W-What is that?!

Klaus

- Karina? — The pale, blonde woman who answers the door arches her eyebrows, surprised at your daughter appearing out of nowhere. —What did you come here to do? Was she fired?
I analyze the face of Vivian, the mother of the little female in front of me. They have some similarities, like height, for example, but Vivian looks sicker, her cheeks are even sunken. In addition to not having the Asian features that Karina has and her hair is straight and very short.
— Hi, mom — he replies awkwardly and I can see the hands he placed behind your back moving uncomfortably. — You called me saying you were feeling sick, so I came. I was afraid it was more serious than you always say it is. — He shrugs.
Karina didn't want me to come, she really thought she would receive a strange call from her mother and come to the countryside alone after I had fucked her on Dante's table. Who wasn't even in the company and once again disappeared into thin air.
It almost seems like I would let this female walk around alone now that she is seen as my property.
—But it was just a little dizziness, my daughter! There was no need to moved so far and still on the same day and…
Then the woman finally notices me standing a few meters away from Karina, outside her house, with a very large hoodie that covers my head and horns and that makes me look ridiculous. I had to put my ass inside my pants.
—W-What is that?! — Her eyes widen and her smell of fear It's bitter and strange on my tongue.
— This is Klaus… — Karina turns sideways and looks at me with doubt about how to explain what is happening here. I decide to make things easier for her, I get closer and put my hand on her waist — He's my boss...
I give a short nod of her head, saying “hi” and she stares at me in horror, then pays attention to the car parked in front of her small, neglected house in the middle of a not-so-busy neighborhood in the city of Nolan.
Karina and I came by helicopter to save time, but I decided to rent a car to make it easier to get around short distances.
— What is that… in his head? — She whispers. If I were human, no
I would be able to hear what he said clearly, but since that's not the case, I can even capture his disgusted tone.
— He's a... — I know what Karina is thinking now.I tell or not
Do I tell you that I am a descendant of what they call a devil?—Elf Persanes.
Vivian swallows hard and manages to turn even paler.
— My God in heaven, my daughter! Get him in now!

***

As soon as I entered the tiny house, Vivian gave me a smile that looked much more like a scared grimace. I'm not sure, but I think she's in shock.
Then the woman took her daughter by the arm, excused herself and went to talk in a bathroom.
— We don't have rooms for him, Karina — he whispers, sounding very angry. — How can you bring one… one of those home?! They are all rich, I saw it on TV. There is a program that shows the luxurious life of elves. You must think we are beggars!
— Mom, there’s no point in whispering that he listens to you — Karina says between her teeth and gives a low sigh. She knows that even if I'm sitting in the armchair in the living room, the only item that almost fits my size here, I can still know exactly what they're talking about. — And it's okay, it was Klaus who insisted on coming. We're leaving soon, I just wanted to know how you were. How about we take advantage of the fact that it's not yet seven o'clock and try to make an appointment?
Karina tried to discourage me a lot until she understood that I wouldn't give her any option other than coming together to check on her mother, it didn't matter that the whole house was a cramped place with a strange smell.
I honestly expected a little more when the female signed a contract with me for this place.
- Query? Karina, we don’t have the money for that — Vivian insists in whispering.
— I'll pay — he says and the mother remains silent. Maybe they are gesturing, but I can't tell, the bathroom door is closed. — I'm his secretary and I take care of a lot of important things, so I get a good salary — he lies.
— Spend your salary on other things, I know you need new clothes — the mother advises and leaves me even more intrigued by their relationship.
I've never been able to observe up close what a human relationship between mother and daughter is like, especially when the family doesn't have assets or a legacy. So far, it seems a lot less stressful than living in a family where everything you say has to be calculated.
— Klaus bought me new clothes, because we've been in very strange places.
chic and I needed clothes that were appropriate — he explains, walking awkwardly between lies and truth.
— Your boss bought you new clothes, pays you a great salary and brought me here so you could see me? — he asks, incredulously.
— Yeah… — he murmurs and they fall silent again. — Klaus, can you come here? — Karina calls after a while, opening the door, and I don't bother to pretend I wasn't listening.
The bathroom is even smaller than I imagined, lower than the rest of the house and I would definitely bang my horns on the ceiling. But Vivian and Karina manage to stay inside it without any problems, which is very strange.
— My mother is worried that you won't feel comfortable here at home.
The easiest option would be to let Karina come alone, but since she's still acting as if everything I said in the elevator wasn't true, I had to come and investigate whether the female wouldn't try to outwit me and run away.
— Don't get me wrong, Mr. Dark Elf, but it would be better if you go to a hotel. My house is very humble and small, and you are... — Vivian looks at me from top to bottom and swallows hard. — Very big, the bed in Karina's old room will make you uncomfortable, and besides her room, there's only mine, and my bed is also a single.
Vivian comes out of the bathroom, which is an unusual place to go and talk, and comes into the living room. She wears a long, old dress that looks like a curtain. — I don't mind sleeping in Karina's old room next to her. — The second I finish the sentence, Karina starts coughing as if she choked.
— What do you mean you’re going to sleep in the same room as my daughter?


