Chapter 12 – Brother Scared!

“Sniff sniff, did you use the mist?”

I left my room and waited for the elevator, but the demon king smelled me.

“No? Why do you use it?”

“I asked because you smelled like perfume.”

“Oh that? It smells like body lotion.”

“Do you put on body lotion too? Ohh, are you excited to go on a date with Jim?”

She poked me with her elbow, giving me a drugged look.

“What date is it? I’m just going to see a movie. Oh, come.”

Ignoring the joke, I climbed into the open elevator. When the demon king came along, I pressed the close button and the first floor. While going down, I raised my head and waited for the number that appeared above to be 1. Then, suddenly, I turned my gaze to the Demon King.

The demon lord, who had changed into a black tracksuit while I was washing, looked up at the top of the elevator in a daze just like me. He looked better with his black sweatpants and fairer skin than most white people.

“Hmm?”

I met her eyes as if I had been staring at her for too long. Then the demon king asked, smiling happily as if he were looking at a cute child.

“Did Jim get lost in his beauty?”

There was definitely something like that, but the first thing I felt was that something was missing. At that moment, I remembered the bag the demon king had brought.

“Hey, what about your bag?”

“You mean the bag? It looks like you left it in your room. Can’t you come back later anyway?”

“Are you coming here again?”

“Is there a law that says you can’t come again? It will come tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.”

“What kind of room is my playground? Will you come every day?”

“There is nothing different, right? Ah! You have arrived!”

The demon king left as soon as the elevator door opened. Seeing the back of him as he walked out confidently and shamelessly, he stopped talking any more because he thought he would come even if he told him not to come. Instead, he picked up his phone and searched for the bus to the cinema.

“Number 72 is coming in a little while, so I have to walk a little faster. But where are you going?”

I had to go to the main road to catch the bus. However, the place the demon king was heading was toward the alley. She waved her hand at me without looking back.

“Follow me. Go to Jim’s car.”

She remembered that the demon king was the daughter of a high-ranking building owner. He thought he would buy her a car if he loved her daughter enough to give her a kendo school.

I quickly caught up with the Demon King and asked.

“Do you have a car?”

“It’s my uncle’s car, to be precise.”

“Uncle?”

“Well, I’m pretty close with Uncle and Jim. I sometimes rent a car like this.”

“You don’t have a car?”

“Do you have a car? And what need does a college student need for a car? It’s not like I got a job. Oh, this car.”

The place where the demon king stopped her was in front of the jeep. In front of her slightly older car, with the white paint peeling off in places on her, she pulled her car keys out of her pocket. She didn’t even have a keyring, just holding a car key, she went to the driver’s side and opened the door. I didn’t say anything until I got into the car.

The demon king started her engine and leaned over to open the passenger door, she said.

“Come on, let’s ride!”

“Uh, uh.”

I haven’t been able to come to my senses yet, but I rode it once. As I fastened my seatbelt, I was startled by the smell coming from the car. I had smelled this fishy, ​​yet slightly earthy smell in another world. This was the smell of an animal that had been hunted and caught.

I turned and looked at the back seat. No, it wasn’t the back seat, it was the luggage compartment. In the empty space created by removing the chair, things like shovels and boots were placed, and the floor was dirty with dirt. Turning his head forward again, he asked the Demon King.

“Your uncle’s car?”

“Is that so?”

The demon king focused on driving the car and getting out of the alley. He was driving, so he couldn’t talk to me, so I looked around him again. Then he found a small lump of metal under the passenger seat.

He bent down and picked it up. About the size of a pinky fingernail and a little heavier than it looks, it was hollow on one side and round on the other. The ball was attached to a hollow cone, and there were three wrinkles in between.

“That? A bullet.”

It seemed that the Demon King noticed me looking at it with a sidelong glance. He continued to focus on driving, she said.

“It’s an air gun bullet, but I think I spilled a few while returning it.”

“Why do you carry bullets in your car, Uncle?”

“His hobby is hunting. Jim followed me and made some money.”

“What?”

“If you catch a magpie at KEPCO, they give you 6,000 won each. I made quite a bit of money with it this winter break. The money I bought for you and the game you bought me came from that money.”

“No, you said you were shooting?”

“That’s right.”

“Can I shoot you?”

“Wait a minute.”

The demon king stopped talking and started to focus on driving. He opened his mouth again as he came out of the alley and onto the main road.

“I got a hunting license and I got a permit to own a gun. If you are over 20 years old, you can get it. There’s nothing wrong with that, right?”

As soon as I finished talking, the car stopped. It stopped because it was a red light. The demon king put his hand on the steering wheel and waited for his signal, watching people walking on the crosswalk through the windshield.

I fiddled with the bullet and looked at the demon king in his tracksuit with his head sticking out at the traffic light.
Certainly her hunting went well with her. It was the same with the fact that he was a demon king in his previous life, and the image of him holding a long gun in a light sweatshirt was not awkward.

While I was thinking about that, the demon king suddenly spoke.

