Episode 165. Persuasion (3)
“Sun.”
“Ummm… “
I woke up this morning not to the sound of an alarm, but to someone’s voice.
Could it be that Yu-ri or another sister came into my room on their own?
Fortunately, that wasn’t the case when I opened my eyes.
“Mom? What’s going on?”
I glanced at the time and realized it was time to wake up.
Although it was a bit early.
“Didn’t you get the retreat application handout this week?”
“Yes. But I study… “
“Taeyang, just go to the retreat this time.”
“Yes?”
Could it be that you came here to say that all morning?
You must be busy getting ready for work, but you can text me after you go to work later.
But as if that wasn’t all, her mother’s expression was worried.
“What’s going on?”
“Because white teeth seem to be having a hard time lately.”
“Ah…… “
It’s something I noticed to some extent.
My sister’s condition has been strange lately.
I got the feeling that I was talking less and that I was only having formal conversations.
Even eating together was awkward. Should I say that we don’t make eye contact even if we eat together? …
On some days, he even asked to have dinner separately because he had a lot to do.
During the 17 years of my life, it was the first time that we had a meal together while both were at home.
No matter how high school you are…
Overall, it seemed like they were avoiding me.
“Your sister is having a hard time?”
She asked if Mama had heard anything, but she got back an answer that didn’t yield much.
“My child doesn’t have enough time to study, but it’s housework, and you’re too concerned about it, so I guess it’s stressful.”
“Don’t worry about me, I can do all the housework.”
“Are you the kind of person who would listen to your sister if she said that?”
Well…… White sister can’t be relieved that her younger sister is entrusting all her household chores.
“That’s why I want to make Hayan a day where her heart can rest comfortably. So I can focus on my personal time.”
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It’s not that I’m dissatisfied with going to the retreat.
Of course, I don’t really want to go, and it’s also my job to persuade and comfort my older sisters.
It is also true that Eunbi is anxious because she posted strange posts on social media.
Even though I’m at school anyway, my older sister won’t be able to protect me anyway.
Well, that is, how would Eunbi know where I am in the first place?
Yes, going to the retreat is not a complaint.
What I’m dissatisfied with is…
My sister still reacts and acts in a very uncomfortable way.
Even after having breakfast, getting ready, and on the way to school, my brother and sister hardly talked at all.
Normally, my sister would come up with even the most trivial things.
At least I’d rather play a bit of a prank than see that tough expression.
It was the same even when I talked to him. My sister only gave one short answer.
I know it’s hard because it’s a senior in high school, but I don’t think it’s because of that.
“Sister. Can’t you just tell me why you’re doing this?”
In the end, I asked straight-forward out of frustration.
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“What?”
“No, what? Your reaction is different than usual.”
At that, my sister stopped walking for a moment. However, he continued walking as if nothing had happened.
“As usual. It’s because I’m tired.”
“Is it because of your friends?”
The reason why white sister changed was after all of her sister’s friends started to like me.
Since then, precarious situations such as the older sisters fighting each other have continued, so I know that the white older sister is also anxious and nervous.
But the reaction is too cold.
“No, that’s a hard thing for Taeyang.”
She said it as if it had nothing to do with her.
Well, I’m not the white older sister who will always be upset about something like that.
However, the feeling that she was avoiding ‘me’ was still strong.
“Or, what did I do wrong?”
“…… Didn’t do anything wrong.”
“Just tell me honestly. You’ve been avoiding me since days ago.”
“Originally, when siblings get older, their relationship becomes awkward!”
Are you talking about siblings in real life now?
I don’t understand how things change so much overnight…
“Isn’t it time for Taeyang to get out of noona’s arms? How long are you going to depend on your sister like a child?”
“When did I depend on you? I was worried because you seemed to be worried about something!”
“Don’t worry! Also, don’t hurt Kahi or the kids!”
“I will do well on my own!! Don’t make the people around you uncomfortable with your older sister’s rotten expression!”
“Someone is having a hard time! I’m fed up with studying, housework, and even taking care of you!!”
“Someone take care of me! What did my sister do!!”
“Oh, noisy. What are you both doing in the middle of the street?”
I lost my reason for a while.
She didn’t even notice that noona was approaching her because she was yelling at me.
“Why are you fighting so unbecoming of siblings in the morning?”
“……… “
“……… “
“Both of you, please reconcile with each other.”
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“So you’re still in that state?”
