“Sorry, something urgent happened all of a sudden. I’m really sorry, but this time, you and Hyeonu will eat together.”
A voice was heard over the phone.
― Because if I don’t eat with you, I’ll just starve.
“… Don’t do that. You have to eat on time.”
I could hear Han Soo-young muttering in a small voice at my words and then murmuring.
– Oh, what is it? I hate it, oh I hate it Hey, wait… ! Give me your cell phone, I’m on the phone with Jihyuk!
– hello? Jihyuk, it’s me.
“Uh-huh.”
Choi Hyun-woo, who took the phone from Han Soo-young, let out a small breath.
― Don’t worry too much, then I’ll see you later in the evening. Because today’s class is the advisor’s class… We’ll see each other later today.
“okay, thanks. Talk to Sooyoung, too.”
– Don’t worry… evil! Hey, don’t pinch me, it really hurts… !
The phone hung up with a loud noise.
After staring at my phone for a while, I headed straight to the reception room where I could chat with outsiders.
Inside, Jin-jeong, whom I had met at the party before, was seated in a rather dignified position.
“hello.”
If Jin Ye-seul becomes more mature and calm, will it look like this?
With her large glasses on and her hair tied up easily, she got up and bowed her head to me.
She was wearing a women’s suit, and when she saw me sitting opposite her, she sat down too.
“Thank you for coming. I came all the way to the academy for work, and then I suddenly thought of it.”
She said so and looked at me with calm eyes.
“I will introduce myself again. It’s called Jin-jeong, and she’s a professor at Tribal Hanama Urea. Even if you say you are a professor, you are an assistant to the apprenticeship.”
“This is Yoo Ji-hyuk.”
After a brief greeting with her, he adjusted his posture and sat down.
“So, can you tell me why you wanted to meet me?”
“… … .”
At my question, she turned her head and looked out the window.
Then, looking out the window, he opened his mouth.
“It looks like it will rain when the wind blows.”
“Yes?”
“Do you know how and why it rains?”
“… I don’t know.”
She nodded slightly, as if somewhat satisfied with my answer.
“There are many reasons. It looks like it will rain now, but in the case of showers, the hot air on the ground heats up the air and rises, and the cool air comes down from the upper layer to balance it out. This is called convection. And as the heated air rises, clouds form and rain falls.”
I couldn’t help but nod my head at her sudden words.
“Ah, yes… .”
“Well.”
And seeing my reaction like this, Jin-jeong sighed a little this time.
“At first, I thought it was good to talk about small things when meeting people for the first time and relaxing, but it didn’t work out well.”
She wrinkled her nose slightly as if it was really difficult.
“I heard that extracting sympathy from the surroundings and trivial daily life is the first step to getting acquainted… I guess it was not.”
Here she poked once more and sighed.
“Can I just tell you the main point?”
“Then it’s good for me.”
“Then let me explain a few things first. Yeseul, there is something you need to know first before we talk about that child.”
I nodded.
Here, for the first time, Jeong-jeong Jin muttered as she put on her glasses as if she was tired.
“First of all, my mother is quite polar. That one… As soon as I found out that I was a member of the World Tree, I immediately contacted Yesul.”
“Are you in touch?”
“I want you to seduce him. In a nutshell, use the beauty world to make a fact, or something like that.”
“… … .”
When she didn’t say anything, she added.
“Actually, you spoke in a very low-level language, but I think it’s a bit too much to convey as it is, so I moderated it. Most of all, I didn’t want my mother to think that she was the one who instigated a felony in her children.”
“Ah, yes… .”
“Even when Yesul ignored me, he said that to me. If possible, go and seduce yourself. Because both you and that child have a half face. And if possible, bring up the engagement story… .”
While I was talking there, she looked at me as if she had just remembered.
“Ah, it’s a bit off topic, but did you know that Yesul had a fiance?”
“Are you engaged?”
It was the first story I heard.
She added immediately, as if not to worry.
“In less than five days, after I was kicked by Yesul and crushed in the thigh, it became a story that never existed. Oh, the ribs were broken and the skull was also sunken.”
