Once more I find myself standing in front of Cain home.

  I swung the door and entered without any reservation.

  A messy place and alcohol smell is what I found when I entered. Looking around, I found Cain sprawling on the floor.

  I give him a kick to wake him up. How dare he sleep when I came all the way here to listen to his teaching?

  Cain woke up with a startled face.

  “Huh? Where am I?”

  “You are in my house now.”

  "Really? I thought this was my house.”

  Good, at least he is still not drunk enough to forget his own home.

  I looked at his condition.

  A messy hair and tired eyes are a sign that he was lacking in sleep; I guess he was a little too overexcited that he can’t catch a sleep.

  “Cain, brother, tell me, what do you think we will be doing today?”

  "Huh, of course I will confess my love for Lucy, and we will get married right away, and ehe he he..." Cain's hand started wiggling, and his face morphed into a perverted one.

  Before he showed an even more pathetic form of himself, I will stop him.

  How can you wake up a person from his fantasy?

  The easiest one is by giving that person a beating.

  I kick him hard on his leg.

  "Aaargh"

  I grab his shirt, and while he is still confused, I slap him.

  Slap

  "Wake..."

  Slap

  ...Up"

  Slap

  and a third slap to make sure he was really awake

  Even with a pain in my palm, I can't stop myself from smiling.

  I finally got my revenge.

  Wait, that's not it!

  While Cain was still in a stunned state, I spoke

  "Brother, did you finally wake up?

  "Huh?"

  I lifted my hand, ready to slap him again, but before I could do that, Cain quickly distanced himself from me.

  "Wait, wait, why did you slap me?"

  "Well, you are dreaming just now."

  "Huh, what do you mean by that?"

  "I mean, look at you. You look as awful as you can be. Will you really confess your love while looking like that?"

  "I-I-I..."

  Cain's eyes looking left and right as he started to think of an excuse, which of course he did not have

  "I know I said love is blind, but really, brother, have some mercy. Lucy's love will wither if you stay like this."

  Cain, shoulders slumped and looking deflated, started to speak.

  "Aaah, I am really hopeless. I almost ruined the most important moment of my life."

  I puffed my chest and smacked Cain back.

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  "Do not worry, brother. That's why I am here to help you with Love Live."

  "R-Really, thank you; you are a lifesaver," Cain said while looking at me with teary eyes.

  ....

  After fixing his look and resting for a while, Cain regained a little bit of energy.

  He is staring at Rai, who began asking him a question.

  "First, let me ask you, what do you think you are lacking?"

  Cain confidently answered

  "Definitely a handsome face!"

  Rai grabbed his face and sighed.

  "Wrong answer, try again!"

  "Ehhhh!"

  Cain answered again, this time with less confidence.

  "Maybe ... money?"

  "Better, but … it’s still a wrong answer."

  Before Cain can think for another Rai answer his own question

  "What you are lacking is confidence!"

  "What!"

  "Yes, it's definitely confidence; while your look is not the most handsome, it's good enough. I give it 7 out of 10.

  Cain touched his face.

  He had a good feature with brown hair and eyes, a good physique thanks to his hunter job.

  Thinking about it now, he might actually be a good catch for women. His eyes suddenly filled with the light of hope as he thought

  ‘Yes, I am quite handsome!’

  Just like knowing what he was thinking Rai continues to speak.

  "Yes, you are quite handsome, and one of the good catches in this village. The reason why women didn’t flock around you is because my brother already caught most of their attention."

  Rai continued his lecture.

  "And money, while maybe you are not the richest person in this village, Lucy definitely is, so you don’t have to worry about that. As long as you can bring food to the table, which you can surely do, it will be fine.

  “You are a hunter after all.”

  Rai suddenly clapped his hand

  "And that brings us full circle and back to your weakness, which is also the weakness of all virgins."

  "Hey, that's really rude." Cain felt offended as he responded with an irritated voice.

  "Shut up and listen to me, or you will be a virgin for life. Is that what you want?"

  That quickly made Cain silent as he stared meekly at Rai.

