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Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei - Volume 16 - Yotsuba Succession - Chapter 6.4




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Even after Tatsuya left, Maya had remained on the couch.

“Madam, thank you for your hard work.”

Hayama said so to Maya from behind.

“Somehow, I became more emotional than I had planned.”

Maya reluctantly said so. For her, it was probably an apology for the previous one-act, her outburst of excitement.

“Since you were retelling that story, I think it couldn’t be helped.”

Hayama defended Maya with ‘it was a topic where you couldn’t avoid such excitement’, perhaps, that was embarrassing for her, Maya turned her face away with an ‘hmph’ expression which didn’t suit her age.

Even Hayama thought that it was funny, but he was not so careless as to show a smile on his face.

“So that was madam’s secret plan all along. This time, even I must accept that I have nothing but admiration.”

Last November, she immediately made a call for Tatsuya and Miyuki to come to the Manor right after the Yokohama Incident, Maya told Hayama ‘Miyuki must become the next family head to bind Tatsuya. I have some consideration in subjecting her to the family head seat’. She confided her plans to Hayama about the preparations for the New Year’s Gathering, which takes place tomorrow.

“Thanks to the variety of things that happened out of expectation, I got excited more than I thought. The rest depends on how far Miyuki-san, can go.”

“Whether she will become a great woman.”

The surprising remark came from none other than Hayama with a firm tone, Maya looked back at Hayama by twisting her body on the sofa.

Hayama displayed a good natured old-man smile.

“Both Miyuki-sama and Tatsuya-sama have to face their future feelings properly. Although Tatsuya-sama is heading into a place without an enemy, he faces Miyuki-sama’s feeling straightforwardly without failure.”

“To honestly love would be my folly, I’d say.”

“In this case, it’s the one who is honest who wins.”

Hayama’s laugh and smile pulled Maya out from her own miasma.

 

When Tatsuya returned, there wasn’t anyone in the room. Miyuki must have been brought to the same home estate for tomorrow’s preparations.

As Maya said, the guide for the bath came pretty soon. It was rare for him to stay overnight at the Main House, the bath was also quite different as it was his first time staying in a Japanese-style guest room.

He didn’t dress unsightly for the round trip to the bath as it was possible to run into someone. Tatsuya’s bathing time was neither long, nor short.

When he returned to his room, the clock was already pointing to 11

P.M., yet Miyuki hadn’t returned.

Instead, he found out that the futon was already set.

In series to the Japanese-style room, a set of futon for pair, with two pillows.

“Onii-sama, sorry for making you wait.”

Miyuki returned at such a bad moment.

“This is…”

While leaving the sliding door open, she looked at the state of the next room. If she looked into the room, it was natural to focus her eyes on…

‘Miyuki, this isn’t my do-…”

-ing, Tatsuya was not able to continue his excuse until the end. Perhaps, Miyuki was polished by a lot of servants until she shone, she was also only wearing underwear under her Hitoe. The bathroom was possibly very hot, as she didn’t appear to be cold to wear so little despite it being mid-winter. The current blushed in her face and neck might appear to be caused by the heat, but it was obvious that the room temperature wasn’t hot.

The reason for his loss of words wasn’t due to the Hitoe. It was because of the strong charm of Miyuki cladded in that Hitoe, he somehow lost the time to explain and drifted to his speechlessness.

She already had a beautiful look, but now it seemed that she was actually shining.

Miyuki had the air of a refreshing inanimate scent, now she might actually attract not only butterflies and bees, she was wearing a subtle scent of a flower.

If she walked in Tokyo through a crowd as she was, there would be undoubtedly imminent large panic among the crowd.

Tatsuya without exaggerating thought so.

“Onii-sama, this is…”

However, Miyuki was also in a not-so-calm state, and it was exaggerated with only one futon set out, those were the first words she emitted after she reboot her mind.

“No, this isn’t my doing. It was already in this condition when I returned from the bath.”

“I see.”

Since he thought that he was restless with much standing. Tatsuya sat in front of the low table, Miyuki was also seated in front of the futon. As the sliding door leading to the next room, they felt conscious when it opened, yet felt strange to close it.

In front of Tatsuya, Miyuki seemed to be unable to calm down while combing her hair. Somehow, she was conscious of his gaze.

It couldn’t be helped. It hadn’t even been three hours since the shocking declaration that Tatsuya was to be Miyuki’s fiancé. Taking into account, the bombshell that Tatsuya and Miyuki were not real siblings. It was unreasonable not to be conscious of each other right now.”

“Umm, O-onii-sama.”

Hesitation was felt in Miyuki’s tone.

Tatsuya raised his eyebrows in wonder.

“What is it?”

