My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex: Volume 11 (eBook)

Kyosuke Kamishiro (Autor)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-8917-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Being in a relationship is great, but it's not without its difficulties-especially when you're dating your stepbrother. We have to keep our relationship a secret, and thanks to that, people are asking us both out! But never mind that. It's a new school year, and that means a new me. Mizuto and I have matured since middle school, and I'm sure things will go a lot better for us this time around. With our school trip to Okinawa just around the corner, we'll have lots of opportunities to spend time together. We'll just have to go easy on the PDA so we don't get found out. I'm finally at the point of my life where I can have my cake and eat it too!

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Day One of Getting Closer

Six-Person Group

Yume Irido

After an hour and change on a bus from the school, we, the students of Rakuro High School, were now all gathered on the first floor of the Osaka Airport’s monorail station. It was an open space, consisting of just pillars and a ceiling, kind of like a parking garage. We could see the terminal for the Osaka International Airport (aka Itami Airport), across the street.

The weather on this mid-May day was cloudy. The destination for Rakuro High School’s trip this year was Okinawa. It was a four-day, three-night trip very befitting of a private school, consisting of peace studies, exploring the ocean, sightseeing in groups, and staying at a resort hotel with a pool. As the student council’s secretary, I’d been the one to make the itinerary, and was thus the most familiar with it.

Back when we went on a school trip in middle school, I didn’t have many friends, so it was a very sad affair, but this year would be different. I’d already figured out my six-person group of guys and girls, and fortunately, they were all people that I’d gotten close with.

“Yume-chan! Did you bring your own shampoo? Let’s swap tonight!”

“Sure...but is that a thing people do?”

“I wanna bathe myself in your scent!”

The girl whose eyes were sparkling as she mouthed off her desires was Akatsuki Minami-san. On the surface, she was a cute, compact, energetic girl with a signature ponytail. Recently, though, I’d been starting to notice more and more the occasional instances when she showed her dangerous side.

Next to her was a guy with brightly dyed hair, trying to hold back a yawn.

“So frickin’ tired... Why’d we have to meet up so early?”

This complaint came from the third member of our group, Kogure Kawanami-kun. He was childhood friends with Akatsuki-san, but apparently they were closer to each other behind closed doors. That being said, he claimed he was a romantic ROM expert; essentially, he was a weirdo that did not aspire to have a romantic relationship of his own. That being said, he apparently loved hearing about other people’s romances.

He was always the cheerful guy that set the vibes, but it was early enough in the day that he wasn’t his normal self. But there was someone who was even worse off, who was threatening to pass out entirely.

“Zzz...”

“Isana, wake up,” Mizuto said, lightly tapping our fourth member on the shoulder.

“Ack! My deadline!” she reacted, frantically looking around as if someone were chasing her.

Her name was Isana Higashira-san. She was a shy otaku with a bit of an unusual personality, with breasts much larger than those of the average high school girl. She’d started with Mizuto as her only friend, but through him, she later became friends with both Akatsuki-san and me. When we’d first met, though, she’d been my romantic rival.

After a series of events, she became not only Mizuto’s best friend but also an illustrator he helped to manage. The amount of time they talked to each other was essentially equal to how much he and I talked, and we were dating and stepsiblings. No biggie. We’ve talked about it, and they’re gonna work on that.

Our fifth member was Mizuto Irido, whom I just mentioned. The only people who knew that he and I were dating were Akatsuki-san, Kawanami-kun, and Higashira-san, but it was easy to get Mizuto in our group by using the fact we were stepsiblings.

Plus, he was close enough with Higashira-san that our classmates and even our own parents thought they were dating. It was pretty much inevitable that the two of them would end up in the same group.

After waking Higashira-san up, Mizuto walked over to the edge of the group where I was standing.

“Look like we’ll leave on time, group leader?” he asked.

“It’s not a question of if—we will. We can’t stop the plane from leaving without us, after all.”

Currently, the teachers were doing roll call. After they finished, we’d finally head to the airport and board the plane. To be honest, this was my first time flying, so I was a little nervous.

“Are you sure you’re okay with that?” Mizuto asked in a low voice.

Though it might not have been immediately obvious to others what he was talking about, I could guess that he was referring to our sixth member. She was currently behind Higashira-san, who was once again beginning to doze off. The girl wasn’t doing anything in particular; she was simply quietly sitting by herself.