“Wouldn’t you like to pick one up too? Permit.”

“I?”

“It is not that difficult. It will take about a month, and if you don’t mind, you should be able to pick it up easily.”

Surprised, I looked at the demon king. Her gaze was on the traffic light, not on me. Rather than sincerely recommending it, it seemed like he was saying anything to pass the boring time. I didn’t even say anything about it.

“Is that so?”

“If you pick it up, it would be nice to hunt with Jim.”

“Good. I wish.”

“The gun will be provided by Jim. There are a few guns that my uncle doesn’t use these days.”

“Can I not buy a gun? Oh, the signal has changed. Let’s go.”

“I saw Jim too.”

The Demon King started moving her car again. As she was driving, unlike usual, she was silent. From what I’ve seen so far, it seemed like she was going to play all sorts of pranks on me, but she just focused on driving.

When she didn’t say anything, she didn’t say anything either.

The Demon King, who had been silent for a while, suddenly opened his mouth. He was more mumbling than talking to me.

“I want to eat strawberries.”

She was bored, and the demon king, who didn’t speak, answered awkwardly.

“Well, strawberries are in season these days.”

“Isn’t it too late to say it’s in season now?”

“Isn’t the season spring? Strawberries?”

“Strawberry season is winter, not spring.”

“Are you talking about house strawberries?”

“Of course, isn’t it? House strawberries are said to taste better than spring strawberries.”

“What kind of bullshit is that?”

“Think about it. Strawberries grown wildly outdoors, and strawberries grown finely indoors. What could be more delicious? Of course it’s not indoors.”

“If you say that, wouldn’t something grown outside have a wild taste?”

“Originally, the grass grown in the greenhouse is finer and softer.”

We had such meaningless conversation until we reached the parking lot located in the basement of the cinema. Concentrated only on driving, the calm and quiet Demon King felt fresh because it was different from usual. I also missed it a little bit. But as soon as the ignition was turned off, it started making noise again.

“Hmm! I arrived faster than I thought because there was no traffic jam! Get off now!”

“Okay. Wait for a sec.”

“Get down quickly! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry up!”

The Demon King who was driving was better.

I unfastened my belt and got out of the car. I was about to close the door, but the demon king got out of the driver’s seat like me and asked.

“What about the bullets? If you don’t return it, it’s illegal and you have to leave it there!”

“Then did you return it a long time ago?”

I put the bullet I was holding in the passenger seat and closed the door. And I started heading towards the entrance of the cinema. The Demon King followed me and walked side by side and said.

“Didn’t you say you spilled it? Ruler! Go now! I will be waiting for you!”

“Wait? Who?”

“Well, you’ll know when you go. Let’s leave it for the pleasure of that time.”

Every time he said this, I didn’t see a good look. It was like that when I first took her to the kendo gym, and when she bought me a protein to eat.

“Let’s go now!”

The demon king smiled brightly and held my hand. I was led by that hand and half-forced to walk towards the entrance of the cinema.

But on the way, I found a couple coming out of the entrance. Even though it was a weekday, they were wearing school uniforms, and the boy was even smoking a cigarette.

He said he was going to harm his health, but he didn’t want to get involved. However, the demon king started to laugh as soon as he saw them. That smile wasn’t as confident as usual, and it looked bloody for some reason.

Then, out of nowhere, the demon king asked.

“Do you know how much Jim earned from that part-time job?”

“Uh?”

“I’ve earned this much.”

As he said that, he raised his hands. However, his left hand was fully extended, and only the index and middle fingers of his right hand were extended. That meant 7 to anyone who saw it.

As I was thinking about what I was doing, I remembered ‘I used to be like this’. First of all, I decided to hang out with her no matter what she did.

“Uh, 700,000 won?”

“No.”

“7 million won?”

“I made more than that.”

“So, 7000?”

“You went too far.”

Every time the demon king asked, the high school couple got closer to us. The man only glanced at the demon lord’s face, paying little attention to us. Then, when I asked, “So how much?”, Her right hand moved.

Sasak!

Between the demon king’s index and middle fingers that moved like that, there was a lit cigarette.

“What is that?”

“What!”

A man shouted from one of the couples I passed by at the same time I asked. Looking back at him, he was looking down at his empty hands.

“Will you accept this?”

She turned her head at the feeling of the demon king holding my hand. Before I knew it, she had the cigarette she was holding in my finger. I looked down at the Demon King in bewilderment. She was looking up at me with a mischievous smile.

“Hey!”

I turned around at the sound of shouting from behind. It was the sound of that bully boy calling me. He shouted as he looked at the cigarette in my hand.

“Did you take it?”

“Uh?”

“Brother, I’m scared!”

Suddenly, the demon king fluttered her silver hair and hid behind me. She grabbed my shoulders and looked up at me with a frightened expression. Only her face was pretty, and she had an expression like a frightened puppy, so I wanted to protect her without even realizing it. But these words came out of my mouth first.

“No, aren’t you a year older than me?”