Kwaang-!
One deep night when lightning strikes…
“oh?!”
A girl is startled by the sound and begins to tremble in fear…
“brother…”
In the end, he can’t overcome the fear of being alone in the harsh storm and darkness, and he comes to us today.
“Ummm… Yura?”
The man the girl calls her brother looks at him in a sleepy voice as if he was already asleep.
“That… I’m scared, but… Can we sleep together today…?”
Frustrated, flicking his fingers, holding his breath and waiting for his answer… But coming back is an easy permission…
“Yeah… do whatever you want…”
“ha..!”
When his brother’s permission is granted, he smiles happily and digs into his arms to protect himself from the darkness.
“Oppa… But why are you so kind?”
“yes..?”
In response to his brother’s incomprehensible question, the older brother turns his head away from the moonlight and expresses his doubts.
“Yeah… If there’s a problem, you always come out to help, don’t you?”
He shrugged his shoulders at those words and tried to sleep again in the hazy consciousness.
“Well… if my brother is in trouble, I should help him… because that’s my brother…”
With those words, the sound of breathing eased again, it seemed that he had fallen asleep.
“Mom and Dad… they rarely come home for work…”
The girl began to see him from a different perspective as the work life was busy, the family environment that she almost neglected on weekdays, and the time she spent with her older brother rather than her parents.
“brother….”
“…..”
The fading voice, the girl’s call, didn’t seem to reach her brother.
“I mean… Oppa is very reliable, and when I’m in trouble, he doesn’t hesitate to come out… Mom and Dad don’t come home often and don’t even look after me… Oppa always gives me sincere affection, right?”
A mind twisted in the wrong environment… The monologue of a young girl continues.
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“Ummm…”
The sunlight streaming in through the curtains hits my eyelids, and the warm and cozy sensation makes me fall asleep again, but on the other hand, it awakens my consciousness by announcing the rise of a new sun.
“Is it morning already…”
I woke up more tired than usual… It wasn’t that I was particularly busy yesterday… I even drank the vitality that Yura gave me… As if fighting with myself under unfavorable conditions, my eyes start to close again.
“Brother, are you awake?!”
“Yura…?”
But what is really surprising is Yura’s condition… She greets me in the morning with a bright voice as if she was sick.
“Good morning! The sun is so kind here!”
Even his hum is humming to show that he is happy… Until yesterday, he had a high fever all over his body and continued to moan in pain, and now he looks so happy.
“Is your body okay?”
“Yeah! I’m in the best shape right now!”
I asked her about her condition, just in case, but as expected from the look on her face, she replied that she was very healthy.
“Ugh…”
I wonder if she even took my health… Instead of her, my condition was so bad that I almost lay down.
“Yura, is the energizer you gave me yesterday? Why do you look more tired…”
“…!”
He shrugged his shoulders as if something had been stabbed at those words and started to look troubled…
“Haha… Well… I don’t know… I don’t know myself, but was it because yesterday was more difficult than usual? You went to see other people and wandered around trying to find a solution to the way you are now!”
For some reason, his attitude was a little suspicious… I thought it was a bit suspicious… but maybe it was because of his mood?
As expected, I didn’t feel it, but I guess I was really tired… But it seemed that I was too tired.
“I’m glad Yura is getting better though. It was difficult because she had an unknown cause and didn’t know a cure… For now, I’m relieved that she looks okay.”
As if she had accepted my words as a compliment, her face brightened again and the corners of her mouth began to rise, her tail fluttered and she nodded with a more excited face than before.
“Yeah! It’s all thanks to you!”
Why is this because of me… The potion I bought certainly didn’t work… But was it better than nothing?
“I’m glad that you feel well, and I’m going to go on a long journey with someone I know from now on… I’ve paid enough for the lodging, so I hope Yura waits here.”
Let’s celebrate her recovery and let her know that I can be away for a long time…
“What…? Why… all of a sudden?”
Then, maybe it’s a bit of an overreaction… Her expression suddenly turns into despair, and her lips begin to tremble.
“The place I’m heading to is yours now, there might be a solution to this problem, so don’t worry it won’t take as long as you think.”
“Wait, I’ll go with you!”
As she reassures her and tries to put on the equipment she prepared, her restraint comes in.
