Chapter 4: [That’s Also My Sister’s Older Brother] - (2)
From that day on, Seomun Min-hye tried to find out about the existence of Seomun-cheon, her eldest brother.
Seomun The first thing Minhye went to and asked was from her brother, Seomunhyeon, whom she followed.
"Brother. Did I ever have another brother?"
"Huh? Oh, there was."
Seo Moon-hyeon, who greeted her sister who approached her with a smile as usual, became slightly darker at what her sister said.
Of course, she knew of the existence of her older brother, Seo Wen-Chun, but he had forgotten about it for a long time.
Ten years ago, when he was four years old, he was treated like a servant, and he didn't go looking for him when he suddenly disappeared.
"What kind of person were you?"
The existence of Seomuncheon in the Seomun family was taboo.
Although the head of the household, Seomun Kang-hyeok, had never banned it, he was being treated as a non-existent person to the point of not designating it as a taboo as he had dug up in the genealogy and declared that there was no such son.
'How the hell did he know?'
Seo Mun-hyun was in a difficult mood.
Foreword I wondered how Min-hye knew of her older brother's long-gone existence, and felt embarrassed that she was asking.
"Actually, I don't know either."
Seo Moon-hyeon couldn't answer him properly.
Although he remembers the existence of his older brother Seomuncheon, he was only four years old at the time.
Even though he has a better memory than other people because he is an Awakener, it was difficult to remember everything even from the time he was four years old.
No, to be honest, at that time he had no interest in Seo Mun-chun in the first place.
"Brother, you're your older brother, don't you remember anything?"
"Um, it's embarrassing… But we haven't talked much about it. I just thought that an older brother was also one of my servants after all."
His father, Seomun Kang-hyeok's blatant discrimination.
Seo Mun-hyeon, who was in a position to receive preferential treatment, did not feel the need to have an in-depth discussion with Seo Mun-cheon.
Although he has an older brother, he himself is the next head of the household and is the next highest person after his father, so if he stands out as one of the subordinates, let's treat him well. The degree was everything.
Now that I think about it, it seems like an overthinking.
"…What happened after that?"
"Um, well. I heard that my father kicked him out. He said he kicked them out by changing his status to a place where he could live reasonably well, but I don't know."
Seomunhyeon hadn't been interested in it for a long time, and to be honest, he had forgotten about Seomuncheon's existence until Seomun Min-hye spoke about it.
A disgrace to the family and an existence that is not worth remembering.
Because he had grown up hearing such stories since childhood, Seo Mun-hyeon was stuck thinking about Seo Mun-cheon's existence to that extent.
"Brother, he's your older brother. Didn't you think to find it?"
Seomun Min-hye felt a sense of disappointment and rejection at the appearance of Seo Mun-hyeon.
She seemed to feel the flip side of her brother's insensitive side, who was considered nice and sincere.
However, Seo Mun-hyeon, not recognizing Min-hye's inner thoughts, said with a bitter smile on her face.
"To be honest, she forgot she even had a brother until Minhye told me about it."
"What?"
"It would have been painful for her brother to be in the Seomun family without the ability anyway, so it must have worked out rather well."
Seomun Min-hye thought it was a rationalization.
Even though she herself was young, Min-hye, in her preface, thought that she was thinking what her brother was doing now, and she seemed to rationalize it at will.
"Does your older brother think that too?"
"Isn't that right? Rather than remaining in the family, my father would have provided a way for me to live, so I'm sure he's living a good life."
Seomun Minhye realized from Seomunhyeon's words.
He thought that the Seomun family had done the right thing, of course.
And she thought indifferently that her father would have taken care of her older brother.
'My older brother… He hated the family?'
I felt like I needed to find out more about what was going on.
"Anyway, you mean you didn't recognize my brother then?"
"Uh, yes… That's right."
"What if Dad just kicked out the older brother?"
"Minhye! I'm not saying that."
Seo Mun-hyeon suddenly said with a stern expression.
"My father would do such a thing! How could he say such a thing, no matter how homey he is?"
Seomun Min-hye felt a growing sense of disappointment toward Seo Mun-hyeon at this attitude.
She didn't seem to be the nice, upright person she thought her brother was.
She seemed to be blinded by strange visions.
It was like seeing a supporting character who showed a narrow-minded view of the main character in a cartoon and insisted that only what he said was right.
