Chapter 38 (1/2)

Even after washing my eyes again, it was -666.

It’s not just 666, it’s minus 666.

It’s too much to be minus, but the devil’s number!

“Oh, my.”

Ares smiled as if he was disappointed.

“I wanted to play a little more with my sister.”

It was a very soft voice.

I stared blankly at Ares.

Gradually, emotions of anger boiled up from the bottom.

When it rose to the top of my neck, I didn’t hesitate anymore.

“How! How could Ares do that to me!”

I screamed.

“Minus 666!”

Do you hate me like a devil?

Or do you hate me as much as the devil?

Am I the devil?

“What the heck!”

It was so sad.

“I gave Ares both my body and my heart!”

Sniffling.

“Uwa, Ares, you…”

Ixion wrapped himself around me as if he were protecting me when I sniffled and he looked at Ares like trash.

I pointed my finger at Ares, digging into the arms of Ixion.

“How did I raise you!”

“No, you didn’t raise me…”

“Desperate Ares! Firefox Ares! Gyeongguk-ji Ares!”

“Gyeong…gyeongguk-ji?”

(Tl: Gyeongguk-ji is an idiom meaning “beautiful enough to overthrow a country”)

Naturally, it was a Ropan world, so the meaning of Gyeonggukji worked.

Ares seemed a little embarrassed that he didn’t expect to hear such a thing, but soon he smiled with his eyes closed.

“T, thank you?”

“Aren’t I more handsome than him?”

Said Ixion, raising my head to my side.

No, you guys…

“It’s not a compliment! It’s a curse! Fire foxes who wanted to destroy the country!”

I pointed recklessly.

However, Ares’ smile didn’t know it would disappear, and Ixion muttered,

“You’re still young, but your eyesight is already bad.”

“Tch!”

I stomped my feet in anger.

Ixion lifted me up and now I looked like a bird kicking in the air.

“Put me down!”

“Calm down. You can faint when angry because you’re weak.”

“I hate Ixion!”

“No, you’re cruising Ares. Why do you hate me all of a sudden?”

“I hate you!”

“Okay. Don’t calm down. Just get angry. Hate Ares, not me. He’s such a bad guy.”

I nodded and pointed at Ares.

“Bad guy!”

“Good job.”

I was praised.

“·······This is not it.”

The breath entered the lungs like bubbles.

I see.

Ares hated me.

While smiling kindly, too.

My youngest sister, and his sweet voice calling me.

Warm hands stroking my head.

The moment we shared cookies and laughed.

Promise to go to the festival together next spring.

All-.

“Did you hate me from the beginning?”

“…yes.”

Ares, who nodded, was still smiling.

“Why?”

“…”

“After I don’t have magic?”

My throat was strangely sore.

I couldn’t muster the courage to face Ares, so I bowed my head.

It’s a strange thing.

I didn’t do anything wrong.

“Because you thought I’m an illegitimate child… not father’s daughter?”

Every time I spit out the word, rough sand seemed to scratch my throat instead of breathing.

It hurts.

My scratched neck and chest hurt.

At that time.

“What are you talking about?”

Asked Ares.

I raised my head.

Ares was looking at me with a face that he didn’t really understand.

“I don’t like it because you’re the blood of Paeraton.”

“……Huh?”

“If you weren’t the blood of Paeraton, I wouldn’t have to care about you.”

Ares’ words were not properly understood.

You hate me because I’m your family?

“Brothers are competitors. There is only one person who becomes a Paeraton’s head.”

I opened my mouth blankly.

‘……yes, I see.’

I can see why Ares was wary and hated me from the beginning.

‘Because I’m recognized as one of the Paeratons.’

Paeraton is the holder of the magic, and the magic is the exclusive identification of Paeraton.

For this reason, various questions and suspicions are bound to pour out toward me without magic.

The same is true even if you don’t doubt that I’m a daughter.

In the midst of that.

Is there anyone who affirms that I can be the owner of Paeraton?

From the moment I first saw it.

Even if I didn’t do anything great or show any ability, Ares recognized me as a competitor.

I’m not a defective product without magic.

I’m his sister and competitor in the same starting line, ‘It is the right line of Paeraton.’

That’s how you accepted me from the beginning.

“…”

I clenched my skirt tightly.

“If you hated me so much because I was your competitor for the next craft position…”

I looked up at Ares.

“Then what if I don’t become Ares’ opponent?”

Ares’ forehead frowned.

“You wouldn’t believe me even if I said I wasn’t interested in the housekeeper. Then if I don’t do anything and stay still, if I don’t compete or anything–”

His red eyes and my blue eyes met.

“Are you going to accept me without antagonizing me?”

I watched Ares’ eyes distorted without blinking.

“You…!”

“—If you say,”

I raised the corners of my mouth.

“Don’t you feel bad?”

Ares has become silent.

It was the first time that his face, which had always been smooth, had become so silly, so a smile came out.

“I’m relieved. Giving a shot to Ares!”

Ares stared blankly at me smiling.

“Right? You don’t feel good, do you? It’s a gain that one competitor will give up on his own. Don’t you feel bad?”

Ares’ face, which was gradually distorted, was worth seeing.

A face that has been smiling all the time.

Ares is a very aggressive person.

More than Ixion.

“Why do I feel bad?”

I smiled.

“That’s! Ares has already started to like me!”

Although it’s -666!

Anyway, it’s like that!

I’ll think like that.

Or, if it’s not that…….

I raised my head close to sagging.

“So be prepared!”

I held out my finger and shouted proudly.

“I can’t help but say that the original brothers are the first competitors! I’ll accept that competition!”