I Can Distinguish the Twin Sister - Chapter 1

There are two famous people in my class.

They are not famous in the sense of celebrities, but they may be similar to celebrities because they are frighteningly beautiful.

Because of their beauty, they are very popular among our classmates, seniors, and juniors, so much so that even I, who have no particular connection with them, cannot help but notice them.

” ….. ”

Now, the reason why I am telling you a prologue like this is that the evidence was right in front of my eyes.

“Rin’ne Aragaki, I like you! Please go out with me! ”

Yes, I had witnessed the moment of confession.

A boy classmate of mine, whom I have not talked to that much, was bowing to a beautiful girl.

She had light-colored hair that reached to her back, a beautiful face, and a voluptuous style that pushed up from under her uniform…There was a beauty that was unreal for a high school student.

“I’m sorry. I’m not going to date with anyone right now.”

“…I see. I get it. ”

The confession ended quickly.

As I happened to be in the hallway when this happened, I couldn’t see the boy’s expression as he turned his head toward the window.

He might have been crying because his voice was shaking, but I did not see his face until the end because he opened the door on the other side and ran away.

” ….. ”

Earlier, I mentioned that there were two famous beauties in this high school.

That’s the girl who was being confessed, and her name is Yomi Aragaki ――now, now, some of you may be tilting your heads here.

The boy I mentioned earlier called her Rin’ne, but I know her name is Yomi.

“….how can you not recognize me? ”

I was honestly nodding my head in agreement.

Rin’ne and Yomi ―it’s not that one of them is a true name and one of them is a fake name, but that they are two names that identify the two of them.

I tilted my head and wondered why… the boy and the others didn’t recognize her.

“Now… why did you mistake me for my Ane! ! ”

I was startled by the voice echoing from inside the classroom.

I looked inside and saw that it was definitely Yomi-san, and she continued to say something I had never heard from her in the classroom before.

“I know we look alike! But you should at least check which one it is first! I know she’s not interested in going out with him at all, so I told him no instead…. But, ahh, how annoying! I can’t believe you’re confusing me with that kind of Aneki !!! ”

” …… ”

(TN: Aneki, informal, a rougher/slang variation along the lines of “sis”)

Let’s put aside for a moment the way she speaks, which I don’t usually hear.

There are two people, Rin’ne and Yomi, and as you may have guessed from what she just said, she has a twin sister who looks very much like her and whose name is Rin’ne.

They are famous not only for their beauty but also for their faces, bodies, and even their voices are so similar that they cannot be distinguished from each other at all ―the ultimate twin sisters.

( Is this how Yomi-san really looks like? )

Yomi-san, whom I always saw in the classroom, looks very elegant.

Rin’ne-san, her elder sister, is also very elegant and soft-spoken, and I see her as a person who has the kindness of a saint, as if the world were a different place.

I thought she was the same as Rin’ne-san, who always shows her smiling face anytime, but it seems that human beings have something hidden in their hearts.

( …what should I do? )

The reason why I came back to the classroom after the school is simple. I forgot the question booklet for tomorrow’s quiz.

I didn’t expect to come back and witness the moment of confession, and more importantly, I didn’t expect to see Yomi-san.

I didn’t expect to see her like that and… completely lost my timing to go inside.

( …alright. )

But I couldn’t back out for the sake of my grade.

I took a tissue out of my pocket, pointed the tip at it, stuck it up my nose, played with it… and let out a loud sneeze.

“Achoo! “

That was a big sneeze.

I heard a little jostling in the classroom, I opened the door and walked in with a nonchalant look on my face.

“…Huh, Aragaki-san, are you here? ”

“Hello, Nagase-kun. What are you doing here at this hour? ”

She had her feet up on the desk before, but they’re back on the ground now.

It’s easy to imagine that he probably put her foot down in a hurry, and I wanted to see the panic in her eyes, or maybe not…. Anyway, I tried to act as normal as possible.

“You know, I forgot my quiz book for tomorrow’s quiz. So I came to get it. By the way, one of the boys just ran out somehow.”

Oh, come on, isn’t that the perfect response?

Yomi-san responded calmly as if she didn’t know anything, and it was a coincidence.

“Ah, that’s right. I also had some business to attend to―the boys who ran out? I’m a little unsure as to what’s going on. ”

“I see… Oh, there it is!”

It’s a relief to find what I’m looking for.

But… before I knew it, she was standing right next to me with a bag in her hand, and I was startled by her unexpected move.

“Hey, don’t be so surprised. Am I a ghost or something? ”

“No, no, I was just startled by your sudden presence.”

“Hmm, okay, that makes sense. ―Hey, Nagase-kun?”

“Hm?”

“Didn’t you hear anything before you entered the classroom? I was a little too loud.”

I didn’t expect you to say it yourself! It sounded like she was trying to confirm something, and my heart jumped a bit, but I didn’t show it in my expression.

“No? Maybe you were talking about something after I sneezed? ”

“I see. I’m sorry for asking such a strange question.”

“No, it’s fine. Well, I’m just gonna go home and study.”

“Okay. Bye.”

“See you tomorrow.”

I let out a small breath as I left the classroom.

I’m sorry for eavesdropping, but it was a kind of force majeure, so it was inevitable that I was noticed.

I deceived her because I had never seen her like that before, and I was sure that Yomi-san was hiding something when she asked me about it as if to confirm it.

“…Ah.”

As I walked down the hallway like that, a girl walked toward me.

She looked very much like Yomi-san, whom I had just seen, and I realized that she was Rin’ne-san, Yomi-san’s sister.

“Hello there.”

“Hello.”

She greeted me with a soft smile, and I replied.

“… they look too similar, really.”

They look so much alike.

I don’t know how to tell the difference between the two… but I can tell which one is Rin’ne-san and Yomi-san by looking at them both.

There’s nothing special about them, but I still can recognize them, and that makes me wonder ―why can’t other people tell them apart enough to make a mistake?

“But you said that…. she’s that kind of older sister.”

That proves that Yomi-san had at least a bit of bad feelings for Rin’ne-san.

I don’t know them that well, so there’s not much I can say about them…, but from what I saw them in the classroom, they seemed to get along very well.

If they didn’t like each other, they would be great actors, but at least from my unreliable point of view, they seemed to get along.

“I don’t know… but even though I got to see them in such a rare sight, it’s not like I’m that involved with them in the first place… no matter how much I think about it.”

Well, I had a feeling that my view of Yomi-san would change a little from tomorrow.

” …Nothing is going to change, I guess.”

I, Akito Nagase, an ordinary high school boy with no particular merit, was heading home with such thoughts in my mind.