About the fact that I unintentionally raised my sister to be a cripple

Why did that person come back suddenly?

——This question bothered Suzu Sakakihara all afternoon.

In the afternoon, when I was practicing dancing in front of myself in the mirror in the dance studio, Wei, Jiuhua and several seniors also reminded me a lot.

Even though Sakakihara Suzu knew that her brother, Qiyue Liuli and others were watching her dance, her mind was completely focused on this issue.

There was a series of mistakes in one of her moves midway, and Nisekiin Harumi, who was in charge of the team's lead dance, noticed her state. After the end, she took advantage of the other three chatting, sat down next to Sakakibara Suzu, and said to her in a very calm and small voice:

"The time has been finalized. We will go to the Budokan next week."

"Um"

"Is Ling worried about what happened just now?"

".Senior, did you see it?"

Futoshiin Harumi didn't speak, just nodded.

Sakakihara Suzu glanced outside the practice room. The place where her brother, Yuki Yuki and the others were standing was already empty.

The senior's kind and weak voice of inquiry rang in my ears again.

"What do Ling think now?"

"What do you think? I feel that it's a bit incredible, Harumi-senpai, you don't know, he won the jackpot when I was five years old, so he gave up my brother and my mother. After that, our family was completely supported by my mother and my brother. Now, in my mind, this guy has been dead for a long time, but now he has come back again."

"Hate him?"

"Who would I hate and would like to be abandoned? But now I am very happy that he is gone. I still have my mother and my brother. There are some things I don't like to say to outsiders. It's true. I I love my brother very much. He has been supporting me from behind and I have been able to persist until now. When I first started working as a voice actor, it was common for me to be left out and ignored."

Sakakihara Suzu's voice became quieter and quieter as she spoke.

"I just feel that we are all relatives, why is there such a big gap? My brother has always been thinking about me, but that bastard came back just because he wanted to ask me for money."

Futoshiin Harumi hugged her legs, rested her head on her knees, and looked sideways at the troubled girl with slightly green hair next to her:

"So it's the huge gap between Ling's biological father and your brother that makes you feel empty, right?"

"Yes. Yes. When I see that bastard's face, I think of the days when my brother gave me everything, and I feel aggrieved for my brother. If he has a little bit of conscience, my brother and I Mom won’t have such a hard life.”

"Well" Futoshiin Harumi thought for a moment, "Since Suzu always thinks about the past, why not go back tonight and have a good talk with your brother?"

"Speak. What can you say?"

"Let's talk about what happened today and ask him what he thinks. Also, aren't you about to perform on stage? I saw that you didn't resist when your brother came over to watch you practice just now. You were really looking forward to letting him see you standing. Are you performing on stage?"

Sakakibara Suzu's face suddenly turned red when her thoughts were read. She also hugged her legs together with her hands and buried her cheeks in them:

"In the past, he said that I was too stupid to dance and so on. I'm sure he still has this idea."

"But you're embarrassed to tell others?"

"Isn't this natural? We are so old, no one. No one wants to be known by others and still expects to be paid attention to by her brother or something." Sakakihara Suzu's voice became softer and softer until she started to mutter weakly.

"I think bells like this are cute."

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

"It's very rare, and there are basically no brothers and sisters who have such a good relationship now. In my memory, brothers and sisters of our age group basically ignore each other. The younger sister locks the door of the room when she comes home, and the older brother basically ignores the younger sister. Ling wants your brother to pay attention to you so much. Doesn’t this mean that you are both very important to each other? You should cherish it. "

Do you cherish it?

Sakakihara Suzu buried her head, her temples still a little wet from the dance practice just now.

Inexplicably, the image of my brother leaving England forever came to mind.

he left.

Raise yourself until you can take charge of your own life and then leave.

Obviously this didn't happen, but Sakakihara Suzu felt extremely sad when she thought about the possibility that he might really leave not long ago.

Don't want him to leave.

I also want to eat the super delicious dinner he made.

When I wanted to have nothing to do, I would run up behind him, put my arms around his neck, and shout things like "Brother, I want to go out and play".

Compared to some shameless bastard, this bastard is really good.

"Um!"

