Chapter 30 – Part 1 Hunter – Sister’s Melancholy

This story is from the point of view of Jin, one of the four childhood friends.
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How did this happen?

“Live well. Traitor.”

Yuzu turned her back on us.
I didn’t want to see such a sad face.
I couldn’t help but stare at the running back.

…Really, how did this happen?

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I am gin She is an innocent, cute and intelligent village girl.

To be honest, I like Yuzu.
This means that I like you as a member of the opposite sex, as a man. It’s not like, it’s love.

That Yuzu treats me like her little sister.
It doesn’t mean simply giving for her like her sister. It’s completely embedded in my head that I’m the real sister. To the extent that I wonder if someone has manipulated my perception.

Seriously, even when I am naked in front of Yuzu, Yuzu doesn’t even blink her eyes.
Even if I blatantly seduce you, “Haha. Jin is too old to be interested in that?” He stroked her hair and sat down. When she confessed with a big heart, she said, “I like you too, but siblings can’t get married.” She laughed.

What is that? Are you kidding
We’re not real siblings! It’s just her next-door brother’s sister! You bastard!

Of course, there were circumstances that made Yuzu like that.
Yuzu doesn’t have her dad either, but her mom also died early. So from a young age she grew up calling my mother her mother. It also played a part in raising her mother as if she were her own child. I honestly think that she took care of her someone else’s child, Yuzu, more than her own daughter, me.

But! They are always good neighbors! They’re not real siblings!

…At first, I thought that I was not considered a woman because I had a small chest and a short child’s body. Yuzu likes girls with big breasts anyway, so she has to grow bigger in the future.

But if you think about it carefully, Yuzu has been liking her Lei ever since she was smaller than me. And she, Ray, still doesn’t have that big of her breasts. She’s a little bit taller than me. Considering the age difference, it’s a level that can be reversed quickly?

By the way! Why can Ray work and I can’t?!

No matter what I do, no answer comes out and only complaints pile up.
And above all, the most annoying thing! That’s the fact that Yuzu is trying to attach her me and her kun! I really can’t believe it!

Kun didn’t do anything bad. But that’s because Kun is a coward who doesn’t even have the courage to do bad things, not because he’s a good person. Stupid and incompetent immature mama boy. It’s a bunch of complexes!
You can’t date someone like that just because they’re close in age or close to home, right? Aren’t you really stupid?!

When Kun said something like a confession to me, I really wanted to kill him.

“Let’s go out with me. Yuzu doesn’t even pay attention anyway, right?”

To the extent that when Kun said that with a disgusting smile, I unknowingly fed him a right hand straight with sincerity.
Is this kid really sane? Why are you so proud of me when you’re a coward? Do I look so easygoing? Oh my self-esteem!

After that, Kun stopped needlessly approaching me, and the four of us came to the capital to become hunters with no progress in our relationship with Yuzu.

When I left the village, I decided that this time I would advance my relationship with Yuzu. If you go through life and death together as a hunter, your relationship will naturally grow closer, and you will have no choice but to be aware of a special opportunity.
Those two eventually crossed the line and climbed the stairs of adults… I was delusional about such a situation. That is, until we set off.

On the journey from the village to the capital, I came to a realization.
Yuzu and Ray seen from the side were already a complete couple. There was no room for anyone else to intervene.

Oh the fool was me
There was a clear difference between the two of them looking at each other and the way they looked at me and Kun. Just as Rei doesn’t see things like Kun as reason, Yuzu also puts me outside the bounds of reason.

Only then did I realize that I had lost my mind.
What was my effort so far… While I wasted my time struggling to overcome the wall of being a younger sister, the two of them were already solidifying their bond as lovers.

Why do I want to become a Hunter?
Shall we go back now?
If I thought that I would have to keep watching Yuzu and Rei interacting like this, I would really go crazy.

In that sense, when I was invited to join the clan, I thought it was a good opportunity.
I will break up with Yuzu and Ray and find a new me. Maybe in this clan you can find a man you like otherwise.
It’s dissatisfying just to sign up with Kun, but this is just to be treated as someone who doesn’t exist. And a few years later, when I grew up and met him, Yuzu might see me as a woman too.

By the way…

“Ray. Why are you here?”

Really! Why is Ray here?!

Being human doesn’t really work.
I tried to let them go, wishing the two of them happiness, but she should have left with Yuzu, and Rei is not Yuzu now, she is with me.
It really can’t be anything but amazing.

“…Yes?”

After breaking up with Yuzu, Ray is in a daze all day.
Even if you talk to them, the response comes back after a long time like this.

“It’s about why you didn’t follow Yuzu and came this way.”
“Yeah… I’m worried about you guys…”
“What? What is that?”

Ray said with a face that was missing about three screws, not his usual broken face.

“Even if I objected on the spot, wouldn’t you listen to me? There’s no way I could say ‘Let’s not go because they might be strange people’ in front of the people who came to recommend me. That’s why I’m here with you. As your guardian, .”

