The Hero’s Brother Is Bound To Be Depressed

43 – One Step

After talking with Principal Nelson about the club, I went back to class.

When Nelson offered to reward him for discovering the unclean artifact, he sternly refused, saying that he had already received too much compensation and was no longer burdened with it.

I got such a nice club room and even an island behind the closet. To be rewarded by Nelson again for finding an unclean artifact for my own safety made me feel guilty.

However, Nelson’s stubbornness was not too strong, and in the end, the story was ended by cutting off the club’s sleepover card so that they could stay out on the island for the weekend.

I returned to class, but I couldn’t concentrate in class because of the thoughts and worries that were running through my head all day.

In the end, I was lost in my thoughts until the end of class, so I broke up with Lakar and headed to the 2nd grade classroom where Roel was, not the club room.

I went there with the idea of meeting Roel and having a conversation about my worries, but when I saw Roel’s face, other words came out of my mouth.

“Brother, let’s fight with me.”

Roel, who smiled at my words and approached me, asked back with a puzzled expression.

“What… ?”

“Please do sparring with me once.”

At that, Roel replied with a serious expression, erasing the smile from her mouth, as if she had read something from my expression.

“Okay, let’s go to the training room.”

*

I had often used the training room with Lakar, but it was the first time with Roel. As if he was familiar with the training room, Roel picked up a greatsword for training.

“How many years has it been since we sparred? 7 Years? Eight years?”

Roel stood face to face and swung his greatsword to free her body. A slight smile tugged at the corners of his lips. He seemed to be reminiscing about the past.

“I have a favor to ask, hyung. Don’t look at me and do it right.”

Holding a training spear, he stood facing Roel and widened the distance. Take a deep breath and aim the spear at Roel. Roel erased his smile and nodded his head.

A short breath flowed from Roel’s mouth, and at the same time, it felt like the atmosphere in the training room had changed in an instant.

I felt intimidated by the intense fighting spirit I felt in Roel’s eyes, holding a greatsword as tall as his own, and his immovable posture with no gap in sight.

I was afraid of Roel, who stood in front of me as a warrior, not the one who was always nice to me and had a bright smile.

“Then I’ll go.”

As he spat it out as a warning, Roel, who held his greatsword vertically, closed the distance at a speed that he couldn’t react.

Wielding a spear at Roel, who approached him in an instant, interrupted the action of narrowing the distance and attacked by creating a dimensional exit next to Roel.

-Kaang!

Twisting his arm in a dynamic motion to block the window that suddenly appeared on his left side, Roel immediately lowered his stance, avoided the window that came from the exit from another dimension behind his back, and threw out his greatsword.

Thanks to the repeated practice of taking advantage of the spear in sparring with Lacar, I was able to narrowly avoid Roel’s greatsword by pulling only the upper half of my body back.

At the same time, he stabbed the spear he had retrieved from the dimensional aisle toward Roel, who was showing a gap in the center of his body.

-Kaang!

I didn’t hold the center of my body, but instead let go of the greatsword I was holding onto as if I was collapsing behind the center of gravity. After knocking out the spear, Roel jumped up, grabbed the greatsword in the air, and slashed the greatsword down with terrifying force.

Seeing Roel about to strike me, I pulled out the number I had prepared. From the time Roel leaped, he had been preparing space magic by spreading magic within his body.

As soon as he stepped back to avoid the blow, his body was sucked into the dimensional exit made on the floor. With a moment of darkness, I could see Roel’s back as he slashed the greatsword down in my field of vision.

I appeared through the dimensional exit behind Roel’s back and threw out my spear, but I guess I sensed magic. As Roel put his greatsword into the ground, he twisted his body in an instant and managed to avoid the spear, and at the same time, he turned around and swung the greatsword.

-Quaang!

There was no way to avoid Roel’s attack in the air, so the spearhead exploded. Throwing away the broken spear rod without any regrets, I took out the training spear I had put in the space storage beforehand and threw it at Roel.

At the same time, let’s stab Roel with the training spear we took out of the space storage again. Roel, who lightly hit the flying spear, smiled as he blocked my attack with just a slight twist of his arm, probably reading the numbers.

Roel, who blocked the attack, closed the distance with a greatsword as if rushing in. After deliberately swinging the spear wide enough to open a gap, Roel thrust out his greatsword as if he had been waiting for it.

