Chapter 26
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 26
Chapter Title: 3.6 Spanking ✗ Discipline ✓
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-Knock knock knock.
Someone knocked on Hina's door.
But right now, Hina didn't want to talk to anyone.
Opening it would just lead to more nagging anyway.
Hina ignored the knock and started taking off her academy uniform.
'I suddenly became a girl.'
What the hell did that even mean?
Hina couldn't understand her brother's words, and she didn't want to.
She had lashed out at him wildly.
She had no intention of calming down until things went back to normal.
'Hina. No matter what happens to me, we're family. If family doesn't support me, who will?'
Mom doesn't know anything.
She hated her brother for suddenly turning into a girl, and her mom for wanting to support him.
'Hina. When are you going to introduce me?'
She had bragged about her brother to all her friends on the first day of the new semester.
Now she could never admit that her brother had become her sister.
'That hurt my feelings.'
Even the ever-kind Akane had said that before going home.
Her friends were sure to feel the same.
'Kurosaki. Is your brother's name Kurosaki Yuuki?'
'The senior who suddenly turned into a cross-dresser at the start of the semester?'
'Sounds like a pervert.'
'Nah, no way.'
'Hina bragged about how cool her brother is. He can't be a pervert.'
'Gross.'
'Disgusting.'
Hina had insisted it wasn't true, that she knew nothing about it, but it was impossible to put out the wildfire of rumors.
Soon, the gossip spread: "Hina's brother isn't a brother anymore—he's a sister," turning her into a laughingstock.
'It's all because of my brother.'
Her big brother Yuu was someone she could proudly introduce to anyone.
He was cool, full of justice, and always treated Hina well.
She couldn't accept that such a brother had overnight become someone too embarrassing to even call her brother.
Hina poured her aimless anger onto her family.
-Knock knock knock.
The knock came again.
Hina didn't respond.
She didn't want to see her brother or her mom.
Seeing their faces would just make her yell again.
"Hina. Open the door."
But the voice she heard was unexpected.
It was Naibusu Winzer, her brother's friend from next door.
'Oh right, he was in the next room earlier. Hmph. Nosy much?'
When they were little, she had played with him alongside her brother and treated him like another big brother.
But after the Great Catastrophe, he seemed like a different person, which rubbed her the wrong way.
His behavior became frivolous, and he treated her without any reserve.
The complete opposite of her beloved Yuu brother.
Though even that beloved brother had become a girl now...
"Hina. Open up. I'm coming in."
"Don't you dare come in! I'm not opening it! Get out of my house!"
Hina screamed.
Was Naibusu going to lecture her now too?
She didn't even want to see his face.
-Click. Click click.
Oh my god.
Was he seriously trying to come in?
Good thing she had locked it just in case.
What a barbarian.
"Pervert! What do you think you're doing trying to barge in?! I'm gonna scream!"
She was already screaming.
That was how Hina expressed her rage.
Leave me alone.
I'm really mad, so back off.
She figured even Naibusu would back down if she yelled like this.
Her mom and brother always did.
But no.
-Crunch. Crack crack.
"Eh?"
A weird noise came.
From the door.
But it wasn't a normal door sound.
"Wh-what? What are you doing?"
Hina panicked.
She had never experienced anything like this before.
Her brother and mom always tried to cheer her up whenever she threw a tantrum.
They had never bulldozed through ignoring her feelings.
Hina was a pampered princess who had always been loved.
But this opponent was a primitive caveman who wouldn't listen to reason.
-Crack.
Something broke.
No way.
Thinking that, Hina frantically grabbed something to use as a weapon.
She snatched the tennis racket leaning in the corner of the room.
"Pervert! Don't come in! I said don't come in! I'm gonna scream! I'm calling the cops!"
Even knowing he was the type who wouldn't listen, Hina yelled.
Otherwise, her legs would give out from shaking.
"Ugh...!"
She almost cried out "Brother!" but bit her lip and swallowed the words.
Calling for him over something like this would bruise her pride.
Even if he broke down the door, it'd just be a lecture.
If he forced his way in, she'd whack him with the racket and chase him out.
-Rip!
The doorknob snapped off. The metal one.
How the hell did this barbarian do that?
"Hina."
The knob failed, letting the intruder in.
"Eek!"
Naibusu strode into the room casually.
His face was expressionless.
He always grinned foolishly and joked around.
Today, he looked like a completely different person.
And that Naibusu terrified her.
"Kyaa!"
Hina was in the middle of changing out of her school uniform after coming home, so she was in her underwear.
If she had rushed to change when he tried to enter, she might have finished, but she had deliberately stayed undressed just in case.
So she could scream and call him a pervert if he forced the door.
"Kyaa! Get out! You pervert!"
Being seen in her underwear was embarrassing, but it was also a solid counterattack.
Whenever she did this before, her brother would shut the door in a panic and apologize.
So she thought Naibusu would too.
"Oh. Perfect timing."
But it didn't work on Naibusu.
-Whistle.
He even whistled cheerfully as he stepped right in.
"Wh-what, why..."
How could he just walk in so nonchalantly?
Her brother definitely would have freaked out and left.
Why didn't it work on this guy?
Naibusu grinned cruelly and said something unbelievable.
"Saves me the trouble of undressing you."
Hina felt primal fear from his smirking face.
Hina, who had always been protected within the fence her brother and mom built, had never been exposed to malice from the outside.
For the first time in her life, she felt terror toward a man.
"Kyaa! Stay away! You pervert!"
Truly frightened, Hina swung the tennis racket wildly.
But Naibusu didn't even dodge.
-Thwack!
He deliberately shoved his head into it and took the hit.
