Chapter 185 – The Outcome Is Fixed.

I felt excited at the thought of going on a trip, but my girls came to my mind first.

‘We should all go out together.’

It was rare in my life to go on a trip without a request to a proper city.

In fact, although there are times when the three of Riquet and Eclair pass the time.

We never went on a trip together.

Since each other is busy and Chloe is alone in her mansion, Eclair usually spends time with Chloe on days off.

More often than not, there were two of them.

Of course, the one that takes up the most time among them is Rike, who lives under the same roof.

Eclair, who does not normally have time for her, concedes as Rike visits Chloe to spend her time with her whenever she can afford it.

‘Still, both of them have gone out to play outside the capital quite a few times.’

When I went on a date with Rike, I enjoyed going out to see nature, listening to the sounds of water and birds, and observing animals and plants rather than crowded places.

When the two of them went on a date with Eclair, there were a lot of people who knew her face, so they would play around like they were filming spy materials.

Since they have the ability to kill each other, they sometimes play childishly enough to be indistinguishable from their age and social position.

Both times are heaven and the end where there is no place to compare in terms of happiness.

What kind of feeling would spending time with Chloe, who has not yet established a relationship, convey to me?

‘Librosia…’

I lived a rough and rough life, but it’s not that I’m not interested in books.

Sentences that stimulate the imagination or energize the mind and body are motivating in themselves, aren’t they?

‘I’ll take the smell of the book without want.’

I like the unique smell that can only be felt in a bookstore or library.

If I see an interesting title while passing by, I read it, albeit a little.

I’ve seen the play sometimes pass by, but I’ve never been there to watch.

It wouldn’t hurt to try it once in a while.

If you enjoy it, you can recommend it to Ricke or Eclair in its own way.

Again.

Thanks to the shoes I took out after a long time, my walking makes a different sound than usual.

It was about the time she approached the plaza near her gate, checking her shirt here and there, which Rike had touched with her careful touch.

‘Already?!’

I expected Chloe to come out early, so I came out faster to overtake it.

I thought it would arrive before Chloe unconditionally.

Seeing Chloe holding a heavy bag with a blank face in front of the meeting place, she hurried her steps.

“Brother···!”

She is smiling with a sense of joy, but there are shadows under her eyes.

“Didn’t you sleep? Your eyes look so tired?”

“Ahh… But it’s okay! No problem…!”

She laughed when she saw Chloe shyly lift her bag and cover her face.

“Since when have you been with me?”

“Bah, I just came! My brother came early too…?”

It was a lie to anyone.

‘…Since what time have you been here?’

In addition, the blue eyes that looked at me as I came out earlier than the appointment time gave me an easy-to-understand feeling of excitement.

“I was excited and came early.”

“…!”

As if I felt good at the word, my mouth flinched and tried to go up! Bite and endure

Widely.

She took away her bag, which was quite bulky, and her face was coolly exposed, which was nice to see.

“Ah, ah… It’s okay for me to listen…!”

She thought about putting Chloe’s bag in her inventory as well.

Thinking that this is the taste of travel after all, I put her bag around one shoulder.

“If you need anything, I’ll return it, so feel free to tell me anytime.”

“···Thank you.”

“And drink this. I’m going on a trip and I’m going to collapse on the way.”

Connect the inventory to her pocket and take out a potion with a colorful pattern.

She used both her hands and her head to express vehement disapproval.

“I’m really fine! Such a precious thing…!”

“You don’t leave until you drink?”

She seems to be taking advantage of her emotions and she seems to have become a bad person, but she can’t help it.

“!!!”

Clinking her eyes, she hurriedly drank the potion.

Somehow I couldn’t help but laugh at the funny situation.

…

The gate cost to travel to Librosia was too much for the common people who made up the majority of the empire to afford.

The biggest problem is that you can’t go at once.

You have to go from the capital to the gate three times.

I don’t know if it’s the limit of gate technology or if it’s deliberately twisted for business.

Even so, this issue has no meaning for those who have more than a certain level of financial power.

It is simply a handy tool to save time.

Rattle!

When you leave the building, the exclamation comes out.

“Ohh~! There are a lot of interesting things just by looking at them, right?”

First impressions of Librosia.

It’s just that there are no huge rides.

A city exudes the feeling of an amusement park from a previous life.

“Wow!”

In the new environment, Chloe moved with a cautious, hesitant gait.

And yet, with a candid exclamation, he looked around her intently with her mouth slightly open.

If you walk out of the gate and walk a short distance, there are groups of people performing theatrics all over the street.

If you let go of your mind, you will quickly lose your gaze.

– So that I can play for you anytime! I will light a fire in your chest!
-We can’t meet anymore…! Fate has been decided that way!
…

There are many things to see on the street, so it is a place where the food to eat while watching it has naturally developed.

There were a lot of simple foods sold on the street.

Hot dogs, sandwiches, colorful drinks, and unknown food made with magic tools.

It breaks through the smell that stimulates the salivary glands and takes the lead to open the road wide.

“Let’s get out of the dorm first.”

“Su, inn! That’s right…! Yes…”

Chloe, who was taken aback by the obvious remark and blushed, thought for a bit and then nodded her head to see if she had understood it by herself.

The accommodation is a clean and convenient place to head to downtown.

Two rooms, of course.

But they are sitting right next to each other.

*****

The basis of my brother’s extensive knowledge is not only experience.

