Chapter 50 – Oppa, Do You Like Being Small?

“Anyway, I… I think I came to like you.”

The first thing I heard of that confession was that I thought it might be a lie again. The other day, he acted like he had a crush on me and tried to trap me. This time, too, it was not unlikely that it would not happen.

Sehee turned her head and said, probably reading my thoughts.

“It’s okay if my brother doesn’t trust me. Because there is one thing. Still, I thought he would just like to know.”

Sehee showed me her face again and looked no different than usual. He looked at me with a cold, expressionless expression, without blushing like he did when he confessed just before.

“Now go down. By now, even my older sister should be ready.”

After saying that, I opened the door without even having a chance to ask. As she left her room, I thought about the confession. Is the confession real or fake?

It was Sehee’s purpose to approach me and separate me from the demon king. However, since his identity was exposed, confessing again did not seem meaningful.

But what if it’s real?

This was another problem. What Se-hee fell for was the swinging bridge effect, thinking that she fell in love with the person who helped her when she was in a dangerous situation.

“Brother.”

While I was thinking, Sehee appeared through the open door. She spoke in a flat tone for what she confessed to me.

“My sister is coming down.”

“Oh, yes! Okay!”

As she said, I walked towards the first floor. Following Sehee to the kitchen, the answer that came out was surprisingly simple. The illusion was easily broken anyway. While she was fantasizing about me, I just had to act normally and shatter those fantasies.

“Are you here!”

When I arrived at the kitchen, I saw Ma Wang standing in front of the induction stove. She grabbed the handle of her frying pan, and with her other hand she put a ladle in to stir the rice cakes so they wouldn’t stick. The Demon King turned her head towards me and asked.

“Do you like cheese? Is it okay if I put it in?”

“Cheese? I like it. The more you put in, the better.”

“Okay.”

The demon king stopped stirring and walked to the double-door refrigerator next to her. She opened the refrigerator door, grabbed an envelope with what appeared to be cheese, and returned to the induction stove. She asked again, putting the envelope aside to put it in later.

“Is it better to put ramen noodles in too?”

“It’s good.”

“Do you like ham?”

“Of course I like it.”

“What about eggs?”

“I like it.”

“Then what about the luggage?”

“I like you! Just don’t ask me, you want to, ah.”

I ended up falling for the devil’s guidance newspaper. She showed the profile of her face with the corners of her mouth raised, as if pleased that her ploy had succeeded.

“Jim, who loves you, should add a special topping for you?”

“Didn’t you say that?”

“Then I guess you like it?”

She passed over again. I looked at the demon lord who was beating me up desperately, but I felt someone’s gaze from the side and turned my head. Beside me, Sehee was looking at me with an expressionless expression.

“Uh, Sehee, why?”

“… Brother.”

I never forgot her then screaming at me for her. Fearing that she would curse again as if having a seizure, she prepared her heart.

But what she said was something completely different.

“When you do, let me in too.”

“What?”

“There is such a thing. Her sister and brother will do it later.”

“Then what is it?”

“Are you making me say that? I will report it for sexual harassment.”

“What the hell is that!”

The voice of the demon king intervened between Sae-hee, who was talking nonsense, and me, who was asking about ‘it’.

“All right! Everyone take your seats!”

When I turned my head, I saw the Demon King holding a deep frying pan. She took the handle of her frying pan with one hand and brought it to her table. Then she pointed to a spot and said,

“Sit there.”

“There?”

The place she spoke of was the seat where her mother had sat the other day. It was a place of honor, reserved for the owner of the house or something like that, not for a guest like me.

When I hesitated, the demon king pulled back the chair and spoke again.

“Sit here. It’s okay. Mother isn’t home anyway, and she wouldn’t mind if she were.”

“Still… “

“Just sit down! Do not stand indecisive! Aren’t you a guest anyway!”

Saying that, the Demon King grabbed my sleeve and sat me down. After forcing me to sit down, she sat in the seat to my left. But what was unexpected was that Se-hee, whom I thought would sit next to her older sister, was sitting to my right.

“This is my original seat.”

“That, is it?”

