Hanna encountered another problem with ditching her bad friends. She no longer had a ride home and had to take public transit.

First, she tried to find her brother, but he’d scuttled off before she could catch him. This meant resorting to the dreaded public transit system.

This wasn’t really anything to fear since Big XXX City certainly had a better, more robust system than Hanna’s previous city. But this was Hentai World. And one thing that everyone who had delved into viewing the dark visual art of hentai knew: Bad things happened on public transit.

So, nervous beyond all measure, Hanna stepped onto the trolley that would let off a block away from her house. She eyed each and every man and woman on the trolley as if they werewolves.

But surprisingly, nothing happened. Perhaps she’d be okay in the future. They couldn’t all become giant orgies. The whole city would stop working if that were the case.

Maybe she’d just been thinking too much.

As soon as she stepped into her home and locked the door behind her, she let out a breath of relief. Then she marched her way up the stairs to her brother’s room and pounded on the door.

When he opened it, she crossed her arms over her chest. “You left without me.”

He stared at her a bit irritated. “I didn’t know you needed a ride home.”

It was incredibly obvious that he didn’t want her anywhere near him. Exactly how estranged had these two siblings been? She seemed to recall that they’d been quite close as kids. They drifted apart during middle school, barely speaking to each other aside from the occasional nod in passing or their forced family dinners.

“I meant what I said at lunch. I’m not hanging out with those two anymore. And I need your help to study.”

“I need my time to study by myself. I don’t have time to teach you.” He started closing the door but she put her hand in the jamm. He just barely stopped from crushing her fingers.

“Listen. I’m serious about getting a doctorate in Astronomy. That means I’ll need to graduate from here with a solid B, at least, to get into Triple X University. And to do that, I need A’s on every test going forward. I’m asking you, as family, to please help me out. You don’t have to forgive me for being a bitch to you. But at least don’t stifle your only sister’s academic hope for your own petty revenge.”

Kyle eyed her up and down. “You do seem a bit different lately.”

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“I can’t make my past behavior up to you. But I’ll do what I can to treat you with the proper amount of sisterly love.”

Since Hanna had never had a brother before, that would be a difficult thing to figure out, but she was willing to make the attempt.

“The proper amount of sisterly love?” He raised a brow.

She grinned. “Well, I’ll obviously not be giving you the kind of love like Kelli gives to Paul.”

Her brother frowned. “I mean, obviously. Kelli is such a cute little sister to him.”

For a second, Hanna was horrified. Then she realized that either he didn’t get the shenanigans behind the scenes or he wanted that kind of relationship with her. For the sake of her sanity, she placed her bet on the former.

Because seriously, she’d seen some shit in the Hentai she’d watched over the years.

“So, you want me to be sweet and kind to you. And maybe call you, ‘big brother?’”

His cheeks turned a bit red. “I’m the younger one so that would be weird.”

Hanna had the sudden thought that, perhaps, Kyle was just too pure for this world. Unsure if it would work, she grabbed his hand and gave him the biggest, most pleading smile she could muster. She blinked her watery green eyes at him. “Please, Kyle, my favorite and only brother. Help me study so I can get into university. I’ll really owe you in the future.”

His face turned bright red. “Fine. But only as long as you don’t take too much of my time.”

Hanna wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him tightly. “Thank you!”

He awkwardly patted her back. She swayed from side to side as if she were hugging her mom instead of this new brother of hers. If she had to be a cute sister to get what she wanted, then she’d damn well be a cute sister.

The two original siblings, apparently, hadn’t hugged in years.

Kyle led her into his room. It was neat and tidy. Perfectly clean in every way aside from a few statues of anime girls from his favorite shows.

Wait a second! I recognize those!

One was Lucy from Fairy Tail and the other was Orihime from Bleach. Or at least they appeared that way. They also seemed a bit off-brand. But maybe that was just the poorly done statue?

Could this mean that Hentai World actually had good anime? Was it possible that it wasn’t corrupt in some way?

“Are these shows any good?” Hanna asked casually.

He flinched. Oh, right. That was one of the points of conflict between them. The original would sometimes call him a nerdy otaku.

“What I mean is, if you think they’re good. Maybe you could also show me sometime.”

His eyes, the same green color as hers, grew wide. “I thought—”

“—I always wanted to watch anime with you. I just couldn’t let my friends think I was an otaku. They were worse than I was to you.”

He pursed his lips, then nodded. “Maybe after dinner, if we’ve finished studying, I can show you an episode or two.”

She smiled and hugged his arm. “I’d like that.”