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- Moose Thompson has announced that his daughter is moving out to finally be on her own two feet. Moose says it's about time and is hoping one of the other Lodge Members will be kind enough to tell her.
- The Possum Lodge Auction was a huge success. Everything sold and Len, who owns Mr. Used, finally got paid for storing the set and props and generally looking after us for free for a long long time.
- Junior Singleton is looking for a jig saw puzzle expert to come over to his place and help him assemble what was once a crystal vase. Time is of the essence. His wife comes home Sunday.
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*Vergennes, VT – November 9th
Bangor, ME – November 11th
Derry, NH – November 12th
*Pittsfield, MA – November 13th
Frederick, MD – November 14th
Check redgreen.com for details.
*Never been there.
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- Correction: Our local newspaper The Daily Movement had a misprint in their story about a drunken policeman at the Art Show. The term 'hammered copper' was referring to one of the metal sculptures.
- Coming very soon. A Facebook project where we ask you to recommend our page to your friends and in return, you have a chance to win $500. Will happen soon with an Oct 31st deadline and the winner will be announced Nov. 1st.
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• February 13, 2005 | 11:37 PM ET
Video: Eason out CNN news executive Eason Jordan has resigned in response to the furor over his remarks at Davos about U.S. troops "targeting" journalists. The videotape of those remarks hasn't been released, but I think it's a fair inference that if it had contained anything that would have made Jordan look better, we would have seen the tape instead of Jordan's resignation.
Now people are wondering what it all means. Some people are claiming that Jordan was a victim of "McCarthyism" -- but as Austin Bay notes, that is a backward perspective. It was Jordan who was making unsubstantiated charges, a la McCarthy, not those who called for him to back them up.
What's more, as blogger Jeff Jarvis observed on Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources program today, it was CNN that fired Jordan, not bloggers.
This story from the Atlanta Journal Constitution sums up the nature of the defense:
Some suggest that Jordan got a bum rap. Former CNN News Group Chairman Walter Isaacson wrote in an e-mail to the AJC that Jordan was dedicated to "the value of hard reporting by real journalists who braved going out into the field, like he so often did, rather than merely opining. It's ironic that he was brought down partly by talk-show and blogging folks who represent the opposite approach and have seldom . . . ventured out to do . . . frontline reporting."
But Jordan's disgrace comes from not reporting: He made charges in a panel discussion, but he didn't have the evidence to back them up. What's more, in the same report we hear this:
But Bob Furnad, a former president of Headline News, said he considers Jordan "a very serious journalist in the purest form."
"He never pulled any punches."
Except that he did. In fact, Jordan came into this scandal damaged by his
silence on Saddam's atrocities, a silence that seems to have been the price of operating a bureau in Baghdad. Silence for "access?" Sounds like pulling punches to me.
Instead of complaining about bloggers as a threat to journalism, perhaps journalists should try actually doing more journalism. Who knows? It just might help.
• February 8, 2005 | 8:02 PM ET
Eason Jordan's tale of the tape
The story of CNN news executive Eason Jordan's unsubstantiated charges that U.S. troops were deliberately killing journalists got more play today. Howard Kurtz had a piece in the Washington Post that advanced the story somewhat, though Mickey Kaus thinks that Kurtz, consciously or unconsciously, is letting his connection to CNN shape his reporting.
This story from the New York Sun is less kind to Jordan, and includes an interview with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), who was present when Jordan spoke, that spells out more details on Jordan's accusations:
Mr. Jordan, speaking in a panel discussion titled "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" said "he knew of about 12 journalists who had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy," said Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat of Massachusetts who was on the panel with Mr. Jordan.
In an interview with The New York Sun, Mr. Frank said Mr. Jordan discussed in detail the plight of an Al-Jazeera reporter who had been detained by American forces, was made to eat his shoes while incarcerated in the Abu Ghraib prison, and was repeatedly mocked by his interrogators as "Al-Jazeera boy."
A man who said he was a producer with Al-Jazeera at the network's headquarters in Doha, Qatar, said he was unaware of any such incident, "although we have had problems with American troops in and out of Iraq." The Al-Jazeera producer refused to give his name.
Mr. Jordan's comments - prompted by a broader discussion of the dangers of covering the war in Iraq, in which some 63 journalists have been killed - left Mr. Frank, usually an outspoken war opponent, speechless.
"I was agog," he said. "I took a few seconds and asked him to basically clarify the remarks. Did he have proof and if so, why hadn't CNN run with the story?"
Why, indeed? And why would Jordan make claims, with no evidence, that reflect badly on his own country's military? There may be an answer later in the story:
Mr. Jordan's remarks might have shocked the American attendees, but they certainly played well among some in the audience. The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens, who covered the panel for his paper, told the Sun that after the panel concluded, Mr. Jordan was surrounded by European and Middle Eastern attendees who warmly congratulated him for his alleged "bravery and candor" in discussing the matter.
Worst case: Jordan said things he knew were probably false, in order to curry favor with influential people from countries that -- as CNN's American audience falls -- represent an important part of its market.
Best case: Jordan repeated rumors he had heard without knowing whether they were true or not.
Which is it? It's hard to say. And perhaps Frank -- along with several other attendees who have told essentially the same story of Jordan's remarks -- simply misremembered or misunderstood. There's a videotape of the presentation, but the folks who run the World Economic Forum at Davos are now backing away from earlier promises to make the tape available. In the absence of such evidence, people are likely to draw their own conclusions.
As CNBC host Larry Kudlow writes, "If the story is correct, CNN should have already fired Jordan. If the story is not true, Jordan or CNN must provide the counter-evidence."
We're waiting.
UPDATE: The folks at the World Economic Forum seem to be taking the "What happens in Davos, stays in Davos," approach, but satire-blogger Iowahawk has produced a transcript.
Frank: My point is, do you actually have any evidence of that? I mean that the US military deliberately killing journalists?
Jordan: Oh. Umm, okay, I think I see where you're going with that.
Well, there are certainly accusations of that, and obviously we wouldn't be doing our jobs as journalists if we didn't recognize the existence of the accusations.
Frank: But you just stated it as fact.
Jordan: Well, duh. It's a fact: there have been accusations.
Unidentified Voice: I am a journalist, and the Imperialist American soldiers killed me.
Jordan: See [pointing]? Well, there you go. Jesus, Barney, what's with the third degree here?
Read the whole thing. Er, and Eason: We're not laughing with you. We're laughing at you.
• February 7, 2005 | 10:17 PM ET
Last week I mentioned CNN executive Eason Jordan's comments at Davos, where he reportedly accused U.S. troops of targeting and killing journalists.
There's supposed to be a video, but neither Jordan nor the Davos staff seem to want to make it public. However, there were some eyewitnesses besides the bloggers I mentioned, and now they've weighed in:
Video: Eason Jordan story discussed Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA):
Farmin' the governmentFarm subsidies have been a favorite target of government-reform types for years. Now the Bush Administration is planning to cut them dramatically:
President Bush will seek deep cuts in farm and commodity programs in his new budget and in a major policy shift will propose overall limits on subsidy payments to farmers, administration officials said Saturday.
Such limits would help reduce the federal budget deficit and would inject market forces into the farm economy, the officials said.
The proposal puts Mr. Bush at odds with some of his most ardent supporters in the rural South, including cotton and rice growers in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
I confess that I'm one of those people who doesn't like farm subsidies. I even wrote a song about them for the Nebraska Guitar Militia (you can hear it here) and while it may not be the best song ever written, it's probably one of the top 40 farm-subsidy songs of recent years...
