[IHTTMBW] Chapter 9

After chasing him around, I had to stop and sit down to catch my breath, and he gave me a look as if asking me to quit following him on top of trees.

Jesus, as if he was like a monkey or a bird.

‘How can a ten-year-old kid climb trees like that?’

He did not climb a tree like a monkey but climbed as if his body were like a feather. It also looked like he was jumping up continuously. However, every time I almost burst into tears, his face would turn cold, which always made me hiccup.

Whack!

After kicking the base of the tree where he had climbed, I sat beside him, panting…

I ran out of breath as I walked for too long.

“So, why don’t you just stop following me?”

“No way.”

“You are one stubborn one.”

“So are you.”

“Hmph.”

Yawn.

Once I sat down, I felt a little sleepy. I leaned my head on the tree with my head looking upward.

As I stared at him, Euphil flinched a bit when our eyes met.

‘Hmm, his reactions are honest.”

When I looked at him with a little more tearful face, his face slowly became gloomy. This time, it was not about crying. It was just a resentful face, something like that. Of course, only a little bit.

I needed to tell Euphil that I liked him.

“Euvil Oppa”

“What?”

“I’m sleepy.”

“I will not take you to the palace this time. “

“Nooo.”

I shook my head. To explain to him that it was not about taking me to the palace.

“Don’t you feel sleepy?”

“I am not sleepy.”

“Myrthi wants to hear a fairy tale whenever she wants to sleep.”

“I won’t tell you a story.”

“That is why Myrthi will tell you one.”

Euphil looked as if he was sick of me. His sighing with leaves on his blond hair looked like the spirits of trees, but that would also be the same for my case.

I laughed while playing with my hair. Euphil’s red eyes narrowed as he stared at me, but soon, he lay on the branch as if he had given up already.

“Once upon a time, there was a water fairy.”

“Oh, come on, we both know that story. “

“The fairy had an apple tree. A golden apple, uh, comes out of that tree!”

As I waved my arms and described the story, I felt he was watching me quietly. I felt as if I could shed tears of joy or something.

‘Now that I think of it, I don’t have any friends.’

Even though I met him only a couple of days ago, Euphil was one of the people with whom I had shared many fun stories.

“So?”

“Uh?”

“What happened to the golden apple?”

“Huh, do you want to hear it? “

Euphil was one of the people with whom I had shared many fun stories.

His pure voice knocked on my ears while I was spacing out. His red eyes, like rubies, stared at me silently.

When I saw him, I laughed. Euphil’s face got grumpy. Surprisingly, he did not say anything, even though he could have simply said, “Okay, get it over with already.”

Somehow, my heart was pounding.

I could not stop blushing as I realised I now have an older brother.

“Uhm. Uh, so…”

I felt strange when I kicked and dug the ground with my toes. Then, I began to tell the story with my arms waving around.

It was a story about a water fairy with apples who met many people who came to have that golden apple.

Among them were a prince and a king, but the apple was given to a beggar boy because he was the only one who asked the name of the water fairy.

“So the boy, the fairy was…”

Yawn

While talking, I could not resist but gave myself up to sleep.

It was natural for me to walk around like that. There seemed to be a big sigh from the top.

Whirring sounds were coming from far away.

Like always, I felt like someone was touching my hair, but I knew this was to eliminate the leaves on my hair.

‘Silly Euphil, why doesn’t he clean up his hair instead.’

A little kid who pushes me out but doesn’t hate me.

How did this kid become a tyrant who would kill all of his family in the future?

The book did not explain the reason well.

He was not the main character. Euphil was rather a villain in the novel.

“Good night…Oppa.”

“I’m not sleeping.”

As I mumbled and fell asleep, his voice became very soft.

And when I woke up, I was in his palace again.

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