"Damn it, misjudged…"
Not only did his plan fail, but he also lost his doujinshi, Miyazawa Yuu was so angry his teeth were itching.
But the magazine that fell into the hands of that scum will definitely not be returned! He doesn't even need to think about that.
"Alright, you can eat…"
"I'll take it without hesitation—!"
Having been boisterous all day and not even eating lunch, as the routine pre-meal etiquette ended, everyone around the table unanimously reached their chopsticks towards the large piece of pork cutlet on the plate.
There was nothing they could do, although it was summer, when their energy was exhausted, meat and fat were indeed more appealing!
"Hmm! Delicious, it tastes surprisingly good even though not many seasonings were added!"
One bite brought an intense aroma, the balanced cutlet tasted more like a hamburger patty, but the high-temperature deep-frying technique tightly locked the pork's juices within the crispy shell.
Besides that, what made Kitahara Shiori feel even more considerate was that the cutlet had been cooled to an appropriate temperature!
Even an impatient person would only taste the fresh deliciousness of the meat juice upon biting into it, rather than burning their tongue and ruining their mood!
This person! Looking at Yuu, who was gritting his teeth for some unknown reason, a loud alarm bell rang in her heart—he was probably the chief culprit who spoiled her older brother!
"Arigato, Shiori-chan, as long as you like it~"
"Mhm! It's truly delicious, Yuu Onii-chan!"
"Chotto matte!"
Raising his hand to interrupt the inexplicably harmonious siblings, Imamura Kouhei expressionlessly tossed the "pork cutlet," which was already only half-left, into his bowl.
Using his chopsticks to pull apart the outermost crispy coating, the next second, a pleasing emerald green immediately came into view.
"May I ask what tonight's dinner is?"
"Obviously, it's fried pork cutlet!"
"I see…"
His eyelids already starting to twitch, Imamura Kouhei slapped his chopsticks onto the table, the bitterness in his mouth completely igniting his emotions—
"You're lying to a ghost! The color is totally wrong! And it's so bitter!"
"Mhm~ Kouhei, are you still at the stage of judging food by color?"
Shaking his head in distress, Miyazawa Yuu calmly explained in the face of Kouhei's accusation: "Although it looks like green pepper, and tastes like green pepper, it is indeed pork cutlet!"
"Pork cutlet my foot! Yuu, you are holding a personal grudge, right? If it looks like green pepper and tastes like green pepper, then it is green pepper!"
"Kouhei! How can you think that of me, how could I possibly hold a personal grudge just because I was almost killed~"
Waving his hand to signal Kouhei to calm down and relax, Miyazawa Yuu flashed a strong smile, put up a thumbs-up, and proudly said: "It should be called privately avenging a public feud instead!"
"Ah—"
The senior who took a bigger bite had already lost consciousness from the bitterness, mouth wide open, saliva continuously streaming out like a waterfall.
That's right! The pork cutlet rice dishes present, except for the girls' and his own, were all disguised green pepper rice bowls!
Miyazawa Yuu always keeps his word, he absolutely won't break his promise that tonight's meal would be changed to a green pepper feast!
"Ah ah~ Here they go again, Yuu and the others just can't settle down."
"Seriously…"
Grateful that her pork cutlet hadn't been replaced with green pepper, Yoshiwara Aina curled her lips in resignation, thanking heaven that Yuu still retained a tiny bit of humanity.
Predictably, due to the green pepper versus pork cutlet dispute, a major battle was about to break out, including but not limited to forceful seizure, choking, and the secret technique of stomach-poking.
After a day of rest, Miyazawa Yuu finally won by threatening to activate his hidden backup energy source for a mutual kill, finishing off every last piece of pork cutlet.
"Phew… Heh, you two are still too young to try and snatch something from me!"
"Damn it, this guy's eating speed is too fast, there was no chance at all!"
Both sides suffered, Kitahara Iori, panting heavily, finally gave up his last bit of hope, after all, once something entered Yuu's mouth, even if he managed to beat it out, it would be useless.
But without the side dish, if he ate the rice plain, he wouldn't be able to stuff that much rice into his stomach, even if he ate himself into a carb coma.
Unless…
His gaze swept over Chisa and Nanaka-nee, if he begged the former for food, he would probably be belittled to dust, as for the latter… he would be killed by Yuu!
Then the only remaining targets were Aina, who was protective of her food, and his own unsuspecting imouto!
"Ya~ Yuu is so careless, how can you eat fried pork cutlet without barbecue sauce!"
