Chapter 68 – Hammer

I thought it would be fine after a day. Since the demon king always showed only a bright and a little shameless side, the next day, “Hey! It’s a burden!” I thought I would make a call. But no. She did not recover even after two days.

On Saturday morning, I stood in front of the devil’s house and rang the doorbell. It wasn’t long before someone replied.

-Who are you?

Such an arrogant voice belonged to Sehee.

“Uh, it’s me, Sehee.”

-Are you my brother?

“Okay, can you open the door?”

-Wait a minute.

Soon after, the gate opened, and I entered the spacious garden I was used to. As I slowly walked to the front door, Se-hee came out to meet me.

“Hello.”

He was wearing loose gray cotton pants and a black short-sleeved T-shirt with a slightly stretched neck, probably because he was comfortable at home. If it were me, I would have looked shabby, but when the black-haired girl wore it, it looked so pretty.

“Uh, hello.”

I approached her, answering her bowing her head.

“I can’t come out. Thank you though.”

“It’s not because of my brother.”

“What?”

“I was told to pass the time.”

It was not easy to understand what he was talking about. Still, for now, as she said, I decided to stand here to kill her time.

“By the way, Sehee.”

“Yes?”

I looked her up and down her attire.

“Do you do this at home?”

“… Yes.”

Sehee, ashamed, blushed slightly and stroked the forearm of the other hand with one arm. Unlike the demon king, who is subtly full of health, his forearms are weak, so he has a strong desire for protection.

She replied, feeling ashamed of not knowing how attractive she was.

“I’m sorry, I showed you like this.”

“No. Cute.”

“Thank you for lying, brother.”

Se-hee, who only knew how to be shy, looked at me and smiled lightly. But her face was still red. No, it looks more red…

“Oh my God, Mr. Jiheon!”

Suddenly, a clear and divine voice was heard over Sehee. Looking over her shoulder, she saw her mother standing at her front door in a neat white dress, even though it was the weekend.

I hurriedly greeted the goddess.

“Hello, mother!”

“Yes, hello Mr. Jiheon.”

She turned to me for her beauty, which I couldn’t believe was the mother of two daughters.

“What are you doing this weekend?”

“Ah yes. Actually, I came to go on a date with Sohee.”

“Is it so? But what?”

Her mother frowned between her brows as if in trouble, and pursed her lips cutely.

“I think our Sohee is in a bad mood right now.”

“I’m here to relieve that feeling.”

“It would be nice for our Sohee to have such a good boyfriend. Oh, but you didn’t fight with Jiheon, did you?”

“No. It’s not because we fought.”

“Then how did this happen? After coming in the evening the other day, I didn’t come down to the first floor except to eat or when I was eating. It’s the first time I’ve seen Sohee do this.”

“Uh, is that it?”

I thought about what happened on Thursday. Ice cream. Handcuffs. The key to the house. Get rid of it there. Of course I couldn’t say this.

“Well, let me tell you…”

“Oh, are you going to tell me too?”

“Yes. Sorry.”

“I have no regrets. My daughter’s private life is also there. By the way, my daughter is making secrets with her boyfriend, and she’s a little jealous? Ho ho ho.”

She smiled gracefully. She admires it with admiration,

Took

Sehee kicked my shin. She didn’t hurt as much as when she was beaten by the demon king, but being hit by her was pretty rare.

“Why?”

“It’s nothing.”

Then he left me and passed by the goddess and went inside.

“We have to go inside now, Mother.”

“Oh, I forgot. Jiheon Mr. Just go in.”

“Yes!”

She answered briskly and was guided inside by her mother. Having been here several times, I wasn’t too surprised to see the gorgeous interior.

“Here you go.”

“Thank you, mother.”

She put on the slippers her mother gave her and went into the living room.

An ivory sofa and a glass table beyond. Sehee, who was heading there, looked back at me and said.

“Brother, would you like some snacks?”

“Huh?”

“Here are sweets. Come if you want to eat.”

“Okay.”