“No, that… Onii-sama, can I still call you that? Or should I call you Ta-

“I don’t mind if you call me as usual.”

As Miyuki didn’t seem to be able to call him ‘Tatsuya’, Tatsuya rescued her with a laugh.

Miyuki smiled with a relieved face. However, his answer of ‘as usual’

wasn’t only for Miyuki. Tatsuya wasn’t going to keep up with the lie of

‘Miyuki isn’t my sister’.

“Then, Onii-sama… Have you already finished your discussion with Oba-ue?”

“Such a thing…”

The fact that I was here, such a thing was a given right, he was about to answer, but he soon realized that Miyuki’s question had a different meaning.

“Yes, it’s concluded. I have asked everything that I needed to know about from Oba-ue herself.”

“I see. Then, about that…”

Miyuki was stammering. She was probably not hesitating. Just, hadn’t enough courage to ask about the matter.

She summoned up the courage which had been void from her heart, Miyuki was finally able to ask Tatsuya.

“About Onii-sama and me not being real siblings.”

— Is it true?

However, no matter how much courage she summoned, she wasn’t able to say the decisive words from her mouth.

“A lie.”

Tatsuya’s answer was extremely brief.

Miyuki’s heart was torn in two from that answer.

The feeling of relief that she was Tatsuya’s sister, and that she wouldn’t be able to marry Tatsuya as his sister.

“Why… Why did Oba-sama tell such a lie?”

“This is an over simplification of an explanation, but it seems like it was done in order to let us marry.”

Maya’s explanation was difficult to understand for certain, but Tatsuya understood more circumstances than Miyuki. However, he was

wondering to what extent that he should reveal to Miyuki, Tatsuya hadn’t really decided.

“Even though we’re siblings?”

“Well, since the family registry and DNA analysis were just formalities.”

“Well… That’s true in light of the power that the Yotsuba Family has.”

“There’s no need to worry about genetic abnormalities of our future children either.”

“Why, is that so?”

Miyuki who was facing down in a gloomy face, raised her face and fixed her eyes at Tatsuya. The white skin above her neck wasn’t covered by the Hitoe, which made Tatsuya involuntarily want to look away.

However, thinking so would mean that he was walking into Maya’s palm, so he regained the calmness in his mind.

With having regained control of his senses, Tatsuya stared at Miyuki’s eyes again.

Miyuki’s eyes looked as if she was ready to receive any kind of truth from him.

Maya had made the decision for Tatsuya to be Miyuki’s companion, she had thought that Miyuki could bear such a weight.

As he acknowledged the readiness on her eyes, Tatsuya firmed his decision on the part that he should tell to Miyuki.

“You are, your body has no factor that can cause any genetic abnormality.”

“You have, a modified body.”

Miyuki stared with watchful eyes while covering her mouth with both of her hands.

Her long hair was shaking.

Tatsuya was a little relieved that she didn’t show a frightened face.

“I have, a modified body…”

“You were made from Kaa-san’s and Oyaji’s fertilized egg, and with the Yotsuba’s science, was made to have a ‘perfect modified body’, thanks to the best technology. You overcame all of the defects which come from having a modified body, you are the Masterpiece of the Yotsuba which has been completed as a human being, or more than human being.

Tatsuya’s explanation wasn’t supposed to be a consolation, the fact that she wasn’t a human who was born naturally. However, for some reason, Miyuki visibly regained her composure.

Miyuki was neither upset nor scared, from the fact that she is a human being who had been artificially created. Miyuki knew now that her body, and life, was a gift she received from Tatsuya. The more she thought about it, the more she was convinced that it was appropriate. That was why she didn’t worry too much that originally her body was artificially created and such.

“Then, I… As long as I’m by Onii-sama’s side, I won’t suddenly fall into the netherworld right?”

The one things she was worried about was the limitation of her life as a woman with a modified body. Fear that she suddenly had exhausted her own life and couldn’t be together with Tatsuya anymore.

“Judging from the way Oba-ue talked, it seems like your resistance to continuous magical use, is likely higher than my own.”

“It means that… I can live alongside you, Onii-sama?”

“Judging from the way Oba-ue talked, it seems like you will have a long life.”

In the end, after she was told that she could live as long as her brother, she didn’t even care that she has a modified body.

“Onii-sama and I are siblings, but my genes are different from Onii-sama’s.”

Tatsuya felt like saying ‘Hey…”.

Certainly, Maya said that Miyuki has a modified body, genetically speaking, it was true that the relationship between Tatsuya and Maya was only that of nephew and aunt. However, between Tatsuya and Miyuki, there wasn’t a single word that could deny their relationship.

Yet, Miyuki was saying the same thing as Maya.

Similarities aren’t only brought about by genes… Tatsuya thought so.

