Episode 12: About Big Bro
781: Hakase
Oh yeah, the other day I went to a cat cafe with big bro.
The cats were cute, but you know, it kind of felt like we were patronizing them.
782: Anonymous Combatant
Well those places are basically like hostess clubs, but with cats instead of women. Cat cafes, more like cat cabarets.
783: Anonymous Combatant
Hakase, you’re a cat person?
784: Hakase
Yeah, I like them. Funny enough, there are cats in my dimension too.
By the way, big bro is more into birds. This time he just went along with my request.
785: Anonymous Combatant
Being a bird person is kind of…rare, isn’t it? I mean some people keep parrots and stuff.
786: Anonymous Combatant
Sounds like you and big bro have a good relationship.
787: Anonymous Combatant
Cats are cute, aren’t they? Don’t you want to have one as a pet?
788: Hakase
Meow, the cat-ear Kunoichi one won’t let me.
She says “If you’re going to keep a pet, keep me instead, nya!” So it’s forbidden.
789: Anonymous Combatant
Ah! This is why good-looking guys are the worst!
790: Anonymous Combatant
I want a silver-haired cat-girl to dote on me like that too.
791: Hakase
Right? Isn’t it great? Jealous?
Well, that was when It was 13 years old. Now as an adult, it’s a bit…
792: Anonymous Combatant
Girls are tricky, huh.
793: Anonymous Combatant
Yeah, well, that’s a childish opinion.
794: Anonymous Combatant
Well, if you were a girl, you’d have to consider things from their perspective (number of years without a girlfriend = age).
795: Hakase (looking for a partner)
You mean that condescending male attitude, huh.
796: Anonymous Combatant
You have absolutely zero credibility when it comes to talking about women!
797: Anonymous Combatant
If Hakase just kept quiet, he might be popular.
798: Anonymous Combatant
Looks-wise, he’s definitely top-tier, no doubt.
799: Anonymous Combatant
But his personality is such a mess. No matter how handsome the silver-haired guy is, he’s still an idiot savant.
800: Anonymous Combatant
Nah, it’s kinda cool in a Last Elixir kind of way.
801: Hakase
Look, it’s not that I’m unpopular, it’s just that I’ve been dedicated to my research.
I joined the organization at 17, so I was really busy with work. It’s not that I can’t be popular…probably.
802: Anonymous Combatant
Oh, is that so, Hakase? Same here, man.
Back in school I was busy with club activities, and after becoming a working adult, I was just too capable so work kept piling up.
Didn’t really get many opportunities, you know?
803: Hakase
I feel you, it’s rough.
When you’re that capable, you just end up too busy to get the timing right, huh?
804: Anonymous Combatant
Stop deluding yourself, dude.
805: Anonymous Combatant
Oh yeah, big bro is popular though, right? Soldier A-chan followed him when she left the organization.
806: Anonymous Combatant
Ah, and that sexy woman executive was head over heels for him too, if I recall.
807: Anonymous Combatant
Seems like you respected big bro a fair bit too, Hakase.
We only have bits of information, but what was he really like?
808: Anonymous Combatant
On one hand he seems like a good person, but it’s puzzling that he defected from the current leader.
809: Hakase
Ah, about big bro…it’s a bit of a heavy story, but you want to hear it?
810: Anonymous Combatant
Yeah, let’s hear it.
811: Anonymous Combatant
I’m honestly quite interested in the inner workings of Delnkeim.
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812: Hakase
Mmm, alright then. But big bro joined the organization before me, so parts of this are just based on hearsay. Use your imagination to fill in the details.
So, what was big bro like?
He was the chief executive officer overseeing the four executives, known as the Cursed Sword King, the strongest man in the organization.
And he was the current leader’s “brother”.
813: Anonymous Combatant
Whoa, seriously, leader actual brother?
814: Anonymous Combatant
I guess the real chief executives are something else.
815: Anonymous Combatant
Don’t go calling Hakase a fake one now.
816: Hakase
Yeah, I’m working hard too, you know.
Originally, big bro was an orphan that the previous leader had picked up from some battlefield.
He joined the organization around age 10. At that point, he was already a formidable fighter, and since I wasn’t around yet and we couldn’t prepare evil spirits or evil soldier, in that era he was always at the frontlines of our invasions.
817: Anonymous Combatant
Damn, what a crazy kid.
818: Anonymous Combatant
Hakase, you’re just casually bragging about your own achievements there, huh?
819: Hakase
Well, the previous leader himself relied on brute strength too.
He took a liking to big bro, who embodied the idea of beating down anyone who got in their way.
For the orphan bro, the previous leader was the only reliable adult around.
There were probably some twists and turns I don’t know about, but with mutual consent, big bro became the previous leader’s adopted son at age 12.
Fundamentally, big bro was just highly capable.
The idea at the time was that he was taken in as an adopted son to groom as the next leader of the organization.
…But then, two years later when big bro was 14, the current leader was born.
820: Anonymous Combatant
Quite an age gap there.
821: Anonymous Combatant
I dunno, it’s starting to sound like some messy drama.
822: Hakase
I joined the organization when the current leader was 5 years old. Back then, those two got along well.
big bro often looked after the leader, and the leader adored big bro too. They were truly like family.
However, as I mentioned before, the previous leader lacked leadership ability.
He was bad at preparing for the future too.
He ended up passing away from illness without leaving a will or naming a successor.
823: Anonymous Combatant
Woah, he really left behind a huge mess…
824: Anonymous Combatant
That’s like the most classic cause of conflict, right there.
825: Hakase
To cut to the chase, the current leader, who was 11 at the time and the previous leader’s actual child, inherited the organization.
Meanwhile, big bro took on the position equivalent to vice-leader, the chief executive officer.
To put it bluntly, big bro was more capable than the current leader.
Because of the age gap, he naturally surpassed current leader in combat ability and management skills.
But he couldn’t become the leader. For the sole reason that he didn’t carry the previous leader’s blood.
In order to get everyone’s approval, this was the arrangement we had to go with.
826: Anonymous Combatant
Well if it was an organization the previous leader created himself, it makes sense that his actual child would be more accepted to lead it.
But I bet big bro was pretty dissatisfied with that…
827: Anonymous Combatant
But doesn’t that put him in a good position to really control the leader from behind the scenes?
828: Anonymous Combatant
If he was the kind of guy who could pull dirty tricks like that, I don’t think he would have defected.
829: Anonymous Combatant
So then the current leader is 14 now, big bro is 28, and you’re 26, Hakase?
The leader is still a minor by their standards, huh.
830: Hakase
Things between the family members started getting strained around then.
The leader was trying its best, but being so young, many things didn’t go smoothly.
The old guard started coming out saying “The kid’s the previous leader’s bloodline!” to praise the leader, but then they’d turn around and say “But she’s unreliable!”
Those who expected big bro to become leader started resenting the leader even more.
It was just the worst situation.
831: Hakase
It was in the midst of this mess that the invasion of Japan was carried out.
It was a plan the previous leader had made that the current leader inherited.
At first, big bro tried to support the current leader’s role. There was even time to hang out and drink together in the early days.
But forcing through the invasion while the organization was in shambles was just too much strain.
The leader gradually became more stubborn, and fights between the leader and big bro increased.
832: Anonymous Combatant
Whoa, I came to Hakase’s thread and we’re hearing some heavy stuff.
833: Anonymous Combatant
What kind of fights were they?
834: Anonymous Combatant
Big bro…
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