Anyway, there was still some time left until the reservation time, and I accepted it without thinking anyway. Now I moved my steps to go to Se-hee. But my mother blocked my way.

“Ji-heon?”

“Yes, why are you like that?”

“Would you like to take a look at our Sohee first?”

Unlike her calm appearance when I always show her, my mother, who stood in my way, showed a puzzled look.

“No, well, I’m worried because it’s the first time Sohee has done something like that.”

“It is.”

“Besides, Mr. Jiheon came to soothe our Sohee. Sohee must have been waiting for Jiheon to come.”

“I didn’t say I was coming.”

“Oh, did you come here for a surprise event? Then you should go quickly.”

“No, I just came because I couldn’t reach you.”

“Even so, our Sohee will miss Jiheon a lot!”

While my mother stopped me, Se-hee picked up a bag of snacks that hadn’t been seen before and showed it to me. As if someone had already eaten, he took out a snack from a bag that had been torn open and ate it.

“Ahhhhh, brother, do you like this?”

“Uh? I don’t like it.”

“Then come and have some. There are many other things here.”

As she spoke, she ducked between the table and the sofa. When she lifted her upper body, her slender hands held more already torn packets of cookies.

It was my mother who answered here, not me.

“Sehee, oppa is going up.”

“Yes? When am I?”

“Jiheon-ssi, you should stop climbing too. Sohee wait, Yot!”

My mother, who said this, gave strength to the hand that pushed me. She was as weak as her little child pushing, but once she climbed her steps she did as she intended.

As I climbed, my mother whispered to me.

“Hey, Mr. Jiheon?”

“Yes?”

“Se-hee won’t be on the second floor for a while, right?”

“What is that?”

“So, it’s okay to make some noise.”

“What?”

“You know, something like that.”

She smiled mischievously and looked at me. For some reason, she frowned at the familiar eye smile. If possible, I wanted to ask more about what he was talking about, but he had already arrived on the second floor.

“Hey Mom, I’m sorry, but please take a seat…”

“Are you okay. You said it earlier. Besides Sehee, I won’t come up.”

“Yes? Thank you.”

“Thank you. But don’t forget that my daughter is still 21 years old. Jiheon is still 20 years old.”

What is this again I don’t know what it is, but I hit it off once.

“I believe that Mr. Jiheon will take care of you.”

And then she went down the stairs. Like her own daughter, she looked down at her face as if she didn’t understand her silver hair, and headed for her demon lord’s room.

She reached the door, raised her hand and knocked.

Knock Knock

“It’s Sohee.”

“Go back.”

As soon as my name was called, the answer came immediately. Her voice was more subdued than usual.

As if she had been crying for a long time, her voice was hoarse and worried, and she called the demon king again.

“Sohee, let’s go play.”

“Didn’t I tell you to go?”

“I won’t go out if I don’t go with you.”

“Just go. I don’t feel like playing with you right now.”

“Did you consider my feelings? Until now?”

“…”

She still had no answer if she was being stabbed. Still, with a voice mixed with laughter, I soothed the dark king beyond the door.

“Don’t worry so much. You didn’t do it because you wanted to.”

“Why do you say that!”

Bang!

As she recounted her Thursday work, she was heard shouting and throwing something of hers at the door.

“What would you do if you said something carelessly and your mother or Se-hee found out!”

“I don’t notice, of course.”

“How can you be sure of that!”

“Se-hee just handed over the key the day before yesterday and went right away. And my mother thinks you and I fought.”

“Noisy!”

Apparently, it was more damaged than I thought. Before dating her, she showed her vomit and burped to her heart’s content, but it wasn’t that she didn’t understand this.

On that day, the Demon King would have brought handcuffs and gags to enjoy with me. As intended, we were handcuffing each other and having fun. But starting with leaving my keys at home, eating ice cream
I even had an upset stomach because of it.

I couldn’t play because I forgot my key, and even heard the sound of doing errands right next to me, so my mentality was broken.

Still, it didn’t suit the demon king to stay in the corner of the room and not come out like this. He did his best to get her out of her.

