After becoming a Spirit in Date A Live, I refused to date

"You might have misunderstood. I never intended to take my brother away.

Just knowing that my brother is alive and happy is enough for me. Besides, he has such an adorable adoptive sister in you."

"Wh-what...? Saying that isn't going to make me happy, you know..."

Kotori blushed and turned her face away. In complete contrast to her words, her face was brimming with delight.

Tsk, tsk, tsk. A textbook tsundere...

Lingmeng silently snarked from the sidelines.

That should have been the end of it. But—

"Of course, you still can't compare to his biological sister."

"What did you say?!"

That one offhand remark from Mana reignited the war between the sisters.

Kotori spoke with a stiff expression.

"Oh? Is that so?"

"Of course. Blood is thicker than water, after all."

"But people also say that the bonds of family built through care are stronger than blood."

"Haha... Even if that's true, my brother will come back to his biological sister in the end, won't he? As the saying goes, the first three years shape your whole life.

Besides, no matter how you look at it, a biological sister scores higher on the little-sister scale."

As though a dam had burst inside her, Kotori finally lost her patience.

"You've been going on about blood ties this whole time! Is that all you have to say?

Besides, those precious blood ties of yours aren't anything special! A biological sister can't marry him, after all!"

"Pfft—"

At Kotori's sudden declaration, Lingmeng instinctively clutched her chest and pretended to cough up blood.

Honestly, Lingmeng had known for ages that Kotori had feelings for Shido, but she hadn't expected her to blurt it out so boldly.

And Kotori wasn't entirely right, either.

After all, it wasn't as though Lingmeng hadn't seen "German Orthopedics" plots