“yes…?”
Looking at the map, it could have been quite dangerous in terms of the story as it was a field map in the second half, but it would be nice if there were a lot of people…
In the case of Yura… it is said that the fox god’s magic resides… She had just arrived in another world and had no combat experience, so it was a bit of a concern.
“The number of people who go with oppa… Are you sure they’re women?! So let’s go together! I’m worried about leaving my oppa alone with another woman, so I can’t do it!”
It’s okay to think that I’m arrogant, but they seem to get the point wrong… After all, it’s true that you’re going with a woman… How do you know that? And what’s wrong with that…
“I understand your feelings, but… it’s a dangerous place, so for you who are inexperienced in battle, it’s still-“
Hwareuk!
Then the hot sensation passing by me…
“?!!”
A huge fireball passes by me, an attack that I instinctively know that even a slight touch will burn my body without ashes…
Bang! Bang! Bang!
And a heavy destructive sound coming from behind…
“…?!”
Slowly turning around, Yura’s magic pierced through the inn, as well as far out of sight.
“”Ahhhhhhh?!””
Then after a while I hear people screaming… What I was seeing was a clear reality…
“Yura?! Wait, people like this!!”
“What people? What’s wrong?”
What’s the problem… Of course, if you knock down a building like that, people will be harmed.
“uh…?”
But really… Literally… A wooden wall that is clearly visible after a blink of an eye… The wall that had been open until now had been restored to its original state…
A surprising phenomenon that cannot be expressed in words… I hope it’s all Yura…
“Well, now it’s proven? That I’m by no means a weak person… So I’ll go with you, for sure…”
Great tenacity… What made her like this… Even I struggled to learn the tricks of magic at first… I didn’t even teach her…
“Okay… But it won’t be easy, will it?”
But there are times when pure firepower isn’t everything in battle… But despite that, the magic he showed me was so overwhelming that I couldn’t really refuse.
And the dull, serious eyes as if a bad switch had been pressed… It was an atmosphere that felt like something shouldn’t be rejected, so I agreed.
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“Ah, Harold!!”
Erina, who came across the inn when she left the inn, must say it’s been a while since she’s dressed like this… Wearing the gear she wore back then, when the story was just just the two of them, is taken quite differently.
“…..”
After making eye contact with Erina, when I turned my gaze slightly, the buildings that looked fine… Until before, the buildings with large holes just like Yura’s collapse had been restored to their original state.
“I’m sure something just passed and the building didn’t collapse?!”
“Yeah… I saw it carefully…”
“Ah.. Come to think of it, something came out of the building you were in earlier and the street was smashed?! But at some point it disappeared… Did you see Harold?!”
Even people are bewildered by the image that has just happened, and Erina hastily tells me if she has also witnessed Yura’s magic…
“Well… I don’t know…”
First of all, he slapped me and said nothing, as if Yura had read my expression and joined my lies, he didn’t say anything.
“Yeah? By the way… Hmm… Are you Harold’s younger brother? I heard you were originally human…”
Then he glances at my sister and begins to look closely at her, Erina, who furrows her eyebrows slightly with interest and discomfort…
“You… maybe…”
At that moment, the atmosphere suddenly subsides, not knowing what to say.
What the hell did I feel in my quiet little brother… all of a sudden…
“Please, my name is Yuriel, Harold’s brother, who will be with us on this journey.”
However, Yura ignores Erina’s mood and asks for a handshake by reaching out her hand…
“…?”
Erina starts to stare at her sister’s actions with a puzzled and absurd look at the same time, but…
“Yeah… Please take care of me too…”
As soon as they accepted the handshake, they grabbed each other’s hands and started to shake lightly.
Whoa!
I don’t know why, but the painful handshake I see… That… It’s just a light greeting… Is that right…?
“Well… Then what happened… Let’s get going, Harold…”
After that, the two people who let go of their hands knew each other by wrapping their arms around me, as if they had made a promise.
“Let’s go, brother… we have a lot of time… but there’s nothing wrong with being in a hurry…”
Already in a bad mood… I didn’t even know why it became like this.
“Yes…”
A journey ahead that only makes me anxious…
It’s just a throwaway prophecy, but it seems like my suffering will come from allies, not enemies…