But the truth is, farm subsidies do more harm than good. They keep a few people on the land in places that would otherwise be emptier (as the song says: Bribin' us to take the place of Sioux and buffalo) but since most of them wind up going to big agribusinesses, not the "family farms" of political sloganeering, they don't even do much of that. (Bush's program is designed to cut subsidies to big agribusinesses the most, by capping payments). They generally either raise prices for poor people in the United States, or hurt sales by poor people abroad. Still, they're hard to avoid because the beneficiaries have a lot of political clout, and other people don't tend to care much.
Virginia Postrel thinks that this will be a test of whether the people who have criticized Bush's big-government tendencies will stop snarking and start supporting him when he does the right thing:
Will other Republicans stand up for fiscal responsibility and market principles? Will conservative pundits make a big deal of this issue?
Will the libertarians and liberals who've scored the Bush administration for its earlier fiscal (and trade) foolishness? In other words, is there any kind of vocal, principled coalition to balance the concentrated interests of subsidized agriculture?
I guess we'll find out.
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Lakhva in 1926 (then Łachwa, Poland), ulica Lubaczyńska (Lubaczynska Street)
|Coordinates: 52°13′N 27°06′E / 52.217°N 27.100°E
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|Luninets District
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Lakhva (or Lachva, Lachwa; Belarusian and Russian: Лахва, Polish: Łachwa, Yiddish: לאַכװע, romanized: Lakhve) is a small town in southern Belarus, with a population of approximately 2,100. Lakhva is considered to have been the location of one of the first,[1] if not the first,[2][3] Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War.
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Lakhva is located in the Luninets district of Brest Region, approximately 80 kilometres to the east of Pinsk and 200 kilometres south of Minsk. It lies on the Smierc River, to the north of the Pripet Marshes.
The town is located within Polesia, a marshy region that has historically been at the confluence of various empires and states. As such, Lakhva has, at various points in its history, been under Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Soviet, German, and Belarusian control.
16th century to 20th century
The earliest mentions of Lakhva are contained in records from the late 16th century pertaining to the Estate of Łachwa, a large private estate in what was then the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The estate was held jointly by the Radziwiłłs and the Kiszkas, two powerful and significant Szlachta (noble) families of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.[4]
The tax receipts and registers from the era, pertaining to the estate holdings of Prince Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł, indicate that grain farming played an unusually small role in the economy of the estate, as compared to other parts of the Grand Duchy. Given the marshy and wooded terrain, the local economy was instead dominated by fishing, hunting and forestry.[4]
On March 23, 1588, the Estate of Łachwa was formally divided between Prince Radziwiłł and Jan Kiszka, with the village falling within the Radziwiłł holdings. It is known that Lakhva became a town at some point during this period. The 1588 agreement between Radziwiłł and Kiszka dividing the estate refers to Lakhva as a village, but a document dated February 23, 1593 refers to it as a town and to its residents as townspeople. After 1593, archival documents consistently refer to Lakhva as a town. A tax receipt from 1596 indicates that the portions of the town subject to tax consisted of 7 houses in the town square, 60 street houses, 20 "poor dwellings" (chałupy nędzne), 2 craftsmen, 4 tenants without cattle, 4 vendors and one mill-wheel.[4]
Due to conflicting royal charters, Lakhva fell within the administrative control of both the powiat of Nowogródek and the powiat of Pinsk. Prince Radziwiłł apparently preferred to deal with the administration in Nowogródek, leading to protracted legal proceedings by the authorities in Pinsk. In 1600, King Sigismund III settled the dispute by confirming that Lakhva belonged to Nowogródek.[4]
The town remained within Poland until the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, when it was absorbed into the Russian Empire. Russian dominion over the area lasted until the end of the First World War, when the region was briefly ceded to the German Empire under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. After the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-21, Lakhva once again fell under Polish control, and was incorporated into the Polesie Voivodship of the Second Polish Republic. Located only 18 kilometres from the boundary of the Soviet Union,[5] the region was policed by the Polish Border Protection Corps.
Jewish settlement
Jewish settlement in Lakhva commenced in the latter half of the 17th century,[1][6] reflecting an eastward migration of Jews during that period.[7]
By the 20th century, Lakhva was a well-established shtetl with a rapidly growing Jewish population. At the end of the First World War, Jews constituted a third of the town's population, but by the late 1930s, the Jewish population had doubled to 2300 (out of an overall population of 3800).[6][8]
On September 17, 1939, Soviet troops entered Lakhva, following the partition of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union pursuant to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. the town was incorporated into the Byelorussian SSR.[6] As a result of the Soviet occupation, virtually all Jewish organizations ceased to function.[1] Even though Soviet authorities closed or placed heavy restrictions on Jewish cultural and religious institutions,[6] the Jewish population of Lakhva increased by 40% between 1939 and 1941, as Jewish refugees fled German-occupied areas to those lands incorporated into the Soviet Union.[3]
Jewish ghetto
Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and German troops occupied Lakhva on July 8, 1941, two weeks after the start of Operation Barbarossa.[8] On April 1, 1942, the town's Jews were forcibly moved into a ghetto consisting of two streets and 45 houses, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence.[3][8] The ghetto housed roughly 2,350 people, with approximately 1 square meter for every resident.[6] The Ghetto was to be liquidated on September 3, 1942 and a Jewish underground resistance formed, led by Icchak Rochczyn.[9] When the Germans entered the ghetto, an uprising occurred, and members of the ghetto underground attacked the Germans. This battle is believed to represent one of the first,[1] and possibly the first,[2][3] Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War. Approximately 650 Jews, including Rochczyn, were killed in the fighting and by the flames, and another 500 or so Jews were taken to the execution pits and shot. Six German soldiers and eight German and Ukrainian policemen were also killed. The ghetto fence was breached, and approximately 1000 Jews were able to escape. Approximately 90 residents of the ghetto survived the war.[3][8]
After the Second World War
The survivors of the Lakhva ghetto did not return to the town, settling in Israel and other countries instead.[1] At present, there are few, if any, Jewish inhabitants in Lakhva, although a small memorial to the 1942 Jewish uprising was erected in 1994.[10]
In 2000, Kopel Kolpanitsky, a survivor of the Lakhva ghetto, was one of six Holocaust survivors invited to speak at Yad Vashem during the state ceremonies for Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Day. Kolpanistky, who had been 16 years old at the time of the ghetto uprising and who managed to escape into the forest, recalled during the ceremony how his entire family was killed during the uprising.[11]
- ^ a b c d e Lachva, Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed., Volume 12, pp. 425-6 (Macmillan Reference USA, 2007).
- ^ a b Michaeli, Lichstein, Morawczik, and Sklar (eds.). First Ghetto to Revolt: Lachwa. (Tel Aviv: Entsyklopedyah shel Galuyot, 1957).
- ^ a b c d e Suhl, Yuri. They Fought Back. (New York: Paperback Library Inc., 1967), pp. 181-3.
- ^ a b c d Siekierski, M. The Estate of Łachwa of Prince Nicholas Christopher Radziwiłł (1549-1616): A Contribution to the Study of the Historical Geography and Economy of Southern Byelorussia, The Journal of Byelorussian Studies. (London: The Anglo-Byelorussian Society, 1981), Vol. V, No. 1, pp. 19-28.
