Chapter 36 – Why? Did You Think Jim Was Kissing You?

“Didn’t Jim say he’d been to this store with his sister before?”

“Uh, it was. But why?”

“That sister came in here!”

“But why?”

“Eh, really! Be still!”

Maybe it was because he was an only child, but he couldn’t understand the demon king’s reaction as if he was frightened when he saw his younger brother.

I weakly pushed the demon lord who didn’t know what to do. So she put her hand on my chest and stopped me.

“Why are you doing that, man?”

“No, I want to look outside.”

“Then, what will you do if you get caught!”

“You can say hello.”

“Just be still! Things are messed up!”

What kind of existence is the younger sister to the demon king?

She grabbed the navy sweater she had brought in and glanced at her curtains several times. She wasn’t scared, but she was restless and fidgety.

A little over 10 minutes passed, and the voices of middle school girls over the fitting room could not be heard. I thought I went out pretty quickly for coming here to buy clothes. At that time, the demon king called me with a still trembling voice.

“Come on, come on.”

“Why?”

“Let me check to see if you really left.”

“I?”

“What if Jim is discovered while doing it! Let’s go!”

The demon king pushed me toward the curtain and gave a small shout. Feeling absurd, I pulled back the curtains and looked inside the store.

The inside of the store wasn’t much different from before. Several customers picked out clothes, and the clerk stood by to help them. Of course, the middle school girls who had just entered were nowhere to be seen.

I turned my head inward and said.

“I think he’s gone?”

“Did you really go?”

“Huh. I can not see.”

“Then check to see if you really went.”

“No, you really can’t see it?”

“Check it out first!”

The demon king shouted and threw the navy blue knit he was holding at me. It didn’t hurt, but it made me feel a little worse. Still, I wondered how frightened I was, so I looked outside again.

“Hello?”

“What the fuck!”

I was startled by the voice coming from below, and I hit my butt. Even in the midst of pain in my butt, I looked up and looked at the owner of the voice.

She was the younger sister of the demon king I saw earlier. The girl, who was a middle school student but had the impression of a cold beauty, looked down at me and turned her gaze to the corner of the fitting room. Spotting her sister, she greeted her with a blank expression as she opened the curtains.

“Hi, sister.”

It was like ice that had been bitten on a hot summer day. It was a flat and emotionless tone, but it was a voice that was good to listen to like a voice actor.

The called Demon King showed his hard face towards his younger brother.

“Ah, yes. Hi?”

Even when she saw that she was reluctant to meet her, her sister continued the conversation casually.

“What are you doing here?”

“Me? I came to do some shopping… “

She said ‘I’ when the demon king referred to her. He talked to her sister like normal people, not in the arrogant way he always said “Jim.”

While I was surprised, my younger brother looked down at me for a moment and asked the demon king.

“With this person?”

“Yeah, he asked me to pick out some clothes. Hey, get up.”

The demon king came to me and kicked me, telling me to get up. I was embarrassed to get up, so I apologized for cursing earlier.

“Sorry for cursing earlier. I was so surprised… “

“Are you okay. But what is your relationship with my sister?”

“That is,”

“Friend! We are just friends!”

The Demon King hastily interrupted my words. I was going to say that we were close seniors and juniors, but strangely I didn’t like it.

Hearing that, my brother only moved his eyes and looked me up and down.

He held out her hand to her and greeted her, forcedly ignoring the scanning gaze in her eyes.

“Oh, hello? Uh… “

I glanced at her chest. She found the words Baeksehui written on the yellow name tag.

“Sehee. Nice to meet you.”

He held out her right hand to shake hands. But even after seeing that, Sehee bowed her head and said hello.

“Hello.”

As if he didn’t want to shake my hand, he raised his head but didn’t move, holding his hands together in front of him politely. Embarrassed, she quietly lowered her hand. She asked as she fully lowered her hand.

“Your brother is that person, right?”

