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Kiyohira and Rie let go of each other and look in a different direction . Rie studies the ceiling, looking like she is trying to understand the meaning of life . Kiyohira glances at Takes.h.i.+ and frowns deeply .

"Are you being bullied?" Kamiyama inquires him directly . Rie glowers at him and purses her lips .

"Him?" Iori cries out loud . "Who has the ability to bully him?"

"Yeah, Takes.h.i.+ is the type to bully others . " Haru guffaws . "He is the type who can even make the teacher cry . "

Kiyohira smirks at Rie . "My younger brother can make the teacher cry . He isn't the type to get bullied . "

She purses her lips and looks at Takes.h.i.+ . "Are you really not having any hard time?"

Kiyohira is peeved to see her like that . "He's my brother . I will take care of him . Don't interfere . "

"He's my brother too . I will interfere if I want . " She spats out in anger . In the next instant, she seems to understand the meaning of her words . Embarra.s.sed, she bites her lower lip . "d.a.m.n!"

"Just sharing blood doesn't make him your brother," Kiyohira tells her darkly .

"If sharing blood didn't make him my half-brother, I wouldn't be here talking to you . "

"Elder sister, thank you for being worried about me . " Takes.h.i.+ decides to ignore his thoughtless brother . "How are you feeling now?"

"I have been better . " Rie sighs . "When will I get out of here and sleep in peace? I am tired of seeing Kamiyama's face . "

Kiyohira pulls her by her ear . "You are tired of seeing my face? Whose face do you want to see then? Your boyfriend's?"

"Sister, you have a boyfriend?" Takes.h.i.+ grins at her . "Can I meet him sometime?"

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"He isn't my boyfriend . " She pinches his wrist to be free . Kiyohira lets go of her ear and glances at red pinch marks . She climbs off the bed and yells, "Not yet . "

Kiyohira's lips twitch in anger . He grits his teeth . He will teach her a lesson later .

"Sister, if you need my help, I will help you . " Takes.h.i.+ looks at her innocently . In the sidelines, Iori and Haru wonder what kind of medicine did he eat . He is acting strangely .

"I don't need your help . " Rie rolls her eyes . "You are nearly a decade younger than me . I am already an expert in dating . I can get any man that I want . "

Kiyohira looks daggers at her . She eyes Kiyohira and smirks . "I am a professional player . "

Kiyohira doesn't say a word to her . Instead, he turns toward Takes.h.i.+ and his friends .

"Don't you have school?"

"About that . . . ," Iori peeks at him and says, "We followed Takes.h.i.+ . "

"Yes, elder brother . " Haru laughs nervously . "We followed Takes.h.i.+ . We wanted to know where he was going . "

"I didn't ask you to follow me," Takes.h.i.+ grumbles .

"Go back to school," Kiyohira tells him sternly .

"I will stay with my only sister today . " Takes.h.i.+ hides behind his sister . Iori opens her mouth and closes . Why is he acting like a little kid? Is that really Takes.h.i.+?

"You are going back . " Kiyohira stands up and walks in his direction . Takes.h.i.+ grabs Rie's shoulders and hides . Haru and Iori swallow down when they realize that Kiyohira is fuming with anger . This is not a safe place for them anymore .

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"Argh!" Rie jerks off Takes.h.i.+'s hands from her shoulders and steps forward toward Kiyohira . "They only skipped for a day . Why are you acting like they have killed someone?"

"He isn't allowed to skip his cla.s.ses like this . " He replies in a dangerous tone .

"Hah!" She crosses her arms . "What's wrong with skipping cla.s.ses? When I was in high school, I skipped cla.s.ses all the times . They are young . They should skip cla.s.ses and make memories . When they are old like us, they will think back and remember high school fondly . "

"And they will become a dumb person like you who can sign any contract because you can't understand a word . " He jabs at her .

She stops smiling and nods her head . "Takes.h.i.+, remember that your brother actually used cheap tricks to fool me . Remember that becoming a good person with MORALS are more important than becoming rich and heartless like him . Remember that there is a special place for a man like him in h.e.l.l . "

"It's still better than being a NEET who is a burden to the society," Kiyohira barks at her .

"Being NEET is better than being a p.r.i.c.kly womanizing a.s.shole who forces people to eat . "

From the sidelines, Iori and Haru look at each other with confusion . This conversation sounds wrong in their ears .

