Thump, thump, thump—
"Big sis! Time to get up!"
Of course, Gotoh Hitori had already been up for a long time. She just hadn't appeared in the dining room with the pretty, extroverted hairstyle she'd been sporting the past few days, nor had she mimicked Sakiko's graceful flick of the bangs—that sparkling look that used to secretly make her old man proud that his Gotoh family had a daughter blooming into womanhood, while her mother couldn't help but boast that her child was naturally too beautiful to hide. Instead of going downstairs, she was hiding in her safe, gloomy, two-tatami-mat den, sweating profusely.
Chapter 206