122 – I screwed up…
“hehehe… Oppa ♡”
It wraps around my arm and presses close to my body, and a strange sensation comes through, like the fragrant smell of a flower that attracts bees.
“Yura, now I want you to tell me… Our real relationship…”
“We were once step-siblings, but now we are a good couple.. ♡”
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He doesn’t seem to understand what I mean, so he just mumbles and continues his affectionate behavior.
“……”
“hehehehe… Are you kidding, you want to know the secret of our birth?”
However, the light atmosphere from earlier was lost and he suddenly became serious and began to tell a slightly sad story that was a question I wanted to know.
“Actually, I’m your brother’s half-sister… I was so young that I don’t even remember what happened… I was adopted into my brother’s family.”
“Honestly… Even if you ask me who my real parents are, I don’t know… At first, I thought my brother’s parents were my real parents… I was so surprised when I first heard my secret… “
I don’t know how I came to be adopted and why I was adopted… I also knew him as my biological younger brother until now…
“Still… I’m glad I was adopted by a wealthy family. Being adopted by someone else’s family means that my original family would have thought of me as a missing child or an abandoned child…”
The force that pulls me becomes a little stronger. Maybe it’s because I’m scared imagining a scary time I can’t even remember…
“When I think about that, I may be saying I’m full, but… Honestly, I couldn’t say I had a good childhood.”
“What…?”
In a very faint fragment of memory… This was a bit surprising because I only remembered Yura from a long time ago as a smiling face.
However, my voice must have predicted what I was thinking right now and I quickly changed my words.
“Ah, I didn’t say enough! It was definitely not because of my brother…! If my brother wasn’t there, I would have said I was unhappy?!”
As if it was difficult to explain, she moaned briefly and was lost in thought for a moment… Since the topic was a topic, I could fully understand her feelings.
“That’s right… My parents didn’t come home except on weekends because of work… I was able to live with material support… But I was definitely disappointed because I was at an age where I wanted to receive love from my parents. “
Her tail moves helplessly, trying to cover me more and more.
“So… I liked my older brother… He was always kind and good to me… To be honest, I think I wanted the affection from him that I didn’t receive from my parents…”
She certainly thought that way originally, but hearing Yura’s words made me feel it again. When she was young, Yura and I were really close compared to siblings from other families…
“At some point, she started to see me as an object of the opposite s*x, and I just tried not to show it on the outside… In fact, just thinking about her brother and directly interacting with her always made her heart jump.”
She shyly lowers her head as if she is embarrassed by her plans that have finally been revealed, and her face turns red in a different way. Although it is said that she has already committed everything, it must have been difficult to say that it was actually a confession.”
“But I just kept it in my heart, because this relationship shouldn’t be revealed… Even if it made me feel sick, I just tried to hide it forever…”
Then he looks straight at me and smiles bitterly.
“Coming here… I was given something unknown, like it was a fox, but in the end I couldn’t protect it. For some unknown reason, I couldn’t control myself… To tell you everything honestly… In fact, it’s Abne. I was receiving a potion from the goddess called, a potion that would put me into a very deep sleep… I used that to solve my brother’s uncontrollable heat…”
Maybe the thing they gave me that was said to be a good potion was a sleeping pill… And from what Yura said, the reason I was particularly tired in the morning was actually…
“…..”
Let’s just think about it…
“I don’t know why yesterday’s medicine didn’t work, but… I ended up getting caught like this, so I’ll tell you my honest wish, brother.”
The sad mood lasted for a moment… Yura became more serious and held my hand tightly, pleading with me in a desperate voice.
“Brother… Can’t you just stay here?”
“What…?”
Yura’s request makes me feel worried and puzzled…
“Her brother’s purpose is to bring me back and ask the goddess to send me back to her reality?!”
“I’m just an ordinary college student, and I’ll continue to be a burden… I’d rather have an older brother and be together in this world where it’s okay to love him than to fall into a relationship that’s no more than brother and sister!”