"Huh?" Nisekiin Harumi saw Sakakihara Suzu suddenly raised her head, looking full of energy.

"I'll talk to my brother when I get home! Senior, I'm well rested now, let's continue practicing!"

*

Dance practice lasted until 6pm.

At 6:15, when the sun had just set halfway, Sakakihara Suzu waved goodbye to several seniors, Tiano and the others.

She hailed a taxi on the side of the road, went to the supermarket to buy a bunch of snacks and drinks, and then went to a nearby izakaya to buy a lot of roasted bird skewers before taking the car back home. .

It was almost seven o'clock when I got home.

She habitually opened the door with the key and shouted "I'm back" when changing her shoes. Within a moment, her brother's somewhat lazy "Welcome home" came from the living room.

Sakakihara Suzu smiled slightly.

Welcome home.

It is obviously something I hear often, but why does it sound sweet to me now?

Sakakihara Suzu came to the living room carrying large and small bags of things.

"Why did you buy so many things, Suzu?" Raku Sakakibara, who was busy with dinner in the kitchen, also saw this little green hair on his sister. Today, she was dressed quite cutely and freshly.

Sakakihara Suzu raised the plastic bag to her face and laughed: "Buy it and let's eat it together!"

"When did you become so thoughtful and why did you buy a barbecue?" Sakakihara Raku saw her other hand.

Sakakihara Suzu also picked it up and shook it, "Hey, isn't it great? Everyone is at home today. I just thought we could sit together and have a good meal together."

If it were my mother, she would definitely complain now, "It's time to have dinner, why are you buying these things?"

But my brother won’t.

Sakakibara just glanced at it, and then continued to work on the dishes in his hands:

"Excuse me for bothering you, let me make an exception today and prepare a few more dishes. It just so happens that the ingredients from before are still sitting there uneaten."

"Okay! Then I'll put the things away!"

"Well, go ahead, go ahead."

Sakakihara Suzu put the snacks and drinks she bought on the side of the coffee table in the living room, only to realize that there was no one in the living room.

She went back to the corridor and took a look. Qiyue was sitting in her bedroom reading a book. Yuki seemed to be tinkering with her videos, sitting in front of the computer looking quite distressed. Sister Liuli didn't know where she went, but she wasn't at home anyway. .

The open kitchen and living room are connected together, which means that in such a large area, the old man is the only one now!

During the rare alone time, Sakakihara Suzu sneaked up behind Sakakihara Raku and watched him handling a piece of fat and thin pork.

The old man is wearing an apron and is very tall.

It looks like a handsome man working hard in the kitchen preparing dinner.

Sakakihara Suzu liked him very much. She looked at him behind his back for a while with her hands behind her back, seeing how busy he was and how serious he was.

This situation didn't end until Raku Sakakihara turned around. He was obviously startled.

"A-Ling, what are you doing standing back there like a ghost?"

Sakakihara Suzu pouted, "You are the ghost! Do you really want your cute little sister to become a ghost?"

Raku Sakakihara was happy when he heard her tone, and then continued to get things from the cupboard behind him, "Hiding behind me sneakily, what is it if it's not a ghost?"

"I'm just looking at you," Sakakibara Suzu followed Sakakibara Raku's gaze, "By the way, why didn't you see Sister Ruri?"

"Liu Li went downstairs to buy sugar. We ran out of sugar at home. Yuki really wanted to eat the braised pork I made again. I haven't cooked dinner for everyone seriously for a long time, so my uncle let me go during this period. If it’s a holiday, just do it.”

"Braised pork? I want to eat it too!"

Returning to the chopping board, Sakakibara smiled and said, "Isn't this what we are doing? If nothing happens, Suzu, go to the living room and watch TV for a while. I watched you dance in the afternoon and felt that you were tired. You have to cooperate and sing again. Dancing again, keeping the pitch and all that, it’s hard just thinking about it.”

"."

Sakakihara Suzu looked at him for a short while, then quietly walked to him with her hands behind her back, looked at the small ingredients he had cut, and then looked at his face again, "Brother, you are... caring about me. ?”

