The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed - Chapter 311



312 – Felix

After spending the night at the Perlkus household, I went straight back to the Academy the next day. The academy was on winter break, and there was no trace of people except the library, which was warm and open to everyone.

There was hardly anyone passing by, so there was no chance of accidentally meeting someone on the way to the club room. When I opened the door and went in, I saw Kane lying on the sofa with his legs out and reading a book in a comfortable position.

Kane, who seemed to have sensed someone I was looking for, raised his head and made eye contact with me. He immediately stood up with a surprised expression on his face.

“Well, what is it? What’s wrong with your face? “Why is your hair so long?”

Kane got off the sofa and approached me, circling around me like a merchant observing items on auction, meticulously finding out what had changed in me.

“… The eye color also changed? “What on earth have you been doing?”

Kane’s surprised voice reminded me that I have never properly checked myself since returning from another world. I turned around to check my appearance in the mirror next to the door that Aria used to look at every day when she touched her bangs.

There was definitely a difference between my image in memory and the image in the mirror to the point where it felt unfamiliar. Her hair grew longer, and her blue eyes, once full of melancholy, became sharp like Raelan’s. And for some reason, the blue eyes had changed into eyes with a bit of blue mixed in on a black background.

Perhaps the original black eyes returned because the synchronization rate was lowered. Considering that Longing Los had lost all synchronization rate and was taking on the appearance of Jin Xian, there was a high possibility that this would be the case.

I turned to Kane, who was observing me curiously through the mirror, and smiled bitterly.

“… “It was pretty tough training.”

At Perkus Manor, I made up my mind. I will not inform the members of the Messiah about things about other worlds. Everything about me, Roel, and the church.

I understand that this is not a situation worth taking any time off. But the fight I have to fight from now on will be a fight where I will endlessly wallow in the mud and destroy myself endlessly. I am the one who promised the members happiness. If I have to go to hell, it’s just me.

Anyway, when I made that excuse, Kane nodded with an expression of immediate understanding, probably because he remembered that my teacher was a lycan.

“but… Professor Lycan’s notoriety is also famous in the Pension Department. “It definitely wasn’t normal training.”

I smiled as I saw him shaking his shoulders and trembling, probably imagining himself being trained by a lycan. Kane, making a fuss, put his arm around my shoulder.

“So, are you ready for my perfect pizza?”

Kane’s mischievous smile erased the random thoughts in my head.

“Yes, I was very excited about how delicious it would be.”

“Hehe, erase Kane, who only failed, from your memories. “Now I’m a pizza master who can make the perfect pizza!”

*

For the first time in a while, I headed to the island beyond the closet. The island was just as I remembered.

Carne’s claim that he could make the perfect pizza was not bravado. As if all the practice had not been in vain, the wood-fired pizza that Kane made was perfect.

It’s one of the top three pizzas I’ve ever eaten. The comparison target was a low-priced franchise brand, but more than that… .

“Something… “Where have you tasted this before?”

They say pizza is all over the place, but this delicious pizza was special. And I felt like I had recently had pizza with this special flavor.

Kane shrugged his shoulders sharply at my evaluation.

“Well, all pizzas are like that.”

When I narrowed my eyes and looked at him suspiciously at Kane’s strange reaction, Kane rolled his eyes with a sly expression and averted his gaze.

“… Actually, I copied the pizza I had with my mother before. It used to be a pretty big pizza place in the capital, but now it’s gone so I can’t eat there. So I searched my memory and tried to make something similar.”

At Kane’s words, I instinctively snapped my fingers loudly. I finally get the hang of it now. There was a reason why I had a feeling of déjà vu, as if I had eaten it recently. The pizza I ate in another world, where I met young Kane by chance, and Kane’s pizza tasted exactly the same. Maybe the name is… .

“… Was it Roentron’s Pizza Place?”

“Uh, huh?! “Have you tried that pizza too?”

