Chapter 5 (2/2)

I laughed while playing with my hair. Euphil’s red eyes narrowed as he stared at me but soon, he lay on the branch as if he had given up already.

“Once upon a time, there was a water fairy.”

“Oh come on, we both know that story. “

“The fairy had an apple tree. A golden apple, uh, comes out of that tree!”

As I was waving my arms and described the story, I felt that he was watching me quietly. I felt as if I could shed tears of joy or something.

‘Now that I think of it, I don’t have any friends.’

Even though I met him for only a couple of days for now, Euphil was one of people I had shared many fun stories with.

“So?”

“Uh?”

“What happened to the golden apple?”

“Huh, do you want to hear it? “

Euphil was one of people I had shared many fun stories with.

His pure voice was knocking on my ears while I was spacing out. His red eyes like rubies were staring at me silently.

When I saw him, I laughed. Euphil’s face got grumpy. It was surprising that he did not say anything even though he could simply say ‘Okay, get it over with already.”

Somehow, my heart was pounding.

I could not stop blushing as I realized the fact that I now have an older brother.

“Uhm. Uh, so…”

I was kicking and digging the ground with my toes with a strange feeling and began to tell the story with my arms waving around.

It was a story of a water fairy with apples meeting many people who came to have that golden apple.

Among them, there was a prince and a king but the apple was given to a beggar boy because he was the only one who asked the name of the water fairy.

“So the boy, the fairy was…”

Yawn

And while I was talking, I could not resist but give myself up to sleep.

It was natural for I walked around like that. There seemed to be a big sigh from the top.

Whirring sounds were coming from far away.

Like always, I could feel as if someone was touching my hair but I knew that this was to get rid of the leaves on my hair.

‘Silly Euphil, why doesn’t he clean up his hair instead..’

A little kid who pushes me out but doesn’t really hate me..

How did this kid become a tyrant who would kill all of his family in the future?

The book did not explain the reason well.

He was not the main character. Euphil was rather a villain in the novel.

“Good night…Oppa.”

“I’m not sleeping”

As I mumbled and felt asleep, his voice became very soft.

And when I woke up, I was in his palace again.

* * *

Euphil could be said to be a natural born genius.

Even if it was not his shiny golden hair and cold red eyes, the boy could understand whatever books was in his hand.

What he could not understand was the father who abandoned him and the mother who passed away and leaving him alone. He could understand things in the book but not the people.

There was a lot to learn besides the books. He learned what solitude was by watching people around him who periodically changed.

He realized one thing for sure when his servant who spilled the beans on him. His servant had been killed and his father completely took his freedom away. Not only his father and mother but the whole world abandoned him.

If so, why not change the world? He had talent to do so.

A talent that one could say was a gift from god turned into a lost item of  the devil.

“Hehe. It’s brother’s palace again.”

I awoke with the sweet scent and I opened my eyes. I could never smell such things in my palace so it must be his palace.

sniff sniff.

I heard a sigh next to me as my tongue was out while sniffing.

“At least, if you are a member of the royal family…”

“Aww…it’s a sweet smell. “

“As soon as you wake up, do not behave like that.”

“The royal family…member?”

It was his room when I opened my eyes. I never knew how this kid brought me into this room every time. At first, I thought he ordered a knight to carry me but it was strange that there were no knights around him. So that indicated that he was well enough to have more macaroons but not to have a knight.

‘So how did he learn swordsmanship?’

As I understand it, he was the most powerful person in this country.

When I looked at him with a puzzled face, he thought that I was puzzled by the expression,’member of the royal family’ and he was shaking his head. Every time he shook his head, his golden thread like hairs were moving around like silk.

As  I was looking at him blankly, Epil brought a tray with desserts this time.

“Wipe it.”

“Yes.”

He always brought a towel whenever he brought desserts because whenever I ate those, it would get messy everywhere.

I took a towel and cleaned my mouth. I put an eclair into my mouth. This long shaped dessert looked like bread but it was filled with cream.

As I took a bite, the fillings of the thick chocolate inside spilled into my hands.

As he saw this, Euphil sighed deeply.

“The reason why I am keep wiping you is..”

“Uh?”

“If anyone  thinks that I spilled it, they would look at me like a typical ten year old kid, so I am doing this to prevent it.”

Oh, have you ever seen a deep two-strand wrinkle on the face of a handsome ten-year-old young man? It is so unbalanced and cute.

So I bursted into laughter as I touched his head with my hand.