***

Karina

I want to make mincemeat of Klaus, starting with his tail! Does this bastard not realize that he is going to make my mother open her mouth to all the neighbors that her “dear little daughter” is dating a Persian elf?!
— It's not like that, sleeping in the same room. What he meant is Sleep close to me, in case I get a work call in the middle of the night, understand? — I try to fix it, but the look on my mother's face tells me she's already full of ideas. — I understand… — He squints his eyes.
— No one can know that Klaus is here, Mom, please. It has to be absolute secret. — I start to beg and before I can try to convince Klaus to leave and leave me here, we hear someone outside the house.
— Vivian, are you there?! I brought you some soup left over from there
House!
I feel my face heat up with nervousness and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I know exactly who that foreign voice and accent belongs to and I'm not ready to face it today.
— What is my aunt doing here? — I whisper to my mother.
I have some aunts on my father's side, they poke fun at my body, but they are always giving me pots of food and trying to feed me until I explode. Now, the woman at my door has always been the opposite of that.
— Mi-Suk comes here every week and she keeps shouting until I answer — explains and I want to run away and hide. — You'd better go up to the first floor and stay there until she leaves — he says, being too formal with Klaus.
— It's best if I go with him, mom. — I take Klaus by the arm and I start heading towards the stairs, where I see several photos of me and my father hanging on the wall.
Klaus, thank God, stays silent and just watches, like he's at the zoo or something.
— No, she's already seen the car in front of the house and will want to know who it belongs to.
Better you stay and your… boss goes up. — Pull me back and I almost ask Klaus for help, however, I know that my mother is right and I need to stay here and face my nightmare head on.
— Okay, but just for a few minutes. — I sigh quietly. — Climb to the my room and stay there, when it's over I'll come after you - I tell the
persanes, who nods and goes up the stairs without even looking back, almost touching the ceiling with his horns.
— Let's dismiss her quickly, okay?
— Okay — I reply, wanting to invent a faint.
— Thank you very much for coming, my daughter, I missed you very much. — Then she hugs me quickly, suddenly and I don't even react, with silly tears wanting to well up in my eyes. I missed her smell so much, even her tone of voice. — Now I'm going there — she says, walking towards the door, where she greets my aunt who insists on going in for a while to rest her legs.
Mi-Suk hasn't changed almost anything, she's still smaller than me, very thin and pale. But now she has several wrinkles on her face and has gray strands in the middle of her straight, short black hair.
— Karina, did you finally come to visit your mother?! — Open your eyes and Come give me a few pats on the arms. It's not in your culture to have a lot of physical contact, like hugs and kisses. — I thought I would leave you alone longer.
— I was busy at work — I explain, keeping a mask of fake smile.
— Even though Ha-Yun is married, she visits me. — She sits on the sofa, as if this it was her own house, and my mother is going to put what you gave her in the kitchen. — She brought my granddaughter and came to make kimchi with me last week, then her husband came to pick them up. He is a very good and handsome man.
— I imagine… — I murmur, realizing that Mi-Suk is evaluating each little piece of my body and comparing it to your sacred Ha-Yun, one of the cousins that I don't miss at all.
Her eyes focus on my stomach and thighs and I start to feel sweat running down my back.
— I hope our Karina can get a man like that too.
— Karina already has a man like that. He is very handsome and rich, he is the owner of the
car you saw outside — she lies, probably bothered by my aunt's air of superiority and places herself on the sofa next to her.
I almost spit the saliva in my mouth in my mother's face I was so angry.
scare.
— Oh, what a good thing! — His exclamation doesn't sound very happy. - And where is he now?
I knew this was going to suck!
— He… went to sort out some things in a taxi and left the car here with me for me to use when I return to Red Town — I make it up, just wanting some natural disaster to make this floor open up and swallow me.
