63. bitter truth
Watching Michelle cook spaghetti on a fork, put a handful of it in her mouth, and chew it up, I got a strange feeling.
‘At that time, the table manners were still excellent.’
I grew up with a good education, so I ate quite elegantly even at a modest meal prepared in the forest of the demon realm, but now I eat it with everything in my mouth.
“Eww.”
As I wiped my mouth with the napkin provided in the restaurant, Michelle lowered her hand and shook her head as if she was used to it.
“thank you!”
After saying that, seeing her inhaling the storm again made me laugh at the thought that I couldn’t stop it.
“Ears, cute.”
“Yeah, I think something like a dress would suit you very well.”
“……”
Honey was dripping from Rin’s eyes as she looked at Michelle, and Hayoon was ready to make her clothes.
However, Sen was looking at Michelle with a strange expression, but it was probably because it was the first time she had ever experienced such a small child coming to her after entering the academy after living only in the Extermination Squad.
‘Heh.’
It hurts my stomach to see the two of them together.
I wondered how the twisted relationship in the previous life came to be like this, but I also wondered why Sen had come all the way to the forest of the underworld to kill Michelle.
“Unni, are the older brothers dating?”
Michelle asked after passing the mumbled spaghetti and taking a sip of her drink.
Rin blushed, but the other two flatly refused.
“no.”
“Nope?”
“Hey, what do you hate? Do you hate me too?”
I was annoyed and glared at Sen, but he just shook the salad with a fork and put it in his mouth.
Somehow we ended up having a meal together, but Michelle naturally melted into us without any sign of discomfort.
“Your brother has all been rejected? be pitiful.”
Does it seem like there isn’t too much distance?
“Don’t call me brother, call me uncle.”
“Yes? uncle? Isn’t that enough?”
At that time, even if I said I wasn’t a man, I said that the atmosphere was like a man, and I just called him, but now my words have changed again.
“Okay, just call me uncle.”
“Then, should I call the older sisters ajumma as well?”
“I do not care.”
“Umm, at this age, being called an ajumma is a little bit.”
“……”
A face that everyone except Rin didn’t want. Michelle nodded in agreement and smiled brightly at me.
“I will only call you Uncle.”
“okay.”
It’s uncomfortable to call you oppa because it’s awkward.
At that time, the waitress brought the sweet pumpkin soup I ordered. I did not hesitate to answer Ha-yoon, who asked what else I ordered, and took another spoon and handed it to Michelle.
“I don’t eat these things.”
“Don’t just eat spaghetti, eat something that warms your stomach. Will you like this?”
I’ve been weak to the cold since before, and I still cough once in a while, so I made it.
Even though it was hot rather than cold now, the child often shuddered.
“He was a real man, I don’t like sweet pumpkin…”
“It’s not that I don’t like it, it’s that I’ve never eaten it.”
Michelle puffs out her cheeks and takes a bite, then looks at me with a startled expression.
“Oh, it’s delicious! Do you like sweet pumpkin?”
“You said you would.”
I remembered that I liked it so much when it was served only with sweet pumpkin in the forest of demon world, so I ordered one, and it was good to look at because it was very good.
After finishing the meal like that, I tried to go back to the hotel, but Michelle clung to me so tightly that I couldn’t fall off.
“I want to play with my sister and uncle too!”
“……Yes.”
The three of them were surprised to see me accepting the child without being able to separate it, but perhaps because they felt sorry for not being able to protect this child, they gave up.
I can’t show you the robbers in the hotel, so I’m going for a walk with Michelle’s guide and steps to learn the way.
“……!”
Hayoon suddenly hides behind me.
We were doing something, but just in time, a fat man wearing old-fashioned clothes passed us by.
And two people who look quite capable and have swords at their waists escorting the man.
“what’s the matter?”
I did something to Hayun’s sudden trembling reaction, but she clings to her back and whispers in response.
“Heaven Ren…my uncle.”
“What?”
Not only did he force Ha-yun to seduce Ares, but he failed and the bad guy who made the family disobey him when he said that he would no longer obey the order?
Looking at the back of the head of the guy who was walking around, I got the feeling that there was no resemblance to Ha-yoon, but I glanced at Ha-yun and blinked.
“Let’s chase it.”
“What? why?”
Ha-yun was puzzled as she didn’t know I was going to make such an offer, but Sen went ahead and started to follow her, and Lin took Michelle’s hand and smiled.
“Would you like to play spy with Unni and Uncle? You’re secretly chasing after that uncle.”
