Chapter 1 Part 4

Chapter 1 Part 4

For the entire day, I was on cloud nine.

Until Percy reminded me that the bell had already rung, I didn’t even realize school had ended and everyone was packing up.

I absentmindedly asked Percy about his mixer with the Starside chicks.

The usually quiet man starts to blabber incessantly about the events of that day. Some sort of talking switch flipped in Percy, probably trying to fill me with jealousy or something.

Even though it is quite rare to see him so happy, I couldn’t just let him flex on me like that. Using the good old methods of trash talking, I tell him “They were just messing around”, “There won’t be a next time.”, “Once they find out you are an otaku they’ll never contact you again.” Of course, Percy retaliates instantly.

We keep up this barrage of insults against each other until we are out of the school gates. Scattered between the insults, we somehow make an agreement to go to the internet cafe for three hours to play a couple rounds of League.

The massacre we instigate in the virtual world is the same as usual, everytime we walk out of the cafe we talk of our top plays of the day. By the time we wake up the next day though, the memory has pretty much faded - this type of temporal entertainment and happiness is the epitome of killing time.

It’s already nine by the time I get home.

Even fourth and fifth sis are home from the after school study session.

The moment I open the door, my eye starts twitching like crazy¹. From the depths of the dark and empty living room emanates a scary atmosphere. By this time, with the exception of second sis, everyone should be home. A robber couldn’t and shouldn’t have gotten in this scenario.

I turn on the living room lights to dissipate the darkness, take off my sneakers, put down my heavy bag, and walk in.

As I expected, third sis is in her room, I double check the door cracks for light and breath a sigh of relief. Next, I head to fourth sis’ room, and I am able to hear music playing. Finally, I walk to the door of my own room, glancing back at big sis’ inactive room : she probably is dead drunk again.

TN:

1. In the traditional views of Taiwan, if your eyelid suddenly starts twitching like crazy, it has to do with one’s upcoming luck. Based on the different times of the day, which eyelid twitching could either mean something great or terrible is about to happen. The author probably meant the latter.

My eyes twitched for nothing, everything at home is peaceful.

I turn the knob and walk into my room. Just as I raise my head, an unending amount of killing aura already made goosebumps come up all over my body.

Big sis sits on my bed with arms crossed across her chest. She is wearing an extra large shirt with a skull design and blazing red eyes that covers part of her thighs. She gives me a very heavy look, like she was really about to kill me.

What did I do wrong this time?

Since our parents are useless, they have us care for ourselves. It’s not like I broke a curfew or something, why did she have to be filled with anger?

As I look up more, I see fifth sis hiding behind big sis memorizing a periodic table.

Bruh, that’s way too fake.

“Didn’t I say before that you are still much too young for a girlfriend?”

If big sis’ eyes had death lasers attached, I’d probably be vapourized already.

I act as tame as chihuahua, and wave my hands around, “No, I’m not dating anyone.”

“Oh ho, you dare lie to me now?”

Big sis smiles coldly, brushes her long silver hair, wraps half around each shoulder and puts it on her chest. It slightly blocks off that skull.

“No, I definitely didn’t, grant me a fair trial madam, I was framed by an evildoer².”

I cry out for justice, and at the mention of evildoer, fifth sis’ shoulders twitch a bit.

“How dare you say no, Kana already told me what happened during lunch!”

“Big sis.... I thought you said you would keep that a secret, why did you tell him!”

Fifth sis throws the periodic table away and falls flat on my bed.

Yup, Kana Lee is my fifth sis’ full name. Still, I can’t believe she back stabbed me like this.

“It’s just a misunderstanding, I was just discussing a group project with a classmate.”

I calm and ready myself, it is a life and death situation right now, if I make any errors, the consequences will be grave.

TN:

2. In the original text, this line was spoken by the MC like how ancient Chinese servants spoke to the emperor (or empress in this case)

Past memories start rising up, my high alert level isn’t because of nothing.

In the seventeen years of life, there has been instances of me failing confessions, but most have to be “attributed” to my sisters pulling all sort of tricks - tricks that are beyond human imagination.

Big sis’ name is Diana, and like the goddess Diana, emanates an authoritative aura. She speaks. “High school student must put academics at the forefront, when big sis gets old I’ll have to rely on you to take care of me...... stupid things like dating a girl can wait until you are thirty-five.”

“.......”

Thirty-five.... my hands and feet go cold.

“Big sis, you can’t do that!”

Fifth sis, who is the closest with me, immediately stands up for me. This thawed my frozen heart and gives me some warmth.

“Brybry has five sisters, it shouldn’t even matter if he dates a girl or not, you cannot force him to go find a girlfriend at thirty-five!”

Oops I’m wrong, my bad. I totally forgot fifth sis is on a whole other level of craziness.

“Big sis...... I was purely thinking for my grades, that’s why I ate with a classmate.”

At this time, I should probably tear up a bit, but just couldn’t squeeze out a single tear.

“Hmmm, I think I’ll have to discuss with Morgana a bit.”

Big sis’ contemptuous face unexpectedly showed a bit of concern.

The reason is simple, Morgana Lee is my fourth sis, and if big sis was the President, then fourth sis would be the CIA, if big sis was Bin Laden, then fourth sis would be Al Qaeda, if big sis was an AK47, then fourth sis would be the 7.62 caliber bullets, if big sis was Rambo, then fourth sis would be Rambo’s knife!

Fourth sis has always been big sis’ devout follower......

“You don’t have to bother fourth sis, I will throw away all romantic relations and focus on academics.” I step forward, walk in front of big sis, kneel on one knee, and gently grasp her hand, “Big sis please believe me for once ok? Big sis... I respect and love you so much.”

