Hyung, I’d Rather Kill Him Myself!
Ruman, who had been chattering away, realized in about 10 minutes that all Temarr held in his hand was a single portrait and made an absurd expression.
“Well then. That’s all?”
“I suppose so.”
“Hmm. Crystal orb.”
When Ruman reached out his hand, Temarr took out the crystal orb from his chest and threw it.
“You always carry this around.”
“It’s better than leaving it behind saying it’s annoying.”
Temarr smiled faintly.
“Hmph~ This is my last time. Now I won’t have to see those tiresome faces anymore.”
It was a voice that didn’t contain even a shred of regret.
“Ruman.”
“What?”
Ruman, who was putting mana into the crystal orb, answered without even looking at Temarr.
“Ren should come along too.”
“Ren?”
Ruman asked back “Ren?” then raised his head.
“You’re taking your brother? When I told you to bring him before, you adamantly refused, but suddenly now?”
“I don’t think I can leave him behind.”
The rabbit doll that was completely worn out, torn everywhere and barely mended, held Temarr’s gaze for a long time.
“It doesn’t matter to me, but even if you go to the castle, you won’t be able to stay together anyway. You’d be lucky if he doesn’t get scammed.”
What kind of people live in the capital.
At Ruman’s muttering, Temarr shook his head.
“I have no intention of taking him to the castle.”
“Then?”
“It would be better to get a mansion in the capital and have him stay there.”
“……Then why take him.”
His expression clearly showed he found it absurd. As Ruman clicked his tongue, rough breathing was heard.
“I’m not going!”
“Ren?”
Without knowing when he came out, Ren was fuming with clenched fists.
“Ren, let’s go together. You said you wanted to go with hyung.”
Ren’s eyes widened.
As if he never expected Temarr to say that!
Ren, who had been trembling with clenched fists, exhaled gasping breaths and shouted.
“You’re talking about something from years ago!! When I said I wanted to go so badly, you didn’t even pretend to listen!! What is it now coming to this! What are you doing!”
“Ren! Lower your voice. What are you doing in front of a guest?”
“Whoa. I’m fine.”
Ruman slipped back slightly.
“You said you quit!! But you’re going again? Why do you have to?! You promised! That you wouldn’t go anywhere! You said you wouldn’t go!!”
Ren’s voice, which had been shouting loudly, quickly became hoarse.
“That’s why I’m saying let’s go together, Ren.”
Ren’s face flushed red. It was a face that looked like it would explode at any moment.
“Temarr, that doesn’t seem to be the problem.”
Even at Ruman’s rebuke, Temarr didn’t seem to understand.
“Ren. It’s fine if we go together. Right?”
Temarr, who sighed as if trying not to get angry, spoke soothingly.
It was a very gentle voice, but rather that attitude seemed to stab Ren’s heart.
Ren didn’t stop shouting in a hoarse voice even while fuming as if he would collapse at any moment.
“You’ve never been by my side even once when I wanted you to!! You promised you’d quit but that was all a lie too! Just go together and it’s fine? I hate it! I hate it!! What am I to hyung? Worse than a stranger! I hate it, I’m not going, if you’re going to go, go alone!!”
“Ren! What kind of way is that to talk! I said I’m not going!”
“……!”
Ren, who had been screaming harshly while trying not to collapse yet was extremely tense, saw the container placed on the dining table, jumped in surprise, and hurriedly ran.
Seeing Ren suddenly run over, Temarr awkwardly spread his arms.
‘He’ll hug me, right? Yeah, there’s no way Ren wouldn’t want to go with me.’
Temarr unconsciously felt relieved.
However, where Ren headed wasn’t Temarr’s open embrace but the dining table.
Ren’s shoulders trembled as he snatched the container and held it in his arms.
“Ren?”
“Oh, was it something precious? The taste was fucking awful though….”
“Why did hyung eat this!!”
“…Ren.”
From Ren’s eyes as he held the container in his arms as if protecting something precious, tears finally began to drip down.
“I’m not going! I won’t go with hyung even if I die!”
“Ren!”
He said he won’t go!
It was the first time in his life hearing a refusal of ‘I don’t want to’ from Ren.
He thought it was just a tantrum, but seeing him fiercely refuse, it seemed to be sincere.
To the point of not wanting to share even a cup of tea, you hate me that much?
Temarr, engulfed in shock, froze blankly, and Ruman, who unexpectedly ended up watching a brotherly fight, covered his mouth to keep from bursting into laughter.
From a third party’s perspective, it was just childish and cute.
No, more than that, it was because Ren’s crying face was cute.
“I hate hyung the most!!”
Ren, who threw out the adorable and childish words until the very end, glared at Temarr as hard as he could with resentful eyes, and ran out of the cabin just like that.
