Even so, an unmarried man and woman cannot spend the night in the same room. For Tirkanzaka, it was common sense that he could not even doubt.
Tirkanjaka brought him into the room and laid him on the bed. Since she couldn’t take off her clothes herself, she had to lie down with her clothes on, even if it was uncomfortable.
Is it because of fatigue accumulated for three days? He fell asleep as soon as he put his head on the pillow.
Tirkanjaka, who came out without a word, covered him with a blanket, and took a seat in front of his room. He spent the night on the coffin with a parasol on his shoulders and the sound of breathing coming from inside.
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Meanwhile, just before the daytime lights turned on, the dog king appeared. Aji, the king of dogs, walks lightly from the distant hallway. Tirkanjaka gave strength to the hand holding the parasol for a moment.
“bruise?”
Aji only tilted his head even when he saw Tirkanjaka.
He recalled what he had regained. Tirkanjaka felt a small emotion.
It was the only story that the dog king did not bark, but to her, such a small thing became a joy. The feeling I got back was touching even in such a small detail.
“You really don’t bark… .”
Aji said to Tirkanjaka, who was blocking the door.
“bruise! It’s morning! I need to wake you up!”
“Wait. I’ll wake you up… .”
“bruise! bruise!”
While Tirkanjaka opened the door, Aji rushed in through the crack in the open door. Then he ran wildly and barked fiercely.
Tirkanjaka, startled, followed Aji.
Aji was noisy enough. Even those who have lost their memories wake up.
He got up slowly, like a mummy. Even though he woke up from a sigh, he was still staring at the air with blank eyes.
“Are you awake?”
Tirkanjaka spoke like yesterday. I wasn’t expecting an answer. I just want to make a daily life for him.
at that time.
“hello… .”
At the sound of the voice coming from the bed, Tirkanzaka was startled as if her heart was about to fall.
“Shay! Shay!”
Tirkanzaka, who had him seated in a coffin on the way, flew straight to Shai. Shay rubbed his eyes and opened the door, and Tirkanzaka shouted, showing Shay the smirk.
“Looks like he has his memory back!”
“yes?”
“Didn’t you greet me as soon as you woke up this morning? I’m sure the memories are coming back!”
Tirkanjaka said in a voice that was still excited. Shay’s reaction, on the other hand, was bittersweet.
“Well? It still seems a long way away from my point of view. look at that sullen face It’s completely different from the usual guy.”
“Isn’t it better than the day before? Yesterday, he sporadically followed my words, but today he even said it himself. You must remember the words!”
Seeing the excited Tirkanjaka, Shay pondered for a moment. I’d be disappointed if I told the truth.
But Shay didn’t have the ability to tell a nice lie. I wasn’t even that kind of person.
“If you lose your memory like that, you don’t lose your memory as information. Information like knowledge or language stays in your head. It just lost the ego to associate it with itself and to draw it from.”
He doesn’t even seem to know what he is talking about. You’re just wandering around on the coffin while listening to the story.
Shay looked at him and muttered.
“look. You don’t show any reaction. You probably don’t even know who you are right now.”
“But, it’s a little different. Look.”
Tirkanjaka walked up to him in stride. He was sitting still, and only then did he react when Tirkanjaka came closer. Tirkanzaka tapped his shoulder, pointed to Shay, and whispered.
“Come on, over there. I want to say hi to Shay.”
He was just sitting there stumbling like a baby, and Tirkanzaka, who took great care of him.
Seeing this, Shay muttered to himself.
‘Oh, I think cognitive dissonance is coming.’
On the outside, they are all grown men and girls. But the girl is taking care of him like a mother.
Even the adult man was a military instructor who, just a few days ago, was spreading a suspicious atmosphere with a smirk. He, who had made Shai nervous over and over again, sat down with an innocent face and was served by Tirkanzaka, and it felt like he was losing his mind.
‘I can understand Tirkanzaka’s feelings. It seems that something went wrong while he was fixing his heart, so he must feel a great responsibility.’
But Shay still couldn’t relax. It was the type of black screen that Shay hated the most, reading everything in one sitting, picking up a person with a note and then releasing it.
If it’s just like a black screen, I don’t know. However, Shay couldn’t even understand the true meaning of the sijo’s heart.
It’s not just black and it’s not completely white, it’s a existence close to chaos.