Sakakibara continued to chop vegetables, "You don't know how many times you have asked me this in your life. Remember, I am your brother, I don't care about you, who cares about you. If you want to get married in the future, I will still care Who is your marriage partner, how is he, and how does he treat you?"

"I'm not getting married!" Sakakihara Suzu muttered. She wanted to look at him but didn't dare to look at him when she was next to him. "I just...suddenly felt that you are very good, brother."

"how?"

"Don't talk about that irresponsible bastard. Even as my mother, I feel there is a gap between me and her. There are some things I don't want to say to her. I won't hide in her arms and cry. After all, she is my age. Now, he’s not the little kid who cried when he couldn’t find his mother.”

"Well, then?"

"Then. Then I thought you were pretty good, brother. If something sad happens to you, if you agree, I can stay in your arms for a while."

Sakakihara Suzu was hesitant and hesitant when she said this, and she was a bit afraid to look at Sakakibara Suzu.

As soon as Sakakihara Raku heard her words, he stopped cutting the vegetables and turned back to look at her.

He didn't say anything, just looked at her.

"What are you doing! Looking at me like that."

"Um--"

"Hmm? Well what?"

"You took the initiative to say so many things to me, and you still speak so shyly. You are not A Ling."

"I——" Sakakihara Suzu was at a loss for words and her voice became smaller, "Why am I not?"

Sakakibara laughed, "Just kidding, I just think it's funny, girls will always have this one day."

".What?" Sakakihara Suzu couldn't understand what he said.

Sakakibara did not take the initiative to answer her question, but kept smiling and continued: "Ling, are you trying to act coquettishly?"

"."

Be quiet for a moment.

"No." Sakakihara Suzu replied.

"Really?" Sakakihara brought his face closer.

"No." Sakakihara Suzu turned her slightly red face aside.

"Really?" Sakakihara deliberately prolonged his voice and leaned closer.

"No, no!" Sakakibara Suzu deliberately raised her voice and emphasized, not shying away from her straight face, even with her eyes closed.

"."

Sakakihara didn't reply, just stared at her quietly for a while with a weird smile.

Under her brother's gaze, Sakakihara Suzu was instantly discouraged and her shoulders slumped. She blushed and turned away, "Okay. I just thought about that. That's all."

"If you want a hug from me, just ask. It's not like I won't give you a hug."

".Why do I want you to hug me? I-I am already so old, and you want to hug me, wouldn't you feel ashamed? I feel so ashamed. Yes! So ashamed!"

"So, no hug?"

"No hug. Yes! Just no hug!"

Hearing this, Sakakibara didn't say much. He just put down the kitchen knife in his hand, took off his apron, and then stood quietly in front of her.

"What now?"

Sakakihara Suzu opened one of her closed eyes, looked at him sideways, found that he was looking at her, and quickly closed it again.

".No hug."

"You really don't want to hug me?"

"No hug."

Sakakibara didn't care about his sister's shame and said to her sincerely:

"A-Ling, actually, brother, I like you very much, A-Ling. Although she is usually a little naughty and silly, she is really nice and knows how to take the initiative to come to me when I need company. When I was in trouble, she took the initiative to speak for me. Knowing that I might have to leave, she was so sad that she shed tears. She is usually a little arrogant, but this is also the cuteness of her silly.

"You work even harder at work. When I went to see you practice dancing in the afternoon, I also exchanged some words with your senior captains. They all agreed that you are the most serious person in terms of work attitude, no matter as a As a voice actor, I am still half an idol.

"To sum up, my sister is very good, very proud, and very strong. She has her own little temper, and she also knows how to take care of other people under appropriate circumstances. The most important thing is that she has always had a good attitude toward people. He has a sincere heart. He is indeed a person worthy of being cherished.

"Of course, she is usually sad, if someone hurts her heart, or someone secretly speaks ill of her behind her back. Even though she can bear these emotions in her heart now, she still hopes that there will be someone who can be with her. Share this feeling and comfort her."

Sakakibara looked at Sakakihara Suzu listening to him carefully and smiled lightly.

"So, if you want to act coquettishly, why not secretly hug her in a place where no one is around?"

After saying these words, Sakakibara Suzu was obviously a little dazed.

