Chapter 167 – Chapter 167 – Promise (10)
Areum looks strangely happy in the morning.
“Huh~ Heh~ Heh~.”
As if I was not mistaken, Areumi, who was humming a song, looked up at me blankly.
“Brother, do you like it?”
“Huh…? Eh.”
I felt something sticky in my transparent golden eyes.
I thought nothing of it, and passed the rice.
Then, Aumie licked her lips.
“Me too.”
“…?”
When I expressed my doubts, Areum went into her room as if nothing had happened.
“Can I not eat?”
“It’s okay, I’ve already eaten a lot.”
Swoop, Swoop.
I heard the sound of clothes rubbing in Areumi’s room.
It seemed like they were already getting ready to go out today.
I shrugged and smiled.
Whatever it was, it was good that Areum wasn’t in a bad mood in the morning.
The first outing to a place other than the shadow family.
Even if it was only when Areum first heard of this outing plan to go out like everyone else.
Because Areum was very anxious and restless.
“Did you enjoy the comic book that Kim Cha-ryeok lent you?”
Unable to guess what had happened on the long night, I muttered blankly.
After finishing the meal like that, I came into my room and put on my clothes.
‘Worst case… Anything could happen.’
I put on my clothes and thought.
On today’s outing, something might happen.
It was natural.
The meaningful story of Hongma-dong I heard in my dream today, Areum who was extremely unstable when I was gone, and Merlin who revealed her obsession with dragons.
With these three things tightly intertwined, it was impossible to be sure that nothing would happen.
But.
It was also impossible to leave Areumie alone in her current state.
It’s like this because it’s vacation. After time passed, I couldn’t stay close to Areum like now.
Most of all, because of my unusual physical condition, I had to have sex with women at least once a month.
Isn’t it something wrong to bring Areum into that situation?
And besides the purpose of making Areumyi independent, the precarious figure she showed at that time.
Longing and self-loathing filled his empty golden eyes.
I had to restore it now, because I was carrying something much more dangerous than I thought.
“Yeah, nothing will happen.”
Using a talisman with phantom magic, hide Areumie’s horns.
His characteristic light green hair was also planned to be replaced with black hair.
Even Merlin, who made her first appearance, has not made any appearances in the past three weeks.
So, nothing could have happened.
However.
In the worst case scenario.
If Areum gets caught by her Merlin, and if Merlin finds out that the homunculus she heard about from Hongma-dong is Areum, and that Areum is a half-dragon now.
At the time, I had no idea what would happen.
Merlin.
Because he occupies one of the 10 members of the council, he seems greedy, even going against his old age.
Even if she knew everything, it seemed that she would not openly harm Areum.
Even if you look at it, touching Ah-reum, who has a backbone of a shadow family, is the same as saying that you will pretend to be with Kim Ji-hye.
But even so, in the worst case, if Merlin runs into Areum.
At that time, I had to block it.
Kwak.
I grabbed the bankruptcy sword in my hand.
After pushing the bankruptcy sword into the inside pocket of his shirt, he lightly circulated the energy inside his body.
“Yeah, well, he’s not a prophet. There’s no way he’d spread runes anywhere he’s going to play today.”
After getting ready to go out, let’s go out to the living room.
A knock on the front door sounded at just the right moment.
“Oh, come in.”
“Um, Hanjun. Nice to meet you.”
Shining bald head, stern and solemn presbyopia, and bulging muscles.
Looking at this guy who would be seen as a disaster to others, I felt a sense of trust as much as today.
“Why is that, Hanjun?”
While I was looking at it with a happy expression, Kim Cha-ryeok scratched my body as if something was unpleasant.
“No, nothing.”
No matter how Merlin, if you see Kim Cha-ryeok for the first time.
I can assure you, I was scared.
* *
“Ah… Are you okay, brother?”
Steps into town.
Like a celebrity, Areumie, with her short hair and a hat pulled down tightly, grabbed my sleeve tightly.
“Yeah, it’s fine.”
Because I was a unique constitution that did not suffer from phantom magic, it was still beautiful in my eyes.
From what I confirmed with Kim Cha-ryeok, he said that if you don’t pay much attention, the magic is working enough to stop you from doubting your changed appearance.
And the level of not caring much that Kim Cha-ryeok said here meant that ordinary shamans would never notice.
‘Is it really mother-in-law’s illusion?’
Gumiho’s phantom magic was different no matter what.
‘Thanks to my son-in-law, something good might happen to me too. Thank you, son-in-law. No… Should I call you Mr. Seo? Huhuhu.’
Lee Mi-ryeong’s letter.
I thanked Lee Mi-ryeong for giving me the amulet with a meaningful message.
“Ugh.”
Let’s enter the center of the city, where there are a lot of people.
Areumie shuddered.
“Oh… My brother.”
Uneasy golden eyes glanced up at me.
As if telling her not to worry, I grabbed her by the shoulders and pulled her into my arms.
“I just came to play, so don’t be pressured. Other people don’t care much anyway.”
Mumble, Mumble.
I pointed around with my chin.
In fact, no one was paying attention to our party.
And that, obviously, while bending his head.
“……”
I looked at the one who was the culprit.
“Why is that, Hanjun?”
Tight, muscular, presbyopia.
Kim Cha-ryeok tilts his head as if he really doesn’t know.
I sighed.
“No, let’s just go.”
The place I made my way through the crowd was a department store.
Bookstores, cinemas, clothing stores, restaurants.
