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7: when stars explode

7: when stars explode

"Shushu."

"..."

"Shushu."

"..."

"... SHUSHU!"

Shusei almost jumped off the porch when Satoru yelled right next into his ear.

The bewildered heir shot his brother an exasperated look. "Aniue, why are you yelling?"

"I've been calling you for a while now but you've been ignoring your aniue!"

Heat travelled up Shusei's cheeks. "Sorry, aniue. I was... a bit distracted."

For the past few weeks, this little brother of his always seemed to be staring into the distance. It was difficult getting his attention and this concerned Satoru a bit. Did something happen when he begged Shusei to accompany Nanamin?

But when he last saw his junior, nothing seemed to be out of place.

Seeing Shusei wearing an absentminded look, Satoru couldn't help but sit down beside his brother.

"Shushu, did something happen when you went with Nanamin?"

The sorcerer observed Shusei's expression with a critical eye. The heir stiffened, then he looked hesitant, with his eyes looking anywhere but him.

After a few more moment of silence, Shusei finally spoke but the words he said almost sent Satoru into a rampage.

"Aniue... the act of... putting your lips on another's... that's an intimate action, right? I've only read them from books before so... is it really something done only between a pair of lovers or not? What if... What if it's done between non-lovers then?"

"..."

"... aniue? Why have you gone pale—"

"Who?!" Gojo Satoru treasured this little brother. The image of that child who first arrived back at the clan had always been engraved inside his mind.

Small and malnourished, eyes filled with distrust and wariness; the child from that time was so fragile that Satoru had to do his best to stop the elders from training Shusei right from the start. He reasoned many times that Shusei's health was not ideal for the usual training all children from the clan go through.

In fact, Satoru wanted for his brother to grow up without being deeply involved with the clan matters but this child was too stubborn.

It was not obvious to others but for Satoru, he knew what exactly Shusei had in mind when he gets ahold of the clan in the future. Satoru wouldn't stop him; not that he didn't care about the clan. It was because he cared about his younger sibling more compared to them.

Although Satoru tried his best to give Shusei a childhood he himself never had, the elders and their own father would oppose his suggestions every damn time. Only when they go through countless discussions would they relent sometimes.

Shusei didn't want to be recognized by the clan in the first place; Satoru discovered that when he overheard Shusei one night talking to himself in the study. He only came back for the sake of Akiraka Yaoya, Satoru's step mother.

Ever since, he decided that no matter what, he would give Shusei memories which he would always be fond of in the future.

So when his little brother, who Satoru swore he would give anything and everything he wanted, asked him that question; the last string of his sanity snapped.

"Gojo-Akiraka Shusei—" the way Satoru called him by his full name baffled the little heir. "— when someone tries to kiss you again, knee them in the balls with all your strength! It's even better if you focus all your cursed energy in the knee so that whoever molested you would lose his ability to fuck!"