Chapter 11 – Let’s Become Family (2)

“Why’d you go buy soba and end up getting hurt!”

With his pale face dyed red, my younger brother Shouhei raised his voice.

“Well, even if you ask me, I just went with the flow?”

After all, even now I still haven’t made sense of it.

I also want an explanation, so it can’t be helped that I couldn’t explain it to him.

“You’re always like this! You acted recklessly without thinking about it again, right!? I keep telling you! It’s praiseworthy to help other people, but it’s meaningless if you get injured! Even the people you help excessively fuss about your reckless behavior! Anyhow, I know you won’t listen to me even if I tell you to stop, think carefully before acting, I just told you this the other day!”

“C-calm down Shou. Your brother’s properly thinking in his own stupid way.”

“No! I’m sure you thought up of something after you started moving in the heat of the moment, right! That’s why you got so many excessive injuries!! With your strength, you should generally be able to do something without getting injured!”

“G-guh”

“Stop making sounds!!”

D-damn. I wasn’t able to change the subject.

We were still in the supermarket’s office.

After that, my old man who got lost arrived in his car and was led to the office while foolishly laughing.

When I was about to get up from the folding chair I was sitting on to say a few words to my old man, the figure of a furious Shouhei whose hair stood on ends instantly made me stiffen.

“S-shouhei? Hey, it seems that Kunpei helped another person, so we should praise him a bit, okay? ”

My old man was pacifying Shouhei.

The most reasonable one in our family was Shouhei, who took care of all the housework by himself despite being the youngest child.

The things this guy says are always right and straightforward.

“Dad, you’re the one that ought to get angry!? If it continues like this, he may even die foolishly while helping someone one day! He’s an idiot, after all!”

“Shou, no matter how you put it, I’m going to cry. Being called an idiot by his younger brother, I’m going to cry. ”

No, seriously.

After all, I’m the one who knows best that I’m an idiot.

“What’s wrong with calling an idiot older brother an idiot! I was worried because you were late in coming back!”

Y-you’re quite right!

Please freely scold your elder brother!

“U-um’

A feminine voice came from the inner parts of the room.

I turned around and Aoinoun who was still hugging the twins and was looking over here with an expression that looked like she was about to cry.

“Please don’t blame Kunpei-san. Thanks to him, both me and the kids are safe. The one who’s wrong is me since I dragged him into it.”

It seems like she was overpowered by Shouhei’s immense menacing look.

I understand. I’m also afraid of my younger brother.

“…Please explain.”

Aoinoun’s smidgen of courage saved me!

Shouhei who poured himself some cold water, released steam as he cooled down. It’s a metaphor!

“Ah. Let me explain, so you can hear each other out calmly.”

Dog officer-san. The cool lady, Maggie Doggy police officer stepped in.

I learned of her name earlier.

“You too, please calm down. Here, sit please.”

Presenting a can of juice bought from the supermarket, the human police officer prompted Shouhei to sit down in the folding chair.

By the way, Inoue was called Toshio. He was a middle-aged man with a build that would suit a black belt.

The pouting Shouhei lowered his head and sat down on the folding chair.

My old man who saw that breathed out a sigh of relief and sat in the chair next to him.

“Then, officer. Please go ahead.”

My old man asked Officer Doggy to go ahead.

“Okay, then…”

Explaining…explaining…explaining…

“And so, thanks to Kunpei-kun, the kidnappers were caught and the twin babies were safely born.”

With Officer Doggy’s skillful art of conversation, she was able to explain the circumstances of the situation in less than 10 minutes.

“How unfair…I can’t be angry anymore, can I…”

Shouhei grumbled his complaint.

“No, please get angry at Kunpei-kun’s recklessness. One misstep and he would’ve died, you know.”

“B-but, I’m extremely grateful! He even helped me hatch these children. I don’t even know how to show my gratitude.”

After Officer Doggy announced my death sentence, Aoinoun objected.

I’m saved! Help me!

“Hm. Well, 50-50. Kunpei, after you return from the hospital, I’m going to hit you once. It’s your punishment for making us worry. Resign yourself to your fate. After that, well, I’ll praise you.”

My old man told me as he pointed at me.