  "The best way to gain confidence is by having an experience, so that is what we will be doing from now on."

  Cain cocked his head to the side as a question mark appeared inside his mind.

  "Experience, you mean some dating experience.”

  “Can you ask her out?” I asked

  “No way, that’s impossible.” Cain replied while waving his hand faster than I could see.

  “Right, that was what I meant it is impossible for a virgin without much experience like you to ask a beautiful lady like Lucy to go out.”

  A smile slowly formed on Rai's mouth as he spoke.

  "Don't worry, it's not dating I was talking about, but the more advanced version of that… Yeah, it's a more advanced task than a mere dating experience.

  Cain's arms were prickling with goosebumps, and a shiver ran through his body as he listened to Rai's chilling voice.

  Rai said as he started to laugh eerily

  "It's a child-rearing experience!"

  "Child-rearing experience?!" Cain shouted.

  "That's a right child-rearing experience," I responded while nodding my head.

  "I am not even married yet, and you want me to raise a child, and... what about the mother?"

  I clicked my tongue.

  "Of course there will be no mother. How insensitive of you, Papa."

  "Huh??? What do you mean?"

  "Don't you remember? Mother left after you gambled away all of the money in our household."

  "Huh??"

  "Now, there's only two of us left in this house, Papa. I know it must be hard, but let's do our best to weather this storm, Papa," I said while hugging him and giving him the best sad eyes that I could give.

  "Wait, wait, wait for a fucking moment!!!"

  "What's wrong? Papa, did you finally understand how bad our situation is? Will you finally stop gambling? Will you finally come back to your past self as the best hunter of this village?"

  Cain grabbed my shoulder and shook it again and again.

  "Wait, I said, wait a fucking moment. What do you mean by gambling, and did d Mother leave? I haven't even married yet, and do not call me papa. I definitely do not remember giving birth to a son like you."

  With a sneer, I answered his question.

  "Oooh papa, did you finally lose your mind? Of course it was not you who gave birth to me."

  "Mother, the one who gave birth to me, after all, how can a man give birth? You are so silly, Papa."

  I said while smiling innocently.

  "OOOOOOOAAAARRGHHHHHH"

  Finally losing his mind, Cain headbutted me in the face.

  The impact made both of them cry in agony while holding their heads.

  "Ouch, that hurt. Why did you headbutt me?" Rai said in a pained voice.

  Holding his head with both hands, Cain responded

  "Thank God, you finally stopped calling me Papa."

  "What kind of father headbutted his own son?"

  "The one who actually had you as a son, of course."

  "Ouch, that actually hurt more than the headbutt!"

  "Hahaha, finally I got one win from you. Anyway, what were you actually doing just now?"

  Standing up, Rai patted his clothes and answered with a beaming smile.

  "That was a situation I created to let you experience how dreadful a child-rearing, or should we say child-raising, situation is."

  "Huh??"

  "How was that? Isn't that scary? It's definitely scary from the way you reacted."

  Speechless, Cain looked at Rai and just nodded dumbly.

  Rai grinned and said, "Imagine if you can actually complete this trial of child-raising experience; everything else will become a breeze for you."

  Cain imagined the situation where he became a perfect gentleman for Lucy and grinned.

  "So, did you want to continue, Papa? Or did you want to be called something else, Dad? Father? Pops?"

  Cain looked at Rai and thought

  ‘Even though this method sounds ridiculous, it may actually be ridiculous enough to succeed.’

  So, with an eye full of fire, Cain said

  "Just call me father."

  "Okay, I will call you father from now on."

  “So, what will we do from now on?”

  “First, as a father, you must fulfil your promise to your wonderful son.”

  “What promise?”

  “Haah, as I thought, you forgot it. How awful of you, father!”

  “Hey, what did I forget?”

  “You promise to take me to your workplace.”

  “My workplace! You mean the forest?”

  “Yes, now let us go with haste, a place where you will teach your son an important art passed down from our ancestor.”

  With a grin on my face, I said

  “Let us go for a hunt!”