About the fact that I accidentally turned my sister into a cripple

Chapter 41
The surrounding scenery was still blurred under the gray rain.

After bidding farewell to the seniors, Sakakihara held up the umbrella and walked home with her silent sister.

It was around 10:[-] in the middle of the night, and the neon lights on the streets of Tokyo began to flicker, and the colors of street lights and billboards permeating the wet road became more and more dazzling.

Cars speeding past on the road around me from time to time, and the sound of splashing water rang in my ears.

"The customer has been waiting for a long time, the takoyaki you ordered."

"how much is it?"

"Benefit 1200 yen."

Sakakihara put away the umbrella, took out a banknote and two coins from the wallet, and while passing the money over, caught the steaming octopus balls.

The top of the takoyaki is sprinkled with bonito flakes and cheese, even on a cold and rainy day, there is a faint aroma.

Sakakibara turned around and handed the freshly baked takoyaki to Sakakibara who was still sulking in front of her:

"Here, take it and count it as an apology."

"Stinky Lele" Sakakibara Suzu murmured in a voice that couldn't be lowered, then grabbed the takoyaki in his hand, picked up a toothpick and inserted one directly into his mouth.

"Be careful it's hot." Sakakihara subconsciously warned.

"I didn't know you could see the sound room."

"It's your fault anyway!"

"Okay, my fault."

Seeing her angry look now, and thinking of her blushing expression when she said she liked Ni-chan just now, Sakakihara couldn't help laughing.

"Pfft-"

"Still laughing! Don't laugh!" Sakakibara Suzu is very sensitive to his smile now, with an unfinished takoyaki in her mouth, with a puffy face, she stepped on his shoe directly.

"Okay, then I won't laugh. Pfft—"

"Sakakibara Raku!" Sakakibara Suzu almost broke his voice.

"I'm sorry, sorry, I couldn't hold it back accidentally." Seeing A Ling's eyes that turned red instantly, Sakakihara quickly suppressed her smile.

When he put his mind away and looked at his sister again, he found that the corners of Sakakibaru Rin's eyes were radiant and moist.

She stared at him with trembling eyes for a long time, then turned around decisively, not wanting to see him again.

Really angry?

"A Ling, A Ling, A Ling? A Ling, are you okay?"

Sakakihara shook her shoulders lightly behind her, kept calling her nickname, and wanted to look at her face many times.

But every time I poked my head, Sakakihara Suzu turned her face away, not to mention the expression, Sakakihara Raku didn't even glance at her side face.

She didn't even eat her favorite takoyaki, just holding it in her hand.

Sakakihara Raku looked at her little back in school uniform, thinking that she wouldn't really make her sister cry, would she?
It's been a long time since I made her cry last time.

Let me explain in advance that he is not the kind of person who likes to see girls cry.

However, as the elder brother who had watched her since he was a child, he had quite complicated emotions about Ah Ling crying.

First, I thought it was funny and interesting.

I don't know if it's a bad taste shared by brothers all over the world who like to watch my sister cry in front of me.

The second thing is that after you find it interesting, you will inevitably feel distressed.

"Are you really crying?" Sakakihara put down her hands and asked, looking at the back of her snow-white neck.

"I didn't cry because I cried. This kind of trivial matter is nothing." A slightly choked voice came from Sakakibara Rin's back.

"Tough mouth." Sakakihara smiled at her back.

"It's not hard-spoken"

The air was silent for a long time, only the sound of rain and cars on the street.

"A Ling."

"what."

"Do not be angry."

"I'm not angry." Sakakibara Suzu didn't turn around to look at him.

"Brother Ni didn't do it on purpose. I went in to take a look after hearing Miss Yoshihara said it wouldn't affect your work."

"But!" The voice changed from loud to quiet, leaving only the back of Suzu Sakakibara's shoulders slightly dropped, as if speaking angrily, "But you heard it."

"It's okay to hear it, and the relationship between us won't change because of two sentences."

"Then you're still laughing at me, and you're still laughing!"

"No," Sakakibara smiled lightly, "I really didn't laugh at you, I just thought you were cute. Don't you often say that you are cute in front of me?"

"That's all—that's all because of—!"

Suzuki Sakakibara suddenly turned around, with tears in her eyes, raised her small face and stared up at him with red eyes, but as soon as the words came to her mouth, she suddenly broke down again, and she didn't even know what she should say.

"He said he didn't cry." Sakakihara Raku smiled at Sakakihara Rin, wanting to comfort her.

"I just didn't cry! Smelly old brother, stinky old brother, stinky old brother!"

Sakakibara Suzu closed her red eyes and yelled out a few words of "stinky old man", then grabbed the umbrella in his hand, took two bites of takoyaki, stepped on the rain, quickly turned and walked to the other side of the street run away.