‘Really, really, isn’t that acting? I don’t see any reason to do it… .’
Even if there was no reason, he was the kind of person who would do something crazy. Even if you want to get rid of your doubts, they still remain in one corner like a mark.
It was time for Shay to stare at him with sharp eyes.
“sign… buy.”
Hearing Tirkanjaka’s words, he nodded passively toward Shay.
“Ah, hello… .”
Even the attitude he is showing now is suspicious of his behavior. Shay waved her hand.
“This is meaningless. Even if you lose your memory, you can still say hello… .”
“… sister.”
“?!?!”
Chicken meat is sprouting on Shay’s arm.
goosebumps all over the body
Along with that, along with the physiological rejection, I felt like I was losing my mind. Shay exclaimed urgently.
“What, what, what, what are you talking about! It’s my sister!”
Tirkanzaka pointed out.
“Shay, isn’t it right for you?”
“Ah, yes, hyung, no, me, younger than that! for a moment! Everyone, stop!”
When she suddenly panicked, Shay’s attitude was one. Shay grabbed the cherries that were floating on the bedside, and created a breeze.
Whoops. Compressed air spreads out in all directions. A complex air current was created around Shay, and the wind blew through the narrow door, a sound similar to the howl of an animal.
“What happened all of a sudden?”
Tirkanjaka, who had lowered the parasol to block the wind, frowned and looked behind him. Fortunately, she blocked the wind and his body didn’t tip over.
Shay regained his composure by fiddling with his beloved sword Cheoneng.
“Whoa. Just to cool off for a bit.”
“If you cool it down twice, the prison will be uprooted. Be careful. Anyway, now you understand? Why did I say different?”
“yes. i know i know… .”
The title “sister” is a term used by a woman below her hand to refer to a woman above her. It comes only when you have the ability to objectively measure the distance between yourself and your opponent.
In other words, it means that you have the ability to recognize others as well as self-awareness to some extent… .
“By the way, why are you an older sister?! It’s the complete opposite!”
‘He’s a man, so why do you think he’s a woman!’
The words were meant to be aimed at him, but on the contrary, Tirkanzaka understood, put her hand on her chin, and looked at Shay up and down.
“Hmm. you’re a little sassy It wouldn’t be strange if I mistake it for a woman… … … . as a woman… … .”
Suddenly, the words became longer, and Tirkanjaka’s forehead narrowed rapidly. Tirkanjaka seriously looked at Shay and the instructor over and over again, then groaned as if worried about something.
Then, I went up to him and explained jokingly.
“Don’t get confused. Although Shay is small in stature, with slender arms and legs, and a pretty face, he is clearly a man. He is a true man.”
“other… ruler?”
“okay. You’re a man, so keep that in mind. Not my sister, not even my sister. To get it wrong is a disgrace among disrespect.”
Rather than trying to correct a misunderstanding, the words were filled with a sense of caution. Shay felt an indescribable emotion as she watched Tirkanjaka staring at her.
‘Like the attitude you showed yesterday. hey, maybe Did you really thaw a frozen heart? Did my doubts really come true?’
Then Shay realized something strange only after a long time.
As Tirkanjaka said, Shay is now disguised as a man. This is due to an artifact, so it works even if Shay doesn’t care much.
But he called Shay his sister.
sister. In other words, words that can only be recognized when the other person is a woman.
‘for a moment. Did you see through Agartha’s mask? how?’
Instantly, a new suspicion arose. Could it be that he saw through Shai’s men’s disguise from the beginning?
But Shay quickly cleared his doubts.
‘It can’t be. Agartha’s mask definitely has an effect. To the extent that Tirkanzaka and others still believe me to be a man. And if you’ve seen through men’s clothes, it’s strange to reveal them now.’
So how?
Shay quickly came up with a reasonable hypothesis.
‘right. My Artifact, Agartha’s Mask, has the power to make a first impression. First impressions are an important factor that influences subsequent encounters, but… . The only thing that this artifact can affect is the first impression. It doesn’t work for someone you’ve already met.’
This meant one thing. It’s not the first time he’s seen Shay, but he doesn’t leave any first impressions.
That is, the fact that he has lost his memory.
‘Certainly, the memory loss seems to have been lost. Doubts can be removed… . No, maybe this will help clear up the misunderstanding that I’m a man naturally… .’