“Come over here....” Big sis opens her arms, and smiles reassuringly, “Let big sis have a hug.”

What the fuck, I’m seventeen this year, don’t treat me like a child alright? I have some reservations about this.

Hmm?”

Big sis scrunches her eyebrows.

She is only a few years older than me, this old habit is really abnormal.

Alas, I have no other options. A true man must know when to compromise, and to not alarm fourth sis, I surrendered.

Big sis sits cross legged on the bed, so I keep one knee on the ground and lean forwards to hug her. Due to the height difference of the bed, my face just happens to be squished against her below average chest, plus she doesn’t wear bras at home, so it feels even flatter.

Just like hugging a brother in kindergarten, big sis pats my back, and uses her chin to rub my head. We hug for at least three minutes before she lets go of me.

“Fine, I’ll let this event fly under my radar.” She sniffs my neck a couple times and lightly slaps my cheeks, “You are so stinky, go take a shower now and get ready for bed.”

My heart finally put down a massive weight, and with the utmost speed, I take a set of new clothes. It would very fitting say, “I shall now leave thy presence, your majesty.”³ right about now. I speed to the bathroom before she changes her mind and throws all my hard work earlier into the dumps.

In the bathroom, I strip naked instantly, and see the face of a man that had just escaped certain death. I turn on the hot water and fog up the entire room. Now I’m finally able to relax - the bathroom is truly my last refuge.

A heaven where no sister will appear.

“Brybry, are you done? I haven’t washed yet either.”

“Get in line fifth sis.”

Fuck that! She didn’t even come wash since she tattled on me - have fun waiting in line fifth sis.

“I’m coming in anyways, let’s just wash together, it saves more time.”

I turn my head so fast it nearly snaps off. Fifth sis actually opens the door and steps in. With that, she destroys the last bit of holy land I have.

She unbuttons her blouse without even asking and steps into the shower.... she's pretty much ruder than gangsters are.

TN:

3. In the original text, this line was spoken by the MC like how ancient Chinese servants spoke to the emperor (or empress in this case). If you’ve ever watched Chinese imperial dramas you’ll understand XD. Basically think of a servant talking to a lord or king.

“Y-y-y-you can't do this——”

I weakly respond as I use my hands cover up my important bits tightly.

“......” Fifth sis’ face darkens, takes off her blouse, and says in a sorry tone, “It was my wrong to tattle on you..... it’s all sis’ fault, I’m sorry.”

No one is discussing that right now alright?

I really can’t, fifth sis even took off her underwear and is exposing her most well developed region within the white mist. The situation is reaching critical levels, so I squeeze a towel between my thighs, hunch over the shower head, determined to finish my shower ASAP.

We had a family wide vow of not bathing together any more once we all got into high school. I can’t believe fifth sis is so blatantly breaking this vow.

“Let fifth sis help you wash as an apology for my crime okay?”

She starts to move while she speaks - my answer isn’t important is it.

Fifth sis puts both of our clothes into the wash basket - she has always been the most hard working of us all, not only does she have to go to class, she takes care of most household chores. She barely has a break even weekends to keep us all comfortable.

Usually, this action of helping put clothes away would be greatly appreciated, but in her fully nude state, my thanks was temporarily distorted.

“Didn’t you promise not to bath together after getting into high school?”

As I complain, I turn my body into a meatball shape.

Fifth sis carefully climbs into the bathtub and says, “But, an apology is different, let’s wash our heads. Close your eyes, the water is coming down.”

“We are both high schoolers, this isn’t right.”

My mouth says that while I still obediently let fifth sis’ hand gently wash my hair. “You were my little brother when you were one, my little brother at five, and at seventeen you are still my little brother. It doesn’t matter if you are thirty, forty or fifty years old : you will always be my little brother.”

Fifth sis’ fingers massage my head in circles, “Or is it that you plan to abandon your sisters just because we got older?”

Abandon them? That’s never going to happen, but I do feel like the current situation is a bit different from that.....

Fifth sis’ hands caress my neck all the way down to my back before laughing gently, “You’ve really grown up a lot, in a couple years I won’t even be able to lift you anymore.”

“......Please, you can’t even lift me now.”

“Who said that?”

“All your muscle development probably went to your chest.”

Fifth sis slaps my butt and says angrily, “Who said so? I’ll try it in a bit.”

“Forget it, pretend I didn’t say anything.”

“No, I really have to try it.”

“Stop it, that’s really too embarrassing.”

“You used to be so happy when I hugged you.”

“That was like ten years ago.”

“That was not ten years ago, more like three or four.”

During this senseless banter between us, my upper body was cleaned well, cleaner than what I accomplish. But this is really my bottom line.....

She keeps going “down”, it’ll be too dangerous.

I slightly turn around and grab fifth sis’ hand. She gets shocked for a second as I grab the shower head from her hand and stand up. I use a bit of shower gel and quickly wash the lower half of my body to finish up.

“That isn’t clean enough.”

Fifth sis protests and tries to grab the shower head back.

I use my back to block her hand and speed up my scrubbing. After washing away the bubbles, I use a pitifully small towel to block my family jewels and escape the bathtub as fast as possible. I didn’t listen to any of fifth sis’ complaints and end this slightly awkward farce.

Also.

When I was just about to sleep, due to someone’s tattling, big sis rushed into my room to prove that I was still small and that she could still lift me. She ended up tripping onto the bed, but I won’t mention that embarrassing incident anymore.

To me, sisters will always be sisters, even if they can’t lift me anymore, they will still be my sisters.

I don’t understand why this matter got them so tense.