When I Became a Girl, an Unexpected Love Quarrel Occurred!

Food Match Should be Considered

A long stone staircase can be seen beyond the red torii gate.

The stone stairs, flanked by dense trees, were fantastically illuminated by evenly spaced Touro lanterns.

We all began to walk up the stone steps.

Although not as many as on the main street, there were still a lot of people walking up the stone steps.

The fireworks would be held on the riverbed, so people would move from the main street to the riverbed when the time came. And those who know that the shrine is a good place to watch the fireworks will come here.

It would be better to look around the stalls and get a place to see the fireworks before that happens.

As I was thinking about this, I heard the festival music coming from the end of the stone steps.

It must be coming from the shrine grounds at the end of the stone steps.

It makes my heart flutter.

『Onii-chan! Hurry up, hurry up!』

In a distant memory that I had almost forgotten, I saw Alice running up the stone steps.

“Onee-chan! Hurry up, hurry up!”

Alice walked up the stone steps with my hand in hers.

The Alice of my distant memory and the Alice of today overlap, and I realize that Alice is Alice after all.

“Alice wants a candy apple!”

While pulling my hand, she looked back at me with a big smile on her face and raised her voice.

“All right, don’t be in such a hurry. You’ll get hurt if you fall on the stone steps.”

I told Alice that with a smile on my face.

“Sisterly privilege…”

“Well, you’re my only twin sister in the world.”

When I turned around at the sound of the voice, I saw Takanashi-san looking at me with fierce eyes and Kiniwa-san laughing.

What? Is there something wrong? I don’t think I’m that clingy.

“Uooooooooo!”

A voice echoed, and Yanomiya-san ran up the stone steps with a hawk.

“Professional insect hunters don’t care about stone steps like this!”

She is running up the stone steps desperately shouting that, but her running speed is not very fast, which is also adorable.

“Onee-chan is very clumsy, so be careful not to fall.”

“Yes, you’re right, onee-chan is very clumsy. Thanks for worrying about me, Arisu-chan.”

And the two Yurizono sisters, standing side by side on the stone steps, are having a conversation.

“It’s not that I’m worried about onee-chan. It’s just that if she gets hurt, we’ll have to go home.”

She blushed and turned her face away.

It’s a tsundere. There is a tsundere.

“Yes, you’re right. Onee-chan will be careful.”

Iris-san accepted Yurizono-san tsundere’s comment and replied with a smirk. Hearing her words, Yurizono-san turned her face away and turned her mouth into a pout.

She’s really worried about her onee-chan, you know.

Before we went to the camp, she was showing indifference to her onee-chan, but she seems to have changed a lot.

As I was thinking this while looking at the Yurizono sisters, Iris-san suddenly saw me and smiled and waved at me.

As I smiled and waved back, I thought that she was really beautiful.

No, the weakness I felt when I first met her has faded, and she seems to be more beautiful than ever.

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The festival music was getting closer and closer.

As I climbed up the stone steps, the shrine grounds came into view.

The stone-paved precincts, which would normally be deserted, were lined with stalls at both ends, and many lanterns were lighting up the area.

And many people were passing through the precinct.

“Uwaaaaaaaaaa!”

We must have been running up the stone stairs as fast as we could, but somehow Yanomiya-san, who had reached the top of the stone stairs at the same time as us, shouted out, breathing hard.

“Ikakappopooooooo!”

(TN: Squid?)

Yanomiya-san tried to run out of the room, screaming for squid, but I grabbed her hand tightly.

“Amane?”

Yanomiya-san grabbed my hand, turned around, and raised her voice.

“Please hold hands with Amane-onee-chan, Kuu-chan.”

That’s what I told Yanomiya-san.

It’s just that she’s so small that she’ll definitely get lost if she keeps moving around.

“I’ll listen to what Amane says!”

Yanomiya-san then smiled and grasped my hand tightly.

She’s brown and tanned and looks girly, but inside she’s the same old Yanomiya-san, which is just adorable.

I have to protect this girl.

“I wonder if they’d catch me if I ran off like a kid…”

“Wouldn’t Rin-chan be shocked if you did that?”

When Kiniwa-san interrupted Takanashi-san mumbling, she shushed her.

It is true that Takanashi-san, a reliable person, is not like Yanomiya-san.

“I think I’d be worried differently if she ran off screaming ‘Ikapopooo!’”

I mean, Yanomiya-san is treated like a child, but she’s our classmate.

“What do you want to do at the festival, onee-chan?”

“Do cotton candy float?”

Yurizono-san asks Iris-san a question, and Iris-san asks Yurizono-san a question back.

“Please don’t return questions with questions. And the cotton candy doesn’t float.”

Yurizono-san blurted out with a frown, while Iris-san laughed.

I’m not sure what to say, but it looks like Yurizono-san is going to take care of her onee-chan.

She wanted to protect her onee-chan, didn’t she?

And there, I felt that Iris-san had not once apologized to Yurizono-san.

I didn’t listen to the whole conversation, but at least from what I heard, I don’t think Iris-san has apologized.

“Onee-chan, Alice wants to eat candy apples!”

“Aamanee! I want to eat squid!”

Alice, who was hugging my arm, and Yanomiya-san, who was holding hands with me, raised their voices.

“Okay, let’s get some candy apples and squid.”

“I’ll give half to onee-chan!”

“I’ll give half to Amane!”

They both shouted at my words.

Half candy apples and half squid.

There’s no way to match the food.

I walked out with them, thinking about that.