Soon, her back disappeared from Sakakihara Raku's sight.

Sakakihara Raku smiled, he knew Sakakihara Suzu very well, she just needs a little time to be alone now, don't worry.

Sakakibara raised his head, his eyes glanced over the eaves of the street, staring at the drizzle that kept falling towards the street among the tall buildings.

The rain was so heavy that few pedestrians could be seen on the street, and ordinary figures also became blurred under the falling rain.

Sakakibara looked at the rain, a little dazed.

He suddenly realized a problem.

The umbrella was snatched away by Ah Ling, how do I go home now?

When Sakakihara saw Ah Ling again, it was at the door of the house.

She was squatting in the corridor of the apartment and slowly swiping her phone, with an open umbrella and a takoyaki box with only a toothpick left beside her.

The fluorescence of the mobile phone screen illuminated her beautiful face, and now it seemed that her eye sockets were not as red as before.

Now that she has finished eating, it means that her anger is gone.

Sakakibara, who was covered with some rain, came to her and squatted down, put her hands on her knees, and said to her with a smile:
"Do you feel better now? If you are still angry, I can apologize to you again."

Knowing that he was coming, Sakakibara Ling turned off the screen of her phone and whispered with her back against the wall, "Then apologize."

"I'm sorry, Ling." Sakakibara said with a sincere tone, and smiled again, "Is this okay?"

"not enough."

Sakakibara moistened her throat again: "I'm sorry, Ah Ling, I shouldn't just peek at your work."

"."

After being quiet for a while, Sakakibara Suzu raised her head again with puffed cheeks. Her red eye sockets had not completely subsided, and now she looked like a little girl who just got sulky.

"Smelly Lele."

Sakakihara didn't care about her saying that she was Lele, and reached out to touch her head: "Isn't it good, be happy."

"Don't touch my head." Sakakibara bell lowered her head again and muttered in a low voice.

"Okay, I won't touch it anymore," Sakakihara smiled and retracted her hand, "I haven't eaten dinner yet, as my second apology for accidentally hearing about your work, what do you want to eat tonight? Your brother will give it to you Do."

Sakakibara Suzu lowered her head and grunted twice.

"What?" Sakakihara didn't hear clearly.

"Beef curry rice and passion fruit ice powder made at noon."

"It's the same thing."

"No?" Sakakibara Ling clasped her legs with both hands, and looked at him with resentful little eyes.

"Yes! If you want to eat, I will make it for you! But the passion fruit is used up, I will buy it for you when I go out." Sakakihara put the shoulder bag he brought from school on the ground, took out the key and handed it to She said, "Come on, take it. I knew you didn't want to disturb the two of them sleeping, so you squatted here to play with your mobile phone, and didn't knock on the door."

"What do you want me to do with the key?" Sakakibara Ling looked up at him.

"Open the door for yourself, I'm going out to buy passion fruit."

"Are you really going to the supermarket?"

"Otherwise?" Sakakibara smiled, "Don't say I don't care about you, besides Mom, isn't it me who has known you for the longest time? I am your brother, just tell me what you want to eat. come out."

Suzu Sakakibara stretched out her hand in a daze, and took the key from him.

The lights in the corridor were slightly dark in the middle of the night, but Sakakibara Suzu could still clearly see a small dolphin whose patina was worn down to whitish on the key chain in her hand.

Sakakibara Suzu looked at the little dolphin twice more with her red eyes.

"Okay," Sakakibara stood up with her hands on her knees, and said to her sister below: "Then I'm going downstairs, don't squat here all the time, go into the house quickly, it's raining outside, be careful of catching a cold.

"Also, remember to always bring an umbrella, maybe I will forget it one day, and then you will be angry with me again."

"Got it, got it." Sakakibara Suzu, who was squatting at the door, just hugged her legs again and nodded slightly.

When Sakakihara Raku went downstairs, Sakakihara Ryu stretched out her right hand again.

In her hand was the key chain that Sakakihara Raku had just handed to her.

The little dolphin on the top of the key chain had its dorsal fin broken off in half due to wear and tear, and there was only a bare rod left on the crescent-shaped tail fin. It looked ugly and desolate, and it was something that should have been thrown away long ago.

Borrowing the white twilight falling from above the corridor, Sakakibara Suzu locked her gaze on the top and stared at it for a long time.

She pursed her lips, hugged her knees again with her hands, buried her head, listened to the sound of rain, and muttered in an inaudible voice:

"Why are you still here?"

The rain was still there, and in the long and narrow corridor of the apartment, there was only a white light on above the head, and Suzu Sakakibara, who was huddled in the corner and hugged her legs, said something to herself in a voice that no one could hear.
(End of this chapter)