"Kaede!!" A beautiful girl with chestnut-colored long hair was searching for something in the alley at night. It was Asuna. At that moment, she remembered Kaede's habitual actions.
Finally, Asuna saw Kaede in a corner of an alley. Looking at Kaede curled up there, hugging her body, Asuna's heart couldn't help but ache violently; this was all her fault.
"Big sister?" The gray aura before her eyes suddenly paused. Kaede raised her head, looking at Asuna in disbelief, her whole body starting to tremble.
"Mm, it's big sister!" Asuna finally couldn't help but rush over and hug Kaede.
Burying her head on Asuna's shoulder, her disheveled hair covered Kaede's eyes. "Big sister, what did I do wrong?" "No, Kaede didn't do anything wrong."
"Big sister, that person really has nothing to do with me!" "Mm, it has nothing to do with you. It was all big sister's fault. Big sister shouldn't have dodged; I should have understood you."
"Big sister." Unable to hold it in any longer, Kaede burst into tears, and the chaos in her eyes quietly dissipated quite a bit.
Asuna hugged Kaede, tears also constantly flowing from her eyes. After a long while, Kaede, tired from crying, fell asleep lying on Asuna.
Asuna stroked Kaede's long hair, tenderness showing in her eyes. "Big sister, don't abandon me. Big sister, Kaede didn't do anything wrong, right? Big sister... big sister."
At this moment, Asuna heard Kaede's unconscious murmurs. "Mm!" Asuna's eyes also turned a little red. Was she really that important in Kaede's heart?
Stroking that chestnut-colored long hair that was exactly the same as her own, Asuna's eyes became completely determined. "In the future, nothing important will ever happen again. I will absolutely never hurt you again!"
Holding Kaede, who was still muttering in her arms, Asuna walked toward the inn.
(Those who thought the wrong way, go face the wall and reflect. Did you think there would be a dark turn? The protagonist isn't pure white to begin with, so where would a dark turn come from? I'm just telling you about the protagonist's way of thinking; it's extremely immature, lol.)
"Big sister!!" The next morning, as soon as Kaede opened her eyes, she shouted immediately, then saw the pretty face in front of her. She seemed to still be in her sleep; at this moment, Asuna frowned, seemingly a bit startled by Kaede's shout.
"Big sister..." A smile appeared on Kaede's face. It wasn't a dream; it was truly great! She lay on her side, just watching Asuna like that.
"Mm?" After a while, Asuna finally woke up, opened her eyes, and saw a face exactly like her own in front of her.
"Uh, Kaede, what are you doing?" Asuna said, looking a bit helplessly at Kaede, who was lying in front of her watching her. "Looking at big sister," Kaede said as a matter of course.
Asuna also smiled after hearing this, but said, "Aren't we the same? What's there to look at?" "It's not the same." Kaede shook her head like a rattle drum. "Big sister is the most beautiful."
"Pfft." Looking at Kaede with tenderness in her eyes, Asuna said, "If you say that about me, you're definitely also saying it about yourself, but..." Asuna hugged Kaede and whispered softly in Kaede's ear, "Big sister is very happy~"
"Mm!" Rubbing against Asuna's embrace, "Kaede is also very happy." "Alright, let's get up and go shopping." After lingering for a long time, Asuna said.
"Mm." Kaede didn't like shopping, but Asuna would definitely take her along. However, even if she didn't take her now, Kaede would follow her; she absolutely wouldn't leave Asuna's side for even half a step.
"Ouch!" The two people who sat up shouted at the same time, and then one could see a pair of completely identical beauties kneeling on the bed, in the morning sunlight, fiddling with their chestnut-colored long hair, a few strands of which were tangled together.
This should be fine, right? If I keep playing the role of a child, I'll be able to get big sister's tenderness—endless tenderness, right?
...
"Have you heard about that Beater?"
"I heard. That bastard, relying on his status as a beta tester, occupies excellent resource areas and doesn't give us ordinary players any room to survive."
"And, do you know that the Beater also deliberately didn't save Diavel, leading to Diavel's death."
"He really is a bastard!"
"A bastard like that should just die!"
Along the way, Kaede and Asuna were surrounded by such voices. "How can they be like this?" Asuna's face showed indignation. Diavel had said himself at the time that it was a fatal wound and he couldn't live, so why was it all being blamed on Kirito?
Although she hadn't had much contact with Kirito, Asuna felt that Kirito shouldn't be that kind of person. Kaede looked at Asuna's slightly angry expression and asked, puzzled, "Big sister, what's wrong with you?"
"Uh." Asuna looked at Kaede. "I'm just a bit indignant for Kirito. It's clearly not like that, but they keep spreading rumors like this."
"But, their rumors have nothing to do with Kirito, right?"
"How can it not matter? If Kirito heard it, he would definitely be sad, if the rumors were about you..."
"I don't feel anything." Kaede tilted her head and said before Asuna could finish.
"Uh." Asuna was speechless, having forgotten Kaede's personality again, but a sudden impulse arose in her heart, "Then what if the rumors were about me?"
"Hmm?" Kaede paused, looked at Asuna, and thought about Asuna's words.
"If the one being framed was... big sister."
Gradually, Kaede lowered her head, her eyes darkened, and she placed one hand directly on the hilt of her sword.
"Uh!" Asuna was startled by Kaede's action and quickly pressed down on Kaede's hand, "I was just saying that."
However, inexplicably, Asuna felt a small trace of happiness deep inside, happy because of Kaede's reaction.
Kaede also realized what happened and was stunned. She looked at her own hand, recalling the feeling from just a moment ago—the urge to slaughter anyone who would frame Asuna. She slowly closed her eyes, placed her hand on her chest, and felt her heartbeat.
"So... this is what that feeling is?"
Although it was unrelated to the incident with Diavel, Kaede seemed to vaguely understand that it was her own mistake...
"Kaede." Asuna called out, but Kaede didn't respond, so she couldn't help but call again, "Kaede!!"
"Hmm, sister?" Kaedecame back to her senses, looked at Asuna, and smiled very happily. If she understood it now, would her sister stop looking at her with that kind of gaze, and would she stop avoiding her when she was like that?
Although Asuna had said those things last night, Kaede really couldn't completely let that matter go.
"Sister, I will try my best!"
"Hmm?" Asuna was a bit confused, but looking at Kaede's happy smile, she couldn't help but suppress all her questions. If Kaede was happy, that was more important than anything else. With a gentle gaze, Asuna nodded.
"By the way, didn't you want to change your Tachi?" Asuna said at this moment.
"Sigh, I just wanted to try it out. The rapier really doesn't seem to suit me." Kaede scratched her head.
"Then let's go!" After saying that, Asuna took Kaede's hand and ran towards the weapon shop.
"Yeah." Kaede looked at Asuna holding her hand. Her thoughts were very simple right now: as long as she could be with Asuna, that was enough. She just wanted to greedily enjoy her sister's gentleness a little longer, even if she was just a despicable actor...
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