I instantly recognized the path of the stabbing greatsword and used space magic there. The greatsword was sucked into the portal of the dimension and came out toward Roel’s head.

Roel, who instantly grasped the situation, stopped stabbing, and the greatsword stopped right in front of Roel’s forehead. If the reaction had been a little delayed, he would have been attacked by himself. Roel was not such a friendly opponent.

But my numbers didn’t end there. Predicting that the trap would not work, I immediately closed the dimensional passage.

Then, the greatsword was cut in half and the blade in front of Roel’s forehead rolled on the floor with a pop.

Roel lost his weapon, but I didn’t get caught off guard and fired a double attack.

When the sword suddenly broke in two, Roel, who had a slightly flustered expression, threw the severed sword away. He stepped on the steps as if dancing, avoiding the spear and holding on to the spearhead at the same time.

Roel’s power was several times stronger than mine to retrieve the spear. Roel, who pulled the spear bar toward him and quickly closed the distance with me, probably expected me to drop the spear and fall to the side.

– Puck!

I rolled across the floor with a strong pain in my face.

It was hard to come to my senses because my brain was shaking from being hit in the jaw. He stumbled and tried to stand up, but his body got out of control of his brain and acted like a drunk.

Dizziness and tiredness, my whole body felt heavy as if exhausted from the magic I had used to the limit.

“Ross, are you okay?”

A hand came out of nowhere in front of my eyes. I struggled to grab Roel’s hand and raise myself up, and Roel slapped my arm with a proud expression.

“Did you train hard?”

He let go of Roel’s hand and raised both of his arms as he answered.

“Your brother won.”

The gap with Roel was clear. Even if he dodged Roel’s fist, his mana ran out and he could no longer use space magic.

Through an irregular battle using space magic, he fought as if he were equal to Roel. Strictly speaking, none of the attacks hit Roel’s body. He had never even properly countered Roel’s attacks.

If it had been a real weapon, not a training weapon, the difference would have been even greater.

A sense of inferiority slowly rose in my heart, but I sighed and suppressed the rising feeling of inferiority.

“As expected, hyung is amazing.”

In order to overcome my inferiority complex, I genuinely acknowledged and accepted the gap with Roel.

“Not knowing where to strike and how to reverse the attack was definitely tricky.”

Unlike me who gasped for breath after pushing my body to the limit, I felt a bit nasty when I saw Roel evaluating Dalian with a relaxed expression as if he had just taken a light walk.

I opened my mouth to see Roel giving me all sorts of compliments while smiling with satisfaction at my growth.

“Thank you bro.”

Roel, who was explaining about rebalancing at my sudden words, closed his mouth and scratched the back of his head with a shy smile.

I was embarrassed by Roel’s reaction and avoided looking at him for no reason.

***

The weekend that the Messiah Club members have been waiting for has arrived. After breakfast, we immediately gathered in the club room.

“Finally today… Will the secret of the island be revealed…? !”

In fact, the horse is an exploration site. It’s a small island, so it will take you a few hours to see it all. At first glance, the island is like an uninhabited resort, but Aria’s eyes sparkled with anticipation just because it was a gift from Principal Nelson.

“There might be a treasure chest… !”

Seeing Aria’s eyes shining as she put her hands together, Kane scratched her nose and answered in a dry voice.

“It’s just an uninhabited island.”

“Would you like to say that you are losing your strength from the start?”

Leaving behind the two who started arguing again, today, instead of a book, I slightly turned my gaze to Luna, who was holding a water bottle in her left hand.

After we parted ways at the ballroom, I hadn’t had much conversation with Luna. Luna didn’t say anything to me either….

For some reason, it felt like we were a little distant from each other.

“I’ll ask you this, manager.”

Lakar handed me the tools and backpacks he had prepared for camping. Since there is a storage space, there was no need to carry it around.

In response to Aria’s opinion of creating an exploration atmosphere, she headed to the closet wearing basic equipment, just like when they first met as Team 19.

The lush palm trees that I have become accustomed to now caught my eye.

“Because it’s like this, it comes to mind during practice…. Oh, did you get something to eat?”

First, Aria, who was waiting for her to cross over to the island, said to herself, then suddenly looked at me with her anxious eyes.

“Okay, don’t worry, I packed it tightly in the space storage.”

With the help of the things I bought outside and the help of Principal Nelson, ask the maids. Even the camping food prepared separately was put into the space warehouse.

