206 – Bracon and Siscon
Once speechless, Yuika started complaining about her brother incessantly, probably because she had accumulated a lot in the meantime.
“In the first place, my brother’s indecisive personality is the problem. If I tell him clearly, I like it if he likes it, I don’t like it if he doesn’t like it, the girls around him won’t be attracted to him, but he’s the type of person who always loses money because he can’t say one thing. A woman asked for my contact number? I was dumbfounded and asked what I was doing, and since it’s an adult story, I’m telling you not to fall for children. How dumbfounded I was at that time. How can a beautiful lady like me be like a child?”
“hahahahaha…”
Yuika, who had been talking to herself for about 20 minutes, belatedly thought that she was talking too much by herself. Looking at me, she asked.
“Did I…did I say too much?”
She said that there is no way anyone would answer “Yes” Here with the person in front of her.
“No, it was pretty fun.”
“I’ll be a little more careful…”
She was chattering about her as if she had a motor in her mouth just a moment ago, but she suddenly sulked and closed her mouth, feeling her mood drop.
Has it been five minutes since that uncomfortable silence lasted?
Yuika looked at me and asked.
“Have you ever wondered about my brother? Why are my brother and I attending Ichijo Academy, which is far away and not a nearby school?”
“That’s…isn’t it?”
Well, I went there for the purpose of not going to the same school as Ryuji, the main character of Scramble Love, and not meeting people who remember Kim Yoo-seong in the past, but the Sakamoto siblings had no reason to go there.
I thought I went there naturally because of the development of the original work.
“I hate to say this, but my brother is a very nice person.”
“Hmm.”
This is a fact I am well aware of.
A character like a typical boy’s cartoon character who can’t overcome injustice.
Since I benefited from that a lot, I had no choice but to completely agree with what she said.
“Thanks to that, I have been popular with people around me since I was young, but sometimes that kindness can be poison.”
Yuika put down the teacup she was holding in her hand with a bitter smile.
“The incident happened two years ago. I was still in the first year of middle school and my brother was in the third year of middle school.”
It was shocking to hear about Ryuji’s past through her mouth.
I saw a girl I didn’t know getting molested on the subway and helped me, but the middle-aged man who was doing the molestation accused Ryuji of assault, and the girl who helped her ran away, so she received a community service order because there was no one to testify. It looks like
“Did you check the cctv?”
“I checked, but to no avail. There were so many people in the subway car at the time that the crime was not filmed.”
However, the fact that his brother had injured the perpetrator could be easily proven, and thanks to this, it was his brother, not the man, who was set up as the perpetrator in the courtroom.
As for what happened after that, Yuika calmly explained.
“After all of that, when my brother went back to school, a strange rumor spread. My brother got into a fight with a man he had a fight with on the subway and became an ex-convict for assault. It was a rumor like that. Probably, brother. It must have been a rumor spread by someone with ill intentions, but by the time I realized it, it was too late. I didn’t believe it when I tried to explain it.”
“…….”
It was a much heavier story than I thought.
Ryuji didn’t live a flat life just because he was the main character.
Because I hadn’t read the original work, I never dreamed that such a past would exist.
“Well, I’m glad I’ve forgotten the past and I’m getting along well with my friends.”
Yuika looked at me and asked if she thought the atmosphere was too sluggish as she talked.
“That … what do you think of my older brother?”
It was a question with many implications.
I’m sure he’s asking this question out of concern for Ryuji, who had already been betrayed in a human relationship once in middle school.
She didn’t answer right away, while she was organizing what to say in her head for a while, she gave a reassuring answer.
“I think he’s a good guy. Unless there’s something special going on, he’ll probably be a good friend for the rest of his life.”
He has no benefit to himself, but he’s a guy who runs and fights with you even during a date, saying he’ll repay the favor.
And I entrusted my back to Ryuji.
It was proof that he already believed in you as a friend.
“So you don’t have to worry too much, younger brother. There are only good people around Ryuji right now.”
Originally, there is a saying that we play with each other, right?
Hearing this half-joking comment, Yuika said,
“Poop-“
And she suddenly laughed.
“What is it? That’s stupid.”
But it didn’t sound like a bad expression.
