Hey there! This is the point of view of the stepbrother (Soutarou) from the series . If you started by reading this, you don’t need to read the other one, but I would advice so. Now then, this series will start years before the series MaguToro started. Enjoy the chapter!
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My parents got divorced four years ago.
My father seemed to be a so-called good-for-nothing.
It was a person who made a lot of debts and made my mother wiped his buttocks.
So, when my father and mother got divorced, I thought that it was unavoidable.
By the time the two got divorced, I was still in elementary school.
Although it was an unfamiliar subject, I was still aware of my parents' feelings while I was still a child.
Apparently, my father seemed to think that he didn't need me.
I was listening to my mother and father's conversation and I heard it properly that my father deemed me unnecessary.
Father was addicted to gambling, and he was someone who acted like a child.
However, until then I was still feeling the affection of my father.
Sometimes he would take me to the park on holiday.
If I thought about it right now, it might be just a whim or a distraction for my father, but I had never doubted my father's love until that day.
My parents got divorced easily.
I watched the back of my father who was leaving the house together with all of his baggage, but I still thought that I could see my father again.
However, contrary to my expectation, my father never came to see me.
Later, I learned that he seemed not to pay the child support.
My mother forbid father to meet me.
Perhaps, he felt it was troublesome to see me.
For my father, I was only to that extent.
The debt made by my father seemed to increase without being paid by my mother because they got divorced, but my mother worked hard to nourish me.
In the first place, she already liked working and my mother almost never stay at home.
When I was in elementary school lower grade, my mother made a dinner every morning and went to work.
Every day I was eating the dinner that my mother had made alone by warming it up.
Naturally I began to learn how to do chores, and when I was in the third grade of elementary school, I could easily cook for myself.
In the earliest, it was past 8 o'clock when my mother came back. Sometimes she would come back past 12 o'clock if it was overtime.
When I became a fourth grader in elementary school, as I became able to do housework as well, her business trips increased.
I had been alone for a long time.
There was no grudge against my mother.
Because my mother did her job, even though we were only a mother and her child, we had a reasonably good life.
But I didn't know what a family was like.
I felt the affection from my mother. But my mother almost never near me.
Even when there was something exciting at school, I was alone while my classmates were excited with the seasonal events.
I don't need a family.
Someday I began to think such a thing.
My father and mother who should have like each other and got married were divorced.
My biological father whose blood was connected with me abandoned me and left.
When someone said that I was a family member, I could easily become alone with a single opportunity.
Even my classmates who were excited about their family could get destroyed by a single opportunity.
Not only mine. Surely a family was such a fragile thing.
I thought that I had protected my heart by thinking like that.
When the story was brought to me, the day was really sunny.
"Remarry?"
"Yes. There is a person I want to marry. —How about it?"
Very much a no. I was really against it.
Why would you think of remarriage?
Even though it had failed once. Was my mother going to repeat the same thing again?
Such idea came to flood my mind, but I suppressed it by sucking in a deep breath.
"Who is it?"
"I got acquainted with him during my job, he is a hard worker, he does not do gambling, and he does not have a debt."
Mother told me about her remarriage partner happily.
I listened to my mother with a cold feeling.
I couldn't trust the person that my mother chose to have as a marriage partner, but as long as I listen to her, he seemed to be not a bad person.
And above all, mother's face while telling me about the man was shining happily.
—If I said that I was against it, my mother would cease the remarriage.
My mother felt obliged towards me.
It was also the case after she got divorced, due to being devoted towards her job, she couldn't look after me as much as she used to, and I believed she was feeling sorry because of it.
That was why mother was sweet towards me.
Undoubtedly, a single word of disagreement from me, and I knew she would abandon this marriage.
"Isn't that good? I will not oppose you."
I buried my inner feelings and said so.
To tell the truth, the new family member could eat shit for all I care.
I didn't trust something as uncertain as a family.
Nevertheless, I didn't want to crush my mother's selfish hope.
It was a very cool feeling, but I was grateful to my mother.
I knew how hard my mother had work to raise me.
Sometimes I heard that she was called bad things in the shadow because she was a single mother.
How could I destroy the happiness that my mother had wanted.
I only needed a little patience.
Working when I graduated from high school, or left the house with the money I got from part-time jobs. Until then I had to be patient.
That my mother got acquainted with her co-worker during her job was probably better for my mother as well.
Even if I didn't have much in the house, she wouldn't worry too much about it.
My mother dropped another bomb to me who was thinking about such a thing.
"I'm glad that you said so, his daughter had also agreed, so this should go well."
"…Wait, he has a daughter?"
"That's right, she will become Soutarou's older sister, his daughter is a second grader in junior high school. She's a cute child, you know?"
The appearance of the other person was not good.
A second grader in junior high school was still a student, unlike her father, wouldn't she normally stayed inside the house?
I felt horrified to live in the same house as someone else.
However, I couldn't say that I was against it.
I ended up wearing a mask of a good boy, and I agreed to her remarriage.
However as expected, on the day of the meeting I was depressed and it couldn't be helped.
I couldn't suppress my sullenness, and I made my mother worried very much.
"Hey, Soutarou. Are you alright?"
"I'm alright. Just feeling a little bit nervous."
"—If you oppose the remarriage, please just say so."
"I'm not opposing it. I'm feeling sick—I think I’m nervous of changing residence."
By saying the appropriate excuse, I devolved the reason for my disgust.
The place I was taken by my mother was a fine hotel restaurant.
I got to meet the people who was going to be my family from now on.
The girl who wore a uniform in the restaurant was the daughter.
I had heard that she was a second grader in junior high school, but she looked younger than me. It certainly was a girl with a figure that seemed cute.
Well, it didn't matter how she looks.
"Nice to meet you, I am Sasaoka Amane."
She introduced herself to me with a smile.
That smile strangely touched my emotion.
How could this woman smile that insolently?
Didn't you think that you dislike me even though it was a remarriage for the convenience of our parents?
"……Soutarou."
My mood came out as it was, I gave a self-introduction in a small voice.
Probably my impression would be the worst.
No, that would be for the best.
If I appeared to be a nasty younger brother, she wouldn't come near me.
I didn't want to get into the territory of the other person who would be my older sister, so I thought of hiding from her.
Even though I gave my replies during the conversation afterwards, I took a curt attitude.
This surely would make my impression as the worst.
If she disliked me then she wouldn't be involved with me in the future.
Sure enough, the little girl who would be my older sister seemed to be puzzled by my responses.
I smiled inwardly.
We couldn't dispel the delicate atmosphere, and the day of the meeting was over.
Attention!
As you can see, this series starts years before MaguToro. So for those of you that also read MaguToro, would you like me to focus on translating this until the plot converges with MaguToro (in chapter 12) or should I just keep releasing MaguToro chapters alternately? Please put a comment below!