59 – Strategy Meeting – 4
“Did you hate that?”
“…… “
Seola was not making eye contact with me and her. She keeps her mouth shut, and she is expressing her dislike with her whole body.
“It wasn’t weird at all. It’s not like I told you to do anything wrong, I’m just doing it with my brother.”
“Be quiet.”
“Yes.”
Seol-ah tossed the salad that came out as an appetizer with a fork. She took a deep breath and asked.
“Do you really want to hear the word ‘oppa’?”
“When you say that, I look like an old man who is not worthy of his age.”
It’s like a bad old man who forces a kid with a difference of more than 10 years to call him oppa instead of mister. This time I asked her.
“But why do you hate the word ‘oppa’ so much? It’s not even a very strange name. It’s not like I wanted anything like that.”
“Wow, if you really told me to call it that way….”
Seol-ah trembled as if her love for a thousand years would cool off. Even if I think about it, my older brother is a bit offended. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single person use the word brother in real life.
She leaned back in her chair and began to explain why she was reluctant to be called brother.
“That’s the reason it’s not really a big deal.”
“Where is that? If it’s a big deal for you, it’s a big deal.”
There’s no reason why it’s not a big deal. What’s really insignificant for one person can be life-changing for another. Seol-ah spoke with a more relaxed attitude than before, perhaps gaining a little courage from my words.
“When I was a freshman, there was a kid who was a returning student who was talking to me. No matter how many times I pushed him away saying I really didn’t like it, I insisted on calling him oppa, and then I stuck to him until the end, so the department started a strange rumor.”
“You’re a complete madman.”
There is always one. Returning students whose brains are dominated by their own dicks and reach out to the freshmen. But it’s really too much to spread strange rumors.
“There are all these bastards.”
“Whenever I hear the word ‘oppa’, I keep thinking of that bastard….”
Seola lowered her head. Her mood became somewhat solemn. I changed the topic by bringing up a different story as much as possible.
“Then that’s enough! Delicious here Did you find this place yourself?”
“We haven’t had anything but salad yet.”
Seol-ah said in a tone that she was astonished. A salad might not be delicious, she insists, but my fork is still perfectly clean with no dressing on it. She chuckled.
“I don’t really need to be so concerned, right? In the end, it was that bastard who caused bad rumors in the department. There’s no trauma or anything like that, it’s just that I feel bad and embarrassed.”
“Oh, did you show off a lot?”
“Then you suddenly turned around and said something like this is delicious without even lifting a fork, did you think you wouldn’t get caught?”
I smiled awkwardly as I put down my fork. At this point, I have to admit that I’m fatally inept at hiding my feelings.
“So, eat quickly. Or should I feed you?”
“I don’t need it.”
Seol-ah teased me by bringing her fork to her mouth. What is this kid doing? I pushed her hand away.
At that moment, I was seized with a terrible feeling that I could not describe. Just like the expression “Creepy up the spine,” You can feel goosebumps rising up your spine.
I could feel the chilly energy from beside me. I slowly turned her head as I pushed her hand away. In front of my eyes, the street creaked to the point where an onomatopoeia fit.
“Mikhail. Hello?”
Hestia stood there with a smile on her face.
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The sound of rattling dishes flowed between the three of them. A suffocating atmosphere. Seol-ah and I were only looking at Hestia. Seol-ah murmured loudly without raising her voice. She’s been talking about lip-reading lately, but I feel like her ability to read the shape of her mouth keeps growing. If you go to a variety show somewhere, you will get points even if you get dinner, sleeping indoors, and breakfast as a set.
I read her mouth. Say something It’s easy to say that this is someone else’s job. I, too, opened her mouth wide, hated it, and passed it on.
It was the first time I had ever seen such a cold Hestia, so I had no idea how to treat her. She didn’t say anything, just sitting next to me, slicing the meat with a knife. She could see the tableware creaking as if she had put more effort into cutting than usual.
While we were playing a game of shouting in silence with each other, Hestia put down her own tableware with a thud. Seol-ah and I remained frozen, waiting for Hestia to speak.
“So, what were you two doing?”
Hestia was still smiling the way she smiled the first time. However, she is most afraid of people who laugh when she is angry. Where is the Joker more creepy than the villains of B-movies? Of course, she didn’t mean that Hestia was like the Joker, but her creepiness was comparable to that.
She says that when people fake a smile, she only smiles with her mouth and doesn’t smile with her eyes, but now Hestia smiled just like that. She seems to be forcibly raising the corners of her mouth, the corners of her mouth twitching thinly, and her eyes are cold.
“Well, I have something important to tell you….”
“Miss Lily, please stay still.”
