Bullied but Popular

92 – What is a brother?

“I request a private meeting with Aren Deepus.”

“hey.”

As soon as Simon finished speaking, Cecilia, who was in the principal’s office, spoke.

“Kill me.”

Frey covered her mouth and spoke instead.

“Before you get scolded, calmly spit out the damage compensation and go back, right?”

“And I want to apologize separately to the child who was harmed.”

Even at Frey’s words, Simon went out recklessly.

“Tell Aren that my brother assaulted his brother, and as an older brother I would like to apologize.”

“What if you don’t like it?”

Principal Tristan responded coldly, but Simon persisted.

“We should be forced to meet. Since we made a mistake, isn’t it the right thing to do to apologize?”

“……”

“……”

Tristan didn’t answer right away, but glared at Simon’s face.

Simon also looked at his face without avoiding it.

I want to ignore Simon’s request, but the opponent is the royal family.

The imperial family directly asks for an apology, but it is ambiguous for the other side to firmly refuse.

At least from Gia Reid’s point of view, there was room for an excuse, and I didn’t know what to do with this as an excuse.

‘In my mind, I want to smash both of them.’

At the moment, as Rai’s face, which is still crying, passes through his mind, Tristan’s grip becomes stronger.

‘… Whoa,’

Tristan tried to calm down before opening his mouth.

“We’ll talk again tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

Simon immediately nodded and thought.

‘Either destroy that image or speed up the plan.’

***

“…… ah.”

As soon as Aren opened his eyes, he saw an unfamiliar yet familiar ceiling and looked around slowly.

It was evening before I knew it, and the soft moonlight came into the hospital room.

“I’m hospitalized again.”

I don’t know how many times I was hospitalized in one year.

“Tongue, bro.”

“lie.”

As if hearing Aren’s voice, Rai, who was sitting on the couch in the hospital room, hurriedly got up and approached Aren.

“Tongue.”

“What about the body?”

As Rai approached, Aren examined Rai’s physical condition.

Seeing this, Rai burst into tears.

“Huh.”

“Are you sick?”

“… I’m sorry…”

“what?”

Rai could not answer Aren’s question and only shed tears quietly.

Seeing that, Aren silently stroked Rai’s head and waited.

After a while, Rai swallowed the tears and began to regain his senses.

“… ugh … sniff.”

“Lai, tell me what happened.”

“That, that’s it…”

Aren listened to Rai’s explanation for a moment.

And after hearing it, I couldn’t figure out why things had come to this point.

‘I just got caught by a madman by mistake.’

Even after listening to Rai’s gibberish explanation, I couldn’t figure out why the madman was like that.

Aren put aside the madman’s problem for a while and asked what was bothering him.

“You’re my brother? Why didn’t you answer?”

“……”

Rai could not answer Aren’s question and began to cry again.

I couldn’t tell you why, and I didn’t want to say it.

‘Well, I can roughly guess.’

Aren had been in trouble quite a few times about Rai.

It’s because I felt a wall in Rai’s behavior while living together.

At first, I wasn’t used to affection, so I thought that he would open his heart over time, but when I learned a little about Rai, I realized that it was an illusion.

‘Maybe it’s a sense of duty.’

He knew that Rai was more mature than most children.

And he also knew that he was thinking heavily of the grace he had received from him.

Conversely, because of this, Rai was building a wall against Aren.

‘Because he suffered more than anyone else, he probably knows how heavy grace is.’

Aren, who saw Rai crying, suddenly spoke in a serious voice.

“Lai, what’s your brother?”

“Sniff… Huh?”

Rai looks at Aren’s sudden words.

Aren continued to speak.

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“What is a brother? If only blood is connected, are they brothers?”

“…?”

“Let’s assume you have another brother by blood.”

“yes…”

“That person doesn’t know your name. You don’t know his name either. But they are related by blood. So, are they family?”

“Uh… no?”

Rai thought no to Aren’s question.

It is impossible to know how many family members there are in this world if they are all family just because they are connected by blood.

“So what about me?”

“Brother…”

“By the way, I always think of you guys.”

“yes.”

“And I also think that I want to stay with you forever.”

Aren decided to speak his truth.

I thought difficult explanations were not suitable for conversations with family members.

“It makes me happy to see you and Rachel sleeping together, and eating bread together makes it taste dozens of times better, so I want to feed more food, and when I go in after class, I feel happy that you guys greet me, and when Rachel acts cute, I go crazy. When you swing your sword like me, I want to stroke your head because it’s so commendable.”

“……”

Rai couldn’t open his mouth when he heard something very embarrassing.

Aren continued to speak.

“I want to get you to meet Mirai quickly, I want to introduce you to my older brother’s parents, I want to show you my brother’s hometown, I want to see my younger siblings playing together, I want to go on a trip together, I want to see you guys as adults I want to see you, and even when I grow up, those who approach Rachel will fall behind me, I want to quickly teach you my swordsmanship, and I want to kill all those who touch you. But am I your older brother?”

“… yes…”

Rai answered again with tears in his eyes.

Looking at Rai like that, Aren smiled and said,

“I think you’re my younger brother too. What’s important about blood? If I think of you as a younger brother and you think of me as an older brother, isn’t that a brother?”

“Huh.”

Rai buried his head in the bed and started to cry.

Kind words, delicious meals, a warm bed, and a comfortable space.

All of this was given to us by brother Aren.

For no reason, even though there is no benefit, hyung hugs us warmly and takes care of us.

