Chapter 77 – Are You Pretty?

It was quiet inside the water unlike outside. Even if it seemed like my eyeballs would fall out, if I opened my eyelids, I could peer into the silence. A blue color close to green, fish the size of my forearms were swimming in it.

Wait, fish?

I hurriedly got out of the water and called the demon king who was resting in the gravel field.

“It’s Sohee! There are fish here too!”

“Haha! Did you know that now!”

“I didn’t know!”

“Did you know about Jim?”

“Don’t lie!”

While I was talking to her, a column of water rose up next to her.

“…Puha!”

Sehee appeared with a cute spirit. Like me, her breath-holding confrontation, she was wearing her hoodie, as well as her drooping black hair, dripping with water.

“Is your brother gone?”

Sehee, who usually had a cold yet haughty expression, smiled. Raising the corners of her mouth, she ambled along because of the cold water up to her waist.

“Will you grant my wish now?”

“What is that. You didn’t even tell me what it was.”

Se-hee and I started a breath-holding bet with the bet on granting each other’s wishes. But I was so surprised when I found the fish that I let her win.

Having come right in front of me, she stopped and moved her mouth in her smile.

“I will tell you now.”

“What?”

“Please fight me again.”

“What? What confrontation?”

“Hold your breath. Please do it one more time.”

“Did you do that earlier?”

“So I want you to do it one more time. I bet the same thing this time.”

“Give me a wish? That?”

“Yes, that.”

“No, what. Okay.”

“Then let’s begin. One, two, three! Huh!”

“Hup!”

At the same time Se-hee bowed, I went into the water. I crouched down in the water so that the cold valley water could come up to my head.

I don’t know the first time, but the second time I have a good chance of winning. Thanks to the Demon King’s training, my lung capacity has increased dramatically along with my muscle strength. Se-hee, an ordinary person, would have to go as far as drowning in order to defeat me.

Worried that she would hold her breath until she was in danger, I opened my eyes underwater and checked her condition.

Sehee, who had just entered the water, looked relaxed. The black hair fluttering in the waves was impressive enough to make her look like a Joseon version of the Little Mermaid.

When I thought I had been in the water for about 5 seconds, Se-hee opened her eyes and looked at me.

“!”

I could see the corners of her mouth lifted through her black hair that fluttered like weightlessness. Then Sehee’s pretty face started to get closer.

What is he doing? By the time I thought about it, it was already too late.

… Took

Even in the cold valley water, I could feel the soft and warm texture properly.

Realizing that Sehee kissed me, I hurriedly backed away and stood up.

“Puha! Ha! Ha! Hey!”

“Puha!”

Soon after I came out of the water, Se-hee came out with me. I tried to say something to her, but she covered my mouth with her index finger.

“Hey, Nut… !”

“Brother, did I win again this time?”

“Uh? No,”

“I’ll make that wish for this time.”

“Is it time to say that now?”

“Please keep it a secret from my sister about what happened in the water earlier. That is my wish.”

“What?”

“Heh♥”

Se-hee left a bold smile and walked towards her sister at the water’s edge. As if she had done her job, she laughed out loud when she saw that dignified back figure.

Actually, it wasn’t such a bad feeling. It was because she was a girl’s younger sister and at the same time a beautiful girl with tremendous beauty. Of course, it wasn’t that I didn’t feel guilty, but an unbearable smile bloomed on my lips.

First of all, I couldn’t play alone in the water without anyone, so I walked to the waterside where everyone was. When I came out of the water, the demon king sitting on a mat on the gravel field greeted me.

“Oh, are you here? Are you hungry? Then eat one of these.”

Unaware of anything, she held out an individually wrapped cookie.

“Uh, uh.”

“Ummm, no.”

She suddenly took away the sweets the demon king was about to give her. Then she opened the plastic wrap herself and held it out again.

“Hey, ah, try it.”

“Uh?”

“Did water get into your ears? Oh, I mean ha.”

I sat down next to her and opened her mouth.

“Ah, ah~”

“Oh~”

“Cancer.”

Crunchy

Every time you move your jaw, the snack is crushed and has a good texture.

As I chewed and sat down next to the demon king, she looked at me happily and asked.

“Is it delicious?”

“Hmm? It’s delicious.”

“Do you know why it is delicious?”

“Of course I know.”

“Hey, let me tell you.”

