Life was a magnificent robe, covered in lice.
"Onii-chan, this isn't about whether it's a holiday anymore! That demon Taihei called just now and said he's coming over here..."
"Haah~!" Sogo Doma yawned at that. "So Taihei's coming over. That's all..."
"What do you mean, that's all?! Taihei is so naggy. If he comes, he'll definitely say things like, 'Umaru, girls shouldn't laze around on the tatami all day,' or, 'Umaru, just look at yourself. You sleep so messily that your stomach is showing'... If Sogo hadn't covered for me, that demon Taihei would've wiped out Umaru's nature long ago..."
The more Hamster Umaru spoke, the more frightened she became. By the end, she was clutching her head with both hands.
Sogo Doma merely smiled without speaking. As a scheming boy, he had put a great deal of effort into setting that fool Taihei up as a stern, old-fashioned big brother. Ahem...
Setting that aside, Sogo waved a hand before lazily saying, "Don't worry, Umaru. Taihei doesn't know the address of our new home..." Then Sogo froze. "Wait, my phone didn't ring. Taihei shouldn't have either our new home's number or yours. How did he call?"
"But Taihei called the home landline?" Umaru Doma raised her head.
"How is that possible?! How could Taihei have our new home's landline number..."
"Taihei also said he wanted to come over and properly thank you, Sogo. If you hadn't helped him, he never would've realized we lived at... Onii-chan, did you accidentally give him our new address..." Away?
"How could I!? Am I that stupid..." Sogo retorted without a second thought. But halfway through, he suddenly realized that Taihei might really have learned the address of his new home because of him—Shizuka Hiratsuka, his Japanese teacher, definitely knew both his new address and