“Hmmm…”
I stared at myself in the mirror.
“Hmmmmm…”
“Reika, what are you moaning about in front of the mirror for?”
While I was thinking by myself in the living room, Oniisama came along.
Perfect timing. I’ll try asking Oniisama.
“Oniisama, do I have a scary face?”
“Hah?”
My face isn’t that mean looking, right?
It’s true that I don’t think I have a particularly approachable face either.
Well, I think I look like I don’t have many openings.
Because of Okaasama’s taste, my hair is curled neatly, and everything I wear is brand-name clothing.
Since it’s all children’s wear, the moment I grow a little all this clothing will just go to waste, but well, as the young lady of the Kisshouin family, I don’t suppose wearing fast fashion would do.
Since I have so many clothes, maybe I’ve never worn the same thing to cram school before.
So it was that after all, huh?
My lack of openings might be the reason people are scared of me.
Or rather, is it because I have intensity?
It’d be nice if it wasn’t because I have a mean-looking face, wouldn’t it…
My eyes aren’t sharp-looking, right?
“Who told you that you had a scary face?”
“No, nothing like that happened.”
I looked at Oniisama’s face.
Maybe Oniisama’s inner-self projected from his face or something, because although it wasn’t too sweet-looking, you could feel the kindness from it.
Whenever I talk to Oniisama, the corners of his mouth curve up a little, and I think that’s part of why he feels so easy to get along with.
“So it’s not just eyes. The mouth is important too.”
I looked at the mirror and smiled.
Yeah. Suspicious-looking.
“I don’t think your face is particularly scary. Although you standing here changing expressions in the mirror is. Anyway, why are you so worried all of a sudden?”
“…There is a girl I would like to get along with, but I get the feeling that she is frightened of me.”
“Hmm~ Is this a girl from school?”
“No, a girl from cram school. I have been trying my best to appear friendly, but the more I try, the more frightened she becomes. I wonder why. Is it because my appearance truly is scary?”
“What kind of girl is she? Depending on what she’s like, your approach should change, right?”
What type?
“Docile, and somewhat ‘small’. But cute like a small animal.”
“Quite different from the girls normally around you, isn’t she. In that case, if you’re too assertive about it, it’s true that she might get scared, huh. How about thinking about if you were in her position?”
If I was in her position?
That girl isn’t plain, but she seems the docile type, so she probably wouldn’t be in the centre of her class.
I get the feeling that the old me would’ve gotten along with her without a problem.
I wasn’t docile, but I had friends like her around me.
In that case, could the old me have become friends with a girl like Kisshouin Reika…?
…No way, huh.
I mean, I doubt our conversation would mesh, and it’d probably get troublesome if an intense ojousama like Reika got angry at me.
Aahh, I guess it’s true that if I didn’t want to become friends with her but Reika continued to forcefully approach me, it would be kind of scary.
Just like how I’m afraid when Stalker Kaburagi approaches me to make me a spy, huh?
But I never went and ambushed her, did I~
“If I cut my hair and wore cheaper clothing, I wonder if she would be less vigilant.”
“I don’t think our parents would ever let you though.”
Yeah~
Okaasama wants me to act like an ojousama from a proper family.
I’m sure she has her own ideas of what I should be like.
But her taste… like this curled hair for example, her taste is pretty classical, huh?
Could it be that she really wants me to become like the Rococo Queen?
“Then whatever should I do?”
“Let’s see. I guess there isn’t any other way except diligently have her understand you, huh? Because you’re an honest, and good girl.”
Oniisama!!
“I understand! I shall do my best!”
“Yeah. You really are honest, aren’t you.”
For the first time in a while, Oniisama rubbed my head.
My mood is on the rise.
I’m impatient to talk to her about Tarow the Taro, but just like Oniisama said, it might be better if I slowly get closer to her.
I’ll learn from Kaburagi’s bad example, and try my very best!