- ^ Shworin, Aron. The forgotten resistance in Lachva. B'nai B'rith Canada. August 6, 2004. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2005-12-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) (last accessed October 1, 2006)
- ^ a b c d e Pallavicini, Stephen and Patt, Avinoam. "Lachwa", An Encyclopedic History of Camps, Ghettos, and Other Detention Sites in Nazi Germany and Nazi-Dominated Territories, 1933-1945: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. [1] (last accessed September 30, 2006)
- ^ Kriwaczek, Paul. Yiddish Civilization: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005).
- ^ a b c d Lachva, Multimedia Learning Centre: The Simon Wiesenthal Center. [2] (last accessed September 30, 2006)
- ^ Steinberg, p. 183.
- ^ Lakhva Holocaust Memorial. Belarusian News Agency Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Katzenell, Jack. Israel Remembers Holocaust Jews. Associated Press. May 1, 2000.
- Steinberg, L. (1974) Not as a Lamb: the Jews against Hitler, University of Glasgow Press: Glasgow.
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lakhva.
- General Information on Lakhva
- A visit to modern day Lakhva
- A visit to Belarus (including Lakhva)
- Account of Izak Lichtenstein of the Lakhva Uprising
- Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe
- The murder of the Jews of Lakhva during World War II, at Yad Vashem website
- Lakhva, Belarus at JewishGen


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I have a sharp tongue for making fun of Mercedes Benz. I was born near BMWs, so this is a natural consequence.
When we talk about the duel between inhouse tunners of such manufacturers, AMG and ///M, the jokes reached a whole new level. In general, I used to love making fun of the automatic gearboxes and lack of feel in the old days' AMGs. By 2008, however, things took a turn.
It was when I was acquainted with the C63 AMG. For the first time I could say that I had a good time driving a Benz. A new starting ground for AMG was created. Not only the cars were very powerful, now they had personality and character. A couple of years later, a good friend handled me the keys to his SLS and, although I was not a huge fan of the car's dynamics, I still remember to this day how emotional the Gullwing mordern reincarnation felt.
The curious thing about AMG since 2008 is that each new product shows that improving is mandatory. If in the early 2000's and through the 90's words such as "precision", "feel", "responsiveness" and "emotion" were absent from AMG's engineers vocabulary, nowadays the manufacturer has gone a different path. If BMW used to make fun of the Benz's 6.2 V8 naturally aspirated with its highly emotional 5.0 V10, in the turbocharger era, there is no denying that AMG has the nod with its 5.5 V8 twin turbo.
Call it downsizing, efficiency… whatever you want it, when Mercedes AMG announced its newest entry product, equipped with a small turbocharged 4 cylinder engine, you had to be a little skeptical. The brand notoriously known for its big displacement engines is now entering Honda and VW territory? When you threw in the equation the infamous A Class name, you had the perfect recipe for disaster. Luckily, I was so wrong.
The A45 AMG comes with a 2.0, 4 cylinder, turbocharged engine. VW and Audi have played in this territory for as long as I can remember. Some lunatic at AMG must have thought that it would be cool to have the most powerful 4 cylinder engine in the world to ever leave a line of production. The resuts are incredible – around 355 Hp and 45,8 Kgfm of torque.
Back in the day, let's say 5 years ago, this was kind of the aftermarket tunner's erotic dream – having such a small engine with so much power and no reliability issues. Nowadays, this means a normal and regular production car onboard the A45 AMG. It drives as if it was a normal Mercedes, until you put the pedal to the metal.
Mercedes AMG says that the gearbox is an automated double clutch called AMG Speedshift DCT. You can opt between 3 driving modes: (i) the "eco-boring"; (ii) Sport, for those with some intimacy with the manual gear changes; and (iii) the Manual per se. For the first time in an AMG, manual gear changes are genuinely good, the paddles behind the wheel have the smallest lag I have ever seen in these cars. In the SLS, for instance, your better chance at performing was leaving the gearbox to work on its own and refrain from making any inputs yourself.
During upshifts the gearbox is quite fast on the driver's commands. During downshifts, some German engineer must have woken up in a bad mood – the paddle will only respond once revs go below 4000 rpm. I am not going to say that it is on the same level of the BMW's DCT or Porsche's PDK, but it is good. It does not compromise the experience.
AMG never hid the fact their cars were a bit heavy, however, the inhouse tunner is really trying to improve this aspect (BMW, are you listenning?). When you put in the equation: all wheel drive + double clutch gearbox + AMG, you would expect another "fat" ass. Curiously, Mercedes says that the A45 AMG weights about 1.5 tons. In modern days of all electronics you can get, a car below 1.6 ton deserves a huge praise; and the A45 is agile and very nimble on its feet.
But that is not all. Mercedes has done an impressive job with the A45's suspension and chassi. The car I drove came with 19″ wheels (optional). Leaving your A45 AMG in "comfort" setting will result in a car that handles irregularities on the road really well. Bumps that would made your Mini Cooper cry for its mom will be taken with a lot of refinement by the Benz.
If you decide to spicy things up a bit and select the more agressive driving modes, the suspension will become stiffer, but not bordering impractical. Together will AWD, the A45 finds astonishing grip under all conditons. You can certainly note that this car is the result of miles of development at the Nurburgring, something you would usually expect from a BMW. The car really entertains those in search for the b-road adrenaline.
As I left the driveway in comfort mode, everything was so Mercedes-ish, very comfortable and silent. The suspension gave hints that it was a sport car, since it was a little more shaky than in an usual Benz. Gear changes very subtle and gentle. Light steering. Really versatile. Firm seats, but comfotable. Interior fit and finish really sporty, with carbon fibre applications.
As soon as the first open space cleared up, sport mode turned on…
Without thinking, my right foot went down, the instruments jumped. The A45 sky rocketed through the first 3 gears. I was trying to find hints of turbo lag in such a small engine, but was not able to find any. Grip and more grip… traction… traction a little more. I wish I could say it reminded me of a Subaru, but it is nothing like it at all. The car is very well put together – gearbox, steering, suspension and chassi all talk really well to each other. It is such an efficient manner to cut through traffic, going from point A to B, so competent and efficient! At each upshift I hear bursts coming from the exhaust… really agressive, but a bit artificial (as it is indeed). These bursts actually make up for a very good substitute for the V8 growl from the bigger brothers.
Launch control time (race start) is so damn cool. The A45's jump is really stupid. Hard to explain with words. It is among the greatest feelings you can get from a launch control. It is so strong that you feel the wheels will jump out of the car and leave the rest behind.
Let's see how this baby corners. My friend is at the steering wheel first and I see him point to the left and feed some throttle. The car stays put in the corner line. At that point I thought that he must had lift off a bit. A couple of minutes later, it was my time to do the same. As I approached the corner, I was waiting for the electronic babysitters to jump in and tell how much of a bad boy I was, but nothing showed. The car is so perfectly balanced.
I really had to put an effort to make the A45 understeer. The car is really neutral in most daily conditions. Definitely worth of the go-kart trophy. My friend told me this – when pushing its boundaries, the A45 will understeer, but in the roads where I tested it, the only thing I could focus on was how precisely the car took the turns. It is really that sharp. Who would have thought an AMG could behave like this?
Although it was a brief test, it was enough to surprise me. If future AMGs will follow this path, competitors need to move their asses. Long gone are the days when we could make fun of AMGs lack of precision. If the A45 AMG's gearbox will be the pattern from now on, the experience will be much more involving. I can only wonder how much good this gearbox would have been in the SLS.
