Chapter 696 – Ep.694 Tullius Empire
Fortunately, the conversation with Ravel’s sister ended well.
“But sister.”
“What. Brother.”
In the carriage heading to the castle, Lady Ravel, who was sitting across from me, blinked her long eyelashes.
“I’m asking just in case. You’re not going to follow me into the imperial castle, are you?”
“Of course.”
“Also.”
“I’m following.”
“No no.”
I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t look at me like I’m asking something obvious.
“Are you expressing your dissatisfaction with your heavenly sister saying that you would devote her time to your younger brother’s well-being?”
As a bonus, I wish she would stop glaring at me like I’m going to kill her so suddenly. Because it’s seriously bad for your heart.
Of course, we ended up talking to each other, but since this side was very coercive, we didn’t dare say those words out loud. I have no intention of bringing it up even if I had the chance.
“It’s not that, I should say that I feel burdened in many ways when my older sister follows me… ? Well, what is it? “It bothers you when someone watches you while you’re working, right?”
“…”
Sister Ray Bell frowned for a moment and looked worried.
“I don’t remember anyone watching, so I don’t know.”
“… Ah, yes.”
In response to that, I decided to just calm down and go to work with Ravel. In the first place, trying to deal with a walking natural disaster in my own way was a problem in itself.
“But sister.”
“Hmm.”
Softly, softly.
A fluffy tail sticking out from under a stylish coat.
“Is it okay if I touch the tail just once?”
“Hmm, you too?”
“… ?”
I couldn’t help but naturally tilt my head at the expression of great satisfaction.
“Siran and my younger siblings all used to lose their senses when they saw my tail when they were infants. Now, feel free to touch it.”
I also heard an unexpected fragment of Siran and Bizelin’s very old past, and even Ravel’s tail, which had been bothering me since yesterday, came up on my thigh.
“I really touch it… ?”
“Don’t ask twice.”
“Yes.”
Sister Ravel’s eyebrows twitched slightly, but we agreed to partially allow it, as long as it was a respectful word like before, but not rigidly, and had a strong playful feel.
Who would have ever imagined that there would come a day in our lives when we would be asked to be allowed to use honorifics?
Anyway.
I placed both hands on Sister Ravel’s tail covered in rich fur that was resting on my thighs.
“Oh, oh… !!”
She just raised her hand and an exclamation of exclamation burst out of her mouth.
‘… ‘It’s out of this world’s softness.’
It was definitely in my hand, but it felt like I wasn’t touching it, but it was definitely in my hand… Should I say that it feels as if my entire hand touching the fur has become one with the fur?
If you could really touch the clouds, wouldn’t it feel like this?
First of all, it was soft. That’s crazy too.
I wanted to use more complimentary expressions to describe it, but sadly, it was impossible to express the feel of Ravel’s tail with the words in my head.
I never would have thought that something like this would make me feel frustrated.
“How do you feel?”
“… “It’s so good that I want to live with it for the rest of my life.”
Whiik──!!
“Uh… ?”
I just started touching it, but her tail quickly slipped out of my grasp and went under Ravel’s coat.
“Your expression was so disgusting that I almost threw you away for a moment.”
“… “Uh, okay.”
The dreamy feeling that had been felt until just now was suddenly pulled down by the tail.
Like this, our Sister Ravel is not a bad person per se, but she is more honest than Leviel and sometimes hurts her feelings even with innocuous words.
‘Well, that’s it.’
It’s true that it’s disappointing, but I’m not kidding, my sister’s tail is like a drug, so I thought it would be dangerous if I held it, because I would be addicted to it for a while.
“Now that I think about it, Sister Ravel. I was Bizeline yesterday… Well, let me tell you in advance, I’m still Bizelin… “You call me ‘nim’ because you don’t talk to that person?”
“So.”
“… “You don’t mind?”
“I won’t interfere until then.”
My sister glared at me like, ‘What are you looking at me for?’
What on earth is the standard for that old man’s power?
“Okay, so you keep saying it?”
“Okay.”
“I heard from Bizelin…”
Phew──!!
The wind blew in places where it shouldn’t blow.
In other words, my sister’s tail passed in front of my face once again.
“Only use that title when you are with other guys. “Just call me by my name in front of me.”
I quietly added pressure to one of Ravel’s keywords in my head.
“There’s something Bizelin told me to ask my sister directly.”
“Ask.”
Confident that I would answer anything, I simply told the story about elves that I had heard from Bizelin yesterday.
“… “Are you stupid?”
And coming back was like a fool.
“Do you think something like that is possible?”
“… “Wouldn’t it be possible?”
Ravel’s gaze looking at me became even more pitiful.
“I just told you not to make a fuss and just gave me some energy.”
“… Is that it?”
“That’s it.”
Lady Ravel sighs softly.
“Then you also made up the story about elves.”
“No. “Is that true?”
“… “Half?”
