77 – 077. Midwinter’s Weakness (4)

On the way back home after parting with Ahn Soo-ho.

In the back seat of the chauffeur’s car, she pondered. She was in the middle of reviewing the sparring from a while ago.

“… ….”

She was defeated. She was offended and ashamed to have been defeated in the Dalian that she thought she could win. She showed a calm attitude in front of Ahn Soo-ho, but after she broke up with him, she thought about it alone, and immediately after her defeat, a feeling of discomfort that she hadn’t felt crept up.

A feeling of discomfort that I was not used to. But the very unpleasantness that I am getting used to these days.

Midwyeol originally lived a life far from defeat. He had no situation to feel defeated. However, after she entered the Green House, she battled against Ryu Tae-hyeon several times, and she was defeated again and again. At first, the shock of her defeat kept her awake, but she got used to it now.

She got used to it, but that didn’t make this unpleasantness go away.

It was natural. For Midwyeol, who was solid with her pride, her defeat was like that. If it was Ryu Tae-hyeon, whom she considers her rival, even if she loses, she will shake it off, saying, ‘I just have to win next time!’

Even if I could win the next fight, it wouldn’t make today’s defeat disappear.

“My lady. Im here.”

The place where Midgeoreum lived was a villa near the Green House. Actually, the word was a villa, but the scale was more than a modest mansion. The magnificent villa surrounded by tall walls was the mansion of a conglomerate family that can only be seen in dramas.

She trudged down a brick path through a manicured garden and headed for her front door.

An old gentleman with gray hair was waiting for her at her front door. She was an old butler who worked for the Han family for nearly 40 years. She was only an employee of hers, but she was like family to her.

“Welcome, Miss Second.”

The old butler nodded lightly and grabbed the doorknob. At the same time, he whispered softly to Midwinter.

“…… The first lady returned a little while ago.”

At those words, Midwinter’s expression froze. The old butler knew that Midwyeol was uncomfortable with her older sister, Midsummer.

“The first lady is in the study right now. If you head straight to your room, you won’t run into them.”

“…… Thank you.”

Thanking No Butler for his consideration, Midwinter went straight to his room. I didn’t want to run into her older sister, who was uncomfortable even though she was in a good mood because of the sparring a little while ago.

However.

“Are you back?”

For some reason, midsummer, which should have been in the study, was waiting in front of her room.

“Sister?”

Midwinter’s gaze trembled. The study was on the second floor and her room was on the third floor. She was not in a position to come across. From the point of view that she was waiting in front of her room in the first place, it was clear that this meeting was due to Midsummer’s intention.

“…… What’s the matter?”

“The afternoon meeting was suddenly pushed back by several hours. I came to see your face while I was at the academy.”

In mid-summer, when I became a 4th grader and started my guild internship, I hardly ever returned home. Even when she returned home, she rarely talked to Midwinter.

Midsummer’s attitude toward midwinter was indifference itself. The fact that such a midsummer was waiting for him must have been because he had something to say.

As her Midwinter looked at her older sister with her uneasy eyes, her Midwinter asked her Midwinter with his characteristic cold expression.

“I heard you met that security guard named Ahn Su-ho? What have you been doing?”

The gaze of Midsummer who asked like that scrutinized Midwinter’s outfit. From a combat suit that fits snugly to the body to a defensive coat. She was clear about what the dress indicated.

Midwinter bit her lips. It was impossible to gloss over her with her clothes like this, and if she was her own older sister, she should have already grasped her general circumstances. She replied, avoiding her midsummer gaze.

“Training…… I came to do some.”

“Training? Do you dare to be a security guard while leaving the other trainers behind?”

“That…… “

In a slightly trembling voice, Midgyeol explained her general situation. Of course, in the middle of her summer, from her point of view, it was something she had already heard through her own attendant secretary.

“So, did you win?”

So, when Midwyeol said that she had just returned from sparring with Ahn Suho, Midsummer immediately asked back.

“… ….”

Midwinter couldn’t answer right away. Admitting her defeat and telling others about it were two different things. But she couldn’t even answer the question falsely. If Midsummer only eats her heart, she will be able to easily find out the outcome of the sparring.

“…… Lost.”

“Really?”

Midsummer showed no sign of surprise at Midwinter’s confession.

Maybe it was because he already knew the outcome. Or was it that she didn’t even expect to be herself in the first place?

Midwinter chewed her lips carefully and looked at her. Her own sister sees her talking to her as a waste of her time. Even so, why did she dare to talk like this while waiting for herself in front of her room?

She looked at Midsummer silently looking down at her without saying anything, and Midwinter pursed her lips.

“Midwinter.”

At that time, a chilly voice rang in the middle of winter.

“I didn’t say much for a while because I thought you would do well on your own, but today I have to say just one thing.”