"Ow. You hit first? With a weapon like that, too. Ouchie, that hurts."
"Ah... Uh..."
"You hit me first, so it's fair if I hit back, right?"
It obviously wasn't fair, but panicked Hina couldn't think straight.
"Th-that's, because you..."
She tried to argue, but her tongue felt numb.
The racket in her hand trembled.
This is a joke, right?
Please say it's a joke.
Hina looked up at him desperately.
If it were Yuu brother, he would have laughed and patted her head.
But Naibusu was different from her kind brother.
"Kyaa!"
Naibusu snatched her wrist and yanked.
The racket clattered to the floor.
"What! What are you doing?!"
She pulled her arm with all her might to escape his grip.
But it was like handcuffs—immovable.
"You pervert! Let go! Kyaa! Help!"
Gathering her last bit of courage, she screamed.
Hoping her brother would hear and come.
"Screaming won't help."
Naibusu smirked confidently.
"Yuuki won't help you anymore."
It hit like a thunderbolt.
Naibusu dragged her wrist and sat on the bed.
What the—
No way.
...Right?
Naibusu wrapped his arm around her back and pulled her in.
The hard feel of a man's arm against her skin for the first time.
A chilling sensation spread through her chest.
The formless fear was taking shape.
"Kyaa! Pervert! Let go! You scum!"
She had thought he was just a frivolous idiot, but not to this extent.
No matter how she struggled, his firm arm didn't budge.
Punching and kicking felt like hitting a rock.
Naibusu forcibly pulled the wriggling Hina over his lap.
In her underwear, she had to stick her butt out over a stranger's knee.
"Hina. If you do bad things, you have to be punished, right?"
A chilling voice.
Hina's legs went weak.
"I-I didn't do anything bad...!"
"You didn't?"
"No!"
But.
Could she really say that?
Hina wasn't sure.
"Bad girl who was mean to family: 10 spanks. Plus 10 more for lying."
"Wh-what...?"
What are you—
The answer came in one second.
Naibusu raised his palm.
It came down toward Hina's tender butt.
-Smack!
"Hii—?!"
The rough feel of the hand slapping her butt.
A stinging echo to her bones.
A burning, prickling pain on her skin.
"One."
Now, one.
That meant 19 more like this?
It was tyranny.
Unbelievable tyranny.
What right did Naibusu have to do this?
"Kyaa! Kyaaa! Let me go!"
"Resisting? That's 10 more."
"Don't talk nonsense! Who are you to—! I've never even gotten hit by Mom!"
"Hmph. They just didn't hit you. Doesn't mean they couldn't."
Impossible!
But that didn't give him the right to hit her.
As Hina thrashed on his lap, the second strike landed.
-Smack!
"Kyaaa!"
"Two."
The first hit caught her off guard.
But the second, anticipated, hurt more—and on the same spot, even worse.
"Kyaa! Kyaa! Mom! Brother! Help!"
Hina screamed until her throat hurt.
But neither brother nor mom came.
"Hmph. After treating Mom and brother like that, you expect help? Sorry, but Sana and Yuuki said they won't help. They don't need a brat like you anymore."
"N-no, that can't be...!"
It shocked her more than the pain in her butt.
Yes, she had been mean, but just for that—
-Smack!
"Hiiik?!"
"Three."
It hurt.
It really hurt.
Her butt might be bleeding. Maybe torn already.
She might never sit on a chair again.
"No! Stop! It hurts! Please stop!"
"27 left."
"No! Brother! Broooother!"
No matter how she struggled and screamed, it didn't faze Naibusu.
-Smack!
"Hyaaa!"
"Four."
No matter how hard she tried, his arm didn't loosen.
No matter how loud she screamed, brother didn't come.
"26 left."
A despairing number.
"I-I'm sorry. I did wrong... I'm sorry..."
"Huh? Can't hear you."
-Smack!
"Aaah!"
"Five."
She didn't even have the strength to struggle anymore.
But she couldn't just take the hits.
"25 left."
Naibusu's voice was cold as steel, no room for mercy.
He was different from her brother.
No matter how she yelled or raged, he wouldn't listen.
No one to help.
Hina had only one choice.
"Waaah! I'm sorry! I did wrong!"
Hina begged through tears.
She couldn't take 25 more.
Not even one more—she felt like she'd die.
"Sorry to who?"
"Naibusu! No, Naibusu brother!"
But Naibusu didn't stop.
-Smack!
"Hiaaaang?!"
"Wrong. Six."
She begged crying.
She admitted she was wrong!
Hina wept from injustice, sadness, and pain.
And trembled at the fear that this stinging might continue.
"24 left."
Six. And twenty-four more.
The dizzying gap made her head spin.
She'd really die if she took them all.
She had to beg forgiveness somehow.
"Uwaaang! I did wrong! Spare me!"
"Wrong to who?"
Who.
He had asked that before.
Hina desperately racked her brain.
Why was Naibusu doing this?
"T-to Mom... and brother..."
"Can't hear you."
-Smack!
"Aaaaang!!"
"Seven."
Hina couldn't endure it anymore.
Her butt hurt. Hurt like she was dying.
Hina screamed desperately.
"I did wrooong!! I'm soooorry!! Brother, I'm sorry!! Save me, Yuu broooother!!"
Hina wailed at the top of her lungs.
Calling for the only one who could save her now: her brother.
And.
"Hina—!!"
-Bang!
Her furiously red-faced brother burst into the room.
The brother who always protected her in danger.
This time too, he came.
"Brother...!!"
She was overjoyed to the point of tears.
Even after she treated him so badly.
Brother hadn't abandoned her.
"Naibusu! Let go of Hina!!"
Brother hadn't changed at all.
He was still Hina's brother.