Why does the Ruined King still fall in love?

"Wang-!"

The brother and sister and a miniature dachshund returned home. After the "I'm back" that has become a habit, the two changed their house shoes and walked to the living room.

"Although it has become a habit, sometimes I still wonder why I always say that when I go home."

"Well, I thought so too."

Hikigaya Hachiman nodded, and took his blue mug to the kitchen to fetch water.

"elder brother--"

"what happened?"

Hikigaya Hachiman, who was holding a mug, turned his head, looked at Komachi who was frowning and pouting, and asked aloud.

"Brother, you should know what Komachi means, right?"

"Huh? I really think so. It's really troublesome to say that every day when I go home."

Because he has read many uncommon books and has a wide range of knowledge, Komachi will take the initiative to find him when he has problems.

Over time, when Komachi encountered a problem, his first thought was not to look for relevant information to find the answer to the question, but to ask Hikigaya Hachiman.

Hikigaya Hachiman also answered Komachi's questions seriously at the beginning. Those who knew the answer would find a way to explain it clearly in words that Komachi could understand.

But after a long time, although Hikiya Hachiman felt that he would never dislike Komachi, every time this process made him a little annoyed.

So in the end, it turned into not answering if you can’t answer, and explaining obliquely when you have to answer, so that Komachi understands what it means to search the Internet for 5 minutes, and ask him to spend two hours.

But looking at Komachi's current state, it is estimated that it will be impossible to continue to prevaricate.

"I'm not so sure either."

Hikigu Hachiman paused, and decided to choose an answer she could accept from various speculations on this question.

"It's probably a sense of belonging. The first reaction when I go home is to miss my family."

Although I want to say that it is just a simple fixed sentence pattern, like greeting each morning and picking a suitable topic when strangers meet.

But the person who wanted the answer was Hikigaya Komachi, his younger sister.

So he had to choose an answer that Komachi would be satisfied with.

"A sense of belonging..."

Komachi knelt down and untied the dog leash from Sabre's collar.

Sabre, who was not bound by a rope, happily walked towards the sofa.

Kamakula was still curled up on the couch, fast asleep.

But Sabre didn't go to wake Kamakula up, but lay down on the sofa and began to rest.As a small dog, its own physical strength is not particularly good, and its exuberant energy has long been exhausted by going out to play.

The puppy who got the catharsis is now able to get along peacefully with the sleeping white cat.

Seeing the harmonious scene of a cat and a dog, Bikigu Komachi's heart warmed up.

This kind of harmonious and warm daily life really wants to last forever...

Hikigu Hachiman also poured the water, took a sip, and walked from the kitchen to the living room with the water glass.

Looking at Komachi, who was squatting down and staring at the cat and the dog in a daze, he pondered his words and said.

"Didn't Komachi say that before?"

Hikigaya Hachiman's voice attracted Komachi's attention, and he looked up at his brother, waiting for his next words.

"Didn't Komachi say that it's a very happy thing to have someone say 'Welcome back' to me?"

"Because I ran into Yumiko Miura before, I couldn't reply to you, Komachi. Now I can answer you..."

Hikigaya Hachiman didn't look at Komachi looking up at his eyes, but at the boiled water in his blue mug.

Staring at the clear and transparent water, staring at the white inner wall that wraps the water.

"Although this is not the case in all cases, if it were me, if I were at home and Komachi came back, I would greet you and say 'Welcome back' to you."

"what the hell."

Hikigaya Komachi turned his eyes away from Hikigaya Hachiman, and looked at Sabre who was lying on the floor under the sofa and fell asleep.

"If such an annoying older brother comes to pick up Komachi, Komachi won't feel very happy... only a little bit, um, just a little bit?"

Hikigaya Hachiman took advantage of the time to come to Komachi, the two siblings were standing and squatting.

But they were very close, and neither of them had any special reaction to this, nor did they contradict each other, which is enough to prove the closeness of the two brothers and sisters.

It was also because of the position of the two that Hikigaya Komachi couldn't see the expression on Hikigaya Hachiman's face.

Naturally, I couldn't notice the corner of Hikigaya Hachiman's mouth raised.

"I, I didn't turn around to meet you, but just by the way, by the way."

"First of all, regardless of whether I feel disgusted when my brother said this, if I want to imitate Tsundere, I should at least imitate the tone, right? Such a blunt and flattering tone made my brother's ridiculous imitation even more Grass is growing, okay?!"

Komachi stood up and lightly bumped Hikigaya Hachiman's waist with his elbow.

The movement is very small, how small is it?

In the case that Hikigu Hachiman did not specifically maintain his body stability, more than half of the cool white leaves in the mug held in Hikigu Hachiman's hand only slightly swayed with a few wisps of microwaves.

After a brief silence, Komachi's warm voice came.

"But even so, it doesn't matter..."

Hikigaya Hachiman turned his head sideways and saw Hikigaya Komachi with his eyes closed and one hand on his chest, as if confirming the slight warmth in his heart, and then slowly said each word.

"Komachi is really happy with what my brother said before. Komachi said that before to highlight how cute the lively and lovable Komachi is."

I couldn't see what Hikigaya Komachi's eyes looked like now, but Hikigaya Hachiman saw the most unreal smile this summer.

It's not that Komachi's smile isn't genuine.

Rather, Hikigaya Hachiman was somewhat unconvinced that such a smile would bloom on Komachi's face.

Even Hikiya Hachiman, who has been with him for more than ten years, has rarely seen this kind of tenderness on Komachi's face.

