Suddenly.
âWhat do my sisters know?!â
The sudden interruption to the conversation came from nowhere.
To be precise, it was Lee Yerim, who was cleaning her room.
As the sun was rising in the west, Lee Yerim was dressed in an unfamiliar way.
âWho knows the most about Hoyeol out of the three of us? Itâs me. Did you sisters have any idea until the article came out? I knew right away that they were his classmates. Why, they came over to our house once andâ¦â¦.â
Lee Jiyoon shook her head in disbelief.
âYouâre doing a big cleanup for mom and dadâs arrival?â
If you ask me where theyâre going, itâs traveling.
After the closure of Harmony Dumpling.
They were enjoying their first break in decades.
âIt looks good, really?â
That was the beginning of Lee Jiyoonâs nagging.
As for Lee Yerim.
To the point where she felt like she was interrupting the conversation for no reason.
âYerim, itâs only 2 nights and 3 days, but itâs a talent to make the house this messy. If you had to go to work, youâd be tired, and Iâd understand. What kind of daughter uses her annual leave to relax in her own home and fit in with her parentsâ travel schedule?â
Normally, she would have retorted to every word.
But Lee Yerim held her tongue.
Because there was something more important than that.
ââ¦â¦..Thatâs it. Sisters. If youâre going to talk nonsense, help me clean up.â
âAre you crazy? Sis, you have to say something too.â
âLook, Iâm sorry, but I do enough chores at home, Yerim, and Iâm not talking nonsense. Weâre talking about something very important about Hoyeol.â
How does my brother-in-law live with a sister like that?
The way my older sister, who had a smiling face, spoke was eerie.
She doesnât give up.
âNo, Lee Hoyeol is Lee Hoyeol. What are you talking about again? Ah, this? Are you talking about this expression? When I look at it, itâs the same. Lee Hoyeol, isnât that the expression you always have when you look at me?â
The expression when he looks at Lee Yerim?
I look back on my memories through Lee Yerimâs words.
If it were Hoyeol.
I thought there was no way he would show such cold eyes.
Oh, it really was like that.
Lee Jiyoon shook her head.
ââ¦â¦.I guess so, from what Iâve heard and seen.â
âNo matter what, the atmosphere is different, girls!â
âBig sister, look at me now.â
âYerim, what do you look like?â
Dressed in an apron, clutching a duster, and with her hair pulled up in a tight rubber band, Yerim was definitely â¦â¦. Her atmosphere was different from usual. It was more like she had become more dignified.
Itâs not that much, but it looks like sheâs going to make a living.
Lee Jiyoon sarcastically said.
âOkay, canât you just get married as a woman?â
âDonât be silly, little sister.â
âItâs like having a tooth fall out.â
âMaybe itâs the way sheâs dressed, but Yerim looks different than usual.â
Lee Yerim finally shrugged.
âI mean, itâs not like weâre face-to-face. What can we know from Hoyeolâs face, filmed from this angle, I mean, you know how evil the TV station is.â
âI know.â
Lee Jiyoon said and looked into the LCD screen.
The atmosphere could change depending on the lighting and angle.
Besides, if you put aside those side stories.
âAnyway, you concluded in the usual Hoyeol style, didnât you?â
Impossible to possible.
âSo you said he overcame the status abnormality corruption that no one else could, Yerim? Well, we hear about it, but we donât really know what the big deal is.â
This time too, there was enthusiasm for miraculously saving corrupted citizens.
In the end, it ended as it usually does.
At that point, Lee Yerim added coyly.
âSo, sisters, canât you help me clean up instead of sitting there so serious? Isnât that what you came here for? Iâm really tired.â
Lee Eunhye and Lee Jiyoon exchanged glances.
âUgh.â
It couldnât be helped.
Not only Hoyeol, but also Lee Yerim was their precious little sibling. It was the first time in a long time that they would ask for a favor so desperately, and the first time in a long time that they would make such a shameless request.
âSo where should I clean up? If nothing else, you should do the dishes.â
âOf course I do!â
âYerim, Iâll help you clean your room.â
Heavily armed.
Eunhye immediately put on rubber gloves on both hands.
But Lee Yerim stood in her way.
Lee Yerim grinned and grabbed the doorknob of her room.
âSis, thank you, but can I clean up my room â¦â¦?â
âWhy? What, are you hiding something?â
âThatâs what makes me want to search more.â
Lee Yerim looked around awkwardly at Lee Jiyoonâs secretive eyes.
âSo, who is hiding what?! Even though it may seem like a mess, my room has its own rules, right? Even the books on my desk are in order.â
Lee Yerim, you must be hiding something if youâre stuttering at the end of thisâ¦â¦.
Thereâs no need to come in, is there, Yerim?
Because there is privacy.
Eunhye shrugged.
âReally? Then Iâll do the dishes.â
âSis, you told me to let you do the dishes yourself?!â
âNo, I was going to, but you know what Yerimâs room looks like, so while youâre at it, let her clean it up. Itâs not something you can usually clean up with determination, this place.â
Well, from what I heard and saw, it definitely was.
âThatâs what I heard..â
Lee Jiyoon nodded, and Lee Yerim smiled awkwardly.
âWell, then Iâll clean up my room first. Sisters. Thank you~â
cheolkeog.
Lee Yerim turned the doorknob at the same time as she said an honorific that was not used in her mouth. Then she looked at her room. It was a mess. Yes, except for the desk, which was covered with all sorts of things.
âWhoa.â
Why was the desk clean?
It was simply because it was the first place Lee Yerim touched when she started cleaning the room, and it was thanks to that. Lee Yerim was able to find it faster than the owner.
An unusually black notebook.
âHoyeol.â
Lee Yerim took the notebook in her trembling hands.
She whispered to her one and only brother.
I know you canât hear me now.
It was clear she was addressing her only brother, Hoyeol.
ââ¦â¦But this time, did you pretend I didnât know?â
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