Chapter 159 – Chapter 159 – Promise (2)

Looking at her lovely older brother who was facing her without avoiding her gaze.

Lee Ah-reum let out a quick breath.

‘Brother.’

I blankly called out to the man in front of me.

Then, a warm comfort and a slimy possessive desire welled up in her chest at the same time.

‘Ah… Older brother.’

Lee Ah-reum whispered the name again.

From the first time we met, I could tell that this person was different.

Unlike myself, who has changed his attitude while paying attention to live.

Her older brother had maintained a consistent attitude from the beginning.

‘That’s it. Just.’

Without any reason, he took care of himself by answering that it was just so.

At first, she was mistaken for having special tastes, like the bald man next door.

But it wasn’t.

The older brother lied when he said that he fanatically liked her younger sister more than anyone else.

A lie just to give me faith.

That would be true, because my brother was calm even when he saw my defenseless appearance that I sometimes showed.

Besides, my brother was suspicious.

Maybe I’m not from my mother’s side.

It took me quite a while to figure this out.

It was only after seeing my older brother who lives with me and subconsciously sometimes reveals his defenseless side.

Could notice

After that, it was easier to notice.

Because my brother showed himself more and more defenselessly as time went by.

And seeing that, Areum Lee could be sure.

That the man in front of her was her very lovely older brother.

‘Ah… Older brother.’

Lee Ah-reum whispered.

I ran my fingers through the black hair in front of his eyes and looked at my older brother’s lips, which seemed like they could be touched with the slightest movement.

When I was in trouble, my brother’s breath flowed from those lips that snuggled like a habit.

In order to taste that sweet breath, Lee Areum took a breath.

And he gave his brother a breath of his own.

It didn’t matter if I doubted myself.

The important thing was to give faith ‘while doubting oneself’.

This was rather good.

Blind trust couldn’t have existed in the first place.

It wasn’t straight faith, but creaky but sustaining faith was so kind.

He had no choice but to fall for his brother.

While doubting, he willingly gave his own blood, showing a sincere concern.

When I finish reading a comic book, I secretly move the next volume.

Even the sometimes defenseless laughter.

‘Ah… Older brother.’

Because he was such a kind older brother, he had no choice but to talk to me now.

‘Brother… Can you keep caring for me?’

He felt that if he didn’t talk to him now, he would fall for his older brother even more.

Even if my brother pushed me away, I felt like I would stick to it by force.

Here he left the choice to his brother.

But.

Cleverly, the answer my brother would say was somewhat expected, so I asked this question.

My brother never left me alone.

Even if you show a precarious appearance, and hand over the words that you will fall together in hell.

My older brother pondered for a while, and eventually he was the one who would hold his hand.

So.

I couldn’t get my brother’s blood on time, so I was in a bit of a hazy state.

It’s embarrassing, but he revealed his bottom and offered his brother a promise he couldn’t escape.

‘Brother.’

He looked at his older brother, Kang Han-jun, who slowly opened his mouth as if he had made up his mind.

‘Please hold the hand of my greedy, selfish little sister.’

Although with dirty hands, he could drown his brother in the mud.

In order to monopolize that kindness in the future, she may reveal her sticky desire.

‘I’ll give it to you instead. Without reserve.’

I will offer myself in exchange for infinite lack.

So, brother.

‘Promise me.’

Waiting for her brother’s words to follow, Areum Lee smiled miserably.

However, that smile of Lee Ah-reum was broken in an instant and turned into embarrassment.

Because.

“No.”

This is because Kang Kang-joon clearly expressed his refusal.

Because she had never been rejected by Kang Han-joon, Lee Ah-reum was visibly in a state of panic.

“Eh… Eh? G… Really?”

As if it was colorless to have set the mood to the fullest, Lee Ah-reum quickly asked Kang Han-jun.

The transformation from sticky to clingy like a puppy was an instant.

And looking at Lee Ah-reum like this, Kang Han-joon expressed his opinion again.

“Yeah, I hate it.”

Lee Ah-reum fell to the side while riding on Kang Han-joon’s lap.

The shocking appearance of Lee Ah-reum looked very cute to Kang Kang-jun.

* *

“Brother, rejecting it. In fact, I was the only one who gave my heart to him. Brother… I hate you.”

Lee Ah-reum collapsed on the sofa and sobbed.

It must have been quite shocking, but the appearance of even muttering seemed quite pitiful.

It also looked cute for some reason.

She was an unimaginable figure of the decadent sister who had just been sharing her breath and pushing her chest.

After calming her excited body, which had been intoxicated for a while, I spoke to Areum who was lying face down.

“I said I don’t like it now, so there’s no need to be so disappointed.”

“… Yes?”

As if asking what that meant, Areumi slowly lifted her head.

She smiled at her cute little sister who seemed to have a strange anticipation.

“So, that means I’m refusing it now.”

“So… Then, when are you going to make an appointment?”

