Evening, before the War Council begins!
Sendou, squatting next to the Vending Machine, gazed at the stars alone.
"Right hand and left hand... then press the buttons below both hands..."
Sawamura walked over, head down, muttering to himself.
At the same time, Xiaochun, who had also come over, was not far behind him.
" Eijun-kun! What are you doing in front of the Vending Machine?"
"And Sendou-kun too?"
"Me? I'm looking at the stars!" Sendou replied.
Oh! Xiaochun!
According to Cheetah, you'll win a prize if you press two buttons on the Vending Machine at the same time!
"Speaking of Sendou? When did you get here?" Sawamura replied, then realized there was someone next to him.
"How could I possibly win the lottery!" Xiaochun said speechlessly.
"I've always been here...!"
You were just muttering to yourself and didn't see me.
"Just ignore me, pretend I don't exist!" Sendou was speechless, but he was very interested in Kuramochi's training of Sawamura.
"Then... maybe two bottles of drinks will come out?"
That's no different from winning the lottery! Sawamura pretended that Sendou wasn't there and continued his discussion with Koharu.
Is it better to say he was obedient, or was he just too interested in what Kuramochi was saying?
"If the machine malfunctions, it might not dispense a single bottle, and it might even swallow your money!" Xiaochun said, hoping to correct Sawamura's unreliable thinking.
"Really?!?!" Sawamura exclaimed in horror.
"But we won't know until we try!" Seeing Sawamura's strong reaction, Koharu realized that her own thoughts were just guesses.
" Sendou-kun! What do you think?" Then she asked Sendou.
"That's certainly possible, and the machine might break down, after all, no idiot would watch something like that!"
"Ugh... what's going to happen?" Sawamura's eyes darted frantically between the two who had won the lottery.
" Eijun-kun!"
"Nani? (What's wrong?)"
"If you're not going to buy it, can I buy it first?" Xiaochun, lacking the mischievousness of Sendou, asked.
Since Sawamura arrived first, Sawamura was standing behind him.
"Why?" It wasn't that Sawamura was unreasonable, but rather that he hadn't quite grasped the concept yet.
"Why are you asking all this? I want to buy juice too!"
"Sigh! There's nothing I can do!"
"I'll grant Kominato Haruichi's wish!" Sawamura said exaggeratedly.
Why the full name?
"I just wanted to call out!"
Oh, right! Sendou! You just called me idiot, didn't you?
You called out, right?!
"Baka!!! (A tone of confirmation, not a retort.)" Sawamura finally caught on to what Sendou had said earlier.
"Well! Never mind!"
At that moment, Sawamura saw that Koharu wanted to buy something, and he no longer cared about arguing with Sendou.
"Hey! Eijun-kun! Why are you putting your hand on another button?" Just as Koharu was about to buy something, she noticed that Sawamura had also stretched out a hand and placed it in front of a button.
He looked eager to try!
"Alright! Alright!" Sawamura tried to get away with it.
Sendou was already secretly laughing.
"What do you mean 'okay'? Besides, you have your hand on the tomato juice button, and I don't drink tomato juice either!"
"Is that so?"
"Yes! I want to buy apple juice! Take your hand off now."
"They're all red fruits..." Sawamura muttered.
Neither Koharu nor Sendou could figure out Sawamura's thought process.
"Tomatoes are vegetables! Move aside!" Xiaochun was speechless, after all, this was something he wanted to buy.
"I understand!"
"Really!"
"Hey! Eijun-kun! Why did you secretly reach out your hand again?!" Koharu, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, discovered that Sawamura was planning a surprise attack.
"Huh?" Sawamura seemed a little surprised that he had been discovered.
"What's wrong? You definitely want to squeeze the tomato juice, right?" Even the good-natured Xiaochun couldn't take it anymore.
"Hahaha! What exactly happened?" Sawamura said in a lighthearted tone.
"Pfft! Eijun!"
"Don't try to get away with such a clumsy trick!" Sendou couldn't help but interrupt.
"Right! Don't try to fool us with Senior Miyuki's laughter! It doesn't sound like it at all," Koharu chimed in.
"Imitating that Black-bellied Glasses? Really?"
"How did you even notice? Haruichi!" Sendou was a little surprised that she was imitating Miyuki. After the surprise, he still held onto a sliver of hope that Haruichi had made a mistake and that Sawamura wasn't that stupid.
Take a sip of Coke to calm your nerves.
"Cough! Uh! I was so confident!" Sawamura said with a look of resentment.