“From the beginning, members of the Yotsuba Family were a human experimentation, with manipulated genes from the Fourth Laboratory.

Although, it was different than that of a modified body, it doesn’t change that we also have undergone genetic manipulation.”

The way Tatsuya said that, was to emphasize the similarity between Miyuki and him.

However, Miyuki with her sleepy face, didn’t seem to be able to digest these meanings well enough.

“Then, Onii-sama and I will be cousins from now on?”

“At least in the eyes of others.”

“Then, I can be engaged to Onii-sama, right!”

Miyuki raised her voice in excitement.

However, her excitement didn’t last very long.

As she saw the confused look on Tatsuya.

“As expected, you must be disgusted…”

“With what?”

Tatsuya couldn’t figure out the reason why Miyuki was suddenly gloomy, he couldn’t even understand the meaning behind her dark voice.


“Because, to Onii-sama, I’m still your sister right?”

“Yes, because that’s a fact.”

For now, that fact was undeniable to Tatsuya.

“For a sister to want to be the bride of her own real brother, it is still abnormal right…”

“Miyuki, do you.”

For a moment, Tatsuya thought that he heard wrongly. However, his five sense had been honed to a level beyond an ordinary person with training.

Miyuki definitely said ‘for a sister to want to be the bride of her own real brother’. From the context, it could only be interpreted to be Miyuki and Tatsuya.

In other words, Miyuki…

“Ye-yes! It was not due to Oba-sama’s order only! I’m very happy to hear that i will be Onii-sama’s fiancé!”

Miyuki looked down while clasping her hands on her thighs. Her tears were falling on top of her hands, onto her thighs.

“Even now, that feeling hasn’t changed. Even though I know that Onii-sama is my real brother, I want Onii-sama to treasure me as a woman! I want to be Onii-sama’s bride! When I said I had given up, suddenly I didn’t want to give up!”

Miyuki’s voice wasn’t difficult to hear even if she was excited. However there were some things that were difficult to understand due to her excitement.

What she said about ‘when I said I had given up, suddenly I didn’t want to give up’, must be ‘I’d given up until I’d heard the story, now that you said we can get married, I don’t need to give up anymore’. Tatsuya had no clue at all that what Miyuki was worrying about were the things from earlier, that it surprised him. Certainly, Miyuki had shown an excessive amount of attention to him as her real brother. However, Tatsuya always thought that she was yearning for him only as a brother.

However, it might be because he, himself, only wanted to think only thus far.

Against Miyuki’s tears, Tatsuya had a suspicion that he was tamed by such things.

“But, Onii-sama is normal after all… You have a normal sense of moral too… You wouldn’t carry a romantic feelings for your own sister right.

You must have been disgusted by such an abnormal sister like me…”

Miyuki finally sobbed.

It wasn’t a loud cry, but one that made the listener have a tight painful chest, she suppressed her sorrow so much that her cry was concentrated in the last minute.

“Miyuki…”

Tatsuya stretched a hand toward Miyuki timidly.

Miyuki extended her hand to catch Tatsuya’s hand.

Tatsuya thought that she would shake his hand. He thought it was natural to deal with him so, as he was the heartless big brother who didn’t notice his sister’s problem to the point that she cried in pain.

However, Miyuki grabbed Tatsuya’s right hand with both of her hands.

Then, she hugged it in her chest.

“O…”

Tatsuya tried to restrain her and say ‘Hey, wait’, but he stopped. He couldn’t bring himself to say something that would refuse Miyuki too bluntly now. No, he didn’t want to do so.

“Onii-sama, I, I…”

While grabbing his hand strongly, Miyuki desperately mustered her words out.

Mustering out her own feelings.

“Love, you. I love you. I’m in love with Onii-sama!”

The words Tatsuya always heard from his sister was ‘I adore you’. It was his first time hearing ‘I love you’ from her.

Only a one-character difference, could change the weight of the words this much. Tatsuya only noticed this for the first time.

“It’s fine even if you want to hate me for being such an abnormal sister!

It’s fine even if you consider that these bad feelings are an unnatural tendency! But…, please. I beg you Onii-sama…”

Miyuki raised her face, wet with tears.

Tatsuya had never seen such a sorrowful, such a desperate face, yet so beautiful.

“Somehow… Somehow… Please let me be by your side. Please don’t be detached from me. Please don’t disappear from my side!”

Even when she was crying, Miyuki didn’t distort her face. It was her beautiful face, with showering tears.

Today was the first time he knew this as well.

Her sad crying face, Tatsuya thought.

While still entrusting his right hand to Miyuki, Tatsuya reached out with his left hand to Miyuki’s back.

“O-onii,-sama…?”

“I won’t disappear from your side.”

