324 – Side Story: Another World – 7
“…… What did you just say?”
“No. It’s okay. Keep watching what you see You won’t understand anyway, so what can I say more?”
“Hey! Are you done talking?”
After a brother-sister fight with my younger brother, who had a concave stomach due to an additional attack that immediately went in, Rize and I sat in the empty living room and had a leisurely time.
In the end, the younger brother, unable to find anything to refute, swayed for a while before disappearing somewhere. It might be in the room or out, but to be honest, it didn’t matter to me. Do you know where he went?
Rize was still cautiously worried that she might have treated her one and only sister too harshly, but when I turned on my smartphone and showed the details of the splendid mutual slander we had shared so far, it instantly went quiet.
Although Erica and I always quarrel, it must be something that Rize wants to talk about, since all of her actions are nothing more than a joke.
How much time had passed, the smartphone rang.
“Will you come out and carry my luggage?”
“Yes. All right. Are you asking your brother to come too?”
“Eugene wouldn’t be able to lift that much…… Take care.”
At first, I was going to come and go, but Rize said she couldn’t sit alone and decided to follow me.
“Hey! Mama wants to drop off her luggage!”
As I shouted under the stairs to the second floor, the door burst open. The younger brother was still showing off his temper even when he came out.
Our eyes met. I looked at Rize’s chest for a moment, then met eyes again and smiled, and my expression distorted even more. Her little brother ran outside, dragging her trembling body.
“Mom! Do you know what her brother said to me?!”
We both managed to pretend to be brother and sister, at least until her mom or dad heard.
It was because of the experience of having a fight in front of her parents before, and her brother and sister had to say and act kindly for a month under the pretext of getting along well.
It was a tacit agreement made because I didn’t want to do that twice. If either of them did something stupid, both would suffer.
I opened the front door and went out. My parents were unloading paper boxes from the car. My younger sister clung to him and told me what I had done, but neither of them seemed to be listening properly.
It was all from his own work. I should have told you only the big things instead of telling you every detail. If I went through each and every one of them, I couldn’t help but become more and more squeamish.
“Son, you came early…… ? Oh my, my my my my my my.”
Her mother, who was about to greet me as usual, opened her eyes wide as soon as she saw her and approached her with a series of exclamations.
My younger sister, who had been pushed into the background in an instant, started whining at her father. However, Dad was also surprised to see this side, so he was distracted.
“Oh my gosh oh my gosh. My God, my God.”
“…… ?”
On the day I was about to say hello to her, my mother, who had passed her by, grabbed Rize’s hand without even giving me a glance. Rize looked at me with bewildered eyes at the way she prioritized the woman over her son.
“No, don’t you even say hello to the son you haven’t seen in a month?”
“If there is a son I see after a month and a girlfriend after 21 years, which one would I be more surprised to see?”
“…… I’m 21 now?”
When I say a girlfriend I haven’t seen in 21 years, don’t I feel like I’m a lot older than that? Mom lightly ignored my complaint and looked back at Rize.
“My name is Kang So-young. What is her maiden name?”
“Lee, this is Rize. Mother.”
“My mother said! Honey, did you hear? This pretty lady sees me and says she’s my mother! Oops, look at my mind. This is not the time now. Come on in. You can’t leave her guests outside.”
Her mouth got caught in her ear at the word mother, and her mother went inside her as if dragging Rize’s arm. Her little sister grumbled that no one would listen to her, and she followed suit.
In a daze, I suddenly came to my senses and approached my father who unloaded the last box. Next to it were three paper boxes piled up.
He was holding the third box when I left the house, and it seemed that Dad had finally come to his senses, seeing as he had just unloaded it. Mom’s fuss just now was pretty awesome.
“What did you buy so many?”
“Your mother put in a lot of things because you were coming after a long time. I stopped trying to add one more box here. Is there anything you can do to kill a child?”
A picture was drawn in my head. With a wry smile, I stacked three cardboard boxes and lifted them all. It was only after that, when I saw my father’s gaze, which was slightly surprised, I wanted to be sorry.
“Are you exercising these days?”
Fortunately, they did not interrogate. If I had even lifted it with one hand, it would have been a real big deal. Even with the excuse of exercising, it cannot be rectified.
“Yes…… What. Yes.”
“Is that so? You look great. Keep working hard.”
If what you’ve done so far is exercise, then it’s exercise. In several senses.
I shyly took the box and went home. As soon as I opened the front door, I could already hear the sound of a noisy conversation. Most of it was my mother’s voice.
“Are you sure, Goddess?”
I stopped at the porch and muttered. A round golden glow appeared around her face.
Yes. I’ll fix the incongruity, so you just have to trust me and wait.
“I’m more anxious because you told me to believe. There must be one or two mistakes the goddess has made in the meantime.”
It’s not even been a week since I heard what was the cause of my overwhelming energy right away and scolded the goddess.
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When her own words were openly denied, her sullen emotions flooded in.
ㅡYou can really trust me this time…… Hee…….
“Let’s put it somewhere. First of all, you sewed the first button brilliantly.”
It is also thanks to Eclipse that no one had any doubts even though the name ‘Rize’ had popped up just a while ago. In that way, I was planning to slowly get rid of the sense of incongruity.
