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Season: Winter

Writer: Akira

Characters: Kohaku, Madara, Sakura nee-han

???: -Good evenin’ ♪

What, were ya havin’ fun just now? Sorry ta disturb.

Kohaku: Nee-han! Eh, why are ya here!?

Madara: Eh? Huh? What? Kohaku-san, is this your big sister?

She’s your splitting image! Are you twins?

Kohaku: She’s disguised as me. My youngest big sister is extremely good at disguises.

Madara: Aah, I feel like I’ve heard that before.

Nee-han: Oh, good of ya ta notice that I’m “me”. Our eldest sister is also pretty good at disguisin’ herself, so it’d be a piece o’ cake for her to disguise herself as ya.

We are related ‘n all, so we know all ‘bout each other’s habits and quirks, which makes it easy ta pretend ta be each other.

Kohaku: Our eldest sister has been mad ever since I talked back to her an’ went against her wishes.

Lately she hasn’t been showin’ her face in front of me at all, much less talkin’ ta me.

Nee-han: Aah, that’s ‘cause big sis loves ya so much that when ya talk back at her like that she gets all shocked and depressed.

She probably ain’t mad at ya. She’s probably just sulkin’. Kohkohkoh ♪

“Tsukasa-kun” also has that habit. I wonder if it’s normal fer eldest sons and daughters. I wouldn’t know, though.

Whoops, that’s not what I came here ta talk about. I don’t wanna be too intrusive, ‘specially since this one also has business with y’all.

Kohaku: This one-- Who’s that kid?

Madara: Maguro.

Kohaku: N? Do you know her, Madara-han?

Madara: It’s my little sister whom I mentioned earlier. Hey now, don’t use your wheelchair on top of the tatami like that.

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Hey, don’t start spitting at me just because I scolded you a little! Make some effort to get along with your big brother, okay?

Kohaku: What’s goin’ on, my nee-han and Madara-han’s little sister… What an unexpected duo, do ya know each other?

Nee-han: No, we only just met. This girl was actin’ all suspicious, sneakin’ around the mansion, so I erased my presence ta sneak up on her and called out ta her.

Us Oukawas are guardin’ this place at Tsukasa-kun’s request, after all.

There ya have it. Though I might’ve scared her a lil’ too badly, since she fainted like a small animal once she heard me. Kohkohkoh ♪

Kohaku: Don’t ya “Kohkohkoh ♪” me. Don’t go causin’ trouble fer others like that, ya always were bad at bein’ considerate.

Nee-han: Both my big sis and my lil bro has their act all together, so someone needs ta be the slacker of the family~. Don’t worry ‘bout it, it’s all fine, I never mess up when it’s important.

Rather 'n that. My patience started gnawin’ at me, so I let the girl go and heard her out, and then she told me she was the lil sister of the person who’s been takin’ care of Kohaku.

And then turns out, this girl wanted ta speak with ya about somethin’ similar ta what I wanted ta talk about. So I took her along and then we came here and interrupted ya.

Kohaku: Is that so. …Ya made one big mistake, so I’ll correct ya, but it’s not that Madara-han has been takin’ care of me, it’s that I have been takin’ care of Madara-han.

Madara: That’s a matter of semantics. What is it you two want to talk about?

If it wasn’t something very important, there’s no way you’d come to see me, is there - Maguro?

Nee-han: N. Seems like Maguro-chan ain’t too keen ta speak with her big brother, so I’ll explain in her place.

I bet ya could’ve guessed based on our timin’, but what we want ta talk about is that kid.

Madara: J, is it?

Nee-han: Yup. The J-kun who has gotten pretty popular as of late fer appearin’ on that weird show.

We’ve been havin’ fun watchin’ that show as well, ya know.

When I watch with my big sis, she get so annoyin’ and won’t stop sayin’ stuff like “They should let Kohaku stand out more!” or “The way he handles those kitchen knives is just like me fer real!”.

Kohaku: I don’t really care.

…N? Aah, uhm lil’ sis-han, Maguro-han? Are ya havin’ fun while watchin’ as well, Maguro-han? Thanks ♪

Madara: Aah, I could’ve guessed you would like that show. You seem like you’d get along well with Ibara-san, who produces it, after all.

Nee-han: Well, that’s all nice and dandy. Fer now, yer plan ta make J-kun into a celebrity baskin’ in the spotlight so he’ll be harder ta target is workin’.

In this country, celebrities are surrounded by much more security than politicians, after all.

Even if someone were ta get rid of you two and take J-kun into their custody, the public would vehemently condemn them if those circumstances were exposed.

Even if they managed ta get ahold of the inheritance, they would lose everythin’ afterwards.

Both their social status and everythin’ else, that is. There ain’t so many people willin’ ta take that risk, after all.

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