Why Not Make Both Twins 'Girlfriends'?-Chapter 0Volume 1 .1 - Prologue

Prologue

On a holiday afternoon, we decided to take Purikura (photo booth) pictures to commemorate our relationship at a game center in front of a train station.

“Sakuto-kun, which model do you prefer?”

“Hmm… honestly, I don’t really understand these things.”

“Well, I’m not familiar either, but please leave it to me.”

Saying so, Chikage Usami shyly touched the right arm of Sakuto-kun, also known as Sakuto Takayashiki.

Her skin was as white as snow, and her pale peach lips were as fresh as fruit.

She tied her left side hair with a ribbon, and underneath it, her small ear looked cute. Maybe she is embarrassed to be seen from the side, as she doesn’t show that side often.

She always stands to the right of Sakuto, peeking out with her large, round eyes through the gaps in her bangs. Besides her neat and elegant beauty, she also has an outstanding figure.

Compared to other girls around her, she was exuding a somewhat mature charm.

That imbalance is what makes her attractive and always makes Sakuto’s heart flutter.

He never dreamed that he would date such a wonderful girl.

“…? What is it?”

“Nothing… I just still can’t believe it.”

“Fufu, me neither.”

Chikage, who usually has a dignified expression and attitude at school that keeps people at a distance, is now blushing and smiling softly at Sakuto.

“Being like this makes me feel very happy.”

“No, that’s not what I mean——Whoa…!?”

“What-what? What were you talking about?”

Saying so, Hikari Usami hugged Sakuto’s left arm.

“We were talking about how I still can’t believe it…”

“…? About us being together?”

Hikari turned to him with an innocent smile.

This lively brightness and the cheerful attitude of wholeheartedly expressing affection come from her pure heart.

She seeks physical affection like a puppy yearning for its owner’s love, and Sakuto always tries to restrain himself from indulging her too much.

Just like Chikage, she also has an outstanding figure despite her innocent appearance.

Yet, she rubs her body against his and presses herself to him without realizing it, which is a problem in its own way.

Always caught off-guard, Sakuto’s heart continues to race.

He never imagined he would be dating such a wonderful girl——two of them.

(But this is not a dream…)

Taken by the arms by two picture-perfect beautiful girls, he’s in a situation best described as ‘having a flower in each hand.’

In other words, Sakuto Takayashiki has a ‘girlfriend’ for the first time in his life—two at the same time.

Before he could think, ‘Isn’t this the best?’, Sakuto became restless, looking around anxiously to see if he was being noticed by acquaintances.

He’s genuinely happy to have girlfriends and wants to be openly happy and excited, but having two girlfriends naturally makes him concerned about what others might think about the three of them.

Is this really okay? Dating two girls at the same time——

“Hey, Hii-chan… you shouldn’t suddenly hug Sakuto-kun like that.”

“Hehe, complacency is your greatest enemy——Sakuto-kun, I’d feel lonely if you only pay attention to Chii-chan.”

While saying this, Hikari smiles and tightly hugs Sakuto’s left arm.

“Hikari, you’re clinging too much…”

“That’s right, Hii-chan. Don’t you know that you’re making Sakuto-kun uncomfortable?”

After scolding Hikari, Chikage tightens her embrace on Sakuto’s right arm.

“Look, over there, that looks interesting. Why don’t we go with that model?”

“Oh, the one that’s popular now? Sounds good——Sakuto-kun, you want that one?”

“Okay…”

The machine Hikari chose is called ‘PhotoGray,’ which arranges four shots vertically like a four-panel comic.

It doesn’t have the so-called ‘400-yen plastic surgery’ function to beautify faces.

However, its simplicity seems to be precisely what makes it popular, giving off a stylish impression, as Sakuto learned from ‘them.’

In the first shot.

Sakuto is in the center, with Hikari and Chikage standing on either side and tightly holding his arms, and this scene is displayed on the front screen.

Their image is displayed on the front screen.

They have exactly the same face, but it’s not because of any special effects of the machine.

It’s natural since they are twin sisters.

However, even though they are twins, the two have different natures, and naturally, their expressions are different.

The older sister, Hikari, has her usual smiling face, while the younger sister, Chikage, seems tense, her cheeks flushed red.

The difference in their personalities, born fifteen minutes apart, may be due to the environment they grew up with since then.

In fact, they speak and think differently, and each possesses her own unique charm.

Yet, what they are thinking at this moment is frighteningly the same.

It was ‘I love Sakuto-kun.’

“Sakuto-kun, I feel like you’re leaning too much towards Hii-chan.”

Chikage, with a more sullen expression than before, pulled Sakuto’s right arm a little tighter.

“No, it’s because Hikari is pulling me…”

“Lean more towards me. Don’t be shy, I’ll help you.”

“O-okay…”

Reluctantly, Sakuto tries to lean towards her, but now his left arm is pulled tightly.