Hestia cut off Seol-ah’s words, which was rare. Seol-ah obediently shut her mouth at her words. Hestia’s eyes flew towards me.
“Mikhail? You yourself, tell me. What were you two doing? What the hell were you doing, laughing and feeding each other like that?”
Okay. Be bold. It wasn’t like I was doing anything that would get stabbed by Hestia, so wouldn’t it be necessary to be like a sinner like this? I have something really genuinely important to say, so while we were out together for a while, we went to a cafe and ate…. It was just a misunderstanding. Uh? Is this just a date for others to see?
“Sorry….”
I suddenly shrank. No matter what I think, isn’t this a strange picture for others to see? In addition, the content of that important story was also something that Hestia couldn’t honestly tell.
Hestia said to me with her arms crossed and a very dissatisfied expression.
“Then why are you sorry? What are you sorry about?”
Wow, I never thought that the day would come when I would hear lines like that in person. Hestia, what are you sorry about? To the attack, I patched together the most plausible word combinations.
“I canceled the appointment without telling you, and I was eating with Lady Adamas.”
“Do you think I am mad about that?”
No, you’re angry about that! I looked up at Hestia with an unfair expression. But she showed no sign of loosening her arms or expression.
“You really don’t know what am I doing right now?”
It deserves notoriety after experiencing this myself. I can’t come to my senses. I just bowed my head and apologized.
“Sorry….”
“Then why did you do something to be sorry for?”
Is it déjà vu? Sumire correlation structure? Ouroboros? I’ve seen this often in novels. I definitely remember that the next line was “What are you sorry about?”
“What are you sorry about?”
Wow! Yes. Falling into this world, there’s no way it won’t give you any abilities. Now that I see it, you have the ability to regress. What are the trigger conditions? When are you returning?
“Mikhail. Are you thinking of something else right now?”
“No, no, no! No way.”
Stop escaping from reality. I calmly endured all of Hestia’s wrath. She shot me nonstop.
“Mikhail, to be honest, it doesn’t matter too much about the delay. It wasn’t just that I put it off on my own, it was because I was worried about it, so I did it in the sense of getting a good rest. Did you eat with Miss Lily? That’s fine too. What’s wrong with eating with friends?”
Hestia paused her words for a moment and then thrust her face at me in an instant.
“But I can’t stand that you postponed your appointment with me and made an appointment with Miss Lily.”
What the hell is this? It’s nice to call me a pig, but I can’t stand people teasing me as a pig. Hestia sighed at me, who was making an absurd expression.
“I don’t like it when other people take priority over me.”
“I told you before. Are you always the best for me?”
Hearing my words, Hestia seemed to have loosened up her mind a bit, and she untied her arms and began to gently twist her hair.
“Hug me.”
“Uh, here?”
Hestia opened her arms without saying anything. Lately, it feels like Hestia is asking for affection often. It’s a change that I don’t hate, but it’s a little bit like doing this in front of everyone else.
“Wouldn’t you?”
At her Hestia’s urging, I gently hugged her Hestia without saying anything. Her body shuddered and then stopped.
I pulled her back slightly at the soft feel of my chest. Um, no kidding The size that fits in my arms and the maternal love that is not so.
Honestly, I don’t think this is a normal situation. What is separation anxiety? Isn’t it like that
I whispered in her ear.
“Are you nervous?”
“Be quiet.”
“Do you know that this is our first time hugging?”
Holding her hand, kissing her even when drunk, hugging her. Steady progress is being made.
Hestia didn’t say anything and leaned her face against my chest.
“Kheum, are you done now?”
“Kyaaa!”
Hestia screamed and fell apart at the sound of clearing her throat coming from beside her. Seol-ah looked at me and Hestia with a bewildered expression.
“Is your anger all over?”
“Miss Lily.”
“You two can’t see me, but I almost got it wrong.”
Hestia, who came to her senses belatedly, sat down in her seat and fired at her seolah.
“Your anger is resolved, and I think you should explain.”
“I thought Mikhail would explain, but I guess he didn’t. I came along to help buy a gift for my friend.”
Seola didn’t spit in her mouth and she lied. She even had time to wink cautiously at me staring blankly at her.
“You seemed too close for something like that? You even put a fork in your mouth to feed me.”
“Oops, that’s a misunderstanding. There really wasn’t anything like that.”
“So you meant to poke it?”
Hestia and Seol-ah met each other’s eyes. Both are so scary.
“Really? Then I’ll go too. Anyway, I’m free today too. Wouldn’t it be better to have three rather than two?”
Hestia immediately took a step back and opened her mouth.
Seol-ah crumpled her expression.