You're Both His Girlfriend?
"Mmm…"
What on earth had blinded Kūjō Ryō's eyes?
"Ryō, breakfast is ready," Yoshino Ruru said, her voice gentle and sweet.
The suffocating softness and sugary scent finally pulled away.
Ryō turned to look at her beautiful face, yet for some reason his gaze slid down on its own. "Thanks for the trouble, Ruru-nee."
Ruru didn't answer right away. She stared at him, almost entranced.
For some reason, the boy in front of her felt even more adorable than last night. She wanted to bully him, to see more of those cute reactions from him.
Snapping back, Yoshino Ruru bent down again, bringing a dazzling expanse of pale cleavage right into his view. With that soft, coaxing voice, she asked, "For breakfast, do you want egg porridge, or bread?"
Ryō's throat bobbed.
He was hungry. Hungry enough to want the "big white bread" she was clearly offering.
Reason quickly crushed desire. He forced his eyes away. "Egg porridge. Since you made it yourself, Ruru-nee."
A faint flicker of disappointment flashed in Ruru's eyes, as if her plan had failed, but she immediately returned to her warm smile. "Then get up and wash. I'll serve your porridge."
Before she left, she leaned down and kissed his cheek lightly, just a touch and gone. Soft, warm, carrying a sweet scent.
At the doorway, she looked back with a smile and pointed at her generous chest, meaningfully. "Another day, I'll treat you to bread again."
Then she added in a playful tone, as if sighing at him, "You're a little demon, you know that? Too charming for your own good."
Ryō took a deep breath, suppressing the heat in his body, and got up to wash.
『You successfully resisted the temptations of your cousin and older cousin. Points +1. Current Points: 2.』
After breakfast, Yoshino Ruru propped her chin on her hands and kept her eyes glued to Ryō, unwilling to look away. "Ryō, how was it? Did it taste good?"
Ryō nodded and gave an honest evaluation. "Not bad. The porridge is cooked just right, soft without being mushy. The salt is well balanced. It has flavor without being too heavy."
Ruru's face immediately lit up with joy. "That's great! All my effort finally got your approval."
She'd never been good at cooking.
But for the sake of becoming a perfect wife someday, for the sake of keeping Ryō's heart and stomach, she had forced herself to learn, to change.
Heaven rewarded effort. Her hard work finally paid off.
"I can make breakfast too. Someone just keeps hogging the kitchen," Suō Yuki complained, visibly unhappy.
Ruru turned toward Yuki, ready to shoot back, but Ryō raised a hand and cut her off.
"It's the last day of break. Where do you two want to go?" he asked.
He'd lived with them long enough that he'd become excellent at reading the room.
The moment he saw the signs of them about to start fighting, he redirected the topic.
Yoshino Ruru immediately proposed, "Ryō, let's go to a lingerie shop."
She tugged at her neckline, showing off her proud curves, then sighed with fake trouble. "Sigh… I think they've gotten bigger again lately. I can't not change them. When we go, Ryō, help me pick some cute styles, okay?"
Love was war. If she wanted to win in the end, she had to use her advantages.
And her advantage was simple.
Big. White.
"I object!" Yuki shouted.
"Objection denied!" Ruru snapped back.
"Now it's one to one," Yuki said, turning. "Onii-chan, what do you think?"
The two girls looked at Ryō at the same time, waiting for his answer.
If they went to a lingerie shop, Ruru might "accidentally" offer him some benefits, and he'd see plenty of snowy skin. But it would also intensify the conflict between the two of them.
For Ryō, keeping the harem harmonious was priority number one.
So he said, "Let's watch a movie."
A movie meant two or three quiet hours without fighting. Maybe he could even sit with one on each side. Maybe he'd get fed snacks by both.
Yuki had no reason to refuse.
Ruru wasn't thrilled, but she had no choice but to accept.
So the three of them headed out and waited for a taxi outside the apartment complex.
After a few minutes, a yellow cab with the plate PPPE135 pulled up.
To keep anyone from getting upset, Ryō took the front passenger seat, leaving Ruru and Yuki in the back.
They buckled up and sat still, but the car didn't move immediately.
The female driver kept staring at Ryō.
The longer she looked, the stranger her gaze became.
Her eyes started at his face, slid down to his chest, then to his abdomen, and finally returned to his face again.
Not good.
That look was basically a signal: I want your body.
So boys really do need to protect themselves when they're out.
Ryō tensed, suddenly tempted to jump out right away.
The two girls in the back didn't notice. When the taxi still didn't move, they reminded her, "Driver, can we go?"
"O-oh. Sorry, I spaced out," the driver said.
Afraid of getting reported, she reluctantly pulled her gaze away, gripped the wheel, and stepped on the gas.
As they drove, she kept turning her head now and then, fishing for conversation.
"Hey, handsome. You're this good-looking… do you have a girlfriend?"
Ryō hadn't even opened his mouth when the two girls in the back answered at the same time.
"I am!"
The driver nearly choked. They happened to be stopped at a red light, so she turned to look back. "Huh? Both of you?"
The two girls spoke in perfect sync again, pointing at each other.
"I'm the real one. She's the mistress."
The driver looked at Yuki, then at Ruru, and immediately came to a conclusion.
The dark-brown-haired girl was cute, with that first-love feeling. She looked like the girlfriend.
The one beside her was probably the mistress.
Then she looked again.
And corrected herself.
No matter how cute a girlfriend was, she couldn't compare to a sexy, massive chest.
Even though the driver wasn't a man, she understood perfectly.
Big is justice.
There was no way a guy with a heavenly-thunder-level beauty as his girlfriend would still go looking for a flat-chested mistress. No way. Right?
Yuki and Ruru started arguing again. Even after they got out and reached the entrance of the cinema, they were still fighting over who was the "main wife" and who was the "mistress."
Ryō's head hurt. He decided to retreat for now.
"You two keep arguing. I'm going next door to McDonald's to grab some cola and fries."
The moment the main person left, the two girls stopped.
They exchanged a look, then followed him without a word.
At the McDonald's entrance, they immediately spotted Ryō about to pay, a bag already in his hand.
Yoshino Ruru noticed several young women in the shop sneaking glances at her Ryō. Even the female cashier had a faint blush on her cheeks.
A wave of urgency rose inside her.
Ryō's charm was getting stronger and stronger. If she didn't lock him down soon, some unknown fox spirit might snatch him away.
While Ruru's thoughts spiraled, Yuki had already walked in and wrapped both hands around one of Ryō's arms.
Ryō was startled and looked down.
He hadn't expected Yuki's small, modest "fruit" to be so soft.
The moment the other women realized he was taken, their expressions turned into regretful disappointment.
But only seconds later, a silver-haired beauty with snow-white skin walked over and clung to Ryō's other arm.
The atmosphere inside the shop instantly shifted from regret to shock.
And then, unmistakably, into eager gossip.
(End of Chapter 4 excerpt)