Masquerade

Chapter 4: New Life

A few days later was my first day at work, and I was so excited that during my preparations, I circled, and underlined the day in my calendar and made a list, while Yuya was thinking as he was reading my brother's book, The Secret Engine, one of the presents I loved most as I was also reading. I was curious about what Yuya wanted, so I sat down and asked Yuya if he wanted to share more about what he wanted to talk about. According to what I learned from the neighbors back from my first day at my apartment, it seems like he was described to be cold, calm, and kind and this has been enough to describe his attractiveness to multiple girls (And I was one hundred percent sure that Twilight, my step-sister was one of them, as she was known in my homeland as being fond of boys and I was annoyed by this) and apparently, I also learned that he had a fianceé who was also his childhood friend whom he loved most, but recently, she fell in love with someone else and betrayed him, making him desperate and miserable, which helped me emphasize him and remind me of my siblings. When we were young, we used to play together and always support each other, but one day, I noticed that my brother was acting strangely, especially when we found out about his marriage by both my and his classmate's family arrangement when he turned eighteen, in my opinion, this event had traumatized him so much that he became more dependent on my sister, I first supported them as well as became a "therapist" in disguise to help him better, but time over time, it seemed that he became closer to her, while she was discomfortable to what he did, which when we heard this, not only my grandfather or my parents, but I, as their younger brother, did not support their love relationship due to insect, the issue that I was possibly caring about, as I was worried about their future, especially at both their school and teenagers years, despite still supporting their relationship as siblings. To make it worse, when we heard that my sister fell in love with someone else, my brother, who was jealous at that time, became cold and obsessive, which shocked both me and his fianceé that we were forced to stop him as well as separating both of them as a temporary way to calm him down, which I thought and knew, was the worst solution that I have ever made. Looking forward to similarities, I somehow understood and empathized with them because they were men, they were humans and like other people, they had feelings, too. When my brother changed and forced her to choose, I learned simply, that he did not want to lose the person he trusted and loved most, similar to Yuya currently, who was alone and anxious about his new world, which was the complete opposite side of him when he was a king.

Because of this, along with his status, instead of forcing him to tell, I let him calm down to regain his strength because he was recently reserved and quiet, which according to Phantom, was a sign of depression. And base on his past, compared to his depression, I could tell how miserable he was, like how both of my siblings could not overcome their miserable lives because when learned about my complaints about my luck, instead of giving me advice, they kept comparing me to them, which made me recognized that despite not being smarter than them, I was luckier than them, particularly when I managed to have a fair schedule for myself. Moreover, right from the beginning, they had been geniuses due to their talents and intelligence, which helped them get a free card, or could I say, a VIP card to Tower Academy, one of the top three prestigious schools in Minami, my homeland. My family put high hopes on my siblings by renting tutors as well as participating in multiple contests, which put a lot of pressure on them, especially when my relatives, grandfather, except for and, luckily, my parents who had never persuaded us to push over the limits, forced them to have higher grades in both all the subjects and sports, and this, in my opinion, had somehow affected both of them physically and mentally as they could not express fully the way they wanted, mostly, freedom and love.

Considering all of the geniuses, in general, such as Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton, two of my favorite scientists, and people like Yuya or my siblings in general, I thought and hoped that they would and should live their own lives, the life where they could live in the true passion they wanted, instead of forcing them. I thought as I looked at Yuya again before standing up to continue my work to let him alone.