I was so scared.

I wondered if my brother would abandon us someday.

I wondered if it would suddenly disappear one day.

I did, but my older brother was telling me that he was now my younger brother, and that we should continue to be together.

‘uuu.’

It was as if something had risen in his chest and came out in tears.

Rai buried his face in the bed and struggled as if to stop crying.

Aren gently hugged Rai and said.

“And I also want to comfort my crying brother.”

“aaang!”

At Aren’s words, Rai cried out with all his might for the first time in his life.

As a child cried and cried and clung to him, Aren stroked Rai’s head and hugged him until the tears stopped.

***

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‘you.’

After crying for a long time, Rai collapsed on Aren as if exhausted and fell asleep.

Aren carefully put Rai on the bed and turned his head to look at the door.

“Come in now.”

drooling

“I was impressed~”

“……”

“……”

Frey, Cecilia, and Tia entered the hospital in turn.

“… why are you crying?”

When Aren looked at Cecilia and Tia with an absurd expression and asked, the two of them averted their eyes and continued to shed tears.

“…sniff.”

“What, what.”

“… that’s it. Keep crying.”

Aren turned his gaze to Frey and lowered his head.

“Sister, I’m sorry.”

“It’s okay~ I was a bit scared, but I don’t mind~”

“…a little bit much?”

It bothers me, but now wasn’t the time.

“What about Rachel?”

“It’s okay~ Today, Lirina will take care of you. I told you that you and Rai will be trained by Teacher Tristan.”

“thank you.”

“Ah~ You’re so polite~ Can I just shout like before? B~~ Turn it on~~!”

“……”

It seemed that I had gotten it wrong.

Aren turned his gaze and looked at the two crybabies who had stopped crying.

“Someone explain.”

“Whoa, I’ll tell you.”

At Aren’s words, Tia began to explain what had happened.

After hearing the explanation, Aren looked at Frey and asked.

“Did you copy it?”

“then!”

tongue

Frey puts the video box on the bed vigorously.

“Be quiet because I’m sleeping.”

“Ike, you disturbed the sound sleep of your beloved sister. I’m sorry~”

“what the.”

Aren is bewildered and grabs the video box, but hears a strange sound next to him.

“Huh.”

“Sniff.”

“…why do you keep crying?”

She seems to have stopped crying, but when she sees Rai sleeping, she starts crying again.

I’m going to die from worrying about you stabbing me next to you.

Then Tia sniffles and says.

“You… were you this kind of guy?”

“what?”

“You handsome bastard, you look so cool today.”

Cecilia nodded fiercely at Tia’s words.

“Aren is cool.”

“Thank you.”

Conversation goes to the mountains.

Aren sighed and sat down on the bed.

“Anyway, he’s coming tomorrow.”

“Yeah, with Miss Tristan.”

“Okay. Thanks for coming late at night.”

When Aren signaled that he would stop sleeping, Frey said regretfully.

“Are you going like this?”

“sure?”

“Let’s talk a bit more~ Do you have any reasons why you like this noona? Like because she’s pretty~ or because she’s cute~?”

Frey forms a calyx with both hands and thrusts her face into it.

And the Cloud sisters also glance at Aren as if they want to hear his answer.

“Good night everyone.”

Aren ignored it lightly and went back to sleep lying next to Rai.

***

“Are you okay?”

“It hurts.”

“Um, I’m sorry.”

The next day, in Aren’s hospital room, Simon and Kun, Rai and Tristan were talking.

“So you’re apologizing?”

“… yes.”

At Simon’s words, Aren turned his head to Kun and said.

“hey.”

“what?”

“What? I’m out of my mind.”

Aren took out a video box from his bosom and shook it in front of his eyes.

“You beat my younger brother XX well?

“……

“Answer this baby.”

When Aren’s momentum was rough, Tristan stepped forward.

“Aren, calm down.”

“Yes, in moderation.”

Aren sat back on the bed and looked at Qun and said.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you apologizing?”

“Ha… what.”

Simon glared at Kun as he was about to shout at Aren’s cheeky attitude.

“Kun, apologize.”

“…… Whoa.”

At Simon’s words, Kun slightly turned his head and bowed his head to Rai.

“I’m so sorry kid~ I was feeling a bit…”

“Stop. I asked you to apologize, so why is this nonsense so long?”

“You bastard…!”

“Kun!!”

Simon shouts as Kun tries to explode once more.

At that, Kun gritted his teeth and lowered his head.

Simon said, looking at Aren this time.

“I understand how you feel. But this is the royal family. I hope it’s moderate.”

“Yes, yes. I have no intention of saying anything more than this. Let’s go.”

Simon’s expression hardens at Aren’s sudden order to celebrate.

“It’s not over yet.”

“What?”

Aren threw and received the video box while answering skillfully.

Seeing that scene, Kuhn was moved again, but Simon seemed to be in a bad mood, so he stayed silent.

Simon glanced at the video box and at Tristan.

“I want you to delete the video.”

“Why are you telling me? Even if I delete this, the original will be there? Oh, there must be some copies.”

“… Aren Deepus, I would have told you to do it in moderation?”

Simon hardened his expression coldly and said.

“Do you know who you are talking about like that to?”

“You know.”

At Simon’s words, Aren breathed life and said.

“These are XXX’s who make my sister a dough. Watch your mouth if you don’t want to increase your enemies. Do you think you’re the only ones holding back right now?”

“……”

“……”

The bloody gazes of Simon and Aren collide.