Please Excuse My Younger Brothers (うちの弟どもがすみません)

Hey!

I told you to dry yourself off before you leave the bath!

Just leave it. It'll dry by itself.

That's not the point!

Our parents will be back soon,

so don't be such a slob!

Since that fateful day,

the vibe between us has obviously changed.

I get it now...

This is just the beginning of a new chapter...

Meaning...

Things can escalate even further?!

Can we even do that, as siblings?

Oh, it dripped on your hand.

Whatever. No biggie.

That's unhygienic, quit it.

No!

I guess it's fine?!

At the very least, it is in the Narita family?!

But even then, at this rate...

He'll end up...

being the talk of the neighborhood.

Gen.

Th-Th-This is really improbable,

but you haven't begun to be sexually aroused by me lately, right?

Did you cook your brain, Kokeshi-Joe?

Stop being so rude.

You're the one being rude!

Anyway, lately you've been behaving in ways I can't ignore as your big sis!

Like what?

Like getting too close to me!

And you tried to eat my finger!

Worst of all, completely ignoring the fact that I'm a girl!

You make no sense.

You said you wanted to pamper me.

I did say that, but...

I was being the smug older sister when I said that...

But I think it's the older sister's job to point out your mistakes.

Please Excuse My Younger Brothers

Episode 5: Shut Away Angel

Oh, man.

After a month, it sure is nice to be back home.

Thanks for bringing back all these treats.

I'm glad you all like them.

Syu-kun, Syu-kun, you gotta come out!

The yard's full of meat and crab!

Rui-kun, maybe you should calm down.

Keep Out

Are you up?

Mom and Dad are back!

The others are preparing the BBQ right now.

Would you like to join?

It really seems like a lot of fun.

No thanks

What about Syu?

No go again today.

I figured.

Oh, dear. I guess he's still feeling shy.

Looks like he still isn't comfortable with us around.

He was like that before you were here, too.

Don't worry about it.

Oh God!

He's so close!

Our parents must be so weirded out right now!

Those two have gotten really chummy!

They sure have!

Completely Unconcerned

Completely Unconcerned

I let my guard down.

Rui-kun, what's that?

But yeah, it's pretty complicated.

Living together means we're in closer proximity than people normally are.

L-Leave it up to a big family to have all the tools for a BBQ.

Yeah. Been a while since we used them.

My parents had their hands full with so many kids,

so we couldn't go on vacation that easily.

So we agreed to do what we could at home or in the neighborhood instead.

This used to be a regular thing.

Then my mom passed...

I had given up on doing this ever again,

but since you joined us, we have the occasion.

I see.

Thank—

Hey!

We were having a moment!

This was also a regular thing.

That was my meat!

And also my first time eating lamb!

Already the first victim.

Here, have mine.

The next one will be ready soon, so go ahead.

Thank you, Raku-kun!

Unlike Gen, you're so openly kind.

What's your problem?

You want to steal even more of my meat?

Dummy.

I'm not that desperate.

Things have gotten more fun since you got here.

This is bad.

So bad.

So close.

This is bad!

Maybe I'm the one overthinking it.

Gen's just thinking that having me around is fun.

He was just trying to close the gap.

You wanna get in?

I need to develop a higher tolerance!

You're like this ball of seduction.

When have I ever seduced anyone in any way?

Living with only men must have made you lose touch...

about proper distance with girls.

For example, what you were doing earlier.

Maybe you were just getting a kick out of her reactions,

but when you're a second-year in high school, it's plain uncivilized.

I know you're just trying to knit us closer together as a family.

But when you do these things with a face like yours,

girls will 100% read some kind of romantic intent in it.

What?!

See?

She's been got.

What will you do?

About what, dumbass?

Stop twisting the conversation into a weird direction.

Even if we entertain this totally whack idea,

this is about "Kokeshi-Joe" here.

Nothing there to turn me on.

So what kind of girl would work for you?

A bunch of girls keep asking me to introduce them to you.

I don't know.

But I'm not drawn to anyone who doesn't know me well.

Or anyone selfish.

I don't have the bandwidth for that.

Right, right.

Anything else?

If you want me to keep going, I guess there's one more.

Someone who really values their family.

He says, looking right at her.

I was acting all weird around Gen.

When I just wanted this to be a fun day with all of us together...

Hey.

Great work today.

I was wondering what I'd do now that Rui-kun's in bed.

It's a rare chance, so wanna light some with me?

Super Size Family Pack

Super Size Family Pack

Handheld Fireworks

Fun to the MAX!!

Super value with enough for everyone to enjoy

Super value with enough for everyone to enjoy

This is summer, right here.

There's something you want to say to me, isn't there?

You don't have to beat around the bush like this.

He knows!

Um, I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize for my impoliteness of late!

Hey, wait! Hey!

I got all high and mighty, insisted on pampering you,

then I treated you like some kind of pervert...

Don't point that at me!

First of all, calm down.

Right.

I'll never forgive you for treating me like a pervert.

I-I mean, I've never had anyone do that to me before.

To be frank, everything you do is full of firsts for me.

I'd want to just roll with it if I could,

but I can't.

Each one slips past my defenses, and goes right to my heart.

Because I can tell that you,

more than anyone else,

care about all of us.

Come on,

now that got past my defenses, too...

Keep Out

Hokkaido is really exciting!

Look at all these fun friends!

We'd really love to take you too, someday.

But before that, we need to meet with your teacher—

No

It'll be a while before we're all together as a family again.

We'll be back as soon as I can take more vacation.

About Syu...

We'll just have to wait for him to come around.

At the very least, we'll call his school and discuss it with them.

I'll also try to talk with his homeroom teacher.

I had the same homeroom teacher.

I'll go too, then!

I'm sure we'll figure something out.

These days, some places are okay with e-learning as well.

And I can always help him with prep for entrance exams.

Thank you.

I suppose as his father,

it just makes me sad that his little room is his entire world.

That reminds me.

I wonder when Syu-kun started locking himself away.

I wonder why he doesn't want to see his family.