I disguised myself as a man to enter the abyss, and I kept it just in case… . Shay was surprisingly not hung up on men’s clothes. He often forgot that he was disguised as a man himself.
It might have been better to clear up the misunderstanding and to have a comfortable relationship now than to keep wearing a man’s costume. I didn’t want to forcefully reveal my gender until I took off my clothes, though.
With this, if it naturally instills awareness that Shay can be a woman… .
“other… ruler.”
“okay. is a man Did you remember?”
When Tirkanzaka finished speaking, he nodded loudly and muttered.
“Somehow, it was ambiguous.”
Somehow. vagueness.
It wasn’t made out of language, but the words that were to be said in between were ringing in my ears, meaning that it was vaguely ‘to be considered a woman’. Regardless of Agartha’s mask… .
A tendon grew in Shay’s temple. She beckoned to him with a terrifying look.
“hey. Wait a minute, come to work. You remember!”
The instinct to sense a crisis appeared before the ego. Frightened, he hid behind Tirkanjaka. Then, Tirkanjaka greeted him with a benevolent smile, and soon began to scold Shay.
“Shay. don’t be too scared Isn’t he afraid?”
“No, isn’t that award-winning? Look at the talking kid! Are you scratching slowly?”
“Isn’t it true that you are vague? For a man, the lines are thin, so I was sometimes confused.”
“Is the confusion over?!”
‘Wait a minute. A little while ago, that child, ambiguous… Didn’t you say otherwise?!’
As Shay opened his eyes, Tirkanzaka moved closer and wrapped him around him. The parasol that Tirkanzaka wore covered his face.
“I didn’t know in the past, but now that I lost my memory while trying to help me, I am like a child who doesn’t know anything. How can you possibly blame him?”
“It’s also suspicious that my gender is confusing, but it doesn’t make sense to recognize yourself as a woman in the first place! There is no reason for that! hey! you speak frankly Didn’t you lose your memory?! Are you just smiling inside?!”
“Is it a carrier now? Why is a man so narrow? That’s too much. Isn’t it?”
As Tirkyanzaka wrapped around the instructor until the end, Shay only shivered and couldn’t use his hand. However, his gaze was fierce, so he was scared and hid behind Tirkanjaka’s back.
And Tirkanjaka secretly enjoyed that fact. There was a reason why she didn’t bother yelling at Shay.
When he felt a hand gripping his collar, Tirkanzaka pushed him back again.
“Don’t worry. Didn’t I say I’ll take care of you?”
“I, thank you. uh… .”
As he muffled his words, Tirkanzaka added softly.
“Didn’t you tell me before? Call me Tyr.”
“Yes, Tyr.”
“Yeah, that’s nice.”
Shay just opened her mouth in shock.
‘I had no intention of attacking either! Don’t use others as villains!’
It was getting increasingly tricky.
Even if you don’t want to doubt it, it springs up. If he is pretending to have lost his ego, that would be terrifying, but even if he did, it would be great. How can a person be suspicious even if he loses his memory?
Shay, who had been grinding his teeth for a while, suddenly came up with a good idea.
“for a moment. Why didn’t you think of that?”
If I had lost my real memory, I would honestly answer the question.
If you’re pretending to lose your memory, you’ll be at a loss for questions that are difficult to answer.
‘The former allows us to uncover his secret information, and the latter allows us to see through his acting. This is your chance!’
In any case, there is nothing to lose. Shay said excitedly.
“Tirkanjaka. it’s now Now is your chance to get information out of him!”
Of course, Tyr wouldn’t nod straight away. But Shay was confident in convincing her.
As expected, Tyr immediately reacted negatively.
“Information? You mean you’re going to interrogate this person who has lost his memory? what else to dig up Absolutely impossible… .”
“His name, his rank, or his reason or ability to come here! There is no chance to know now or not!”
But, if it stimulates her curiosity. Shay made a suggestive suggestion with a smile of conversion.
“What do you think?”
Tyr, who had been vehemently opposed, stopped talking.
“Name, name.”
Tyr, who was muttering softly, looked at him for a moment with a face mixed with curiosity and guilt, then closed his eyes slightly and took a step back to express his passive consent to Shay.
“… In order to take care of you in the future, you should at least know. like his name. mmm.”
The wall surrounding him disappeared. He stared at Tyr, but Tyr only avoided his gaze.