Chapter 10.2

I balled my fists, seeing his innocent expression.

Yeah. Why am I talking to someone who doesn’t even know anything at all? Telling him I came from the future would be the biggest mistake of my life.

In addition, there were still bits of information to extract from him. The least thing I could do was to become his friend. I decided to remain a good old friend with him until I achieved my goal.

I could see Alexid smiling and watching me insidiously over there, but . . .

Oh, I’m getting a bit nervous.

Anyway, let’s ignore everything. I have something more important to talk about with Gerald. Of course, he had to do his part in this life as well.

“What happened to the letter yesterday? Did you deliver it?” I asked.

“Of course. Then, he asked me to deliver this to you,” he answered as Gerald put out a sealed envelope for me.

“You didn’t open the letter, did you?” I asked just in case. The unicorn couldn’t have done that based on his upright personality.

“Of course.”

“Really?”

Gerald nodded.

All right, I believe his words since it’s him.

When I received the letter, I put it in a small bag that I owned.

“Will you make my wish come true, then?”

“What?”

“In exchange for passing your letter,” Gerald smiled softly. I nodded reluctantly because this was a legitimate deal and I would have to ask him  more favors to do in the future.

Haa.

“Promise is a promise.”

“Get engaged with me,” Gerald grabbed my little finger and said. “Lulu.”

“Huh?”

My eyes seemed to turn black and bright again, and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

Why is this guy doing this to me?

I knew what happened the last time I was with him. We were better off not being together. Even if Gerald doesn’t know anything, it would be better to end as just friends.

Will our relationship be better this time around? In this life?

I still remember it clearly. Gerald was someone who turned his back away from me with a cold facial expression.

So..

There’s no way I’m repeating the same mistake again.

“I don’t want to,” I said firmly.

“Why?”

“I hate you, Gerald.” I said with my eyes wide open.

The eight-year-old Gerald turned pale. You can just think of this as me wanting to save ourselves from trouble. I wanted to be selfish. If I could prevent the future by hurting him now, then I’ll do it. And really, my heart had already turned black and numb. All that remained was regret, so this was the best thing I could do.

I turned a blind eye to him this time.

He’s only eight years old.

The twenty-nine-year-old me also shed tears behind, hiding and building an iron wall in front, but what about an eight-year-old?

Was it only a joke?

Strangely, I refused his marriage proposal, but it didn’t really make me feel happy.

* * *

My relieved heart probably predicted the present.

“Gerald and Lulu are getting married!”

“They’re dating!”

Alexid teased me and ran across the mansion. My mom and dad asked me if I should get engaged again as if they knew it would happen, and I . . .

I’ve decided.

It is an immutable law that family register mates are not helpful in life, and they will punish them before they grow further.

“I’m dying!”

“Come here!”

“They’re going out! They’re getting married!”

Alexid, who was running while singing with his back around, was laughing . . .

“Hey!”

Bang!

“Ugh!”

He was heroically killed with his head stuck in a pillar. The man who fell raised his head.

“Pooh! Hahaha!”

Squeak, squeak.

Double nosebleeds burst on both sides.

My laughter and Alexid’s crying were tangled. My mom and dad ran in surprise.

You’re right, you punk.

* * *

Alexid and I must have been dogs and cats in our previous lives.

My mother slapped me on the back as I laughingly watched Alexid with a bleeding nose.

“Ouch!”

“Stop laughing, Lulu! There’s no day when it’s quiet, honestly!” My mom scolded us, “Your mom told you not to tease your younger brother. Didn’t I?!”

“You did . . .”

Sneaking his nose, Alexid replied. Thanks to the tissues on both sides of his nose, he looked funny and weird at the same time.

“Gasp!”

It’s funny just looking at him, to be honest. My mom turned and looked back at me.

“I’m sorry.” I quickly admitted it.

I love you like before, my brother. I hated kissing him on the cheek. I turned eight, but I think I already have an eighty-year-old mental age. But then again, my mom has always exceeded my expectations.

“Whoa. Both of you follow me.”

This is making me nervous . . .

“It’s because of you.”

Alexid pinched my cheeks. It was not threatening at all because of the nasal congestion.

“Challenge?”

“It’s because of you!”

“Why is this because of me?” I yelled. “It’s because of you!”

“You said you weren’t going to get married, but then you went back to Gerald! Ouch!”

This guy is declaring war.

“Argh!”

My mother came out and grabbed Alexid’s arm. They didn’t want to see us rolling on the floor.

My mom took a very deep breath.

The place that she took us.

Oh my god!

I know this place!

It was an empty room that had nothing. The room, which had all the fancy tapestries at stake, had maintained moderate weather, but there was really nothing aside from the two chairs in the middle.

It’s called the thinking chair.

It was one of the punishments that came out when Gerald and I did something big.

This time, I realized that I had to erase my name in our family register!