Chapter 61 – 61. Brother
“I want to eat meat. “Something soft, not the tough animal meat from North Sweden.”
“There are a lot of orders.”
“What can I do with this much? Do you know how picky I am when I see noble ladies of the same age as me? “It’s at least like this because it’s the women’s department of North Sweden.”
Deia, who is strangely proud of living in the cold north, proudly sticks out her chest.
Of course, it’s a feeling I don’t understand, so I just shake my head and ignore it as I walk down the street.
Gray Pond was definitely a bustling city and a big city. Lovern, where Lovern Academy is located, was also a fairly large city, but Lovern was a bit pitiful in comparison.
People’s disorderly footsteps, the sound of carriage wheels rolling, the nervous warfare of merchants bargaining, etc.
It was white noise that could be heard anywhere, but there was so much of it that it became annoying.
Even if you want to walk a little faster, Deia shakes her head with her mouth open.
Until I was 24, I lived in a remote area like North Sweden, so it must be full of strange things.
He tilted his head and walked next to me at a brisk pace, matching his steps and giggling.
“I guess I chose the wrong place to be born. I’m a city girl by nature. “I just like the air.”
“… … “Not even 10 minutes have passed since I came into town.”
“So isn’t it more certain? “Do you feel like you have recognized your destined partner?”
“Where is North Sweden’s female lead?”
“People evolve. “I feel like my body is happy to be alive and breathing here.”
He frowns pitifully as he sees Deia stretching out her hands and taking a deep breath through her nose.
“How do you know the feeling of meeting your destined partner when you lived as an old maid until you were 24?”
“This shit… … .”
He bites his lip, clenches his fists, and glares at me. Then, as if her strength had completely disappeared, she sighed and answered.
“Whew, I didn’t do it because I was a bit traumatized.”
“… … “I’m sorry, I made a mistake.”
I apologize, admitting that I spoke carelessly without realizing it because it felt like I was receiving the complaints of a real younger sister.
The reason she developed hatred towards others was because of Deius.
Deia waves her hands as she looks at me.
“It’s okay, I’m not really that bastard.”
“… … .”
There was no particular conversation between us after that. If you think about it, this was originally Deius and Deia.
The big city called Greypond briefly turns Deia into a girl, but she soon faces a cold reality.
We arrived at the restaurant at just the right time. I open the door of Mersen, which has a cozy wooden sign saying it is open for business, and enter.
“welcome!”
The sound of bustling people talking along with the lively greetings of the waiter.
Seeing that there were a lot of customers, Deia said, “Oh,” and looked around with a little anticipation.
“Are you two? “I’ll show you where to sit!”
The place the waiter showed me was quite a corner. It looked like the table had been cleared in a hurry, as if there had been guests just recently.
“Here’s the menu! “Please call me when you place your order!”
A waiter handing over a spacious menu. I took it and handed it to Deia first.
“Look first.”
“… … .”
Deia looked at me with a disapproving expression and quickly snatched up the menu.
However, she quickly became absorbed in the menu and began to worry quite a bit.
“It’s roast beef, but it comes with cheese fondue? Wow, what is this?”
“… … .”
“I think this would be good to eat with a salad, right? Does it feel like healthy food? “It looks like there was a lot of asparagus in it.”
“… … .”
“They’re having an event where you get a keychain if you order a set menu. Wow, this is unthinkable in North Wales.”
I silently watch Deia fussing alone while looking at the menu for almost 10 minutes.
Deia, who had been engrossed for a while, made eye contact with me as she looked over the menu, and she felt embarrassed and lowered her face.
“I want to eat this with cheese fondue and roast beef.”
“… … Then order it as a set. “I will order set B.”
“uh?”
After briefly looking at the menu, I immediately called the waiter and ordered. I ordered a quick drink and looked at Deia with my arms crossed.
She was still looking at me with a sullen expression.
“Aren’t you choosing the menu too roughly? “You don’t even know what the other menu items are in Set B.”
“Does not matter. “It’s there anyway.”
“… … .”
After that, silence fell between us again. If I had been in my past life, I would have been able to use a cell phone.
But it wasn’t like there was nothing to see at all.
Perhaps because it is a big city, there are a lot of ghosts. Although they are not evil spirits capable of causing harm, there are still too many of them wandering around with resentment.
The food comes out and the fragrant scent stimulates the stomach through the nose.
Since it was a restaurant that received rave reviews from characters in the game, the visuals were definitely impressive.
“Here’s the set keychain!”
A key chain left with the food. A ring with a small teddy bear was gently pushed toward Deia.
“Take it.”
“… … .”
“I don’t need it.”
I begin to eat the salad that came with it in silence. It wasn’t too bad because there was shrimp inside.
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Deia, who was looking at me blankly, took the keychain and put it in her pocket.
“I didn’t order this as part of the set menu so I could have this, right?”
“no.”
“… … .”
Even though I said that, Deia glanced at me, probably feeling uncomfortable.
After dipping the meat in the cheese fondue, I lost my mind and started eating it.
After finishing the meal.
We stopped at a nearby cafe.
I asked if it would be okay to walk to digest the food, but Deia said she wanted to eat dessert, so we just sat back down at the cafe.
