Chapter 12: 12 - The King's Way (3)
[2 months ago]
"Oppa… Am I that unattractive?"
"Are we talking about Siwoo again?"
"Yeah, yeah. You know, you don't even touch the lunch box I brought. That's too much, really."
Sophia whined to me with her pretty eyes twinkling.
The main character's walls are too high. I wonder how a guy like this can form a harem.
Luckily, before I could do anything, the two of them were already dating.
It was good up to that point, but whenever Sophia tried to take a step further, the protagonist kept putting up a wall.
I should go and talk to him sometime, but he tends to beat around the bush when I bring up this subject.
"Isn't it that it's not that you're unattractive, but that your lunch box is unattractive?"
"I brought some cooking with me!"
"What? I gave you food to eat and you took it?"
"But… eating out is better than eating at home… and, yes, eating with others is better than eating alone…"
"Just tell me straight up that you wanted to eat with Siwoo. If you had, I would have prepared a portion for two."
"Ahaha…"
He takes on the role of Cupid and tries to bring the two together, but it's not easy.
The three of us made time together and then we secretly left.
I tried to get Sophia to ask me out on a date, too.
Every time that happened, the protagonist would step back with a troubled expression.
So, recently, they even tried to force physical contact with the protagonist, but it didn't work on him.
Are you really a goner?
He said that if a beautiful woman like Sophia were to stick to him, he would be confident that he would get an erection right away, but the main character didn't even move.
Sun-kissed hair that reaches down to her shoulders, eyes that contain the sky, a face that gives off the scent of a fresh girl, and a voluptuous body that has already matured to the fullest.
I don't understand how a woman like this can remain unmoved when she likes him.
Does that mean I can become the main character of a harem?
"What… why are you suddenly looking at me so disgustingly…?"
"This is what is meant by a sympathetic expression."
"Ugh! I don't want to be pitied! I want to be loved, not pitied!"
"From Siwoo?"
"Hot! Ugh… Oppa… Am I really that unattractive? Huh?
Sophia, whose heart had been set on me, blushed and then suddenly took on a gloomy expression and clung to me.
Here we go again.
Sophia's self-esteem has been greatly lowered because the protagonist keeps putting up barriers.
A child who had always been loved was constantly rejected, so maybe I was nothing special…? I had fallen ill.
To cure this disease, the protagonist needs love, but since he can't get that right away, I'm giving him love as a second choice.
It's not love as a man. It's love as an older brother.
I'm stroking her head while turning on the erotic stimulation, but it's real.
In the first place, I have no intention of attacking the main heroine this time.
If you don't pet her like this, Sophia gets really depressed and cries all day long.
That's the kind of consideration you show as an older brother, something you don't like to see.
"Even today, when you told me that I was cool while practicing, you said you still had a long way to go and didn't even look at me with a serious expression…"
Tsdam tsdam
"I see. That guy didn't even look at Sophie."
"I brought a packed lunch, but he said he already brought one… When I asked her to eat with me, he said she didn't want to… Do you hate me?"
Tsdam tsdam
"I see. Siwoo hates Sophie."
"What? Does, does Siwoo really hate me?"
Oops, this is not it.
I kept repeating the end of my sentences as if it were a conditioned reflex, and I ended up making a mistake.
"Sophie, listen carefully."
"Ugh…"
"Originally, men treat the girl they like poorly. The more they like her, the more they torment her."
"…Is that so?"
"Yeah. I'm a pervert who pretends to hate you and enjoys seeing you sad."
"Siwoo is not that kind of pervert!"
puck
Sophia, who had been stroking my head as if I had made a joke, bumped me in the face with her thumb.
I couldn't help but let out a sigh, but when I saw Sophia leaning against my chest, I couldn't help but feel angry.
I guess I was really anxious this time.
I hugged Sophia, who was trembling in my arms.
Since it is a rural village, people usually get married at a young age, and there was talk that Sophia should start thinking about it too.
That's why I think I've become more impatient recently.
I guess I really need to talk to Siwoo.
"Sophie, as you know, Siwoo is very shy. I guess he was like that this time too."
"…really?"
"If you think about Siwoo's personality, it's probably something like he was embarrassed by his sweaty body or the side dishes in his lunch box. It's stupid to care about such a dull guy."
"Hmm…"
"Now that I think about it, Siwoo said it himself last time. He said that when Sophie is around, he laughs without realizing it, so he deliberately keeps a serious expression on his face."
"Really? Did Siwoo really do that?!"