I arrived at the living room with a paper box. Rize, who had been caught by her mother, was at a loss as she was being bombarded with questions.
“How did you meet my son?”
“Cheo, as soon as I first saw him, I wanted to be this man, so I asked him to date first. And when we started dating, our tastes matched well…….”
“Is this your first meeting?”
“Yes.”
“Oh my God! Eugene, did you hear? As soon as I first saw it, I thought it was this guy, but he even said that he matched his taste! If this is not fate, what is!”
“…… That kid? Did you catch any weakness?”
My younger brother muttered softly. Her mother didn’t seem to hear her fuss, but she heard me. You’ve probably heard of Rize. ‘Cause you’re so much closer than me
I set down the boxes on the kitchen table, holding back my desire to stab my younger brother. I opened one and checked the contents. The inside of the box was full of meat without a single blade of grass.
I didn’t expect that the words “Any kind of meat” Would come back like this.
I sorted them out and went back to the living room. My mother, looking very excited, glanced back at me.
“Son! If you had such a pretty girlfriend, wouldn’t you be the first to tell her mom! When she said she couldn’t come home because she stayed with her girlfriend, she waited as long as she could!”
She didn’t even drink, but it was the first time I’d seen a mother with such a lively atmosphere. Rize’s face turned red at the word ‘girlfriend’, but her mother didn’t seem to have confirmed it.
Rather, her younger brother, who was next to her, saw it and opened her mouth. Right now, Rize looks like a girl in love to anyone.
She will never be seen as having a weakness.
“My lady. Then, she has only been dating for a while, but she has already come to this place? You really didn’t want to come, but my son didn’t bring you recklessly, did you?”
“Oh, no. I said I wanted to come. I really want to see you.”
When her slightly blushing face and her pretty words combined to make anyone feel like she was in love, she didn’t even say a few words, but her mother’s affection for her was already at an all-time high.
As if her excitement was over the limit, the calmed-down mother stood up with her determined expression.
“Son. Would you like to go up to her room with her girlfriend?”
“I-I will help too.”
“The lady is a guest. I am resting with my son. I’ll call you when it’s done.”
Rize stood up together saying she would help, but her mother sternly shunned Rize. Instead, she grabbed her younger brother by the back of the back as he slipped into the room beside her.
“Eugene! You have to help mom, where are you going!”
“Oh, why is this only happening to me! You can do it, brother! Good cause too! I have to cook for her girlfriend!”
“He’s out of his mind! If Joo-Won helps her mom, what will Joo-Won do with her girlfriend? If it’s unfair, bring your boyfriend too! How can a boy with a normal face not have a man until he turns 20!”
I shook her hand with her most delighted expression at her mother, her little brother who was being dragged by her hand. The gaze that had been glaring at me as if to kill me disappeared into the kitchen.
“Let’s go up. Do you have something to do?”
“…… Can I really go up? Aren’t you supposed to help?”
“Mom doesn’t lie about things like that. She told me to rest, but she said she didn’t help, so she deducted my score, so don’t worry.”
Since ancient times, ‘talking around’ has been a word that does not exist in my mother’s dictionary. Except when we were very young, the words that came out were her mother’s true intentions.
It’s the same as just now. She says that if mom tells her to rest, she just goes up and relaxes, and then when the cooking is done she comes down. She guessed what she was thinking, so there was no need to do anything about it.
“I…… Delta. Your real name is Joo Won, right?”
Lize, who kept glancing at me while going up the stairs, asked me a question. She must have heard what her mother was saying earlier.
“Yes. His last name is Baek. That’s why it’s Baek Joo-won. You guys are more familiar with the name Delta, so you don’t have to change it.”
It’s a fact that just came to my mind, but when I think about it, it’s true to its name. The word Delta was said to mean ‘change’ in the old language of the Eclipse world, but it eventually brought about change.
Although there are changes on the bad side, such as Seongguk, which has become a group of fanatics.
“Joo Won…… Ju won…… I see… ….”
I brought Rize, who was repeating my name over and over again, into the room and shut the door.
I immediately locked the doorknob. You might get misunderstood about what you did while locking the door with a man and a woman, but it’s much better than being exposed to what you’re going to see from now on.
As soon as he did, a circle of blue mana appeared right next to him. Through the inside of the circle, I could see the scenery of my own room. Heads poking around my room along the rim were sticking out.
Except for Minerva, who stands proudly in the middle.
“Can we move on to the next step now?”
“Yes. You can do that. You did a good job, Rize.”
Rize nodded her head and smiled as she entered the circle. Luna came across as she alternated with him. Floretta stood behind him.
“Let’s begin, Evangelina.”
“Yes. Sister Seraphica.”
Sister Pope closed her eyes at the same time. Slowly, Floretta’s body collapsed backwards. Stella and Selene lightly supported him and put him on the bed.
Luna’s hair was dyed golden. Her eyes opened slowly. Suddenly, her right eye turned green. She was Advent, something she had never seen before.
Minerva swung her wand lightly. Her golden hair turned black once again, and even her eyes turned pitch-black.
Her body was also wearing the same white polar tee and skinny jeans that Rize was wearing. The pope, whose two personalities coexist, smiled softly.
“Let’s go. Mr. Joo Won.”