Well, it can’t be helped. After all, I’m responsible for a lot of it.

It’s natural.

“Roger that. I’ll prepare myself.”

It was a more preferable punishment than being a sandbag under Shouhei’s right straight called sound argument.

If I was unlucky, I wouldn’t be able to stand up straight for a week.

“Shou too, okay?”

“…Mm.”

Shouhei nodded slightly.

Thank god. After all, where would you find an elder brother bashed by his younger brother!?

“Fu, fuee.”

“Ah, s-she woke up.”

The baby in Aoinoun’s arms became unsettled.

Her horns are straight… she’s the older sister, eh.

She became flustered and started swaying and rocking.

“Aah! Byaaaaah!”

She took a deep breath and exploded withe everything she accumulated.

Her crying voice.

“Bi, fua, gyaaaaah!”

Surprised by the noise, the baby with curling horns also burst into tears.

It’s the younger sister.

“Aaah! The younger sister too! Hey, it’s okay~! You were surprised, weren’t you~? Here, mama will give you a hug~!”

Since Aoinoun was holding the twins in both her arms, she wasn’t able to move successfully and became flustered.

She glanced at me repeatedly. For some reason, I found myself approaching them.

“Look, Papa came too~.”

“No, like I said, calling me papa…”

Why? We just met for the first time today!

“More importantly, Kunpei-san, please carry them too.”

Not only did they not stop crying, she also made a face like she was about to burst into tears.

It can’t be helped. I’ll help out.

“Give it here.”

I extended the safer left hand and received the younger sister from Aoinoun. My right arm that was wrapped with the cloth was used as support to embrace the baby.

“Byaaaaah! Fuaaaaah!”

“Hey, hey, what happened? Did you have a scary dream?”

I slowly rocked her and tried to comfort her.

When Shouhei was a child, he would stop crying when I rocked him… though I’ve always done it while sitting.

However, it was completely ineffective.

“Hm. She’s probably hungry?”

My old man who approached without me noticing, lifted up my shirt that the girl was wrapped in.

“Yeah. There’s something off down there. As I thought, she’s hungry.”

My old man had actual results in child rearing compared to me, so it should be reliable information.

“Well, you heard him”

I reiterated those words to Aoinoun.

“K-Kunpei-san. What do babies eat?”

“Eh?”

You’re asking me?

“A-ah, well, that, if it’s human infants, then after they’re born, it can only be that, right?”

“But these kids are dragons. Also, what is that?”

Aoinoun looked at me blankly.

“B-by saying that, I mean, that, you know? Officer Doggy!”

I was too embarrassed to say it myself.

If it’s a woman, she should be able to say it without any problem.

Please help me, officer!

“There’s no need to be shy. After all, you also drank it in the beginning.”

That’s true, but…

“Aoinoun-san, I don’t know about baby dragons, but for humans and most beastmen, babies are brought up with their mother’s milk.”

Phew! As expected, she could be relied on!

“Mother’s milk?”

However, Aoinoun didn’t get it.

“It’s breast milk. Miss, milk from your breasts is called mother’s milk.”

As expected of the handsome guy, Shouhei-kun. He just went and said it without any hesitation.

No, wait. His face is good, so it didn’t sound lewd coming from him at all.

So it’s true that handsome men are always innocent, eh.

“Breasts…”

Aoinoun fell into deep thought.

Meanwhile, the twins continued to cry.

Somehow, I get flustered hearing this sound.

“U-um”

Aoinoun looked at me with an uneasy face.

What is it?

“I wonder, will milk come out from my breasts?”

“How would I know!!!”

W-w-w-what the hell was this woman saying!

Me, who has never touched breasts other than my mother’s since being born, has no way of knowing things like that!

“Rest assured, Aoi! It will surely come out!”

Eh?

I just heard an unfamiliar voice from somewhere really close by.

“Yo, it’s been a long time! Blue Sky Dragon! Aoinoun who’s beloved by the sky!”

T-too loud!

From the right, I heard a voice which was way too loud.

I reflexively turned my head to the right.

“Where there are dragons, I’m also there! The [Inquisitive] Alba Germain has arrived! I’ve kept you waiting!”

There was a rat holding a staff standing on my right shoulder.

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