Brother. It was a word every man wanted to hear. But even when I heard it myself, I didn’t feel happy because of that cold tone. Rather, I felt more comfortable with the oppa I heard when the demon king quarreled with the archangel.

By the way, who is that person?

Sehee said with a doll-like appearance without moving her expression.

“I saw it on the news. You knocked out a man with a knife in a movie theater.”

I remembered that Hajun was arrested and the truth was revealed. I had a few interviews with reporters while I was at the hospital, and Se-hee seemed to have seen the news.

“Ah yes! That’s right huh.”

“I heard that you saved my sister at that time. Thank you so much.”

She lowered her head as she finished her words. I realized that he didn’t like me very much because he looked like a robot with no emotion because he had no expression, and ignored my handshake. However, seeing her bow her head to such a person, I realized that she is a younger sister who likes her older sister quite a lot.

Feeling slightly happy, I waved my hand to the bowed Sehee.

“Oh, no. It was nothing.”

“No. If it wasn’t for my brother, I might never have seen my sister again.”

Actually, your sister is stronger than me. I wanted to say, but I denied it this time because the party was behind me.

After bowing her head to me for a while, she raised her head and spoke to the demon king.

“Sister.”

“Uh, huh?”

“Are you coming home late? Maybe late… “

“No, I’ll be there soon! I was going to go before dinner!”

“Is that so?”

“Huh! So, you don’t have to talk to your mother!”

“… “

Se-hee did not answer and quietly looked at me and the demon king alternately. After about a few seconds, he answered again in an icy tone.

“All right. Then I’ll go back first. I will soon break up with my friends waiting outside.”

“Yeah, be careful on the way back!”

“Your sister too.”

When she said that, her gaze was on me, not on her sister. Sehee looked at the demon king again.

“Sister, see you at home later.”

“Okay! See you later!”

“Yes. Good bye.”

Se-hee simply ignored me and moved on. Like her older sister, she left the store with long black hair that reached her back.

When his younger brother left the store, the demon king sighed in relief.

“Phew, you finally left.”

Oh, back again

Returning to his usual tone, the demon king picked up the knit he had thrown. Handing it to me, he said with a tired face.

“Would you like to move places?”

“Why?”

“I will tell you why Jim did what he did. Or, are you not curious?”

“Of course I’m curious!”

After paying for the clothes and knits we were wearing, we headed to a nearby cafe. We each ordered a cup of Americano.

“I’ll make a latte for my luggage.”

Those of us who ordered Americano and Latte.

“No, I’ll make a caramel macchiato.”

Those of us who ordered Americano and Caramel Macchiato.

“No no, give me a sweet potato latte.”

… Americano and

“Just Chocolate”

“Eat anything!”

I shouted at the confused demon king and told the clerk who was having a hard time with the overturned order.

“Two americanos. Cold ones.”

“All right. Two iced americanos.”

We each ordered an Americano and sat at a table in the cafe.

I put down the paper bag I bought earlier next to the chair.

“Why the hell is that? He is your brother.”

The demon king, sitting in the chair across from him, opened his arms and asked.

“What do you think Jim looks like?”

I listened to the question and thought about how to answer it. Because the demon king I saw was pretty. But he knew full well that that wasn’t what she was asking. Besides, even if it was pretty, it was obvious that the demon king would be happy and hit it like it had been until now.

Seeing that I couldn’t answer, the demon king smiled bitterly.

“Yeah, as you can see, Jim is a bit unusual.”

Was that it! And you know you’re unique!

In her astonishment, she tried to talk to her as usual, but when she saw her unusual expression, she closed her mouth. She continued her speech with an expression of seriousness that had never been seen before.

“Where should I start talking… Yeah, you better start when you realize that Jim reincarnated.”

I was in the 6th grade of elementary school when I realized that the demon king had reincarnated. He said that the trigger was that he slipped and hit his head on the floor while climbing the iron bar with his friends that day.

Knowing that she was the Demon King in her previous life, she first informed her parents. Because she was the one who gave birth and nurtured, she thought it was necessary to let her know what kind of person she was.

