My Friend's Little Sister Has It In for Me! (友達の妹が俺にだけウザい)

Mom won't be home tonight.

Cool. And thanks for this, Ozu.

Are you sure you want your little sister having a guest over at midnight, though?

It's a little late to worry about that.

Like I keep telling you, I don't have a sister complex.

If you two were to get together, I'd be excited to see your kids.

That's kind of messed up in its own way.

Find some more respectable interests, okay?

I'm forever trying.

I wish you luck.

Well, I'm off.

Hey, Iroha.

You're awake, aren't you? I want to talk.

I know you don't go to bed this early!

Answer me already!

Jeez, you never give up! What do you want?

I want to talk about what happened at the studio.

Would you open the door?

Taking advantage of my mom being out to barge in and lecture me?

It's not that. I just want to apologize to you.

Apologize? It's not like I'm angry or anything.

If anything, you're the one who's angry at me for blowing the recording.

I'm not angry—

No. It's true that I did get angry back there.

But rather than acknowledging my own weakness,

I took my anger out on you.

That's why...

I'm here to apologize.

I don't need an apology!

I'm not in the mood to see you right now! Just go home!

What kind of mood you're in doesn't matter!

Just talk to me, damn it!

No way!

You're just gonna try to win me over with your magical conversational skills!

I know your seduction methods inside and out!

I'm not opening that door! No way!

Enough of this! I told you to open up!

If you don't, I'll break the door down!

If it were that easy for anyone to break down a door, kickboxers would be out of a job!

Are you sure about that?

Go ahead and try it, then!

If you say so.

Huh?

MY FRIEND'S LITTLE SISTER HAS IT IN FOR ME!

#10 "MY FRIEND'S LITTLE SISTER ONLY GETS AN APOLOGY FROM ME"

First, here's some money to fix the door.

You can't run away now. You're going to hear me out, Iroha.

I can't believe you actually broke my door.

Could you be any more irrational?

I don't think someone who regularly enters my room without permission

has any right to complain.

How do you manage to be so overbearing even while you're groveling?

I will apologize, but I will also refute what needs to be refuted.

That's my style.

You're ridiculous.

Anyway, I have news for you.

I just saw Mashiro and turned her down.

Oh? Why'd you go and do that?

That might have been your last chance to lose your virginity.

I intended to turn her down all along.

To be honest, I've never even thought about romance before,

so I never looked at her that way.

But, even though I didn't realize it,

I think I let it go to my head.

Oh, you did, did you?

Yes.

Even after I swore that I'd take my work with 05th Floor Alliance seriously,

I got careless.

That's why you're angry, right?

I had thrown away my adolescence, romance... everything.

So please give me another chance.

I'll give my all to producing Kohinata Iroha, no, everyone in 05th Floor Alliance.

So...

So don't be dishonest with me when you feel negatively about something.

You're half right and half off the mark.

Half?

Weren't you going to dedicate everything to 05th Floor Alliance?

You were contradicting yourself... which was part of it, I guess.

But I can't be as stoic about things as you.

I'm just an ordinary high school girl.

Of course I get... jealous.

Huh?

You didn't have anyone outside 05th Floor Alliance,

and you never got close enough to anyone to call them a friend, except for my brother.

The truth is, you only take us seriously when work is involved.

That's not...

You're always saying it, aren't you?

That you'll make 05th Floor Alliance a success,

and that you'll find the quickest, most efficient route to making that happen.

And that you don't want any of us to expect anything more of you.

That's exactly what you said that day.

She's right. That's the promise I made when I started 05th Floor Alliance.

No... I know my obsession with efficiency has hurt people.

That's why I can't get closer than necessary to anyone

as long as I'm the leader of the group.

If anyone got hurt, 05th Floor Alliance would collapse.

And yet...

I...

You got close with Mashiro-senpai, even though she's not in 05th Floor Alliance.

You took her confession seriously, even though it had nothing to do with work.

It made me wonder what happened to the distance

you always kept between yourself and others.

Frankly, I was like, "What the hell?"

Mashiro and I... have our own circumstances.

She's not in 05th Floor Alliance, but she needs the same amount of my attention.

If I don't keep up our fake relationship, none of us will get hired.

But there was more to it, wasn't there?

Sorry. I know it's not your fault.

No one could've avoided a direct approach like that.

I know that... just as well as anyone, you know.

Iroha...

And that's why I've been jealous!

I was jealous of Mashiro-senpai because you took her seriously outside of work!

So I just couldn't help myself!

I thought maybe if I acted out while working, you'd take me seriously for a change!

I was acting like a spoiled brat!

So...

I'm sorry!

Jealous, huh?

I... never expected to hear that coming from you.

Let me make sure I have this right.

You felt jealous...

in a romantic sense?

I just got a super-cute sound bite out of you!

Wha...

Don't tell me... you just...

Let me make sure I have this right.

You felt jealous...

in a romantic sense?

What's this? What's this, now?

You were worried about whether my jealousy was based on romantic feelings?

Were you so worried it kept you up at night?

That can't be anything but love, can it?!

You... That's not what I meant!

You felt jealous...

in a romantic sense?

Stop it!

Jealousy isn't always about romantic feelings, you know.

It's possible to feel jealous when your friend gets close to another friend.

Humans feel jealousy over all sorts of things.

Oh! But you don't have many friends, do you?

So you wouldn't know! Sorry!

Damn, you're a pain!

Come on, at least erase that recording!

That's not going to happen!

It's not often you give me a glimpse of a weakness this tasty!

You know what'll happen if you let the others hear that, don't you?

Oh? What will happen?

You planning on acting out one of your erotic dojinshi?

No. Who would want to—

...in a romantic sense?

S-Stop it! Quit playing that over and over!

I bet I'll get at least a month of fun out of this!

Damn it.

Well, I can see that you've given this genuine thought.

I'll let this all be water under the bridge.

Man, that was a quest reward I sure didn't expect!

I guess it pays to act out every now and then, huh?

You sure change gears quickly.

So, Senpai... this means I'm back to being your pesky little Iroha-chan.

But you didn't come here just to make me a business offer, did you?

You're quite perceptive.

That's exactly right.

Iroha, I want to ask you,

no, everyone in 05th Floor Alliance, for a favor.

I was a fool for thinking even for a second that she might have romantic feelings for me.

I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE WORLD.

If she happened to confess to me the way Mashiro did...

I would've had to turn down yet another one.

Frankly, I'm relieved I can go back to focusing solely on 05th Floor Alliance.

Wait, did she actually think that far ahead when...

Was it a cover for...

Nah. Not a chance.

She's Iroha, after all.

MY FRIEND'S LITTLE SISTER HAS IT IN FOR ME!

You have to make a useless drama club rank high in a summer competition, huh?

You're always up to something interesting, aren't you, Aki?

He's always full of surprises, right?

But personally, I think that thrill is what keeps things fun.

This is necessary for 05th Floor Alliance.

Sine! Cosine! Tangent!

Sorry to ask, but I need your help.

If I'm doing this, I'm not gonna let them embarrass me with some lame performance.

REHEARSING! DO NOT PEEK!

Yeah, of course.

So the evil producer has come!