episode_0184

“…What should I do?”

As I left the chaotic event venue, I felt that the already daunting reality had become even more daunting.

“Sigh.”

Thud! Thud!

I tried to relieve the frustration that had built up inside me by hitting my chest, but all I felt was pain and the frustration did not go away at all.

“You little shit, what are you going to do if I say that there…”

I regret it and tear my hair out, but spilled water cannot be gathered back.

I started stamping my feet and searching for a solution in a hurry.

“If you take her away as your boyfriend, I’ll probably die. She’ll beat me to death, saying she never imagined her daughter would be such a crazy bitch.”

Even my younger brother, who is a sexually abnormal person, looked at me with eyes filled with disgust. I wonder how my father and mother, who are close to normal people, will treat me when they see him.

The more I thought about it, the more there was no answer, so I put my hand on my forehead and looked at the distant mountains.

“Seriously, how did I end up dating someone like that, oh my…”

We’ve come too far to turn back. Even if I tried to go back, that human, or rather, that monster, would probably never let me go.

“You’re going to pester me again, with those fucking, cheesy words in your mouth.”

Sigh –

Letting out another sigh as the ground gave out, I thought back to when I first encountered the monster.

Surely, it was like this.

—–

It was a month before my younger brother got married.

I first encountered that monster while I was returning home after nagging my little brother a lot because I didn’t like his nagging.

“Oh no!”

I bumped into someone on the street by accident, or maybe it was intentional, but I kept apologizing afterward.

Then he looked over my body and started spouting out some nonsense.

“, a strong woman…! I finally found the ideal type of my dreams…!”

“…?”

“Hey, marry me! I know it’s rude to say this when we first meet, but… I really fell in love at first sight!!!”

This is the first confession I’ve heard since I graduated from kindergarten, or rather, since I started building muscle.

It felt good to receive a confession after hearing the words “Orc Chieftain” all the time, but unfortunately, the other person was not in a position to marry me.

Really, sincerely, I was thinking of holding hands and filing a marriage license right away even if the conditions were quite adverse, but the person I was dealing with was a child who looked to be around 13 or 14 years old at most.

What if he was a little bigger? With his appearance, it seemed clear that he would be socially ostracized, so I forced a smile and tried to appease the pretty boy in front of me.

“A sudden proposal? I’m a little flustered.”

“I’m sorry, but I really fell in love at first sight…”

It was love at first sight, but if it was true, why are you avoiding eye contact?

I laughed bitterly, thinking that kids these days are taking their pranks a bit too far.

“Stop joking. You’re just kidding, right? The one who loses the bet is going to confess to me.”

“Okay, this isn’t a joke? I’m serious!”

“No matter how sincere you are, I can’t accept it. There’s the age difference, and basically, if you and I hang out together, I can’t see you as lovers or a married couple.”

Perhaps you might see them as mother and son, or older sister and younger brother.

Maybe they see me as a kidnapper and the kidnapped child. Since my impression is so fierce, I can’t completely rule out that possibility.

I patted the boy on the head as a gesture of gratitude for making him feel better, then looked away from him and started walking back home.

however.

Wow!

This leech-like thing suddenly latched onto my leg and started shedding tears.

“Wh, what are you doing?! Aren’t you going to let this go?”

“Ba, I can’t let you go until you accept it! I can’t let you go like this!”

“What kind of nuisance is this in a place where everyone else can see it! Doing this will actually have a negative effect, you know?”

“I don’t know!”

A kid who whines and throws a tantrum because he thinks he’s a little kid.

I tried to wiggle my legs to try and get it off, but the damn thing just clung on tighter and showed no intention of letting go.

…By the way, I didn’t do lower body exercises today, but this is secretly helpful. I’ll have to ask them to switch to the other side.

“Hey.”

“Yes, yes?”

“Now hang on the other side.”

“Yes?”

“Stop talking and hurry up and hang on. I have to exercise.”

The guy switched legs with a stupid look on his face, and I started shaking the leg he switched legs with.

…Isn’t this the new concept of leg extension? It stimulates various places and seems really good.

There was a reason why my dad treated me like a dumbbell when I was little. He enjoyed all this good stuff all by himself?

I was briefly delighted at having found a new piece of exercise equipment when I realized that there was quite a bit of noise around me.

When I stop exercising for a moment, I start to hear whispers.

The content was roughly like this.

[That kid… doesn’t he look so pitiful? He looks like he’s being abused.]

[How can you treat a child like exercise equipment? I really need to call the police.]

