To Have Felt the Longest
The season is now autumn.
The cat god that possessed Azuki Azusa
vanished with the forced wish cancellation,
leaving the school only partially back to normal,
and the cat god statue in the storehouse disappeared completely.
As for me, I haven't seen Tsutsukakushi at all lately.
Even if I text her, she doesn't reply.
I'm kind of worried.
And speaking of worried, lately...
Fight! Yokodera! Do your best, cha cha cha!
Azuki Azusa is clingy as clingy can be.
Yo-ko-de-ra is a prince!
Good work out there.
Have some lemons soaked in honey.
It's so sweet and sour that even a grizzly
wouldn't be able to lick it all up!
Y-Yay... Thanks.
Hey, stop getting horny during club activities, pervert.
Outsiders lower the morale of the club members.
You understand how everyone feels, right?
Um...
Understand. Break up. Break up now.
If you're a man... actually, since you're a pervert,
break it to her hard.
You should be an expert at moving hard,
so imagine you're covering a girl's socks with white stuff
and give it all you've got!
If you can't say it, pervert, I'll say it.
You're a nuisance.
Oh, um... Sorry.
Y-You're not a nuisance at all...
Eh?
The vice captain has the terrible illness
afflicting many nowadays, called tsundere,
where she says the opposite of what she's feeling.
Hey, who are you calling tsun—
The correct translation of what she just said would be...
"I really just want to get along with Azuki-chan.
Please call me Dere-Dere! Heart!"
Or something like that.
Wha...
Oh, I see. I was really worried for a second.
Nice to meet you, Dere-Dere-san.
H-Hey, pervert! Do something about your girlfriend!
Girlfriend! She called me his girlfriend!
And the other person I'm worried about is here...
Practice is over.
Oh, it's you, Yokodera.
What's wrong?
You haven't been at practice lately, so everyone is worried.
If I were to travel to a faraway land, would you be sad?
Huh?
Never mind. Just a slip of the tongue.
You can forget it.
What are you talking about? Let's go home.
You're still alive, pervert? Go die already.
Don't come to track for a while. Don't come forever.
Don't be born.
O-Oh, yeah. I have something to give back to you.
I have nothing to get back from you...
Give it back, give it back, give it back! You pervy, perverted, pervert!
You walking sexual crime!
What the hell were you doing playing with someone's bra?!
Could you not say things that make me sound so bad?!
Shut up, you underwear fetishist!
I know you sprayed white liquid all over it!
My goodness.
At this rate, I'm worried about what would happen after I left...
Huh?
You two are eventually going to have to take my place.
Can't you try to get along a little better, for my sake?
I can't. Not with the pervert, I can't. Even if I die, I can't.
Actually, you die, pervert. Or just quit the club.
In fact, just quit life!
I guess that's one idea!
All right, I've got it.
Goal
How about we use this to help you two get along?
What is this?
This is a game that Tsukiko and I made,
based on one that has been played in Japan since ancient times.
You and a family member must wash each other's backs.
You must take a bath with a family member.
We call it "King Sugoroku" because it is absolute that you obey
what is written in the spaces.
Th-This is...
Retrieve Tsukiko's suggestive black underwear and move back three spaces.
"Retrieve Tsukiko's suggestive black underwear and move back three spaces."
This is...
Have the person you like pat you on the head as much as you'd like.
"Have the person you like pat you on the head as much as you'd like."
Let's do this. Let's do this now.
Right now. Immediately. Quickly. Swiftly. Now!
However...
the only problem is that we have never finished the game.
Go back one space and study math.
No matter how many times we played, we'd end up back at the start.
Go back two spaces and study English.
Go back three spaces and realize that you're a student taking exams.
Go back four spaces and write kanji with each other.
Go back five spaces and say your times tables.
You only have six months until school starts.
It's absolutely baffling.
Let's not, then.
Yeah...
I never got a chance to ask her,
but I wonder what was troubling the captain...
From: Your Little Sister (Eventually) Sub: No Subject I have something important to discuss with you, so I'll be at your house. Yours truly,
Tsutsukakushi...
I'm home!
I am the longest. Yes, it's an advantage.
It appears that I'll have to make Senpai understand that myself.
Make me... what?
It's about who is number one.
Let's settle that once and for all, yes.