“What are you doing! Come on, don’t lift it!”

The Demon King intervened and took her personal plate from my place. She took her ladle, scooped the tteokbokki on her plate, and placed it in front of me. After that, he got up a little and grabbed Sehee’s and spread it out, and put his own last.

In the meantime, I looked at the tteokbokki made by the demon king. The tteokbokki with all the toppings she asked for earlier must be redder than I knew. No, it would be more accurate to say that it was dark red. When I thought of the tteokbokki I ate while going through the hardships with the king in my own room, I broke into a cold sweat.

“Why?”

The Demon King asked if that appearance was uneasy. Unlike her always confident expression, she looked at me with her eyes down this time.

I couldn’t say I couldn’t eat it after seeing the face like a dead puppy.

“No, it was because it looked delicious.”

“Is it!”

Satisfied with my answer, she smiled broadly.

“It’s not just the outside that’s delicious! I’ve added something special just for you! Try it!”

I picked up the chopsticks with trembling hands. When I picked up the tteokbokki rice cake, the dark red seasoning dripped thickly into my plate. And with a feeling of not understanding, I put it in her mouth with her eyes closed.
It wasn’t that spicy compared to the dark red color. Slightly spicier than normal, the subtle sweetness and chewy rice cake, and the bitterness that rises deep in the aftertaste… Uh?

When the bitter taste rose as if she had eaten burnt food, she asked the demon king.

“Does this smell a bit burnt?”

Then she said with a proud smile.

“Hmm! I added some fire taste!”

“What’s wrong with tteokbokki!”

“It doesn’t taste bad, does it?”

“It’s not oil tteokbokki, it’s just tteokbokki. What’s wrong with it… ”

That’s what he said, but that didn’t mean he didn’t like it. The taste of fire that can not be tasted in ordinary tteokbokki felt fresh.

I was eating an unfamiliar but delicious tteokbokki, and the king looked at me happily and asked.

“Is it delicious?”

“It’s delicious, then.”

“If it’s that delicious, I’ll make it again in your own room.”

“Also?”

“Or will you make it for me? I don’t think it’s bad to do it alternately one day at a time. After all, the romance as a woman… “

“What kind of tteokbokki is a woman’s dream.”

“A man like you will not understand. Isn’t a man’s romance a naked apron?”

“Ouch!”

I was so surprised that I stopped by Sarei. In addition, he felt the burning pain in his nostrils as the spicy seasoning flowed back into his nostrils.

The culprit who made me like this, the Demon King, asked in bewilderment.

“Why? Is it too spicy? If you drink milk, you will be fine.”

Saying that, I shouted at the demon king who was about to get up to get the milk.

“It’s not because it’s spicy, cologne! I’m surprised you said that!”

There’s nothing I can’t say in front of my little sister, that’s right!

I hurriedly turned my head and looked at Sehee. But contrary to my expectations, she was eating tteokbokki casually. As she picked up fish cakes with soft chopsticks, she noticed my gaze and said,

“Brother. If the three of us can’t do it, I’ll ask you to take a picture.”

“I will not! I don’t know what it is, but I won’t!”

“… Unnie and oppa are actually big”

“I’ll think about it! Think about it!”

I quickly intervened so that she, whose size was not like a demon lord, would notice. Sae-hee stopped talking as if she was satisfied, and the demon king, who was called, put on a puzzled expression.

“Hmm? What are you talking about? You.”

The demon king looked at me.

“I like big things, can you tell me what you mean?”

“Big one? Therefore… It’s because I like to use tteokbokki a little bigger!”

“Is that so? I’m sorry. If you would have known, I would have cut it bigger.”

Fortunately, she seemed to believe me.

“… Did you know you could say that?”

“Ugh.”

She looked back and forth between Sehee and me, her eyes shining. Se-hee quietly ate the tteokbokki while receiving suspicious glances, and I avoided their eyes and raised my chopsticks. However, contrary to my expectation that he would persistently dig up, the demon king gave up easily.

“Well, tell me later when you want to.”

“Really?”

“It’s true that it’s not clear, but I’m glad that you and Sae-hee became close enough to share a secret.”

