Chapter 27 – Losers, Look Up (4)
Russ’ hair went white.
“…Until tomorrow..?”
He repeats what he said with his own mouth.
As if the words would change.
Russ ponders the meaning of the word ‘tomorrow’.
So… Stachis was saying that he would meet Elsaine from now on, and that the promise would not end until tomorrow.
If you stay up all night with your friends and until tomorrow, you think you’ve played all night.
If you say you stayed up all night with your family, you might think you’ve had an honest conversation.
If you say you stayed up all night with your lover… That means one thing.
Sex.
Russ asked him again, wondering if he had heard it wrong.
“So… You mean you’re with your girlfriend all the way until tomorrow?”
“…Right?”
Starchis couldn’t look Russ in the eye. I feel like it would take a lie for no reason.
It’s not my girlfriend that I’m dating, it’s my older brother.
On the other hand, in Russ’ eyes, it seemed that Starchis was shy.
The expectations for the first experience seemed to be visible at a glance.
It felt as if the needle was going deep into my heart over and over again.
Haha. Chis, you don’t have to lie like that because it’s hard to meet me. I can meet you next time Yeah, I think something happened to me too. Yes?”
“No, Russ. As you always said, we are best friends. Why I don’t want to meet you it’s not because of you I really won’t be home until tomorrow.”
Starchis didn’t want to give the impression that he hated Russ.
Russ, however, felt as if his legs would loosen.
There was no time to think otherwise this time.
Even if I say it was a mistake because my previous remarks of ‘Your girlfriend was delicious’ were taken favorably,
This time, no other interpretation came out.
Starchis looked at the sky.
The evening sunset, which had been orange, was beginning to be pushed back by the purple very little.
‘Hyung, I’ll wait.’
“Anyway, that’s it. Russ, I’ll go. It’s time for your appointment.”
“Hey, hold on!”
Russ grabbed his arm as he tried to go again.
She couldn’t figure out what to say.
I didn’t know what to say to excuse him for not wanting him to go.
Stachis, who waited for a while with his arm held, spoke.
“Russ? Tell me soon I have to go.”
Eventually, Russ started asking for favors for no reason.
“That… Chis… Can’t we just not go this once?”
“.. Uh?”
Starchis didn’t understand what Russ was talking about.
Russ didn’t even know what he was talking about. It was just the body acting.
“What do you mean, Russ?”
“Just this once. Can’t you break your promise just once and go home?”
Russ knew that if he let him go now, he would have his first experience.
If he left now, Russ’ first experience with him would be lost.
‘Give me one more chance.’
Russ prayed fervently.
“Yes? It’s chis huh? Yes?”
Russ shows her earnestness even aegyo that she didn’t normally do.
“Just break your promise and go home?”
“That’s… Yeah…”
Stachis was shaken by Russ’s desperate look, but she didn’t want to follow her words to go home, for no reason whatsoever.
And the reason I couldn’t hear Russ in particular was that this might be her last meeting with her brother before entering the Class B dungeon. She was also looking forward to fishing.
As desperate as Russ was, Starchis didn’t want to break her promise.
Starchis snapped his arm.
“Russ, you know that makes no sense, right? How can I just go home And I have to go now.”
For Starches, time was running out.
“I don’t know why, but I don’t have time to talk. Go in and rest See you next. I’m late.”
Tuk-tuk. He patted Russ on the shoulder and smiled.
Then she turned around and walked away without regret.
Little by little she disappeared with her quick steps.
Russ couldn’t stop him.
He just stared at the back of Starchis as he left.
Russ couldn’t believe he had left him so easily, even putting down his pride.
That’s enough… I’ve always been told.
What the hell is the year called Elzain?
As the back of Starchis’s head disappeared from view, his eyes widened in a daze.
The strength went through his body.
She thought
Stachis now goes to hug a woman for the first time in his life.
He is not himself
She deprived him of the first experience he had always dreamed of.
****
I walked quickly and then started running a little.
I thought I was a little late when I left home,
It was too late to meet Russ.
I ran quickly to the restaurant written on the back of the note.
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“Brother!”
I called out my brother’s name loudly at an upscale restaurant where everyone was sitting politely.
My brother jumped up from his seat and shouted loudly.
“Hey man! Starches! Why are you so late!”
People were shocked and looked at us alternately.
Then, feeling the eyes on us, we lowered our heads here and there and apologized.
I approached my brother’s seat.
I spoke to him in a voice that matched the atmosphere of the place.
“Sorry, I ran into Russ on the way… “
Brother pauses.
“That old friend…?”
