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VIDEO: Watanagashi-hen | TIP 2: Is There Really a Shion?
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"Yeah. More broadly, I was just wondering if she had any brothers or anything."
I was actually wondering whether her younger twin sister named Shion really existed, and my curiosity got the better of me, so I quietly asked Satoko about it.
"...Hmmm. ...I wonder... She might, she might not..."
She wasn't being very clear about it.
...Had Satoko never gone over to Mion's house to play?
"From your reaction... I guess you've never met any."
"Yes. I've never seen any of her relatives except for her grandmother."
As far as I could tell... there were already dark clouds over the "Shion is real" theory.
"Rika would know more than I. You would do well to ask her."
"Rika! Do you know anything about Mion-san's family?"
Rika-chan was surprised at the sudden question.
"......Mii has a big family, so I don't really know everything about them."
"That many, huh...? For example... ...Hmm. Is there someone named Shion Sonozaki? Umm, well... I might have heard wrong, so she might not actually exist, but..."
Huh?
That was unexpected. So she was real...!
"Hmm? Their names are quite similar, you know. I could get tongue-tied trying to tell the difference."
"......I've heard she's Mii's younger twin sister, but I haven't met her too many times."
Rika-chan knew a bit about her as well, but hadn't seen her much.
"......I think I met her once at a funeral a few years ago."
"She's not in this class, so maybe she goes to school in Okinomiya."
"She may live there, too. Mion-san herself lives apart from her family with her grandmother, after all."
"......It's a very complicated family."
"She seems to have many relatives. There are doubtless many different circumstances."
For now, I learned that she had a younger twin sister named Shion, but her family structure, including her own position, still seemed very mysterious...
"Oh, Mion-san, you've come at a good time~! Might it be true that you have a younger twin sister?"
Ah... Mion... crap...
Mion grew uncharacteristically red in the face, at a loss.
...I think she's looking at me...
"Oh, my~! I had no idea~! What kind of person might she be? I would very much like to meet her sometime!!"
"You shouldn't bother! Sh-She's not cute at all! She's really conceited! Besides, other than talking to her on the phone once in a while... I haven't seen her for a long time, either...!"
...Why did it looks like she was in such a panic...?
It's like she was declaring that the Shion from yesterday was actually a fake...
Anyway, this was pretty funny, so I let it go for a little while longer.
...Another Mion, under the name of Shion.
...Will I be able to see her if I go to that restaurant again?
I had a mysterious feeling, as if I'd made a new friend, despite knowing that she and Mion were the same person.
