Although a bit unhappy about being rejected, what the other person said did make sense. Hoshino Rin just took it as her brother caring about her. After all, her original intention was to stay with Hoshino Gen, and sleeping on the floor was just a means to achieve that goal.
She was truly exhausted and sleepy, and it was also true that she was too scared to sleep alone. More importantly, she was now extremely curious about this brother whom she had never really known before!
Just as she had said before, from the moment she entered Hoshino Gen's room and picked up that strange black long knife, she remembered every single unbelievable thing that happened afterwards clearly.
However, it was all too bizarre. After thinking about it again and again, only the explanation of supernatural power seemed to make sense. But she had grown up under the influence of a scientific society. Although both her intuition and her personal experiences told her that those things were closely related to Hoshino Gen, deep down in her heart, she still faintly felt it was a bit unrealistic and doubted whether it was really just an extremely vivid and strange dream that she had when she was tired and muddled, just as Hoshino Gen had said.
She wanted to know more about this brother.
...
In the spacious living room with dim light, Hoshino Gen was leaning on the sofa, passing the time by scrolling through his phone. On another long sofa not far from him, Hoshino Rin was lying on her side, curled up under a light pink blanket.
"Brother?"
Suddenly, Hoshino Rin's clear and delicate voice rang out in the quiet living room. Hoshino Gen stared at his phone and replied casually, "What's the matter?"
"Nothing. It's just that we are twin siblings, but when I was with you before, I didn't have that kind of feeling at all..."
"Well, we weren't that familiar after all." Hoshino Gen answered casually. He was engrossed in reading the urban legends shared by netizens on his phone, trying to find a trace of the supernatural in these legends.
For a moment, Hoshino Rin, who was huddled under the blanket, was at a loss for words. What kind of answer was that? Not familiar? Even if we weren't really close, was it really okay to say such a thing to your own sister?
"Brother..." Hoshino Rin couldn't fall asleep anymore. She sat up, hugged her knees, leaned against the back of the sofa, and looked at Hoshino Gen, who didn't even raise his head, with a resentful expression. "Do you not even consider me as your sister? Am I just a blood-related stranger in your eyes?"
[Friends, has anyone played the game "Red Skirt"? This game is so creepy! For those who have played it, could you please tell me if the heroine also turns into a ghost after your intimacy with her exceeds 60? And it's so scary when her face sticks to the screen!]
[The game couldn't be turned off. I had to unplug the power and restart my computer to get it back to normal. Then when I entered the game again, the intimacy level became 59 again. I suspect it's a bug, but I've tried several times and it's always like this!]
Hoshino Gen saw a post that interested him and blurted out a reply to Hoshino Rin's question without even thinking.
"Pretty much..."
"..." Hoshino Rin stared at Hoshino Gen in disbelief. "That's so hurtful!"
Hoshino Gen ignored her. He switched to the search engine interface and typed "Red Skirt" in the search bar. However, only some online store advertisements for selling red skirts popped up.
He raised his eyebrows, switched back to the post just now, and started reading the comments below.
"You can try uninstalling and reinstalling the game."
"Check the file integrity."
"Is there such a game? I searched for it but didn't find it."
"Are you kidding? How could there be such a strange game?"
"Could you share the game file or tell us where to download it?"
"What type of game is it? There's an intimacy setting and it can't be searched. Isn't it an adult game?"
Hoshino Gen looked around but didn't find a second person who had played this game in the comment section.
After thinking for a while, he clicked into the poster's homepage and started sending a private message.
"Hello, I'm very interested in the game you described in the post you made at eight o'clock last night. I'm willing to pay 10,000 yen to buy the game file. If you're interested, please reply to me."
After sending this message, Hoshino Gen suddenly realized that someone was standing right beside him, extremely close!
In an instant, Hoshino Gen's whole body tensed up. Almost instinctively, he wanted to smash his elbow out. Fortunately, before his impulse turned into action, he realized that the person beside him was his sister who had come over without him noticing.
He calmly turned off the screen of his phone, turned his head to look at Hoshino Rin, who was standing barefoot on the ground, with her hands behind her back and looking at him curiously. "Aren't you going to sleep?"
"Can't sleep. I wanted to chat with you, but you ignored me, so I was curious about what you were doing." Hoshino Rin paused and said with a slightly strange expression, "Are you looking for... adult games?"
"..."
"When your sister is sleeping beside you... spending 10,000 yen to buy adult games." Hoshino Rin took a step back in disbelief. "And when I asked you if you didn't consider me as your sister just now, you even admitted it..."
"..." Hoshino Gen was silent for two seconds and then suddenly stood up, which scared Hoshino Rin into taking two and a half steps back.
However, to her slight surprise, after standing up, Hoshino Gen just calmly said to her, "Having someone you don't trust beside you when you're sleeping won't do anything except increase your psychological pressure. So I suggest you go back to your own room, lock the door, and take a rest."
After saying that, he walked towards his bedroom.
Huh? Even if you're not going to lose your temper, at least explain or make up an excuse for the adult game thing! Don't you care about your image in the eyes of your cute sister at all!?
"Wait!" Hoshino Rin quickly grabbed the sleeve of Hoshino Gen's clothes. "I'm not worried about you!"
Her face was flushed, and her eyes wandered to other places. "I know it's normal for boys at your age to be interested in that kind of thing... And, I really dare not stay alone in my room."
Hoshino Gen let out a long sigh. He didn't want to explain and didn't know how to explain either. He helplessly turned around and said, "Then just go to sleep obediently and don't pry into other people's privacy casually."
"Ah? Oh..." That sounded strange. As a super popular idol, it had always been others who were eager to pry into her privacy. She never expected that one day someone would accuse her of invading others' privacy.
Hoshino Rin obediently went back to her own sofa and curled up again. Only this time, she wrapped the blanket around herself much more tightly.
Hoshino Gen also sat back down. He opened his phone and took a look. The private message just now hadn't received a reply yet, so he exited and continued to look for other posts about possible supernatural events.
What he didn't notice was that on the other sofa, Hoshino Rin also took out her phone and opened the forum.
Hoshino Rin recalled the content on Hoshino Gen's phone screen just now and typed in a few keywords based on her memory. Sure enough, she also found the post about the "adult game" that Hoshino Gen had read before.
She actually hadn't seen clearly what was written in the post just now. She had only seen the title, a few comments in reply, and the private message that Hoshino Gen sent to the poster offering to pay 10,000 yen to buy the game file...
However, when Hoshino Rin carefully read the poster's description of this game from top to bottom by herself, she suddenly felt a chill run down her spine. This game sounded so creepy.
Was it really an adult game? Hoshino Rin thought back to the things that happened in the "dream" before and shivered slightly. If her brother wasn't buying the game for the "adult" aspect, then he must be attracted by its creepiness.
Hoshino Rin quietly looked in Hoshino Gen's direction.
That handsome face, which had an absolute attraction for girls, looked a bit melancholy under the light of the phone. He was wearing a loose white shirt, clean and refreshing. When the moonlight poured in through the French windows and shone on him, he really looked somewhat dreamy.
"Sure enough, with such good looks, there's actually no need to play any adult games at all..."