It is unlikely that raccoon thieves will appear on this island, but even if they do appear, they will never be able to steal anything in the space warehouse.

Let me answer confidently. Arya gave her thumbs up to see if she was satisfied.

“Then let’s set up a tent before exploring the island.”

“As expected, the manager knows something.”

As if Kane had been waiting for my words, she raised her hand and stepped forward.

Unexpectedly, Kane was very interested in camping. Kane, who is always bothered by everything, was able to feel that she was serious about camping just by actively preparing her camping tools with La Carre.

Even some time ago, when her crew members were playing on the island, Kane went all alone to find a good place to set up her tent.

The usual annoyance is gone. Full of enthusiasm, she led us to a flat area with an open sea view.

“It’s a flat land suitable for pitching a tent, and it’s far from the forest, so you don’t have to worry about bugs.”

Seeing Kane proudly speaking with her arms folded, the kind members clapped for her hard work. Arya was a bit dry, but….

When I took out the camping-related things I had put in the space storage, Lacar and Kane clung to each other and took out the tent.

According to Kane’s orders, while Lakar and Arya were diligently setting up the tent, Luna and I decided to go into the forest and get some firewood.

The wood to use as firewood is heavy, but I told Kane that it would be easier to pick up branches from the ground than to help Luna, who is uncomfortable with her condition, set up the tent. Will be.

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Now, members of the club also know that Luna is uncomfortable with her body. Everyone noticed to some extent, but she was ignoring it until Luna said it.

Luna still uses honorifics for us, but how open is her heart? She confessed to her members about her physical condition, and all the good members didn’t mind.

Walk into the woods with Luna in silence. I picked up branches to use as firewood.

When I pick up some twigs, Luna comes up to me and hands them over, like a cute child. When she thought she was cute she secretly turned her head and smiled at her.

“That, Ross….”

Suddenly, Luna broke her silence and called for me.

“Yes.”

Did I get caught smiling alone? Hurry up and manage your expression and answer. Luna, who wiggled her right hand for a while and licked her lips, finally opened her mouth.

“I… Shall we speak plainly?”

“Uh… ?”

Let’s ask back, embarrassed by Luna’s words without context. Luna, who dyed her pure white face red, bit her lip as if embarrassed, and she said in a small voice.

“I want to get closer…. Can I speak half-heartedly?”

What did I miss? Suddenly she can’t figure out why Luna is saying this to me, so she just looks at her stupid face a little. She murmured softly as Luna wept a little.

“No, if I don’t like it, I won’t….”

“Oh no! Of course you can.”

Let’s hurriedly wave her hand and say that. Luna nodded eagerly at her blushing face.

Then, as Luna turned around and picked up the branch again, I swept her face once and realized that my face was also hot.

In the atmosphere of her silence, she eagerly picked up branches for no reason. After a while, she felt Luna approaching me nervously, picking up branches with her hands full.

Put a tree branch in the space warehouse, and let’s face Luna who has approached her. Seeing her holding out a tree branch with a restless expression for no reason, I became nervous for no reason and held her breath.

“Hey, here….”

“Yes….”

Let’s take the tree branch and put it in the space warehouse. I could hear Luna swallowing her saliva. The sound startled her, perhaps even herself, and bit her lip as if she were about to burst into laughter as she lowered her head.

Luna raised her head with a determined expression on her face, and when I met her gaze, she helplessly avoided her eyes as if she had never done that.

There is a cuteness like a puppy in the rain that figure of her, was about to put her hand on Luna’s head involuntarily.

“Now… Shall we go?”

I’ve gathered enough things to use as firewood, so let’s say that to break the awkward atmosphere.

Luna lifted her head, which had been firmly bowed, and she answered as if shouting.

“Yes… Lo, Ross!”

She couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of Luna turning her body around and running towards her crew setting up her tent.

Follow Luna and return to her crew. Aria, who was setting up her chair, came out and looked at her Luna and asked with a puzzled expression.

“Did you two even kiss? Why are you so red?”

At Arya’s words, Luna shouted, “Oh, no!” And looked at me with her squint, then ran away to Lakar, who was still setting up her tent.

Seeing that, Arya tilted her head and looked at me.

“It’s not a kiss…. I told you.”

“Yes… ?”

I sighed in amazement at Aria’s expression that she couldn’t understand my words even more.