episode_0278

-Bang!

“Jina! Are you okay!”

“What are you! Do you know who these people are and act like this…!”

“Who is that! It’s his older brother, you little shits!!”

“Gasp…! The Black Lotus’s hopeless…!”

I was watching the magnificent banquet hall turn into a scene of chaos in an instant. Jin Noona, wearing a gorgeous dress, was about to exchange rings with someone.

“Huh… ?”

The eyes of my older sister, who turned her head, were filled with tears. Her opponent was a fat, short, balding middle-aged man. He didn’t seem like someone she could get along with.

And as if to signal the leader’s action of throwing the chair, whistles and magical fireworks exploded in a chaotic manner from all directions.

-Bam! Kwaang!

“Hands up! Security Bureau Strike Force!”

“If you resist, kill immediately! I repeat! If you resist, kill immediately… !”

This happened at the beginning of the second semester. Due to the financial difficulties of the Ye family, the older sister was forced to go through with an engagement as if she was being sold, and when the headmaster heard the news late, his eyes rolled back.

He finally found out that his sister’s partner was a shady person who had amassed wealth through illegal drug dealing with black magicians. Then, he submitted the evidence to the security bureau and raided the engagement ceremony with them.

“What, what is this… Gyaak… !”

“Hey, stop right there! No! My fiancee… !”

It was a time of chaos. The captain grabbed the dazed-eyed older sister, held her in his arms, and left the scene. A middle-aged man was squealing like a pig behind him, but he pretended not to hear.

“Oh, how is it here, brother… ”

Jin, who was in the arms of the manager in a torn dress, muttered with a dumbfounded expression. However, she soon put on her characteristically fierce expression and confronted him.

“Let go, let go! What are you doing!”

“Be quiet. You’re already out of your mind.”

-Bang!

The captain said this while dodging the particle missile flying behind him without even looking. His older sister, who saw his indifferent attitude, burst into tears.

“I told you to let go! If it weren’t for me, our family would go bankrupt…!”

“Oh, that? It’s okay. Everything’s resolved.”

“Yes… ?”

-Bang!

The captain blurted out after dodging two attacks at once. At this, the older sister who had been struggling stopped moving and looked up blankly.

“I found a secret ledger that records the transactions between that guy and the black magic clans. The scale is truly beyond imagination. It’s almost as much as the annual sales of five families… ”

“What is that…?”

“The ledger has already been submitted to the Security Bureau. I have also finished negotiating with the prosecutor in charge. There will be a legal deal later. In exchange for canceling all of the debtors’ debts, I will spare them the death penalty. Well, even if that happens, I will still have to rot in prison for the rest of my life. And… ”

The captain, who glanced down at his older sister as he ran, continued speaking.

“That debt includes the debt your family owes to those guys. Do you understand what I mean?”

“That, that means…!”

My sister opened her eyes wide. Only then did the captain nod his head in satisfaction and snicker with a wicked smile.

“It means you don’t have to sacrifice anymore.”

“Ah… ”

My sister let out a single exclamation of joy. Soon, tears began to form in her large eyes.

“Ah, ahh… ugh… ”

“Tsk, crying.”

The captain snickered when he saw that. Those words, instead, became the trigger, as tears began to fall uncontrollably onto the floor.

“Ugh, ugh… ”

“Are you stupid? Are you an idiot? You should have asked for help a long time ago. Why are you carrying it all by yourself? You fool.”

The captain did not comfort her and spoke in a gruff voice. Hmm. This person really has the same personality now as he did then.

Jin said, shaking her head in a tearful voice.

“Ugh, why, why me… I want you… ”

“There doesn’t have to be a reason to save someone. Even if that person is a rude and ill-mannered cousin.”

Her face was already a mess because her makeup had smudged from her tears. The manager looked down at her and continued teasingly.

“Looking at it this way, there’s no such thing as an ugly potato. Are you really Jin? My little brother isn’t this ugly? ”

“Aww, woof… ”

“From now on, call me oppa. Don’t call me bro, which makes me feel distant. Got it?”

“… ”

My older sister, who covered her face with both hands, nodded silently. The incident ended like that and she returned to the academy without any problems.

And during the process, she found out that the captain had been acting like a scoundrel and hanging around the red-light district.

My older sister no longer looked at the captain with the same disgusting gaze she had before. What had newly seeped in through the gap was a freshness like a sprouting spring bud.

***

Time passed once more. It was the end of the fall semester of the first year. A major incident occurred where a group of freshmen who had gone on a training trip to the north were surrounded by a group of Demon Scouts. And the one leading the group was Sehwa Noona, a member of the leading group.

Sehwa was the person who didn’t get along the best with the captain. Because she had a strong sense of justice, she would often find fault with every single thing he did.

She even made the captain shirk his orders with her behavior, such as finding fault with things or challenging people to duels.

In other words, it feels like the truth has been condensed tenfold.

-Phew!

“Ugh… !”

The red magic energy rippled through the crescent moon, making the cadets’ uniforms look like thin sheets of paper. Sister Sehwa shouted as she saw the cadets who had been trapped in the encirclement and resisting dying one after another.

“No!”

She reached out and rushed at him, but it was too late. The goat-headed monster picked up the still-living cadet and began to crush his head whole.

“Save me, save me… ! Kwak… !”

“Ah… ”

-Thud, thud.

The sound of skulls being crushed echoed. My sister, who had been watching the scene in a daze, clenched her teeth and looked around.

“Ugh… !”