The A45 AMG is likely to be the most competent hot hatch I have ever driven. This "little thing" is fast for standards above its own category. It is seriously quick not only compared to other hatches. It will give serious sport cars a run for their money. Until about 100 mph, it will hold its own against competitors that cost the double of the price.
AWD is a must nowadays. I cannot see a car such as the A45 AMG as a RWD, for instance. It is sad, but not all of us (including me) are super heroes behind the wheel, with pilot sharp reflexes and skills. This brings me to a comparison which some of you who know the car may relate to – the A45 AMG is like a scale down version of the Nissan GTR.
Maybe this is the only deffect I can find in the car. It does everything so well with the help of traction and electronics that there is no denying that the driver is kind of left out of the equation. Just brake, point and turn. Not to say that the A45 AMG is not a driver's car, but I guess that for the idiots like me the combination of rear wheel drive and a manual gearbox still sounds for tempting (cof… cof… BMW 1M…). You will not behave like an idiot behind the wheel of an A45 AMG, you will be fast, but I bet you will not laugh your ass as much as you would onboard a BMW.
Aside from the above, I still feel the steering wheel could be a little less light. Other than this, it is hard to find problems with the A45 AMG. It is that good.
In much aspects it is really close in proposal to the discontinued BMW 1M and the Audi RS3. The BMW is a different atmosfere in terms of experience. Compared to the Audi, it is as if the Benz picked up all that was wrong with the RS3 and made it better and faster.


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BM# 74: Week 2/ Day 3
Theme: Quick and Delicious Stir Fries
Dish: Stir fried Bok Choy with Noodle Cake
For the final day of this week's Stir fries theme, I made this stir fried bok choy with noodle cake. Recipe is from 'The complete vegetarian cookbook' by America's Test Kitchen. In this recipe, bok choy and red pepper are stir fried with a simple sauce and then served over a crispy noodle cake.
One of the beauties of stir frying is that it can be done quickly with just about anything in the refrigerator. But there a few tips and tricks for making a great stir fry. First is to have all the veggies chopped and ready to go. Choosing the right vegetables is the key — sturdy veggies that withstand high temperature but still cook quickly are the best like peppers, eggplant, onion, broccoli etc. Lastly don't overcrowd the pan which causes the veggies to steam instead of sear.Today's recipe uses simple vegetables bok choy and red bell pepper. Stir fry sauce is made with veggie broth, soy sauce, sherry and vegetarian oyster sauce to give a thick, full flavored sauce.Instead of serving the stir fry with rice or noodles, here it is served over crispy panfried noodle cake. Fresh Chinese noodles are cooked through and then packed into a nonstick skillet to get a crispy and crunchy exterior with the tender and chewy center. I totally loved this colorful and delicious stir fry. The noodle cake had amazing texture and the saucy stir fried veggies make this dish a winner.
Lets check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM# 74.
Stir fried Bok Choy with Noodle Cake
For the Noodle Cake & Vegetables
- 8 oz. Fresh Chinese Noodles (make sure they are not made with eggs for vegan version)
- 3 Scallions, thinly sliced
- 4 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Freshly grated ginger
- 2 Garlic clove, finely minced
- 1 Small head Bok Choy, stalks cut in ¼" slices and greens cut into ½" strips
- 1 Medium Red Pepper, cut into ¼"strips
- To taste salt
For the Stir Fry Sauce:
- ¼ cup vegetable broth
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp Vegetarian Oyster Sauce
- 2 tsp Dry Sherry
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- To taste Red Pepper flakes
Make the Sauce:
- Whisk all the ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl.
For the Noodle Cake and Vegetables:
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil, add the noodles and 1tbsp slt and cook, stirring often, about 2~3 minutes. Make sure not to overcook.
- Drain thoroughly. Add scallions and ½tsp salt to the noodles. Toss well to combine.
- Preheat the oven to 200°F. Place a wire rack on a baking sheet and keep ready.
- Heat a large nonstick skillet with 2tbsp oil over medium heat until shimmering. Add the noodles and press into cake with spatula. Cook until crisp and golden brown on the bottom, about 5~8 minutes.
- Slide the cake onto a large plate. Add 1tbsp more oil to the pan; invert the cake to cook the other side. Cook for 5~8 minutes or until crisp and golden. Slide the cake onto the prepared wire rack and place it in the oven to keep warm.
- Add the remaining 1tbsp oil to the same pan, along with ginger, garlic and cook till fragrant, about 30 seconds.
- Next add the bok choy stalks and bell pepper; cook until crisp-tender about 2~3 minutes.
- Stir in bok choy greens and cook till wilted about 1~2 minutes.
- Add the sauce and cook till thickened, about 1 minute. Serve hot over noodle cake.


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The day he was kissed by his little sister. After returning to his own room, Keiki immediately called his parents.
"—Yeah, yeah, helloooo?"
"Hello, Dad?!"
"Uwa?! Wait what, why are you panicking like this? You see, I'm the middle of my job right now~"
"I don't care about that at all."
"Ehhh, isn't that a bit too cruel?"
"I have something important to talk about. I'll just be as direct as possible but… Are Mizuha and I only siblings-in-law?"
"Eh? Ah, yeah, that's right."
"So flippant?!"
Because of the heaviness of this information, Keiki couldn't back his voice.
"How is Mizuha my sister-in-law?"
"No wait, you don't remember?"
"Ahhh, well it makes sense. Both you and Mizuha were really young at the time… Actually, Mizuha is the daughter of a dear friend of your mother. I guess it's been around 10 years already. You see, Mizuha lost both of her parents in an accident. Since she didn't have any other relatives, we decided to take her in."
Mizuha's parents had passed away in an accident. Hearing of his precious little sister's past, Keiki's chest hurt immensely.
"…So basically, Mizuha was adopted?"
"That's exactly right."
"Why did you never tell me something important like that?"
"Because there was no need for it. Even if we're not related by blood, she was a full-fledged member of our family. Both me and Mother thought of her as a real daughter."
"And to be honest, a daughter is cuter than a son, you know?"
"I didn't want to hear that at all!!!"
Overwhelmed by anger, Keiki cut the call. For a second, he had actually thought that his father was cool. But not after that last piece of unnecessary information.
"So we really aren't related by blood…"
Now that he had confirmation from his parents, there was no need to doubt it anymore. Keiki and Mizuha weren't related at all. It sounded absolutely impossible, but he had to accept it. The most prominent proof was probably that they didn't look like each other in the slightest.
Keiki looked average, while Mizuha was an incomparable beauty. The older brother's hair was straight, while the little sister's hair had lovable curls. Even that kid they had met in the park a while ago said that they didn't look like each other at all. And ever since he had walked in on Mizuha when she was in the middle of changing in the bathroom, he couldn't help but feel nervous around her. Thinking about it, Keiki's body had probably always seen her as a member of the opposite sex, instead of as his little sister. Feeling your heart skip a beat because of the opposite sex is a completely normal reaction.
Letting out a long sigh, Keiki collapsed onto his bed.
"…I never expected my little sister to be Cinderella…"
He also never suspected that she was adopted and wasn't his blood-related little sister at all. So much information assaulted his brain that he couldn't come up with anything. Nevertheless, Keiki had to think about the love letter again.
No matter how cute she is, Mizuha is still my little sister—
With these thoughts in mind, he wanted to respond properly to Mizuha's confession. Of course, he couldn't have anticipated that she was actually his adopted sister.
