279 – Acceptance
Hostility.
Disgust.
Miss Heukdrin managed to calm down what she was showing to me and the world.
There seemed to be no further intention to destroy the surrounding area with black flames.
Hibb.
Hibb.
And instead.
Miss Heukdrin looked at me and began to sob.
A depth of sorrowful emotions that I had never felt before in my life was conveyed through her sobs.
“… “
In a way, the situation was more dizzy than when Miss Heukdrin rushed to kill me.
“All along… I’ve missed you all along… Ceylon County… “
How should I respond to Ms. Heukdrin’s words and feelings?
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with an answer and it was a time when I was standing in a daze.
“Ceylon County.”
The sheep I gave called to me.
So, Ms. Baekdrin.
“Please… Can I do one?
“Yes? Ah! Sure. What is one? “If you were Miss Baekdrin, even if you asked me a hundred favors, she would do it for you.”
Baekdrin?
She tilted her head at the title, but then cleared her throat.
“One is enough. Anyway, I gratefully accept your favor – I would like to ask you one favor.”
And continuing what she said-
“If possible, go up to her right away and stay like that…” As it is… “”
On a rare occasion, he loses his composure and avoids eye contact with an embarrassed expression.
“Would you like to hug her just like that…?” ?”
“… Yes?”
Suddenly?
When I reflexively asked, Ms. Baekdrin’s body hesitated.
After hesitating for a long time-
“You’re thinking about how to answer her right now.”
Miss Baekdrin looked straight at me again and continued her words.
However, for some reason, her face was slightly red.
Miss Baekdrin gritted her teeth and continued her words.
“There is nothing to think about. Just come closer to her and smile. As usual. Without any fuss. And, give her a hug. “I’m sure she wants that rather than the grand answer you came up with.”
“… How could the sheep that was given… ?”
“Ah! If so, I guess so! If you have to do it, just do it!”
The sheep I gave you was upset! She got on her nerves.
“That’s right, you idiot! If you have to do it, just do it!”
“Ha. Seed. “I feel so frustrated watching this.”
“Hug me. Match. Hug me. Match.”
“What on earth should we do with that person…?” “
Not only that, but we also heard boos from her friends.
“hehehe… “
I was confused, but decided to follow what my friends said.
As our friends said, we cautiously approached Ms. Heukdrin.
One step.
“… !”
Shocked.
Miss Heukdrin’s body trembled.
She stopped sobbing and stepped back the same distance I had walked.
“… “
No.
Is this really true?
No matter how I look at it, it looks like they are on guard?
I looked at the advisory council members with great sadness.
“””Ah! A little!!!”””
Everyone was scolded in unison.
“… “
I don’t know.
Let everything happen.
I followed the instructions of my advisors obediently-
Ignoring Ms. Heukdrin’s reaction, I continued to move my feet.
“… “
Sheep Heukdrin is standing awkwardly with her head turned away from me.
Jeobbuk.
I approached her until I could reach her if she stretched out my hand, and then opened her mouth.
“The amount given.”
“… “
Miss Heukdrin’s head moved and her gaze turned towards me.
Innumerable emotions were contained within those dark red eyes.
The only emotion I could read from it was fear.
“… “
The moment I saw those eyes.
My brain, which already had poor performance, was overloaded.
Why did I approach Miss Heukdrin?
‘Oh my.’
I couldn’t think of anything, and I couldn’t think of any previous plans.
No. The plan itself came to mind, but I wasn’t sure if it was really right.
Calculated actions were impossible for me now.
“… “
In that way, both I and Heukdrin stiffened, resulting in an untimely stalemate.
Miss Heukdrin and I looked at each other in silence for a long time in an awkward atmosphere.
Then suddenly.
The tears that had not yet completely poured out but had formed around Ms. Heukdrin’s eyes came into view.
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The moment it ripens and starts to flow down the sheep’s cheeks.
My hands moved reflexively.
“… “
Miss Heukdrin looked blankly at my hand.
My hand took out a handkerchief from my pocket and carefully wiped her cheek.
