cute maribel 😭 I want to give spoiler summary for chapter 26, but I don't have motivation to type that much for now
I was gonna comment the same thing but I forgot for a second that Al is Alfine's male persona since she's in hiding so I guess it would make sense with Maribel thinking that Al is maleThanks for the translation. I assume page 9 she should be saying 'nee-san', since Al is a girl?
The 'big brother' 'big sister' thing is a language quirk of Japanese, it can mean literal brother or sister, or it's just a way to address someone older than you. It's sort of like calling an old man 'gramps' when he's not your literal grandfather.