone brightly, and she immediately asked.
"So your porn book doesn't only choose girls, but sisters too? Onii-chan."
"Most of them… Well, that's the end of this topic!"
Shinichi coughed, and said with a bow under Rui's reluctant gaze.
"Take this plate of fruit back, or I will teach you a lesson from now on, choose one."
Rui looked at him angrily, and snorted softly.
"…You are a brother who likes to talk to himself, no wonder you don't have a younger sister."
"The logical connection is wrong. Also, where is Onii-chan who has six hours left?"
"O~nii~chan~." Rui didn't even take the fruit, but lay lazily on the bed, her face buried in the sheets.
After a moment of silence, she said in a low voice.
"…Hey, will you come back for dinner tomorrow?"
"No, I'm going to have dinner at the restaurant that opened at a friend's house."
"Correct..."
Rui turned around, and looked up at the ceiling.
"Hina Nee-san will be back late too... Am I eating alone again?"
Shinichi turned his chair and looked at Rui's face which looked lonely and lonely.
"Okay, tomorrow morning I will buy some snacks and you can eat them to fill your stomach in the afternoon. Around 7 p.m., I will bring something back and we can eat together."
"No... I'll let you cook it, just have enough ingredients. I'll call you before I go home, remember not to cook too much. "
Rui raised half of her body, looking at him in confusion.
"Why do you need..."
"Because it's cheaper."
Rui: "..."
"This answer is indeed not good…" Seeing that Rui was speechless, Shinichi shrugged and said, "You seem to like cooking, right? Every time I see you bring something to the table, you feel like... It feels happier than reading a book or going shopping..."
"Since you can do it and like doing it, let me do it more, as long as you don't find it too much trouble."
Rui shook her head, a complex emotion on her face, but she didn't know how to express it clearly.
"No, I'm not talking about this... Even though you say so, I'm very happy and don't find it troublesome at all, it's just that..."
There were some things she already knew the answers to, but she still wanted to hear the answers with her own ears.
Picking up the sheets, Rui finally asked.
"What I want to ask is…Why did you have to come back? Can't you just eat out?"
Unexpectedly, Shinichi looked at her in surprise.
"Why do you ask this? Didn't we make a promise a long time ago?"
Rui blinked.
"Eh?"
"In the life contract it is written that if we can eat together, we can eat together. Unlike Hina-san, I don't come home late for work, so there's no force majeure of not being able to come home for dinner."
Shinichi responded to Rui's gaze directly.
"As an older brother, when your little sister wants to eat together, I have to find a way to get home on time."
This sentence is not only nice to say.
He had told Fumino and Rizu that he could only spend thirty minutes in the review meeting after school because there were still people at home waiting for him to come back for dinner.
They always thought that Shinichi's cousin was an eleven or twelve year old junior high school student, so they admired his feelings for actively taking care of his cousin, and agreed to his request.
Shinichi didn't explain too much, no matter how old he was, his little sister was his little sister, and it was natural to sacrifice teaching time to go back to dinner with his little sister.
He couldn't understand the discomfort of eating alone at home.
But he understood better than anyone the loneliness of being alone in an empty room or even in a ward.
This is how Asada Shinichi acts as an older brother.
"Go out and play more if you have time, don't stay at home all the time. I already told you about the location of libraries, bookstores, etc., go there to kill time when I'm not there, otherwise summer vacation is not over yet. You might get mold."
Glancing at Rui's facial expression, Shinichi smiled and turned around.
"Besides, don't be so extravagant, I also asked you to call Onii-chan a few times, and that was the right thing to do."
On the bed, Rui bit her lips tightly, looking down at the floor, her eyes sparkling.
Just when there was silence, Rui stood up, stepped forward, and hugged Shinichi through the back of the chair as if she were flying.
She placed her hand on the man's chest, rested her chin on his shoulder, and pressed her cheek against his cheek tightly.
Feeling his stiff body, Rui opened her mouth slightly, and spoke softly.
"For dinner tomorrow, I'll make a more extravagant one."
Shinichi stiffened.
"That's right, I said don't cook too much..."
Rui didn't answer. After hugging him, she left the room.
Shinichi felt the lingering fragrance and temperature on his body, and his expression was very complicated.
"My cousin… Could it be that she lacks affection?"