Edited by Pantherocker

  Translator note: Heyyya!

  This is now the third chapter this week and tomorrow I will post the fourth regular chap .

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  Finished with Rouga’s training, I arrived home just in time for dinner .

  I was called by mom to take a seat, then ate my meal . Today’s dinner was a delicious hamburger, as expected from my mom . I suddenly sensed Karen’s odd gaze while I was enjoying my hamburger .

  When our eyes met, she averted them once again .

  She avoided eye contact again . I wondered if I was being ignored by her .

  I threw away my thoughts about Karen for the time being and focused on savoring the hamburger in front of me .

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  In the middle of the quiet night .

  I abruptly awoke from my peaceful sleep due to the 【Presence sensation】, which detected something nearby . I usually had it active as a plan against thieves, but I never thought that something like that would actually happen .

  I got up and prepared to catch the thief when I finally realized that the detected presence was not new and I halted . Apparently it was Karen .

  As I was trying to figure out what she would be doing at this time of night, Karen stopped in front of my room . Immediately after realizing that door was slowly opening, I swiftly covered myself and pretended to be asleep .

  Karen slowly approached my bed, raised my blankets and lay next to me .

  Wai- what are you doing?!

  Getting soundlessly shocked by her conduct, Karen didn’t stop there, but kept moving until she was stuck against me .

  Eh, no way, what was this? What was this situation supposed to be?

  Feeling dubious about Karen’s unusual behavior, I opened my eyes to confirm whether it was really her or not .

  "……"

  "……"

  Our eyes met spot on .

  It was really Karen after all .

  Despite the eye contact, Karen remained to gaze at me . She must be extremely surprised since her eyes were faintly shifting .

  We continued staring at each other for a few seconds . I mean, I couldn’t move even if I had wanted to .

  Feeling pressed by the severe silence, I brought up my courage and opened my mouth .

  "A- uum, What…… are you doing?"

  "……Nothing……"

  "I-I see……"

  Replying with only "I see," to her excuse, the silence took place once again .

  This was really awkward……

  Trying to figure out a way out of the situation, Karen opened her mouth .

  "……thanks . "

  "Thanks?’


  "I didn’t express my thanks to you yet . "

  It was probably about the other day with the dragon . All of that happened because I blew the dragon in her direction, so I didn’t deserve to be thanked, honestly .

  "I couldn’t find a good time to thank you and I had a hard time finding a good place to do so……"

  "That’s why you sneaked into my bed?"

  Karen slowly nodded her head .

  This explains why she had been avoiding me lately .

  It seemed like she had been waiting for good timing .

  When I finally consented to Karen’s recent conduct, I said to her .

  "Karen, all of that happened because I sent the dragon in your direction . So you don’t need to thank-"

  "Doesn’t matter . "

  Karen interrupted me when I arrived at the important part .

  "The fact that you saved me doesn’t change . Besides, you rescued me from something else too . "

  Uttering those words, Karen moved her face near my chest to hide it from me .

  "So, thank you . Onii-chan . "

  Karen’s last line reverberated inside my head .

  Onii-chan…… huh .

  "Been a long time since you last called me that way . "

  I wonder, when did she stop calling me Onii-chan?

  Trying to remember the past, I recalled the last time she called me that way .

  It was when we were still in elementary school . At that time I snapped after seeing her getting bullied by her classmates . Looking back at it now, I think that I went too far by taking their pictures and scattering them around the school .

  From that day on, she started addressing me by "Hey, you," or "Come here," instead of "Onii-chan . "

  Even here attitude had turned from that of a child to appear more like that of an adult woman .

  But still, Onii-chan, huh?

  "Karen, can you call me Onii-chan one more time?"

  "Don’t get carried away . "

  I requested Karen to call me Onii-chan again, but she refused .

  I guess that was more of a rare event . I wanted to get immersed by its reverberation at least one more time .

  How unfortunate, it looked like I wouldn’t be hearing that word for long while .

  "But I can call you by anything else . "

  Karen suggested .

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  Anything else? Just how bad do you not want to call me Onii-chan? Your big brother was feeling kinda sad now .

  After spending a few moments pondering about how I should answer, I hit on a good idea .

  "Well then, how about we go out somewhere together tomorrow?"

  We rarely go out together, so it wouldn’t be that bad if we went somewhere tomorrow .

  "Okay . "

  Getting Karen’s consent, I promptly went back to sleep to wake up in time for tomorrow’s adventure .

  "Okay then, tomorrow was it?"

  "Right . Good night . "

  Karen replied to my question and closed her eyes .

  So she will sleep here, huh……

  A bitter smile reached my face while watching Karen, who was sticking to me, and I closed my eyes to wait for sleep to come .

  Her sleeping face and light breaths made it a little hard to sleep, but since it was cute, I let it pass .

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  Bonus

  A promise .

  "Chief, what did you do last night?"

  "What do you mean?"

  "Chief, yesterday you were kinda strange~ "

  "Yesterday, Karen came to my room and we slept together . "

  "Hmmm…… hey, chief . "

  "What?"

  "You enjoyed your last night, didn’t you?"

  "Wo- let’s clear up this matter right away . "

  Nothing happened actually .