Druck!
“I’ll go first today. I have to go home and cook my brother.”
Yuika bowed her head at me and then said in a voice mixed with laughter.
“As expected, I think it was a good idea to consult with seniors.”
***
The next day.
I rode the subway to go to school as usual, and met familiar faces.
“Uh. Sungah Yoo.”
“Hello, Mr. Kim.”
“Hello! Senpai!”
In turn, Ryuji, Yaguchi, and Yuika greeted each other.
And almost as soon as Yuika greeted me, Ryuji and Yaguchi turned their heads at the same time with expressions as if they had seen a ghost.
“Ba, what did you just say? Will the sun rise in the west tomorrow?”
“The secretly shy Yuika said hello first?!”
No, is that such a surprise?
Suddenly, as I looked at the two people filming a couple’s story with a puzzled look, Yuika pinched Ryuji’s side and said in a sharp voice.
“Brother! Is it so strange for me to say hello to Yoosung sunbaenim?!”
“No, you don’t say hello to Satoru, who you’ve known longer than Yooseong.”
“That’s because of Satoru’s older brother!”
It was for some reason.
The last time we all went out together, only Satoru was treated badly.
“Really~”
Yuika turned her head away as if she was still angry, and when her eyes met mine, who was standing right in front of her, she bowed her waist with her face in the morning and said.
“Thank you for consulting with me yesterday. Thanks to you, a concern I’ve had for quite some time has been resolved.”
“Then I’m glad.”
As Yuika and I talked about things we didn’t know about, Ryuji asked in surprise.
“Counseling? What counseling? You didn’t tell me anything.”
“Oh, I ran into him on the way home yesterday and we talked a bit.”
“That’s right, oppa. I didn’t do much. At most, I drank tea at a cafe for an hour?”
The moment Yuika said that, Ryuji asked with her fierce eyes.
“You’re not aiming for my little sister, are you? No matter how you are, Yuika is…”
I was dumbfounded by the story suddenly going in a strange direction, so I immediately corrected my suspicions.
“Do I have a girlfriend?”
Hearing that, Yaguchi asked back with a surprised expression.
“Kim-kun, did you have a girlfriend?!”
Ah.
I belatedly realized that I had made a mistake and tried to make an excuse, but Yaguchi didn’t even give me a chance to rest and raged like a storm.
“Who is that? Maybe it’s our school? Older? Younger? Surely it doesn’t exist on the screen?!”
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“Wait, wait.”
I couldn’t handle the flood of questions and looked at Ryuji who was next to me.
“You can’t possibly tempt an innocent kid and aim for both legs…”
“Hey!”
“hahahaha, just kidding.”
Saying that, Ryuji waved his hand and dried his girlfriend, Yaguchi.
“But it’s unexpected. I thought Yooseong-gun already had a girlfriend. Why didn’t you tell me about it? Are you having a secret relationship?”
“What… That’s absurd.”
I was afraid of what kind of talk would come and go in the school if a scandal broke out that the student council president, the senior in the third year, and Yuseong Kim, the senior in the second year, were dating each other.
In the yard where various slander against me still exists, isn’t it obvious that it will get worse if the chairman is also involved?
“So keep it a secret from everyone.”
“Don’t worry. My mouth is heavy.”
“Are you Yaguchi?”
Then, Yaguchi, who was suddenly called, was startled and asked, “Me?”
“I’ll try my best.”
“…Do you know what will happen if this story leaks out?”
As I said that, I squeezed the cider can he was holding in his hand with one hand. He let out a short scream and clung to Ryuji.
Now that the two classmates have been resolved, the last one is the junior, Yuika.
“What will you do if I keep your secret?”
Yuika boldly proposes the opposite.
When I saw that figure and laughed, Yuika smiled and said with her hands behind her back.
“If you have any concerns about me in the future, please consult me again. Since I am a senior in life, can you do that?”
Contrary to my first thought, it’s not an unreasonable request.
I nodded and held out my right hand.
“As long as that’s enough.”
“Then the contract is established.”
Yuika held out her hand and shook my hand.
Even Ryuji who alternately looks at me and Yuika with anxious eyes.
It was a familiar, yet unfamiliar, morning school scene.