Episode 34. It’s not here (3)
“I will leave this consultation to you. So, just sit here… … .”
“welcome!”
Before I could finish my words, Aram Kang suddenly opened the sluggish door and welcomed the visitor as if he were serving customers.
“yes? uh? who, who are you?”
“Oh, me? Are you a member who joined the trouble counseling club this time?”
I glanced at him to see who was visiting, and unfortunately it was a familiar face.
‘Isn’t that the girl I saved at the department store last time?’
why did you come again? Did you really come here for trouble counseling this time?
“aha. That’s right. Looking at the color of the tie, he is older than me… Is that right?”
“now! If you are here for consultation, I will guide you here.”
“Wait. I’m not consulting, but I’m doing something else… … !”
Kang Ah-ram brought the female student into the room with a commercial smile, while beckoning me to leave.
A third party must not eavesdrop while the consultation is in progress. It was because I was the one who told you that.
‘Now that it’s like this, I have no choice but to trust him.’
Thirty minutes to wait outside for a while. At first, it seemed a little quiet, but at some point, I started to hear a buzzing noise.
I put more distance to avoid eavesdropping, but I could clearly hear the giggling from a distance.
‘Should this be considered good?’
half anticipation. half anxiety.
Sigh.
“If you have any problems next time, come again!”
“Yes, sister! I really enjoyed our conversation today!”
As if the consultation was over, the door opened, revealing Kang Ah-ram and the female student. The female student bowed her head toward Kang Ah-ram and left the room with a pleasant step.
“hey. The consultation is over, so come in.”
“Hmm. But didn’t he come here for something else? It just goes away.”
“well? Did you have any other business? I was just talking normally.”
“Did you just talk normally? Didn’t you consult me? And why did you suddenly change your language after speaking with respect at first?”
“Ugh. to nag. I did it because he asked me to speak comfortably first. And he said he had no particular concerns?”
“Then we just chatted and ended?”
Aram Kang and I looked at each other silently for a while.
“… … From now on, if I don’t worry, will you just kick me out?”
I shook my head.
“Let’s just say it was just practice. Usually, if you don’t worry, you won’t come here.”
“But will you be okay? You say people don’t usually come?”
“I have to wait until you come.”
Then Aram Kang smiled.
“Then, can I be comfortable until then?”
Wait, where are you going to lie down in a sacred room?
“I have changed my mind. Go around and promote it.”
“why! There was nothing like that among your wishes!”
“This is a more fundamental problem. It was a situation where you were trying to find out if there was any meaning in your being as a member from the beginning. The wish obtained through the bet was added as an option there.”
Kang Ah-ram puts on a dissatisfied expression.
“Grunt… . Well, there is a counseling department for troubles, so if you have any problems, come and get counseling. Can I just say that?”
“You do it yourself.”
“okay.”
Took. Took.
“Stop moving.”
“Why again!”
“Where are you going to unbutton the button at will? Promote the clothes you wear.”
“Do you know what to do?”
“You have to have a neat image to give a good impression to the trouble counseling department.”
“Isn’t it a situation where the image is already ruined because of you anyway?”
Cowardly attacking with facts.
“speech.”
Then I will respond with faults.
“… Isn’t the image already in a bad situation because of you?”
“So you’re asking me to step in. If your publicity improves your image and more people come to you, won’t your value be recognized?”
“good. then just wait Let this senior come… I will promote it wildly and come.”
“Ojida is a standard word, so you can use it.”
“Oh really?”
I’m very worried that sending you away is like leaving a child on the water’s edge.
***
As for the results.
“her… .”
My worries were for nothing.
no.
“what should I do. I’m already excited to talk about it!”
“Did you see? I just met you on the street, and your heart dropped, right? It’s the first time I’ve seen Aram-senpai look like that!”
It was a great success, leaving the level of Ki Woo-in.
A waiting line stretches from the entrance of the trouble counseling department to the corner of the central aisle. It was a stark contrast to the past when only one or two people would come.
‘that’s right. It was.’
From nob le mt l. com
Just as there was a setting that Pyo Yu-rim had a fiancé named Nam Sung-jin. Kang Ah-ram also had a setting that could only be known by looking at the setting book separately.
It was the scenery unfolding before my eyes.
