Chapter 260: Look at the Good Deed You've Done, You Even Bent Your Sister!
Over the next two days, Ryohei Tanaka spent the daylight hours traveling around the other world with Lucoa, tasting the other world's delicacies and gaining quite a harvest.
He even transplanted some fruit trees and moved some aquatic products into his ranch. He didn't know if they would survive, but he figured there shouldn't be any major issues.
In the evenings, Ryohei Tanaka and Lucoa would return to the original world to have long phone conversations or video chats with Yurine, sharing what they had seen and heard that day. Life was very comfortable.
...
On the evening of August 16th—
The sun had already sunk below the horizon, leaving only a touch of afterglow lingering in the sky. The twilight flooded the narrow streets like a tide, gradually swallowing the outlines of the stone houses.
The last rays of orange-red light lingered on the spire of the Gothic church, plating the mottled stone walls with a fleeting golden edge.
"..." Ryohei Tanaka and Lucoa emerged from a lively tavern. Just as they were preparing to return to the original world, a beautiful figure abruptly appeared in front of them.
"Eh, eh, eh—!?"
Before Ryohei Tanaka could react, Lucoa took a shaken step back, lifted her eyelids fully, and looked at the newcomer in a panic.
"Long time no see, Elder Sister."
The speaker looked similar to Lucoa, but her face was slightly more youthful. She wore a pink baseball cap backward and possessed a pair of beautiful eyes with inner gold and outer blue irises. Dressed in a black high-necked long-sleeved shirt paired with overalls, her chest was bulging—a woman with a scale nearly as astonishing as Lucoa's—she looked at Lucoa and spoke softly.
"Pe-Petra..."
Lucoa was too embarrassed to even look at her sister. She shifted her gaze away guiltily, looking to the side with sweat pouring down her face.
After all, she had done that sort of thing before...
"Your sister?"
Ryohei Tanaka turned his head in surprise to look at Lucoa, then looked at the newcomer, nodding subconsciously.
"Indeed, very similar..."
As he spoke, his expression couldn't help but become subtle.
Ryohei Tanaka remembered that the reason Lucoa was stripped of her divine status was that she drank cursed wine and subsequently had relations with her sister...
Is the victim coming knocking on the door now?
Ryohei Tanaka looked at Petra with beady eyes.
"..." Petra glanced at Ryohei Tanaka and puffed out her cheeks slightly, seemingly displeased. But immediately, she looked back at Lucoa, her movements so fast that Ryohei Tanaka doubted if he had seen correctly.
Then, Petra clasped her hands behind her back, her face slightly red as she glanced elsewhere, stammering:
"Although a lot of things happened in Tula... I..."
Her gaze returned to Lucoa. She took a gentle breath and said in a serious tone:
"I have decided to accept those facts!"
After saying this, she looked away again in embarrassment.
"Uh..."
Lucoa looked at Petra with great surprise. She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, unloading a heavy burden, but the awkwardness didn't alleviate much.
At a time like this, she didn't know what to say either, so she could only nod vaguely and make a sound of acknowledgment.
... So that's it! She came to reconcile... No! It should be said she came to forgive Lucoa.
Ryohei Tanaka understood Petra's intention, and his gaze toward her instantly softened.
This was a good thing; he felt happy for Lucoa!
Thinking that talking here wasn't very appropriate, and seeing that Lucoa was currently too awkward to speak properly, Ryohei Tanaka thought he should help ease the relationship between them. He smiled slightly at Petra and invited:
"We were just about to head back... Would Miss Petra like to come over to our home and sit for a while?"
"... What is it?"
As soon as Ryohei Tanaka's voice fell, he saw Petra half-narrow her eyes and stare at him. Suddenly, she leaned in close, bending down to sniff him. Naturally, Ryohei Tanaka also smelled the faint fragrance on her.
He subconsciously took half a step back and asked with a strange expression.
"Petra, what are you doing?"
Seeing this scene, Lucoa couldn't help but ask as well.
However, Petra ignored her. With a deadpan expression, she stared unblinkingly at Ryohei Tanaka and said:
"You have my sister's scent on you."
"Hmm... Your sister and I have a very intimate relationship."
Looking at that face which was seventy percent similar to Lucoa's, Ryohei Tanaka suddenly felt like he was facing a sister-in-law.
"I'm so envious!"
Petra closed her eyes and clenched her fists.
"Hah?"
"Just thinking about the time you spent with Sister being like a honeymoon, while I could only be separated from Sister, unable to experience that kind of life at all..."
Petra opened her eyes and shouted loudly at Ryohei Tanaka: "I'm envious to death!"
"Eh, eh, eh—!"
Lucoa's eyes widened at the side, letting out a sound of shock, sweat appearing on her face again.
Ryohei Tanaka turned his head and exclaimed to her in surprise: "Lucoa, turns out your sister has a sister complex!?"
He really didn't know this. When he followed Dragon Maid in the past, Lucoa's sister never appeared and was only mentioned in passing during the backstory.
"No, she wasn't like this before."
Lucoa crossed her arms, making an 'X' gesture.
When she made that mistake back then, her sister had been very angry and told her she would absolutely never forgive her...
"Dragons always change, Sister."
Petra put her hands behind her back and glanced at Lucoa.
So the trigger was what happened after that incident?
Ryohei Tanaka thought in shock, unable to resist looking at Lucoa:
Look at the good deed you've done, you even bent your sister!
It wasn't me! I didn't!
Lucoa shook her head with a guilty expression.
"..."
Watching the two exchange glances and body language, Petra puffed up her pink cheeks slightly, placed her hands on her hips, and said, "I've decided!"
What have you decided?
Ryohei Tanaka and Lucoa looked at her in unison.
"First, I want to make the things this human and Sister experienced together no longer unique!"
"Whatever Sister did to him, I will do to him as well, and I'll do it double!"
After Petra finished speaking, she cupped Ryohei Tanaka's face, lowered her head, and kissed him.
"..." Ryohei Tanaka's eyes instantly widened, utterly shocked.
"Eh, eh, eh...!"
Lucoa stood to the side, her face a mess of confusion as she raised her hand, letting out a stunned sound.
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