I Can Distinguish the Twin Sister - Chapter 17

I’d like to know what I should say to them in such a situation.

As if by fate, I met them here. I smiled as they stared at me with rounded eyes and opened my mouth to greet them as one would when meeting them in the morning.

“Good morning ―Rin’ne-san and Yomi-san.”

“…Good morning Akito-kun.”

“Good morning… Akito-kun ”

……….

Well… I really don’t know what to say.

The three of us are standing in the middle of the street leading to the building, and not only are we in the way of the passersby, but the combination of two stunned beautiful girls and me staring at each other seems to attract a curious amount of attention.

“Well, what did you two come here for? ”

“No…. me and Yomi have nothing in particular. But… we had a feeling something was going on.”

“Well… we felt like coming here for some reason.”

Their words may sound a bit crude, but I felt a sense of destiny.

I told them that if they didn’t have anything to do, we should move around to avoid disturbing others, and I took them to a certain place.

It was a park I visited yesterday, and for Yomi-san, it was the second time since yesterday.

We could have stayed near the store if we just wanted to go away for a while, but Rin’ne-san whispered to me that he wanted to go to a quieter place, so we walked here.

( Not many people here as I thought. )

As I expected, there are few people in this park in the morning.

There were no children, and the only people I saw were an elderly couple taking a walk, so it was really quiet.

“Sorry, you two. I brought you all the way here.”

“No, it’s okay. I don’t mind.”

“I don’t mind either.”

Well, we’re not that far away from each other.

I watched the two of them enjoying the silence, where I could hear only the sound of a car passing in the distance.

( …Well, I think it’s time to get down to business. )

They naturally turned their gazes toward me when I thought of that.

They looked at me as if they were waiting for me to say something, and I felt something nostalgic, as if I was back in the old days.

My mood is much calmer than before, and I start to speak slowly… but suddenly, Yomi-san speaks up first.

“Oh, wait, Akito-kun.”

” ? What? ”

“Akito-kun, do you know which one of us is…? ”

” …… ”

I remembered that I hadn’t told Yomi-san about it after all.

I glanced at Rin’ne-san and saw that she was smiling and enjoying my reaction.

I sighed, thinking that Rin’ne-san has a playful personality, even though it was Rin’ne-san who had originally asked me not to tell her yet.

“Hey… with that response, could it be true? Aneki? ”

“Fufu, I noticed a while ago that he can. Yomi just didn’t notice.♪ ”

Ah, Yomi-san’s gaze has sharpened.

Still not questioning Rin’ne-san about anything in particular, she looked at me again and continued.

“Well… we met here yesterday, didn’t we? I wondered afterward if you recognized that it was me before I told you. I thought you might have guessed it by how I talked to you, but I wondered if you might have recognized us instead.”

Yes, that’s exactly what happened yesterday.

It was right after I climbed up the tree, so I called Yomi-san’s name without really paying attention to what was happening around me.

I was surprised to see her at that place.

“Sorry about that….? ”

“It’s okay. Aneki probably told him not to say it yet, or that you wanted to surprise me, right? ”

“Oh, you know that? ”

“There’s not much I don’t know about Aneki.”

“Oh my goodness, you say the most delightful things, don’t you, this girl?”

I’m relieved to hear that the two sisters have settled down to a friendly banter without getting into any fights.

However, Yomi-san seemed to be as curious as Rin’ne-san about the secret of how I could recognize the two of them.

“This is going to be a bit long. Are you two sure you have enough time?”

“Yeah.”

“Yes.”

They said it was okay, so I started talking slowly this time.

“I didn’t know how I could tell you two apart before. I often wondered how I couldn’t be wrong while everyone around me was making all kinds of mistakes. That’s how much I never got the two wrong.”

Rin’ne-san’s expression, already knowing the details, does not change, but Yomi-san stares at me with a twinkle in her eye.

“I don’t know why… Recently I got to know both of you and… I was wondering why I couldn’t stop talking to both of you. I think we’ve really gotten to know each other.”

“Yes, we have.”

“Yeah, I think so.”

I guess that’s part of the reason why I started talking to them in the first place because it was unusual ―but we had a definite and strange feeling.

“What I felt in that was that there was something nostalgic about the interaction between us. We must have met other than in high school… but somehow, when I talked to them, the nostalgia I felt was as if I was dealing with ―with a casual friend I didn’t feel uncomfortable with.”

I told them, and they nodded.

To tell you the truth, I have already determined that the girls in the photo are them… and I am sure that they are.

I continued to say to them as they stared at me.

“It’s no coincidence that we both felt a sense of nostalgia and mutual acceptance. The more I spent time with you, the more I got those feelings. I thought of you as beautiful and lovely, of course. But even more than that, I felt nostalgic.”

“You’re a little embarrassed, aren’t you?”

“Yes, it is. But more than that, it’s very comforting.”

I’m glad to hear you say that.

But.. it was really as I said.

As a man, it was natural for me to think of them as beautiful sisters, and I couldn’t help but get nervous when I talked to them up close and felt their… sweet smells or the touch of their bodies.

“So today, I had a dream.”

“A dream? ”

” ……. ”

When I told them I had a dream, their eyes changed color.

“I don’t know if it’s true because it was a dream or if it’s a convenient delusion. But there were two people I used to be close to. We went to different kindergartens, and the chances of us ever meeting again were slim… but the three of us met and became friends. We were friends briefly, but I think it was because I did something stupid like bending over when we first met that we became such good friends.”

” ………. ”

” ……Ah ”

Rin’ne-san stared at me, and Yomi-san rolled her eyes and put her hand over her mouth as if she remembered something… I took out that picture.

“I found this at home. It’s the only picture I had left of the two of them.”

I handed it to Rin’ne-san.

Yomi-san looked at Rin’ne-san’s hand as if peering into the picture…. and they froze, then slowly looked up at me after a while.

Rin’ne-san and Yomi-san were in a daze for a while, but soon their eyes started shaking.

“Are they… Rin’ne-san and Yomi-san? ”

I asked them, and they nodded.

I finally… found them at last, or rather reunited with them, but I had to tell them the most important thing.

“I’m back ―Ri-chan, Yo-chan too.”

” ” Ah… ! ” ”

I felt that the way I called them opened the last door.

To tell the truth, I didn’t intend to call her Ri-chan and Yo-chan, but it just came out of my mouth unintentionally.

“I promised before… I would definitely come back to see you again.”

Promise… after ten years, but I’m sure God didn’t prepare for the unreadable development that the children’s memory are completely different after all this time.

“Aki-kun! ”

“Akkun! ”

At that moment, they squeezed my hands.

I sat down on the bench as I was being pulled between them, and even being surrounded by them like this made me feel nostalgic.

But anyway, we seem to have a lot to talk today.