“I don’t know if it’s half. But if he said Bizelin was half, she would have been half.”
“Maybe I can break some branches from the forest…” … ?”
“Okay. It was a tree capable of communication. Originally, I was planning to cut down the entire tree… Well, I just picked up a few branches.”
I seriously thought that Gienna’s body aches might not have been caused by the deadly gun my sister had sent her.
“Well, it’s called Beneo, and Beneo is a mixture of fairy and fairy. “Do you have anything to do with fairies?”
“Fairy… Fairy… Ah.”
The image of the sister in agony, with her legs crossed and her hand resting on her chin, stroking her cheek and chin, became a work of art in itself.
“I don’t really remember what species it was, but I remember one of the fairies trying to set my tail on fire, so I grabbed all the fairies and set their heads on fire as a warning.”
“Huh. I see.”
“Thanks to you, I think I heard that the fairy tribe that first tried to play with my tail was wiped out by other people.”
“Huh. “It was worth it.”
“Yes?”
“Huh.”
When I agreed, she nodded her head very slightly with a slightly smug look on her face.
‘If I touch your body, I will become a real beast.’
No matter how much I wanted to bury my face in that chest, it wasn’t a desire that dared to risk my life, so I decided to give up on Ravel.
Above all, my sister was not cursed by God and was not treated preferentially or treated as a man, so I needed to be even more careful.
I said I didn’t intend to do that, but my face actually caved in yesterday.
Anyway, after that, we had a small chat about Siran and how we met, and as we continued talking like that, we arrived at the imperial castle.
“Sister. “Do I have to keep my promise?”
“Stop talking. “Because it makes me want to punch him.”
“Yes.”
I succeeded in getting her to promise not to do anything unless it was truly dangerous, so I quickly shut my mouth and got out of the carriage with my sister.
And passing through the castle gate.
‘… ?’
The drivers, who would normally have saluted and greeted me with good morning, did not even look in my direction and just looked straight ahead.
Naturally, I thought that Ravel, who was standing next to me, was the cause.
Unlike me, who did not recognize her, Ravel’s face was so widely known that it was included in history books.
But the moment I entered the Templar building, I knew something was different.
“Are you planning on not going to work today? “I have no choice but to go out alone.”
Even though I opened the door to the office and went in, Roan, who was sitting on the sofa and organizing documents, treated me as if I didn’t exist and left the documents on my desk and left the office.
“Sister Ravel.”
“What. Brother.”
“Is your sister like that?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Sister Leibel passed me and began to look around the office calmly. Seeing that, I sat down on the chair in front of the desk.
“How did you do it?”
“I didn’t do anything.”
Ravel, who had just opened the storage room and taken out a bottle of beer, placed her butt on my desk.
“Living things are words. “When we face a fear that we cannot handle, we comically deny its very existence.”
Push.
“Oh, is it Mount Defiel?”
Lady Ravel held the frothy beer bottle in her mouth and emptied the contents in one go.
“What do you mean by denial?”
“I mean it literally. For example──”
“… ?”
The figure of Ravel, who was in front of me just a moment ago, disappeared.
And strange things started to appear in the body.
First, my hands and feet began to sweat, and my lips and tongue became dry. More than anything, I started to feel strongly that I needed to get out of this place right now.
“What is this?”
“Uh… ?”
It’s not like I closed my eyes and opened them.
However, my sister, who had disappeared, began to appear again, and the abnormal symptoms that had occurred in my body disappeared like a lie.
“Just like my younger brother couldn’t see me, when a living thing encounters something it can’t handle, it rejects its very existence. And by rejecting existence, I mean it literally. “It means treating it as something completely non-existent.”
Sister Laybel stuck out her long tongue, tilted the empty bottle, and licked up the last drop.
“But the funny thing is, even though I denied its existence, my instincts seem to be telling me to quickly run away from the spot. “Like your lieutenant just left.”
“Then… Why me?”
“Brother.”
Lady Laybel placed her empty bottle on her desk and turned her body to look straight down at me.
My face was clearly captured in golden eyes that seemed to see through everything.
“It’s not so much that I can’t use it.”
“… ?”
My sister, who had been looking into my eyes for a long time, turned around and sat down again.
“If you feel fear from your family, can you call it family? In that sense, my younger brother narrowly passed the exam.”
“… Should I say thank you?”
“Not really.”
She shrugged her shoulders once and got down from the desk again to rummage through the storage room.
I breathed a sigh of relief and asked again the sister who was looking at the liquor in the storage room with her tail wagging.
“So does this also work for Siran and Amela?”
“What do you think?”
“… “I don’t think it will work.”
“Hmm, except for Amela, since she is your wife… Oh, it’s close.”
Sister Ray Belle, carrying a bottle of beer, approached me and wrapped her soft tail around my waist.
And opened her window wide.
“Who—whoop?!”
I could become one with the wind.