“Yeah, he is right. Let’s sit down, bro.”
My brother and I sat down.
“Did you order the food?”
“I made it. Even if you don’t like it, it’s your fault. By the way, what did you say when we met?”
My older brother had a funny expression on his face.
I told her what happened with her.
Then the older brother laughs again.
“Hyung, you always die of fun when you hear about my lies?”
My older brother grinned at me and said,
“No, no… It’s just that they find it fun being tricked.”
“What is fun?”
The older brother waved his hand.
“Okay, how are you?”
My older brother asked me how I was doing.
Oh right.
I need to talk with my brother about the B-class request.
It is also an opportunity to receive advice if you can.
“Brother. Right.”
“…?”
“I’m going to get a B-class request in a few days.”
At my words, my older brother’s smiling face changed to serious.
He stared at my face for a while, then nodded his head slightly.
“… Okay. I knew you would do it someday.”
“I thought you’d stop getting angry, didn’t you?”
“Because I expected it.”
My brother took a sip of water and he asked.
“But why now? Have you ever had any confidence? If you’re just trying to get promoted without thinking, I’ll stop you.”
Confidence was there.
I was a little shy to Marshall, the receptionist at the requesting office, so I couldn’t brag about it.
I wanted to brag to my brother.
“There was something to be said for confidence. Hyung, not too long ago I hit you with the power of a Tiwit scorpion. Just break the upper too.”
But my brother wasn’t surprised.
“Uh? Doesn’t it break when you hit it?”
He just looks at me with a normal expression.
A. I clicked my tongue.
Kim is leaking.
Even if you try to brag, it won’t do anything to an A-class person.
“A. I really don’t feel like bragging..”
Only then did he let go of his serious expression and smile a little.
“It’s not like that in part, it’s because I really don’t remember. I’m not sure… You mean you’re confident?”
He raised his hand horizontally and waved it slightly.
“Just like that?”
My brother takes another sip of water and says without looking at me.
“… Okay. If you said you were confident, you would be scolded by me.”
“… I’m scared too. There are party members who follow only me.”
“So, what are you going to catch for Class B?”
There was a monster that made a decision after agonizing all day and listening to the strategies and characteristics of various monsters.
“…Swordsman monkeys.”
Whispered to his brother.
Swordsman monkeys are more intelligent than common monkeys. Slightly lower than that of humans.
With their heightened intelligence, they wield swords and wield them, using slightly unique swordsmanship using body proportions that are different from humans.
But the most annoying thing about these swords monkeys is that they move around in groups like humans.
To put it simply, it’s a party made up of monkeys with swords.
A single Swordsman monkey would be about D-class, but there is no such thing as a single Swordsman monkey.
So, class B.
“Swordsman monkeys… I think it’s fine for the first B-rank request. Is the collection target the sword of the sword monkey?”
“Uh. I chose after a lot of thought.”
And as an important gathering item that can be obtained from this monkey party, it is the sword of the leader of the swordsman monkey party.
Because the majority of swords that have been permeated with demonic energy for a long time become demonic swords.
And among them, Swordsman Captain’s sword becomes one of the best swords.
There is a lot of demand.
While talking with my brother, someone approached us from the side.
At first I thought it was an employee, but when I looked again, it wasn’t.
Luxurious clothes and neat posture.
A face with profound charm and a white beard covering the face.
The nobility was palpable.
As I cautiously look at the man approaching, my brother turns his head.
The man spoke first.
“You, aren’t you Stion, the leader of the A-class party ‘Ade’?”
It was a cave-like bass.
Unlike when he faced me, he answered with a distinctly hard and charismatic face.
“… Who is it?”
I was surprised by the reaction of my brother.
You look like a noble, can I speak rudely?
But the nobles didn’t seem to mind either.
Rather, he first stretched out his hand to his brother and said.
“The head of Count Nisty’s family, ‘Hian’.”
Hiannisti. I have never heard it before.
I didn’t feel like a place to hang out so I just stayed quiet.
But the older brother, as if he had heard the name, raised his eyes.
“Hiannisti. Is that you?”
Then he grinned and took the middle-aged aristocrat’s hand.
“You know me.”
“Of course you should know. Most of the quests I usually solve come from the Nisty family.”
Hiannisti chuckled.
“Cancer. Not really. Most of my requests are resolved by your party, so I know you too.”
“By the way, what’s the matter? As you can see, I’m having dinner with my younger brother… It’s a little disturbing?”
My brother once again says something that could be rude.
And once again Nicety said it was nothing.
“I just wanted to say hello. I am always grateful for the good condition of the commissioned product.”