My shoulders were shaking in fear of what I would say next, like a lamb in a fairy tale crying out with a wish more earnest than ever…
“In reality, I am a powerless girl, but here I can use the power of God? So this time I can take care of my brother… In this unknown world where love is wide…”
As if she couldn’t even see my face properly, she buried her face in her chest and didn’t want to let go, so she just hugged her with all her might.
The voice became increasingly sad… And now she was shedding tears.
“I’ll ask you this… It doesn’t matter what happens to my real life… I can just stay here as long as I ask the goddess to tell her what I’m up to occasionally and fool my parents… Right?”
“Please don’t try to leave me alone… I don’t want to leave… I love you, brother, I want to be by your side…!”
What choice should I make… Suddenly, Tempus’s words come to mind.
‘I encourage you to look deep inside yourself.’
Advice to think about what I want right now…
Honestly… As she said, my original purpose has already faded and fallen into disrepair.
Return to the real world… However, that was already accomplished by Mir, and as a result of living in both worlds… To tell you my honest feelings, I became more attracted to this world than the real world.
In other words, the reason why I rejected this world has disappeared… If I were to give another reason, it would be their twisted obsession…
‘Accept it, having so many women who truly love you is something that every man in the world would envy. ‘Do not deceive many people.’
Remembering what Tempus said, even that was honestly a pointless excuse…
“……..”
In response to that question, I finally remember Tempus’ proposal and suffer from what seems like an eternity of short-term worries.
Rejection is no longer justifiable… But despite this, we are reluctant to accept the reality…
“Yura…”
She couldn’t get lost in her thoughts forever, so she finally gave her answer while stroking her stepbrother’s head.
“Huh…?”
The eyes are filled with excessive tension, but they somehow muster up the courage to look straight into my eyes.
“I want you to give me time to think… It probably won’t be long, and it won’t be negative…”
“Oppa…!”
Her complexion suddenly brightens at those words, but she begins to smile again as if she was satisfied with the answer.
“Thank you!!”
He hugs me tightly, and his tail begins to move smoothly and naturally, feeling relieved.
“Yes…”
As I hold her in my arms, I think about what I must remember from now on someday.
What kind of life do I truly want?
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“It’s really fun, you probably don’t even know it.”
Let’s go back to Tempus, who welcomes me with a leisurely sip of black tea as usual today.
“It was clear in my eyes that my younger brother’s rampage would stop once the truth was revealed, but didn’t he cast a charm on you as if he were mocking such a prophecy?”
He was speaking with a suspicious yet spiteful smile that I couldn’t tell if he wanted to make fun of me.
“……”
But since it wasn’t wrong, there was nothing I could say… That made me feel even more frustrated and annoyed.
“Are you saying that those who do not understand concepts are different?”
In the meantime, he spits out a word that I was a little curious about before, but whose meaning is not asked.
A person who does not understand concepts…
You’ve referred to me like that once before… But what on earth does it mean…
“Tempus, but what does it mean to be someone who cannot understand concepts…?”
When I ask that question, the housewife looks slightly surprised when she realizes that she went out without turning off the gas stove, but soon returns to her typical drowsy face.
“That’s right, I forgot… If you have too much time, you often get confused.”
The atmosphere of Tempus, which I had never experienced even in the game, and the way she spoke seemed so young and old that just listening to her speak made her sound like a woman in her old age.
“First of all, that’s how I refer to you, a man who literally has no understanding of the world’s concepts.”
I tilt my head to the side because he only says things I can understand. Is he calling me that because I’m a stranger from another world…?
“You were born in a place so different from here that the things set out in this world don’t seem to work for you. That’s why the future I just saw was wrong.”
“If I were to explain it more easily, I would say that fate is different… Morione, your goddess, would know this better than me, but if I had to explain it…”
As I placed the tea cup in her hand on the saucer, her body turned completely towards me. I feel it now… Whenever she spoke a little seriously, it felt like she was looking at the other person completely like this. .
