The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 324



325 – Reunion

Kane, who obtained the piece of the Emerald Tablet, surprisingly did not appear to have changed much. Kane, who was holding the piece that was emitting green light, tilted her head as there was no change despite her nervousness.

“What, is this the end?”

As if waiting for those words, a piece of the Emerald Tablet suddenly melted and flowed like liquid, and was absorbed into Kane’s hand through the copper part of the bronze glove.

Then, Kane stood up and slowly closed his eyes, as if he was falling asleep. After standing still and motionless for a while, Kane finally opened her eyes and looked at me. Her eyes didn’t glow green or her skin turned green.

“how is it? Have you reached the truth of alchemy?”

In response to my question, Kane slowly shook his head with a dumb expression on his face. Kane frowned for a moment as if contemplating how to respond, then opened her mouth.

“No, I just feel like I have a restaurant menu in my head.”

“Menu?”

Kane said, nodding his head with a satisfied smile as if he had given a perfect answer after throwing out an unexpected analogy.

“When you think about choosing between various foods on the menu, you think about the taste of the food you remember eating, right? Just like you think meatballs go with lemonade. If you think about the combination of reagents in your head, you can imagine what the result will be. “I naturally understand how theories I haven’t even studied work.”

Kane, with a smile on his face, spoke in a hollow voice.

“This is what it feels like to be a genius. Alchemy was so easy and fun… .”

It was a strange analogy, but it felt that way when I obtained the essence of magic. Having a complete theoretical understanding to the point where you can easily explain something you didn’t know before to others.

Kane, who returned the bronze gloves to me with a look of disbelief that he had really obtained a piece of the Emerald Tablet, suddenly gave me a strong hug.

“thanks. really… “Thank you very much.”

I don’t have a hobby of hugging men, but I felt that he was shaking slightly, as if he was genuinely touched and not just saying it, so I patted him on the back without saying a word.

When Kane, who had hugged me until he was satisfied, finally let go, I said with a smile.

“I promised. “I will make it possible for you, who abandoned the hateful last name Yousef, to take revenge proudly under the name Kane.”

Kane laughed with slightly moist eyes.

“I told you that becoming friends with you would be the best thing I did after entering the academy.”

Kane, who wet his dry lips, spoke in a vaguely serious voice.

“But you’re wrong.”

Before I could reply, Kane added, wiping his face.

“Not since I entered the academy, but you are the greatest luck in my life.”

I felt embarrassed by those sincere words and scratched my head for no reason. However, I felt like if I stayed silent like this, it would create an awkward atmosphere, so I opened my mouth as soon as I thought of it.

“… “Aria and you definitely look alike.”

“Huh? That’s not a very nice thing to hear, is it? “You’d better make a proper excuse.”

I smiled mischievously at the sight of Kane sniffling and frowning slightly with a mischievous expression on his face.

“That’s right? “When both receive gifts, their reactions are loud.”

When you give Aria something delicious as a gift, she speaks all the words she knows, praises the gift, and dances and sings to express her joy.

It somehow makes me feel like an uncle giving a gift to his niece, so I stop by the store without realizing it and check to see if there is a gift Aria might like.

Of course, although the pieces of the Emerald Tablet were of great value to the alchemist, it was true that Kane’s reaction was no less than Aria’s.

Kane, who was thinking about it carefully, must have felt the same way, so he avoided eye contact and muttered an excuse.

“But I didn’t dance on the bed like Aria.”

In the end we looked at each other and smiled.

***

After getting out of the dungeon, Kane went camping in a suitable place that he had been looking forward to.

With a bonfire that Kane made himself, we took out the seasoned meat that had been stored in the space storage room, ate dinner until our stomachs were full, and took a moment to relax while mesmerizing Buddhist temples.

Kane, who was pushing sweet potatoes into the campfire with a branch, looked at me and said.

“When I return to the academy, I’ll be stuck in the library for a while. “I am extremely motivated to study alchemy right now.”

“For a conversation between two men while camping, the choice of words is dirty. From next time, just say you are motivated.”

While making meaningless jokes and having a meaningless conversation, the topic of the Chamber of Trials happened to come up.

“I just thought of a reagent to pass the second trial. “By modifying the previously used mixed reagent, we create a wall of poison in a circular shape to block enemies coming from all directions.”

Certainly, it was Kane who blocked numerous goblin attacks in the last training session. Having gained the knowledge of the Emerald Tablet, it was only a matter of time before Kane passed his second ordeal.

“Me and Rakar are facing the final challenge.”

“okay? “What’s in the final ordeal?”

In response to Kane’s question, I crossed my arms and smiled.

“Of course it’s a secret.”

“This kid keeps making you look forward to it?”

“You’ve never let down your expectations, right?”

Kane grumbled as he peeled the roasted sweet potato.

“I’m annoyed because it makes me expect more!”

I was looking at the bonfire and suddenly, before I thought, I spoke out loud.

“Let’s split up at the portal station tomorrow. “Go back to the academy alone.”

“ok? “Aren’t you going back to the academy?”

“Yes, I miss Luna so much that I can’t stand it anymore.”

As I looked at the bonfire that turned the cool winter air into warmth, I thought I wanted to see Luna. Maybe it’s because the warmth created by the bonfire resembles Luna’s gaze looking at me.

“As expected, a lover. But is it okay to just go and visit without a letter?”

“Well, I told you to come visit me anytime during vacation. And I want to surprise you. “With this.”