“Okay? I’m glad you did. Well, nice to meet you too. Let’s go-“
“-Dad!”
A slap is heard from Hiannisti’s back of her.
Suddenly, there was a woman behind Hian.
She peeked out her pouting face from behind Hian.
“What are you doing, Dad?”
“Rose..! I told you to wait!”
A bewildered voice comes out of Hian’s mouth.
Dignity disappears without gentleness.
It’s like watching my older brother.
Dignified in front of others, but stupid in front of me.
Circumstantial evidence, that woman seems to be the daughter of Hian Nisti…
Glancing at her her at her her.
… Uh?
My eyes widened.
Pink hair, pink eyes, moderate breasts, moderate height.
Her face her is relatively worse than Bienne, Russ, and Lily noonas, but she’s still cute.
I’ve seen pink hair and pink eyes come and go, but this was the first time I’ve ever seen someone who fits the El Zain of my imagination.
Above all, this silhouette. I remembered.
It is the lady who came to visit her inn lady a few days ago to enjoy her common people’s food her.
In her bewilderment her she looked at her brother her, who, in her bewilderment her, also rolled her eyes and glanced at her.
I talked with my brother eye to eye.
‘Starchis, is it the same as the girlfriend you talked about?’
‘Hyung, his expression her is getting relaxed.’
“Ah.”
Then, the older brother changes his expression to be blunt again.
“Hey, Hian. Who is behind?”
Then he asks again with dignity.
“Umm…!”
Hian let out her moan as if she had discovered a treasure, then let out a deep sigh.
“…My daughter.”
She finishes her speech briefly, but suddenly the child speaks to us.
“Hello! My name is Rose Nistie!”
He looked very cheerful.
The stiff atmosphere collapsed in an instant.
“Rose..! Be quiet!”
Hian berates Rose.
We didn’t know how to react.
I was a bit embarrassed for no reason.
I feel like my lies have come true and stabbed my conscience.
It’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it feels like I’ve lied about this woman in front of me, Rose Nicety, as my girlfriend.
To that extent, Rose Nisty was very similar to Elza in my imagination.
Hian said hastily.
“That… Said goodbye, we’ll be going back. Oh, before that.”
This time he looked at me.
“It was nice to meet you too. Did she say she was Stion’s sister?”
When he held out his hand, he took it and answered.
“Yes, they are Starchis.”
“Nice to meet you, Starchis.”
Rose also naturally shakes my hand.
But Hian grabbed Rose’s arm hers.
“No!”
What’s wrong
Now, the real Hian dignity and nabal are gone.
At that time, when this young lady came to our dorm, the two big bodyguards seemed to know what ‘the owner cares about the young lady very much’.
Hian quickly comes to his senses his.
“Ah, that… I’m sorry. It’s because my daughter is weak. It’s hard for her to touch anyone.”
Rose looked healthy just by looking at it.
“We’ll just go. Well then, have a good time.”
Hian spoke hastily and quickly fled, dragging her daughter her, Rose Nastie.
Even as Rose Nicety was being dragged along, she waved at us.
… No, it was like waving her hand her at me.
“After.”
Her brother her sighed.
“You didn’t make Elza after seeing her, did you?”
I sighed too.
“You saw me screaming.”
I cleared my chest.
The fortunate thing is that even though it was the same as the imaginary Elza, the name was different?
I wonder if that’s the probability that makes sense, but if I really had the name El Jain, I would have been in big trouble.
It seemed that the storm had passed. Then, I asked him about the question that came to my mind.
“Ah, brother. But he is a count, so can I speak plainly? What if you think it’s rude?”
My older brother looked at the place where they had left and turned to me at my words.
“Hmm… I don’t know, but my older brother has a higher social status than that count.”
“Eh?”
“Look. Do you think there will be many nobles like that in this country, or a lot of A-class party leaders?”
“…”
“Besides, how precious is my power to a country that relies on gathering goods like this one.”
Not true the first time Was your brother such a great person?
“Hyung, then you’re saying that you can talk to the nobles in a way that’s normal?”
“Even if you just become a member of an A-rank party, you can do it to some extent. But then I am the leader.”
And he laughed.
It was as if he was saying, ‘This is how you brag.’
****
Russ stopped her.
She was Russ, who had sent Stachis away and had been dragged along by her legs.
She’s sad, half-dazed, with no idea where she’s going.
And now her legs have stopped.
“…”
She raised her head slowly.
Make sure her own legs her have taken her there.
In front of her eyes, Russ could see the door to Starchis’ inn.
