The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 298



299 – Full of mistakes

Danger, the girl in the white cat mask who was depressed and lowered her head when all eyes suddenly focused on her, was embarrassed and waved her hands in the air. The sound of the wind blowing through my ears was loud.

“W-what are you talking about! “This is my first time seeing someone like you!”

The panicked voice did not feel like acting at all. There is also a possibility that it is simply a person with the same name as Danger. No, maybe that’s what he wants to believe. Luna’s benefactor couldn’t possibly be such a cocky kid. However, there is no need to leave any unpleasant feelings in a corner of your mind.

Recalling what happened with Danger, which I had heard in detail from Luna several times, I asked in a serious manner for confirmation.

“Am I your captain?”

There was a strange silence in the room for a moment. It didn’t seem like a difficult question to understand… Danger looked at me for a while and then answered in a quiet voice.

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“… Are you crazy? “Are you injured on the brain side?”

The look in his eyes that looked at me as if he were disdainful was not a lie. It almost feels like pure disgust, completely different from Estelle’s mesquaki. Rather than feeling bad about it, I was able to smile with satisfaction knowing that it was most likely not the Danger I was looking for.

Danger, who somehow interpreted my smile, trembled his shoulders for a moment and grabbed the door handle, leaving a warning message.

“I will be waiting outside according to the guild leader’s orders, but if you try to do something crazy to the guild leader, I will immediately rip your head off your body forever.”

Danger left the bloody warning and there was silence in the room for a moment. Estelle seemed wary that I knew Danger. It is clear that there is something I am not aware of. But instead of asking me questions that would resolve my doubts, Estelle chose gentle consideration.

“… How is your body? “Aren’t you hungry or thirsty?”

I was unconscious for three days, but I wasn’t particularly hungry. However, when he answered that he was a little thirsty, Estelle placed two glasses filled with cool barley tea on the table and sat down. After getting out of bed, I sat across from Estelle and took a sip of barley tea. Although there was no ice, the glass itself was made cold by magic, so it was so refreshing that it made my teeth ache.

Estelle, who was quietly watching me drink barley tea, spoke in a soft voice as soon as I put the cup down.

“I have a lot of questions for you.”

From Estelle’s perspective, it would naturally have been full of doubts. Suddenly, a person who was thought to be dead came to the secret hideout covered in blood, fainted while spitting out his name. It is rather a strange situation that no questions are raised. That’s what I was aiming for.

“I guess so. Since they kept me safe while I was unconscious, of course I plan to answer questions honestly. “But before that, there’s one thing I want to confirm with you.”

Estelle tilted her head at the word confirmation.

“Confirmation… “What do you want to check with me?”

“It’s simple. “Could you please take off your mask?”

“The mask… ?”

Estelle’s eyes widened slightly, probably because she thought it was a bit unexpected. But for me, it wasn’t an out-of-the-blue confirmation. The Estelle in front of me is not the Estelle who was resurrected from a discarded setting, but her appearance is similar to the Estelle I used to know. In that case, wouldn’t it be natural to check whether the appearance behind the mask was the same as the Estelle I knew?

Since I have never seen Estelle naked, I cannot remember the location of the moles on her private parts and find the difference. The only difference between it and the Meskaki Estel was its appearance.

Estelle quietly crossed her arms. The fingers resting on the arms are thin, white, clean hands without a single scar. There were no jewelry such as rings, and the fingernails were neatly trimmed short. Were Estelle’s fingernails long? My memory is vague because I didn’t look carefully.

“Isn’t that strange? “Someone who knows my name is curious about the face behind the mask.”

It was a sharp point that made me shrug my shoulders without even realizing it. It’s almost a contradiction for someone who knew the identity of the guild leader that the secret information guild was hiding to actually not know his face. All I could come up with was a lame excuse.

“… I just want to make sure. “This can also be explained later.”

I know that this is an unconvincing answer. However, humans have a chronic disease called curiosity. Is it a quest for knowledge, a shady desire to know other people’s secrets, or is there another plausible reason that I can’t think of? No matter what, people live with curiosity.

If a person is not curious about something, he or she cannot develop. Curiosity about people, objects, or concepts helps people grow, fall in love, and escape dangers that threaten their survival. It is a natural phenomenon that people whose curiosity is exhausted naturally move away from survival and are eliminated.

The information guild, Modest, was making money by exploiting the disease called curiosity. Estelle, the guild leader there, is bound to be more seriously ill than the other guild members. Even if my words are not persuasive, in the end, you will not be able to resist your curiosity about my identity, which has fallen from another world, and which even Modest has not been able to find out.

As I expected, Estelle looked at me for a moment, then raised her hand and took off her mask. The way he took off his mask with a leisurely hand, as if he was anxious, felt intentional. It is probably a calculated action to take the lead in the conversation by arousing the other person’s emotions.

Estelle’s face, after taking off the mask, was the same as the Meskaki Estelle I knew. The clear white skin without a single scar seemed to glide smoothly when I ran my finger over it. The lovely girl’s appearance was the same, but I could feel a clear difference in the straight gaze of the purple eyes looking straight at me.

When he took off his mask and made eye contact with me, the slight blush on his cheeks that he had been showing all along was gone. I didn’t know how to deal with the gaze, so I couldn’t even see the cute downcast look. Estelle’s setting of losing immunity to the opposite s*x without the mask does not exist for the Estelle in front of us.