Ah! Of course, before leaving, he didn’t forget to glare daggers at Ruman who had delivered the wicked letter.
His eyes seemed to declare war saying, I’m going to kill you!
“Whew.”
Ruman whistled.
“His temper is impressive.”
Ruman thought that the reason his excessively thin body wasn’t noticeable was probably because of Ren’s fierce eyes.
‘Excessively thin body? Come to think of it, is he skinnier than his peers?’
However, Ruman’s thoughts didn’t last long.
Because Temarr called Ruman’s name with an extremely dark face.
“Ruman. What did I do so wrong?”
“Pfft.”
To the point of not wanting to give him even a cup of tea.
Temarr drank the tea water remaining in the teapot with a bitter face.
It was a terribly bitter taste.
Just like Temarr’s feelings right now!
***
Hyung is an idiot.
Meanwhile, Ren ran down the hill with tears dripping and a resentful face.
Saying I won’t live with this unfairness was just a thought made in anger. There’s no need to take hyung away like this!
His eyesight wasn’t good to begin with, and tears kept flowing so he couldn’t see ahead well.
But someone suddenly grabbed Ren’s running body.
“Ack! What!”
When he rubbed his throbbing arm and raised his head, he saw the bakery’s son who had picked a fight with him during the day. The one who clashed with Ren at every turn!
His face—which had black eyes from getting hit by Ren’s fist—was quite tolerable, but now wasn’t the mood to appreciate it.
“Fuck off!”
“How cocky. Just because I let you hit me a few times, you think you’re all that?”
“I said fuck off!”
The man licked his lips while looking at Ren’s face.
Because his swollen eyes were quite appetizing.
He shoved his face close to Ren.
“Your hyung isn’t here right now anyway. I know everything!”
The place the smirking man’s hand was heading toward was Ren’s butt, which had some flesh on his otherwise emaciated body.
“You fucking bastard!”
“Hehehe. You’re two years younger than me, where do you get off acting up!! Your hyung isn’t even a hero anymore, right? So there’s no need to go easy on you anymore!!”
Disgusting!! Aaaaargh!!
His fingers touched Ren’s butt!
Ren clacked his teeth together.
He was already pissed off, and this is perfect timing.
I’ll turn your ears into rags!
In terms of fists, Ren would win, in terms of temper Ren would also win overwhelmingly, but in terms of weight or strength, he couldn’t compare to the bakery’s son with thick forearms from carrying iron plates dozens of times. With his arm already caught, Ren would have to bite the man until all his teeth fell out to escape.
But before Ren’s teeth could reach the man’s ear,
“Urk….”
The man foamed at the mouth and fainted just like that.
Thud!
Dust flew up over the fallen man.
When Ren raised his head, he saw a man whose eyes had gone crazy.
“Temarr! Snap out of it! He’s a civilian!!”
“I’ll kill him.”
It was Temarr, his own hyung.
“Hyung…?”
What did I just see?
The scene that passed in an instant replayed in his head.
So… that bastard touched my butt, and suddenly hyung appeared right before my eyes in a flash, and grabbed that bastard’s neck with his thick hand. If Ruman hadn’t followed Temarr hyung and struck him, that bastard’s breath would have already been cut off.
“I’ll kill him.”
“Temarr! Te, ma, rr—!”
Ruman gripped his arm with all his strength.
“Do you want to become a murderer? Don’t you know what will happen if someone who quit being a hero kills a civilian?”
“……”
It seemed like blue heat haze was rising from hyung’s fist.
Even I, who was gently holding hyung’s forearm, felt that energy and my arm seemed to tingle. A fierce yet cold and tingling energy…….
“You, if you commit murder, you’ll be bound to the kingdom for life. Living alone with your brother will become an impossible dream.”
“Hyung!”
At Ruman’s voice that had rapidly calmed down, Temarr hyung’s eyes seemed to flash. As light entered his eyes that had been emotionless like a killing weapon, along with relief my legs went weak. I called out to hyung sharply and hugged him from behind.
“Snap out of it, hyung!! Why dirty your hands because of a bastard not worth killing! I’ll kill him instead, so give me a knife! Like that person said, a hero can’t stain his hands with civilian blood!!”
“‘That person’…. It’s Ruman, ‘Ruman.’ And you say such scary things with such a nonchalant face…!”
Ruman, who had been muttering in a voice drained of energy as if he’d caught his breath, looked down at the guy lying there with disdain and nudged him with his foot. That guy couldn’t even make a peep and was still passed out.
Ugh, disgusting, white foam!
Hyung was breathing slowly as if trying to calm his excitement, and Ruman stopped playing around with his foot and turned to look at me. He stopped what he was saying and suddenly thrust his face close to mine.
“You have a nosebleed.”
“…! Ren!”
Hyung immediately turned around and grabbed my arm.