"What in the world should I do now…?"
Is it okay to go out with her now that they know that they aren't blood-related? Is it okay as long as she's cute?
And even if it was technically socially acceptable, what about the feelings of the people involved?
"And also, even if they tell me that we're not related after all this time…"
There is no way that he would be able to see her as a member of the opposite sex after having lived with her as family members under the same roof for so long.
It had been around three months since he found that love letter in the clubroom. He had finally found out that the sender was his little sister, and had even found out that they weren't blood related. But the prince's story with Cinderella was still far from over.
Part 2:
Around 2 hours had passed since Keiki declared that he was going to run away, and it was now around 10am. Immediately after the stores opened, three figures including Keiki could be seen seated at a restaurant. Across the table from Keiki, the "Akiyama Shouma and Ootori Koharu couple" (temp) was sitting. While the boys we wearing comfortable clothing, Koharu came wearing a water-colored one-piece with a cardigan instead of her usual hoodie. When Keiki called them for assistance, both of them gathered here without complaining at all.
"So just as you had imagined, Kiryuu-kun, your Cinderella was really your little sister."
"Not to mention that Mizuha-chan is actually adopted."
After they all had ordered iced coffees, Keiki explained the recent events and the identity of the Cinderella whom he had been looking for for so long. And of course the fact that said Cinderella was actually his little sister. Just like Keiki, both Koharu and Shouma were very surprised by that grand reveal.
"You were living under the same roof for so long without realizing that you weren't related? How idiotic."
"Well, now that you say it, you really don't look like siblings at all."
"Since you both were in the same year, I thought that you were twins."
"It was totally obvious after I had found out about Cinderella's identity thanks to Koharu-senpai's photo…."
The day the letter was left behind in the clubroom, Koharu had taken a photo. Inside said photo Keiki saw Miharu, at a time and place where she should not have been, which was why he was able to deduce that she was Cinderella.
"And when Keiki was about to turn her down, Mizuha-chan revealed that you actually aren't related, huh?"
"Not to mention that she stole your first kiss, which resulted in you not being able to answer her. And now your relationship is as awkward as it gets, right?"
"Yes, that's about the sum of it."
"So Cinderella turned out to be the prince's little sister… now that's a really novel idea, isn't it?"
"Finding out that a family member of more than ten years isn't actually blood-related is just total trouble. And then she confessed her love for me and suddenly kissed me… I have no idea what's happening anymore," Keiki sighed and rested his head on the table.
"But, from what I can tell, Mizuha-chan is quite the catch, right?"
"I mean yeah, Mizuha is a beauty. She's cute, kind, worries about me, and does a lot of housework, but…"
"Mizuha is my little sister, you know?"
"She's not blood-related though, right?"
"Even so, I can't just see her as a member of the opposite sex."
"Well, I guess you're right. It really is a difficult situation."
After Shouma expressed his sympathy, Koharu spoke up.
"To me, a forbidden relationship between an older brother and a little sister sounds pretty exciting."
"Koharu-senpai really likes gossip, doesn't she?"
"Every girl does."
"I see. So how far have you gone with Shouma, Koharu-senpai?"
Koharu twitched while sucking on her straw at the sudden change of topic.
"…Eh? What's with that reaction? D-Don't tell me, have you already…?"
This girl who looked like a grade school student was actually in her third year of high school. Though she doesn't look legal, she was in fact above the age of consent. Since they were a young couple going out with each other, it might be too much for them to handle, and they could have given in to their desires. After going to the beach together, they might have just stayed at a nearby hotel…
"……Gulp," Keiki gulped.
In the middle of this tense atmosphere, Koharu slowly started talking with flushed cheeks.
"Actually, a while ago, Shouma-kun kissed me on the cheek!"
"Are you a grade schooler or something?!"
In response, Koharu put both her hands on her cheeks, letting out an embarrassed "Kyaa~~~", and even Keiki had to accept the fact that she looked really cute.
"Thank God… I was worried that Shouma wouldn't be able to hold himself back if Koharu-senpai showed herself in a swimsuit in front of him…"
"Just what kind of monster do you think I am?"
"You're a lolicon, right?"
"Yeah, well, you're right."
The ikemen freely admitted to the title bestowed upon him.
"Anyway, let's get back on topic. Keiki. You're running away from home right now, aren't you?"
"I couldn't keep up with it all. I really need some time to think."
"I see."
"So I wanted to ask Shouma if I could crash at his place for a while."
"I really want to help you, but right now, the older brother of my cousin is staying over."
"Ahhh… that's not going to happen then, is it?"
Apparently said person was a university student, so he should be on his summer vacation too. Keiki would feel like a total bother if he stayed over at Shouma's house right now.
"Then what about my house?" Koharu offered.
"Eh, would that be fine?"
"Yes, we have a lot of free rooms."
"A home with a lot of free rooms…"
Just what you would expect from the daughter of a company president. The amount of rooms in her home was fundamentally different from a commoner like Keiki.
"Then I'll have take you up on that offer."
"You're going to stay over at Koharu-chan's home…?"
"—?! Is that killing intent I feel?!"
Keiki felt murderous intent crawling up his back, and his friend's face entered his view. Shouma had bloodshot eyes.
"…Somehow, I feel a stare of envy directed at me, so I might have to decline that offer after all."
"Is that so?"
"Koharu-senpai really is loved~"
It looked like the relationship between the couple (temporary) was processing quite well. Since Shouma showed this much concern for Koharu, Keiki doubted that the day when they would start going out officially was that far away. And as a friend to both of them, he felt really happy.
After bidding farewell to Shouma and Koharu, the runaway young boy was now in a nearby park, lost in thought.
"I ran away in the heat of the moment, but what should I do now…?"
He contemplated this serious problem while sitting on a park bench. Kiryuu Keiki-kun's runaway plan consisted of… nothing at all, and the only items currently in his possession were his smartphone and his slim wallet. Of course, he didn't have enough income to book a room at a hotel to spend the night.
"…It's so hot… I miss the AC…"
Since it was already August, it had gotten even hotter than before, and the sunlight was burning his skin. The UV index was even higher than usual for this time of year. Normally, Keiki would make his way back to his cool and comfortable home immediately. However, since he was the person who had announced that he was running away, that was something he couldn't do, especially not in a situation like this.
I haven't even cleared anything up yet…
What should he do now that he had found out that he wasn't actually related to Mizuha?
What kind of answer should he give in response to her confession?
His feelings still weren't cleared up.
"…That reminds me, Mizuha and I ate some ice cream on this very bench before."
That was back when Yuika and Mao had joined the calligraphy clubroom. He met Mizuha on his way home from school and decided to buy some ice cream at the shop that had opened close by here recently. At the time, he had no idea that the girl held romantic affection towards her older brother.
"Even though we're always together, I didn't understand Mizuha one bit."
Especially that smile she always showed him. What kinds of feelings did she have as she continue to live under the same roof as Keiki? Maybe he had only seen one side of Kiryuu Mizuha up until now.
"—Oh, if it isn't Kiryuu?"
"Ah, Nanjou?"
The person who called out to him was his classmate, Nanjou Mao. She was wearing glasses with plain clothing, and seemed to have given her hair no attention whatsoever that morning. She was carrying a bag from the convenience store in her hand. As if it was the most natural thing to do, she walked up to Keiki and sat down next to him.
"What are you doing in a place like this, Kiryuu?"
