Sister, Don’t Marry That Guy – Chapter 111

Chapter 111

“Are you crazy?!”

“No way!”

At the same time Stefan shouted, Roy, who had been quietly listening, also jumped up.

I only blinked at my older brothers’ urgent expressions.

“Oh, geez… I was just kidding.”

Since I don’t even qualify right now, I was just saying it.

‘Of course, I did think about requesting it, but…’

Seeing how resolute my two older brothers’ expressions were, I quietly decided to hold back on this.

Actually, the extremely cold weather wasn’t good for me since my body is still weak. Maybe when I get a little healthier.

“So, sending Kyle hyung there alone… it’s because even though the volunteer work there is terribly hard and difficult, in the end, if he finishes it, he will recover all his honor and gain a lot, right?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“Ugh, hey. Sorry, but I can’t go.”

I widened my eyes.

Because Stefan’s voice was so resolute.

“I’ll listen to whatever you say, as much as possible, that’s how it is. But that, I can’t. I can’t listen to that.”

“Why? Um… is it because cold places are hard and scary?”

“Would it be that? And I’ve already been there myself?!”

Stefan frowned and sighed, “Hah.”

“I don’t think Kyle hyung will leave quietly. You, you blocked hyung’s path.”

“Yeah.”

“That hyung will punish you by any means. When hyung is not in this family. No, it’s precisely when he’s not there that he can avoid suspicion, so he’ll definitely do it.”

Stefan said seriously.

“You might die.”

Indeed, Stefan knew Kyle very well, as a younger brother who had been conscious of Kyle his whole life.

Because he was an insurmountable wall, he must have desperately observed and observed again.

“I absolutely can’t see that. So, I have no intention of leaving your side.”

“……Um, that’s so, so touching, oppa… Um, I have Rainante and Ruben, you know. And the Red Winter, too. Now I have grandfather as well.”

“Who doesn’t know that? The problem is that hyung also has chief knights following him, and a lot of them!”

I said something just because my heart felt ticklish, but what Stefan said was true.

And it made sense. After all, it was me who made Kyle go into exile.

I could understand if he held a grudge to the point of trying to kill me.

“Enough, kid. I’ll only be satisfied if I’m by your side.”

On the other hand, the fact that this second older brother was thinking of me this much was a little touching.

No, it’s very touching.

‘It’s a little different feeling to see someone who seemed like they would never grow up actually grow up.’

“Okay. I don’t have the authority to force oppa.”

“What. If you earnestly ask, I’m thinking of listening to anything, you know? Of course, not this thing!”

“……You’re saying a lot of cringey things today. Okay. Okay.”

I put my chin in my hand and fell into thought. I need to stop Kyle, but…

That’s when it was.

“……I’ll go.”

Roy, who had been listening quietly, quietly raised his hand.

Stefan and I were simultaneously surprised and looked at each other’s faces. Without either of us saying anything first, we opened our mouths.

“Roy oppa?”

“Hey, are you crazy? You, you whiner. Do you even know what kind of place that is?”

Roy was currently sixteen years old since his birthday had passed, so he was qualified.

But unlike Stefan, he had never participated in a succession test before.

All he had done was learn swordsmanship from Rainante and Ruben at the 3rd Training Ground.

Unlike Stefan, I was worried first.

“I haven’t taken the test yet, so… it’s not strange for me to go.”

“No, well. That’s true. But you, there?”

His swordsmanship was already starting to surpass Stefan’s, so it wouldn’t be a problem, but his lack of experience was a problem.

Besides, it was a journey with that Kyle Blackwinter.

“No, oppa. Come to think of it, I think it’s okay to just send Kyle oppa. By the time he comes back, I can build up more power and get stronger to prepare. It’s okay.”

“Yeah. Hey, third. Where do you think you’re going, not knowing how scary the world is?”

But for some reason, Roy stubbornly insisted with a more stubborn face than usual.

Stefan and I tried to persuade him for a long time, but we couldn’t break his stubbornness.

Even though he was our black puppy who would listen to anything if I asked him.

I clutched my chest at the shocking news.

‘……Is it puberty?’

“Stefan.”

“What!”

“Hyung.”

Roy never called Stefan hyung normally. I was shocked and widened my eyes at the first time Roy said hyung.

Stefan also looked bewildered, as if he was the same. No, he looked even more surprised than me.

Roy asked with a calm face on his own.

“If I go there, can I get stronger?”

“Uh…? Well. Um. If it’s about gaining practical experience… there’s no place like that? It’s a place swarming with, what was it, monsters and even demons.”

“Demons…?”

“Yeah, you! I heard that even named demons have appeared. I gained a lot of practical experience there too? Honestly, it’s an environment where you don’t know when you’ll die, but if you survive, it’s a very awesome feeling…”

“Stefan oppa!”