Her crew members had already been torn apart alive and turned into food for the demons. Now, of those surrounded, only Sehwa was left alive, but that didn’t mean much.

My sister, who had spread her hands, tried to conjure up a magical formula, but the particles would break apart every time without forming a form.

Her well has run dry.

“No… ”

A glimmer of despair flashed across her sister’s eyes. The laughter of mocking beasts could be heard loudly from all sides. The encirclement was closing in, and she would soon meet the same fate as her crew members.

And just before her heart breaks.

-Phew!!

“Kueeek!!”

The demon who had been mocking his sister by holding out the severed fingers of his crew members screamed in pain. A blade with heavy black particles rippling around was piercing the bastard’s neck from behind.

Soon, the giant horse-headed monster fell down with a thud. The one who appeared behind it was the commander, covered in crimson blood.

“Hey, Leader! Are you still alive?”

“You… Are you the Black Lotus’s dog?”

Sister Sehwa cried out in disbelief. The captain, who had checked her safety, finally seemed relieved and burst into laughter.

“You were there? Wait a minute. Just clean these guys up… Shhh!”

The demons, enraged by the death of their comrade, rushed at the leader from all sides. He turned his back on Sehwa and swung his blade as if he was dancing.

Blood scattered like red flower petals adorned the air. The heads of the beasts fell to the ground every few seconds and bounced.

Sehwa, who had been blankly watching the scene, suddenly came to her senses and shouted.

“Bah, you idiot! Why did you come here!! How are you going to deal with all those demons alone! Are you planning on killing yourself?”

“I have no intention of committing suicide!”

The captain swung his blade without even looking at her and said, thud – the beast’s head rolled to the ground again.

“Reinforcements are coming! Just hold on for 10 minutes!!”

“Ha, but… ”

Sister Sehwa muttered in an anxious voice. As she worried, it was clear to anyone that the situation was excessive.

Moreover, even though he may not have talent, the captain still lacked practical experience. At that time, he was even more immature than me.

But surprisingly, he succeeded in creating a miracle.

-Tangrang!

“Ugh, ugh… !”

After a few minutes, the leader, who had used up all his strength, threw down his blade and fell to the ground. Around him, breathing heavily, were piles of corpses of demons.

The captain finally slaughtered dozens of demons all by himself. And that too before reinforcements could even arrive.

Of course, I had to make some sacrifices as well.

“Coolook, keuk… !”

The fallen captain kept coughing up blood mixed with foam. Sister Sehwa crawled towards him.

“Hey, wake up…! Hey!!”

His blurry eyes told me that he was on the verge of losing consciousness. Sister Sehwa, who saw that, muttered in disbelief.

“Why on earth, why you… ”

The captain looked at her and muttered even as he was breathing heavily.

“Coolook…! Leader… If you die… Now there won’t be… anyone… who will duel me… ”

“What the heck is that… Huh? Hey! You idiot! Come on… !”

Soon, the captain’s eyes closed and he turned his head away. Sehwa, who had a sad expression, shouted, but he didn’t move an inch.

Well, of course the captain didn’t die. The reinforcements arrived shortly after and took care of the scene, then immediately transferred him to a clinic in the capital.

Sister Sehwa took great care of the unconscious captain for three days. And even after he woke up, she didn’t pick a fight or spit out contemptuous words like before.

Of course, there was no request for a duel. The change was so drastic that the captain himself expressed his regret.

“Hey, Leader. Why don’t you ask me to fight these days?”

“Mo, I don’t know… ”

“Don’t you have anything to do later? Let’s have a go today… Hey, wait a minute… !”

“Mo, I told you I didn’t know… !”

Sehwa, who ran into the manager in the hallway, turned around and ran away without even making eye contact. She had her head down so her expression was not visible, but her earlobes were clearly red.

“Crazy bitch… ”

The captain muttered blankly as he watched her back fluttering like a butterfly. At this time, he had not yet guessed what she was thinking. No, it was not her, but them?

anyway.

In this way, the fates of the five people were tied together with the captain as the axis, with Sehwa as the last. And so began a bloody struggle.

-Hey. Why are you coming out of his room?

-Isn’t that too obvious a question? A young man and woman were in the same room until this morning. What does that mean? Huh? Of course, it means they were together all night, right?

-This pig-like bitch…!

Well, and the sisters really fought to the death. The bloodshed was not a metaphor, but rather a direct expression of the actual situation.

really.

-My brother… Please don’t approach me. Don’t you think you need to know your place? People have different levels.

-Huh? You’re not even my real sibling, you’re just my cousin, so you’re acting too much. What are you? You’re meddling where you should. Where are you going with the topic of ‘ugly potato’?

-How dare you…

I’ve seen the sisters bicker a few times in the military, but compared to this time, it was really nothing. And there was only one thing they desperately wanted. A man’s heart.

Time passes and the struggle continues. Even after they become second-year students, the headmaster, who has reformed and erased his bad reputation, becomes the new student council president, and all of them follow him and become student council officers.

But there can be only one winner in this fight.

-Phuong! Bang…!

Summer festival in the cradle. Colorful fireworks spread across the dark night sky like paint. And the older sisters who saw the leader and Seol Yu-jeong holding hands and watching the fireworks, clutched their bitter hearts and shed bitter tears.

… Well, that doesn’t mean they gave up. The older sisters constantly tried to exploit the gaps in the leader’s skills. They even achieved some results.

But time passes without rest and moments of happiness are never eternal. I knew that fact better than anyone else.

And then, finally, the cruel moment of fate arrived. It was just as they were about to graduate from their third year.