Chapter 118 – Episode 118. Fight

Before meeting Sihyeon and going home, I stopped at a motel, packed my bags, and headed home.

I didn’t have a lot of luggage with me from the motel, but I felt tired.

Rather than being physically exhausted, I was mentally exhausted.

‘Fortunately, I kept the promise I made to Si-eun.’

When she arrived in front of the house, she ran into Si-eun.

“Huh? Did you go out too?”

“… Yes.”

Si-eun’s expression was dark when she met him in front of the house.

Si-eun rushed over to me, hugged me, and buried her face in her arms.

“Oppa, you came quickly?”

“Promises must be kept.”

“It’s a shame… I could have won a wish ticket.”

“If you have a wish ticket, where do you want to use it?”

“That’s… A secret!”

“Even if I don’t have the right to wish, I will grant any request.”

Si-eun lifted her head from where she was buried and looked at me.

“… No, don’t be fooled! If you tell me, they might say no next time. It’s a secret until you get the right to wish!”

“It’s a shame. I caught almost everything.”

After talking nonsense for a while, Si-eun buried her head again and hugged me a little more tightly.

“… Tell me about your brother.”

“Now?”

“No, first put your luggage down and come to my room!”

“I understand.”

I broke the hug with Si-eun and went inside the house.

I roughly threw her luggage into the room and went to Si-eun’s room.

Knock.

“Going in?”

She knocked, opened the room door and entered.

Si-eun rested her chin on her desk and was lost in thought.
What on earth are you trying to talk about and setting the mood like that?

I sat down on her bed and waited for Si-eun to speak up.

“Oppa, did you go out to see your sister today?”

“…?”

What, how did you know?

Was the thing I ran into in front of my house actually following me?

Or are you just floating around?

Many thoughts came to mind in a short period of time.

Did you see her leaving Sihyeon crying?
… Even if you saw it, you wouldn’t know what she was talking about, right?
Sihyeon’s crying is a reasonable excuse…

While organizing her thoughts in her head, Si-eun began to speak.

“I went to the store today.”

“… But?”

“I heard an interesting story there.”

“… What story?”

“The reason my brother became strange was because her older sister gave her medicine.”

“…”

… Oh, it wasn’t there when I looked for it. It doesn’t help.

**

After seeing off her Seon-woo, Si-eun was lounging around in bed.

“Now that I think about it, haven’t I used up all the cream?”

Recently, Sunwoo wasn’t home, so he didn’t have anything to write about, but now that he’s back home, he thought he’d start writing regularly.

“Well, my brother went out too, so I’ll have to come back early!”

Si-eun overcame her annoyance and got up from her bed and prepared to leave.
All she had to do to prepare was put on her hood and put on her hat.

“Anyway, I don’t know if there will be a store this time…”

When Seon-woo started showing abnormal symptoms, Si-eun tried to go to the store.

If it’s a store that sells unusual items, maybe it knows a solution.

I tried to visit the store, feeling like I was grasping at straws.

But no matter how much he wandered through the alleys, he couldn’t find the store.

“Is there today…?”

Si-eun stuck her head out into the alley where her store was located.
At the end of a dark alley even during the day.

I saw a faintly glowing store sign.

“Oh! There it is!”

Si-eun walked briskly into the darkness of the dark alley she had become accustomed to.

“Sister!!”

Si-eun kicked open the door of her shop and entered.
The witch was smoking her cigarette with a listless expression, as always.

“Oh, my little brother is here~?”

I left the pipe and got up.

“I haven’t seen the store lately…?”

“I was busy with work, so I left the store.”

“There was something I wanted to ask you about…”

“What are you curious about?”

The witch narrowed her eyes and smiled faintly.

“No, it’s okay now that it’s resolved!”

“Really? Well then, I’m glad. Then what brought you here?”

“I used up all the cream, so I came back to buy it again!”

“Do you want to wait a moment?”

The witch put her hand between her large breasts.

“Let’s see…”

The witch moved her hands around and took out her cream.

“Well, here it is.”

“Oh… How does it come out there? Can I try it too?”

