Chapter 63 – I Fell Again
Rohan’s brother was in his own lab.
I almost dragged my sprained feet like a mop to get to my older brother somehow.
My older brother, who was stunned by my appearance, treated me first before asking why,
I was able to be relieved of the pain to some extent by receiving the power of the water spirit he was dealing with.
He said, “I tried to stabilize the blood clots and align the bones… It’s not something you can do with spirit magic until the muscles are surprised and the ligaments are stretched, so you’ll have to wait a few days. You can’t take off the cast just because it doesn’t hurt.”
“Yes.”
“… Hmm. Eve. Please sit there.”
To me, sitting in a chair near the service table,
My brother brought hot tea.
“This is the car I was talking about last time. What he said he wanted to treat you to. Would you like a drink? Yes. Like that. Slowly…”
“… Slurp.”
“Wait, ha, I don’t drink it all at once. Isn’t it hot?!”
“It’s hot.”
“…”
But no matter how much boiling water it is,
I couldn’t warm my heart that was getting more and more empty.
Realizing that I had done something stupid, I put the teacup down.
I only burned my mouth and throat.
With an expressionless face, while keeping your gaze anywhere,
I opened my mouth and received a little belated permission from my brother.
“Can you excuse me for a day?”
“Of course. But what is it?”
“…”
“Ah. This is also a place that doubles as my accommodation, so take a rest. I’ll have it ready.”
“… Tomorrow too?”
“Oh, Eve, I guess something happened to you.”
My brother made funny gestures like a clown in a theater.
At the consideration for me wrapped up in an exaggerated tone as if reading a script, I blankly thought that my brother is my brother.
“You can stay forever if you want.”
“No, I do not want.”
“Keuk.”
“That’s what you want, not me.”
“You got caught.”
“It’s disgusting…”
“It’s disgusting to say such a disappointing word. I don’t know if you know it, but almost everyone in the world compliments me on how good I am.”
“People must have had their eyes swollen.”
“You are strange. Strangely, only the eyes are raised. Well, since before, you used to underestimate your appearance too much.”
Maybe you’re overestimating my appearance too much.
I didn’t have to say that out of my mouth.
Because I had no intention of rekindling an argument that started when we first met a long time ago.
“Oh, oh, eve. This brother sees through everything you are thinking right now.”
“Oh, how did I read the idea that you might actually be a narcissist with a serious addiction to narcissism?”
“… Let’s not talk I can’t say it with my mouth, but this is good enough. Your eyes are too high.”
“To.”
“What are you looking at? No, eve. Does anyone think you are good looking?”
“Who do you think is handsome?”
“Because you’ve been strangely perceptive in evaluating your appearance from before. Especially for men.”
“Me?”
“Huh.”
What,
Did I do that
I wanted to deny it, but
Certainly, since the old days, seeing people who were said to be good-looking, they thought that they looked like parasitic brothers, or that they looked like gangsters because they had a stern look.
My brother, who caught the mumbling, asked vigorously.
“Are there any good-looking people in the world by your standards?”
“… Everything, of course, right?”
“Who?”
As soon as I heard that
There was a person who came to my mind as it is natural.
Needless to say, I was a junior.
Each and every feature is gorgeous, but it’s not feminine, it’s not skinny, it’s not bloated enough to be burdensome, it’s like it’s been shaved off, and it’s in harmony.
He had a good voice, was strong, and had a good personality, so there was no flaws anywhere.
So good-looking guy was the perfect word for someone his junior or so.
“…”
Ah.
He didn’t want to think much.
I heard some useless words and remembered them.
I tried to glance at my older brother, but it was more important for my older brother to look at me with bewildered eyes first.
“It is also because of that child.”
“Who, who?”
“Who else could be there besides Ernest?”
“…”
I tried to pretend, but the cold expression on my face made it seem like I had already answered.
My older brother would sometimes be like this, no, he would almost always be this sharp when it came to things related to me.
Knowing that I wouldn’t give an answer straight away, I pretended not to ask and tried to dig into my true feelings.
