Chapter 137: Before the Confession

‘It took me a whole year of really, really hard work to get this reservation….’

Should I just kill him.

‘You know how hard it is to find a restaurant like this these days, right?’

Greed should have its limits.

That bald bastard is being outrageously greedy over nothing more than a restaurant reservation.

If he weren’t from the same center, I’d have killed him without a second thought.

But what can I do.

I’m the one who needs the favor.

‘…I’ll give you more.’

In the end, I took out one more stalk of Silver Hair Grass.

Purely by price comparison, Silver Hair Grass—used as a hair-loss treatment—is far more expensive.

Still, since this eel restaurant is just as hard to secure, I can’t really say it’s a total rip-off.

‘Ah, thank you!

If you ever need anything else, feel free to contact me!

I’ve got reservations at quite a few restaurants.

Haha!’

Because of bastards like this, getting restaurant reservations has become even harder.

Even when I want to help my frail brother recover his strength, there isn’t a single place where we can just walk in and eat that same day.

Most places are reservation-only, or they only contact regulars whenever ingredients come in.

I wonder if I really need to go this far just for one meal.

Still, if it’s for my brother, I’m more than happy to do it.

As long as I get to feed him nourishing food today, that’s enough.

I can head back to the office with a light heart.

‘Eel…?

Do they even catch those these days?’

The moment I suggested dinner, my brother’s expression changed instantly.

As if he disliked eel.

Once the food comes out, he’ll eat it like it’s disappearing into a black hole.

He loves hunting down all kinds of good restaurants, so I’m sure he’ll like the place I picked this time too.

Even if he genuinely hates it, I have no intention of giving up on feeding him something nourishing.

It’s a secret, but I know that it was my brother who helped calm my rut inside the gate.

The memory is hazy, like a dream, but how could I not know.

It was the moment I’d longed for my entire life.

Spending such a long rut together must have taken a toll on his body.

And… after doing it that many times, who knows.

He might even be pregnant.

A child who looks like my brother….

Would that mean I’d get to see the childhood of Jin Sehyun that I never witnessed.

I can’t even begin to imagine how pretty they’d be.

This won’t do.

I need to work even harder to find supplements and nourishing food that pregnant people can eat too.

It doesn’t help that my brother’s face has gotten plump lately—way too cute.

I want to make him mine as soon as possible.

‘Th-That is… the director said supporting another team is very important, so… I think I’ll have to go help them for a bit….’

What’s gotten into my brother lately.

He’s been lying to me far more often than before.

Even now, he says he has no choice because it’s Director Na Dongchan’s order, but this is clearly his own decision.

There had been strange signs recently.

It felt like he was deliberately putting distance between us, and he’d often leave his seat while avoiding me.

That already bothered me, but now he’s outright saying he’s transferring to another team.

‘If you put it that way, I have no choice but to let you go.’

Forcing my brother to stay at times like this wouldn’t be a good idea.

Of course, I have no intention of kindly handing him over to other bastards either.

There’s no need for me to become the villain.

I’ll just handle it quietly from behind the scenes.

‘Which team did you say Jin Sehyun is going to support?’

‘Defense Team 15.’

‘Defense Team 15…

Understood.’

If the team itself disappears, that solves everything.

I will never allow him to leave my side.

Every time my brother has been away from me, something terrible has happened.

What if I block it this time and he tries transferring again later.

Then I’ll just erase every option until there’s nowhere left for him to go.

Bzzz.

As I was thinking about how to eliminate Defense Team 15, my phone vibrated.

[Your ordered item is ready.]

The message I’d been waiting for.

The ring I ordered had finally arrived.

It could never fully contain the depth of my feelings for my brother, but it still felt far better than confessing empty-handed.

‘Team leader.

How’s the recruitment of new team members going?’

At Park Bomyeong’s voice, I slipped my phone back into my pocket.

Team members.

That kind of thing will work itself out somehow.

It’s not an important issue for me right now.

How should I confess to my brother….

I’ve never done this before, so no method comes to mind at all.

If it were about neatly exterminating monsters, that’d be another story.

It seems like I need some advice.

‘You little shit!

I knew it from way back, but you really do have an incredible eye!’

Hah….

I might have picked the wrong person.

Team Leader Oh Seong-gyu became smug at my request for help.

I thought through everyone I knew, trying to find someone to consult about confessing, but there was no one suitable around me.

Yueden was completely uninterested in romance, as if he didn’t even have love cells.

Asking Park Bomyeong for advice was out of the question.

And I didn’t have any close acquaintances I could have this kind of conversation with.

I’d avoided building connections because having people around felt bothersome.

As a result, the only person who had some dating experience was Oh Seong-gyu, leaving me with no other choice.

‘Alright, sit down first and let’s talk.’

‘So you’re finally going to confess to Jin Sehyun?’

‘…Yes.

But I have no idea how I should do it.’

Absurdly enough, he was the only person I could open my heart to.

There are many sides of me I don’t even want to show my beloved brother.

Those are things I can somewhat unload onto Oh Seong-gyu.