— Hm... But you have to be careful, Karina, handsome men don't They like girls who don't control their mouths. Try eating less rice, who knows, your cheeks will shrink and become like my Ha-Yun's. She has a perfectly shaped face and has never needed plastic surgery.
It takes everything in me not to roll my eyes at Mi-Suk and I keep imagining Klaus listening to all this, not knowing what he's thinking. He may act like I'm worse for being human, but never for being fat.
— Karina doesn't eat much, she just has the same body as I did when I was her. —Try to explain. — When I met your brother, I had the same body as her, Mi-Suk.
Hearing my mother say this squeezes my heart, because it makes me notice even more how thin she is after cancer.
— You may think so, but for it to be that size, it must be eating other wrong things then. There's no need to be ashamed, Ha-Yun had to go on a bit of a diet after her pregnancy, she lost all her clothes and gained about five kilos. But I made a lot of soup and gave it to her to eat. Her husband was very happy afterwards, very grateful to me. — He gestures widely with his hands while he speaks.
— If Ha-Yun's husband bothers her because she gained five kilos,
So he's insufferable. — My mother rolls her eyes, being more direct than I've seen her to date.
When I was younger, she used to treat my father's family very carefully, she didn't say anything too harsh to them. The customs were too different and she wanted to please them. However, now I think that has changed and I can hardly believe it.
— Me, your father and your aunts, Karina, came from South Korea very new, and when we arrived here our mother forbade us to eat anything other than Korean food. We all sat at the table and ate together, so my weight never changed, I stayed away from the wrong things and only ate a portion of rice — it tells the same story I've heard since I was little. — It is very important for women to take care of their figure and…
— Mi-Suk, I'm tired and it's already getting dark. — My mother puts standing up suddenly, with a less than happy expression, and out of the corner of my eye I notice Klaus coming down the stairs.What he is doing?!—You better go now. You've had time to rest your legs, go home.
She crosses her arms in front of her chest and persane stops in her tracks, her eyes starting to glow yellow. He must have heard everything and got angry.
I make a surreptitious signal for him to go back upstairs, before my aunt notices the giant man with horns, but of course Klaus doesn't obey and continues standing there, like a guard dog.
— Oh yes… okay then. — My aunt squints, no.
liking my mother's tone. She was never kicked out of here like that, even when she said the most outrageous things. — See you later, Karina. I'm going to tell my Ha-Yun that I saw you and who knows, maybe she'll give you some diets... — she says, going back to evaluating my body, as proof that she really has no idea.
My mother takes her to the door in a silence that speaks volumes about the situation, which gives me time to run to Klaus, who has gone unnoticed by the lady, who is without his usual glasses, and make him climb the two steps he came down. .
- What are you thinking? — whisper.
— What do you think I'm doing? This Mi-Suk crossed all the barriers.
— She's always been like this and now she's even older, so let it go. there or this woman will spread word to the neighborhood that there is a devil here at home. — I push Klaus with all my strength and he still doesn't move. I'm putting all my weight on my arms and the man doesn't move an inch.
—No one will believe her if she says she saw me, so let me go there
It is…
— It doesn't affect me, okay? Nevermind! — I interrupt your sentence about how he intends to assault a two-foot tall Korean lady.
She's already gone! — my mother screams, closes the door and locks it with the key. - I I know he's a good person for always bringing something ready, since it's very tiring to cook... — I'm hoping he'll say something in defense of Mi-Suk, as he always did, being very understanding. — Holy shit, what a boring old woman — he finishes and my eyes widen.
Mother?!
— I agree with her, I would pay to never see this human again — Klaus grumbles.
— I'm too old for these things, my daughter. — Come up to me and two pat my shoulder. — Too old.