Side Story 5: Yuinas and the Bust

— Yuinas’s perspective —

“Hey, big brother, let me have a little drink too, some booze.”

“No way. Hold out until you’re of age.”

No matter how much I pressed big brother, he stubbornly refused to let me drink.

At a drinking gathering, being the only one not drinking and just eating had never been any fun since I was a kid, but today Tisli was here too, which made it all the more unpleasant.

And simply put, I was curious about alcohol, too.

So I tried pressing the matter.

“Coming of age is just a little over a year away, isn’t it. Drinking now wouldn’t make much difference.”

“Still no. If you turned out to be a nasty drunk too, it’d be a disaster.”

“‘Too’… what’s that supposed to mean?”

“Ah, no… just a hypothetical, my own business.”

“……………?”

Giving a vague, evasive answer, big brother glanced over at Tisli.

Was he saying Tisli was a nasty drunk? She’d said something about alcohol and magic, I think, but right now she was just faintly flushed in the cheeks, with no sign of getting violent.

Although… with those looks, cheeks flushed and eyes a little misty… wouldn’t any man be done for in an instant? In fact, Naavin’s got hearts in both eyes.

To begin with, Naavin’s been making moves on Tisli this whole time and getting absolutely nowhere. If Naavin and Tisli got together, I could rest easy. Buck up a little, you pathetic man.

As I was thinking that, Tisli said with a smile,

“Alcohol is poison to the body for someone still growing, you know.”

I didn’t much want to talk with Tisli, but being told it’s poison made me curious. So I asked,

“Poison… like, what kind of effects does it have?”

“Let me see. First, there’s concern for the effect on the brain. To put it in a word… you become stupid.”

“S-stupid…? Isn’t that just because you’re drunk?”

“Yes. There’s a risk the harm to the brain remains even after the drunkenness wears off. You’re still in the process of growing, after all.”

“I-is that so…”

Alcohol… was it really that scary a thing? But if so, then adult or not, isn’t guzzling it every day bad for you?

Fortunately, neither my parents nor big brother drink every day, but now that I was worried, I felt like stopping big brother’s drinking right then and there.

As I worried for big brother’s well-being, Tisli went on,

“There’s also concern for harm to your growth.”

“H-harm to growth, meaning…?”

“Let me see… your height stopping, for instance.”

“Y-your height…?!”

“Yes. And for women, your figure filling out poorly, and the like.”

“Your figure too…? But wouldn’t that count as a diet?”

“A growing girl shouldn’t be dieting. And the ‘figure’ I mean here is… well… your bust and such.”

“My bust…!”

Told that, I found myself staring at Tisli’s chest.

Tisli’s height looked average, yet the volume of her chest was abnormal. For her height ratio, her chest was plainly too large.

And it’s not as if it stood out awkwardly—somehow it sat in perfect harmony with her small frame. The shape must be what does it. And it’s surely firm, too.

How on earth she keeps such a large lump of fat in that ideal shape… it was a mystery to me, but… could it be magic?

In any case, if she used those to seduce big brother—it’d be a real disaster!

For instance… if they went to a hot-spring inn, and she wore some folk costume loosely so the front fell open for some reason, and pressed in on big brother half-naked…!

No matter how super-dense big brother is, that denseness would surely be blown clean away!!

Ngh…!

What a body that woman has!

In other words, if I want a figure like that, the message is don’t drink alcohol…

But ever since I moved up to the middle division, my height stopped growing…

So among the handful of girls in my class, I’m the smallest…

Is this… is this…

What does this mean?!

Even though I’ve never had a drop of alcohol!

As I looked back on the past, feeling irritated, Mia’s figure suddenly caught the corner of my eye.

Mia was sipping her drink, looking lonely for some reason, but…

……………this vixen has quite a good figure too.

From what I’ve heard secondhand, for one, her height is apparently around five foot eight. That’s pretty tall for a woman, I’d say. At the very least, it’s a fact she’s the tallest girl in the village.

Incidentally, big brother stands a good six foot three, so the two of them together stand out. And anyway, big brother’s so tall, so why did my height go and stop…?!

N-no, no… they say this sort of thing runs in the family, so surely I’ll grow bigger from here on too…

And Mia’s chest is big too. Not as much as Tisli, but she had more than ample, generous swells. When I went to the domain capital, I saw a play just once, and Mia had a figure like the performers there… tall, too. If Mia had been born in a city, she might have taken up that kind of work.

After looking at those two, I… couldn’t help looking down at my own chest.

……………Yep.

Today, as ever, I’ve got a clear view all the way down to my feet!!

As I… was about to be crushed by the despair of it, big brother gave my head a pat-pat.

“See, now you get it, Yuinas.”

“Huh? G-get what?”

“There’s still hope.”

“Hope for what…?”

“If you drink here, you’ll be nipping that hope in the bud, you know.”

“Hope for WHAT, I said?!”

“Huh? No, I mean, you’ve always been worried about your chest, right?”

“Big brother, you perv!!”

“Guh—!”

And so my right straight detonated on big brother.

Ngh! Big brother’s always been tactless, but the nerve, going on so bluntly about his little sister’s chest…!

As my eyes welled up, both Tisli and Mia were giving big brother a flat, withering stare. On this point, being the same sex, they seemed to have some common ground after all.

“Wh-what? I’m saying this for your sake—”

“If it’s for my sake, then stop talking!!”

“Gah—!”

And then my tearful uppercut caught big brother square on the jaw…!

(And that’s that. To be continued in Volume 4!)

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