“It’s gonna be fun! good! I’m good at that! He secretly chases after Dad all the time!”
“Now, hold on!”
Immediately following the guidance of the skillful Sen, the sudden tailing began.
Heven Ren’s escorts looked quite capable, but Sen, who had been trained by the Scouting Squad, was able to chase them without much difficulty.
“Ha, why?”
Ha-yoon continued to sigh as if she didn’t understand, but from my point of view, it wasn’t just for Ha-yoon.
Many people were gathering in Bethel as if it had become the center of the world.
dog fighting.
Sen’s Scouting Squad.
Heini Rosales, an inspector belonging to the royal family.
In addition, Heven Ren, Hayun’s uncle.
Curious about this bizarre situation, we continued to pursue him.
He was a little embarrassed because he walked longer than expected, but Heven Ren was breathing heavily, but he did not ride a horse.
As if riding a horse would be rude.
That’s how he stopped at a mansion that was bigger than expected, and we poked our heads out from inside the alleyway to grasp the situation.
“Did you come to that mansion?”
“Your uncle walks to find someone? I’m not a great person because my ego is so strong.”
“Wait a minute, that mansion…”
“Michelle, stay here with your sister.”
“Huh, I want to see you too.”
Lynn takes Michelle down an alley. It was a decision made to evacuate in advance, thinking that something might happen.
Sen frowned for a moment, and then a man with long hair tied back in a ponytail with a sturdy physique walked out.
“Is it Michael Fortren’s mansion?”
“Your uncle came to Fortren?”
“……”
Michael Fortren has a relationship with a fighting dog, and Hayun’s uncle, Hebbon Ren, came to visit Michael.
‘It’s certain that something is happening.’
“Sister, you know what? This is near my house!”
“Now, wait a minute, Michelle!”
Michelle shakes off Rin’s hand and sticks her head out, passing us under surveillance and heading out into the alley.
The moment we panicked and tried to grab her, Michelle screamed in surprise.
“uh? Dad!”
“What?”
I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed.
Michelle, who suddenly came out of the alleyway, rushed to Heven Len and Michael Forren.
As it was, it was carried into Michael Porren’s chest.
“Hey, my princess! Did you explore the streets again?”
“yes! Today, I ate and played with pretty unnies and a certain man!”
“mister?”
Michael Fortren frowns right away to see if his daughter is playing with a strange man. He didn’t pay attention to the presence of Ren standing in front of him and found us in an awkward position behind him.
“Did you guys play with my daughter?”
‘If I run away from here, it will look even more strange.’
Heven Ren, who found Hayun, glared at her with surprised eyes, but he couldn’t help it.
I approached them with a natural smile and greeted them.
“Hello, we are students of AOS Academy. I was traveling because it was vacation, and I met Michelle and we played together. It was so cute.”
“Yes, our Michelle is cute.”
“Dad! This brother is the uncle! He’s my brother, but he asked me to call him uncle! Aren’t you curious?”
“Fufu, is that so?”
As I said this, my heart was racing because I was afraid Michelle would tell me that we followed Haven Wren.
But fortunately, thanks to the girls who followed, the topic didn’t go that way.
“I will serve you a cup of tea inside. I think I bought my daughter food and let her play with me.”
“That’s right, sister, uncle! Let’s play at our house!”
Considering the relationship between Hayun and Haven Ren, I was a little worried that it would be right to fall in love, but Hayun intervened from the side.
“Then excuse me a little.”
As I said that, I was holding the hem of my robe slightly, like a small animal trembling in front of a predator.
‘You’ve got the courage.’
an opportunity that arose out of nowhere.
It was a good opportunity to dig up information about the fighting dog and Michael Fortren, so Ha-yun gave her strength, and we went inside, thanking her deeply.
Haven Ren was making an annoyed expression on his face, but he didn’t dare open his mouth either because he didn’t want to even pretend to know Ha-yun, or because he wanted to look good to Michael.
‘Perhaps the latter seems stronger.’
I saw him for a while, but Michael was a man with a deep family love.
Although she is the daughter of a younger brother who died in front of a man like that, I can’t introduce Ha-yoon as a disowned one.
‘The questions are being solved one by one.’
Michelle Fortren.
Her father, Michael Fortren, was involved in dog fighting, and he was probably defeated.
So, Michelle Fortren, her remaining blood relative, had no choice but to be chased by the Reapers, who were on the opposite line.
In the end, the girl is killed in a remote area called the Forest of Demons.
“……”
Filling my stomach with bitterness that I was the only one who knew this bitter truth, I followed him into the mansion.