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2021-10-16 23:23:05“She’s not going to disappear if you let go of her hand, Kaoru.” Iori’s father said with a smile as her little brother sat beside her on the bed snuggled at her side.
Iori smiled and her brother’s arm tightened around hers,
“Whenever I get to see Iori it has got to be in a hospital bed! I’m not leaving her again, from now on I’m going to live with her!” Kaoru declared and she heard a caught coming from the general vicinity where Jun and Haruki stood.
“You know you can’t live with your sister whenever you’re back in town anymore. I heard about you imposing on her and this can’t work out anymore, she doesn’t live alone after all…” Her father said reprimanding her brother.
Out of the three of them, Kaoru is the only one whose relationship with their father didn’t suffer a lot. Probably because he was mostly out of town so Kazuma didn’t have many inter
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