"It's not because I was happy to hear 'Welcome back', but because the person who said 'Welcome back' is my brother, Komachi is so happy......"

"Is it......"

Hikigaya Hachiman turned his head in the other direction, the opposite direction to Komachi.

bored...

Originally wanted to tease Shimo Komachi, but was turned against the general.

I can't stand it, my sister is really not cute at important moments.

But usually it's pretty cute, super cute.

but.

Komachi, who made the elder brother so embarrassed and made the elder brother afraid to look at the younger sister, is not cute at all!

It's still kind of cute though.

So is it cute or not?

Hikigu Hachiman himself was a little unclear.

Chapter 180 Three Will Live Together

"elder brother."

"..."

"Brother, are you asleep?"

"..."

"Don't pretend, Komachi knows it? When brother is asleep on the bed, his breathing won't be as regular as it is now?"

Hikigaya Hachiman opened his eyes, and saw Komachi looking at him with his hands propped up.

During this time, Komachi would go to his room to sleep together.

Of course, when her parents were home, Komachi would honestly go back to her own bedroom to rest.

But even if her parents were at home, Komachi would sometimes sneak out of her bedroom in her pajamas while her parents were resting, and sneak into Hikigaya Hachiman's bedroom.

Hikigaya Hachiman personally thinks there is nothing wrong with doing this, but when Komachi did it once, she was discovered by her mother who got up in the middle of the night and wanted to drink water.

After looking for reasons to prevaricate, in order not to be discovered by his parents, Komachi stopped attacking in the middle of the night when his parents were at home.

Hikigaya Hachiman was also used to Komachi asking him if he was asleep before going to bed at night.

In the first few times, he thought that Komachi called him before going to bed because he had something to say to him, so he responded immediately.But when he found out that Komachi just wanted to call him by his name, he laughed it off. After a long time, and after confirming that Komachi really had nothing to say to him, Hikigaya Hachiman gradually got used to Komachi's greetings before going to bed every day.

Hikiya Hachiman knew that Komachi would fall asleep after a while after calling his name.

Sometimes Komachi didn't get a reply from him, felt bored and fell asleep, and sometimes Komachi was already asleep, but he was used to being called by his name in his sleep.

After Hikigaya Hachiman confirmed that Komachi was asleep, he would get up and help her arrange her sleeping position and bedding to ensure that her sleep quality would not be affected by these.

But this time was different, Komachi did not fall asleep after the routine bedtime greeting, but continued to call his name.

He was a little surprised by this.

What was unexpected was not that Komachi called his name as if she had something to say, wanting him to open his eyes and talk to her.

Hikigaya Hachiman was surprised by what Komachi said earlier.

"Brother doesn't breathe like this when he's asleep in bed"

Does that mean Komachi knows what she looks like when she sleeps?

But Hikigaya Hachiman can be sure that when he slept with Komachi during this period of time, he only rested after Komachi fell asleep.

There is no such thing as Komachi waking up in the middle of the night to observe him, because although the main consciousness of the body has entered a rest state, the sub-consciousness of the hive mind is always patrolling the surrounding environment.In other words, if Komachi woke up from sleep and looked at him, he would definitely know.

But there is no such memory in the stored memory.

That was the way Komachi had seen him sleeping on the bed before.

Hikigaya Hachiman and Hikigaya Komachi sleeping in the same bed did not happen now, and he and Komachi slept together when they were very young.

But at that time, Komachi was just a baby who couldn't even open his eyes, and he was just a child, so he had never seen himself in a deep sleep.

After that, the two slept separately for a long time.

In other words.

Komachi didn't start sneaking into her room just last semester.

There has been such an action in between.

When did she start?At night, he secretly ran to his room to see how he looked when he was resting.

primary school?Or middle school?

Or was it earlier...?

Unlike Hikiya Hachiman, who was constantly analyzing the possibility, Komachi wasn't thinking about anything special.It's just that she got closer, Bi Qigu Hachiman could feel the relatively light milk fragrance on her body.

This smell may be the scent of shampoo, or it may be the residual aroma of perfume, but when you sniff carefully, you will find that this scent does not resemble anything.

If you let Hikigu Hachiman describe it, it is the breath of max coffee.

It’s not that Komachi’s scent smells like sweet coffee, but it’s that Hikigu Hachiman likes this scent, and it’s because he likes it that he finds a match with his favorite flavor from memory, and wants to use his favorite way Describe it.

The aroma accompanied Komachi's body temperature, making one feel like Chuchun lying on the sunny grass and letting himself go, making him a little addicted.

Is it some kind of pheromone...?

"When my brother was hospitalized and not at home, Komachi was accompanied by Kamakura. It greeted Komachi at the door every day."

Komachi's voice stopped Hikigaya Hachiman from thinking about other things, and focused his attention on Komachi.

When Hikigaya Hachiman sleeps, he doesn't like to draw the curtains all the way to create an immersive dark atmosphere. He likes to leave a little gap so that some moonlight can slip into the room.

So now he could see Komachi's expression, which looked hazy under the not-so-bright moonlight.

"If my brother came home before, Kamakura would probably just stay on the balcony and look down, right? But now, Kamakula will be more excited to see her brother than Komachi? It's probably not just at the door of the house Welcome, maybe you will fly directly into your brother's arms, right?"

"Maybe, but can Kamakula swoop now? It hasn't exercised for a long time, and when it ran out of reach when it was hiding from Sabre at home, it would immediately lie down and rest."