As it is a department store boasting a large size, various facilities were provided.
And among them, the first place we arrived was a bookstore.
“Ummm…!”
As soon as he arrived at the bookstore, Kim Cha-reuk ran into the corner lined with comic books.
The guy twitched his muscles and searched here and there.
He looked at one place and let out a satisfied groan.
Trouble Love.
This is Kim Cha-ryeok’s favorite comic book, and Ah-reum’s first comic book.
Kim Cha-ryeok’s gaze was nailed to the priesthood of Trouble Love, which just came out today.
Areum-yi, who flinched at the attention of the people around her, opened her eyes roundly when she saw the priesthood.
“Luckily, we have plenty left in stock.”
Kim Cha-ryeok picked up two of them and handed one to Ah-reum.
Areumi carefully received the Trouble Love and began to examine it with bright eyes.
“The priesthood… Is wrapped in plastic.”
Swoop.
Watching Areumie caressing the book with a curious expression.
Kim Cha-ryeok smiled.
“That’s the charm, and the taste of peeling off the vinyl is also great.”
Areumyi touched the vinyl and looked at the comic books lined up in the bookstore.
Unlike before, when she had only lowered her head, Areumie’s eyes were clearly interested.
I said to that beautiful woman.
“If you have anything you want to buy, buy it. It’s beautiful.”
“… Yes?”
“If there’s anything you want to see, bring it. This older brother will buy it for you.”
I took out a black card from my pocket and held it up.
A fountain of money that does not run dry even with perdoper.
Even if you buy all the books here, there is no way the 1 in the front row will change.
I wholeheartedly encouraged Areum to buy everything she wanted.
Financial treatment.
Faced with treatment that can only make her happy, Areum hesitates as if she is in trouble.
Soon, he grabbed my sleeve and sprinted to a corner.
After thinking for a while, Areum picked up a comic book.
“Then… Then, please buy me one of these. Older brother.”
‘It doesn’t matter if it’s a cousin or brother, as long as there’s love!’
“……”
It seemed that Areumie’s taste for comic books was going to be certain.
My goal for today was to make Areum happy no matter what, so I put the Tuck book in my shopping bag.
“Choose more, more.”
Like that, Areumie picked up four more comic books of the same type.
Unlike before, he was clearly smiling with a happy expression.
* *
After stopping by the bookstore, we headed straight to the next shopping corner.
Women’s clothing store.
Although she had ordered clothes online, Areumi hesitated for a while because it was her first time to actually look at her clothes and choose them.
Carefully picking up the clothes I said would look good on her, she started to pick out a bunch of clothes.
“Uh… How is it, brother?”
Then she came out of the dressing room, dressed one by one, and showed it to me.
I liked all of them because they looked good and they were so pretty.
I clapped and smiled with satisfaction.
“It’s pretty.”
Seeing Areumie bowing her head in embarrassment, her staff member sneaked up to us.
“Looks like a nice couple. These clothes look really good on ladies.”
“No, not a couple…”
Glance.
Ah-reum came to me in a hurry and gave me a strange feeling of pressure.
Knowing how Areum had recently shown me her feelings, she decided to let her go quietly for today.
“Yes, that’s right.”
Kim Cha-ryeok, who was watching this, smiled and gave me a thumbs up.
‘Perfect, Hanjun.’
Even without a word, it seemed that he could hear what he was saying.
After purchasing Areumi’s clothes at the clothing store, we went around different corners and bought things.
They said they would buy them all, but Areum simply chose a few items.
His eyes twinkled, as if he was really happy with just having those few things.
Lunch hour.
After shopping, it was lunchtime before I knew it.
After having a full meal at an expensive restaurant in a department store, we visited a dessert shop for dessert.
Cock.
Areumie’s lips loosened as she put the gelato in her mouth.
Looking at Areumie who seemed really happy, I found myself stroking her hair without realizing it.
Areum accepted my touch like a cat and quietly lowered her head.
“Brother.”
“Why.”
“I… Can I be this happy?”
“Of course. She’s my sister.”
“… Is that so? Really… Is that okay?”
There was a sense of bewilderment in Areumie’s eyes.
However, unlike before, I was able to see the sense of self-defeating wandering around.
I made a firm assertion to Areum.
“It’s okay.”
“… Yes, brother.”
Areum lowered her head.
‘It’s good that he came out.’
Looking at Areumie sparingly eating gelato, I felt relieved.
Is that why?
I had a hard time urinating.
“I’m going to go to the bathroom.”
“Go and come, Hanjun.”
I looked at Areum.
At my gaze sent as a sign of permission, Areum nodded quietly.
It’s a very short time anyway.
During that time when Kim Cha-ryeok takes care of her, thinking about what will happen.
I trudged to the bathroom.
However, after finishing my cool work in the bathroom, I came across a strange sensation.
“What?”
Mumble, Mumble.
Inside the department store, nothing has changed.
There was a sense of incongruity between them.
A sense of alienation that I felt somewhere.
As I was concentrating my senses on the strange sense of deja vu, I soon realized what it was.
It’s so hot~ It’s so hot~ It’s different~.
Above the department store, background music coming from the speakers.
The sound of the music coming out of that song was so familiar.
‘Heung~ Heung~ Heung~.’
The low pitch of someone humming.
“Merlin.”
I blurted out the name of one person in a daze.
And at the same time, it felt like the world was twisting in an instant.
My heart is pounding and I feel this sense of heterogeneity.
It was a ‘dragon’ that Areumie used.
