When I Saved a Girl Who Was About to Be Kidnapped and It Turned Out to Be a Princess Who Had Come to Visit in Secret
It was like a hole had opened up in my heart.
How long had it been since Luna had left?
The feeling of loss was greater than I had expected.
Luna said she would come back,…… but when exactly would she come back,……?
Would she really come back in the first place……?
All the while, all I could think about was this.
–Ping pong.
“–?!”
The intercom suddenly rang.
I rushed out of bed and rushed to the front door.
“Luna–!”
“Ha……?”
“………….”
I thought I was going to see an elegant and gentle smile when I opened the door, but there were icy cold and contemptuous eyes waiting for me.
“Ri, Rion ……?”
The person standing on the other side of the door was not Luna, but my sister, Rion, a cool, beautiful girl with beautiful black hair straightened down.
As she looks, she’s a pretty harsh and strict kid.
She was currently looking up at me as if I was a trash
“Who’s Luna, ……?”
Rion asked me in a tone much lower than her usual tone.
She tilted her head slightly, but the way she was tilting her head gave me a sense of intimidation, not cuteness.
She seems to be in a very bad mood.
“N-no, I was just sleepwalking, it’s an …… anime character. ……”
Naturally, I haven’t told my family about Luna, and I don’t want them to know either.
I especially didn’t want Rion to know.
I don’t know what kind of accusations she would make if I told her that I had brought her home and let her stay over.
“When you start confusing reality with two dimensions, you’re done you know. ……?”
Rion’s mood was not improved and she was still looking at me with disdain.
Without a doubt, I was perceived as an anime otaku.
“Umm, what is it? Is there something?”
The air was uncomfortable, but I asked her why she had come.
I felt like our already awkward relationship had just gotten even more awkward.
“Is it wrong if I don’t come here unless I have something to do? It’s not that far from here, so why wouldn’t I at least come to see how my family is doing?”
Not a childhood friend, but a family member – these words remind me of the change in our relationship.
It’s been about a year now, so I should get used to it. ……
“I’m glad you took the time to visit me. I’m doing fine.”
“Yes, though you seem to be living a self-indulgent life, aren’t you?”
By my earlier statement, she seemed to think that I spend all my time watching anime every day.
I can’t deny it because it is not wrong …… .
“Not so much self-indulgent”……”
“Just because you live alone, you’re not doing whatever you want, are you?”
Rion, who gives me cold eyes, tries to come into the room as a matter of course.
“Wait, what are you doing ……!”
“I’m going to check the room. To make sure it’s not a dump. What, you’re not going to tell your sister who came all the way here to go home without letting her in, are you?”
Rion glares at me with an attitude that says whether or not she wants to.
She has always been a cool girl, but never this forceful.
This is – I guess I’m making her very angry …….
I have too much on my mind to complain.
“I keep my room clean.”
I couldn’t stop her, so I answered with a sigh to Rion, who had entered the room with a sneak.
“….. seems like it. If it had been a dump, I would have forced my way in and take you home.”
Rion looked around the living room and bedroom and seemed to agree.
I guess it was an unannounced check that came without any notice.
“If everything is fine, go home–“
”Ha–? I’m not leaving yet though?”
When I tried to urge her to leave, she gave me a very cold look.
She’s in a very bad mood. ……
“Do you have something else to do ……?”
“Did you finish your homework?”
“I’m done.”
I had finished my summer vacation homework shortly before I met Luna.
Since I was a child, I often did it with Rion, and she got me in the habit of finishing it early, so I was able to finish it this time as well.
“I see……”
Rion turned her face away in dissatisfaction.
Why should I get a disapproving attitude when I have finished it….?
“Have you had lunch yet?”
“That’s …… not yet…….”
I haven’t even had breakfast, let alone lunch.
I’ve been too lazy to do anything since Luna disappeared, and I’ve only eaten the bare minimum necessary.
“Good, because I haven’t too. I’ll cook.”
Apparently, Rion was going to cook for me.
With both of our parents busy with work, I had been cooking with Rion since elementary school.
In fact, it was Rion who taught me how to cook.
Naturally, she is a better cook than I am.
“I don’t have any ingredients. ……”
“Why don’t you have any ingredients? You are not eating out or convenience store lunches all the time, are you?”
I was given a dissatisfied look because there were no ingredients in the fridge.
I can’t help it, I don’t have the energy to cook.
“I just happened to run out.”
“Really, is that true? Cooking for yourself was part of the requirements for living alone, and if you haven’t been able to do it, I’ll tell father and the others.”
Rion gives me a skeptical look.
She is right, cooking for yourself was a condition for being allowed to live alone.
It was not because of money, but because they wanted me to manage my nutrition properly.
If I couldn’t do that, I wouldn’t be allowed to live alone – and if my dad and the others found out, they would tell me to come home.
To be honest, I haven’t been able to cook for myself since after Luna and I separated, so it’s a sensitive point. ……
“I do cook for myself properly.”
I was cooking for myself until then.
This is not a lie.
“….. Well, okay. We’re going to the supermarket, so get dressed.”
“I’m going with you, ……?”
“………….”
I asked her, and she stared at me silently.
I guess that means I’m supposed to follow her.
Even though I’m dragging out the Confession issue, judging by Rion’s attitude towards me, she doesn’t even seem to care.
Come on, I have to cut it out too…