Her parents thought it was just a simple breakaway until the second year of middle school and tried to move on. But when she heard her story at school about not being able to blend in with the people around her, she knew from then on that she wasn’t normal. She went to various hospitals and eventually went to a pseudo-religion, but the demon king showed no signs of returning like before.

As the effort continued, she eventually began her performance pretending to be back to normal. Because she couldn’t see her parents struggling more and more.

When the story ended up to this point, the vibrating bell rang just in time.

“Bring your luggage.”

As if the demon king could not stand the awkward atmosphere, he grabbed the red vibrating vibrating bell and stood up.

I thought she must be pretty lonely as I watched her head to her counter. She is me. As soon as she died, she immediately returned to the present day, but in the case of the demon king, she was reborn at the young age of 13. He didn’t believe anyone when he told him about himself, and he just treated him as a psychopath and didn’t understand. That too for 8 years.

I couldn’t even imagine how happy he must have been when he met me after being alone for such a long 8 years. Thinking about that, it was understandable that she was extremely friendly with me.

“Okay, I brought it.”

The demon king sat down holding a tray with two glasses of iced americano. She ate one, she ate her own and handed me the leftovers, asking.

“Do you have any other questions?”

I answered after taking a sip of Americano through the straw in the cup.

“Then why did you hide that she went shopping with me from her sister?”

“That’s it.”

The demon king removed her straw and drank from a cup. As she spoke, she took a few sips and put the cup down, apparently feeling quite thirsty.

“Se-hee is a horse. Jim is a bit overprotective.”

Is it overprotective?

I remembered the conversation I had with Sehee earlier. It seemed like a normal reaction to seeing a guy with his sister.

“I didn’t expect Sehee’s reaction when she saw Jim with a man. At worst, I could have objected to meeting you.”

“… “

“I think I followed my parents after seeing them worry about Jim a lot. I’m glad I didn’t become crooked at such a young age… “

The demon king muffled his words and fiddled with the cup with his right hand for no reason. Wiping the dew on the surface of her cup with her finger, she spoke carefully.

“Not only Sehee, but also Jim’s parents are overprotective of Jim. It’s probably worse than you think. Worst case, don’t let me see you… Could be… “

I was more concerned about her fidgeting fingers than I was about her voice, which became increasingly creepy.

Purely! With really pure intentions! Without a single impure intention! He raised her hand and covered her hand as it groped the surface of the cup.

“… ! You.”

Then the demon king opened her blue eyes wide and looked at me. I turned my head away, afraid that my blushing face would be noticed.

“Will you look after my luggage for a second?”

Having said that, she suddenly raised her left hand and cupped my cheek. Giving her strength, she turned her head to look at me, and met her eyes with mine.

“Be still.”

My heart sank at the low, whispering voice. Furthermore, the demon king got up little by little from her seat, and she slowly approached me with her beautiful face.

“You… !”

I was so shocked that I couldn’t even move my voice. All I could do now was raise my heart rate with my eyes wide open.

A light exhaled breath touched my face through pale pink lips parted enough to show the front teeth. That little breath tickled my face, and it smelled sweet.

“You… “

Finally she got her word out. I was nervous about what to say, but the shocking words came.
“I think you should do some eyebrow grooming.”

“What?”

“Speaking of eyebrow trimming. It doesn’t look like you need to paint it, so just trimming it with an eyebrow razor should be fine.”

After speaking, the demon king sat down again. And he smiled mischievously at me, who hadn’t come to his senses yet.

“Why? Did you think Jim was kissing you?”

Then I realized that she was playing a joke on me.

“Oh really!”

“Don’t be so angry. The atmosphere was so heavy, so I played a little prank.”

“Stop doing that!”

“Ahahaha! How is it, are you excited?”

“Noisy!”

As expected, it was pointless to fight against the demon lord. But I’m not the only one who was scared, she also had her ears red.

Thanks to that, the serious atmosphere from before was blown away, and at the same time, I forgot the gray hoodie I saw at the store.