Even in her deep disappointment towards her brother, Min-hye, the preface, did not reveal it.
"Okay, oppa. I'll remember."
"Yeah, don't do that again."
Seomun Min-hye said that she would remember Seo Mun-hyeon's words now, but Seo Mun-hyeon took her words to mean that she would never say such a thing again in the future.
'Let's find out more.'
And Seomun Min-hye went to the servants of her family who had been there for a long time and kept asking about her story about Seomuncheon.
"Seomuncheon? Where did you hear that name?"
"Oh, there was."
"Because he is a shameful person from the preface family, he was erased from the genealogy and was just kicked out naked."
"He'll be dead by now. Forget about him, lady. It's a disgrace to the family."
"The one who inherited the blood of the head of the household? The head of the family did not recognize him as a child and kicked him out. The head of the family will never forgive you if you act like a preamble somewhere."
And what I felt while talking with her servants was the feeling that Seomun Min-hye didn't know too much about Seomun's family as well as Seomun-hyeon.
Everyone in the Seomoon family smiled and treated her kindly, so she grew up bright, and in her family, she would do whatever she asked for, so she mistook it for being considerate.
'It was my mistake.'
Even though she was still young, she had learned the basics of right and wrong.
There was still a long way to go to the academy for magical awakeners, which she entered after she became an adult, but there was still a basic compulsory education.
Even though it's a place where only upper-class magical awakening children congregate, she's learned about basic right and wrong.
She didn't know if she would keep it properly, but at least Min-hye, the preface, was at an age where she learned basic correctness and wrongdoing.
'Strange.'
Everything was weird
It was the day that the world Minhye Seo believed in and took for granted was destroyed.
And that night, without telling anyone where she got it, she secretly took the mountain ginseng she had received from Seo Wen-cheon.
* * *
I am the older brother of the protagonist of this novel.
That said, he was also the brother of the main character's sister.
If Seomun Min-hye knew about the treatment I had suffered, negative feelings would naturally build up in the Seomun family, and their favorable feelings toward me would deepen.
'And if I show my ability, the favor and admiration for Seo Moon-hyeon in the original work will turn toward me.'
Foreword Min-hye was her younger sister character, with her fondness and deep admiration for her own brother.
A type commonly referred to as Bracom, it was a heroine with the feeling of a sub-hero who was narrowly fighting between brother and sister.
And since he was also his real brother, it was not impossible to direct the favor toward himself rather than Seomunhyun.
In particular, the factor that her ability is good and that the Seomun family has a tragic past in which she was treated unfairly means that Minhye Seomun must be feeling various emotions such as longing, regret, and guilt for not knowing anything so far.
"It's important to keep in touch with her, but…"
It wasn't good to meet too often.
Wouldn't she look like an unemployed person who only comes to visit her sister with nothing to do?
That would have been rather negative to favorability.
"Summon – Mammon of Greed."
I summoned another summoner.
He was the one who would move independently of Beelzebub.
"To my lord, the devil of greed, Mamon, bows."
I looked at the blond haired handsome man politely greeting me with an exaggerated form, without much inspiration.
He was Mammon, the demon of greed that I summoned.
"Yes, Mamon. The reason why I summoned you is troublesome to explain, so please get the information here. Once you get this, everyone will understand."
As Beelzebub prepared to transmit the information he needed about this world and the things he needed to do, Mamon nodded.
"Yes, my lord! This Mamon, I will gladly accept the information that my lord gives me!"
I didn't like that appearance, as if he seemed to be overly motivated, yet deliberately trying to keep his form.
In fact, Mamon is better at making money than Beelzebub, but I summoned Beelzebub in the first place because he was the most normal of my summoned creatures.
However, Mammon was also a capable demon in modern society.
"Oh, sure. It's like this."
"Yes, Mamon. You have an eye to grasp the future limited to what will make money and what will cause loss. Use it to invest in stocks and make money."
"Yes! Mammon! I will follow the lord's command and become the world's best investor!"
"Yes, yes. Okay, so let's convert this gold into capital here and use it, and go quickly."
"Yes! Lord. Enough then!"
I felt like I was already reluctant to summon other summoned creatures as I saw Mammon disappearing after quickly putting the gold bars I handed over into the subspace.
'Release would be the most annoying… The other guys have some flaws too.'
But it's useful, so someday the time will come when I'll summon them all and stay with them.