Where did the flow of the conversation come from?
Maybe it was from the very first moment I found myself.
I was getting goosebumps.
“Now then, tell me slowly. What happened.”
In the dark red eyes of my older brother who said so,
Dark blue eyes flashed with a dangerous light.
…
…
…
I just told you what happened so far.
Starting from the subtle battle of nerves with Professor Carmen, a junior, to the story of how he sprained his ankle, and how he recklessly left home and ran to you.
No matter how embarrassing it is to say to my brother, I said it roughly, but…
From the middle, I was filled with resentment, and when I realized that it had become something close to a one-way step, I felt a bit embarrassed.
Even if I think about it again now that my head has cooled to some extent,
The junior did nothing wrong…
“I didn’t like him from the start.”
“Brother.”
“Let’s go right now. I want to say something kind.”
“… That, until it is necessary.”
Suddenly in my head,
It reminded me of the days when I was adopted from an orphanage and lived with my older brother.
I used to walk around like a tomboy, but if I had a dispute with anyone, I would have no strength or anything, so I had to swallow my resentment inside.
Mainly, most of the people within the family expressed their dissatisfaction, saying that a beggar from a lowly background had entered.
Whenever I am upset about such things, my brother,
I don’t know how I knew it, but I used to give a firm word to those who hurt my heart by digging into my circumstances in this way.
But this time the case is different.
“That person didn’t do anything wrong… ?”
“Why not? I was offended by you.”
How can you be so narrow-minded?
My older brother was a narrow-minded person.
I was moved beyond words by the intolerance that had been brought about only for me, not for myself, but…
It’s not like that though.
“Even if my older brother does that, it only makes me feel uncomfortable?”
“…”
“I just don’t want to see you now. No, I will continue to do so.”
“Eve.”
“So, I will be here today. Tomorrow too. After that, uhm, I’m going to find a decent house and go out…”
My foolish words and actions,
My brother respected me.
Forcibly subdue the wrath raised from within for me,
My older brother, who erased his somewhat stern expression and made his usual face, drank the tea that had cooled down a lot as I did.
“… I heard you don’t drink like that.”
“Because my heart is stuffy.”
“Is it because of me?”
“No, because of that child. Anyway, when you get involved with that bastard, there’s nothing shocking about it. Even when I called him the owner the other day, well, anyway, you wouldn’t know how much I was drowsy.”
“Yeah, it was… ?”
“Don’t you remember what you said then?”
What,
I don’t remember right now.
What did it say
“… Besides, stay together. Eve. I thought you were just a quiet kid…”
“Hey, calm…”
I was far from the word modesty.
How far can you see me as a pure woman?
I know everything.
Even with that junior right now. Eh, well, I didn’t cross the line, but…
However, I just kept my mouth shut because I had a hunch that if I said such a thing, my brother would directly put dirt in my eyes.
“… By the way, Eve, do you dance a lot?”
“Yes? Suddenly?”
“You are shaking.”
“Ah?”
I thought it was
It was exactly as my older brother said.
Before I knew it, my whole body was shaking like a convulsion.
After recognizing it once, the surroundings are incredibly cold.
As if she had been thrown into a blizzard, naked and naked, the cold, perhaps more, was coming over me.
The problem is not only that
Drowsiness sets in.
No, it was a little different kind of drowsiness.
Like the moment right before fainting, the feeling of losing consciousness, being forced off the ground and isolated from the world.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah.
Ah ah ah ah ah.
I am,
I was terrified.
Because he remembered the nightmare he had this morning, which was a dream but not a dream, too long to be called a moment, so painful that he would lose his mind.
In the helpless moment when consciousness does not control the body,
The fear of death would come to me and eat me to the end.
I don’t want to sleep.
I don’t want to pass out.
Please, please…
But it just wasn’t the kind of thing I could resist.
Starting from the tip of my left toe wrapped in a cast, I realized that my entire body was collapsing, and finally,
I was completely unconscious.
