Chapter 18
The waitress with short black hair had a very obedient expression. She raised her finger and pushed up her glasses, as if she was trying hard to remember something.
Under my questioning gaze, she slowly spoke, offering a reminder:
"There seems to be your dinner in room 04."
Then he closed the door and left.
...
Miji appeared in a fit of rage.
He went on and on about his accusations against me, his pent-up anger, and his resentment that Illumi insisted he take me with him.
I raised my index finger to my lips, signaling him to be quiet.
"Didn't you notice anything wrong on your way here?" I asked.
Mi Ji was stunned.
He entered the room, and while I explained to him what had just happened, I called the front desk to inquire about food delivery.
The receptionist said that my dinner had been prepared fifteen minutes ago and sent over by someone.
So I briefly summarized the events and recounted what had happened to the receptionist.
“Is it really appropriate for me to go to another guest’s room to get my dinner?” I asked.
“I’m sorry, ma’am,” the receptionist’s voice sounded very confused, “the situation you mentioned is not in line with our hotel’s service philosophy. There may have been some unexpected incident. We will start to deal with it right away. Please wait a moment.”
...She put down the receiver, and I hung up the phone immediately.
After Mi Ji finished processing the story he had just heard, he was dumbfounded:
"I met someone in the same industry."
“I am an honest, unemployed person,” I raised my hand to prove myself, “Don’t lump me together with all of you.”
Milluki was clearly not in the mood for jokes. He stood up, looking anxious and speaking uneasily, "Let's change hotels."
"Why?" I asked, "You're a Zoldyck."
I didn't take it seriously, but Mi Ji, unusually, became firm and said unhappily:
"This has nothing to do with whether we're Zoldyck or not... Regardless of whether we can win or not, I'm confident I can escape at any time. As for you, Ray, if you're even slightly injured, I'll be skinned alive by Big Brother when we get back. We have to move. We can't stay in this unsafe place any longer!"
After much deliberation, he paced back and forth in the room, finally concluding that it might not be safe outside either, but my location had already been exposed. So he simply told me to pack my things and switch rooms with him.
I think he's worrying too much. Those two Nen users who look like troublesome people might not mean me any harm. And that girl will even turn around and remind me to go to room 04 to find food.
Milluki clenched his fists and said angrily, "This kind of thing... Big Brother sometimes gets the mood and suddenly does charity work! The more twisted a guy is, the more ordinary he looks, don't you understand?"
Me: "...But not everyone can reach Illumi's level."
He completely lost his patience, picked up my suitcase, and huffed and puffed his way out.
"I don't care, you come here, this room has to be changed today!"
...And then, without really understanding what was going on, I ended up switching rooms with Milluki.
He changed the lock on the door of the previous room, and I am still in a state of semi-imprisonment and supervision.
Fortunately, after I reported the situation to the front desk, dinner was remade and delivered.
For the sake of the delicious food, I plan to rest after dinner and not cause any trouble for Milluki today.
After dinner, as I came out of the bathroom drying my hair, I noticed several unread messages on my phone. When I opened them, I found they were from Hisoka.
He sent a smiley face and said, "What a coincidence!" Then he took a picture. Among the rows of buildings and the flashing, brightly colored neon lights, a hotel with a pointed roof stood out prominently at the top.
[Hisoka]: It's very close~
The email was sent exactly two minutes ago.
I stared at our message history and gasped. At the top of the screen was the location and room number I had sent him.
That room now belongs to Miki.
I can't imagine how terrible it would be if the two of them met.
I asked, "Are you really nearby?"
After a moment of surprise, I immediately realized that this might be a great opportunity for me to escape.
However, I soon had another question...
Why did I run away?
Staying at the Zoldycks' house was certainly unpleasant, but running away was clearly more harmful than beneficial.
So I changed my tone to comfort Hisoka:
"There were bugs in my room, so I moved to another place. You don't need to come looking for me."
[Hisoka]: Hehe, what kind of bug is it?
He seemed to be in a good mood today. Normally, if I replied to him like that, he definitely wouldn't talk back, but today he was very supportive.
Me: "Spider."
Hisoka:
I deliberately lied to him: "Two huge spiders, really huge, as big as a person."
