Chapter 37 – Daughter, Give Me a Mother!

Under the darkened sky as the sun went down, I walked through a residential area where only the rich live. She was wearing the clothes the devil had chosen for her, and was holding a bouquet of flowers as a housewarming gift.

The reason I came here was obvious. It was because he was invited to the house of the demon king.

Her heart trembled just thinking about how her precious daughter would treat a bastard who cheated on her parents and slept in the same room for days.

But that wasn’t the only problem I had. The hoodie I saw at the clothing store was also one of the causes of my stress.

Of course, it wasn’t that he didn’t know who the hoodie was. Since Yuri was wearing the same clothes that day, she must be the identity of the hoodie.

The real problem was that Yuri didn’t want to talk to me at all. She didn’t answer the phone or contact me, and even if I ran into her in the classroom, I often ignored her. Besides, even though she was caught, she continued to tail me. I could always see her when I went to her student cafeteria or her PC room.

I walked through her house, sighing because of her ever-present her. However, a voice that I didn’t think I could hear came from here.

“Do you have any money?”

“Hyung, does he need to look at something other than money?”

“I can get paid and do other things.”

I looked at the place where the voice came from, intuition that I had one more worry. I saw a group of students in school uniform under an orange streetlight.

The male students gathered together as if to wrap something or someone, looking inside. Next to him, girls wearing school uniform skirts that showed their thighs were talking.

“Hey you pervert bastards. Just take the money and send it.”

“Perverts, for real.”

The girls raised the corners of their mouths and smiled viciously, wondering if they weren’t serious.

As I looked at them, the students noticed as if the abyss was also looking this way. The tallest male student among them shouted at me.

“Mister! Don’t worry, just go! I’m just playing!”

As soon as she heard that sound, her heart skipped a beat.

Uncle! You’re only 20 years old, but you’re an old man!

It was so absurd that I stopped my steps and looked at them. The students who saw that day lowered their voices as if threatening them and threatened them.

“Uncle, stop and go.”

“If you don’t want to be beaten and dragged on, just go.”

“Aren’t you watching too many movies?”

There was no need to fight. If I fought, I would win, and I could get my clothes dirty by doing something wrong. I was fully prepared to go to the demon king’s house, but unnecessary violence only caused anger. All I had to do was go and report it to the police.

I turned my head and started walking forward.

“I don’t watch a lot of movies. I’ll just go. Do what you are doing.”

At my reaction, the students were rather taken aback.

“Uh?”

“What do you do with this?”

“Mistress, what should I do? Hey!”

One of the boys shouted and came towards me with great strides. He walked right in front of me in an instant and grabbed me by the collar.

“Fuck you! Are you ignoring us!”

No, even if you try to avoid it!

I raised my left hand, which was not holding the bouquet, and grabbed the hand of the student who was holding me by the collar. There, I applied just enough force to keep my bones from breaking.

Kududeuk!

“Uh, ah, ah!”

My hand naturally lost strength and pulled it off my collar. The boy did not fight back, but slowly knelt down in pain as if her hand was being crushed.

Seeing such pain, his friends cowardly kept their eyes wide open and did not move. But the girl they were surrounding was familiar to her.

Called her with an unforgettable impression of her absolute.

“Is Sehee over there?”

A girl with long black hair like her older sister looked at her with an expression not at all different from that of her bullies. When her name was called, she answered.

“Ah yes!”

“Why are you there?”

She asked, but the answer was obvious. The person the bullies were ripping off was Se-hee.

I called out to her, releasing her hand that was still holding her bastard.

“Don’t stay there, come here. Hurry!”

“… “

Se-hee, in her school uniform, came running to me, her black hair fluttering, squeezing through her arch. Meanwhile, like her prisoner exchange, a boy ran toward her fellow men.

“Brother!”

She grabbed the hem of my blazer and hid her behind her.

“Brother, I was on my way after school, but those people keep… !”

Unlike the icy impression she made when we first met her, the voice she heard now was trembling. She rested her head on my back with a frightened voice and automatically her body stiffened with tension.

However, I, who had been trained by the demon king’s various actions, pretended to be calm and shouted at the students.

“Can we just go now?”

Unlike before, when I ignored it and rushed to it, the students started to leave after a few words. They glanced over my shoulder and muttered among themselves.

“Hey, you really did!”

“It hurts?”

“It hurts so much! Didn’t you hear it break earlier?”

It’s not broken, but it hurts…

I looked at them and turned my head to look at Se-hee, who was hiding behind them. She was still trembling, not letting go of the hem of her dress. She calmly told her to calm down.

“Is it Sehee?”

“Yes… ? Those people are all gone… ?”

“All gone. You can rest assured.”

I said she lifted her face. She met her teary eyes with mine, and as if she was relieved, she lifted the corners of her mouth a little and smiled.

“Really… ?”

“Huh.”

Only then did Sehee release the hem of his clothes. As I turned to check her injuries, she jumped into my arms.

“Brother!”

“What!”

My heart ached at the sudden tackle. At the same time, my heart trembled at the sight of such a beautiful girl being held in my chest.

“Okay, it’s okay… “

I slowly raised my hand to her and stroked her hair. As I stroked her hair, which was smooth and soft, a scent as sweet as her own sister’s rose.

It was only after a few minutes had passed that Sehee really calmed down. She calmed down somewhat and apologized again, remaining expressionless.

“Sorry. Stop because I was so surprised, I put a lot of trouble on her.”

That she caused trouble, that’s what a middle school student would say.

“Oh, no. Are you okay. Things like that happen, too.”

“No. I’m really sorry.”