Please endure this.
This is all your fault, Senpai. You left me alone.
Wait a minute!
I don't know why she's doing this,
but if Tsutsukakushi has a vast black hole in her heart,
wouldn't it be the right thing to get sucked in,
even if I can't completely plug it up?
It's not exact, but...
Hmm... It's a warm smell.
I can't run away.
I now proclaim that
the "Nonchalantly Try to get Together" project,
codename "The NTT Project," begins now.
Enough!
That's enough! I'll accept everything, so just...
Huh?
Tsukiko?
She went home?
Oh? I thought I had put Barbara-san away, but here she is.
How strange.
What's this? Barbara-san moved!
Poke, poke.
Huh? This is weird... could it be Barbara-san is alive?
Tickle, tickle, tickle.
Tickle, tickle, tickle...
Jeez. Jeez.
Jeez. Why do you always have to be a Hentai-san, Senpai?
Is the Hentai-san who you really are?
Are you a Hentai-san because you're Senpai?
Even I'm not perverted enough to dive into my hugging pillow...
I'm so sorry! Please forgive me!
I beg for your forgiveness!
If you get in the way of my cleaning again,
I will get very angry.
So you considered what you were doing earlier cleaning...
Do you have any complaints?
No, none at all.
Um, there are a lot of boxes with "X" written on them...
Do we have to throw all of those away?
Yes.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Trash goes into the garbage can,
and the bad person goes into the bad container.
Could it be that you're angry?
No, not really.
Rocket Boobs Battle
Denied
Um...
So Small You Can't See!
Monthly Loliket
Approved
Why the separation here...?
You're someone who can't be helped,
so I must lead you down the right path again.
Because I've known you the longest.
You and Azu...
You are free to do whatever you'd like with whomever you like.
Because I'm the one who's known you the longest,
I'm able to forgive that sort of thing.
No one else can do that. That's how it is.
So... why are you concentrating so much
on how long we've known each other?
Senpai.
Can I look at this?
Oh, sure.
This is Emi-san in this picture, right?
Yeah. The one with Ponta and me, right?
Emi-san is smaller than she is now.
Yeah, I think it's from about two years ago.
So I guess... it's before me...
I'm going home.
Tsu-Tsutsukakushi?
I wonder what she wanted to discuss.
Rome?
Is this...
Come home.
I knew that Senpai had forgotten.
I knew that very well, but...
But I wasn't the one who knew Senpai the longest...
If I go to Italy, Senpai will...
What do you want to do today?
Is there anywhere you want to go?
Are you hungry?
There's a curry place that has free large servings of curry...
A curry place...
Are you mad about something? Did I do something?
You're not looking at me today.
Huh?
What do you mean? I've been looking!
I've noticed your puffy cheeks and the way you're swinging your feet.
Don't say it in such a weird way, Pumpkin!
I'm talking about something serious.
I'm sorry!
Were you thinking about something?
About something important... or about someone important.
See?
You're no fun at all right now.
Just go home now and do what you need to do.
Thanks!
What do you need, Yokodera?
Is your sister here?
She is out. Did you need something?
This...
I really wanted to talk to her about it...
I thank you for bringing it back.
But this has nothing to do with you.
This is a family matter. I'm sorry.
Wait a sec!
I think there's a misunderstanding.
I'm not the older brother!
You're the younger one?!
Th-That's rather mean of you.
Of course, I did have my suspicions...
To think that I would actually mistake the two of you...
I-I think I just dug myself a deeper grave,
but I'll just have to ride it out...
on this big wave.
Steel King! No, Tsutsukakushi Tsukushi!
Weren't we supposed to be like family?!
Wha—
If it's your family matter, then it's my family matter, as well.
I want to be a part of the Tsutsukakushi family, too!
Please! Tell me what's going on.
All right, understood.
Steel-san!
Let us have a ceremony at the altar.
Huh?
Every woman should wear a wedding dress once in her life.
Hey, wait!
Steel-san! Let's talk about that in the next life!
Hm? Or do you prefer the traditional dress?
Steel-san, wait!
What? You prefer bathing suits?
What? You didn't want to talk about marriage?
That's quite a disappointment, but I guess it can't be helped.
This is some form of fate. I guess I should tell you.