As I listened to her story, I was certain that she, like Jin Ye-seul, was missing a screw somewhere.
I was thinking that maybe the whole family had something strange about it.
“Well, let’s get rid of all the other trifles. And first, let me say something that might help… Now, the Association, various families, and guilds are preparing to take down the World Tree clan. Specifically, he sensed a special aura… .”
Her family was also related.
It was a story I knew, but I pretended not to know and listened to her.
However, after a while, Jin-jeong, who was staring at this side, stopped talking.
“Looks like I hit the back drum.”
She nodded.
“Shall we just get to the point?”
Although she exudes a completely different vibe from Jin Ye-seul, she and her are definitely real sisters in that they are unpredictable and difficult to talk to.
There, as she said herself, she seemed to be quite clumsy in conversing with people.
‘In the original story, she only appeared as an older sister who cherishes Jin Ye-seul and helps her from behind… .’
Thinking so, he nodded.
“Let’s start with the story of our family… As you may know, we are a family famous for magic. People in our family are born with enormous magical powers from the beginning. It was also part of the family history to be born lacking something in return.”
She shrugged.
“Especially in the case of Ye Seul, it was great.”
Her eyes mumbled quietly, not knowing what she was thinking.
“It’s hard to say that the child lacks morals. It’s quite different from what is commonly known as a psychopath.”
While I was talking, she looked at me.
“Because of that child, I studied many things.”
I didn’t have anything to say back, so I just nodded my head.
“He committed his first murder when he was 10.”
She muttered in a voice that seemed to regret something.
“He was a man who had a crush on our family. They attacked Yesul with a knife, but instead, her head was crushed on the spot and she died instantly.”
And then we had a complete realization that something was strange.
At her words, I tilted my head.
“We?”
“Yes, we.”
She nodded.
Then he held out his palms towards me.
Something was written on her little palm.
“I can wield magic that works on the human psyche.”
“… … .”
“And that fact was well known to me and Yesul when we were young.”
She slowly raised her palms.
And he sighed, not knowing how many times.
“… The boy noticed that he was strange. It was difficult to bear at a young age. So he asked me. Ask yourself to be banned.”
“Is it forbidden?”
Jin Ye-seul placed a ban on Jin Ye-seul.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this.
Now, I wondered if this world was really the world I knew.
“yes. I put the prohibition on the child as he wanted, and thanks to this, he managed to grow up with a stable ego without denying his ideality.”
“I’m sorry, but what does the story so far have to do with me?”
“… I’m sorry, but the story was quite difficult to understand, right?”
She apologized to me and continued.
“In summary, this is it. It was only recently that I realized that what I thought was the best thing actually had a bad effect on the child.”
“… Yes?”
I was puzzled for a moment and looked at her.
The woman who looked at her calmly was the person she boasted that she had been using the magic that she applied to her mind from a young age until just a moment ago.
“What, then, what is Yeseul’s conscience or good heart? What are you sealing this with?”
“yes? no. Could it be? I suppressed anti-social tendencies and things like that if I kept holding it, it would cause real trouble.”
She looked over here as if she was saying something.
Then he tilted his head as if contemplating for a moment.
“Simply put, I locked up something like hydrochloric acid in the child’s mind, and what’s left is lye.”
… How do you come up with such an analogy?
I stared at her in amazement for a moment and answered.
“Then there is no problem, is it? Why is that a problem?”
“If you drink hydrochloric acid or lye, you die, but if you mix the two, you get brine. When a strong acid and a strong base meet, they purify each other like water. That’s fair.”
she muttered
“… It was not forcibly constrained, but I had to nurture, correct, and support from the side. In any case, it was part of Yesul. It also took up quite a bit of space. There is no way a building without pillars will stand. Thanks to him, he is now… It is very dangerous.”
The last time I saw it at a party, I was convinced.
It’s really dangerous if you go on like this.
“please. Please help my brother.”
She bowed her head deeply.
I thought for a moment and then said to her.
“If you listen to what you say, it seems like it will be solved if you loosen the restrictions, right?”
“yes. But the problem is that now I can’t get rid of the constraints on him.”
