Chapter 139 – Mayna Guffin (2)

One.

“Wow.”

Mech Guffin’s castle was truly a place where exclamation came out.

Everything that made up the castle was splendid and luxurious, and all the objects placed were artifacts with their respective uses.

Considering that even the handprint necklace that I use when playing with Silk and Scar is worth hundreds of millions of won, this castle full of artifacts is a testament to how great Awakener Mech Guffin is. .

It doesn’t seem to come much further than the Leight family’s home.

Certainly, the house where No. 1 lives is different, but very different.

The penthouse I had so cherished looked like a doghouse.

It was amazing even when I saw it from the outside, but while admiring the majesty of the castle, which was much more amazing from the inside, I suddenly remembered a question.

“Oh, so where’s the mech guffin?”

Mayna told me that the reason Mech Guffin went into hiding was because she had accepted him as her apprentice.

And Mayna, she says, since she broke up with me, she has been a disciple of Mech Guffin and she has lived in this castle.

That means you might get a chance to meet Mech Guffin, the world’s number one Awakener.

I’m also a man, so I’m crazy about rankings and superiority in strength, so I wanted to meet that mech guffin at least once, who was said to be greater than the strongest Scar among people I know.

But contrary to my expectations, the answer that came out of Mayna’s mouth was quite disappointing.

“Mister? I don’t know. Half a year ago, I thought, ‘Mayna, I don’t think I have anything to teach you anymore. Good night. From now on you inherit Guffin’s castle,’ she said and went away.”
“What?”

Even though she was talking about the disappearance of her teacher, Meina did not feel any longing or nostalgia.

She just spoke plainly of the facts of her past, and her voice as she spoke of Mech Guffin was just plain, without any harshness.

“Did you have a bad relationship with Mech Guffin?”
“No? Wasn’t she bad?”
“Then why are you okay? The teacher who taught you until now has disappeared.”

I was genuinely curious.

If I were in Meina’s shoes, I would have let go of some longing as I put her missing mech guffin in her mouth.

However, Mayna raised one eyebrow as if she didn’t understand my question itself, and then she replied with a dry laugh.

“Because it wasn’t the kind of family relationship that her brother thinks. Uncle and I.”
“Teacher and disciple?”
“Other than that, I said that because there is nothing to describe the relationship between you and me, and if you go into a little more detail… Yeah. It was more of a business relationship. Me and uncle I wanted to be strong, and the man needed a disciple who would live up to his castle. That’s how our interests aligned, and we became a teacher-student relationship.”

A business relationship?

In the world of the awakened, the bond between master and disciple was sometimes thicker than blood ties.

But what about her business relationship with her world number 1 Awoken, Mech Guffin, with her own apprentice?

It was a little difficult to understand, so I tilted her head slightly without noticing while looking at Meina.

“······Huh. Oh, brother, hold on.”

Then Mayna opened her eyes wide as she was looking at me, and stopped her breathing in the middle as if surprised.

Click.

And then she hurriedly took her cell phone out of her pocket and took a picture of me in a flash of light, then she nodded happily and turned her gaze back to me.

“Brother, you just did that. Why don’t you just show it to other girls? Uh? S, do you do that in front of Scar Rate or Scar Rate!”
“Eh.”

Then she suddenly started to get angry.

Seeing that she had a strange imagination alone in front of the castle gate earlier, and was angry at having imagined that imagination, and seeing that she was screaming at something really incomprehensible like now, it seems that Meina was emotionally devastated during the years apart from me. It was like

Well, even though she is the most grown-up in the world, she was a child who didn’t know how to fall from my side.

Even when she was in the research institute, even when she was in the orphanage, except for when I went to the bathroom… No. Even when she goes to the bathroom, she makes me wait at the door. She never left me.

She slept in the same bed until her last days in the orphanage, when she was sixteen, so she was out of May and how dependent she was on me, she didn’t have to tell me.

So you should understand as a brother

I stroked her hair as she sighed and demanded an answer from her, then smiled so that she could safely lean on me.

“Ugh…!”

Then her eyes widened, her white face turned red like a tomato, and she got angry again.

“Oh, something like that! Are you just doing that to other women!”

If that’s the case, you’re probably talking about stroking her hair and smiling to reassure her.

There were so many times that I immediately remembered stroking another girl’s hair and laughing without thinking about it.

Of course, it hasn’t been like that since before, and most of the petting has happened in the past week.

However, to Meina, who is as angry as she is now, ‘Yeah! You did so much! I did it to Scar, I did it to Raffy, I did it to Ia noona, I did it to Silk-senpai, I did it to Ame too!”

So I had no choice but to tell a lie to prevent that from happening.

“You don’t?”
“Well, then why is the stroking hand so natural!”

It was a sharp question that could reveal a lie if you answered it awkwardly.

However, for me, a man named Paster, who is known for being good at improvisation, such a question is nothing.

Since ancient times, it has been said that the best of lies is a lie mixed with the truth.

Following the words of an old sage, I spit out truthful lies.

“I have a puppy. It’s cute, so I’m petting it so much that I’m used to petting it?”

This lie contained a different level of naturalness compared to when he said earlier that he would not pet other women.

Because what I said was an obscure truth.

Here, puppy refers to the soft state when Silk-senpai wears a hand-printed necklace, and Silk-senior when he becomes a soft-bodied self-proclaims himself a stupid puppy, so my words were in some ways true, and in some ways false. .

However, to Mayna, who does not know the inside story, it is just a natural truth.

As evidence of that, Meina looked suspiciously at her, but she couldn’t dig further.

Hoo, avoiding suspicion with such a perfect alibi? Even if I think about it, it seems to be very quick-tempered…

“Oh yeah. If you have a puppy, will you have a picture? Show me some pictures.”
“Uh?”

I didn’t expect this

※※※

When she said that there was no picture of her, her suspicion turned to certainty. I grabbed her by the wrist and forcibly dragged her into her room.

Meina’s room was literally simple, and felt more like a hostel than her home.

However, the appreciation of her room was over there, and I didn’t even have time to look around the room, as her S-class Awakener, Mayna, was pulled by her tremendous grip and sat down on the bed.

Dump!

Then, after sitting next to me, what the hell was he trying to do, he put his hand on my thigh, and quite above it, and started interrogating me in an overbearing voice like a bad cop that only comes out of a movie.

“Say it. The envious… No, no, that monstrous pattern on the underbelly of that ska rate from earlier, and that natural stroking just now, and that smile! What the hell brother! What happened while you were away from me!”
“Muh, what happened…”

So many things happened.

The academy days, which can be called dark history, the days when he worked as a butler in the Leight family’s home, and the many life risks he experienced in the Liar’s Trap.

The 9 years I hadn’t met with Maya was a long enough time that it was filled with so many big and small things.

And I, who went through that time with my whole body, was very different from the me Mayna remembers and hoped for.

Yes, even if you hide it, judging from Mayna’s mad obsession right now, it’s certain that it will be found out sooner or later. It would be much better to just confess with my mouth now than to be caught then.

There is a saying that it is better to sell first.

I decided to follow the old sage’s words this time as well, forcing her hard-to-open mouth and answering honestly to Mayna.

“Mayna, actually I…”
“…”

Gulp.

I could clearly hear her dry saliva forced down her throat, evidence of her tension.

With that sound, I brought out of my mouth things that matched Maya’s question from what had happened so far.

“I’ve had sex with all the female S-class Awoken from the Liars Trap.”
“······What.”
“I drove that for a week too.”