I Can Distinguish the Twin Sister - Chapter 10

After cleaning up at home, I went out for a walk, and I had really planned to spend the day randomly.

How did it come to this?

“Phew… it’s delicious.”

“Yes, it is…”

I was hanging out with Rin’ne-san in a fashionable coffee shop I would never normally visit.

It was late afternoon, and we ordered only tea… I was more interested in Rin’ne-san, who was sitting in front of me, than in the taste of the tea.

One of the twin sisters known as “beautiful sisters”… and this is the first time I’ve seen her up close on holiday, but the more I look at her, the more I realize that she is a girl with a very high level of beauty.

( …Well, things have calmed down to some extent. )

The atmosphere of the store and the smell of the tea, and the taste, calm down my floating mind.

I was already panicking when she took my hand and said she was interested in me, but as I mentioned above, I calmed down.

Rin’ne-san looked at me after she finished her tea with a beautiful gesture.

“Don’t be too hard. We’re not strangers. ”

“Well, we’re… classmates, aren’t we?”

“Yes, we are. So please take it easy ―as I said, I’m just trying to get to know you.”

“I think the way you say it is a backward step.”

“I’m aware of that. I want to know what’s bothering me in you, and I’m motivated by curiosity.”

Rin’ne-san looks straight at me.

Honestly, I don’t think I can give her the answer she’s looking for… but I want to know how I can recognize them, too.

“That is actually what I’m wondering too. How can I identify Rin’ne-san… I mean, Aragaki-san and the others?

“Now… why don’t you take the opportunity to call us by name? ”

“…huh? ”

‘―Good idea’, she clapped her hands.

“We have the same last name. And you know the difference between us. Why not just use our first names?”

“Is that okay?”

“Yes, and I’ll call you by your name, too ―how about it? ”

She didn’t look like she minded it this time, but the way she tilted her head was really cute, and I nodded at her suggestion.

“Um… Rin’ne-san ?”

“Yes, Akito.♪ ”

Smiling, Rin’ne-san smiled.

It was so powerful that it was comparable to Yomi-san’s smile that I had seen after the previous exchange on the rooftop, and I drank the rest of my tea to cover up my surprise.

Then I pulled my cup to the edge of my hand, and we looked at each other again.

“Do you remember what I said to you when I earnestly talked to you? ”

“Have we met before? ”

“Yes. When I talked to Akito, I felt a strange nostalgia. It was as if we had met in the past… ”

“I’m sorry, but I don’t remember if we have ever met before.”

“I know. I asked Yomi. She said you check it up, didn’t you? ”

“…did you think I was weird or something? ”

“What? I didn’t think so at all.”

I’m glad she didn’t think I was weird.

At the risk of going off on a tangent, I thought it was unusual that Yomi-san was not with her today, so I asked her about it, and I found another surprising fact.

“She basically sleeps on her days off. It’s not that she is lazy, but if she has nothing to do, she is usually in bed.”

“… Wow, that’s surprising.”

They are very similar, a from what I’ve talked to Yomi-san, she seems to go out a lot. She might not be happy to know I know this fact, and when I said that, Rin’ne-san smiled. I see what she means.

“That’s because she doesn’t have anything to do. Usually, she will be well-prepared and ready to go out when she goes out with her parents, including her friends or me.”

I nodded my head in agreement.

Sometimes I would see Yomi-san as I saw Rin’ne-san. But the fact that she’s basically a bed-dweller is probably pretty rare information.

“Please don’t tell her this, okay? Not even her closest friends know about this. If word gets out, she’ll get angry and know who caused it.”

“I’m scared! ”

“Ufufu ♪”

I feel like I’m doomed to know.

But it’s strange. I got used to talking with Rin’ne-san, or rather, I lost the nervousness I had in the beginning.

This was also the case with Yomi-san, but what is it really?

“You don’t have that initial nervousness anymore, I think? ”

“…I, did I say that out loud? ”

“No, you didn’t. I just kind of thought you thought that. Well, your reaction seems to be correct.”

“….you scared me. My heart skipped a beat.”

“I’m sorry if I startled you. But… I got you♪.”

” ugh…”

Hey! Why does she say such a heart-thumping word?

I called the waiter and ordered a chocolate cake to fill my empty stomach.

Rin’ne-san also ordered a cake, so after a while, the cake was brought, and we started eating it together.

“…it’s delicious.”

“Yes, it’s excellent. Yomi often comes here with me. She loves both spice and sweet cakes, and she usually orders two cakes.”

“Hee…”

“I always warn her that she’ll gain weight, but she doesn’t seem to have the same body as me and doesn’t have that much fat on her.”

” …I see”

I had no particular bad intention, but I caught a glimpse of her chest.

It was the same when she was wearing her uniform, but a bulge seemed to assert itself from the inside of her clothes.

I was glancing at it, so she must not have noticed it. No, I reflected that looking at a woman’s chest was rude, even momentarily.

( I think I know where the fat is going… )

As I was thinking about this, the conversation turned to the past.

I wondered what Rin’ne-san meant by the feeling of nostalgia, and she seemed to want to hear about my past, so I briefly told her about my past.

“I was in a different place in elementary and middle school. I came back here when I started high school.”

“So that’s how it was. Was it difficult? ”

“My father and mother cared for me a lot. It was tough, but I was okay.”

“I see.. Akito, you love your parents. I could feel it in the way you talked to me.”

“…Ah, yeah. Well, I love them.”

It’s pretty embarrassing to have classmates talk about my family.

Smiling while my scratching cheeks, Rin’ne-san now told me about herself.

“I’ve lived here since kindergarten. There was a time when we talked about moving because of work, just like Akito’s family, but my father ended up moving to another place alone.”

I see.

Maybe there might have been a future in which I had never met these girls.

It makes me feel deeply moved.

“Akito, the way you say it, did you go to the kindergarten here? ”

“Ah, yes. The kindergarten was in the ○〇 kindergarten.”

“Oh, we’re from… different kindergarten over here.”
(TN: ○〇 = censor)

I remembered which kindergarten it was, but it seemed we were in different kindergartens.

That’s why I couldn’t find their names when I looked at the group photo of the kindergarten from the photo album.

“I have zero leads… but I’m a little excited.”

“Is that so? ”

“Yes, even If there’s nothing to find, that’s not so bad, but you think there’s something suspicious, don’t you, Akito? ”

“That’s… I guess.”

It’s true that if there’s nothing, that’s not so bad.

But… we want to clear the air as far as we both are concerned.

“Then I want to talk to Akito more in the future ―I want to cherish this feeling that I’ve never had before.”

“…You’ve been saying embarrassing things since a while ago, haven’t you, Rin’ne-san?”

Rin’ne-san chuckled, a little embarrassed when I said so.

Today, we met and talked about our past, but we didn’t get an answer to this feeling, as we should have.

Nevertheless, I promised to talk with her again when we had time.

“Ah, right.”

“What’s wrong? ”

“Can you not tell Yomi that you can identify us yet? ”

“Why?”

“I kind of want you to… do that.”

I nodded to Rin’ne-san, who mumbled something small.

After that, we didn’t talk about the past in particular, but finished eating the cake while talking about school life and our study, and parted, saying that we would make another time later.

“… it was a strange day, wasn’t it?”

I muttered to myself as I watched Rin’ne-san’s back going away and go home.

[ Ri-chan! Yo-chan! ]

” !? ”

For a moment, I heard a voice in my brain.

I tilted my head and wondered what it was, but I couldn’t figure it out the source.

TN: Thanks for the tips, G! 1/1