Chapter 137
“This is my younger brother, Lee Jaeha.”
Once the situation had settled down to some extent, Heesu formally introduced Jaeha to them. Jaeha, who had his arms crossed in a crooked way, nodded his head with an expression that showed not a single shred of a desire to get along with them.
“Pleased to meet you.”
He said that with his mouth, but when he so openly revealed his hostility and spread his overwhelmingly powerful magical energy tautly around him, it sounded like nothing but a challenge to a fight.
As expected, Alburn froze with a terrified expression, and Rufus also took a step back with the same expression. They had all been given an explanation by Izzen on the way, but they had no idea how they should treat a ‘future Demon King who is currently just the Master’s younger brother.’ All they felt was fear toward that overwhelming magical energy.
“Pleased to meet you too. I’m the Incubus Edstan.”
Among them, Edstan, who was a high-class demon, calmly accepted the greeting, and,
“My name is Violen. We’re the ones who should be asking for your cooperation.”
Violen, who was skilled at disguising his true feelings, smiled sweetly and replied amiably.
“I had never heard that our Master had a younger brother, and I never would have imagined that she had a younger brother like this……. I’m a little surprised. But given that you’re both doing similar work, it makes me think that you really are the Master’s younger brother. If you’re the Master’s younger brother, you’re like family to us. Please take good care of us, Master Heesu’s younger brother, Lord Jaeha.”
But even those words, which were spoken in a gentle tone, were in reality no different from a challenge to a fight.
Jaeha’s eyebrows, which were furrowed in displeasure, twitched. Since they twitched whenever he heard the word ‘younger brother’, they twitched a total of five times during that short greeting. The murderous intent that had been subtly present in the magical energy around him began to seep in again.
The faces of Rufus and Alburn, who felt it, turned even paler. Even Violen, who was enjoying their reaction, felt a little uneasy, thinking that he had gone too far. But what could he do? He was calling the younger brother ‘younger brother’, and the younger brother…….
“Right? I knew he was my younger brother!”
To make matters worse, Heesu, who hadn’t read the atmosphere at all, added another comment.
“You know, Jaeha. He’s a perfect man who’s a talented student at a prestigious university who’s good at studying, good at sports, and has a great personality and looks, and is also a public-certified filial son! He’s a truly perfect man, but it turns out his true identity is a magical boy who secretly fights for world peace……. Isn’t that truly amazing?”
……He’s a perfect man who’s a talented student at a prestigious university who’s good at studying, good at sports, and has a great personality and looks, and is also a public-certified filial son, but his true identity is the next Demon King.
Suppressing the desire to retort, Violen just smiled sweetly.
“Yes. He’s truly amazing. He is indeed our Master’s younger brother.”
At those words, Jaeha’s eyebrows twitched for the seventh time.
“Haa…….”
Jaeha pressed his brow and let out an annoyed sigh. A fierce annoyance rose in him again at the reality that no matter how annoyed he was, he couldn’t get angry just because someone called him ‘younger brother’. But since he couldn’t get angry about that, Jaeha decided to get angry about something else instead.
“But how long are you going to stay in that form?”
“Huh?”
At his words, Heesu’s eyes widened and she examined her appearance. She hadn’t realized it because she had been so flustered, but she had been in her magical girl form this whole time. That was a problem that could be solved by just transforming back, but she was bothered by Jaeha’s expression, which looked as if he was finding this form unpleasant.
Heesu tilted her head, fiddling with her pink hair that fell to her shoulders.
“Why? You don’t like this form?”
“No.”
“What……?”
Heesu’s jaw dropped at Jaeha’s incredibly firm answer. How could he not like this form? It was the most beautiful, lovely, and charming form in the world! Heesu, who had sky-high pride in her transformed appearance, couldn’t believe his answer.
“Am I not pretty?”
“Not at all.”
But even when Heesu asked again with a serious expression, Jaeha replied just as firmly and mercilessly.
“It’s unpleasant.”
“What the……. “
Heesu was even more shocked by the unexpected verbal abuse.
“Why?”
“Do I need another reason when I don’t think you’re pretty and find it unpleasant?”
“…….”
At his words, Heesu glared at Jaeha with cold eyes.
‘Right. This is Jaeha. The personification of inconsiderate and harsh words.’
The favorability she had for Jaeha, which had just been rising, took a sharp turn and headed toward the bottom again. It felt as if she had woken up from a dream in an instant.
“I’ll go transform back…….”
Heesu, whose pride had been hurt, stood up sullenly. She was in a bad mood and was looking for her compact to undo her transformation right away, but she had left it in her room.
As she entered the room and looked at her reflection in the mirror, Heesu grumbled again. No matter how she looked at it, she was only pretty, so why on earth? Heesu pouted and opened the compact to undo her transformation. Her original appearance reflected in the mirror was extremely plain and ordinary compared to the one she had just had.
‘That son of a b***h Jaeha must have eyes in his forehead.’
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