“Sakuto-kun, you’re too close to Chii-chan. I want you to come closer to me.”

In contrast to Chikage, Hikari’s expression is bright, with a mischievous tease in her attitude towards Sakuto.

“No-no, aren’t I in the center right now?”

“Uh, I want you to come closer to me. Like…deliberately?”

“Okay…”

Again reluctantly, Sakuto tries to lean towards her deliberately, but this time, Chikage doesn’t allow it.

“Hey Hii-chan… we decided not to monopolize Sakuto-kun, right?”

“Chi-chan, you do the same thing, don’t you?”

As Chikage frowned, Hikari posed with a smile that seemed to scream confidence.

Behind them, images of hedgehogs and weasels appeared instead of dragons and tigers.

While the twins were having this exchange, Sakuto’s face turned bright red.

He was flustered, not knowing where to focus his attention.

Even before entering the private room with the PhotoGray booth, the twins were constantly clinging to him, hugging him tightly.

And now the intensity of their clinging was increasing.

They were fighting over him, and it seemed like a sibling quarrel was about to erupt.

This was a serious situation——As their boyfriend, he knew he had to do something about it.

Yet, it was so soft.

If he were to plot the situation on a graph, the twins’ ‘argument’ and the ‘softness of their chests’ would be directly proportional, with a line stretching infinitely from the origin towards the upper right corner.

(TN: Maybe he’s talking about something like x=y graph? Not sure.)

That’s when Sakuto thought to himself:

This is bad, I’m going to lose my rationality.

Just as his instincts were about to take over, his consciousness finally drifted away from this situation——

***

At first glance, Sakuto is a harmless high school student you could find anywhere. In other words, a so-called ‘mob character.’

He passed the entrance exam for Arisuyama Academy High School and started attending in April this year.

Until about a month and a half later, Sakuto was an unremarkable background guy, without any close friends, blending into the classroom like one of its fixtures.

However, that was exactly what Sakuto, who adhered to the principle of “the nail that sticks out gets hammered down,” wanted.

Thus, known only for having ‘an unusual surname’ among his classmates, Sakuto was enjoying his smooth-sailing mob life.

——But then.

By some twist of fate, he ended up dating these beautiful twin sisters at the same time——

***

——Sakuto’s consciousness returned.

Seeing the two still arguing, Sakuto felt a sense of mission.

What he should do here and now was not to regret the past but to resolve the problem occurring inside the photo booth.

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To stop the sisters’ quarrel and establish his own position——

“——Alright. Let’s do this.”

First, Sakuto pulled his arms away from between the twins, freeing himself from their embrace.

This allowed him to make a more calm and rational decision.

Although he felt a bit reluctant, he told himself it couldn’t be helped.

Next, he intertwined the now empty arms of the twins, making the sisters link arms with each other.

By doing so, he successfully made the two, who had just been quarreling, look like close twin sisters.

Then, Sakuto stood behind them. He positioned his face between the two sisters’ faces, just enough to be barely visible.

And what a sight it was. Sakuto successfully created the impression of being ‘just along for the ride’ with the friendly twin sisters.

With that, everything was resolved.

Sakuto let out a sigh of relief and smiled contentedly.

“See, isn’t this good? Okay, both of you, look towards the lens now…”

All that was left was to wait for the camera’s shutter to automatically click——

” “This is wroooong─────────ah!” “

——Apparently, this was wrong.

For now, the camera shutter clicked right at the moment of their ‘This is wrong.’

Initially thought to be a retake, this photo ended up being interesting in its own right and was chosen as the first memorable shot of their ‘commemorative photo of the beginning of their relationship.’

The remaining shots were——

『Sakuto and Hikari’s faces close together』

『Sakuto giving Chikage a princess carry』

『Eventually, all three cuddle together』

——These three.

Looking at the finished PhotoGray, Sakuto held his head in his hands.

What would happen if such a thing were accidentally leaked?

(Is it really okay to have two girlfriends…? It’s problematic from society’s point of view, so I have to keep it a secret…)

Sakuto glanced at the twin sisters.

“It turned out great! It’s more ‘Angry-Happy-Lovekyun’ rather than just plain emotions!”

“Hmm… I think Hii-chan looks cuter… how nice, I want to take another one…”

“I’m jealous of Chii-chan’s photo too. The princess carry is definitely the dream——”

Looking at the twin sisters envying each other, Sakuto smiled.

(…well, whatever.)

Normally, being open and honest is the right thing.

However, holding a secret that can’t be shared with others might be surprisingly fun.

——And so.

Sakuto, Hikari, Chikage—these three became a couple, but to understand how it came to this, we need to go back a little before Sakuto got involved with these twin sisters.

It was the season of fresh greenery. (TN: Spring.)

The cherry blossoms had fallen, and it was an afternoon in the days when the new leaves were budding.

It all started when the results of the midterm exams were posted in the hallway——

***

TL: Hiraeth