Chapter 198: Siblings

“So that’s what happened…”

There were several times when I suspected that Sophie was Yumi, my sister in a previous life. When she made a contract with the two devils, I was convinced that she was a reincarnated person. The only thing I wasn’t sure about was whether it was Yumi or not, but I’m glad it was.

“It’s too late to notice… baka…”

“I would have noticed right away if you had brought it up in the first place……”

“What’s wrong?”

Sophie…when Yumi calls me stupid, it reminds me of when Yumi was a rebel and I feel nostalgic. Those days were tough…. I was talking with such nostalgia, but I stopped in the middle of the conversation. I had to confirm something.

“Sophie… did you know that I was Sato Reiji… your brother in the previous life?”

“I did”

“Since when?”

“Since before we were born?”

“What?”

How could Sophie have known before she was born? I mean, did she know in the previous life?

“Since you seem to be confused, I’ll explain it to you carefully in chronological order, okay?”

“Oh.”

“First, you died when you were hit by a broken wire. I visited that place and I was run over and died.”

“What? I didn’t get hit by any power lines?”

“Yes, you were struck by lightning, weren’t you? But in our view, you were hit by an electric wire that was cut by a truck hitting it, and died of shock.”

It’s certainly strange to die from being struck by falling lightning when there were no clouds. So that goddess must have changed that part of the story to make it less strange.

And if Yumi was also reincarnated, that means she died the same way as me in her previous life….

“Brother was supposed to die from being hit by a falling flowerpot, but you used your reflexes and stubbornly survived to the road near our house. As a result, my going place changed from the point where the flowerpot fell to the road near our house. So far so good, right?”

“Yes.”

The original plan was for Yumi to go to the place where I died. But instead of dying from the flowerpot as I originally planned, I died on the road near my house. That is why my place of death where Yumi went was changed from the flowerpot to the road near my house.

“That is where I was run over. As a result, I was reincarnated like you were, because I was far off God’s schedule to die.”

“Sorry……”

In other words, Yumi was dead because of me. If I had not been so stubborn to survive, Yumi would not have died.

“The next time you apologize, I’ll really hit you with magic, okay?”

“What…? You’re not mad at me?”

“Why? Why would I be mad?”

“Why? Because of me, Yumi…”

“Hah …… you really don’t get it big brother…”

Sophie then moved her face quickly toward me.

“In any case, my brother died, so even if I hadn’t been run over and died, I would have died after you in the near future, so the future wouldn’t be any different! I’m grateful to you because I died and was able to reincarnate as your sister again. There’s no way I could be mad at you.”

“Thanks…..”

I’m sure she was being overly considerate, but I’m very glad for her concern.

“But I’m glad that now my biggest worry is gone.”

“Your biggest worry?”

“The one where you said you liked me. That was a prank on me, right?”

I’m glad this problem is solved. I had been worrying about this for a long time. Just the fact that this was resolved was worth using my right to ask Sophie to do what I wanted.

“Area lock…”

“Hm? Um…I can’t move…”

Suddenly Sophie seemed to be in the worst mood ever. Then she magically made my body immobilized.

Then Sophie’s face came close to mine.

“Wait a minute!”

Oh no! I don’t understand what’s going on! I’ve got to figure this out for now!

“Raiden Triple…”

“Unenchant.”

I can’t enchant it… Then let’s use the sword to cut this magic! Crap…my arm doesn’t work either. And the sword is too far away to do anything with.

“You can move from the neck up. If you really don’t like it, please avoid me.”

“Ah…”

Then Sophie and my lips lightly touched each other. The magic was released when Sophie slowly moved away. I mean, there were less than three seconds between the time she asked me to avoid her and the time we kissed. Was she trying to make me avoid it…?

Ah…my first kiss, which I didn’t particularly cherish, was taken away from me by Sophie…

“Why did you…?”

“I love you as a member of the opposite sex.”

“But… we’re brother and sister…?”

“We can be married even if we’re siblings, right?”

“No, we were brother and sister in our previous life! We can’t get married in the previous life…”

“Oh, is that what you mean?”

With a confused head, I managed to tell Sophie that it was strange since we were brother and sister, but I couldn’t say it well.

Sophie looked at me with a strange expression as I spoke in such a slurred manner. Then she looked at me with a curious look on her face, and after that, she looked convinced.

“In other words, you’re saying that it’s strange that I, who was supposed to be your sister even in a previous life, should like you as a member of the opposite sex! Right?”

“…yeah…”

That’s exactly what I’m trying to say. I can understand that you still like me as a member of the opposite sex after being born and raised in this world. But I don’t understand why you would like me as an older brother in this life when we were siblings in a previous life.

“It’s simple, isn’t it? From my previous life, I loved my brother as the opposite sex, right?”

“Wait…wait…wait…wait…wait…”

“Hai, let’s wait. “

Let’s get a few things straight. Sophie now loves me, her brother, as the opposite sex. But she was my sister in a previous life. Unlike in this life, in the previous life, brother and sister cannot get married. And yet, Sophie…Yumi liked me as the opposite sex in the previous life?

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