Although she said that, I couldn't tell how much of it was a joke, and it felt a little scary. If she was some kind of pervert who got pleasure from being treated coldly by others, I really had no idea how I was supposed to interact with my little sister from now on. Maybe I'd treat her coldly every day and desperately rack up my points. Love between siblings like that would be far too twisted.
"Recently, Big Brother has been kind of weird. He doesn't seem very energetic... No, wait, he was always like that. Is it that his eyes look lifeless, like a dead fish's...? No, that was always the case too... Ah, right, he only makes half-hearted retorts... Huh? That seems the same too. Hmm... Anyway, he's just weird!"
"Are you worried about me, or are you trying to insult me...?"
Being told that, I really couldn't tell whether my little sister loved me or hated me.
"But recently, the weather has been so muggy that your eyes and personality probably rot like a dead fish more easily."
"Ooh! That was a pretty good line!"
Komachi was genuinely impressed, which made me a little happy. I couldn't help letting out a smug little "heh-heh" through my nose. But thinking about it carefully, she had actually said something pretty awful about me.
"Think about it. There's nothing at all to get excited about in June. There are no national holidays, it rains nonstop, and the weather is so muggy. It's June, yet there isn't even the slightest sense of everything going smoothly."
"Zero points."
"Oh, okay..."
Komachi's scoring standards were unexpectedly strict.
I had proudly delivered a terrible pun, only for it to fail miserably, leaving me with an indescribable sense of emptiness. I felt like I