Kane, whose butt slightly rose from the chair, looked surprised. Instead of answering, I shrugged my shoulders. Saying that you have eaten something in another world in the past is not persuasive unless it conveys memories.

For some reason, Kane, who was very excited that I knew about Roentron Pizza Shop, suddenly asked me various questions.

“Good!” How does it compare to Roentron Pizza? The recipe was lost, so I made it using a different pizza recipe. Don’t you think you could add a little more cheese? Now I put in a reasonable amount of toppings, but in my memory, it seems like there were more toppings. Tomato sauce is made by crushing the tomatoes yourself and pouring it on top of the dough. .”

The speed of speech was much faster than usual. Listening to it makes me out of breath. Kane, who took off his mask of annoyance, turned into an extravagant person who suited the talkative Aria very well.

While eating pizza and answering Kane’s barrage of questions, I remembered what I had been thinking on the way back to the academy, shook the powder off my fingers, and opened my mouth.

“Now that you’ve made the perfect pizza, what are you going to do next? Do you have any other plans?”

“I’ve recently become interested in beauty. The book I was looking at earlier was also related to beauty. “How about it? If you want, I can at least give you a neat haircut.”

Seeing Kane’s eyes filled with strange enthusiasm, he urgently raised his hand and turned off the fire that was trying to increase his size.

“are you okay. Since it has grown like this, I was thinking of showing it to Luna and cutting it.”

I wanted to see Luna be surprised when she saw my hair suddenly getting longer. It was difficult to find anything in this world as enjoyable as seeing Luna’s various facial expressions. Just imagining Luna looking at me with her surprised eyes made me raise the corners of her mouth.

As he looked at me like that, I wondered if he was imagining something unpleasant, but Kane repeatedly nodded his head slowly while looking at me with a happy smile.

“… what.”

“No, no. “I just like looking at it.”

I sighed as I saw Kane smiling slyly again as he said that.

“If you don’t have anything to do right now, come on a short trip with me.”

Camping fanatic Kane’s eyes lit up when he heard the word ‘travel’.

“travel?! I was always ready to leave at any time. We prepared dry food in advance according to the number of members, as well as sleeping bags and tents. “I prepared enough flint knives and oil to prepare for camping, just in case.”

I interrupted because I thought the conversation would be long.

“No, I didn’t mean to go on a full-scale trip like that.”

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Kane’s excitement quickly cool down, so I continued speaking quickly.

“It’s just a short trip to keep a promise.”

“promise?”

Seeing Kane looking at me with a puzzled expression as if asking what I had promised, I answered with a smile.

“You promised to help me grow. “I thought of a good way.”

At those words, Kane nodded with a serious expression.

“Really? I would appreciate it if you could help me, but I feel like I am just taking too much from the manager… .”

“Friends don’t make those calculations.”

When I said that in a deliberately indifferent voice, Kane, who understood what I meant, scratched his head with an awkward expression.

“Well, if you say so, thank you. Then, if you want to eat my pizza from now on, please let me know anytime. “For my friend, I will specially add cheese and toppings.”

“I’m fine.”

We looked at each other and smiled. Kane, who stuffed the rest of her pizza into her mouth, moved her mouth eagerly for a moment, then swallowed her pizza in one gulp and asked.

“So are you going to leave right away?”

“No, there is something I need to prepare before that.”

***

Luck really does come out of nowhere.

Just as Felix Jr. III, who runs the magic arts studio ‘Felix’, fell in love at first sight with a girl he bumped into while delivering goods and started a family.

I was lucky several times while running the workshop. He had many accidents, unfortunate and unfair experiences, but Felix was not the type of person to keep bad memories in his head for a long time.

Felix, who considered himself a lucky person and lived a positive life, opened the old brown leather book as a habit as he prepared to greet customers at the counter again today.

It was a book containing blueprints for an artifact that my father, who passed away a few years ago, was developing before his death. It was a long-distance voice transmission artifact that used the unique properties of the magic stone, but the use distance was short, so the voice could be heard even without using the artifact, so it was less effective.

