Kure-nai Vol 1 Chapter 3.5

Volume 1
Chapter 3-5

“Shinkurou.”

Murasaki tugged at Shinkurou’s clothes, a question mark appearing above her head as she looked up towards him.

“What is this lolicon you speak of?”

Chizuru also looked up towards Shinkurou expectantly, who was currently at a complete loss for words.

Both of them waited patiently, naive curiosity apparent on their faces.

Shinkurou, bathed in the light of their pure looks from both sides, ultimately decided not to give an answer.

“It’s better that you two don’t know.”

“Why is that?”

“…W–Why?”

As Shinkurou struggled with providing the girls with an adequate answer, Yuno took it upon herself to spare Shinkurou the pain.

“A lolicon is a bad person. Not listening to his older sister and going off to live by himself; not talking to his older sister at school very much; not calling his older sister; not inviting his older sister over to spend time with him and keeping everything secret, making her feel lonely… These are all things that a bad person does.”

“Shinkurou is not a bad person.”

Chizuru nodded in agreement to Murasaki’s statement.

It seemed that their view of Shinkurou’s character was fairly similar.

Yuno, with a large smile upon her face, nodded.

“That’s what I believe too. Shinkurou is not that kind of person.”

As if confirming what Yuno had said, all three girls looked at Shinkurou. Shinkurou smiled faintly.

I want to become a man that’s good enough for that place, thought Shinkurou.

“…Yuno, let’s go to the dojo.”

Whenever Shinkurou visited the Houzuki house, he would practice with Yuno. As Shinkurou and Yuno headed for the dojo, Murasaki decided that she would observe what they were about to do. At first, Murasaki hesitated but both her abundant interest and her desire to appear less of a child than Chizuru drove her to overcome her wariness.

“Allow me to watch this training that you and Yuno will be doing.”

“Absolutely not.”

“Why is that?”

“It’s not something children should see.”

“…Is it something perverted?”

“It’s nothing of that sort! Just wait patiently over there!”

Shinkurou pointed to Chizuru, who showed Murasaki to a room further in the house. Murasaki followed her reluctantly. Murasaki took large strides impulsively, as if she could not accept being placed on the same level as the younger Chizuru.

Yuno put her hand over her mouth and began to giggle as she watched the situation transpire before her eyes.

“What was all that about training just now? It made my heart skip a beat.”

“Let’s just hurry and get to the dojo.”

“What are we going to do when we get there?”

“Train, of course!”

“Ah, is that so.”

Pushing Yuno from behind, Shinkurou headed for the dojo.