“Yes. You two weren’t kidding since morning.”
Lunch break.
I didn’t want to see the white older sisters, but I had no choice but to come see the other older sisters.
I looked at my older sister in white just in case, but I just looked away to see if I was still angry.
But I have no intention of reconciling first.
No matter how much I think about it, I have to apologize for doing something wrong.
What should I do if I get angry at him for not knowing how hard he is?
“Taeyang is too angry.”
“In this situation, Kahi noona, don’t stab me in the cheek.”
“The white teeth must have said that because they were furious. Are you white?”
Yuri’s older sister made fun of her mouth for no reason and only received the stinging gaze of her siblings.
“Ugh… “
“Yuri noona, I still haven’t forgiven you for trespassing into my room.”
“Tae… sun… “
“Haa~ I’m sorry.”
Yes, it’s useless to take out your anger on Yu-ri.
I just left it beside you.
“Are you playing with my friend?”
“What? Have you finished talking now?”
“Woah~ First of all, the two of us should be separated.”
“I will stay with White.”
The lead sister decided to appease the white sister, and we decided to have lunch separately.
“Then I’ll go too. Taeyang, don’t fight again while I’m gone.”
“Okay, so go.”
“Yes, reconcile as soon as possible.”
Lee-noona stroked my hair meanly once and left for training.
It seems that the national high school track and field competition is just around the corner.
In the end, the three of us headed to the student cafeteria today with Kahi noona and Yuri noona on either side of me.
“Oh, it’s the sun.”
“…… After all, Taeyang, to walk around wearing a woman like that.”
At a restaurant, I ran into Lee Yoo-young and Choi Seon-ah at a coincidental timing.
Recently, it is not uncommon to see the two of them having lunch together.
“Hello, Yooyoung.”
“Where have the other sisters gone?”
“Ah, that… “
In response to Yooyoung’s naive question, the two on either side only glanced at me.
“You don’t have to know.”
“Huh?”
There’s nothing good about having to fight. Even if Yoo-Young noticed more, she wouldn’t be in a better situation.
Around the time of standing in line and receiving food.
“Hey, isn’t that the lead sister?”
Unaware of it, Suna found the place where the lead sister and the white sister were sitting and pointed her finger at her.
“There is a seat right next to me, so we can sit together. What? Sun.”
I went to the table in front of it.
I wanted to fall further, but there were no other places.
Seeing me sitting back to back with my older sister in white, while Lee Yu-young looked around, Sun-a approached my table first and sat down.
Even though I’m like that, are you saying that it’s still difficult to approach the lead noona?
Yoo-Young noticed and sat next to Sun-A, and Ga-Hee and Yuri-Noonas asked for their understanding.
Even if you notice, Yooyoung and Sunah just nodded and chatted together.
Since I have eyes to see my surroundings, I refrained from talking about anime, and as I talked, the story of the retreat came out.
“Did Taeyang say he won’t go to the retreat?”
“No, I am going to the retreat.”
“Really?”
“Tae, Tae Tae!”
“I… excuse me!!”
When I answered inadvertently, Kahi noona, Yuri noona, and even Juyeon noona behind me all heard the sound of dropping their spoons in panic.
It is a reaction that is in stark contrast to Yooyoung’s eyes shining.
“Hey… Are you going to the retreat?”
“Without the sun, my sister might die of loneliness… “
“Even Yuri noona overdoes it.”
Yooyoung laughed as if he was happy about this situation.
“Ahahahaha, I unintentionally monopolized Taeyang.”
How can going to a retreat be monopolized by you?
Who cares?
“Young-ah, be careful. If you do it wrong, you could be monopolized.”
Next to him, Sunah muttered something useless.
“Ugh… Losing the sun… “
“Don’t take Yuri noona seriously. In the first place, the retreats were supposed to work separately for men and women.”
“Oh, was it?”
Yooyoung couldn’t hide her disappointment at what she just said.
Well, thanks to that, it seems Yooyoung won’t be so obsessed with me going to the retreat.
I’ll leave Yoo-Young, who is regretful, for now, and start by appeasing my older sisters.
“Why did you decide to go?”
“Maybe! Uh… If it’s because of my mother, my sister will visit my home again… “
“Yuri noona, are you coming home again?”
“Ah… hahahaha, but I will do my best to convince my mother!”
And since when did Yuri noona decide to call my mother her mother?
