I Became the Eldest Daughter of 10 Siblings - Chapter 114

It's cold.

So cold it feels like my flesh will freeze.

Already more than 3 hours have passed.

I've been waiting for Jung Suhyeok in front of the SUC building without a plan, but I haven't even caught a glimpse of his shadow.

Anyone who sees me might think I'm a sasaeng fan.

Fortunately, the sky has darkened. Thanks to that, there were no eyes recognizing me.

Well, there weren't even snowmen, let alone people.

That's good, but...

Now the weather is causing trouble.

Snow-white flakes fall endlessly. The street is bleached as if covered by a white blanket.

This is bad. Checking the weather alert, it says there's a heavy snow warning.

Before I could meet Jung Suhyeok, I was about to freeze to death buried in sleet.

"Ah, it's cold..."

Every time I took a labored breath, thick steam flowed from my mouth.

My hands were already swollen, and my cheeks were flushed red like rubies.

If it was going to be like this, I should have brought some hand warmers...

By the way, is this guy really not planning to come out? Isn't this too much?

I painfully took out my phone with frozen hands. Traces of conversation flickered in the light.

[Han Yujin: Okay, I'll come see you now]

[Jung Suhyeok: You're just torturing yourself, whatever.]

[Han Yujin: =)]

[Han Yujin: (Selfie photo)]

[Han Yujin: I've arrived]

[Han Yujin: I'll wait until you come out]

[Han Yujin: It's freezing]

[Han Yujin: Waiting for 1 hour now]

[Han Yujin: Please grant my request just once]

[Han Yujin: My hands are frozen]

[Han Yujin: 2]

[Han Yujin: 2 hours now]

[Han Yujin: Please answer,,, it's cold]

[Han Yujin: Are you ignoring me?]

[Han Yujin: 3 hours have passed...]

[Han Yujin: Come out already;;;;]

[Han Yujin: Pleeeease]

[Han Yujin: You're really too much]

This bastard... he's cruel, so cruel!

Jung Suhyeok who doesn't even show his face is cruel, but I'm also quite stubborn for waiting 3 hours in the dead of winter.

But I have no choice.

He's the only one who can lift the ban on reporter Nam Euibeom's access.

If Jung Suhyeok, the old-timer of SUC, uses his influence, lifting the ban would be a piece of cake.

So I'm waiting like a statue of a woman waiting for her husband.

But being turned away at the door, I might lose my life before I can even open my mouth.

"Ah, geez..."

It's so damn cold, really!

I've often heard that I'm lucky, but it seems I have absolutely no luck with weather.

Should I just go inside?

...No. That might create rumors like eyewitness accounts.

Then what should I do?

I'm freezing to death.

Should I tell Nam Euibeom I'm sorry but he should accept his fate and work hard as a social affairs reporter?

...That's not right either.

Nam Euibeom would have become a star reporter in the e-sports field even without me.

I can't morally stand by and watch him suffer and be unable to be the gaming reporter he loves because of me.

A situation where I can't do this or that.

"Ah, just come out already!"

The moment I kicked the snow piled on the road in frustration.

"...Unnie?"

A clear voice was heard.

I looked up to see Han Sieun standing there.

That exact expression.

The expression that says 'Why is unnie here?'

"Unnie... is that you?"

"Sieun-ah."

Han Sieun's eyes trembled, unable to continue speaking.

Then she let out a shout like a scream.

"...Unnie!"

"I can hear you just fine, you know?"

Han Sieun's hand touched my frozen cheek. The warm body temperature made me feel like even my mind was clearing up.

Han Sieun asked urgently:

"What are you doing here? Why did you come? No, how long have you been here for your whole body to be as cold as ice?!"

"Well,"

"Oh my god, what should we do..."

Han Sieun fidgeted anxiously and shook her hands.

Then she tried to raise my body temperature by touching various parts of my face with her delicate hands.

Going to my cheeks, then ears, then neck, and finally my hands.

"Unnie. You weren't here because of me, were you?"

That's not it...

"You could have just called or texted."

I'm telling you it's not.

"I really can't live because of you, unnie!"

Han Sieun muttered worriedly. Tears even gathered at the corners of her eyes.

Seeing my sister worry like this, a strange emotion welled up in my heart.

An emotion I didn't know when I lived as an only son.

Han Sieun held my hand tightly and said:

"Let's go inside first. It's warm inside."

"I can't."

"Why are you like this, really."

"There's someone I absolutely have to meet, but I'm waiting because that person won't come out."

Then, Han Sieun asked with wide eyes like a deer:

"It wasn't me?"

"...No."

"Then who is it?"

"Your team's ace."

"Senior Jung Suhyeok?"

"Yeah."

Han Sieun put her hand to her forehead.

"So how long have you been waiting?"

"Don't worry. I haven't waited long."

"There's snow piled up on your head but you haven't waited long?! Do you want to see me get angry?"

Startled by Han Sieun's rare threat, I spoke up:

"...hours."

"I can't hear you."

"...Three hours."

"...What did you say?"

As soon as she heard "three hours", Han Sieun's eyes changed.

With a look that could kill.

"So Suhyeok sunbae, no, Jung Suhyeok sunbae, no, Jung Suhyeok, no, that guy..."

Damn.

His title is being downgraded in real-time.

"Made unnie wait outside for three hours, is that right? In this weather?"

"Uh, yeah... But it's also true that I came uninvited so it's not entirely his fault,"

"I'll call him out."

"...Huh?"

Han Sieun's eyes gleamed with cold anger.

"I'll call that person out."

"Hmm..."

Jung Suhyeok's eyes wavered with complex emotions as he looked at his phone.