“… Why?”
“At that time, he trusted me the most, but not now.”
She said so and looked at me.
“It was the first time in my life I had seen that child smile like that. It means that I now trust and depend on you more than my family members and my parents who gave birth to me.”
“… Uh, actually.”
I told her about what happened with Jin Ye-seul in a somewhat adapted version.
I did something very wrong with her, and because of that, she made a declaration that was almost isolated.
I also added that she really wanted to kill me, and she listened with a serious expression and nodded her head.
“At least you’re in a much better situation than me.”
“… Are you serious?”
“If that child was really hurt enough to declare isolation, so we would not have been meeting like this now. Either I was paying tribute to it, or I was looking at the person who killed my brother.”
“… … .”
Come to think of it, it was just what she said.
I didn’t know it because it didn’t show any signs of that, but if it was Jin Ye-seul in the original story… .
“At least, you still have a big place in the kid’s mind. … IM jealous. No matter how I tried, I couldn’t win a single corner of my heart.”
With those words, she handed me a small bracelet.
“This is the key. As you wear it and energize it, touch the child with mana and you will feel something grabbing it.”
“… May I ask you one thing?”
“Anyway.”
“Why do you care about Yesul so much? As you said, Yesul doesn’t care about that at all.”
“I do not know. It is unavoidable for a younger brother to hate his ugly older sister.”
Then she smiled for the first time.
Well, what can I do?
“Because he was my brother from birth.”
“… … .”
I couldn’t say anything about it.
It was because I felt a sense of unity in her appearance.
As I looked at her, it seemed as if a face I couldn’t miss came to mind.
That was then.
The phone rang and Jin Ye-seul’s name appeared on the screen.
“I can’t be a yangban, even that kid.”
She smiled and got up from her seat.
“Oh, I forgot to tell you. I’m sure I’ll be part of Urea’s faculty visiting next week. If I ever meet you on the way, would you like to say hello to me?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Then see you later. thanked.”
She bowed her head politely and looked at me and said as if to go.
“You should have lunch, but I’m sorry for keeping you on hold for so long.”
“… Even though you’ve come all the way here, why don’t you take a look?”
“He hates me so much. It would be very off-putting to know that you were there with me.”
She shook her head.
“I’ll see you later, if the circumstances arise.”
* * *
Jeongjeong Jin muttered quietly as she walked out of the academy.
It may not be possible for me to meet you now.
“… … .”
When you die, you never know where your body will lie.
With a bitter smile, she glanced up at the darkened sky.
“Scheduled.”
Then she turned her head to the voice calling her.
There was a man standing there.
A Slav with a stout physique and a voluptuous impression.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr. Dmitry.”
At her apology, Dmitry responded with a blank expression.
“It was the professor’s order, so there is no need to be sorry.”
“Nevertheless.”
“May I ask who you’ve been dating more than that?”
“Your brother.”
“ah. Come to think of it, did my sister say that she goes here?”
She nodded.
It wasn’t a lie.
Either way, he was younger than him.
The two began to walk together, and Jin-jeong asked him in a still quiet voice.
“So what can we do now?”
“First, as the professor ordered, we should investigate the surrounding area and establish a base.”
He took a deep breath and mumbled in his characteristic melancholy voice.
“It’s what we, his disciples, have to do… Well, I have no intention of making you work. Soon I will be the fifth disciple, but at least not now. You just have to watch and learn.”
“That’s fortunate.”
“Ah, I see… .”
Dmitry pulled something out of his pocket and showed it to her.
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One photo.
In that photo, Yoo Ji-hyeok, whom she had just met, was photographed.
“Remember this boy.”
“… Who are you?”
“The owner of the artifact.”
He answered briefly.
“I asked for a transfer or loan, but it was rejected because it was lost. Later, use your abilities to dig into his memory and verify its authenticity. It doesn’t matter if you’re an idiot or not.”
“… … .”
She didn’t say anything.
He asked at the sight.
“What is it, do you know each other?”
Jinyoung shook her head.
“no.”
I’m seeing it for the first time.
Saying so, she disappeared into the crowd with him.