She looked at him, thinking about their identities and the feelings they had grown up with for more than ten years, and recalled how she was bullied by others in the past, and then hid in her brother's arms and cried at night.

I don’t know whether it was because I missed him or because he knew what he said. I couldn’t help but move towards him little by little, and my hands crossed his waist little by little and hugged him.

Her face was pressed against her chest, and her body was leaning on his arms.

There was nothing sad, but I felt extremely at ease because of this warmth.

Sakakihara Raku also touched Sakakihara Suzu’s head.

This made her even more shy.

"Why do I feel like you are treating me like a child? Do you still want to put me to sleep?"

"It's not impossible," Sakakihara looked at the sister holding him in front of him, "Didn't you need me to coax you, tell you stories, and make you sleep every day?"

"I'm grown up now."

"When you grow up, you are still a little kid in my eyes. Occasionally, you like to act coquettishly and ask me to accompany you for a while. Basically every summer vacation, you want me to take you to play in the countryside, pick wild fruits, and build a bonfire. , grill the fish you caught and eat something like that.”

"After all, I don't have many friends, so I have to rely on you."

"It just so happens that I don't have many friends to play with during the summer vacation."

Sakakibara looked at the little head leaning against his chest, "Did someone suddenly appear today, Suzu, so her mood fluctuated a little?"

"Well" Suzu Sakakihara closed her eyes, her emotions fluctuating a little, "I don't know why he came back. After he came back, he only came to me because of money. I used to often think about the fact that my father didn't want us anymore. When I saw the old man Mom is so tired, and when I see you working so hard to make me happy, I wonder why he doesn’t want us anymore.”

"What now?"

"I definitely won't think so now. If he wants to leave, he can leave. Anyway, I still have my mother, and anyway, I still have my brother who is willing to take care of me."

"Then why do you still feel like this now?"

"It's just." Sakakihara Suzu buried her face deeper in his arms, and her voice became weaker, "It's just that the way he came back suddenly and spoke to me made me know that you are the only one who loves me the most, brother, not only for me. So good, it was the first time I made so much money, and I gave it all to me without saying a word. Then... Then I thought about how you wanted to leave without saying goodbye a while ago. I just said "

"Afraid I'll abandon you too?"

"Yeah." Sakakihara Suzu nodded in his arms, "Don't leave me, okay? The only thing I care about most in my life is you."

These words are really heavy.

A person with a personality like A Ling, who is very optimistic every day, will basically not express such inner thoughts.

Even if there are, most of them will pretend on the surface and laugh it off.

The only thing I care about most in my life is you.

This sentence sounds really touching and emotional.

"Then if I leave alone and leave you alone, and you can't find me at all, what will you do?"

"suicide."

Sakakihara laughed, "Is it that serious?"

"It's that serious. I'm afraid of being alone."

"A Ling, no one is indispensable with anyone in this world. Getting used to loneliness is the norm."

".I don't care, I only care about you."

Sakakibara was a little bit dumbfounded, "Well, in order to prevent your lovely sister Suzu from committing suicide, I promise that I will never have the idea of ​​leaving without saying goodbye in the future. If I have any, I will tell you, Suzu."

"You are not allowed to have it."

"I'm not allowed to have any ideas?"

"Just not allowed"

"Okay, okay, if you don't allow me to have it, then I won't have it. I listen to you. Are you happy like this? Your eyes are still red. Do you want me to wipe them with a tissue? I expected you to hold me and act coquettishly. That’s fine, why are you still crying?”

After comforting Ah Ling for a while, her mood finally improved.

"Have you had enough of coquettishness?"

"No, just hold me for a while. Who told you to be so strong? It's quite comfortable to hold you." Sakakihara Suzu muttered like a child, and hugged her tighter.

"That's okay. I also said I would get the vegetables early."

During this period, Jiu Liuli went home after buying sugar and saw Sakakihara Suzu holding her brother and acting coquettishly in the kitchen.

Sakakihara Raku was quite embarrassed, but Amami Kururi smiled and said, "The relationship is so good" with her lips, put the sugar down, and she sneaked back to her bedroom.

"How about, Ah Ling, you let me cook?"

"No. I want my brother to hug me."

Sakakihara Raku: "."