Chapter 284 – To Get Back the Favor of Stell Who Fell Into the Abyss (1)

One.

“What now?”
“Yes? Iknow, right?”
“It’s not ‘I guess?’! I aimed to be a good boss, but because of my strange habit, I ruined it all! But the good thing is that the office is in ruins so we don’t have to meet right away… Until then, how do I get the image back?”
“I don’t know?”
“Don’t talk.”

With nowhere else to go, she called Ia and asked, ‘Can Ia, Ia, stay at your house for just one day?’ Came in

Like a child on her way to check her Christmas presents, Ia opened her door and came in with her face dyed with anticipation. Laid on his thighs.

It really happened in an instant, so I couldn’t cope with it, and Ia-noona’s knee pillow was honestly so comfortable that it was incomparable to any other knee pillow, so I just lay down on her thighs as she led me.

Ian sister laid me down like that and she patted my head with her sweet, benevolent smile, and I took her lap pillow from her sister Ian and explained to her what happened with Stell today.

In the part where she took her apple into her mouth and ate it, her hand that was stroking her head stopped, and a chilly, heavy atmosphere pressed on her shoulder. She seems to hate it,’ she added, and sister Ia regained her original love.

Anyway, after talking like that, I asked if there was any good way…

“By the way Mr. Pastor, are you going to sleep tonight? You can look forward to dinner. In preparation for such an occasion, we have prepared the finest ingredients that can only be obtained at auctions.”

My sister Ia didn’t even listen to me, and she was just thinking that I was going to stay at her own house.

Originally, Ian-nuna would give a kind answer if I asked something, but she didn’t pretend to listen and she only said what she wanted to say.

It’s not really like that with Stella. If there was any sign of that in the first place, she wouldn’t have been kicked out today.

Stell is definitely a noble beauty, but to me, Stell was nothing more than a kind and admirable subordinate.

Besides, my image in Stel must have been ruined by today’s incident, so Stel didn’t need Ia-noona to keep her in check.

Well, if I say that there is no need to check here, Ia-noona is not the type to listen to that. It’s strange that she begs for advice after holding onto someone she doesn’t want to talk to in the first place.

I understood Ia’s reaction, and even though she comes quite often, for some reason, she always listened in one ear and let it out in the other as she explained the ingredients she had prepared for the day.

Noona Ia is good at cooking, and she uses very good ingredients, but she is not as good as Stell and her grandmother’s home-cooked food.

No, in the first place, high-end cuisine itself doesn’t really suit my taste. I didn’t know before, but I think I realized it after eating Grandma Stell’s house food. Anyway, even if I talk about food like this now when I’m not hungry, it can’t be helped that I’m not interested.

So, I took a break from Ia-nuna’s description of the ingredients and began to think about how to win Stel’s favor again.

What is the best way to win back the favor of someone who has once lost their crush? I thought about this before, but what I eventually found out is that the hatred that develops in this direction only grows over time… And I haven’t been able to think of a way to get my crush back.

Even if I think about it, it doesn’t seem like it will come to mind, but anyway, as I was thinking about it, Ia noona suddenly stopped her lips and came into view.

Ia noona’s face, which had been smiling with anticipation until just a moment ago, was no longer smiling, and instead of a smile, only a cold expression was full.

“Oh sister? What’s wrong with your expression?”
“・・・・・Do you ask because you don’t know that?”

It’s already been more than 4 months since I’ve been with Ia noona, but honestly, there was no way I didn’t know why he was making that expression.

However, if I say that I know here and apologize by saying, “I’m sorry I didn’t focus on Ia-noona’s story while I was in front of you, Ia-noona will accept my apology. Thinking would be impossible.

So instead of an apology, I put another answer in my mouth.

“Do you like me that much? To the point where you forgot what you said and even erased your smile while looking at you?”

As expected, Ia-nuna frowned as if she was dumbfounded at the answer that didn’t suit the situation at all, and that would have made her angry because she couldn’t grasp the atmosphere.

“······No, it’s true that I like it, but it’s not at all? Now I…!”

It was really cute when she got annoyed and said she liked her, but if I didn’t say anything here and waited for Ia-nuna to conclude her words, then the real Ia-nuna would get mad.

That’s why I smiled and added a word that would explode the build-up of an absurd answer.

“I like Ia-noona so much that I thought about something else with Ia-noona in front of me because I was thinking about how to say her words.”
“… Eh?”
“But looking at it now, I think I can just say it. No, I can’t stand it any longer because I want to say it. Iaa noona, I love that noona. Heartily.”
“·······?!”

Upon hearing my sudden, but expected, heartfelt confession, Ia seemed incredulous for a moment, putting on a dazed expression like Scar and Ame did earlier. I jumped up and was surprised.

Tung!

Uh?

As I lay on my sister Ia’s thigh, I couldn’t help but get caught up in her violent reaction, and I felt again today that an S-class Awakener can cause a disaster just by being surprised.

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“Ji, I’m really sorry…”
“No. Sister Ia treated it right away, and she wasn’t even hurt in the first place.”

He was just thrown out of a window in the aftermath of the surprise, crashed back down the rabbit hole, and wasn’t actually hurt enough to require medical attention.

The fact that people are thrown out in the aftermath of a surprise is far from common sense, but if I am surprised by each of those things, I, surrounded by S ranks, will not be able to enjoy life properly.

So, I, who is the person in charge of her, just wanted to do that, but Ia-noona seemed to be unable to do that.

“The windows of my house are coated with mana, so they are very hard. If I broke it and went out, it would have definitely shocked me… I’ll look at it again.”

As if feeling guilty that I almost fell from her mansion because of her, Ia continued to touch every inch of my body, infusing her healing mana.

Besides, now I am not the old F-class trash Paster, but a growing monster Paster who can compete with an A-Class Awakener in terms of physical ability.

Just because he broke the window and left, he was already out of harm’s way.

“It’s really okay. Are you just surprised? That’s why Ia-nee doesn’t have to worry so much…”

The time when I was embarrassed by Ia-nuna’s excessive worrying and was about to tell her that she didn’t have to worry for the 15th time, touching the back of her head.

“Uh?”

I don’t know if it’s because of the aftermath of the impact of being blown off and hitting the window in the aftermath of surprise, but a way to get Mr. Stell’s crush back passed through my mind like lightning.

“If that’s the case… Maybe it will work. No, it will.”

Thinking back on it, it was a pretty plausible way, and knowing that the sooner you do something like this the better, so I got up straight away.

Then sister Ia, who was on her knees on the floor and was examining my body, told me to sit down in a voice full of her concern.

“You can’t get up! I still haven’t properly examined it…!”
“Ia noona is the one who puts her severed arm back together in 3 seconds. It’s already 5 minutes. It’s overtreatment. This is it.”

In the first place, all of Ia’s worries were in vain, and it was already 4 minutes and 59 seconds ago that her hands touching my body had changed into something strange, so I could tell that the examination was an excuse.

So, with the excuse of her medical examination, I cut off the wait to touch my body, and smiled at Ia, who had lost her words, and said goodbye.

“Ia-noona, I suddenly have an urgent matter, so I’m going to leave today! It’s really okay, so you don’t have to worry, um… See you soon!”
“Yes!? Suddenly where…”

It was a sudden greeting, but I couldn’t help it because I was in a hurry, and to be honest, it was a waste of time to explain.

So I just made her smile even thicker and then,

“I love you, sister Ia. Enough!”

I used the rabbit hole by conveying my sincerity once again.