**Chapter 45: My Younger Brother Living in My Shadow**
“I didn’t enroll in the Inferior Demon Academy; they’ve got the wrong person. Just send them away,” I continued to respond calmly.
After all, those thoughts were just my speculations; I was trying to see if I could get him to reveal something.
However, the fact that the Inferior Demon Academy had already come should be real. Their speed isn’t slow, considering there’s still quite a bit of time until the semester starts. This speed is only second to that of the Witch Academy.
Even the Witch Academy doesn’t force people to arrive at school early—of course, students who were abducted are not included in that count.
They are so anxious; perhaps it’s because the Inferior Demon Academy arrived, and I wasn’t there, so they exerted some kind of pressure?
I suddenly felt like laughing.
“My dad has already contacted the Inferior Demon Academy for you; this matter has been settled, but now you’re gone. Aren’t you putting my dad in a difficult position?!”
“Yes, yes, yes, I’ve embarrassed your dad, but when did we agree on this? Are you getting angry with me over something that never happened?”
I spoke impatiently, as if I would hang up the phone at any moment.
I even said “your dad” instead of “my dad,” after all, he initiated this. He probably doesn’t even realize that he’s excluded me from the family dynamics; yet now they still want to rely on this relationship to squeeze the last bit of value from me.
“You! You are my dad’s son; you should listen to my dad. Is this how you behave as a son?!”
“If you don’t even want to call me your brother, then is this how you act as a younger brother?” I countered directly, surprised that he actually recognized me as his father’s son. I thought he was oblivious to that.
This younger brother of mine has grown up under Mom and Dad’s care; they naturally protected him well. Unfortunately, there’s also me, this older brother.
Yes, maybe in the eyes of my parents, I’m a lunatic. Under their guidance, my brother has also accepted this setup.
But I’m a reborn individual. I won’t say I have a superior IQ, but my life experiences alone are enough to make this younger brother unable to hold his head high.
If he hadn’t called me a lunatic in a disdainful tone when he was very young, suggesting I get treated if I was sick, I wouldn’t have bothered to argue with a child.
However, starting from that point, I wouldn’t continue to show him any more pity.
Moreover, I was still adapting to Spirit Vision, an extraordinary power, and I could perceive more clearly his emotional expressions towards me.
So I had no more energy to forgive a child’s misbehavior.
Thus, although Mom and Dad feel that my brother will definitely become what they expect under their care, only Yang Yunhan knows he has always lived in my shadow.
Because of this, he often runs to Mom and Dad to complain, but he can’t articulate the reasons and just ends up crying. Crying is a powerful weapon, so naturally, I became less and less favored by them.
Now my younger brother has grown up a bit, realizing that those childish tactics won’t work anymore. Of course, this should also partly be credited to my unintentional awakening.
Only by proving his own worth can he receive more love in a family where interests are valued more than emotions.
So since then, he has been competing with me, or rather, comparing himself to me. Mom and Dad are happy to see this change in my brother. To prove their younger son’s excellence, he even skipped grades. Though he is quite a few years younger than me, his learning progress is nearly catching up with mine. Next year, he will also take the college entrance examination and then choose his college major.
He has also started Spirit Vision, and it opened up quite naturally, just like many people in this world gradually progressed.
This is completely different from me. If the people in this world enter the Inner World of Spirit Vision slowly, then I seem to have stood at the edge of a cliff in the Surface World, and the journey has thrown me into the abyss of the Inner World. The effects of Spirit Vision violently revealed their terror.
This made Spirit Vision a shadow over my second childhood, I even felt that this experience led to my depression, causing me to sometimes exhibit selfish thoughts and indifference that were completely different from my previous self.
This is the only aspect in which I envy my brother. My parents favor him so much, yet I have never felt such jealousy.
Perhaps the simplest reason is that my soul does not belong to this world.
At this moment, I thought of too many things. The voice on the other end of the phone seemed to have become meaningless noise, unworthy of entering my brain for comprehension. I imagined that if I hung up the phone now, the expression on the other side would definitely be quite interesting, right?
I took my phone away from my ear and placed it in front of me. The noisy sounds diminished greatly, and the screen displayed my brother’s contact name.
Then I unhesitatingly pressed the hang-up button.
With a series of busy signals, I removed the phone application from the background, opened the number linked to this phone, and transferred all the money into my new phone.
As I operated, I wondered when the other side would call again.
However, I was disappointed. This series of actions completed, and they didn’t call back. Could it be that the situation isn’t that serious? Did they only want to yell at me?
That could only mean my younger brother’s brain isn’t too good.
To be honest, I felt a bit sorry for him. Parental love doesn’t come without a cost. His relentless desire to surpass me couldn’t possibly stem solely from his own realization, as my parents’ strictness is also indispensable.
He has his own interests, like he enjoys assembling things and has decent hands-on skills, until it seems that his classmates introduced him to computers, and then he became fascinated with building them. Naturally, this interest wasn’t favored by Mom and Dad, and the expenses involved are quite large, so he was strictly prohibited.
Now that I’m gone, the computer in my room should have gotten into his hands, right?
I wonder if he dismantled it.
Mom and Dad had promised him that if he got into a good Extraordinary Academy, they would buy him a computer, he could even build it himself, etc.
Anyway, I’m not too interested in it.
The family’s financial condition shouldn’t be so poor that they can’t afford a computer, right?
Do they not want to spend the money but rather want to use me as a laborer? The fifty thousand provided by the Inferior Demon Academy could indeed leave quite a bit left after assembling a decent computer.
I just find it hard to believe that I would be so cheap.
The money they want me to go earn wouldn’t even be more than this, right?
If they were a bit more manipulative, why not trick me into working and send the money home? The benefits from that wouldn’t be better than selling me to the Inferior Demon Academy?
Perhaps I should think more highly of them; maybe they know I’m not easily manipulated, so they chose this shortcut.
Now, I am calmer than ever; my mood, which had been quite good just before, was completely shattered by a single phone call.
However, I still need more information to calm the turmoil within me.
For example, I immediately want to ask Sister Bai about the specifics of the Inferior Demon Academy. Although during our chats, Sister Bai and I both considered the Inferior Demon Academy a scam, I don’t know the details.
I just have a deep-seated impression from the internet and Sister Bai’s conversations.
I need to confirm and reinforce my disdain for the Inferior Demon Academy. I want to solidify the nature of this series of events that have occurred, ensuring that no matter what twists and turns happen in the future, my heart won’t waver.
Only then can I consider this matter a conclusion for myself.
Just as I was about to send my question to Sister Bai, my old phone rang again with an incoming call.