Ah-reum jumped up from her collapsed body, and she slowly looked at me.

To Areumie, I gave another promise, different from the one she gave.

“As much as you can, when it doesn’t work even after trying. I’ll promise you then.”

“… Effort?”

“Yes.”

I approached Areumie and stroked her soft light green hair.

“If you’ve tried to make something you can lean on other than me. If you’ve tried to erase the loathing in your heart, and it’s still the way it is.”

I met her golden eyes.

Looking at the sticky feeling at the bottom that I can’t erase yet, I made a promise.

“Areum will take care of you for the rest of your life.”

“… To?”

Like a child who had her candy stolen once and got it back, Areumie’s cheeks were stained red.

“So, let’s try it. A project to make the hikikomori and the sullen little sister normal.”

I grinned.

Even though Areum heard the words hikikomori and gloomy, she blankly whispered what I said earlier.

“Forever… With my older brother.”

At this rate, I thought that the plan would fail on purpose, so I added a condition.

“But the condition is established only when you are working hard. If you forcefully beat it or do this, it may be abandoned immediately, so take heart.”

“… Hibbit.”

At the word Yugi immediately, Areumyi looked at me.

It looked bleak, but it didn’t work for me, who had already made up my mind.

I didn’t know what big things would happen if I left her sister, who had such low self-esteem, as it was.

I had to fix it by now.

I will show you how much there is to enjoy in the world and how much meaning there is to live.

I touched the black card in my pocket and smiled.

* *

In a dream

Today, as always, I warmed up after entering the dreamy space filled with pure white space.

“Whoa.”

It’s in a dream, so from the beginning my body is completely relaxed.

I had to move my body like this and check my range of motion so that I could feel relieved.

Grabbing the bankruptcy sword, he stirred the air a couple of times.

A familiar person next to me appeared, pretending to know.

“Hey, junior.”

Big red sunglasses, red leather jacket.

Even in the pure white space, the man who could be seen at a glance was, of course, Hong Ma-dong.

Hong Ma-dong, who came to my side before I knew it, looked at my expression and made an interesting expression.

“Oh~ Junior, it seems your resolution is different today?”

“Yes, the condition you mentioned before. I think I must achieve it today.”

Hong Ma-dong smiled and raised his hand.

“My wrist?”

“Yes.”

Hong Ma-dong, who got along with Merlin surprisingly well, said that he used to be close.

There was only one condition that Hong Ma-dong offered in return for Merlin’s detailed information.

To take one of your own wrists.

I tried hard so far, but I was going to somehow break the condition that I couldn’t achieve.

As I was simply checking the yang and yin in my body, Hong Ma-dong secretly asked me a question.

“Junior, at first glance, it seems that something happened because of the suspicious dragon sister… Right?”

Even though he died, through the news I gave him.

Hong Ma-dong, who knows how things are going around me, inferred my condition at once.

“Right, what.”

“What happened again?”

Hong Ma-dong smiles and asks questions.

I calmly gave him the answer.

“I think if I leave it as it is, it will cause trouble. I think I should take him out. But I have an instinctive feeling that if I take him out again, he will somehow get involved with Merlin… I’ll try my best now.”

“Really? Heck, he looks serious.”

“Yes.”

I asserted

I thought my condition was getting better, but I was mistaken.

Locked in the house, the frequency of depending on me has increased.

It was said that if something happened to me after that, or if I was away, the possibility of Areum going into a runaway would increase.

Time bomb.

I had to fix Areumie, who was sure to explode if left as it was.

In order to do that, I first had to know about Merlin, the risk factor.

He had to listen to Hong Ma-dong, who probably knew Merlin better than anyone else.

“I’m ready.”

After checking my body, I held the bankruptcy sword obliquely in reverse.

Hong Ma-dong looked at me like this and pushed up his red sunglasses.

Whirik.

Hong Ma-dong threw the dagger in his hand into the air.

Percussion.

The sound of receiving the dagger was one, but the Crimson Devil in front of me was divided into two.

“I’ll tell you in advance, junior. You won’t look after me?”

“… When did you watch it?”

Until now, it was Hongma-dong who used the spirit of the drunkard and hit me.

It was clear that I would use the gin of the sorcerer again today, so I repeated the number I had thought of beforehand.

Reverse world

It wasn’t the gin of my unstable sorcerer that I used on the phoenix before.

I wanted to figure out the reverse world here, where I don’t know the exact ability yet, but every time I tried to use it here, I failed frequently.

It wasn’t just a lack of ability, or anything like that.

Just ‘sorry.’

As if it was blocked, or as if it should not be used, the sorcerer’s sense of gin was blocked.

That’s why I was planning to try something new with Hongma-dong today.

Whirik.

Hong Ma-dong threw the dagger into the air.

Hearing that sound that felt like PTSD, I contracted every muscle in my body.

‘Goes.’

Percussion.

As soon as I heard the sound of a dagger being hit behind me, I removed my foot.