Smiling, Kitahara Iori sat back next to his little sister, casually saying as if it wasn't a big deal: "Shiori-chan, can you go to the kitchen and grab the barbecue sauce? The red bottle one!"
"Huh? Okay…"
With all her attention focused on Rin, whose faith had completely collapsed and whose soul was being spat out of her mouth, Kitahara Shiori, worried sick, didn't notice Iori's obvious scheme at all.
The second she left her seat, under the scrutiny of the entire table looking at a scum, Kitahara Iori swiftly snatched half of Shiori's pork cutlet from her bowl.
Then he lifted his bowl and rapidly devoured the rice along with the pork cutlet, a process that absolutely did not take more than ten seconds!
When Shiori returned with the barbecue sauce, everything seemed as if nothing had happened.
However, as everyone knows, humans are creatures with eyesight, and a teenage girl couldn't possibly not know how to count!
"Ara~"
Looking at the noticeably half-empty pork cutlet in her bowl, the veins on Kitahara Shiori's hand bulged, almost crushing the barbecue sauce bottle.
Sending her sister away, then frantically stealing her side dish, is this Onii-chan's responsibility as an older brother?
"How strange, where is my pork cutlet? Did big brother see where the pork cutlet in my bowl went?"
"N- hic -no!"
His eyes darting around frantically, Kitahara Iori guiltily turned his head to the other side, attempting to impersonate an NPC who knew nothing.
"Oh? Is that so? Onii-chan is really careless!"
Gently pressing on her older brother's shoulder from behind, Kitahara Shiori lowered her head with icy eyes, sweeping two oily bread crumbs from the corner of his mouth.
To be honest, although she usually didn't like greasy fried food, she was quite fond of today's special fried pork cutlet!
"May I ask, what did Onii-chan eat that made him get bread crumbs stuck on him?"
"Green, green pepper! That's right! It was green pepper!"
"Green pepper, you say? Then Onii-chan is really a glutton~"
Shiori smiled and sat back in her original seat, and just when Iori sighed in relief, thinking the interrogation was over, his piece of green pepper fried item was placed in front of him.
"But there's still so much left, it would be a waste not to finish it all~"
"Sh-Shiori-chan, I'm already full~"
"You can't waste food! Onii-chan!"
How "refreshing" a bite of green pepper the size of a pork cutlet would be, only Iori himself probably knew, in any case, he managed to barely finish the remaining green pepper only after his eyes rolled back.
When the last bite of green pepper was chewed and swallowed, he was essentially gone, his tongue hanging out quite long.
If it weren't for the lack of scissors hands, people would believe him if he said he was violated by a green pepper!
"S-So scary!"
"Shiori-chan is angry, huh…"
"Iori, this guy actually steals a kid's pork cutlet, that's a bit too atrocious."
Not a single person sympathized with the corpse-like Iori, Aina eventually shared her pork cutlet with Kouhei, and the two left right after dinner, dragging away the two freeloading seniors as well.
Miyazawa Yuu, as usual, tidied the dining table with Nanaka-nee, and while wiping the table, he also gave Iori a head wash.
"Right! Shiori-chan and Rin-chan's room hasn't been tidied up yet!"
Having finished the cleaning work at Grand Blue, Kotehawa Nanaka suddenly remembered while preparing the bathwater for everyone that Shiori and Rin had arrived too suddenly, and there wasn't a habitable room tidied up in the house!
"Hmm? No problem, why don't they just stay in my room?"
Hanging the apron back in its original place, Miyazawa Yuu turned to Nanaka-nee, who was coming to grab a mop to immediately tidy up a room, "Just prepare extra bedding, isn't that more convenient?"
"Well, Rin-chan might not mind, but Shiori-chan…"
"Absolutely impossible for her to sleep in the same room as you! Dream on!"
Finally resurrecting on the spot, Kitahara Iori vigilantly hugged his sister, resolutely not giving the suspicious man Miyazawa Yuu any opportunity.
"Ah, Iori actually came back to life, I was already preparing the trash bag, you know…"
Disappointedly tucking the three-layered large black plastic bag behind his back, Miyazawa Yuu, with half-moon eyes, explained matter-of-factly: "It's my room for Shiori-chan and Rin to stay in, and I'll squeeze into the club room with you, what are you thinking, Iori!"
"Is that so? What does Shiori-chan think?"
Feeling that this suggestion was very feasible, Kotegawa Nanaka turned to ask Shiori's opinion, to which the latter naturally had no objection.
"No problem, thank you for your trouble, Yuu-onii-chan and Nanaka-nee~"
"Ah, Iori, this child is countless times cuter than you…"
"Of course! Look whose sister she is!"