“… !”
And then, ah! The moment he came to his senses and violently tried to shake off my hand-
“Oh my.”
I withdrew my hand just in time.
Then, I looked at her handkerchief and laughed.
It was the laugh that came out naturally when someone was talking nonsense.
“Hey~ I’m glad these tears weren’t black. This is the handkerchief that Miss Kasha gave me as a gift. “I think I would have been quite upset if it got stained.”
The moment I finished speaking, I thought, ‘Oops!’
I acted on my instincts and ended up teasing the sheep as naturally as breathing.
To the victim who suffered all kinds of cruel things from me and was devastated both physically and mentally.
‘Are you really crazy!?’
How do I fix this?
Sheep Heukdrin. This time you won’t stop until you kill me?
It was that moment when all my thoughts of arrogance came to mind.
“I never asked to be cleaned… “
Miss Heukdrin muttered.
Although he looks very unhappy-
“And people are like octopuses that spit out ink… Rude guy… “
On the other hand, with a pouting mouth and a sullen face.
“… “
It was an unfamiliar face.
But on the other hand, it was also a face I knew very well.
“Ha.”
As expected.
The sheep given is the sheep given.
As I thought about that, laughter naturally came out.
“… “
When I laughed, the sheep’s expression became even more sullen.
It was an action that completed my heartbreaking laughter.
And the moment when I made that smile.
I could feel my mind clearing up.
I no longer had any worries or hesitation when dealing with the sheep I had given.
“Anyway, I feel sorry for the amount I gave you. Didn’t you just cry and tell me you missed me? I thought it was the hand of reconciliation that the sheep gave me, so I just tried to grab it. Yay! What is this? My hands are full of thorns… ! Could it be that it was a trap to catch me off guard!?”
“… “
The sheep was suddenly looking at me with a curious expression.
Soon she shook her head and spoke.
“As expected. You-… “No, you’re not him.”
Only this time, the sheep I offered completely withdrew its hostility and wariness towards me.
And even a smile!
It was truly a well-constructed package.
But I knew.
That.
You must not receive it.
The intuition of an expert player who had already seen the perfect true ending once spoke.
If you choose that, the true ending of this route is that the item will be thrown away.
“No.”
Therefore, I deny what she said.
“I… “
In fact.
At first, I had the same thoughts as Ms. Heukdrin.
Me in the first episode.
I was brainwashed by the girl of light.
I no longer exist by turning back time.
I tried to treat that other ‘me’ as a separate entity from myself.
But.
Right now, Ms. Heukdrin-
I realized this while talking to another sheep.
She was definitely the sheep I knew.
It’s true.
So, the first time she met me, I must have been real too.
Denying ‘me’ in the first episode also meant denying the amount of ‘given’ to ‘me’ as a real person.
I couldn’t bear it.
So I decided to admit it.
The ‘me’ in the first episode is definitely me.
“… I’m the guy you know. “I gave you Libringer.”
“No. “You and him are different people.”
“The reason you feel that way is because I lost my memory.”
“… “What is that-“
“This will be a hard story to believe, but I hope you will listen seriously. “It’s not a joke this time.”
I told Ms. Heukdrin everything I knew.
Girl of light.
First episode.
And the story of the second episode.
It was a truth that Ms. Heukdrin did not know.
It was the truth she desperately wanted to know.
“… “
However, depending on how you think about it, it was also the cruelest truth for her.
Because the girl of light turned back time, the first episode never happened.
From Ms. Heukdrin’s perspective, she could have felt that her entire world had been denied.
“The amount given!?”
Sure enough.
A little while after the story ends.
Miss Heukdrin lost strength in her legs and collapsed in her seat.
At that time, I was panicking and tried to hurriedly help the sheep.
She sobbed again and muttered something.
“… Yes?”
I thought I heard wrong.
“I’m so glad… “
But it wasn’t.
Miss Heukdrin was really right when she said, ‘I’m glad.’
“Ceylon… “
She looked up at me, her tears that had barely stopped flowing like a waterfall again.