"I told you so. So there's no way Siwoo would hate you. Do you understand?"
"Hehehe…! As expected, there's no way Siwoo would hate me!"
Sophia wiped away the tears that had welled up in her eyes as if she had never been depressed, and smiled confidently as usual.
I petted her again because she looked so cute. Sophia closed her eyes and enjoyed my touch.
"Hehehe… As expected, all my worries disappear when I talk to oppa."
"Then, will Sophie do the dishes today?"
"Huh! That's that, and this is this!"
Sophia, startled, turned away from me and ran away with a playful expression on her face.
He is a really cute little brother.
As an only child, I always wished I had an older sister or younger sister.
Every time I brought that up, my friends looked at me like I was crazy.
With the saying that if it were real, such words would never come out.
But now I see. Those guys were all a joke. Those cheaters.
Anyway, I've become a lot closer to Sophia recently while giving her relationship advice.
When I first met Sophia, she was a bit shy, but now we are close enough that I can often hug her.
But that doesn't mean I have any intention of crossing the line with Sophia like this.
The reason Sophia hugs me is because she thinks of me as family, and I also think of Sophia as a younger sister, not a girl.
Actually, it's a lie, but I try my best to think of her as my younger sister, so I have no intention of touching Sophia.
Even if she wasn't the main heroine...
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As we walked to the empty lot behind the village, we saw the main character training hard.
For some reason, this time too, the main character's name was Siwoo, and his face wasn't much different from the Siwoo I'd seen before.
So he's handsome again, just a little taller and a little more muscular.
This time, Siwoo was strong even before he awakened, perhaps because he was a warrior.
He was born with great strength and good dynamic vision, so he has never been beaten in a neighborhood fight.
But even so, Siwoo did not stop training.
He is a very nagging trainee who keeps practicing without stopping even when Sophia comes to play and acts cute several times.
Well, you might like training. You're the main character in a drama.
But this kid is really bad.
You're cheering while he swings his sword? That must be noise pollution to this kid.
Did you bring a separate lunch box? Since you're a kid who eats the training diet, you wouldn't even touch another lunch box.
Want to go on a date? You trainee, you lose money, so why do you want to do it?
But it's tiresome to see this kind of thing. If you do something moderately, you should respond.
I know that they both like each other, but I'm getting mad because they're gritting their teeth and building a wall around each other.
After kicking her back, I have to tell her whether she likes training or Sophia.
"Hey, Deokbae-hyung! What's going on?"
Without answering, he grabbed a wooden sword that lay nearby and rushed at the warrior.
After drawing up imaginary internal energy from his non-existent danjeon, he raised his wooden sword and slammed it down on the warrior's head as if crushing a mountain.
Pak
Tch, so this is what a warrior is like.
My wooden sword bounced off the warrior's sword and the palm holding it stung.
But we can't back out here.
I used the recoil to spin my body around and swung my wooden sword towards the warrior's side as if I was sweeping away the army with one swing.
puck
Damn, I didn't know this would get blocked too.
But it wasn't ineffective. The warrior was nervous and couldn't put his sword away, so he was wary of me.
Now is your last chance!
He thrust his wooden sword in quickly, as if a dragon was flying, to prevent the frozen warrior from reacting.
This time, the warrior did not react, and my wooden sword pierced through the warrior's sword and lodged between his eyebrows.
No, it was a mistake.
My wooden sword stopped right in front of the warrior's forehead.
The warrior was holding my wooden sword, which I thought had been pierced, with his bare hands.
Did you lose in the end?
The Sword Technique that I had practiced in my head for over 10 years was easily blocked.
As expected, a warrior is a warrior.
"What is it all of a sudden?"
"Hey kid, did you make Sophie cry again? Didn't I tell you to be quiet?"
"ha ha ha…"
"Don't laugh, you punk. You're getting closer."
"But hyung, you need to practice a bit. Your posture is good, but you don't have any strength."
You little training bastard… You brought up training because you thought it was time.
It's not like I just stayed still.
In order to join the warrior party, you need a minimum level of stats, so I trained without resting after entering this world.
But there has to be something that changes before we can continue or stop.
Even if I drink the experience potion that came out of the random box and train, my stats do not change.
"Okay, Inma. How long are you going to treat Sophie like that? Are you saying you don't care about the fish you've already caught? Or is Sophie not good enough for you?"
"No way! That's not it. It's just…"
"Just what?"
"I'm sorry… haha."
"What the heck."
There are two ways to make a person angry: one is to stop talking, and the other is to stop talking.