The demon king looked at me with her blue eyes sparkling. I answered the reason without averting his eyes.

“Our country’s Masters and Doctors are using their energy, huh?!”

Puck!

“… Can you say it again?”

She hit her on the side and asked without releasing her fist. Her blue eyes sparkled with life. There was no room for jokes even after seeing those eyes.

“Uh, because you fed me?”

“That’s correct, you! I’ll give you another bite as a prize! Ah~!”

“Ah~ Cancer.”

I took another bite of the cookie she gave me. The demon king looked at my squirming mouth, then looked the other way at his sister’s call.

“Sister, please give me a bite too.”

“Hmm? Sehee, are you also hungry?”

“Yes, please come. Oh~.”

“Well, not even a baby.”

The Demon King smiled while speaking awkwardly and fed his younger brother snacks.

“Cancer.”

“How is it? Is it delicious?”

“Yes, I think it tastes even better because my pretty sister fed it.”

“Hot hot hot! Jiheon, hey! Did you see! Praise is like this!”

“Ah! Hey! It hurts!”

The demon king smiled happily at Abu and slapped me on the back one after another. In the meantime, Sehee took her smartphone and manipulated something.

Ugh!

Suddenly my cell phone rang. When I took off my shirt, I picked up the phone I had next to me to check if there was a text message.

Sehee: Feeding on indirect kisses?

Sehee: It’s a harem.

It was also sent by Sehee. As you can see from the texts she sent, she is feeling her romantic feelings for me, her boyfriend, along with her sister.

I tried to deny it as much as possible, but I was worried because I didn’t hate it these days, like when we kissed just before.

“Hmm? What are you looking at?”

It seemed like he had been looking at his phone for too long. The demon king was interested and tried to look at my phone. But I hurriedly turned off the phone screen and put it on the floor.

“No, what spam is coming! I was watching that!”

“Then say so. What are you so upset about?”

“Is that so?”

“I did.”

She gave me a suspicious look, her blue eyes fixed on me. What saved me from that stare was the disheartening notification sound.

Nyangnyang!

“Hmm?”

Upon hearing this sound, the Demon King’s attention shifted to her phone. The demon king picked up her phone and checked the message.

“Hmm… You.”

After a long moan, she called me.

“Uh? Why?”

“Hey, I need some help.”

“What are you helping me with?”

“I’m going to move the luggage.”

“Didn’t everything move earlier?”

As she spoke, she remembered that when she first came here, she moved to a pension. At that time, all the luggage in the trunk of the car was moved to the pension.

However, the Demon King gave me an unexpected answer.

“It’s not like that.”

“What?”

“I heard that my uncle is up there right now. You’re talking about that person’s burden.”

“Your uncle?”

“Didn’t I tell you when I came here? This is a pension run by my uncle.”

“No, I said that. You didn’t say you were coming.”

“Is it?”

“I did!”

“Then didn’t you say that your uncle misses you?”

“I didn’t!”

Haha! What are you so serious about?”

“You have to tell me that in advance!”

After shouting, I looked down at my current outfit. He wasn’t wearing a top because he was playing in the water, and his pants were wet shorts. I can’t take it off for the first time, so I put on the short-sleeved T-shirt I had taken off.

I got up and asked the demon king.

“Where are you now?”

“You should be in the parking lot right now. Wait a minute.”

The Demon King also got up to see if he would go with him. He asked Sehee, who was still sitting at the same time.

“Jim and Jiheon are going to help uncle for a while. Would you like to go too?”

“I’m OK. I’ll be here.”

“Is it? Um, okay Then go and come.”

“Yes, please come.”

“Jiheon, let’s go.”

“Uh? Huh.”

Even though I had a question, I followed the demon king once. As I pulled into her side road up to her parking lot, I called her ahead.

“It’s Sohee.”

“Why is that, honey?”

“Sehee. My uncle is here, can I not go?”

“Se-hee says she doesn’t want to go, but do I have to go?”

“Aren’t you going to say hello?”

“Isn’t it wrong not to say hello? And I’m sure my uncle won’t feel bad about it anyway. I saw you yesterday too.”

“Okay?”

It didn’t make sense, but since it was someone else’s family, I decided not to interfere. The first step was to go to the parking lot.