"Pfft!" Sendou instantly sprayed out the cola he had just drunk.
"Hahahaha... my stomach hurts so much!" Sendou was almost laughing so hard he was about to choke.
"You bastard! Sendou!"
I haven't settled the score with you for calling me idiot yet!
"If I hadn't been busy with experiments..." Sawamura realized he had let something slip and quickly covered his mouth.
He kept it a secret by himself alone.
"I knew it! Seriously, why does it have to be so complicated just to buy a juice!"
The competition is tomorrow!
And the meeting is about to start! Xiaochun had only guessed before, but now it's finally confirmed.
Look!
"You press the apple juice button, and I'll press the tomato juice button. Let's see what happens." Sawamura seemed unaware that he had been exposed, speaking in an experimental tone.
"What's going on?! It's weird that Eijun-kun have to press the button to buy things!"
"Xiaochun! This is a game of life and death!"
This is a serious competition between Xiaochun and me!
Are you going to run away from him?
Sendou had absolutely no idea what this guy was trying to say, but it wasn't Sendou buying anything; it was Haru who was having a headache.
"So this wasn't a competition from the start, Eijun-kun!" Koharu tried to salvage Sawamura's situation.
"Hmm...! Is it impossible no matter what I do?" Sawamura asked, looking constipated.
"Never mind! Eijun-kun, you buy it first!"
"I'll press the button with you!" Xiaochun surrendered, but said that if you wanted to do the experiment, you'd have to pay for it yourself!
"Alright! Let's go!" Sawamura either didn't notice the difference between the two, or he was willing to do anything as long as he could do the experiment, so he agreed anyway.
"What does Eijun-kun want to buy?"
"Iced tea or hot tea!"
"Pfft! Cough cough cough!" Sendou, the spectator, was very happy, even though he was a little hungry and was missing some snacks like peanuts.
"Uh! Aren't they all the same?" Xiaochun complained.
" The Sawamura Family has always only had tea and barley tea, there's nothing we can do about it!" Sawamura said seriously.
"Yes, yes! I can prove it!" Sendou interjected with a laugh, clutching his stomach.
"I see! Doesn't Eijun-kun have any brothers or sisters?"
"This guy is an only child!" Sendou said.
"That's right, Grandpa, Dad, Mom, and me! A family of four!"
"Huh? My family also consists of my dad, mom, older brother, and me! It's a family of four!"
But what's it like living with Grandpa?
"In that case, will Xiaochun become a member of my family too?"
I'm sorry, please forgive Sendou!
For a moment, his mind wandered, and the image of Sawamura and Koharu's wedding flashed through his mind. (Amen)
"I think I'd better not!" Xiaochun replied.
"I don't have any brothers, so I really value living with brothers."
Haruichi!
"It's best not to ask this guy when living with Grandpa. Sawamura's grandpa is a bit... unconventional!" Sendou interjected, his face filled with complicated memories.
"I see! Sendou-kun! You live with your grandfather too, right? What's it like?"
"Actually, there's not much difference between living with your parents and not living with them!"
Perhaps grandparents spoil their grandchildren a little more than parents do!
My requests are generally not refused!
"Oh, I see! How enviable!"
"When I first came to Seidou, I had to use all my persuasive skills!" Koharu exclaimed.
"Grandpa would definitely say, 'Go! Grandpa will definitely support you!'" Sendou said, mimicking the tone of an old man.
"That sounds wonderful!" Xiaochun said with anticipation.
"What a load of rubbish! Sendou! Didn't you say you were pretending you didn't exist?"
How can a non-existent person speak?
Huh? Something feels off!
Well, never mind!
"Haru! What's it like to have an older brother?" Sawamura got a little confused at the end, but still managed to snatch the topic back from Sendou's interruption.
"My elder brother's words are right here! Go and ask him what he says."
They'd say things like, "Please be my older brother!"
When Sendou heard Koharu say that, he felt that Koharu was gradually becoming like an old man.
Just imagining the scenario is a bit scary!
"Huh? But... I'm a little... hesitant about that older brother..." Even the fearless Sawamura was a bit intimidated.
"What's wrong with me?" At this moment, Oni-san walked silently behind the group and spoke.
It gave the three of them a huge fright!
"Whoa!! It appeared without a trace!" Sawamura shouted.
"Don't talk about people like ghosts!"
"Slap!" Oni-san said, delivering a chop to the neck.
"Cough!" Sawamura let out a muffled sound.
"So! Haruichi! What are you talking about?" Onii-san asked his younger brother.