“Wow, is this Gray Pond? “The meat was so juicy.”
“As long as it was delicious, it’s okay.”
I had a hard time paying attention to what I was eating because I was so distracted.
“It’s different than usual.”
As I said this while clenching my chin, Deia’s body, which had been drinking coffee, twitched and looked at me secretly.
Not saying anything might have been what she wanted, but she couldn’t just waste time like this.
Tomorrow I have to undergo the king’s final ordeal.
So, when I spoke a bit bluntly, Deia tapped the ice floating in the coffee with a straw and answered in a whisper.
“Can’t we just say I’m excited because I like Gray Pond?”
“If you want, I understand.”
I had no intention of going any further than that if Deia didn’t want to.
As I calmly drank my coffee, Deia rubbed the coffee cup with her fingers and opened her mouth with a determined expression.
“name.”
“… … .”
“What is your original name?”
I answered her question calmly, slowly lifting the coffee cup from my mouth.
“Kim Shin-woo.”
“Kim, CNU?”
“Yes, it might be a unique name here, but it was an ordinary name where I lived.”
“Kim Shin-woo… … .”
Deia, who muttered my name over and over again, kept asking me questions.
“What is your original age? “Are you twenty-eight?”
“I’m twenty-five.”
“They’re one year older. “But you’re still my brother.”
It was a little surprising.
I had no idea that Deia would ask so much about me in such detail.
Deia seemed to be starting to get into the swing of things and continued to ask questions one by one.
It was a feeling of unlocking a bundle of stories that had been locked away.
“Were you a necromancer there too?”
“Let’s just say it’s similar. “It is my constitution that allows me to see ghosts, not Deius’ constitution.”
“I see.”
The conversation lasted longer than expected. When my throat hurt from talking too much, I ordered coffee again and sweet cake to replenish my sugar.
However, Deia’s questions did not stop.
“Did you have a younger brother?”
“He was an only child.”
“okay? “Then are you married?”
“I didn’t even have a lover.”
“And you were talking about me being an old maid earlier?!”
I don’t need to answer.
Although I never had a lover, I wasn’t unpopular.
There were girls who often confessed to me what they found attractive about keeping their mouths shut and being quiet.
But I, who had seen ghosts, could not accept such a confession so lightly.
Couples are the perfect place to incur resentment if you make a mistake.
“then.”
Deia, who continued asking questions for a while, paused for a moment and spoke again.
“Is Deius inside you now?”
For the first time, I couldn’t answer her question right away.
Deia noticed that too, but her eyes didn’t let me run away with another answer.
I also had no intention of lying.
“Deius Verdi has already been put to rest.”
Since she was Deia, who had solved Emily’s case with me, there was no way she wouldn’t have known what that meant.
From there, I calmly told him and Deius’ story.
When I was possessed, Deius was dead.
He tried to kill me.
In the end, I met him face to face and held his funeral.
“He was a pitiful man, but he was not a man to be pitied.”
“… … .”
“But in the end, he left regretting his life.”
He doesn’t ask for forgiveness or say that he was a good person.
Even if Deia heard it, she wouldn’t sympathize with it at all.
Just that he was sad.
I told others how much I regretted doing that.
“What does that matter?”
But Deia gritted her teeth and answered.
“Whether that bastard regretted it, did penance, or cried and begged me. It doesn’t matter. Are you behind? It worked out better. “He was someone I didn’t need.”
The anger was justified, so I just nodded and kept my mouth shut.
“And I’m really sorry. You look the same to me. But if you look at the behavior at North Wales and the performance today… … “You are clearly a different person.”
“… … .”
“I will admit that he is a person who is many times or dozens of times more awesome than Deius. “I really wish I had a family like this.”
But, added Deia.
“But in the end, it’s Deius. “That damn face remains like some kind of trauma to me.”
“I understand.”
No matter how different he may be, his body is ultimately Deius.
Asking Deia to understand was itself an extremely selfish request.
“Sorry for the ticking. “When I see that face, I get angry without knowing.”
“Of course.”
When I understand that this is indeed a natural reaction, Deia smiles bitterly.
“You talk like you’re my real brother.”
“I will try to be like that.”
“… … .”
Is it because it was a completely unexpected answer? Deia looks at me blankly and opens her mouth.
“My family was broken from a very young age. “It was broken before I could do anything about it.”
My mother hates me for seeing ghosts.
My father got scared by me and ran away.
At least my grandmother comforted me, but she passed away while I was in the military.
I thought I might be able to see her even if she became a ghost, but she was nowhere to be seen.
“For me, my family was already broken and something I could never have.”
It’s also something I’ve always envied.
“You may not want to, but I will try to be a brother you will be proud of.”
Because that was also my last promise with Deius Verdi.
Deia, who was looking at me blankly, smiled and looked out the window.
A bitter smile was still drawn on her lips.
“We had hurt and longing for each other and our families.”
“Right.”
When I nod, Deia carefully makes eye contact with me. The corners of her mouth trembled as she tried to smile.
It meant that he couldn’t smile brightly while looking at Deius’ face just yet.
Nevertheless, she answered with an awkward smile and honest feelings.
“I wish you were my real brother.”
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