The only similarity is the appearance. Realizing that inside she was not the Estelle I knew, I had to shamelessly ask for one more thing when a sudden thought occurred to me. I asked Estelle while scratching my cheek.

“I’m sorry to paraphrase, but it just occurred to me. “Can I really check one last thing?”

Estelle, who was looking at my face as if observing me, nodded slightly with a faint smile. I breathed a slight sigh of relief and looked straight at Estelle. In the novel, the relationship between the Modists and the church does not continue. Since Estelle’s setting was discarded, it is simply an information guild created by a group of assassins.

However, it is also possible that the denomination and the Modists were connected arbitrarily. There was a need to check for myself whether Estelle’s limitations of not being able to resist the church simply existed here if she looked the same as the Estelle I knew. But my mouth didn’t fall off easily. This is because I realized late that the method of checking constraints was a bit embarrassing.

“You can confirm if you keep your promise that it’s the last time.”

When I could not easily open my mouth and remained silent, Estelle, probably thinking that she could not understand the answer because she nodded her head slightly, answered once again. Estelle’s innocent appearance as she waited for an answer made it difficult for her to open her mouth.

“… “Can you please stick out your tongue?”

bang-!

At the loud sound, Estelle and my heads turned at the same time to where the door was. The door must have been kicked, and Dane, who was standing outside the door with one foot raised, flashed his ugly expression and shouted.

“You crazy pervert! “I knew it would be like this!”

This is unfair. I just wanted to check the symbol of restriction under Estelle’s tongue. Rather than that, were you really eavesdropping? I opened my mouth to clear up the misunderstanding, but Estelle spoke a little faster.

“Danger, it’s okay. “If you look at the lack of s*xual desire in his eyes, it seems like he made such a strange request for some reason.”

Seeing Danger looking like he was going to rush at me with his dagger out at any moment, I urgently nodded and added weight to Estelle’s words.

“That’s right, I was just thinking of checking to see if there was a special pattern under Estelle’s tongue. “It had no other meaning.”

When I complained about the unfairness, Estelle nodded slightly as if to say, “Look at that.” Still, it seemed like she was listening to Estelle’s words well, and Dane nodded to Estelle and then turned her sharp gaze towards me.

“… Next time, think more and speak more carefully. “Next time it won’t end with a warning.”

I turned my head to follow Danger, who left a warning with wary eyes and closed the door again. Estelle put her hand on one of her cheeks with a puzzled look in her eyes, and opened her mouth, clearing her throat as if she was embarrassed.

“Hmm, sorry for making a fuss. “Danger thinks of me like family, so I’m a little sensitive.”

“… Yes, it seems. Anyway, what I said earlier is true. “Can you show me under your tongue?”

Estelle nodded slightly, opened her eyes in some seductive way, and opened her mouth with a small sigh. Her light pink tongue covered her upper lip, which looked soft and plump. There is nothing beneath the roots. This is the end… ?!

I stood up without realizing it. With her tongue sticking out, Estelle raised her gaze and tilted her head cutely. She looked at him blankly and lightly scratched her head. It only occurred to me now. It was not possible to identify the pattern simply by looking under the tongue. When she puts magic power into her finger and stabs the bottom of her tongue, black runes appear under her tongue.

I sighed inwardly and blamed myself for my stupidity. But he had already promised that it would be the last time. If I change my words here again, your trust in me will be greatly diminished. Still, I can’t help it. Because this was clearly my mistake.

As I opened my mouth to apologize and explain the situation to Estelle, I remembered the bloody warning left by Danger, who must have been listening in on our conversation with his ears open outside the door, and I couldn’t help but lean my upper body closer to Estelle’s ear. A faint breathing sound is heard. Somehow it seems to be getting bigger.

“I… .”

“… “Huh, huh?!”

Did I get too close? I paused for a moment in response to Estelle making a strange sound, and then I saw her purple eyes meet hers without any warning, and thinking it was safe, I brought her face close to my ear. I must have been spraying perfume, so I could smell the luxurious floral scent in my ears. I asked politely in a low, whispering voice.

“I’m really sorry, but can I touch your tongue…?” ?”

“… Eh, eh?!”

The tongue that covered Estelle’s upper lip fell down listlessly. For some reason, I was puzzled by the sight of Estelle making eye contact with me with her shoulders hunched and shaking gaze, with her tongue sticking out like a frightened hamster, and at that moment, I reflexively moved her hand.

Tuk-

I reflexively caught the saliva that fell from Estelle’s tongue with my palm and held it up proudly. Seeing Estelle taking a deep breath with a gasping sound, I asked again in a whisper.

“… “Can I touch it?”

Estelle hesitated and avoided eye contact without answering. She must have been embarrassed because she kept saying it was the last time. I am truly sorry. After waiting quietly for her answer until the sound of her breathing faded again, Estelle finally nodded slightly and stuck out her light pink tongue a little longer.

A light blush appeared on Estelle’s face with her eyes closed, as if she was embarrassed to let someone else touch her tongue. I carefully reached out for the light pink tongue. Estelle put the magic in her fingertips as she showed me, but there was no change under her tongue. I remembered it while feeling the wet, soft texture of my tongue with my fingertips.

If I think about it, I didn’t have to touch my tongue myself.