Because I want to show my brother only my best side.

He’s probably the person I trust the most after my brother.

‘You bastard.

And you even figured out that I’ve got lots of dating experience.

Listen—when it comes to confessions, atmosphere matters more than anything.’

‘Atmosphere…?’

‘Yeah.

How should I put it.

There has to be this feeling where, even without the confession, the atmosphere alone would make him fall for you.’

I have no idea what he’s talking about.

The way he says it so confidently makes it sound like a foolproof method, but I don’t understand it.

Does that mean you don’t even need to confess if the atmosphere is right.

‘For example?’

‘Hoo… I’ll tell you this specially, just for you.

You’re seriously lucky, you know.

This is a method you can’t learn anywhere else.’

Why is his tongue so long.

I don’t know why he’s dragging this out.

If he were even a little younger than me, I’d have punched him by now.

‘First, you need some supplies.

Fireworks, balloons, roses, candles, a banner.

And by the way, you need a lot of candles, balloons, and roses.

An absurd amount.’

‘That is… what?’

‘You know those neighborhoods where lots of young people hang out.

Right in the middle of one, you lay out candles in a long line to make a path.

Scatter rose petals all along that path.

At the end, decorate extravagantly with flowers and balloons.

Then write your confession on a huge banner and hang it from the balloons.

When Jin Sehyun arrives, fireworks go off, and you kneel down in front of him and confess.

Everyone around will clap like crazy, right?’

‘…….’

‘That’s game over right there.

Isn’t the atmosphere insane.

Jin Sehyun will be so moved he’ll jump straight into your arms.

Ah, if you can, bring in a piano and play some background music too—he’ll be completely smitten.

There’s no way he wouldn’t fall for that!’

Hmm….

I hate to admit it, but it’s actually not a bad idea.

Now that I think about it, I remember seeing something like this in dramas my brother used to watch.

And I’ve heard people say that if you don’t do a proper proposal, you’ll get cursed for life.

I guess people with experience really do have their own know-how.

He’s starting to look different to me.

‘It feels like such a waste of time just resting at home like this.’

Spending time alone with my brother is the best thing in the world to me, but he already seems bored of staying home.

Or maybe he wants to make good use of his long-awaited day off.

It might be nice to visit the place I prepared for the confession today, just to check it out.

Delaying the confession probably won’t make it any better anyway.

‘Ang!

Ang, ang!’

This bastard suddenly lunges at me, threatening me with that shrill voice.

Of course, I can’t understand monster language like my brother can, but just from that insolent look in his eyes, I know exactly what he’s saying.

‘If you don’t take me with you, I’ll tell everyone you killed all the agents outside the door when we killed the support agency director!’—that’s what he means.

I didn’t want to borrow a monster’s help, but I couldn’t let my brother personally kill a filthy bastard like the support agency director.

I handled everything outside the house, while Poppy killed the director inside in my brother’s place.

And as payment, I ended up being threatened by this monster bastard.

‘…Fine, let’s go.

But once we get there, you play by yourself.

Got it?’

‘Ang!’

As if he’d expected this, the monster smugly nestled into my brother’s arms.

One day, I’ll properly train that crafty little monster.

I’ll just beat him enough so he doesn’t die.

I don’t want to share my brother’s arms with a bastard like that.

‘Wow, the weather’s really nice today.

The breeze feels so good, right?’

I don’t know why he finds so many things to smile about.

Just because the sunlight’s nice and the breeze is cool, he’s smiling brightly like a child.

His fine hair flutters in the wind coming through the open window, and as he smiles with a face full of sunlight, I end up smiling too.

I love my brother when he smiles like this.

That innocent face that fills my colorless life with vitality.

Seeing that makes me want even more to protect his world completely.

‘But… where are we going?

This place is….’

My oblivious brother finally seems to have realized the destination.

It’s the neighborhood where we spent our childhood.

The place where we first met.

The place where our love began—where I want to tell him my feelings.

After learning Oh Seong-gyu’s secret method, I asked Yueden just in case what he thought about that kind of confession.

Even if he doesn’t date, he’s knowledgeable enough that I wanted to see if there were any obvious flaws.

But his sharp rebuke—asking what kind of crazy bastard would confess like that—forced me to make a different plan.

I still don’t think Oh Seong-gyu’s method is that bad, but there’s no need to take unnecessary risks.

‘Everything’s still intact…

That’s surprising.’

Since it’s been a while, my brother seems to be getting sentimental too.

Everything looks exactly the same, making it feel like we’ve gone back to those old days.

Just like this unchanging scenery, my feelings have been unwavering from then until now.

‘But why did we come here…?’

I pulled my brother’s hand toward me and wrapped it in both of mine.

The atmosphere so far feels pretty good.

All that’s left is to tell him my true feelings.

‘That is….’

But for some reason, the words won’t come out.

My throat tightens, my mouth completely dry.

It’s just a confession—why am I this nervous.

My mind feels completely blank.

‘Let’s talk later.

It’s nothing important.’

f*ck.

My heart’s going to burst before I even get to confess.

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