As you know, our parents are gone.
But our grandparents are still alive.
They sent us a proposal.
Our grandfather asked us to live with him in Italy.
But I'm thinking about declining that request.
We've grown up in this house.
We have countless memories here.
Our mother measured my height here...
I can see my mother patting me on the head,
like it happened yesterday.
If we lose this house, it'll be like we don't exist.
But something strange has happened.
Are you listening, younger brother of Yokodera?
Uh, right. What's strange?
What was that, again?
Well, the other day,
when I called my grandparents,
they said something rather peculiar.
"Is there a reason to obsess over your mother
whom you hadn't lived with for long?"
Hadn't lived with for long?
According to them, I was three
and Tsukiko was one when we were separated from our mother.
But I know for a fact that we were
living with our mother in this house until I was six.
I could be wrong,
but there is a possibility that you could be mistaken, right?
Because you are Steel-san!
Indeed! Because I am me!
S-So, why don't you look into it?
Indeed.
That is why I am looking for some physical evidence.
Meaning?
I'm looking for a picture from the past.
Something that can prove I was definitely here.
I see.
But I can't find one.
I've found family pictures up until Tsukiko was one,
and a lot of private pictures of Tsukiko by herself.
But I haven't been able to find
any pictures of us with our mother.
Then maybe you were wrong, after all—
So, I thought I would look through your pictures next!
Huh?
It occurred to me, as I was rubbing my cheek nightly
on the picture I borrowed from your room the other day,
that there's a possibility we may have met when we were kids.
That's a complete delusion—
No, it's not!
The picture from your youth showed me!
We did, indeed, meet when we were young.
And I received something important at that time.
And that is...
That is...
If I were to compare it to something, maybe true love,
or our first time together...
I think we're getting off the point here...
Do you really not remember?
Me... or even the past?
The past...
Senpai.
If what my sister says is true,
then I must have met you in the past, as well,
when we were kids.
You think so?
Let's look.
Right now. Let's all split up.
Please help, as well, Senpai.
Tsutsukakushi...
We looked until the evening, but the only
thing we found was one blurry picture.
Let's look again. This house is big, so...
Yes, you're right. Thank you.
I need to go buy stuff for dinner...
Then, I'll, uh, I'll be off, too.
See you later, Steel-san.
Indeed.
Where are you going shopping?
Senp—
Yoohoo!
What a coincidence. Oh, could it be you were on a date?
Well, sort of, or maybe not, or...
What about you?
My mom finished work early today,
so we're about to go have dinner.
Your mom works somewhere?
Yeah, at the publishers in front of the station.
Have you heard of the magazine, Fashion Moon?
My mom is the editor-in-chief of that magazine.
Wow! That's awesome!
Nothing less from Azuki Azusa's mom.
Oh, yeah! She's looking for a male model...
Why don't you try it, Yokodera?
M-Me?
I model sometimes for little pictures off to the side, too...
I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation...
But my bus is here.
Oh.
Sorry, I'll see you at school!
I'm a terrible person.
Huh?
I can't even show my emotions,
but my actions come from my emotions.
When I see you talking to Azuki-san, I want to yell and shake you.
But I don't want you to dislike me, so I hold back.
I'm calculating, and rather mean and conniving.
That's not true.
Azuki-san is beautiful.
And yet, she doesn't brag at all.
There's no area where I can win against her.
That's not true! You totally can!
For example, the shape of your navel!
You're a Hentai-san obsessed with navels, Senpai.
And very kind...
I had believed that the time I had spent bonding
with you had been the longest out of anyone.
That was the one advantage I had over the others.
But then I found out Emi-san had known you much longer.
But if I can find that picture from the past,
no matter how terrible that makes me, or if you end up hating me,
I would be able to win that.
Then, I'd be able to stay number one with you forever...
That's what I thought.
If I could remember that
"number one" memory that she's talking about...
Just...
Just kidding.
There's something wrong with me today. Please ignore it.
If only...
If only I could go to the past and find out for myself...
Go to the past and find out?
Well, well, that's quite a pleasant wish.
I have heard your wish.
The cat god?!
I shall grant it for you immediately.
Well, goodbye, Yokodera-kun.
Tsukiko!
Senpa—
Inside Tsutsukakushi-san's House
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