"I could ask the same of Nanjou. I'm not used to seeing you looking like that."
"D-Don't stare too much. I can't help it. I pulled an all-nighter last night."
"An all-nighter?"
"I'm sort of in a slump with my shoujo manga, you see. When I wanted to try a change of pace, I worked on a BL manga for an event, and before I had realized it, it was already morning."
"I-Is that so…?"
"And, since I had gotten hungry, I went to buy some food."
"Now that you mention it, it's almost time for lunch."
As soon as the word 'lunch' came up, Keiki's stomach started rumbling.
"Are you hungry too, Kiryuu?"
"I haven't eaten anything this morning, yeah."
"Really? I don't have anything but anpan, but you can have some if you'd like."
(TLC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anpan)
"…Nanjou is a goddess."
"It's just bread. Not to mention that a goddess wouldn't be wearing a tracksuit like this."
With that, both of them started eating their anpan. Maybe it was because he was starving, but Keiki thought that the anpan tasted even more delicious than usual.
"So, Kiryuu, what happened?"
"Eh, what do you mean?"
"Anybody would be able to tell that something is off if they saw you sitting here dejected."
"Ahhhh, actually, there's some weird thing going on between Mizuha and me."
"What, you had a fight? Since it's Kiryuu we're talking about, you probably did something perverted to Mizuha, right? Peeking while she was taking a bath, sniffing her panties, or something like that."
"Just who do you think I am?"
"A hopeless siscon."
"Yeah, that's right."
He didn't have any rebuttal to that.
"Well, fights always happen, no matter how close you are. My mom and I often fight."
"Is that so?"
"When I don't do the laundry right, when the food she makes isn't any good… fights happen a lot because of the smallest reasons. That's something that makes you a family, I think."
"Mizuha and I have never really fought all that much, though."
"Isn't that maybe just because she's been holding back? Mizuha isn't the type of person to be selfish, right?"
"…You might be right about that."
The kind, thoughtful Mizuha would never complain or get mad. Just like Mao said, Mizuha never was selfish, nor did she ever ask for anything unreasonable. Even so, she would always stay firm when it came to Keiki. That basically showed just how important Keiki was to her.
"Mizuha is pretty popular with the boys, you know?"
"Is that so?"
"She's not the type to stand out, but she is cute. She's polite, kind to everyone, and the type of person who's liked by both boys and girls. Ever since she entered high school, she's been confessed to countless times."
"Well, she never once accepted any of them, though."
"Why do you look like you're relieved? You're such a siscon."
"I'm sorry for being a siscon."
—But I wonder why?
When Keiki imagined the scene of Mizuha getting confessed to, he felt a really unpleasant feeling in his chest. Since this had never happened before, he was also at a loss.
"By the way, I actually need some advice from Kiryuu. Do you mind if I ask?"
"It's not that big of a deal, okay? I would be happy if you gave me a bit of your time, that's all."
"Well, I don't mind."
"Really? Yay~!" Mao said with a child-like smile on her face.
And before Keiki had a chance to react, a sketchbook and pencil appeared in her hands.
"Then I'll make you pay for the anpan — With your body."
"Now, be obedient and take off your underwear!"
"W-Wait a second, what are you saying?"
"Really, you're so dense. I need you to do this so that I can properly draw a penis."
"Seriously, what are you saying?!"
"Fu fu fu… I don't get a chance like this very often. I'll make use of Kiryuu's banana, and turn it into some great material for my new work!"
"I wholeheartedly decline!"
"What are you getting embarrassed for? That's weirdly cute, you know? Kehehehehe. I'll make you strip even if you don't want to!"
"This isn't good. Is she completely off her rocker because of her all-nighter?! W-Wait! Don't put your hand on my pants!"
People who are suffering from sleep deprivation have a high chance of losing their grip on reality. She was pretty weird normally, but the current Mao-sensei was in even greater spirits than usual.
"Isn't it fine isn't it fine~!"
Before his female classmate was able to pull down his pants in a public park, Keiki desperately ran away.
"…Haaah… Haaah… I wasted precious energy…"
Around 5 minutes had passed. Keiki put one hand on a telephone pole to steady himself and deep breaths. Luckily, the fujoshi wasn't chasing after him.
"…Why did I even run away from home?"
Why did Keiki run away — from Mizuha? The reason for all of it was because she turned out to be his Cinderella. After he found out that his longed-for Cinderella was his little sister, he was confessed to by her, and he found out that they weren't actually connected by blood. Since she had confessed, they wouldn't be able to return to their previous relationship. Whether he accepted her feelings or not. He wouldn't be able to treat her the same way he did before. They probably wouldn't be able to return to being normal siblings. Realizing that was more painful than Keiki had ever imagined.
"Ahh, I see. I'm just scared of giving her an honest answer."
The time he had spent with Mizuha was so much of a blessing that he had believed it would last forever. However, finding out that she was Cinderella had brought those peaceful days to an end. Whatever answer Keiki came up with, their current relationship would shatter, never to be repaired again. Even though he should've been able to make up his mind when he confronted her that day at the pool. But he didn't even give her a response.
Before Keiki had even realized it was cloudy, it had started raining.
"Rain, huh…"
Even though the weather had been so sunny and hot earlier, the sky had suddenly turned an ominous grey, and the world was wrapped in darkness.
Of course, Keiki didn't have an umbrella. He couldn't exactly check the weather forecast this morning, after all.
"…I guess I'll go home."
Like that, the young boy's running away from home ended after around half a day. Of course, he was completely drenched by the time he got back home.
Part 3:
The following morning, Keiki was lying down on his bed.
"—38.5 degrees. You have quite the fever," Mizuha said in a worried tone after checking the thermometer.
The reason for his cold was without a doubt the rain from the previous day.
"I made some rice porridge, so try to eat a bit. If not, you can't take your medicine."
"……I'm sorry, Mizuha."
"You're sick, so it's fine."
With her usual kind smile, she started feeding him some porridge. Keiki didn't even have the energy to feel embarrassed about it, so he allowed himself to be fed, drank the medicine, and laid down again. When he closed his eyes, he could hear the faint rain still coming down outside. Since it had been raining since the previous morning, it was colder than you would expect it to be, since this August had been rather warm so far. Or maybe it only felt cold because his body was undergoing a fever.
"…My head hurts… I'll just sleep…"
Inside the comfy blanket that Mizuha had given him, Keiki slipped away into the land of dreams.
And when Keiki opened his eyes again, it was already past noon.
What greeted him wasn't his little sister sitting next to the bed, but a girl with long black hair. She was wearing a skirt and a matching blouse. Politely sitting on a pillow, Tokihara Sayuki noticed that Keiki had opened his eyes.
"Ah, you're awake. How are you feeling?"
"Uhm… a little bit better."
"I'm glad to hear that."
"Sayuki-senpai, why are you here?"
"I met Mizuha-san in the supermarket. She told me that Keiki-kun had gotten a cold. Ah, Mizuha-san should be making some lunch right now. She really is a wonderful little sister."
"That's right… She is."
Ever since his parents had gotten too busy to stay at home, Mizuha would always look after Keiki when he caught a cold. Remembering those times, he felt his chest getting warm.
"And I will be nursing Keiki-kun until lunch is done."
"No, there's no need for Senpai to go this far…"
"It's fine. We have to help each other out when we're in trouble. I'll start nursing you immediately."
Saying that, Sayuki stood up and took off her panties.
"Senpai?! What are you doing?!"