“Taeyang doesn’t have to do hard work. It’s going to be hard with discipline and unnecessary punishment!”
Kahi noona did her best to persuade her.
It feels pitiful, but it can’t be helped.
“It can’t be helped. I heard that my white sister asked me to send her to her retreat.”
“What?”
“Ha, White.”
I think it’s a bit childish. I felt embarrassed because I felt like I was cheating.
But since I went because of the white sister, let the white sister convince herself.
Eventually, as the eyes of the older sisters turned to the white older sister, the white older sister said.
“How long can Taeyang be surrounded by his noonas? Everyone is graduating next year. You should hang out with your peers.”
“I don’t care. You get along well with the kids.”
“I, I also have… “
Thanks to Yooyoung’s inadvertent intervention, her persuasiveness increased.
At this moment, Yooyoung was reassured. Although she soon shrank from her white sister’s gaze.
“It doesn’t matter.”
“There isn’t much of a difference in age, so if I had to question myself, wouldn’t I be a friend of my age?”
“Yeah, even though Taeyang doesn’t really want to go, it’s a little hard to force him to go… “
Bang-!!
At that moment, I heard a strong hitting on the table.
I turned around in surprise, and my white sister shouted angrily.
“You guys are talking comfortably!! Being in a position where you have to take care of your little brother is exhausting!!”
“……… “
“……… “
“……… “
“Me too… I mean, I want to rest for a while… “
I was enveloped in silence for a moment.
I didn’t pay attention to the gazes around us that were watching us.
It just pissed me off too.
“Okay. Go go! You can go!”
What is it that being with me was so hard?
I tried very hard to make it as easy as possible for the white noona.
I didn’t let him finish dinner all by himself. I’m sorry, so I’m trying to help out more with the housework.
I even thought that if I said I was busy because I was a senior in high school, I would do everything.
He didn’t get angry even when he was supposed to be angry, and he accepted the joke.
I tried not to quarrel with my sister.
But… Now, what are you going to do if you don’t say anything and hide it, and then explode it?
“I’m going to the retreat. Get some good rest!”
The siblings then turned their backs.
“Well, then you know… “
Kahi noona looked around at us and cautiously opened her mouth.
“Being white is so hard… Do you want to come to your sister’s house for a while?”
“What?”
What is Kahi noona talking about in this situation?
“Because it seems that White is very tired… It seems that Taeyang doesn’t want to go to the retreat, so I’d rather take care of him for a while… “
Gahi noona also said it was nonsense, so she lowered her head, knowing that there would be a backlash soon.
“I’m sorry. I made a mistake.”
It was a very apologetic expression.
Even in this situation, it was Kahi noona who apologized again in a low voice as if it was a single voice before personal greed.
Of course this is nonsense.
It is dangerous for an adolescent man and woman to spend days alone in a house without guardians, even with one of them having a crush on them.
At least from the point of view of being a guardian, I’d be against it.
“Did you do that?”
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“Huh?”
As if the white sister was not her business, she said.
She looked at the white sister as if she was serious, but the white sister didn’t even pay attention to her.
“…… Okay! For the time being, I’ll stay at Kahi-noona’s house!”
I accepted because I was angry and annoyed for nothing.
Could it be that Kahi noona imprisoned me and attacked me?
Gahi noona’s yandere isn’t that serious.
“Wait a minute! What are you deciding on your own?”
“Chi, that’s mean! Me too! Ah, no, it’s not like this, White, are you really okay?”
Noona Juyeon and noona Yuri tried to persuade her, but the siblings didn’t change their decision.
“Whether it’s living with Kahi or becoming siblings, you should take care of it.”
“Yes, because Kahi noona doesn’t play pranks and is kinder than anyone else!”
“Hey!”
“Hey!”
Unexpectedly, the location of my retreat was Kahi noona’s house, and later, Yuri noona’s complaints made it decided that the third day would be Yuri noona’s house.
For your reference, the older sister of the lead actress felt sorry for her family and said that she couldn’t do it because of her circumstances.
It’s probably because it’s close to Seonwoo’s house, so it’s hard to invite him.
“This is…… It’s like a development where a woman who had a fight with her boyfriend accepts another man’s hunting out of anger?”
“Ah, I think I saw something like that somewhere. What I saw was that the man cheated on her first.”
Yeah, this is better than a retreat where you have to hear weird manga stories from both sides every time you run into those f*ckers.
Wow its spicy