"My parents also fight like this," Haru whispers to Iori .

"Mine too . . . " Iori glances at Takes.h.i.+ who seems happy . "Why is he smiling?"

"He is planning something . I don't think that I want to get involved . " Haru shudders and steps back . "You know that something is up when he is smiling like that . "

"Something is definitely up . " Iori clenches her fists . "I think that he is inciting them to fight each other . I have to stop him . "

"Iori, you remember what he did to you when you angered him last time?" Haru looks at her with concern .

Iori squeezes her eyes when she recalls those days . "I stuck the chewing gum in his hair by mistake . He did it to me intentionally . "

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Haru can't help but smile . "Both of you were bald that summer . Then, both of you forced me to become bald too . "

"My second year of junior high . . . " Iori glares at Takes.h.i.+ . "He needs to learn that he can never mess with a girl's hair . "

Meanwhile,

"He is more like me . " Rie pulls Takes.h.i.+ by his collar . "Look at him! He looks more like me than you . "

"You don't resemble each other at all . " Kiyohira chuckles . "He looks like his mother . You didn't inherit one good thing from her . That's her good looks . "

"I don't want her good looks . " Rie sneers at him . "I have my father's best looks . He is better looking than you or that woman . "

"In any case, your father's good looks are a waste on you . " Kiyohira drags Takes.h.i.+ to his side . "Go back to school now . "

"He won't go . " Rie pulls Takes.h.i.+ to her side . "He and I will play video games together . I want to give him my techniques . "

"Playing video games can't feed him in future . " He pulls Takes.h.i.+ to his side . "He needs to study to not become someone like you . "

"You are wrong . " She beams at him and pulls Takes.h.i.+ to her side . "Playing video games can feed him . I have fed myself by playing video games . "

"Nonsense . " He reaches for Takes.h.i.+, but Takes.h.i.+ steps away and hides behind his sister again .

"Sister, you took part in the gaming compet.i.tions?" Takes.h.i.+ asks his sister .

"Yes, I did . " She slaps Kiyohira's hand away when he tries to grab Takes.h.i.+ again . "You will hurt him like this . "

"He isn't a kid," He argues back .

"Sister, are you a pro gamer?" Takes.h.i.+ asks curiously .

"It's a secret, but I will tell you . " Rie ignores Kiyohira's glare and leans toward Takes.h.i.+ "Have you heard of Z games: Win or Die? I was Merciless_B . "

"You were . . . " Haru rushes to her side . "MERCILESS_B? But, I thought that he was a guy . "

"Yeah, I wore a mask to hide my ident.i.ty . " Rie puffs up her chest . "Life was easier if I pretended to be a guy back then . I earned so much in such a short time . I spent like a king and slept like a monk without worries . "

Kiyohira is the one who is most surprised . He thought that she lived off her relatives . He didn't know that people could make a living like that .

"Takeuchi San, you are amazing . " Haru's eyes s.h.i.+ne brightly . "I like you . Please teach me how to play games like a professional . "

"She's my sister . " Takes.h.i.+ puts his palm up . "She will teach me first . "

"Wait!" Rie pats their heads . "I have something better . I have received the invitation for the Hack World Series Event . I wasn't going to go this year . " She looks at Kiyohira and adds, "Since I am not like a certain a.s.shole, I will take you with me to that event . "

"Whoa!" Takes.h.i.+ blinks at her . "You are amazing, Sister . "

"All of my doubts are clear . You are really Merciless_B . " Haru kneels on the floor . "I didn't think that I could ever go there in my lifetime . No amount of money can buy the tickets for that event . Only certain royal experts are invited . "

"Oh, Kamiyama!" She smiles at Kiyohira . "Don't look at me like that . You can come too . Takes.h.i.+'s female friend, you can come too . "

"Ah!" Iori is startled to be addressed like that . "My name is Iori . Thank you, I will go too . "

"You have so much time to waste . " Kiyohira crinkles up his nose . He won't admit, but he is curious to know more about her . "I will come . It is dangerous for these kids to go with you alone . "

"Fine then . " She claps her hands . "The event has already started, but I can still take part because I was the winner last year . We can still make it in time if we leave by train tonight . Let's leave for today . "

n.o.body has realized that she has tricked them all to leave the hospital like this .

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