Chapter 80 – Shouldn’t We Talk About It Now?

“We have arrived, young master.”

At the words of the driver, I opened the car door.
I got out of the car first, and when I saw the driver approaching to get off, I felt a slight sense of incongruity.
Seo-yeon wondered if she didn’t open the door herself and waited for the driver to open it.

“Are you here?”

Swallowing the thought for a moment, she asked as she turned her gaze toward the tile-roofed restaurant.
Decorated in a traditional old house style.
Perhaps because of Seoyeon’s taste, there was a nameplate in the name of Yeongwolgwan stuck on top of the front door of the place that looked like a high-class Korean restaurant.

“Yes, I will guide you.”
“Are you okay.”

Leaving behind the knight’s words to guide her, she closed her eyes for a moment and activated the Dimensional Eye.
I made this choice because I didn’t want to be seen by others.

“Let’s go in first.”

After leaving a word like that for the unknown knight, I headed for Seoyeon’s room in a different dimension.
Did Seoyeon think that I would come in after the driver’s guidance?
After being blank for a while, she opened the door by herself and asked me with her questionable eyes, “Huh, oppa?”

“What about you?”
“If it’s what the driver said, I just left it and came in.”
“Why?”
“It’s just that it’s faster for me to find and enter than to be guided by someone else.”

Saying that, she took out her cushion and sat down on one, only then did her legs bend and the menus set up came into view.
Korean oriental pork, cold vegetables, raw meat, fresh meat, sea urchins, braised short ribs, prawns, tteokgalbi, soy sauce crab, meat pancakes, japchae, etc…
Looking at the food that was quite excessive for the two of them to see, I hung my tongue for a while.

“Yeon-ah Seo.”
“Huh?”
“You made this for the two of us, right?”
“Yeah…Why don’t you like it?”
“No, thank you, but I think this is a little too much.”

Even if it doesn’t look like that normally, a person who can consume like this anytime if he wants to.
That is Lee Seo-yeon, the daughter of a conglomerate in front of me.

“I’m fine.”
“If you do this, a lot of food will be thrown away.”
“But, sister, you’re not going to live on the food that the academy always gives you.”

As soon as I sat down, Seoyeon spoke in a dissatisfied voice, as if complaining.
In the meantime, she seemed to want to try it first.
Seeing her putting her braised short ribs on top of her bowl of rice, she let out a mischievous laugh.

“Sometimes you have to eat delicious food like this.”

The academy’s academics come out well at a decent buffet level Seo Yeon-ah…

“Okay, thank you. I’ll eat well.”

But, it’s not polite to say something to someone who purposely came to such an expensive house just for me.
Seeing her face brighten up immediately at my words, she gave me a grin, then took her chopsticks and put the steamed ribs she had put into her mouth.

*     *    *

Thanks to Seoyeon, I was able to have a very delicious dinner.
To be honest, I don’t like the price…
The amount of food didn’t seem too great for the price.

“I ate well?”
“Yes. Thanks.”

But today, I didn’t just come to eat.
The reason Seoyeon called me in the first place was probably because she didn’t have enough conversation to share in a message.

“It’s fine here.”
“It seems pretty good.”

But Seo-yeon didn’t want to go in because she came here.
As if trying to avoid the topic, he smiled at my plain expression.
In fact, I don’t like everything except the taste of the food, but I thought this side was better than attaching useless sajok.

“Then, if I ask you to come again next time, will you come?”
“Hmm…”

I didn’t know that I would be walking around here.

“Is it because it’s expensive?”
“What, a little…”
“Still, since it’s 150,000 won here, it’s worth coming.”

Is 150,000 won worth the price?
Do I understand correctly now?

“Hmm.”

Let’s just say that.
Because you live in a different world from me in the first place.

“Hmm, I guess the joke was a bit too much…”

Still, I’m glad I’m not myself.
I almost felt a little uncomfortable with you just now.

“Well, oppa wasn’t originally the type to spend a lot of money.”
“Usually?”
“Yeah. The older brother I remember wasn’t the type to just spend money or something like that.”

Rather, if you can save more than what you have, should it be called a style you cherish?
Seoyeon added one more word and munched on the yakgwa that came out for dessert.

Then, I suddenly became curious.
Before the novel begins, that is to say, what kind of person Seoha Lee was originally in this world.
Maybe today’s conversation can be a clue.

“Okay?”

However, I just screamed something like a cell phone because I felt sorry for Kim Joo-won’s broken old smartphone.

“Yeah. Feeling a bit like that? If you buy something like a laptop, you can spend 2 million won, but buy it for less than 1 million won.”
“Hmm.”
“The restaurant is expensive, so I have to go there, but it was a problem because I tried to lower it if possible.”

I felt a little longing in Seoyeon’s eyes.
No matter how much I now have a woman who was her older brother in front of me, it doesn’t seem like she doesn’t have longing for the older brother she knows.