“Hmm… Are you giving me permission because I’m a cute younger sibling?”

The witch spread her cleavage with both hands.
Without hesitation, Si-eun put her hand between her breasts.

“Warm… Soft… Cozy…!”

“Do you feel good?”

“Yes… No, but there’s no space for anything?”

“Hehe, that’s a secret.”

I took her hand out from between her breasts.
The witch straightened her loose clothes.

“I did you a favor, so I should get something in return, right?”

“What do you want!”

“What were you trying to ask earlier?”

“Oh, that?”

Si-eun talked about what had happened.

The witch listened to the story for a while and smiled awkwardly.

“Oh, that’s what I sold… I never thought the person who bought it was your sister…”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“Is it okay to say this…”

“Please speak quickly!”

Si-eun stretched out holding on to her witch.
The witch told Si-eun about her truth.

“So… Everything that happened so far was your sister’s doing…?”

“Huh?”

“Ah! It’s not my sister, it’s Sihyeon’s sister.”

“Oh, so my little brother must have had a hard time?”

“Yes…”

“I feel sorry because it seems to be because of me, so what should I do?”

“… Sister, I’m just selling things… But don’t sell things like that anymore!”

“Ahaha, that seems difficult… Instead, next time you come to the store, I’ll give you something nice.”

After finishing talking with the witch, Si-eun came out of the store.

“Yes, that’s how it happened…”

Si-eun held the cream in her hand so hard that it felt like it would break.

**

“So, that’s why I went to see my sister today, right?”

“… That’s right.”

I couldn’t lie to Si-eun, who already knew all the facts.

“So what did you say to your sister?”

“… I just asked her if it was her sister who did it. So she cried and apologized.”

“And?”

“… And then I just left.”

Si-eun sighed as if she was dumbfounded.

“Ha, oppa, you really don’t have any balls?”

“…”

“Don’t you remember how difficult it was for you, my mom, and me during that time?”

“… I remember.”

“But you just passed it over without saying anything?”

“I didn’t just get over it… That’s why I left without even comforting you.”

“Really, why don’t you at least apologize for being so wrong?”

Si-eun’s anger did not subside easily.

On the contrary, she became more and more angry as time went by.

“… I can’t go on like this.”

After a moment of silence, Si-eun took out her cell phone.

“What are you trying to do!”

I ran up to Si-eun and grabbed her wrist.

“Let it go! Euiok!”

Si-eun tried to call her Si-hyeon.

“Later…! Come talk to me in person later, okay?”

Looking at Si-eun’s reaction, it seemed impossible to stop her at all.
In that case, she should have at least been there.

Then she might be able to stop it.

“Ik! I just overlooked the last time! I can’t be mad! Furthermore, I’m going to do it right now!”

Si-eun did not give up easily.

I took Si-eun’s phone and threw it on her bed.
Si-eun tried to jump on her bed, but I hugged her tightly and didn’t let go.

“We were supposed to stay together all day today.”

“… Ugh, I’m really holding back this time…”

Si-eun bit his shoulder as if to vent her anger.
If I could quell Si-eun’s anger like this, I could give him as much as his shoulder.

“… But how long are you going to keep biting?”

“Until mom comes.”

“…”

When Su-a came home, her shoulder was swollen from Si-eun’s spit.

**

Due to Si-eun’s anger, I made an appointment to meet Si-hyeon the next day.

The meeting place was Sihyeon’s house.

She agreed to meet Si-hyeon when he came back from work.

After telling Su-ah in advance, she left the house with Si-eun.
It arrived sooner than she expected, so she had to wait for the vision.

[Vision; I’m going home now. If you arrive first, go in and wait.]

Sihyeon sent us the password, so we decided to go in and wait.

As I opened the door and went inside, the desolate appearance of the room caught my eye.

It’s been a while since we moved, but there were still unpacked luggage scattered here and there.

My heart ached as I imagined Sihyeon living alone in such a lonely place.

Not long after, Sihyeon came into the house.

Si-hyeon sat across from me and Si-eun.