I went up the sloping side road and arrived at the parking lot. In addition to the car we had driven earlier, we saw a familiar silver jeep parked there. In addition, in front of the open trunk, there was a man in mountaineering clothes searching inside.

The demon king saw the uncle and shouted as if he was happy.

“Uncle!”

“!”

At those words, the man turned to this side. He shouted with a face reddened by the sun.

“Are you not crawling quickly!”

“Hey, Uncle. You are leaving now!”

Despite the scolding, the demon king smiled kindly and approached him. Surprised by her screams, he immediately followed her.

As I approached, a man in his early 40s looked me up and down.

“Uh? What are you?”

“Uncle, you said you were my boyfriend.”

“Okay? Ugh… !”

He looked at me with a frown as if he didn’t like me. Frightened by the glaring eyes, I stiffened and did nothing.

Took

“What are you doing?”

In the end, I was able to come to my senses only after the demon king beat me weakly and whispered to me. I came to my senses and immediately bowed my head.

“Hello! My name is Sohee’s boyfriend Kang Jiheon!”

“Um… !”

Even though I greeted him, he did not loosen his face, and out of the blue, he held out his right hand.

“Catch!”

“Yes?”

“Catch me!”

“Ah yes!”

He took his outstretched hand as if shaking hands. Then his uncle squeezed his hand tightly.

“Keuuugh!”

When I shook hands with the demon king’s father, at least I was able to hold on. But his grip was stronger than his father’s. Despite the pain that seemed like my palms would be crushed, I tried my best not to show it.

“…”

My uncle stared at my face in silence, then let go of his hand and said,

“Are you pretty?”

“Yes?”

“Noisy.”

Turning his back on me, he ducked into the trunk of his jeep. And there he took out a large paper box and held it out to me.

“Receive.”

“Yes?”

“Take it! Are you deaf!”

“Ah yes!”

In the box I received, I received beef with excellent marbling, as well as various snacks, alcohol, and beverages. It was full of food.

“Hey!”

My uncle who closed the trunk called me again. When I looked up, he pointed towards the pension and continued.

“There’s a rubber boat and a life jacket in the back! Play with it! Before you fall out!”

“Yes?”

“I prepared charcoal and a fire on the terrace on the second floor! Roast it or eat it or not!”

“Yes yes?”

“Don’t keep hitting me! If you don’t want to fall behind!”

“Oh, sorry!”

“And you!”

He called the smiling demon king next to him.

“Huh? Why?”

When she answered, her uncle pulled her wallet out of her trouser pocket. From there, he took out two bills of 50,000 won and held them out to the king.

“Ruler! Receive! If you’re hungry, order something to eat!”

“Uncle, I bought something to eat in advance. You can eat it without ordering it.”

“Noisy! So what about the price of gas? Receive! Ruler!”

“No, Uncle!”

“If you don’t take it, I’ll tear it up! A real tear!”

“I’ll take it! Please!”

“It will be like that a long time ago!”

After the demon king received the money, my uncle looked at me again.

“Hey! There’s even a karaoke machine inside! Sound insulation is good too! So you can sing and play loud! Got it!”

“Yes!”

“Okay! Play well! I go!”

Then I got into my car and left the parking lot.

He was like a typhoon, but he was a tsundere uncle. Is that a cibalderaine?

“You.”

The devil called me Turning her head, I saw her happy and smiling.

“How is it? Aren’t you a good person?”

She answered right away without thinking about the question.

“Huh.”

“Whoops!”

Maybe he was satisfied, but the demon king smiled brightly. Then he turned to the road leading up to the pension.

“Now let’s move our luggage! I don’t know if it’s a rubber boat, but shouldn’t I bring a life jacket? I’ll put that in the fridge too.”

“Okay. OK.”

You can’t leave the gift your uncle gave you to cool off.

I went to the pension with the demon king and cleaned up what was in the box. I found out after organizing it, but my uncle even brought me a boxed lunch to eat for lunch.

After tidying up, I took three life jackets from the warehouse and headed for the valley. While we were going together with a packed lunch, we discussed what to do now.

“You. Wouldn’t you like to dive off a rock this time?”

“Is that so? This too,”

He was wearing a life jacket.

“Because I have it, I won’t drown in the water.”

“I mean, huh?”

“What’s wrong, huh?”

The demon king and I witnessed the same thing and stopped talking. What we witnessed was Sehee surrounded by three boys my age.