Ran Asuhain-san was a fellow member of the Rakuro High School student council. Incidentally, she had recently asked my boyfriend out. Mizuto had already told me what happened. Given my close working relationship with her, Mizuto had deemed it necessary to reveal his secret admirer to me immediately.

Of course, he turned her down, saying that he already had a girlfriend, but...even after hearing that, she had given him a surprising response.

“It’s okay if I keep my feelings for you, though, right?”

I never thought I’d live to see the day that such admirable words would come out of the mouth of Asuhain-san—our resident man-hater. After I’d spent a half a year with her on the student council, it was really hard to believe she’d even asked a guy out.

That day, I had stared at him in shock and asked how the heck such a situation had unfolded. I was in utter disbelief at how much of a plain-girl magnet my boyfriend was.

Okay, she’s not exactly a plain girl. Asuhain-san was a straitlaced honor student who might not have stood out, but at the minimum, she had a voluptuous body that guys liked and a cute, doll-like face. She had too many standout features to be written off as plain.

Even so, she hated men. Because of that, she avoided them entirely, making some think she was out of their league, stopping them from even thinking about asking her out. It was hard to believe that the very same girl had fallen for Mizuto. We already had the whole Higashira-san incident—does he exude some kind of pheromone that attracts these kinds of girls to him?

“That’s what I want to know,” he’d replied, furrowing his brows. “The last time I interacted with Asuhain at all was during the trip to Kobe last year. I have no memory of doing anything to make her fall for me.”

“Are you sure? Maybe you did it without realizing. Like, maybe you got her away from guys who were persistently hitting on her.”

“I don’t think there’s anybody out there who could do that without realizing it.”

“I mean, President Kurenai’s done it.”

“Don’t compare me to her.”

Asuhain-san typically didn’t involve herself with anyone too deeply. The only person she seemed to admire and let her guard down around was the president of the student council, Suzuri Kurenai. From what I could remember, the reason Asuhain-san had become so enamored with her was because she’d driven away guys who’d been persistently hitting on her.

“Besides, it didn’t seem like she was super into me. I didn’t feel any emotion from her words, nor did she seem particularly nervous. I thought that she’d been forced after losing some kind of wager or something, but I didn’t see anyone around...”

“I think you’re a bit too big a target for that kind of dare...”

It seemed that he had no awareness that he was actually secretly popular—and that wasn’t just me trying to gas him up since he was my boyfriend. Mizuto was the silent, stoic type at school, and had great grades to boot. He seemed really mature and cool from the standpoint of all the girls at our school with high grades.

Even so, people thought that he was dating Higashira-san who was, at first glance, a plain-looking girl, which only fed the dreams of girls who were plain-looking themselves. Thinking about how he’d been nothing more than a loner in middle school, I couldn’t help but marvel at how far he’d come.

Also, though there were girls interested in Mizuto, there was a surprising lack of jealousy. Instead, his fans tended to just watch the “couple” fondly. I never asked her directly, but I could only assume that this had been the work of Akatsuki-san.

Either way, Asuhain-san asking him out didn’t make me jealous—just confused. I still had trouble believing it’d even happened because it didn’t make any sense. Well, that, or maybe I was trying to avoid the reality of a beautiful girl asking out my boyfriend.

But also...even if Mizuto wasn’t sure why she’d asked him out, I had a slight inkling. Ever since we’d started our second year, I’d gotten the feeling that Asuhain-san had been avoiding me. Of course, we talked normally while we were doing our student council work, but I got a feeling from her words and actions that there was a sort of...distance she was keeping. Or at least, that’s how it came across to me.

It wasn’t as if her attitude really showed this, but I got the feeling that she was acting the same way as when you’re walking by someone with their dog, and the dog takes a step away from you. But what if the way she was acting wasn’t all in my head?

It would make sense that she’d keep her distance from me if she’d fallen for...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.7.2024
• Reihe/Serie: My Stepmom's Daughter Is My Ex
• Illustrationen: Kyosuke Kamishiro
• Übersetzer: Kyosuke Kamishiro
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Cohabitation • Family • Fanservice • High School • Light Novel • Siblings • snarky protagonists
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-8917-5 / 1718389175
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-8917-5 / 9781718389175