"What am I doing…? I'm taking off my panties."
"In order to help Keiki-kun regain his energy. There's no way that a boy wouldn't get his energy back after receiving a girl's freshly-worn panties."
"Panties aren't some sort of energy drink, you know!"
"Now then, enjoy my panties to your heart's content. You can sniff them, lick them, or even try putting them on."
"I won't?!"
"Impossible… I thought that Keiki would totally be the type to bite into them with no remorse at all."
"Just what kind of opinion do you have of me…?"
"Hmm. It seems like panties were the wrong choice. Then would this be the right way to go about it?"
"Right way to go about what?"
"I'll just do this."
After pulling her panties back on, Sayuki snuggled up in the blanket next to Keiki, like a cat who wanted to be spoiled.
"Senpai… What are you doing?"
"We're sleeping together. Since it's a bit cold today, I'm going to warm my master up."
"It's true that it's warmer this way, but still…"
"Until lunch is ready, we can just relax a bit like this. I'll do this for you until you fall asleep."
"Even if you say that…"
He wasn't sure if it was because of the embarrassment or the tension, but Keiki was now wide awake.
"Fufu, Keiki-kun, your face is getting red, you know?"
"Whose fault do you think that is…?"
His complaint was ignored, and Sayuki started stroking Keiki's hair.
"Keiki-kun. When we were at the pool, you saved me when my bikini top got washed away, right?"
"Ahh, something like that happened, yes."
When the whole crew had gone to the pool, he tried to hide Sayuki's bare upper body by tightly hugging her. In retrospect, that was quite a bold move from him.
"You're always saving me. You saved me when the calligraphy club was about to be abolished, and you saved me that time at the pool. I can't do anything but calligraphy, and I can't cook like Mizuha-san. Staying by your side like this is probably the only thing I can do. I want to do something for Keiki-kun, you know."
Those words echoed inside Keiki's head. He was unable to give up on her entirely precisely because she said things like this from time to time.
"So If Keiki-kun wishes for it, you can even bury your face into my breasts, you know?"
"Please give me back my admiration. But if that's the case, then can you stroke my head a bit more?"
"Your wish is my command."
Seeming to be happy that she had the chance to spoil him, she had a gleeful smile on her face. Keiki was about to close his eyes and give in to the warmth surrounding him—
"…Suuu… Suuu…"
"Senpai completely fell asleep."
It had only been a few moments since they had started lying next to each other. While Keiki was busy thinking about how to deal with this situation, the door to the room slightly opened.
"Nii-san, are you awake?"
The worst timing possible. What his little sister could plainly see was her beloved older brother sleeping with a back-haired beauty next to him. After an awkward pause, Mizuha, holding the tray with Keiki's lunch on it, turned around on her heel.
"Please take your time~"
"You're wrong! You're really, really wrong!"
Stopped by her older brother's desperate plea, Mizuha let out a sigh and turned around once more.
"Nii-san, how did it come to this?"
"Senpai just did this on her own. Don't tell me… Are you mad, Mizuha-san?"
"Not really. It's Nii-san's business after all."
"Come on, you have to hurry and eat so that you can take your medicine."
With this tension-filled atmosphere, Keiki ate some dinner. After making sure that he had swallowed the medicine, Mizuha took the tableware with her and left the room.
"…Ahh, my head is spinning again…"
Since he didn't have that much of an appetite, he couldn't eat much dinner.
Keiki hadn't gotten a cold since he became a high school student, so he had completely forgotten what it felt like. By the way, Sayuki was still next to him, sound asleep.
"She's just doing her own thing as usual…"
While he started poking at the girl's cheeks, the door once more opened and a girl with a small stature poked her face in.
"…Yuika heard that you weren't feeling well, but you seem to be in high spirits like usual."
It was Koga Yuika, a fellow member of the library committee, and Keiki's kouhai. She had blonde hair, and she looked straight at Keiki with her blue eyes as she entered the room.
"Did you do something with Witch-senpai?"
"I didn't do anything. She just crawled into my bed and fell asleep. Yuika-chan, why are you here?"
"Yuika got a email from Witch-senpai saying that Keiki-senpai wasn't feeling well, so she came to check on him."
"It's just a cold, though."
"Don't pretend to be better than you are. Keiki-senpai looks terrible."
"Well yeah, I'm really not feeling up to much."
"Ahh, you really became a weakling… But a Senpai like this isn't too bad, either."
"Yeah, sorry. I don't feel like playing along with that at all."
Having been restrained by that phrase, the girl quietly sat down next to the bed.
"For now, Yuika has brought you some souvenirs."
"You didn't have to do that."
"No no, Yuika thought of bringing them now that Senpai is so weak."
What Yuika took out of her bag was a red collar. For some reason, it was the sort of collar that you would see on a dog's neck.
"…This is?"
"A collar for pets."
"I'll ask this up front, but why a collar?"
"It's fine. Just leave everything to Yuika. She will personally turn you into a proper pet."
"What exactly is fine about this?! It doesn't feel like there's anything fine at all?!"
"Should Yuika put it on you herself?"
"I won't wear it, okay!"
His Kouhai was as crazy as ever. She's crazy enough to try to force her male Kouhai to wear something like that.
"Ahaha, Yuika is only joking about the collar. This is what she brought for real."
Putting the collar away, Yuika took out several paperback books.
"You have a a lot of free time when you're sick, after all. That's why Yuika chose the books that Senpai was most likely to enjoy."
"Ohh, thank you."
"Fufufu, there are actually books that curse you when you read them, you know?"
"Please don't waste them on me. Take those ones back home with you."
"Ehhh? Please give them a try~ If you do, you might be unable to go to the toilet at night just like Yuika."
"No thank you."
"That's a shame, but Yuika can't help it, it seems. How about we finally wake up that big-breasted ghost over there?"
"Eh? Yuika-chan?"
The blonde-haired girl lifted herself up and stood up next to the bed. She grabbed the shoulders of the sleeping upperclassmen—
"—Here we go!"
—And pulled Sayuki off the bad with all her might.
After falling to the floor, Sayuki's eyes shot open.
"What are you doing, really…?" Sayuki rubbed her butt as she slowly got up.
In response, Yuika flashed a victorious smile.
"Good morning, Witch-senpai."
"Oh? Just when I was wondering who it was. It's Koga-san. Why are you here?"
"Wasn't Witch-senpai the one who sent Yuika the email? 'Since Keiki-kun can't resist today, we can do whatever we want,' it said."
"Don't look at me with those eyes, Keiki-kun. It was just a joke," Sayuki averted her eyes when Keiki glared at her.
"That being said, Yuika will be the one taking over the duty of nursing Keiki-senpai. This big-breasted useless girl can go home already, since she wasn't helping at all."
"What did you say…?"
"You two. Can you not start a fight right here?"
Tension started to fill the room.
"That's right. How about a truce for as long as Keiki-senpai isn't feeling well?"
"You say that, but what exactly are you doing, Koga-san?"
Yuika climbed onto the bad and hugged Keiki's arm.
"Fufu, this time Yuika will be sleeping together with you, okay?"
"I will be the one to warm Keiki-kun up, like a loyal pet."
Maybe because she didn't want to lose to her Kouhai, Sayuki followed suit and grabbed Keiki's other arm.
"Hey, Keiki-kun? You like big breasts, so you won't be satisfied by Koga-san, right?"
"You really deserve the name 'Witch-senpai!' Are you trying to seduce Keiki-senpai with your body?"
