draft entered the room, wafting the aroma of the cosmos faintly through the air. “Kazuto is... already 16 years old, huh...” Midori muttered and sighed. “... Even now, I recall that incident like it happened yesterday. That time when Minetaka-san and I were watching a movie in the living room, and Kazuto suddenly said from behind, ‘Please tell me about my real parents’ “. Suguha motionlessly gazed at Midori’s charming lips with very light rouge, a light nostalgic bitter smile appearing on them. “At that time, I was really surprised. Kazuto was only 10 years old. Till Suguha entered high school... it was a secret that we had planned to keep for 7 more years, but he found out about his Juki Net’s erase records.” When Suguha had heard about that for the first time, before she was surprised, she gave the same bitter laugh as her mother. “That’s seriously just like Onii-chan, huh?” “We were so surprised that we didn’t feign being ignorant and hurt. That seemed to be Kazuto´s strategy, and later Minetaka-san said ‘we had been had’ and was chagrined.” “Ah, haha,” the both of them went laughing, and for a brief while they gazed at the sleeping Kazuto without a word. The brother, Kirigaya Kazuto, who had always been living together with Suguha from the moment she had awareness of things around her, was to be precise, her «cousin».