I Ended Up Raising The Villains I Wrote Out Of Hobby

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Another Uninvited Guest!
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I'm taking the point of view today!

Hi! I'm Ikecin Areorid Satera, the one and only younger brother of Brother Izle!

As you can remember, last week an uninvited guest suddenly appeared. It was our family representative! Well, I'm glad to see my brother after 5 years.

My Big Brother is a shy yet strong man! He's the best swordsman in the empire! Being a commander at the age of 18, he's truly great! Now he's 23 and yet he's still handsome!

My brother and I were really close not until he was sent by our father on an impossible mission. It was an expedition against the monsters that appeared in the northern part of the empire.

It has been 5 years since the last time we met but I am so happy to see him. I don't hate my brother. It's my father whom I hated the most.

I am not as strong as my brother but I aspire to be like him. I did my best but sadly, that father of mine did not show any care about my small achievement. At first, I tend to mind it but ever since my brother and I got really close, it is him who filled the father role in my life.

"Ikecin! Lately, I found you staring at Crescy..., Do you like her?" Mirelle asked and I nodded.

"Yeah! Crescy is like an older sister to me." I answered. Her face looked dissatisfied with my answer but she brushed it off and continued what she was doing.

We're currently here at the library to clean some stuff. Although we do not really need to clean it, there are some misplaced books here so we're trying to fix it.

'Come to think of it...'

"Mirelle, is there something wrong with Danti? It's been a week since he started doing something weird." I said and remembered how scary he is.

"Weird?"

"Yeah! Like staring at Crescente's back, mumbling Crescente's name, and sometimes he screamed 'Who Are You?' whenever he's asleep." I said in horror and I remembered his face. His slanted eyes became so wide and his face had a dark expression as if he was sweating with blood.

'Remembering it really makes me flinch.'

"Well, why don't you ask him?" Mirelle suggested and I just looked at her with disbelief in my face.

-----> (¬_¬) - Ikecin

*Ding* *Dong* *Ding* *Dong*

"What's that sound? Do we have a bell?" I asked and Mirelle shook her head so we ran in the direction where the sound came from.

*Huff* *Huff* *Huff*

'I'm... out... of... breath...'

"Runa?" I heard Crescente's faint voice and she rushed towards the gate of the manor.

All of us, including Danti, were looking at Crescente who's running as if she was being followed by someone.

"Danti, isn't that the lady who made a bet with us?" Ranri asked and I tried my best to see the person who's at the front gate.

"Yeah. That's her. But why..., Crescente..., knows her?" Keon asked. Full of questions, we decided to follow Crescente who's now at the front gate.

"Crescy!" Mirelle shouted to get Crescente's attention which succeeded because she looked at us with a pale, confused, and shocked face.

"What are you doing here, Old Woman?" Danti asked and the Old Woman looked at us.

"So y'all still alive?! By the way, let's talk inside the manor! Aren't you tired just standing there?!" the Old Woman blabbed.

Of course, none of us dared to be against her and I looked at Crescente who had mixed emotions on her face. The look on her face was confused and angry.

"Crescy..., Calm down." I said and held her hand, she just smiled at me and squeezed my hand. Her hand was cold and sweaty, and she was also trembling. It is not visible to others but I can clearly see it because I am close to her.

You might be wondering why we're using Crescente's nickname, it is because she asked us to drop the formalities of calling her full name.

A few minutes passed and all of us were currently in the meeting room.

Yes, there is a meeting room in this manor.

Crescente is currently sitting at the head of the table while on her right side is the old woman and on her left side is Danti.

"I think you kids should leave. I need to talk to Runa." Crescente said with a serious face but Danti sneered at her and glared.

"If you want to talk, then talk. Don't mind us." Danti said aggressively which made Crescente glared back at him.

"Dantalion, this is important for me and Runa. Stop being hard headed and do what I said." Crescente calmly said but her tone was too low and made us tremble.

"No. I have something to discuss with the both of you." He tried his best to aggressively pursue Crescente's approval and in the end she accepted it.

"Before I talk to Runa, what do you want to discuss with us?" Crescente asked and Danti suddenly pulled out a paper and left it on the table which made Crescente pale.

"Dantalion, how did you get that?" Crescente asked and quickly got the paper.

Ranri, Mirelle, Keon, and I were only watching them and did not dare to intervene. We knew this was something between them but for unknown reason, I didn't want to go. I want to stay here and solve the problem of Crescente and Danti.

"When you were unconscious, I was the one who looked after you. Something fell from your table and when I picked it up it slipped from the book that fell." Danti explained in detail, "And that book was similar to the book that this Old Woman gave to us." He pointed to the Old Woman who raised her eyebrow when she heard the 'Old Woman'.

"Who's the Old Woman?!" the Old Woman screamed.

'Deja Vu'

Her reaction was the same as Crescente.

"I told you! My name is Runa!"

"Ahh. I forgot. We forgot. No one cares about you." Danti said nonchalantly and it seems the tense atmosphere lessened.

"Is this what you wanted to talk about last week?" Crescente asked with a serious face and Danti slowly nodded which made Crescente sighed, "Very well."

The tension faded but still the atmosphere was too chilly. Ranri and I looked at each other and sighed.

'We don't know much of it but at last, we will know why Danti's been acting weird for the past few days.'

And finally, the weird atmosphere comes to an end because of another uninvited guest, the mysterious old woman, Runa.

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