My Pirate System

Chapter 93 - Argument

“So aren’t you going to tell me about it?”

There it was, Kirameki’s first line of question, which was akin to the calm before the storm. I steeled my heart and braced for impact, only to find myself dwelling deeper into the abyss as it swallowed me whole.

“What do you want to know?” I threw a question back to my sister, as I lightly tapped my hand against the bed, enough to make a slight noise. “Come on. You can sit beside me. We had an awful and tiring day.”

“Don’t worry. I won’t change the topic. And the two of us won’t sleep before we can resolve this… just like always.”

Kirameki hesitated for a second after hearing my invitation. She thought I was driving her into something horrendous, but Kirameki was talking to me. I was not a stranger. So instead of rejecting my invitation, my sister fully accepted my instructions as she later on sat beside me, whilst staring at the ground.

I promised Kirameki that she would never cry again before going to sleep. Right now, as I glanced towa