Maybe there is also the influence of books.

It was easy to talk about books to the extent that I felt that way.

It wasn’t just a match, but a depth was felt.

Are you facing a subject you are interested in and confident in your own way?

When I suddenly came to my senses, I muttered something to myself to the extent that I wondered if it was a bit excessive.

He even listens to it with a happy face and even asks questions.

It’s not a romance novel, but there are men like this in real life.

My heart was beating like it was about to jump out.

‘I’m having fun… I’m going crazy!’

If time is ice, it is the excessively fast flow that melts it into lava.

The joy and happiness that follows are indescribable.

But.

There was a sense of satisfaction that was sorely lacking.

The cause of this shortfall may not be known.

My sister and Rike are natural, and maybe my brother knows the reason for this lack of satisfaction.

For Chloe, traveling to Librosia is not her number one priority.

This is the place I came to see the conclusion of the relationship.

It’s only the first day of the trip.

I don’t know how long I’ll be in Librosia, but if I can spend the rest of my time in a relationship that has developed with my brother.

You can enjoy your trip with a pure heart without any worries.

Wouldn’t it be a special day to look back on even decades later?

‘…My older brother must have known from the beginning, right?’

It will do so without a second thought.

Feelings stabbed like thorns bloom at the thought of somehow causing concern.

I just thought that only the person in charge of her was well hidden.

She did not know that her heart was so transparent and easy to understand that Rike and her older sister knew it from the beginning.

“…”

The person who becomes the target will be aware of this emotion unconditionally.

Then from when she had the answer of the trip.

Wouldn’t the outcome have already been decided in my brother’s mind?

If so, isn’t there a chance that the result will change if you get scared and procrastinate?

If you don’t have a heart, but if you are hanging out with yourself.

If you really came here for the sole purpose of travel.

Emotionally, it’s nothing more than cruel torture.

“After… After…”

Breathing is disrupted by tension.

Even if the result after the end of the talk is good or bad.

Tears are likely to flow in many ways.

Even if bad results come out, you have to convince yourself somehow.

That way is the best.

Of course, the older brother who accompanied me.

For the sake of her sister and her friends who might be worried, it might be better to go back quickly depending on the results rather than procrastinate.

…

“This is also worth eating. It’s a strange taste.”

“Lol··.”

Thoughts are thoughts and actions are actions.

At Roman’s recommendation, Chloe buys street food for the first time in her life and is trying to walk while eating.

It was a really unimaginable action for the second daughter of a famous knight family, but it was simply enjoyable.

If there was something interesting, it was fun to stop and see things to see with my brother.

As time went by, I walked away from the growing crowd and came to the corner of an alley lined with bookstores.

“Chloe, don’t you feel good here?”

Seeing the inside of the shop, which perfectly penetrated her taste, Chloe said in a slightly excited voice.

“Wow…! De, shall we go in?!”

The place where my brother stopped walking while walking was a shop located in a corner, but there were no customers.

The inside was wider than expected.

In the center was a huge wooden bookshelf.

There is a space next to the bookshelf where you can sit and read a book.

A clock with a unique design was hung on the wall, so even if you kept silent, you could enjoy the sound of the second hand moving.

“Oh! There are also books written by old adventurers.”

The pleasant sound of paper being turned over and the sound of the second hand of a clock.

Those two things come together to make time slip away.

‘It’s dazzling…’

The moment I looked around at the book and turned my head the other way because my eyes were stung by the sunlight falling mercilessly through the window.

Chloe opened her mouth and stiffened on the spot.

“…!”

In romance novels, it is often said that emotions blind you.

Is this the feeling that the feeling of love distracts judgment?

No. Certainly, wouldn’t any woman feel the same way when watching this?

When she first met her older brother as an instructor at the academy, she only thought that she was rough and ferocious.

But now.

The profile of him concentrating while looking at the book was so cool that it was hard to take his eyes off him.

I keep calm and keep watching.

Perhaps feeling her gaze, her older brother’s head turned toward her and she raised the corner of her mouth and smiled.

“What’s the matter?”

“Ah… Vain…! That, that!”

I’ve lived the same all my life, so now I know.

If you start to get scared and procrastinate like your usual self.

There will be no conclusion until this trip is over.

I think about the person who changes me once again.

‘If you look at the relationship with my older brother in terms of time, it’s less than a year, but…’

Actually, it is not a long-term relationship.

So, there are more things we don’t know than we know.

She doesn’t know anything about her life, why she became an adventurer, her family, her hobbies other than reading, or her taste in women.

This feeling that I had on such a subject.

The theories she had built up for her self-justification couldn’t be questioned.

‘Let’s do it.’

Let’s confess now.

Only then.

Legitimacy is given to this runaway emotion and actions that may be committed in a state of mind.

It was just that thought in my head.

“Chloe?”

The reaction is strange, so I can see the worried expression on the smiley face.

I know the action is impatient.

‘But it’s the first time…’

Even this lack and immaturity will represent the depth of emotions.

“···Brother.”

“Are you okay?”

I feel my heart beating like crazy.

My ears are blank, and I feel like time has stopped for a moment.

“I…—-“

Even if I speak up, I don’t know what I’m talking about.

My eyes looking at my brother must be very anxious.

Lips and neck are dry in this short time.

In the corner of this shabby bookstore, like fate.

There were none other than two people.