Guardian? Ray is my guardian?
I sat laughing! Who asked you to protect me? I will stand on my feet and live on!

She wanted to shout like that right away, but seeing Ray’s condition as if she was about to cry at any moment, she could only sigh.

“… Then what about Yuzu? She was left alone.”
“There’s no law saying you can’t form a party just because you’re in a different clan, so I thought it was okay to join a party even if you joined a clan. Also, if I establish a position in the clan to a certain extent, I’ll be able to call at least one Yuzu, but if that doesn’t work Because I can take you and leave.”
“Did you say that to Yuzu?”
“…I was going to.”
“Are you really stupid?”

I became emotional and called Ray her big sister after a long time.

When I was young, I also called Yuzu her older brother and Ray her older sister.
But after realizing that these two completely treated me like a little sister, I started calling them by names on purpose to counteract that. In the end, that didn’t help either.

“Yuz oppa, you’ll be able to live well on your own. But what about the emotional part?
“Yeah. Jin thinks so too, doesn’t it?”
“What?”
“What should I do? Yuzu must be angry too? Do you really think I betrayed you? But Yuzu didn’t listen to me either…”

Sister Ray muttering anxiously.
This is absolutely mind-boggling. So who is protecting whom?

“Haa~. I’ve put my mind together, but what is this? If I knew this would happen, I would have followed Yuzu. If I comforted Yuzu, who was heartbroken after being abandoned by Ray, I’d put her in a single blow.”
“Bur, didn’t you throw it away?”
“No, didn’t you throw it away? No matter what your intentions are, people who accept it feel that way.”
“Ugh…”

Ray couldn’t resist my words and buried her face in her lap.

Sigh…
Yuzu and Ray are the same. Both seem smart, but one is lacking somewhere.
If you look at the two separately and look at them individually, they might be excellent people. They are people who are one step ahead of their peers in terms of appearance, personality, and mentality.

But when the two come together, a strange chemical reaction takes place.
When it comes to each other’s problems, the field of vision narrows infinitely, becomes emotional or misjudgment, and a person with common sense becomes a fool. Like Ray now.

On the other hand, a man named Yuzu is prone to runaways. If he is left alone, he will fly anywhere and everywhere. He sometimes does things beyond imagination.
And it was Rei’s role to hold Yuzu by the reins so that she wouldn’t run away within the confines of her common sense.

Because of these two people, I was able to give up cleanly. Because I can’t have that kind of influence on him. Because those are idiots who deserve to be pissed off.

“I did, but what kind of situation is this now…”

Seriously, how did this happen?
Besides, where the heck did Kun, who can be said to be the culprit behind everything, go?

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The next morning, Kun appeared in front of us, smelling like cheap perfume.
Grumpy face. Lipstick mark on cheek.
Anyway, this is the guy. It’s obvious what he’s been doing all night.

Seeing Kun like that, Ray’s sister preached something, but Kun didn’t even listen. It’s in a state of total haziness.
You bastard Kun… Until then, I couldn’t even shout at Ray unnie, so I was very proud. I think I’ll really bury it.

“Sister. Leave that guy alone.”
“I can’t do that. Both Jin and Kun are family to me.”
“Ugh. Unni, can you not put me in the same category as Kun? Because my self-esteem is low.”
“Does it again.”

Ah~ Ray unnie is also really overprotective.
Both Kun and I are no longer children, so we should just let them live on their own.

People in the city say they’re scary, but since they’re protected by law anyway, obvious crimes can’t happen. Kun is an idiot, but since he’s so timid, there’s no way he could have a big accident.

…But my perception was complacent. Really, I underestimated the stupidity of the idiot named Kun.
When Ray unni was preaching to Kun, I should have beaten that bastard to dust as well. It should have made me sober.

The morning of the day just three days after becoming a Hunter.

“Ray sister! Jin! Please help me!”

Kun was lying flat in front of Lay and me.

“I only have two people to trust now! Please do me a favor!”

There was a woman who fell in love with Kun.
The woman was in a difficult situation, so I helped her. But she went missing, and I was wrongly framed. So help me clear my name. This is Kuhn’s argument.

Interpreting this, Kun fell for a certain prostitute and made a debt guarantee to that prostitute. However, because the prostitute ran away at night that day, Kun, the guarantor, took on the debt. But he doesn’t have the money to pay right away, and if he doesn’t extend the deadline, he might soon be sold into slavery.
So, while I was looking for the runaway prostitute, I asked Ray and I to be joint guarantees for her so that she would not be sold into slavery.

“…The first day I got 1 million gold?”

To Lay, who pressed her forehead and asked, Kun answered with a mumble.

“That’s…That’s why I needed money to get Adelina out of her business. So…”
“Sigh…”

Sister Ray put her hand to her forehead and let out a sigh as her ground shook. For reference, Adelina is the name of the prostitute that Kuhn was caught cheating on.

On the other hand, I was deeply concerned about how to kill this idiot to spread rumors that I killed him well.