Both of them started fighting while lying next to Keiki.
"Uhm… I'm actually sick right now, so can you fight somewhere else, please?"
His body started feeling even more hot, and he could feel his soul leaving his body.
"—A flower in either hand, I see, Nii-san."
All of a sudden, the door opened, and Mizuha was standing in the doorway.
"Now now, you two. We wouldn't want this poor Nii-san to suffer any more than he has to."
"That's also true."
"Why do you two listen to Mizuha and not me?"
Since neither of them had listened to him at all, Keiki was still less than satisfied. Whatever the reason, he had been saved from that situation thanks to Mizuka, and could now let out a relieved sigh.
Part 4:
After that, Keiki had a dream.
It was an incident that occurred more than 10 years ago, when Keiki was still only 4 years old. On a certain day, his parents suddenly came home with a girl he had never seen before. She looked to be about the same age like Keiki. His father said "This girl will become a part of our family from today onwards."
"That's right. Since your birthday is before hers, she will be your little sister."
"Little sister…"
When Keiki looked at the girl again, she whispered these words with a sad expression.
At that time, Keiki didn't know why she had suddenly become family, or why she had made such a face. But he didn't want the girl to keep making that face.
"What's your name?"
"Mizuha, huh? I'm Keiki. Mizuha's Onii-chan."
"Yeah, I'm your Onii-chan. Since we're family now, we'll be always together from now on."
"…Always……….together……" Mizuha looked dumbfounded as she opened her mouth. "…Wahhhhhh…!"
And she suddenly started crying.
"H-Huh? Why are you crying?!"
Keiki panicked, trying to stop her from crying. He didn't know why the girl was crying. Since he was just a child, he could only softly stroke her hair and try to comfort her.
That was the first memory Keiki had of Mizuha. The long-ago day on which they became family. The day they became siblings. A very important memory.
When he opened his eyes, bright moonlight peeked through the gaps of the curtains. He forced his body to stand up inside the dark room and reminisced about the dream he had just had.
"Why did I forget about that…?"
The dream was about the first time that Keiki and Mizuha had met.
"At the time, I told Mizuha that I would become her Onii-chan."
Wanting that sad expression to turn into a smile, he had said those words. When she started crying, Keiki could only stroke her hair and try to calm her down. In response, she stopped crying, and she hadn't separated from him for quite some time.
Thinking about it, that had probably been right after the girl lost her parents. Her parents must've meant everything to a small child like her. Since she had lost her everything, it wouldn't have been odd for her heart to break into pieces. The girl must surely still remember that scene as well.
"…I've decided. From now on, I'll stay as Mizuha's Nii-san."
Until now, they had been living under the same roof as family. For more than ten years, they were family.
Even if we're not related by blood, Mizuha and I are family. We're siblings.
This has to be the right choice, Keiki thought. When morning came, he would act as an older brother, the same as always. Though they might not go back to exactly how they were, he wanted to make an honest effort. He wanted to make sure that they both could continue being close siblings just like they were before.
"…Still, what a weird time to be so clear-headed."
When he checked the time, it was 1 am in the morning. Since he had slept since lunch, his body felt better and his fever had gone down drastically.
"I guess I'll go wash my face."
Though he wanted to take a shower, he decided not to since he still wasn't completely better yet. After stepping out of his room, Keiki headed towards the bathroom. He went down the stairs and opened the door.
Even though it was this late, there was still a light on in there. When he looked around, he saw a naked girl, having apparently just finished her bath.
Both of them froze and stared at each other. Returning back to her senses a bit faster than Keiki, Mizuha hid her body with the towel in her hands.
"Ah, s-sorry!"
Shortly after, Keiki also realized the situation he was in, and hurriedly turned his back to her.
"…I'm really sorry. I didn't think that you would be taking a bath this late."
"Ah, yeah… It's okay. I'm fine if it's Nii-san."
"No, you can get angry at me. It was my fault."
"I won't. It's embarrassing, but I don't mind being seen by the person I like."
"Ah, uhm… Thanks for the treat…"
Keiki became flustered by Mizuha's bold words. Even if an older brother shouldn't ever get excited by his little sister's naked body, he couldn't stop his heart from racing.
"…I'll be waiting in the hallway, so call me when you're ready," Keiki said and left.
He stood outside the bathroom in the hallway and rested his back against the closed door, trying to cool his head. Though he could hear the sound of rustling clothes behind him, he tried not to think about it.
"That reminds me. Nii-san, is it fine for you to be up already?"
"Ahh, yeah, my fever went down quite a lot, so it's all good."
"Then it's fine, but don't overdo it, okay?"
"…Ahh, I see."
While they were talking through the door, Keiki realized why she was taking a shower this late. She had probably been watching over him, always by his side.
"A-Ahh, yeah, I know. I won't exert myself too much."
"Mmm, it seems like you understand," Mizuha said with in a satisfied tone. She then changed the topic. "But still, you must be very lucky to have a flower in each hand like you did this afternoon. Any boy would be envious of you sleeping with those two cute girls."
"Honestly, I wasn't even able to enjoy it at all because of the heat."
"I wonder about that. You didn't seem all too displeased."
"You seem to be quite displeased, Mizuha-san."
"…Not really."
This way of talking was pretty rare for her. And she had been like this ever since Sayuki and Yuika went home.
"If I recall correctly, something similar happened before when both of them came over to play. Mizuha was weirdly displeased, and she said something like 'Nii-san is my Nii-san only, okay?'. It was so cute."
"…? Are you there? Mizuha?"
When he called out to the girl who had suddenly become quiet, the door opened. The sight that greeted him was Mizuha, wearing a shirt and shorts. Her face seemed to be somewhere between a frown and a pout as she focused her gaze on Keiki.
"At the time, I thought that they were going to take Nii-san away from me…"
Normally, he would take these words to be a conformation of love for her older brother, but now that he knew her real feelings, he understood their true meaning. She was nervous to see her loved one being lovey-dovey with other girls.
"…Nii-san, I'm sorry."
"Eh? For what?"
"I'm the reason why Nii-san caught a cold. Because I was being selfish, Nii-san ran away and got wet because of the rain."
"No, that was because I wasn't acting like a grown-up."
"But please don't worry. I won't kiss you anymore if you dislike it that much. We can just do it even more once I've gotten Nii-san to fall in love with me."
That soft smile of hers tugged on Keiki's heartstrings. Keiki thought that this honesty was the most charming part of her.
"Ah, that reminds me. Can I use the prize for that pool competition now?"
"Ahh, that order."
Sayuki had thought of a prize to make everyone take part in a competition at the pool. This prize was the right to say an order that Keiki had to follow. And since Mizuha was the winner, she had won the right to order anything she wanted from Keiki.
"I'll say this up front. I won't give you my savings. I won't crawl around the city on my hands and knees. I won't do anything like that, okay?"
"I won't ask for something that weird," Mizuha said with a bitter smile and a deep breath afterwards.
She lifted her head and gave her order with a serious face.
"Just for tomorrow, please become by boyfriend. I want you to go on a date with me. Not as siblings, but as lovers."
After she finished saying her piece, Mizuha's cheeks were coloured a vivid red. You could clearly tell that this was the gaze of a maiden in love who wished to spend time with her beloved—
Again, why is my heart beating so fast…?
Even though this was his little sister. The girl who had been his family for as long as he could remember. At that moment, Keiki felt the decision he had made inside his heart starting to crumble.