It’s about my taste, but the demon king had a bright smile that seemed like it would go blind. The light of that trust made me feel like I was going to break and crumble.

“So don’t tell me anything unless it’s something serious.”

“Yes… “

“Se-hee, you don’t have to say anything.”

“Okay, sister.”

As if it resembled being shameless, Sehee put the tteokbokki in her mouth without changing her face. The Demon King smiled cheerfully as if he liked the look.

“Hot hot hot! So delicious Genga, Sehee?”

“Yes, anything made by you is delicious.”

“You don’t have to praise me that much! Come on, you too! Se-hee eats deliciously like that, shouldn’t you too?”

After she finished speaking, she raised her chopsticks. Even though she was such a bright and confident woman, serving her food seemed quite nervous.

“Oh!”

But as if I remembered something, the demon king called me in a small voice.

“Hey, if that’s the case, let me know in advance.”

“What.”

“You have this. This.”

She released her chopsticks and pointed to the ring finger of her left hand.

“If you do something wrong, your heart may stop, so I hope you will tell me in advance.”

“What is that.”

“Didn’t I just tell you that Jim could die of fright if you pretend like that?”

“No, so what is that?”

Instead of answering, the demon king took a closer look at my face. She looked at me as if she was trying to read my mind, and then she put on a disappointed expression.

“Is it something or not?”

“What. What’s wrong?”

“It is nothing. Ugh, I hope your luggage will fade.”

It was a meal in which both sisters spoke incomprehensible words. Anyway, the tteokbokki made by the king was quite delicious. Just a few days ago, I had a luxurious meal here with their family. It was a little different to me that I was eating tteokbokki, which I would only see at a snack bar. Back then she was just a guest, but now she felt like a member of the house.

After emptying the tteokbokki, we headed to the living room. Actually, she said that the demon king wanted to do something, but she dragged me and Se-hee.

The demon king pointed to the sofa.

“You and Sehee, sit here and wait. Jim brings something fun!”

After that, without waiting for our answer, we went up the stairs right away. Left alone with Sehee again, I asked her.

“Oh, Sehee. Shall we sit down?”

“Great. Brother, please sit in the middle.”

I sat right in the middle of her couch as she said. Sehee then sat down to my right, just like she did at the table. It also sticks just right.

“Is it Sehee?”

“Brother.”

She ignored my calls and reached out to me.

“Give me my brother’s phone.”

“Why?”

“I will delete the installed hacking app.”

“When did you install it!”

“The last time we exchanged numbers.”

“Was it then! That’s how you found out what I like!”

“Give it at once. I will erase you.”

He told me to delete it, so I handed over my phone. After answering her phone, she took out hers and texted my number. When the text message arrived on my cell phone, I held my phone screen up to the fluorescent light. Then he entered a pattern that I didn’t even tell him and opened the screen. There she checked the text she had sent and clicked the link there.

“Oh, is it okay to erase it?”

Se-hee returned my cell phone and said.

“Now I know what you are really looking at. So be careful.”

“What! What have you done!”

“I installed a hacking app. It can also be tracked by GPS, so don’t worry if anything goes wrong.”

“The unexpected happened just now!”

“What is it? I’ll take care of it.”

“It’s you! But if it wasn’t hacking, how would you know my taste!”

“All men like being tall. Or brother.”

Sehee narrowed her brows and made a contemptuous expression.

“Does your brother like being small?”

“No! It’s not so, erase it quickly!”

“Hmm? What are you going to erase?”

Looking back, there was a demon king holding a board game box. She brought a paper box with pictures of anime girls and asked.

“Jiheon, what are you deleting?”

I was just about to tell her what her brother had done. But at that moment, Sehee muttered.

“… Taste.”

“No… ! Nothing… !”

The Demon King listened to my words and looked at me with a confused face, then decided on his own.

“Ah. Is it another secret between you and Sehee? Then Jim will pretend not to know.”

Saying that, she took her box and set it down on the table in front of her sofa. And now, the moment she is about to sit on my left, Se-hee… I watched my sister sit still.