Book 1: Chapter 1: 7th of June (Sunday)
“Welcome to our home! …No, that’s not it. —Starting today, we’ll be living under the same roof, right! …Hmm, that sounds a bit too creepy…”
With the countless cardboard boxes and new furniture in the corner of my eye, I looked at myself in the mirror, and repeated the same phrases to myself.
It was your average evening, roughly 5pm. I stood in a single room of this flat we rented on the third floor, located in the living district with the greatest deviation value in all over Japan (slight exaggeration). It was a 3 LDK1 flat. For just me and my old man, it was definitely too big, but now it’ll surely end up too small.
For the past five minutes, I’ve been practicing my expression and words that I would show to greet the new family. You know, the entire premise of this is just ridiculous. I understand how my old man would take care of cleaning and preparing the room that will be used by him and Akiko-san. However, why would you send me, an adolescent boy, to prepare the room for the stranger that will become my younger sister starting today. That is one decision I cannot exactly follow.
“Weird…where did it go?”
“What’s wrong?”
My old man was walking up and down the hallway in a panic, so I called out to him.
“Ah, perfect timing. Did you see the febreeze anywhere?”
“Should be in the living room. I used it for the curtains yesterday.”