The screen was filled with messages from Han Yujin saying she had been waiting for 3 hours.

"That can't be."

He chuckled and turned off his phone.

"Wow, it's really cold outside!"

Eo Jaehyun entered the practice room, shivering.

"I almost died on the way to the convenience store. It's practically an avalanche out there, an avalanche."

Then he immediately sat down next to Jung Suhyeok and spoke in a low voice.

"Suhyeok hyung."

"Yeah."

"Han Yujin is outside."

"...What?"

Jung Suhyeok raised his sharp eyebrows.

"Who did you say is out there?"

"HaYoo, HaYoo."

At those words, Jung Suhyeok felt a chill run down his spine.

He licked his lips and asked again.

"What for?"

"Of course I don't know. I don't have a good relationship with Han Yujin. But since she was with Sieun, I guess she came to see her sister?"

Jung Suhyeok hurriedly looked around.

Han Sieun really wasn't visible.

Eo Jaehyun spoke in an even lower voice:

"I glanced at her as I was passing by. Han Yujin looked terrible."

"How bad?"

"Well, like a beggar. Snow piled on her hat, body shivering. Looks like she's been waiting for quite a while. Did she have a fight with Sieun or something?"

Hearing that, Jung Suhyeok laughed dejectedly.

"...She's even crazier than I imagined."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Nothing. Just something."

At that moment, the practice room door was flung open violently.

It was Han Sieun.

But the atmosphere was different from usual.

Her face was cold as always, but cold anger seeped from her slightly trembling chin.

"Sunbae."

She strode over and threw words at Jung Suhyeok in a sarcastic tone.

"Please go out."

"Where to?"

Jung Suhyeok replied with a relaxed expression.

"Where else? Don't pretend you don't know."

The team members in the practice room stirred at her cold tone, which they had never heard before.

Han Sieun was called the "fairy" in the practice room because of her polite and calm personality.

But the figure she was showing now was not a fairy, but a snow woman full of anger.

Eo Jaehyun, who had been listening from the side, frowned and snapped at Han Sieun.

"Hey, Han Sieun! Are you crazy? How can you suddenly act up when you've been doing well until now?"

"..."

"We may not have raised you preciously like a treasure, but we treated you well as the new maknae, didn't we? How dare a rookie who hasn't even debuted be so rude to Suhyeok hyung,"

"Jaehyun sunbae."

Han Sieun turned her head and glared at Eo Jaehyun. Overwhelmed by the pressure in her cold gaze, Eo Jaehyun shut his mouth.

"Oppa, please stay quiet."

Eo Jaehyun's lips quivered, then he gave an awkward smile and curled his fingers into a circle.

"...O-okay."

Crushed by the aura she was emitting, Eo Jaehyun scratched his head and stood up.

Takuya, who had transferred to SUC from Japan, watched the situation with a bewildered expression.

He sidled up to Eo Jaehyun and spoke in clumsy Korean:

"Jaehyun."

"Yes, Takku hyung."

"Why they crazy?"

"I don't know either."

Takuya anxiously bit his nails.

"Sieun-chan usually cute and nice. But now Sieun eyes strange. Kowai. Scary."

"I know right. Even scarier than Han Yujin."

"Yes. Eyes that. Psycho. Crazy girl."

"Sigh, the women in that family..."

At that moment, Han Sieun shot a fierce glare at the two.

The two men's faces turned pale.

"...Si-Sieun-chan!"

"I was just complimenting how spirited you look charging in. Really."

"Th-that's right! Not kowai, kawaii!"

The two backed away while making excuses in a fluster.

Tension hung thick in the quiet practice room.

"The sisters have gone crazy in tandem."

Jung Suhyeok laughed through his nose.

"Sorry, but I never told her to come. Your sister came on her own."

"Even so, how could you leave a person, my sister, out in this weather for 3 hours?"

"Leave her? I never had her to begin with."

Han Sieun bit her lower lip.

"Unnie's face is completely drained of blood now. Her lips have turned blue too."

"Of course they would be."

"It's 3 hours, 3 hours. If she waited that long, it must be something important, right?"

"Yes. And whether I listen to that important thing or not is my decision."

"Go out. It's not that hard, is it?"

"I will go out. In..."

Jung Suhyeok answered indifferently while checking his wristwatch.

"24 hours?"

"..."

An angry breath escaped between Han Sieun's lips.

"No. Go out now."

"Well..."

Jung Suhyeok shrugged and turned his chair.

"I absolutely hate snow."

Then he nonchalantly turned on the computer screen and started a solo ranked game.

"...What are you doing right now?"

Without even looking at Han Sieun, who was asking with her eyes wide open, Jung Suhyeok calmly replied:

"Practicing."

"Unnie is shivering outside but now you're..."

Thump thump.

Han Sieun approached him.

And without hesitation, she reached for the computer. Her delicate fingertip firmly pressed the round power button.

In that moment, the team members in the practice room jumped up in surprise.

"Sieun-ah! What's wrong with you!"

"Hey! Quickly bring Jiwon hyung or the coach!"

Jung Suhyeok took his eyes off the darkened monitor and glared at Han Sieun.

"What are you trying to do?"

"Next time I'll break the computer, so go out quickly."

"What are you doing, I asked."

"I said go out."

The atmosphere was so sharp that even breathing felt cautious.

The taut tension was on the verge of snapping like an overstretched rubber band.

As the precarious moment continued where one word could become a spark.

Jung Suhyeok smiled and shook his head.

"...Alright."

Then with a disgusted expression, he picked up his coat and opened his mouth.

"At this point, I'm really curious what she has to say."