‘I heard that it boasts a cult-like popularity among some sophomore girls.’
tomboy. girl crush. smoking. Tattoo. Bully. The power to turn pain into power. A small elite fan base formed thanks to the combination of those elements.
Embarrassingly, there was a setting that Kang A-ram himself did not know this fact because he had little interest in the things around him.
‘It’s good that more people are looking for the trouble counseling department. It’s good, but… … . Should I really like this?’
I came out of the trouble counseling department and watched it from a distance.
Because Aram Kang is consulting, he cannot be inside. It wasn’t just for that reason.
‘Those girls. All of them said they only wanted counseling from Kang A-ram.’
I don’t know if that’s all it was, but since I was nearby, he even glared at me fiercely. So, despite my insolvency, I was in a situation where I was watching with a distance while keeping an eye on it.
If this is the case, there is nothing I can do.
‘Let’s just watch. It could be a phenomenon that ends with a flash on the first day of opening.’
Although I may not be doing anything, it is worth watching as it will raise awareness of the distress counseling department in the long run.
In that judgment, another day passed, two days passed, and the third day passed.
I am.
“Aren’t you going? Get away from me because it’s unpleasant. Do you think you’ll be brainwashed and get pregnant remotely just by making eye contact?”
“… … .”
Now it got to the point where I had to keep my distance until the stale door appeared as a dot.
Counseling, which was conducted one-on-one at first, has now been conducted as a group counseling with several people attending at once.
‘No. Group counseling is a group counseling that freezes to death. Isn’t that just a fan meeting?’
The sound of chatter that can be heard even from a distance.
I let out a sigh, telling the ground to go down.
so-called.
It has been occupied by bankruptcy.
***
It couldn’t have been more complicated than this.
“hey. Did I tell you about that last time? About what happened at the club then. When I visited my brother, he got a strange injection and his body just got hot and weird.”
“… … .”
“At that time, I wondered if my younger brother had been looking at me that way all this time? But after hearing the story, he thought he was simply an anesthetic.”
“… … .”
“In the end, it was true that he intended to sell me out to his friends at Septagram, but he said he never harbored lust for his sister, and he said he would rather die by biting his tongue than that, so I wondered if this bastard was reflecting on himself… … . Hey, are you listening?”
“Haaa.”
Today, I was able to enter the trouble counseling department.
It might be more accurate to say that he has broken through rather than entered.
From the time I came here, Kang A-ram fans were camped out in front of the entrance. When he saw me, he looked at me with displeasure and was about to say something, so he rushed in and locked the door.
“hey. Stop consulting.”
“Hmm. that… . sorry.”
I wonder if he wanted to gloss over the atmosphere with his personal affairs, but he couldn’t help it.
“Do you think this is the place for your fan meeting?”
“It’s unfair! I didn’t know there were kids who liked me that much!”
“Then you should have properly warned me and sent me back! For three days, only the kids who come every day come! They’re not counseling, they’re just kids who came to chat with you! And what else is this? Did you have a party here?”
I pointed at the snacks and drinks scattered on the desk in front of the sofa. If you look closely, you can see that beer cans were cleverly camouflaged among the soda cans.
Aram Kang was avoiding my gaze.
I was so stunned that I couldn’t speak for a moment.
‘There’s no meaning to it like this.’
Why did I create the trouble counseling department?
Of course, there was a reason I wanted to take on the nostalgia of my day job again, but a bigger reason now is the use of my natural nature that accompanies the counseling process. It was to build so-called innate proficiency.
I raised three fingers at Aram Kang.
“I waited for three days. for three days Why did you wait three days?”
“uh… . hmm… … .”
“The trouble counseling department had a really bad reputation among female students. Yeah, because of my damn rumors. So, I thought that perception would improve if more female students came to visit… … .”
After talking that far, I got choked up and quickly looked around.
Coincidentally, I saw the tumbler I had left in the stale room the other day. When I listened to it, it seemed that there was water left from drinking the other day, so I picked it up and tried to drink it.
“Hey wait! that… !”
“Phehehe!”
I felt a foreign body that I shouldn’t have felt in the water, so I hurriedly spit it out. Looking for something, it was a butt.
I opened my eyes wide, wondering what I was seeing wrong. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it, so I even touched it with my index finger. It was real butts, not hallucinations.
“… … .”
do you know that feeling
When the anger gauge jumped up suddenly without warning and hit the brain in an instant. For an instant, my head turns white, and I gasp and look up at the sky with a spinal reflex.