He apologized again and bowed his head. Seeing that, I felt like I would keep apologizing until I didn’t accept it.

“Okay. Okay, so raise your head.”

“Yes.”

After she finished speaking, she raised her head.

“Hey, what do you call an apology? If oppa wants something from me, I’ll give you just one thing.”

Anything. If it was a boy my age, it would have made my heart pound. But I wasn’t very interested in middle school students. But that didn’t mean she didn’t want anything from her.

“Okay. Then would you like to hear one?”

“… Is it this fast?”

His eyebrows trembled slightly, and his ice-like expression shattered. I answered while looking at that face.

“Huh.”

“I-I didn’t know that the first time was going outside… “

What the hell is he talking about? Is it that even a pretty girl like this is an adolescent?

“What are you talking about. I’m going to ask you to guide me to your house.”

“Yes?”

His expression darkened again, and his sharp eyes broke. Looking at my face in surprise, she asked again, stuttering her words.

“Home, huh?”

“I don’t know if you heard, but I have to go to your house today.”

I waved the bouquet as a housewarming gift.

“But it’s my first time coming here, so I don’t know where to go.”

“Is that so?”

“Huh.”

“… “
Sehee turned her head to me without saying a word. Then, even in the dim darkness, I could find the auricles that were burning red between the black hair.

After turning her head for a moment, she suddenly began to move her steps.

“… Please follow me.”

After staring blankly at Se-hee, who walked ahead for a while, she came to her senses and hurriedly followed.

So I approached her with a quick step, and I walked alongside her. The face she looked at from the corner of her eye was as cold and expressionless as when they first met.

As I was walking without a word, it occurred to me that I had something to apologize to Se-hee. It was an act of pretending not to know that she was in danger, surrounded by her thugs.

“Hey, sorry about that.”

“What?”

“A little while ago, I didn’t know you were in danger and I just wanted to go.”

“Is that it? Are you okay.”

“It may sound like an excuse. In fact, I was going to report it to the police right away. Really.”

“Yes.”

“Do you believe me?”

“Of course.”

After Sehee finished speaking, she stopped walking. I couldn’t stop right away and took a few more steps to stop. She said, looking at the day before, expressionless.

“You saved me like this.”

No, it wasn’t expressionless. The corner of his mouth raised a little, and he was smiling faintly but properly. But it was only for a moment, and she moved her feet again right after she finished speaking.

Walking side by side again, we were silent for a while. I didn’t have Deokji to talk to her anyway, and her thinking hardened with tension just because she was going to the demon king’s house.

The moment she was contemplating how to greet the Demon King’s mother, Se-hee opened her mouth again.

“Brother.”

“Huh?”

“You have a brother.”

She was silent for several seconds.

“… Oppa, are you dating my sister?”

When she heard that, her thoughts stopped for a moment. She wasn’t that the demon lord was ugly, and there was never a time when she wasn’t thrilled. It’s true that I like her rationally, but it was a different crush from the feeling of love I’ve known so far.

After thinking about it for a while, I finally came up with an answer.

“No.”

It is correct to answer like this. It wasn’t a relationship with her because I didn’t like her or leave.

“Is it so? Thank god?”

“Uh, what?”

“Here, my house.”

When I asked, she kept her composure as if she hadn’t said anything. Still expressionless, she pressed the doorbell on the door that stopped her steps.

Ding-dong!

The doorbell rang, and shortly thereafter a familiar voice was heard.

-Who are you?

It was the voice of the demon king. I was glad to hear that I had arrived, but Se-hee was the first to speak out.

“Sister, I am here.”

Then, the demon king answered in an openly disappointed tone.

-Okay… ? It’s a bit late… ?

Jiying, knock!

Immediately after the sound of electricity rising, the gate opened. The house seen through the gate was, as the saying goes, like a house you would see in a movie. It was a two-story house big enough to fit the word mansion, and the green lawn was spread in the wide yard. If I lived here, I would look excitedly good every time I walked into the house.

However, Se-hee did not go in and spoke to the intercom one more time.

“Sister, that older brother is also here.”

-Okay!?

Pop!

The intercom cut off with a bright voice. And not long after, the front door to the house opened.

“I’m here?”

The demon king with a bright smile on his face jumped out of the door. Clad in skinny jeans and a thin long-sleeved T-shirt, she almost ran through her yard in her three-stripe slippers. With the sound of flipping slippers, I passed her sister and stopped in front of me.

The demon lord smiled happily, enough to give the hallucination of her tail shaking at high speed.

“No, why did you buy all these things!”

He held out her hand, asking for it even as he said so. While she was receiving her bouquet, Se-hee went inside the house first and left.

As the demon king watched his younger brother leave, he whispered softly in his usual tone.

“Why did you buy this? I didn’t buy anything to eat.”

“Then give it up. I will exchange it for something else.”

“Why, why do you do that? I didn’t say I didn’t like Jim.”

“If you don’t like that, then what?”

“Ah, don’t do that. Don’t do that. Come on in. Mother is waiting for you.”

Hearing that, I looked at the front door where the demon king came out. There stood a beautiful white woman who took her breath away.

If the devil was a sunflower shining bright like the sun, and Sehee was a lofty and cold lily, that person was a rose, a white rose, the king of flowers. No, it was so beautiful that even that wasn’t enough.

She has the beauty that would be mistaken for a goddess, she said with a radiant smile.

“Welcome, Mr. Jiheon. I was waiting for you.”

I looked at the demon king’s mother who welcomed me, then looked at the demon king again. Then, with a bewildered face, she said to the demon king.

“Daughter, give me your mother!”

“What are you talking about! You!”

Of course, I got hit by the demon king.