Dear Brother Chapter 1 Summary

So I was browsing online to see if I can find any images of the new series since it's been a while since it's been out (18 days to be exact).  And I found the Chinese scans!!

So here's the chapter 1 summary!!!  It's not super detailed as usual (because I read it in Chinese), so I didn't want to translate the dialogue just in case I didn't get the same nuances in Chinese.

Momo is separated from her three older brothers when her father died when she was little.  Her relatives and other close friends took pity on Momo's mother and adopted the 3 boys since she doesn't have the financial power nor is physically well enough to care for all 4 children.  Ever since that time, Momo has not seen her brothers for 15 yearrs.

The chapter opens with Momo praying to her mom.  Her fiance is coming over to meet her today, and for some reason, her brothers have also asked to meet up with her fiance.  She thinks it's a bit weird since they haven't contacted each other for 15 years, but agrees to the meeting.  Momo goes out to the convenience store to pick up so beer, when she bumps into her second eldest brother (but she doesn't recognize him).  They both reach for the 6-pack, and her second eldest brother (sorry I'm not sure about the reading of the name in Japanese since it's in Chinese right now...and you know how there are multiple ways of reading a single name) suddenly decides to play rock-paper-scissors with her to see who gets it.  Her brother wins naturally and tells Momo that she'll lose if she does rock first.  She should have done paper instead.  Momo is frustrated by this stranger spewing nonsense, since she has never asked for his opinion on rock-paper-scissors.



She returns home with her other groceries when she bumps into her youngest brother and oldest brother.  The oldest one hilariously mistakes the youngest one as Momo at first.  Anyways, they meet the fiance inside and start to ask questions.  The oldest one comes out right with, "How much do you have in savings?"  Momo panics right away, certain that this would ruin her chances of marriage.  The fiance hedges a bit...and then the youngest brother asks, "Do you visit nightclubs often?  Because it would be bad if you caught something and passed it to Momo."

Momo asks them to stop asking such weird questions and gets angrier and angrier.  Who are they to come and intrude upon her life when they haven't shown up in 15 years, not even when their mother died?  Anyways, the second eldest brother finally shows up also asking personal questions like "Do you gamble", which pisses Momo off.  After the fiance leaves, he tries to hand her an investigative report (god what's with all these investigative reports dammnit) on the fiance.  Momo naturally doesn't look at it even when her brother accuses that she doesn't know the other side of her fiance.  Momo finally asks them to all leave, shouting that she doesn't see them as brothers since they never came to help with mother's funeral, which her fiance did do.

Later on, we see that the fiance does indeed visit nightclubs, and he even goes so far as to say to the hostess that he must visit more often now before he doesn't get a chance after marriage.  He turns up later at Momo's place and asks her immediately to sign the papers to be married.  Momo is a bit confused by these events and somewhat declines.  The fiance spots the envelope of investigative materials and asks Momo what it is.  Momo answers that it's an investigative report her brothers had done on him, but that she has never read it and is really sorry for her brothers' nosy and rude behavior. However the fiance suddenly goes ballistic, accusing Momo of having read the report, and that must be the reason why she doesn't want to sign the contract with him.  He's about to hit her when Momo's second brother stops him.

All 3 of them actually appear then, and the youngest one plays a recording of what the fiance said in the host club.  He actually dressed up as the hostess that served the fiance, lol.  The fiance had said that he wanted the money off the house Momo has (it's a big family home she shared with her mother) to pay off his debt from gambling.  The second eldest brother finally asks Momo who she trusts better.  Whether she trusts her brothers or her fiance.  Momo picks the brothers in the end and ends up slapping the fiance.  She apologizes to her brothers for having called them not part of the family earlier on, and the brothers each give their reason as to why they couldn't make it to the funeral.  One had work, and the others were either not told about it at all or had to not go out of consideration for their adoptive families.

Anyways, the brothers are about to go back home before the eldest says he's going to start leaving with Momo from now since he shouldn't leave her to fend for herself.  He then suggests why don't all of them live together?

And the chapter ends there!  I'm actually open to family stories, there doesn't always need to be love, even if the majority of Petit's manga are like that.  It's refreshing...and I think the second eldest brother (the one with black hair and looks like Hokuto's younger clone) is more of the main character. Please do NOT tell me it will be a love story between the two, or else I will go batshit crazy.  I don't even care if it's some mix-up at birth or something so that doesn't make them related by blood.  Anyways all in all, I look forward to reading this!  It should be a change of pace from her previous works~

Oh, and if you are interested, I read it here.  I've never read Chinese scans in replacement of Japanese before (because usually the Japanese ones come out first anyways), so I'm not sure about how accurate the translations are.  Of course, it should be like 98% correct...and the good news is...it's in traditional Chinese!  So I can actually read it without puzzling too much over the characters~~  I still think it's easier to read than simplified... which I consider a bastardization of such a beautiful writing system.

Hope you enjoyed the summary!  Just a short note, if I see the Chinese scans first, I'll post the summaries on here.  If I receive Minchi's scans first, I will post it on bxsmanga first...so it depends.