“Ah… Umm… Onii-sama, once more… One more time…”

Miyuki asked so fearfully while being held with Tatsuya’s hand, in Tatsuya’s arm, and pressing her face to Tatsuya’s chest. She wanted to hear those words again to affirm it.

“Miyuki. I won’t disappear from your side.”

“Ah…”

Miyuki was overcome with her emotion, while all her energy was escaping from her body.

Tatsuya thought that he must answer his sister who entrusted all of her body to him.

“Until death do us part. I will be by your side.”

“Although, it might not be in the sense that you desire.”

“I still, can only see you as my sister.”

“You’re my cute little sister. I won’t think badly of such a cute little sister.”

“I also don’t think that you’re abnormal.”

“I will never reject you. I won’t detach myself from you.”

“However, Miyuki… That’s because I’m your brother. And because you’re my cute little sister.”

“That’s why… Sorry. At the very least, I can only see you as my sister for now.”

Miyuki, who was still held by Tatsuya’s arms, got up after she heard his answer and released Tatsuya’s right hand which she had been grabbed by and stuck it to her chest.

“That’s fine.”

There were traces of tears in Miyuki’s face. However, there were no new tears flowing out.

“I’m satisfied for now.”

Miyuki casually turned her hand to Tatsuya’s neck, and embraced him.

“Because, I also can only call you Onii-sama for now.”

Miyuki put her cheek beside Tatsuya’s cheek, while whispering in his ear.

“For Onii-sama to say ‘for now’ to my confession. It’s sufficient enough for me.”

Miyuki hugged Tatsuya with a strengthened force in her arms.

“Onii-sama, is it ok for me to hope? Not for ‘now’ but for ‘sometime’.

For Onii-sama to be able to see me as ‘Miyuki’, and not your sister.”

Tatsuya also whispered into Miyuki’s ear in the same way.

“This might sound strange, but I’ll try my best.”

Miyuki released her embrace.

“Oh, dear, Onii-sama.”

Miyuki laughed with an amazed face.

Tatsuya smiled wryly.

It was finally returning to the usual atmosphere of the siblings.

“Miyuki, it’s already late. We need to prepare early for tomorrow, let’s get some sleep.”

“Ah, that’s right. Then, I’ll ask for a futon.”

Miyuki was about to stand, but Tatsuya restrained her.

“Onii-sama?”

“There’s no need for that. Oba-ue has kindly set this up. Let’s just sleep in the same futon for today.”

“Ehh!?”

Miyuki’s voice was overturned. Her voice wasn’t so overturned even when she was crying.

“U, umm, Onii-sama, is that, do you mean.”

“No, you’re wrong.”

Tatsuya smirked wickedly at Miyuki.

“We’ll just sleep together. We won’t do anything else.”

“I… I see.”

Miyuki patted down her chest. There seemed to be a little regret in that gesture, Tatsuya wondered if she was expecting something.

“I’ll change into pajamas first. You can get into the futon first.”

“No… I can wait for you for a short while. Let’s get into the futon together, Onii-sama.”

“Understood. I’ll be back soon.”

Tatsuya had confirmed that this room was equipped with yukata for sleepwear. He needn’t get lost, and quickly took off his clothes and wore the yukata on top of his trunks.

“Onii-sama, don’t you feel cold?”

Miyuki asked anxiously when Tatsuya was going to get into the futon.

“No, this it’s probably already warm enough.”

Tatsuya slipped into the futon, while signaling Miyuki.

Miyuki showed a slight hesitation before settling into using Tatsuya as an arm pillow.

“I wonder when it was. Once upon a time, when I was really young, I feel like, there was one instance when I was held in your arm.”

“It wasn’t such an old occurrence… It was on the day when Kaa-san’s funeral was over.”

“That’s… Right… That was so careless of me.”

Miyuki rested her body on Tatsuya.

To embrace Miyuki’s shoulder tightly, Tatsuya turned his other arm.

“Onii-sama.”

“What is it?”

“Did Onii-sama really not know?”

“Well.”

“About how much I’ve been suffering, that is.”

“Sorry.”

“It is especially true in recent time. Society encourages magicians to marry early. If I’m to shoulder the status of being a magician, at the very least, I should have chosen a fiancé, or have prepared one.”

“That’s right.”

“Since siblings cannot marry each other. So, with another man besides Onii-sama…”

“Miyuki.”

Tatsuya’s hand stroked Miyuki’s hair.

Miyuki’s body was trembling in tension, although she immediately released this tension. And left her body to Tatsuya.

“Just go to sleep.”

“Yes, Onii-sama.”

Miyuki entrusted her body and mind to Tatsuya, she fell asleep while listening to the distant sound of bells on New Year’s Eve.

 





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