Sihyeon’s face was covered in fatigue, as if he had had a hard time sleeping.

“Are you here?”

“… So, what brought you here?”

As soon as he got home, Sihyeon asked about his business.

Si-eun, seeing Si-hyeon’s attitude, was about to get angry.

I quickly grabbed Si-eun’s hand and stopped her.

Si-eun glanced at me, closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

“Whoa…”

After calming his mind, Si-eun opened his eyes again.

“… Oh, no. I can’t stand it.”

“Huh?”

“Hey! Jeong Si-hyeon, you crazy bitch!”

Si-eun took advantage of the moment when she was caught off guard and ran out.

Si-eun grabbed Si-hyeon by the collar and shook her.

“How could you do that! You gave me that kind of medicine?!”

Si-hyeon was swayed by Si-eun like a doll whose strings were cut.

“Do you know how hard it was for everyone because of you?! So, was it nice to see you relying on your brother while he was having a hard time?! It was good!”

I got up from my seat to stop Si-eun.

Si-hyeon, who had been swayed by Si-eun, suddenly straightened his body.
Si-hyeon also pulled Si-eun’s collar.

“Yes! It was good, so what! How could you do that?! I… You knew so clearly that I liked Sunwoo, but you did that behind my back!”

Sihyeon exploded with sadness and poured out his words.

“I… I lived my life giving in to everything you asked for… But… I can’t even have Sunwoo…? I… Furthermore, I’m your girlfriend, so why do you keep interfering with me!”

Si-eun, who was momentarily stunned by Si-hyeon’s counterattack, once again had venom in her eyes.

“Ha, so it wasn’t enough that you kidnapped and imprisoned my brother, so you even drugged him? Let’s just overlook it, it’s all a crime!”

“So what did you do? Are you so proud?!”

The fight that started with grabbing each other by the collar spread to fighting by grabbing each other’s hair.

I missed the right time to intervene and could only watch from the side.

As the fight became more intense, I felt dizzy and sick to my stomach.

In the past, when two people argued, it was just a light fight.

It was my first time fighting like this, yelling and hitting each other.

Si-eun and Si-hyeon only chose words that could hurt each other, sharpened them, and poured them out at the other person.

How did it end up like this?

What broke up that harmonious family like this?

“You give up!”

“Sister, give up!”

The cause was clear.

I was the cause of the fight. No, it was because of my greed.

If you suppressed your feelings for Su-ah until the end.

If you didn’t use scented candles or something.

Or at least if you definitely chose just one person.

This wouldn’t have happened.

I forced my way in between the two.

Since they were holding each other’s hair, they couldn’t force them apart.

He put his body between them and slowly widened the distance.

The two waved their arms wildly even though they couldn’t see clearly.

I was beaten here and there, and my fingernails scratched me here and there, causing bleeding.

I didn’t feel any pain.

Rather than these scratches, my now tattered heart was more painful.

“… Stop it.”

The two were glaring at each other, as if their excitement had not subsided yet.

“… I’m sorry, sister, we’ll just head back.”

I grabbed Si-eun, who was struggling, and came out.

“Ssi… I… Furthermore, I don’t even know how I felt when I said those words…”

Si-eun had tears in her eyes due to her resentment.
She got out and caught a taxi and headed home.
Si-eun seemed to have cooled down a bit now.

“… Oppa? Wow.! Oppa, blood. Blood.!”

When Si-eun discovered her wounds later, she was embarrassed.

“Well. Driver! Please go to the hospital!”

“No, please just go to your original destination.”

“Oppa!”

She calmed down the excited Si-eun and asked her taxi driver to take her to the hospital right away.

“It’s just a little scratch. I can apply some medicine when I get home.”

“Then why did you come in the middle…”

Si-eun seemed to feel sorry and was just quietly looking at me.
All the way home, I looked out the window and was deep in thought.

‘… How can I return to the harmonious family I once had?’

It was a problem I had been thinking about for a long time.

Now, a solution so simple that I thought about it for a long time came to mind.

The best way to solve a problem is to eliminate the problem itself.