[He looks so evil, but he acts like he really is. Oh my… He’s like trash.]

[Yes, you’re a police officer? There’s a vicious looking man abusing a child…]

If you stay still, you’ll be caught by the police and interrogated.

I forcibly removed the guy who was still hanging on to my leg and apologized.

“Excuse me, I’m really sorry.”

“Yes!”

“Let’s move for a bit. If we stay here, I think we’ll get taken away by the police.”

“Kidnapping and forcibly seducing her… Hehehe… I like it!”

It felt like there was a strange word in front of it, but I thought it was just my imagination and ignored it.

Paang-!

I quickly started to leave the place, holding the guy in my arms.

—–

Odd, odd, odd.

I let out a deep sigh as I gazed at the annoying guy sipping a chocolate latte in a deserted cafe.

“Sigh…”

“Why are you like that?”

“Why is that? It’s because I’m having a hard time because of the load in front of me.”

I tried to relieve my stress by drinking an iced Americano, but the feeling of stuffiness in my chest did not go away easily.

“Hey.”

“Huh?”

“Let me ask you something.”

He asks a question, breaking the ice in his mouth and creating an intimidating atmosphere.

“Why on earth do you want to marry me? There must be a reason, right?”

“I told you when we first met that I like strong women.”

“Stop talking nonsense, where in the world can you find someone like that?”

“I really like you, you said it was love at first sight?”

The guy who drank half of the chocolate latte in one go started talking nonsense with a very serious expression on his face.

“Those suffocating biceps… and those firm pectoralis major muscles I felt when you hugged me… Whew, do you know how excited I was? ”

“Who are you kidding now?”

“I’m not joking, I’m telling you the truth because you asked me to tell you why. Why don’t you believe me?”

He tilts his head and makes a face of incomprehension.

Does he really not know that he is wrong?

Of course, it’s normal not to believe it.

When you first meet someone, you say, ‘I wanted to propose to you because your biceps, pectorals, and triceps are so amazing.’ Who would believe that?

Since I felt like the conversation would just go on and on, I finished my iced Americano and quietly got up from my seat.

“It’s late, so I’ll take you home. It’s dangerous for children to walk at night.”

“Excuse me, I think the conversation isn’t over yet.”

“I feel like I don’t need to talk anymore. I think I’ll get even angrier if I talk to you.”

Of course, I could be really serious about confessing.

However, in confessions and proposals, the position of the one receiving the offer is more important than that of the one making it.

I didn’t like the confession at all, and I didn’t want to accept it because I was too young to begin with, so I rejected it outright.

“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear the proposal. When you’re older, if you still feel the same way, come back to me.”

“It has to be bigger here… Um, how many years does it take…?”

“Even if it doesn’t work out, wouldn’t it be 10 years? But if it’s 10 years, I think this older sister would have gotten married first.”

Yeah, I guess we’ll be able to get married somehow in about 10 years. I wonder if we won’t be married by then.

I took the guy counting on his fingers out of the cafe and asked him again where he lived, who had a slightly gloomy expression on his face.

“This older sister will take you, the road at night is dangerous.”

“It’s okay, I can go alone.”

“I told you it’s dangerous? What if I get kidnapped?”

“If I were to be kidnapped and imprisoned by my older sister, would you welcome it?”

“Don’t joke around.”

When I glared at him with a stern look, the guy smiled brightly, then suddenly showed an excitable reaction by pointing somewhere with his finger.

“Hey, sister! Hey, over there!”

“Huh? Why all of a sudden? There’s nothing… Huh?”

When I turned my head again, the guy confidently stole my lips, then quickly moved away, licked my lips, and bid me farewell.

“Then, unnie? See you next time, I really enjoyed today!”

“…I thought she was just an innocent girl, but she’s really a smart girl.”

“Haha, I’ll take that as a compliment? Okay, that’s it.”

Exactly!

I snapped my fingers and the child disappeared in an instant as if he had never existed in the first place, and I shook my head as I watched the street down which the child had disappeared.

“That’s not really surprising. Well, there are nine-tailed foxes, so how could there be no ghosts?”

A midsummer night’s dream. No, since summer is over, would it be more correct to call it an autumn night’s dream?

Thinking back to that moment that felt like a dream, I carefully touched the place where her soft lips had touched.

“My mind is in disarray for no reason.”

We need to get married quickly.

Thinking about it, I went back home, and so the next day.

“Sister! See you again?”

When I left the house to go to the gym, I met that fucking guy again.