“…….”
“Hm? What?”
“…You bastard Oppa….”
“Yeah.”
“What’s that?”
At Cha Ara’s question, her older brother, Cha Eunhyuk, tilted his head.
“…A jewel?”
“No, I can see it’s a jewel. I’m asking how you got it.”
“Ah, that is….”
“Oppa.”
He appeared to be preparing some excuse, but Cha Ara disliked lengthy explanations.
“Look at this.”
“…That’s a jewel.”
“I received it as a gift from a Humanoid Monster.”
“…….”
The eldest, Cha Eunhyuk, silently pressed a hand to his forehead, while the youngest, Cha Yisol, dropped his spoon.
After releasing a long, deep sigh, Cha Eunhyuk spoke.
“…I’m sorry I tried to brush this off with a lie. Let’s explain everything one step at a time, without any bullshit.”
This took place two days before the youngest’s initiation ceremony.
“Ah, so….”
Cha Eunhyuk, the eldest of the Cha family, nodded.
“That’s where the money you called insurance compensation came from.”
“Yeah. The Collectors Guild gave it to me as a kind of Damage Compensation.”
“It allowed us to buy the youngest’s Priest Robes, but why are you only telling us now?”
“Because I had no fucking intention of telling you….”
“Do you distrust us that much?”
“What are you saying? You ordinary people would bruise if I so much as tapped you.”
Cha Ara grumbled with her habitual sensitivity. She was neither…