“You have a fate that is different from that of beings born in this world, which is proof that you came from another world.”
“You don’t know that the average person is more interested in people who are different from me, right? Just like that, your destiny is so different that it attracts other fates.”
I had no idea… Now that I think about it, I think Abne and the goddess Morione also said that they felt something foreign about me…
“When you look into your destiny or future, you sometimes see wrong reasons and that’s why so many lovers are attracted to you. It’s because the concepts of this world don’t work and your unpredictable and heterogeneous nature tempts different big and small fates.”
Is that also the reason for their twisted minds?
But… I guess I’m just unlucky with people…
“Surely the people who love you are not all ordinary beings? Various gods and princesses… A mother and daughter who will rewrite the history of magic, an ancient dragon, and even a red-haired hero…”
As Tempus said, the people around me were all strange people.
Recently, I feel like what I can do is becoming less and less… To be honest, it’s not that I’m weak, but they were just so abnormal.
Anyway…
“When you say the red-haired hero, do you mean Erina?”
“That’s right, child. Until now, there are only a handful of people in history who possess such abilities, so her power has not been accurately defined… But the previous mortals called that power a hero.”
Hero…
First of all, there was no mention in the game that the main character was a hero.
If you look at the achievements he accumulated as the story progresses, he deserves to be called that… But he has never been called a hero directly.
“The world is trying to be fair. The gap between gods and mortals is so clear that they cannot fight against each other, so very occasionally… A mortal is born with such talents.”
Now that I think about it, I remember Morione and Lucria once calling Erina a hero.
“Is this all I have to say today? I guess there’s probably nothing more to talk about other than this?”
As she said, I couldn’t think of anything else to talk about. Originally, I was just planning to give a quick update today about Yura, but when I think about it, it felt like I gained information unintentionally.
“That’s right…”
“Then goodbye, well… I’ll give you a warning today too… An important and difficult time will soon come, so hang in there.”
Even today, the moment I was about to end a short conversation, he gave me advice that I couldn’t understand until I experienced it again, and smiled a meaningful smile that I now hate.
“…….”
She did not respond to that statement, but she was filled with joy as an audience member, as if she was anticipating a scene that was crucial in the movie.
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I returned from the spire and returned to Yura. My younger brother, who had been waiting for me quietly, greeted me warmly when I appeared.
“Oppa!”
Although the actual species is a little different… Still, to compare, it is her stepbrother who is hugged with her tail wagging like a puppy eagerly waiting for her owner.
“Oppa’s arms are really warm…!”
As if you want to completely surrender yourself to me, you feel more and more weight as you stretch your body.
“……”
I leave Yura alone, who keeps pressing me against her body. She now knows that she is a stranger… But since she has been friendly with me all this time, she feels much less uncomfortable.
“What are you going to do now?”
As I was being held, he asked me what to do now.
“……”
But to be honest, there was nothing to do anymore.
Now, I have no plans other than thinking about what to do.
From the conversation earlier, Yura seemed to like this look right now, so she didn’t need to find a way to return to her original self.
“Well… I don’t know…”
The moment you say you don’t know about the future policy that doesn’t really come to mind…
ㅡㅡㅡㅡ!
“Eh..?”
“Uh…?”
Suddenly the place we were in changed.
“Oppa? Where am I…?”
Both she and I… Were taken aback by such a sudden change… Yura opened her eyes wide and asked me a question at her first place, and like Yura, I couldn’t hide my embarrassment….
This was not an unknown place.
“This is…”
Rather, a place I know very well…
When I remember what kind of place this is, my mind, which had been calm just a moment ago, goes crazy with tension.
Where we are now… Obviously…
“Meddling with another woman… I cannot forgive you, my knight…”
A voice of despair containing all the sadness of the world is heard.