Hisoka did not reply.
I thought he had lost interest in talking to me.
A while later, he sent a photo.
I clicked on it and glanced at it. The background was a bathroom, with the phone camera pointing directly at a mirror. In front of the mirror was a man with his back to the mirror, revealing a broad, taut, beautifully muscular bare back, covered with a huge, menacing black spider tattoo.
Hisoka asked, "Is it that big?"
I remained silent for a moment, feeling as if I had seen this scene before me before.
"Where did you get your tattoo?" I asked.
Hisoka: "Hehe, does little Rai want one too?"
Me: "No, it just looks a lot like the one on my deceased ex. Maybe you two had the same tattoo artist, haha."
Hisoka: "Hmph~ Little Rai is really unexpected~"
I asked again, "When was this done? I don't think it was done last time."
Hisoka: "It's always been there~ Little Rai scratched a lot of my back then~ But you couldn't see behind me that night, hehe."
...Every conversation with Hisoka goes in this direction!
I'm going to turn off the lights and go to sleep.
Hisoka's letter popped up and lit up at that moment.
He asked, "Are you going to ignore my messages again?"
“However,” he added, “what happened that night can’t be entirely blamed on me. From the very first word Little Lai spoke to me, he looked like he really wanted to find a reason to cry.”
"What a pity," he concluded, "You seemed to have a good time tonight. Come find me again next time you feel like crying."
...That sentence seems a bit...
I stared at the screen for a moment, stunned.
"What if you don't want to cry?" I asked, following up on his question.
"You're welcome to join us too," he replied lazily.
The atmosphere was subtle.
I stared blankly at the chat history.
...
I don't remember when I fell asleep.
In short, drowsiness comes suddenly and is impossible to resist.
Thinking about her conversation with Hisoka, she suddenly fell asleep.
Miji knocked on my door early in the morning, urging me to hurry up with my schedule. I yawned, washed up and put on makeup, and then went into the elevator with him.
While eating breakfast, Milluki left his seat for a moment. I sat alone, resting my chin on my hand, lost in thought, when someone suddenly spoke, startling me awake:
"Miss, may I sit across from you?"
I found it amusing, so I turned around and smiled at him without saying a word.
The enormous black shadow of Miki silently descended, enveloping the guy.
“There are already people here!” he said seriously.
...With his towering height of over 1.8 meters and the oppressive aura of his psychic powers, Milluki successfully scared away the passersby who tried to strike up a conversation.
Even so, he was still dissatisfied. As he sat down, he complained to me, "Why didn't you tell him to get out?"
"No way," I replied, drawing out my words as I stirred the black tea in my cup with a spoon, "With my second brother here, I don't need to do anything. Anyway, he'll take care of everything for me."
"...You devil!" Milluki was defeated again. "Don't call me 'Second Brother' anymore! You never have good intentions!"
I smiled at him and said, "It's not a bad idea to just call you by your name."
Miki looked at me with a complicated expression for a while, then suddenly hung his head in dejection:
"...Never mind, I don't want it."
He didn't speak during the rest of the meal, listless and completely different from his usual energetic self.
That seems a bit excessive.
I used what little conscience I had to reflect on myself for a short while.
Milluki suddenly asked, "Am I not even as good as Kurt?"
I:""
He suddenly stood up, took a lighter out of his pocket, and walked out, saying, "You continue, I'll wait outside."
Before I could reply, he looked over again and said in a serious tone:
"Lay, I'm not as fun as you think. Don't always joke with me. I just want to stay quietly in my own territory. I don't want to mess with you, my brother, or those little brats."
...When I came out of the restaurant, he had already been curled up in a corner with a view of the restaurant for a while.
Seeing me arrive, he extinguished the cigarette in his hand with his bare hand, waved to dissipate the smell, reiterated the itinerary, and emphasized again:
"Stay close to me. I can't afford to take responsibility if something happens to you."
I followed behind him, silently stepping on his shadow, and suddenly recalled some fragmented memories.
For example, once during a training session, I bumped into Killua's training area, and Illumi, who disliked me at the time, forced Killua to scratch my neck with his claws.