“What happened in the second episode… “Can you please let me know?”
“… “
I told her my story as she wished.
“… “
Because it’s summarized, if it’s short, it’s short, and if it’s still long, it’s when a long story ends.
Miss Heukdrin was smiling.
“… “Thank you for speaking with us.”
“… Are you okay?”
“Yes. It’s okay. I was relieved. Doesn’t that mean everything worked out well in the end?”
“… “
Awesome!
“Everything went well… “
The moment those expressions came out of Ms. Lee’s mouth, an intense pain arose in her chest.
It was an expression that could only be made if she did not care at all about her own position.
“Ceylon County. Thank you.”
“… You’ve been making me doubt my ears ever since. The amount given. “I have absolutely no reason to be thanked.”
A soft smile spread across Delinyang’s lips.
“Ceylon County. Do you know what? “You pretend to be a mischievous person, but in reality, you are a foolishly kind person.”
“Is this what the sheep I just gave you will say…? ?”
“… “
We looked at each other for a while with expressions that we couldn’t stop.
‘…?’
Then suddenly.
I realized that there was something strange about Ms. Heukdrin’s condition.
The skin was strangely red, as if it had a cold, and the breath it exhaled contained heat.
“Miss Deon, are you okay? Are you feeling unwell in some way?”
“…!”
When I asked worriedly, the sheep was startled and violently waved his hand.
“That’s not it!!! And if you ask me, it’s because of you!!! You made me-…”
“Yes…?”
I stared blankly at Ms. Deen, who was suddenly telling a story I couldn’t follow.
“… Ceylon County?”
Likewise, he looked at me quietly and then opened his mouth in a somewhat different mood.
“Can I ask you one thing?”
“Say your words.”
She spoke with a shy yet bold spirit.
“What is your relationship with the other me?”
“Yes? Ah! “Of course, we are very close friends!”
“Is that all?”
“Yes? “What does that mean?”
hehehe.
Miss Heukdrin smiled meaningfully.
What can I say?
It was a mature smile that went well with his current dark appearance.
It was an image of the sheep I had given that I did not know.
Miss Heukdrin spoke in a whisper with that smile on her face.
“How does Ceylon County view me? Friend? Or the opposite s*x?”
“… “Suddenly?”
When I couldn’t keep up with the momentum of the black sheep and hit her face, she got closer to me with that mature smile even deeper.
The distance between me and Ms. Heukdrin became so close that I could feel the subtle heat of her breath.
She whispered into my ear.
“Tell me honestly. How far have you gone with another me?”
“??????”
I blinked and looked at Ms. Heukdrin.
Miss Heukdrin smiled as if she was happy to see me like that.
Very mature-
No.
It was a bewitching smile.
“Are you two okay?” ?”
At that time.
Our friends, including Ms. Baekdrin, came over and looked at our condition with worried faces.
“… “
Miss Heukdrin’s gaze swept over them.
For some reason, that gaze seemed very displeased.
It’s like an intruder trespassing into her own home –
No, it’s like looking at a thief.
“… “
Soon, a warlike smile appeared on Miss Heukdrin’s lips.
Miss Heukdrin looked at me with that smile on her face.
“Ceylon County. “Wait a minute, can you look here?”
“Yes?”
“Put your head here- Ah, that’s it. Please stay like that for a moment.”
That was the moment when I followed her instructions and looked directly at her.
Miss Heukdrin’s arms were entangled with me.
At the same time, her face rapidly got closer to me.
***
It happened suddenly.
Another drin grabbed Ceylon’s head and held it as if he was snatching it –
She brought her face towards him and pursed her lips.
“Huh.”
My friends’ mouths dropped open.
But it didn’t end there.
“Huh…?”
They looked closely at the point where the two people’s lips overlapped.
Another gift.
Her tongue delved into Ceylon’s lips.
At the same time, he looked at them from the corner of his eye and smiled provocatively.
Before they knew it, the rising black flames attacked them.
When the black flame disappeared, there was no one there.
“””aaah!!!”””
Screams poured out from their gaping mouths.