“Sohee, let’s go out and play. Huh?”

“I don’t like it.”

“It’s where you said you wanted to go last time. I made a reservation to go there.”

“Where are you talking about?”

“Curious? Then open the door and let’s face to face. Then I’ll tell you!”

“… “

At first, I thought it was a failure because there was no answer. But seconds later, the door opened, revealing a dark room. And in the darkness, the demon king with frizzy hair stood with a blank face.

“… Are you okay?”

When I saw her after two days, her body looked very damaged. Her blue eyes, which always sparkled mischievously, had lost their luster, and her dazzling silver hair, fluttering in the wind, was crumbly and disheveled.

“So, Sohee.”

When I was taken aback by the first sight, the demon king cried.

“Why is that, do you think Jim is dirty? Sniff.”

“No! No! Absolutely not!”

“Then why are you flustered?”

“It’s nice to see you! I saw it in two days! I was taken aback by how pretty she was!”

“Don’t lie.”

She spoke bluntly, but the corners of her mouth went up slightly. Seeing that, I felt hopeful and informed the identity of the reservation.

“You said the other day, before the midterms, that you opened a new climbing place near the school. I have a reservation there.”

“You mean there?”

“Yeah, you wanted to go there. I made a reservation for the beginner course. With two people.”

“Um…”

The demon king groaned while thinking about it and gave an answer.

“I don’t like it.”

“Why!”

“What will they do if they think Jim is dirty?”

“No one! Who said that!”

“You think so.”

“When did I! I’m not!”

“Then why did you do that that day? Why did you look at Jim while frowning?”

“I? Did I? I didn’t!”

“Don’t lie. Jim remembers.”

“That memory must be wrong. I said I don’t smell.”

“What can I do with words? Thinking dirty anyway.”

“No! I! Big! No!”

As I strongly affirmed the word ‘absolutely’, the light began to shine in the blue eyes looking at me.

“Really?”

“Really!”

“Don’t you think luggage is dirty?”

“Really? You are clean! And pretty!”

“Then can I eat it?”

“It is not!”

Bang!

Oh, I made a mistake.

But to make up for my mistake, I knocked on the firmly closed door and shouted.

“It’s Sohee! Hand-hand-hand-hand! Hands stuck!”

“Don’t lie.”

“Really! I really got my hands on it!”

“If you lie one more time, you won’t be able to talk.”

… I’m not fooled

Abandoning the blackmail strategy, he spoke again to the demon king over the door in a calm tone.

“Sohee, I’m sorry. I’m out of words.”

“You mean you can eat it?”

“Then can you eat?”

“…”

There was no word for a while. Less than a minute passed, and finally an answer came.

“Okay. It will pass.”

Although she felt shameless, she couldn’t help it. I sincerely asked, thinking that this was the last time.

“Then will you go with me? Climbing?”

“I can’t.”

“Really? Are you really not going?”

“That’s right. As for leaving, postpone it until later.”

“OK got it.”

I knocked on the door to announce that I was going and checked the longitude.

“I’ll go.”

“… Good going.”

Leaving behind the helpless send-off, I descended the stairs and headed to the first floor. When I arrived at the living room on the first floor, I confirmed that no one was there. I called her mother just in case she heard.

“Hey, mother? Where are you in now?”

After calling a few more times, my mother showed up.

“Yes yes? Mr. Jiheon?”

Wearing the white dress we saw earlier, she came out of what was supposed to be her main room. Confused about not knowing what I would call, I wiped my lips for no reason.

She asked as her mother wiped her mouth.

“What’s going on?”

I asked, pretending not to notice the cookie crumbs on the left side of her mouth.

“Hey, do you have the key to Sohee’s visit?”

“Do you want to pick it up?”

“Yes. If I break it with a hammer, I think it will take a long time.”

“Yes yes?”

The mother twisted her expression into bewilderment and bewilderment. I assumed that this would have lowered my rating in her. But she was fully prepared for this.

The Demon King saved me from struggling with my first love. It was cheap enough to repay the favor.