However, Felix, a graduate of Transcendence Academy’s Department of Magic, could not give up his father’s legacy. He made several improvements, and even changed his entire technique with the help of his close friend, an alchemist… It was still a useless item.

Still, Felix didn’t give up. Felix, who was checking the blueprints again today while holding a pen and unconsciously rubbing his frowning forehead with the back of his hand, put down the pen and stood up when he heard the sound of the door opening.

“Welcome to Felix Workshop.”

When he heard the bell on the door ring, Felix reflexively uttered a greeting and looked at the guests entering the workshop. They were two young men who appeared to be students.

One was a sickly-looking young man with curly black hair who still had a boyish look, and the other was a young man with long blond hair tied up on a body that looked solid, probably from exercise, and dark-looking eyes that shone sharply.

“I have something to order.”

Hearing the blond young man’s words, Felix quickly pulled out the quotation form from the drawer with a business smile.

“What are you planning to order? It takes about 3 days to engrave a name on an artifact, and for products with separate blueprints, the period may increase depending on the level of difficulty.”

Saying that, Felix picked up a pen and prepared to write down the customer’s request. The voice of a young blond man was heard in Felix’s ears.

“These are bronze gloves with copper knuckles.”

“… “Are you saying you’re making bronze gloves?”

“Yes, it has to be a glove that can be equipped on the hand and hold something, not just decoration. It must be made only of bronze and copper, with no other metals in it.”

Because we had a partnership with a blacksmith workshop, casting the gloves themselves was not a difficult problem. Felix received a more detailed explanation from his customer and wrote an estimate.

“Because it is a special production, an additional fee may be added in the end.”

“It doesn’t matter. “Can we make it as fast as possible?”

“Even if it’s early because I have a reservation… “It will take at least two weeks.”

As the blond young man nodded, Felix skillfully set the price estimate. Felix, who received the advance payment, smiled commercially.

“Um, how much is this?”

In response to a question from another customer who was looking around the store while filling out the quotation form, Felix put on a business smile and hurriedly walked over to the side and explained the product. At first glance, it seemed like he was interested in the product.

“This is the new magic stone torch. Using this, you can control the firepower and use it in various places. “It can be used for cooking and is convenient to carry, so it is essential for camping these days.”

After explaining the product in detail and showing how it works, the sick-looking customer decided to buy the magic stone torch, as Felix expected.

Felix, who was returning to the counter after taking his products with a happy smile, screamed at the sight of a blond young man leaning his upper body over the counter to peek at the blueprint.

“What are you doing now!”

The young man, embarrassed by Felix’s shouting, shrugged his shoulders and pulled back. Felix quickly headed to the counter, closed his open book, and glared at his customer with an angry look on his face.

“Stealing someone else’s blueprints is a crime!”

Although it was the customer’s fault for leaving the counter empty with an open book, it was also the customer’s fault for leaning over to peek at the blueprint. Although a failure, the blueprint was also his father’s legacy.

“Oh, I’m sorry. Before I knew it, my eyes caught… .”

Felix’s anger did not go away despite the customer’s apology. He even suspected that other customers had deliberately tried to steal the blueprints by pretending to be interested in the product, causing him to leave the counter.

Felix was wondering whether he should call the security guard with his hands on his hips and a stern expression on his face. The blonde customer scratched his forehead and opened his mouth.

“I’m sorry for stealing, but… “The design was also wrong.”

Felix, who did not understand what the customer said, asked back with a puzzled expression.

“… yes?”

“The calculation method is wrong, but the structure of the technique is not efficient. If this happens, the amount of horsepower output will be significantly reduced, resulting in less horsepower than calculated. No, the design was wrong from the beginning. “The nature of the magic itself does not match the structure of the spell.”

At the sight of the customer saying that in a confident voice as if what he said was the correct answer, Felix had no choice but to forget the anger that had been boiling like lava and ask back with a stupid face once again.

“… yes?”

The customer looked at Felix as if he didn’t understand why and sighed.