Bluntgre 2 (Continues at Ch 154)

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Rinne Takajou has been defective since birth.

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Nana and I are best friends.

We are a pair of one and only best friends who have spent more time together than family since we were little.

A gift was bestowed upon us.

Nana was born with an overpowered body, and I with an overdeveloped brain.

We were born with our talents mirrored as if we were standing at opposite ends of a line.

What I cannot do, Nana can do.

What Nana cannot do, I can do.

Thus, we will live our lives compensating for our shortcomings by supporting each other.

That... was my selfish dream.

Because I was born with a fatal defect.

If I try to run, my legs tangle; if I throw a ball, it flies in strange directions.

I was born with something that could be said as a debuff in a video game. The more seriously I tried to exercise, the more I failed. It's like a curse.

However, this is something that everyone born into a family of Takajou has to live with.

My father, uncle, elder brother, and older cousin.

My elder cousin Ron was born albino and forced to live with a frail body, everyone in this family has some kind of abnormal constitution as the price for their exceptional gift.

For me, the it was the inability to exercise. It is a fatal flaw, but I think that still on the mild side because as long I do not push myself too hard in my daily life, I will be fine.

like the example above, there will always be a price for each gift received by a member of the Takajou family.

But unlike us, Nana has not bestowed such a curse.

Her potential is awesomely high, her body is terrifyingly strong, and her growth limit is yet to be seen.

Nana certainly had what we all wanted so badly.

I entrusted Nana with things that I could not do myself. And I did not doubt that Nana could do things that I could not.

But Nana, never need to entrust me anything.

For example, I was good at studying, but she had never been particularly bad at it. It might be a different story if we ask if she still remembers it or not, but at the very least, when she was a student, she had a good enough brain to be able to understand anything I explained to her.

Even in action games, which I thought I was good at, Nana will be better at most of the things I was good at. She will beat me one-sidedly, relying on her reflexes alone.

Her specs are transcendent, and her concentration is extraordinary. It was more difficult to find something Nana couldn't do.

Even so, Nana would always rely on me to help her when she needed to. Given time, it's possible that she could solve her problem on her own. Still, she always comes to me first.

[Because this was something Rin-chan was good at.]

This is Nana's way of carefully avoiding an intrusion into my domain.

She is not so smart that she does it on purpose, so it must have been an unconscious action at first. I regret it now, but it probably wasn't a good idea for me to slap her on the cheek after I lost the game that day.