I sighed.
“Professor Kumesuke’s wife. At the Academic Meeting”
“UGEH-! How did you know about that-!?”
“What did my sister talk to you about?”
“…It’s what you suspect.”
Hm.
“Who is it?”
“I don’t know. I tried asking, but she wouldn’t tell me. Ah-, but she did say something about Romeo.”
“Romeo?”
Are we still talking about a real person here?
Could it be that my sister has an imaginary boyfriend? Considering who we’re talking about, it’s certainly possible.
Perhaps my sister has a foreign boyfriend that only she can see.
“Also she started talking about giving handmade cookies as a present, so I told her it would better not to.”
“Cookies?”
Ah-! I remember!
Just a while ago, my sister made my father and I eat cookies.
Because of my mother’s diet, she doesn’t eat sweet things at night.
The cookies were burnt bitter here and there, but the rest of them were sweet, so perhaps you could say that my sister’s cooking was slowly approaching the average person’s.
The cookies on my father’s plate were far more burnt than mine.
He asked, “Oh, were these choc chip cookies?” causing my sister to grow sullen.
Dad, those cookies might be pitch black, but there’s no chocolate in them at all. They’re plain cookies.
My father wordlessly washed them down with his tea.
“So it was that huh.”
“Oh! Do you know something?”
“I guess.”
In order to give cookies to the person you like, you used me as a lab rat, huh.
Burnt foods are bad for you, you know.
Know our father’s grief.
“Well? What are you going to do?”
“Nothing at all, of course.”
“Oh? I thought you’d try and stop it.”
“As if.”
Well, I will check to see that he isn’t a weirdo though.
If somebody was tricking a lady of the Kisshouin house, and planning to do bad things to her, I’d be troubled.
As long as that isn’t the case, I’m fine with anything.
“After all…”
I can’t even imagine that absurd little sister actually succeeding in her romance.
To begin with, I’m not even sure he’s real.
Hmm, she mentioned before that she wanted to see the zoo in Hokkaido. Once it’s done, I’ll take her there.
But Little Sister, if you really have fallen in love, maybe you should hold back on our father’s tributes.
After all, your face is getting a little round.