“Was I rude to you, Brother?”
Favorability: -65%
This crazy first bastard! Even if I’m a younger brother he doesn’t like, how can he drop the favorability even more when I’m being so polite and courteous? What’s the problem, you Andrew who has no common sense!
“I’ve had my coming-of-age ceremony, so I’ll pull myself together from now on and try to be a good younger brother!”
I was so dumbfounded that I was speechless, but once I had chosen a choice, I had to say the predetermined line to the end.
Favorability: -66%
… This is also a great achievement.
System applauds your very dull choice and its results. ( 〃● ₃● ) ~ﾐ
Don’t tease me, I’m already annoyed. What choice could I have made other than 3 among the choices you gave me in the first place!
System thinks you’re pitifully cute for not being able to eat even when it feeds you.
At this point, I couldn’t help but suspect. Is that buff that adds 10 percent when the favorability goes up also applied when it goes down? Is that why it’s plunging down so quickly and steeply?
System pouts, asking if you’re treating it like such a scammer.
Items not listed in the notice will not be applied! (ර ൧ර☆)
Oh my god, no? If not, how can this kind of result…?
“Noah Hamilton.”
It was when I was lamenting like that in my mind. Andrew’s eyes, which had been listening to me quietly, were filled with a sharp chill.
“You’re good at spouting ridiculous nonsense. What? You’re going to be a good younger brother? How dare you?”
Just in time, the window that was wide open behind him looked very tempting. If the result of this conversation isn’t very tempting, wouldn’t it be nice to just dive and go back to yesterday morning? It’s only about a day.
“Considering your vulgar origins, it was a luxury for you to even have the Hamilton name, but you can really be my brother. You don’t think so, do you?”
“Brother.”
Favorability: -67%
Now, the favorability dropped as soon as I opened my mouth. Mi, mi, mi, crazy. How can this be? Even if I can’t recover Andrew’s favorability, I have to stop it from going down any further, thinking about the future…!
“Well. Considering your father, who came back pregnant with a child after running away from home, you’re probably just dreaming without knowing your place.”
It became increasingly difficult to manage my expression. He crossed the line hard. My father was an Omega from a collateral branch of the Hamilton family. He said he wanted to see the bigger world for himself, so he shook off the adults around him who were trying to stop him and left home on his own, only to return a few years later pregnant with a child. And that was at a time when it was difficult to abort the child, not long before the birth.
My biological father died of an illness not long after giving birth to me, and I was originally supposed to be abandoned at an orphanage as an illegitimate child whose father was unknown. However, my biological father’s parents, seeing me as the last trace of their only child, gave me the family name and raised me with care.
“I saw yesterday that your Pheromone control was terrible. Who knows? You might follow in his footsteps. Be proud. Besides that handsome face, you might have another inheritance from your biological father.”
Wow. Is he really saying this? Even though I didn’t know his face and had no memory of him, my biological father was someone who held a somewhat important meaning to me. In an instant, my anger flared. Without thinking about the consequences, I shouted.
“Shut your mouth, Andrew Hamilton!”
I just yelled because I was pissed, but the aftermath was the problem. Ugh. If it weren’t for other issues, I would have endured it somehow. I had no parents in my past life, and even after being reincarnated, I had never felt the affection of the biological parents who gave birth to me, so I was particularly sensitive to such topics.
Moreover, it wasn’t like he irresponsibly abandoned me after giving birth; my biological father had insisted on having me despite the opposition around him, so even though I didn’t know his face, I felt a strange affection for him.
Should I just dive out the window? Should I just write off a day as an initial investment?
“Did you… did you just, what did you say…!”
Andrew’s voice trembled as if he was shocked. When picking a fight, he would rather ignore me completely, but he had never called me by my name and spoken informally like this, so it was understandable that he was shocked, but who cares? Not my problem.
Thinking that I would jump out the window if things got really bad, I kindly repeated, “Didn’t you hear? Just shut up, Andrew.”
It was then. Ding-dong! A clear sound effect rang out, and a new notification window appeared in front of my eyes.
‘Andrew Hamilton’s favorability has increased by 1.1 percent.
“…”
Huh? Is this bastard finally crazy? It went up, not down?
I blinked in confusion and cautiously opened my mouth. Brother, no, Andrew…?, I said. Then, as if by magic. Again, ding-dong! Favorability increases.
‘Andrew Hamilton’s favorability has increased by 1.1 percent.
Favorability: -64.8%
“B-Brother. Are you sick? You’re sick, right? You must be sick?”
He’s not just crazy, he’s completely insane. Can the System glitch on characters too, not just the System window? I wanted to grab him by the collar and shake him, but I held back and quickly asked.
But what do you know? This crazy bastard dropped the favorability he had just raised in response to my concern.
What is this, this is weird… I couldn’t find the words and just gaped.
Maybe… He enjoys being treated roughly? The Crown Prince seemed to have a slightly sadistic tendency, but this guy, on the other hand, wants to endure pain or humiliation…?
I couldn’t bring myself to call him a crazy bastard, so I called out Andrew again. Then, again, his favorability increased by 1.1 percent. This time, his icy expression even melted slightly. His ears, flushed with a faint red, were so out of place that I was afraid they would appear in my dreams.
Those shy ears looked like a clumsy boy caught up in the throes of first love, overwhelmed by emotions he couldn’t handle.
Haha, if someone who didn’t know the situation saw this scene, they would think Andrew liked me…, huh?
N-No way, this bastard… But is that possible? With his favorability running so extremely in the negative? It doesn’t make sense!
Without realizing it, I stumbled backward. No, right? Please say it’s not true. Not Andrew of all people? ‘That’ Andrew Hamilton? Likes me…? Before I could even think about using that fact to my advantage, a sense of instinctive revulsion surged.
System reminds you that the multifaceted emotions of a complex person cannot be fully represented by a single barometer of romantic feelings called favorability.
Anyway.
Congratulations, a slightly flawed great achievement and an equally a-ma-zing sense!
(~˙∇˙)~📣
As soon as I realized something, another loud fanfare erupted.
‘Andrew Hamilton’s Secret Preferences: Noah Hamilton (unlocked), xxxxxxx.
You have successively discerned the preference area of a capturable character in a short period of time.
As a reward for the sudden quest, ‘Save-Load 1 Ticket’ is awarded.
We hope it helps you on your journey.
“Haha, ha, hahahaha…”
I couldn’t believe it, or rather, I didn’t want to believe it, and I couldn’t help but laugh at the keywords. Goosebumps were all over my arms.
What, this… So that’s why his favorability had been plummeting so far…?
You have successfully discerned the secret preferences of the capturable character ‘Andrew Hamilton’.
However, as long as you maintain your status as the youngest son of Hamilton, you will not be able to hit the preference area of the character you have discerned.
In this state, the additional rewards will be greatly reduced due to the mediocre success and lukewarm failure of Sudden Quest 2.
The real-time location of the capture target ‘Lennox’ cannot be provided. Instead, clues will be provided in the near future to help you figure out where he is.
I was so dumbfounded that I just kept laughing. My head was throbbing. I thought Andrew was glitching, but it wasn’t him. I was the one glitching. Should I just close my eyes and jump? Go back to yesterday morning? Or not?
Whether he knew I was confused or not, Andrew was just trying to act as cold as usual. But since I had already seen through him, that pathetic bluff was no threat to me at all.
“Andrew.”
“…Why are you calling me?”
When I called out softly as if testing him, Andrew replied in a noticeably softened tone. Still, he couldn’t even make eye contact with me.
Wow. What should I do? Is this real? Is this really happening? Is this not a dream?
System reminds you that it is not yet time to sleep.