"Big bro must've been ruined by that Arctic Ramen just now, so he chose to go on a hunger strike. How pitiful!" said Umaru Doma, the culprit, gleefully kicking him while he was down.
"Sogo, stop forcing yourself," Mashiro Shiina added, as if she had remembered something.
Sogo Doma: "..."
Wait, why had the conversation circled back to that? Would it turn into that again in a moment...? No, he had to deny that he was forcing himself this time.
"What do you mean, forcing myself? I'm not forcing myself at all! Can a man's business be called forcing himself? A man..." For some reason, after he said that, the air seemed filled with a strangely cheerful atmosphere...
The next day, 5:00 AM, at the Doma Residence.
"Ring, ring, ring..." The alarm went off.
The break after the joint entrance exams had ended today. However, after getting carried away playing games, the Doma siblings could only stare blankly at each other when they heard the alarm.
"Umaru, why did you set an alarm?" Sogo Doma asked in confusion as he controlled his game character and slaughtered enemies alongside his useless little sister.
"Yawn!" Hamster Umaru yawned. "Big bro, didn't you set the alarm?"
"Why would I set an alarm? We don't have sch..." Sogo Doma froze halfway through his sentence, his face stiffening. "Umaru, how long is your break after the joint exams?"
"I think it was..." Hamster Umaru pressed a finger to her lips and thought. After a long while, her face stiffened as well. "B-Big bro, I-I think today is the day the break ends..."
"My foolish little sister, you can be bolder and remove the 'I think.' Today is the day the break ends and we return to school!" Sogo Doma said with certainty, turning his