“Ah.”

Stefan quickly shut his mouth.

But Roy’s gaze was even more resolute after that.

I barely held back the urge to slap Stefan on the back.

“Ruben said so. That what I lack is practical experience.”

“Hey, Roy oppa, you don’t need to gain it like this. Ruben didn’t tell you to risk your life either.”

“Rainante said that combat senses develop in danger. And that you grow even more.”

……Should I beat up Rainante and Ruben a little?

On the other hand, since it wasn’t wrong, I closed my mouth. If I wanted to persuade Roy, I felt like I had to bring up something else.

“And Leia, it’s something you need, isn’t it?”

“……”

“I want to be helpful.”

But sometimes there are faces like that.

Ah, a face that makes you think you can’t persuade them no matter what you say. Roy was making exactly that face right now.

“……Because I’m your sword.”

“Roy oppa, I clearly said something similar once, but I didn’t tell you to become a tool. What I need is a family, and an oppa who is always weak and kind to me. Just all of oppa’s aspects.”

“……Okay.”

I sighed.

I knew it was difficult to persuade Roy, but even so, I had to persuade him here.

‘Who did they all take after to be so stubborn?’

When I gently tried to dissuade him, Roy eventually pursed his lips tightly. I was relieved inside.

He won’t bring it up again, right?

But it was a miscalculation.

The next day, I heard that Roy had gone to see his father.

‘What? He went directly to his father and got permission?!’

That he wanted to go to the Sterott Mountains for his first succession test. His father had allowed it.

And so, Roy’s trip to the Sterott Mountains was decided.

It was a decision that surprised and stirred up everyone in the family, with the third young master’s actions, who had been quiet until now.

* * *

A few days later. I welcomed a slightly special guest in my reception room.

“Thank you. I heard you played a big role that day.”

“No, I didn’t!”

It was Haden, the protagonist of the original story.

Haden, with his usual pretty sky-blue hair and bright, kind smile, shook his head.

“Thank you again for helping aunt’s merchant guild. I wanted to say hello, so I called you.”

“As a member of the merchant guild, I only did what I had to do!”

On the day when those who were instigated by Kyle broke into the merchant guild and caused chaos, I heard from Rainante that Haden had taken care of the aftermath.

Haden had told Rainante to leave it to him and go.

In fact, Haden had neatly dealt with the remaining remnants.

I heard that even though he lost to Roy, he showed amazing skills.

‘And Ruben said something strange.’

“That, it’s strange, young lady. That boy clearly used the same swordsmanship as the third young master… How can this be…”

I didn’t see it because I rushed out first that day, but the swordsmanship that Roy used and the swordsmanship that Haden used were the same.

It was really strange. Because…

‘Currently, Haden shouldn’t have obtained that swordsmanship yet?’

The swordsmanship textbook 『Hero Lance’s Testament』 that Roy had was something that Haden obtained through a companion when he seriously started exploring the first dungeon.

But to look like he already mastered it.

And that wasn’t the only thing.

Even Rainante, who was usually quiet, hesitated a little and added a word.

“……Young lady, I apologize for being presumptuous, but that boy is strange somewhere. I feel something unsettling.”

Who was Rainante? He wasn’t a main character or a supporting character in this novel, but he was an exceptional swordsman.

Even Rainante saying this, I couldn’t help but feel strange.

“Hey, you know. I heard an interesting story from my knights. That you showed an amazing performance while sparring with our Roy oppa?”

“Huh? No, no! Ah, of course, the young master was really amazing!”

“Really? Our Roy oppa is amazing, isn’t he? He’s also cute. But you know… the knights said that Haden, you used the same swordsmanship as our oppa, is that true?”

He shouldn’t be at the stage of getting it yet, so how did he get it?

I swallowed this question and asked as indirectly as possible.

“Ah, that’s right!”

Haden paused for a moment, but blinked widely and agreed.

“Wow, it was true? How did you learn that swordsmanship? If it’s okay, can I ask who taught you?”

Actually, the biggest reason why I’m suspicious is… because the person who gives this 『Hero Lance’s Testament』 in the original story is none other than Calidupen.

In the original story, Calidupen was his companion, but the situation has changed now, hasn’t it.

“Umm, I didn’t have a separate master. Actually… I also learned it by myself because someone gave it to me as a gift.”

“……A gift? Who?”

“I don’t know!”

Haden answered clearly. It was a smile without a single frown.

“It was someone who briefly stopped by our village, and he said he really wanted to give me this as a gift and left. What did he say… he told me to learn this and do something. I can’t remember what he told me to do! Ah, no. Did he tell me to go to the West Lastram Cave?”