The cold gaze of midsummer pierced the midwinter. It was not an analogy. In fact, the cold chill that radiated from her enveloped the midwinter. White frost began to set on the midsummer sky, and the air in her hallway dropped below freezing in an instant.

The midwinter shivered softly at that change. It wasn’t just because of the cold. As her midwinter looked up gently at her own sister, her cold eyes looked down at her.

“Midwinter.”

“…… Huh.”

“Don’t you feel ashamed?”

Midsummer looked down at her own sister, pathetically.

“My family has been at the top of society for generations. Her grandfather rose to the pinnacle of power in this country, and her father rose to the pinnacle of wealth by building a corporation.”

A calm and lithe voice. But the emotions contained therein were infinitely sharper. Emotions sharp like a cold dagger pricked Midwinter’s heart.

“If you are a member of the Han family, you should stand at the top of society. And thank you very much, you and I are very gifted as superhumans. That’s why grandfather and father have high expectations for the two of us. You know?”

“Yes. I know.”

“Is it like that even though I know?”

“… ….”

“I have lived up to their expectations. I have stood at the pinnacle of the Green House in name and reality, and will soon rise to the pinnacle of the entire superhuman society. Just like my grandfather and father did.”

Midsummer laid her hand on Midwinter’s shoulder. Hard! Her shoulders freeze with a harsh sound.

“Sooooo!”

“But what are you doing?”

My body trembled like an aspen tree in midwinter. It wasn’t just because of the cold. The fear learned from her childhood, the fear that was in her body, shook her body and mind.

“It wasn’t enough to give the first place in the grade to a guy who didn’t even know where he was playing. What the hell are you doing?”

“Sister. I am… ….”

“Am I expecting too much of you? As a member of my family, as my younger brother, is it really that hard to at least not show a shameful side?”

The midsummer was perfect. On the other hand, Midwyeol was excellent, but she wasn’t perfect. Midsummer was disappointed in her younger brother. Her achievements in the middle of winter were obviously objectively outstanding, but she didn’t know. As Han Yeo-reum is her older sister, and she is a member of the Han family, she wants her younger sister to be just as perfect as she is.

That’s why midwinter showed me these days, midsummer was disappointing. The disappointment of hers turned into a cold chill that engulfed her midwinter body.

“… ….”

She shuddered with her head bowed down, unable to even make excuses for what it was like in the middle of winter. She was always confident, but her true self was nowhere to be found.

“This is your last chance.”

Midsummer threw a thin rope to such a midwinter.

“I’ll think I was lost because it was at the beginning of the semester. But at least for this midterm exam, I’ll do my best to get a result that suits my family. So that no one can disrespect you. Don’t even dare to step over it, just look up to it. Do you know what I mean?”

“…… Huh. Okay.”

It was a long word, but simply put, it was to beat Ryu Tae-hyun and win first place. Midwinter was like that even if midsummer didn’t say so. In the first place, the reason I came to Dalian with Ahn Su-ho today was to beat Ryu Tae-hyeon.

However, even so, the reason why Midsummer nailed Midwinter so strongly was the strong meaning of her ultimatum. True to her words, this was Midsummer’s last chance to fall upon her sister as her older sister.

“If you show a disappointing side again… ….”

As her Midsummer trailed off her words, Midwinter looked up at her sister with her uneasy expression.

“…… You know without saying anything, right?”

With those words, Midsummer took her last steps. At that moment, the chill that engulfed the area disappeared in an instant. Her perfect control over her own psychic powers was what stood out.

Midwinter, left alone in front of her door, followed her sister’s back as she disappeared across the hallway.

“… ….”

In that gaze, the emotions of resentment and fear were mixed together.

“Hmm…… “

Meanwhile, Midsummer, who had blown a cold blow at Midwyer, was thinking about her hands.

Midwinter she is Midsummer She falls short of the standards she has set for herself, but when viewed objectively she is a strong superhuman. Midsummer knew that too. She is just a disappointing little sister in her own eyes, but she is a fairly superhuman and cannot even hold out a business card in front of her.

However, it was a little surprising to her that Ahn Soo-ho, who was only a member of the guards, had won in sparring with such a midwinter.

‘Is it because I was able to survive in the double dungeon simply because I ran well?’

Thinking that way, I began to be interested in the man named An Su-ho, whom I hadn’t even cared about. It wasn’t like she wanted to win him over to her side or that she was like Min Chae-ryeong. Just who he is He was genuinely curious about what kind of strength he harbored.

“…… Let’s do a little research.”

At the upcoming dungeon strategy meeting, of course, there will be a story about Ahn Su-ho. It wouldn’t hurt to know about him in terms of preparing for the meeting.

Thinking so, Midsummer called her own attendant.

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