“But Seo Yeon-ah.”
“Huh.”
“Shouldn’t we talk about that now?”

In fact, I’m guessing to some extent.
Today, the story we have to tell is the story we must tell.
Seo-yeon said that she would never know the story that was woven into me.

“Ah.”

At my words, Seoyeon pondered for a while, then she let out a small sigh as she put on an expression that said, “She is finally here.”
Then she started to get more curious.
No matter how much she is a writer, she can’t know the parts that weren’t in the novel.

“Right, I have to.”

Some kind of sad voice.
Seoyeon let out a small sigh, and opened her mouth after looking at the night sky for a while through the window of a suitable size attached to the side of her room.

“My older brother, my relationship with my father wasn’t that bad originally.”

She starts with a rather unexpected sentence, something that can be inferred from the fact that she has lived away from home since her student days.

*

I have no mother.
I don’t remember it because I heard it vaguely, but they said he passed away after giving birth to me.

“Brother!”
“Seo Yeon-ah, did you sleep well?”

But the fact that she had no mother didn’t seem to matter much to me at least.
They say that she gave birth to me, but rather than a mother who has never seen her face.
Maybe the older brother who hugs me like this when I run to him is more like a mother to me.

“Huh!”
“But why are you still wearing pajamas. Don’t you have to go to school?”
“Hey, I don’t really want to go to school.”
“Huh? That shouldn’t be the case. If you want to become a great person later, you must go to school, Seo Yeon-ah.”

Zupat.
As soon as the blue light rose from the tip of my little brother’s hand, the scenery around me changed to the room I had just left.
He must have brought me to my room to change my clothes to send me to school.

“Come on, hurry up and change your clothes, Seo Yeon-ah.”
“No. I’m not going to school.”
“What, why is the kid who was doing well until yesterday saying this?”
“I don’t know, I’m not going anyway.”

Inflate your cheeks and complain.
I sat down in my seat to strongly express my will not to go to school.
Then my brother sighed, and forced me to lift it under my thighs and back.

“Hey, let go of this!”
“How old is our Seoyeon?”
“…I’m hot.”
“But do you still have to change your clothes?”
“Benefit, is your brother pervert?”
“Huh? Our Seo-yeon turned 10 years old and her mouth got really rough.”

After deliberately being mean to such an older brother, he ended up getting beaten by a honey chestnut.

“Sir, oppa is bad.”
“Still, Seo Yeon-ah, you can’t say pervert or anything to someone else.”
“Yes…”
“Come on, then oppa will be out for a while, so you have to change clothes and come out, okay?”

Then he smiled and stroked my hair once before turning away.
If I don’t catch him, he’ll probably leave my room soon.

“Huh? Seo Yeon-ah, why?”

But I really didn’t want to go to school today, so I grabbed my brother’s sleeve and stopped him.
My brother looked at me and gave me a puzzled look.

Until yesterday, I was the me who drank a glass of water in the morning, ate breakfast, brushed my teeth, and went to school.
I couldn’t help but wonder because I was complaining like this.

“I really hate going to school today…”

Of course, I was too young at the time, so I didn’t even think about that.

“Why, what happened at school?”
“That is…”

My brother looked at the time on his watch for a while, then led me by the wrist and sat me down on the bed.
He sat down next to me and pulled me into his arms.
But even so, to me when I was young.

“It’s a bit embarrassing to say…”

Maybe it was quite embarrassing to say that I was rejected after confessing my love.

“Hmm, then this oppa has no choice but to send our Seoyeon to school by force.”
“Uh…”

My brother, who still refused to tell me, brought out a powerful threat card that forced him to confess.

“There is a kid in our class named Juseong.”
“Huh.”
“I got dumped by him…”

After talking to my brother like that, I couldn’t help but be annoyed at him.
After hearing the story, my older brother tangled my hair while sitting in my arms and seemed to say, “Ugh, what is it? Was it just like that?”

“What is it?”
“I just wanted our Seoyeon to be so cute.”
“I-I’m so ashamed! I hate Chii oppa!”

So I tried to push my brother away.
As an Awakener, I couldn’t push my older brother’s body, which was as solid as a stone, with the power of an ordinary 10-year-old girl.
Because of that, I lost my energy after struggling alone, and by the time I leaned on my brother’s arms.

“So our Seo-yeon said she didn’t want to go to school because she would have to see that kid named Joo-seong again?”
“Yes…”
“I still have to go to school, Seo Yeon-ah. If I’m really shy, will my brother go with me?”
“…Really?”
“So. When did your brother lie?”

When I nodded at his brother’s words, he smiled and put me in his arms and got up from his seat.
“Yes, Uncle Mincheol. I’m going with Seoyeon today,” He said, looking at his back as he left the room and looked for clothes in the closet.

Okay.
It seems that such a happy time continued until that day came.

“Dad, are you really sane?”

Until I suddenly heard my older brother’s voice while passing by.
And after that scream, until my brother left the house within a few days.