I shook my head and moved my long, tied hair around, and Kane nodded as if he understood.

“I’m sure you’ll be surprised. In just a few weeks, things have changed so much that people can’t recognize them. Luna might cry in shock.-”

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I tried to answer right away, “Oh, no way,” but after listening to Kane’s words, I thought that Luna might really be like that.

As I was fiddling with her long hair, I thought it wouldn’t be a bad idea to see Luna cry for the first time in a while. Because she’s not crying because her heart is broken. And Luna was so pretty and cute even when she was crying that I couldn’t resist hugging her.

Her lips, which had become hotter and softer than usual, and her watery eyes were enough to make all the muscles in her body flutter as if magic power had been poured into her heart.

In my heart, I wanted to hug Luna with all my might so she wouldn’t escape from my arms forever, but in that situation, it felt strangely good to put all my effort into suppressing the urge to worry about Luna getting sick.

As I was looking at the bonfire and thinking about Luna, Kane lowered his voice and muttered.

“After all, it’s not a good look to see a man smiling alone. “I shouldn’t do that in front of other people.”

With those words, I used space magic to steal the roasted sweet potato that Kane had peeled and ate it.

***

It’s not my first time coming to the eastern part of the continent. Because I visited with Estelle to get the Spear of Shadow. However, if I say that it was a business visit at the time and the purpose now is travel, wouldn’t it be okay to say that it was my first time in the East?

The place where Luna’s family was located was a city named ‘Star Fallen’. It was not me who chose the name of the city, and I did not know the origin of the name.

As a city ruled by three famous Eastern noble families, Starfallen was a large city with a large number of people that rivaled the capital.

As it is a big city, there is also a direct portal station, so I was able to easily get to Star Fallen after parting ways with Kane, who was returning to the Academy, and taking the direct portal.

It was easy to find my way around because Luna told me her home address in advance, but I didn’t go see Luna right away.

Just as I gave Roel, whom I admired, a good first impression on everyone, I pay a lot of attention to leaving a good first impression.

To meet Luna’s family for the first time, we can’t just go with the comfortable look we had in the dungeon with Kane.

I stopped at an expensive-looking clothing store inside the portal station, changed into clothes that suited me based on the clerk’s recommendation, and bought some fancy, expensive things as gifts at the potion store directly managed by the Magic Tower.

When I passed by a store that looked good, I bought several gifts for Luna.

Before leaving the station. Looking at the large mirror mounted on the wall, she checked her tied-up hair with a string once again, and being careful to move to avoid wrinkles in her clothes, she headed to the address Luna had given her.

By the time I almost arrived, I was filled with only thoughts about wanting to see Luna, rather than the nervousness of seeing Luna’s family.

As the saying goes, the three great nobles of the East, the surrounding houses disappeared, and a huge mansion befitting the family that ruled the city appeared. What appeared to be the Grace family emblem was nicely carved at the top of the mansion.

It was a beautiful mansion with so many windows that if someone who didn’t know it saw it, it might have been a huge hotel at a resort.

There were several large carriages waiting at the entrance of the mansion. As if they were preparing to go out, I saw several people coming out of the mansion and getting into the carriage one after another.

It was so crowded that I wondered where so many people had gathered. It seems that there are not only family members, but also guests, escort knights, coachmen, and servants mixed together.

However, among all those people, I was able to notice the gait that only Luna had.

As I approached, the drivers around the carriage watched me with fierce eyes. He must have had a lot of practical experience, and his sharp gaze made my skin sting.

I had no choice but to stop and call Luna’s name as loud as I could to get on the carriage.

“Luna!”

Although there was a little distance, Luna immediately turned her head towards me, like a dog that has been separated for a while reacts to its owner’s voice.

Luna looked at me with a face full of surprise, with a more beautiful and rich expression than I expected.

“Roh, Ross… ?”

His face looks like he can’t believe I’m here. The way she closed her eyes and pinched her own cheek looked stupid, which made it even cuter.

Only then did I know that I was laughing through the sound of laughter in my ears.

Perhaps because he realized that I knew Luna, the driver who had been blocking the road and was on guard slowly opened the way.

Luna was frozen in the same position as she was getting on the carriage, and as I got closer, her face started to become more and more flushed. Then, perhaps because she was surprised when she belatedly discovered my changed appearance, she shrugged her shoulders.

For some reason, my heart was beating like crazy every time I took a step closer to Luna. Just like when I first fell in love with Luna, I also fall in love with Luna today.

Luna looks at me with her mouth slightly open in surprise, and the eyes of people who are puzzled by Luna’s appearance are focused on me. I walked forward, meeting only one of those gazes.

As Luna approached me, I couldn’t think of anything as my hair had turned completely white. She just gently cupped Luna’s face and pressed her lips together as if it was natural.

The surrounding murmur turned into noise. But I couldn’t hear anything. There is no sight of a beautiful mansion or a crowd of people around the carriage.

I tried to make a good first impression on Luna’s family, but I couldn’t afford to think about anything else with Luna in front of me.

I didn’t even realize I had made a mistake. I acted as if the only thing I was allowed to do was watch Luna’s expression.

As I parted my lips, I looked straight at Luna and said.

“I missed you. “Luna.”

Luna, who was looking at me with watery eyes, as if she was about to shed tears at any moment, with a face full of embarrassment and confusion, answered in a low voice.

“… Me too, I missed you every day. “Ross.”