Milluki flew into a rage upon seeing the scar and launched into a verbal attack on Killua. Killua was initially hesitant to retort, but eventually became so impatient that he nearly ripped Milluki's skull off.
Milluki then went to complain to Mrs. Zoldyck and the head of the family, cursing and swearing. As a result, although Killua was punished, he himself was also scolded.
Mrs. Zoldyck disliked that he lacked the presence of an older brother.
I asked him why he had to pick a fight with Killua, since he didn't get any benefit from it himself. He said that Killua scratched his neck.
I said Killua didn't do it on purpose, and he said that you, like them, are all on his side.
I reminded him: It was Illumi who gave the order.
Mi Ji fell silent.
That's just how he is. He's always been a bully who picks on the weak and fears the strong, but he'll also stand up for me.
Although I didn't ask him for help.
If only Illumi didn't exist.
Milluki is indeed the Zoldyck family member who treats me the best and will unconditionally stand by my side and support me.
Aside from matters related to Illumi.
For a long time after my mother sent me to Kukuroku Mountain for training, only Milluki would talk to me, his tone irritable but also very patient as he adjusted my training regimen.
After Illumi targeted me, although he didn't dare to contact me, he would secretly slip some strange, modified toys into the training menu to help me pass the time.
"...What I said was true, I wasn't joking." I stopped, and Milluki stopped too, but didn't turn around. I said to his back, "Only with Second Brother can I do whatever I want, and it doesn't matter if I lose my temper. If you feel this is wrong, if I can't lose my temper with you anymore—"
Suddenly, Miki raised his hand, signaling me to stop talking. At the same time, he turned his head, revealing half of his profile, with a gloomy expression.
“I didn’t hear anything,” he said. “I don’t remember what I said. ... Hurry up, don’t hide behind me, walk beside me, we need to get to our destination.”
I:"……"
Mi Ji suddenly became energetic again, raising his voice to direct me: "Hurry up, hurry up!"
Me: "...Oh."
I yielded to his insistence and walked up to him. I had only taken two steps when Milluki forcibly ripped the bag off my shoulder.
"Don't carry it, I'll carry it. You're going to be as slow as a snail carrying this thing!"
...There's absolutely nothing in my bag!
"What do you want to eat for lunch?" he then asked. "I remember you really like a certain chain restaurant. I called them last night to confirm if they could reserve a table for us. Do you want to go there, or would you like to eat something else?"
Me: "...Whatever is fine, as long as you think it's okay."
Mi Ji patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, with me here, you don't need to think about anything, just leave everything to me!"
"And 'joking'," he said without looking up, "go ahead and joke around, just don't let Big Brother hear you. Be careful of that kid Kurt, he's not a good person. Killua seems nice, but he's actually cunning. He's not here now, and when he comes back, try to avoid contact with him. He's really capable of taking things from Big Brother. If you want to be on good terms with Big Brother, don't mess with him. Big Brother may be a bit scary, but he's a reliable person..."
He went on and on about all the benefits of being with Illumi, and even though nothing had happened yet, he started painstakingly analyzing how to build a happy married life for me.
“…Just take good care of yourself from now on.” After rambling on for a while, Miki suddenly stopped and said, “Big brother won’t wrong you.”
"But I want to make him suffer," I said honestly.
Actually, what I meant was that I didn't want to marry Illumi, but Milluki misunderstood something, his face turning pale and then red, before finally gritting his teeth and saying:
"If you really can't resist, I'll keep watch for you, but you have to follow my instructions and not do anything reckless with your eyes closed!"
Me: "...Ah"
Mi Ji: "If whoever you've set your sights on doesn't want to be with you, I'll kidnap them for you. You can trust your second brother to handle things; you'll never be wronged!"
Wait a minute, isn't the topic starting to get a little abrupt and subtle?
That's not what he meant!
But... since things have come to this point, I raised my face, looked at Milluki with sincere, moved eyes, and asked:
"Really? No matter who I fall for, you'll unconditionally support me and help me."
Mi Ji nodded heavily.
I couldn't help but start thinking.
Do we really have to do something so exciting all of a sudden?
Isn't this a bit ahead of its time?
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