"Um... well! From [not drinking tomato juice], to [family], to the topic of [what if [the older brother is Eijun-kun's older brother]!"
"Be this guy's older brother?"
"That's impossible!" Oni-san's face showed a mixture of doubt, difficulty, and a sense that it must be very troublesome.
"That's just a hypothetical!" Xiaochun corrected.
"Baka! Onii-san just doesn't want to be this guy's older brother!" Sendou thought to himself.
"What is Haruichi thinking? What if I weren't your older brother?"
"What if we weren't brothers...?"
As expected, Onii-san's expression was somewhat subtle and dangerous, but only Sendou was an expert in micro-expressions, could see it.
The Sendou has already minimized its presence as much as possible, which shows how dangerous it is.
"Well... I've never thought about that kind of thing," Xiaochun answered honestly.
"After I came to Seidou, haven't you been using the bed and the room at home all by yourself?"
"Yes, that's true! But..."
"But?" Onii-san's expression softened somewhat, but it wasn't a good thing that only he could see it; he was on tenterhooks.
Koharu and Sawamura were completely unaware of the danger.
"It's too spacious! It's kind of annoying!"
"Hmm...?" The mood eased a bit again.
"Big brother! Just stay my big brother forever!"
"Because we've always been brothers! And it will always be like this!" Koharu's somewhat emotional words completely brought the Brother-complex older brother back to normal, while Sendou thought it was terrifying.
"Hmm...? I'm fine with anything!" Once he returned to normal, the older brother naturally started teasing his younger brother in a mischievous way.
Sendou said, "Let's just accept this dog food honestly!"
Speaking carelessly could be life-threatening!
Sawamura watched with great interest.
"Huh???" Xiaochun was indeed fooled and exclaimed in surprise.
"Alright! What would you like to drink?" Oni-san asked casually.
"Apple juice!"
"I see!" Oni-san paid the money expressionlessly.
Then the Vending Machine beeped, and Onii-san won...
"I won the lottery!..." Oni-san said calmly.
"Huh?! What?!" Sawamura shouted.
"Ah! Eijun-kun has come back to life!" Xiao Chun exclaimed.
"That prize should have been mine!" Sawamura complained that his prize had been stolen.
"Cough!!!" Sawamura gritted his teeth.
"I can only congratulate the lucky winner here!" Sawamura said unwillingly.
"This is the third time this has happened!" Oni-san said calmly.
"How could that be? Please! Let me call you Onii-san!" A sycophant appeared.
"Didn't you already call out?"
"Hey! Lucky Ni-san!"
"Bang!" A chop to the neck.
"Cough!" Sawamura was knocked down.
"That won't do!"
" Eijun-kun? Are you still alive?"
Hehe! Hahaha!
"I am Sawamura Eijun, and no matter how many times I am defeated, I will be resurrected, an immortal man!!!" Sawamura shouted in his chuunibyou style.
"This is the first time I've ever heard of someone making such a strange request!" Sendou thought to himself.
"No Lucehi!"
"Bump!"
As expected, Onii-san satisfied him.
"Ah!"
" Haruichi! You can have this prize! I don't need two bottles!"
"May I?"
"Don't mention it! Let me help you choose!"
Upon hearing this, Sendou realized that the Brother-complex was about to start causing trouble for his younger brother.
"Whoosh! Here you go!" After the drink came out, Onii-san handed it over.
Oh!... Thank you!
"Huh? Isn't this tomato juice?"
Sure enough... Xiaochun just said she wouldn't drink tomato juice, and this is what happened.
"Being a picky eater won't do!" Onii-san left in a good mood.
"Brother, really!" Xiaochun said speechlessly.
At that moment, Sawamura got up from the ground.
"Are you alright, Eijun-kun?"
"Haha! Haruichi! He brought this on himself!" After Onii-san left, Sendou, who had been strategically hidden (humble), also came back to life.
"It's alright for now!... By the way, Haru!" Sawamura ignored Sendou because he had discovered something.
"What?" Xiaochun asked, puzzled.
"What...! What exactly did I come here for?"
"Huh?" Xiaochun was also dumbfounded.
Sendou finally couldn't take it anymore. He had actually lost his memory after being hit three times by his older brother. So he glanced at the cola that had just been sprayed out, and then bought two more bottles and left.
Haha! Exactly one chapter. If you've seen this bonus content, consider it a preview of the adapted drama. If you haven't seen it, give it a try. This bonus content is one of my favorites.