I was in that state now.
“sorry! I’m really sorry!!!”
I heard a voice and looked down. There was Kang Ah-ram, who was kneeling on the sofa and bowing in a dignified manner.
‘I entrusted the fish to the cat. I wish I knew what kind of character Kang Ah-ram is.’
I didn’t ask questions like ‘who threw away these butts here’. that’s a third rate He didn’t even reprimand me by saying that I was crazy for smoking and drinking here. that’s second rate
then.
what is first class
“Aram Kang.”
“yes. Please speak.”
“Schoolgirls waiting in front of that door. Dissolve everything. Give me 30 seconds.”
Exactly 23 seconds later. Kang Ah-ram, who returned after sending the female students away, returned to me again and took a posture at attention.
“trash.”
“All right!”
She sorted out the trash strewn about in the stale room in about 7 seconds.
It was like showing off his natural instinct, grinding everything into powder and putting it in a trash can. Note that the water I spit out evaporated.
profit.
I sat in the counseling chair and slowly leaned back against the backrest.
He stared at the ceiling with a blank gaze and took a deep breath. Inhale deeply and exhale very slowly. Repeat that for 3 minutes.
“That, you know.”
“… … .”
“There was a reason they got to know me earlier. It happened a long time ago when I was taking an open exam using my nature. They said they fell in love when they saw me in action. so… … .”
“I’m not curious. Not even one.”
A heavy silence falls again.
The only sounds I can hear are the school noise coming through the open window and my breathing. In addition, I started tapping the bottom of the desk with my index finger while resting my hand on the desk.
“Aram Kang.”
“sorry. I don’t think I’m qualified to join the trouble counseling department.”
“What did you talk about with them?”
“huh? … ah! I didn’t say much! Except for the fact that they were just talking among themselves, so they agreed… … .”
“Have you tried to listen to counseling or something?”
“that is… They’re talking so frantically that I don’t have time to try… … . sorry.”
After a while, seeing Kang Ah-ram making a sullen expression, I lost all energy for no reason.
‘Should I rather say that I like this look better?’
Suddenly, Kang Ah-ram from the original film and her now appear to overlap.
Kang Ah-ram in the original work was a wounded cat.
Even if he was recruited as a colleague, he rarely appeared in the storyline, and even if he was summoned as a colleague at a specific stage section, he was a person who would often fight with other colleagues.
The characters of Psychic Age were called ‘chemistry’, and when certain characters were combined as colleagues, stat and skill bonus corrections were called ‘chemistry bonuses’.
In that sense, Aram Kang had no chemistry with anyone. Literally a distant being. Nevertheless, a character that was distinguished as a Tier 1 colleague with only one overwhelming spec.
‘If that kind of guy can get along well without fighting with others.’
You can become a perfect colleague with no regrets.
“Aram Kang.”
“Why why?”
“If you have other friends, you should get along well. don’t fight Don’t leave just because you feel bad. Let’s work together and overcome it.”
“Huh? uh yes! of course!”
She, who didn’t want to hang out with anyone except the main character, did not reject those who approached her as her fans, but embraced them and listened to their stories. I thought that was enough.
I thought that this kind of mindset was first-class.
smart.
This time Kang Ah-ram looked at the door before me.
“madam. Are you my fan again? Sorry, I’ll kick you out soon.”
“Don’t chase me away. If you have any concerns, ask them to come in.”
It was then.
“I’m here for advice.”
The voice that came through the door was unmistakably a man. Kang Ah-ram, who was about to run away at any moment, hesitated and stopped.
“I’ll go out.”
I said that and opened the door to the room. The person standing in front of the door had the same color tie as mine. was a first year student.
The other person saw the color of my tie and immediately put things at ease.
“Are you active in a circle right now?”
“Are you here for counseling?”
“That’s right. that’s not the same… … . omg.”
The male student, who was sneakily looking around the room in front of the door, caught his breath when he saw something.
“Are you a freshman? Hi, nice to meet you.”
“Ah yes. hello.”
Kang Ah-ram greets him with a clumsy smile, and the male student greets him with a shy atmosphere.
And then
“and. really sh*t Could it be that you hypnotized that senior?”
Without hesitation, he spat out rude words in his face.
‘Oh God.’
Do not lead me into further temptation.