“Hey, Hyunwoo Choi! Are you going to keep bothering Jihyuk!?”
Choi Hyun-woo trembled at Han Soo-young’s cry.
He immediately waved his hand as if he didn’t mean to.
“No, I am not like that. What is it, in the sense of judging each other’s skills and doing the procedure in order to reach a higher level than each other… .”
While making excuses, he quietly shut his mouth when Han Soo-young stared at him with his sharp eyes without saying a word.
As if she didn’t like it, Han Soo-young crossed her arms and moved her fingers.
“So what. I want to do a sword wrestling with Ji-hyeok, right?”
“no. Sooyoung, what are you talking about? It’s a knife sharpening… .”
The appearance of Choi Hyun-woo, who died of excessive grass, was to the extent of feeling pity for those who saw it.
I wondered if it was for that reason that I unknowingly spit out words of support for him.
“Yes, Sooyoung. Hyeonu probably didn’t mean it that way. You know what kind of kid Hyeonu is… .”
“Ji-hyuk.”
Han Soo-young sighed and looked at me.
“Again, again. Even though I said that, you don’t think about your own point of view and think of others first.”
After listening to her words, I was able to realize one more thing for sure, that she sees me as an adult and a lover.
What kind of person am I in Han Soo-young’s heart, so that he comes out without hesitation?
Perhaps she would convince me that there must have been a reason why I couldn’t say anything, even if I had committed some serious sin.
“It’s okay, leave it to me. Honestly, aren’t you really tired right now? I fought so fiercely a while ago, and I can’t help but be tired. However, I was overworked to keep my promise, so I even came out together… .”
Han Soo-young, who had been muttering while looking at me as if she was sad, turned around and turned her head.
Choi Hyun-woo, who faced her sad, purple gaze, was startled and tried to avoid her gaze.
“After watching all of that right next to you, do you insist on having a match like that? Hyunwoo, are you really a child?”
“Yeah, I guess I was wrong… .”
At Han Soo-young’s interrogation, Choi Hyun-woo finally raised the white flag.
He looked so pitiful that he wondered if I had accepted his request for nothing.
I kept my mouth shut, knowing that trying to defend him for nothing would be like pouring oil on me.
In the end, after suffering from her for a long time, he had a shaggy figure and got up to bring the drink he ordered.
As I stared at his back as he walked with staggering steps, Han Soo-young tapped my finger and touched the back of my hand.
“… You have to look at me, why are you looking at Hyeonu?”
Mumbling in a Volmen’s voice, she pouted and pouted her lips as if she didn’t like it.
I don’t know why, but it made me laugh out loud.
I smiled and she gave me a look of anger.
“What, why are you laughing? Is this funny now?”
“No, just.”
because you are pretty
Han Soo-young immediately shut her mouth at the blunt words.
Then he turned his head and opened his mouth, looking at Hyunwoo Choi’s back just like I did before.
“Well, rather than that, do you know why Hyeonu is begging everyone he meets these days to fight like that?”
“Well. I knew from the beginning that training was crazy. Why, did something happen?”
“Yeah, I must have been stimulated by a certain older sister I met at the party before. Will Jihyeok remember you too?”
Han Soo-young continued speaking while still looking at the side where Choi Hyeon-woo had disappeared.
I silently nodded as I saw her ears, which were suddenly exposed through her red hair, turned as red as her hair.
“That, why? She was a pretty girl with silver hair. I have never seen such a pretty sister in my life.”
Does she know that that person is actually her teacher, Nam Hyeon-hwa?
There was nothing I could say, so I just listened to her.
“And what do you say… Well… .”
“why?”
“Actually, the first time I saw her, Jihyuk felt the same way as when I first saw you, you know?”
“When did you first meet me? In the archives?”
“yes.”
She nodded.
Then he quietly murmured, recalling the memories of that time without difficulty.
“It’s very strange… It was definitely the first time we both met, but it felt like we had known each other for a long time.”
She shook her head slightly, as if she did not understand.
“I’m coming to say this now, but I felt a sense of shame from you and that unnie. So you don’t know, but when I first saw you, I was very wary of you and looked at you carefully.”
“Did you?”
“yes.”
She nodded and glanced at me.
I could tell that her gaze was on the part of my face, precisely the scars that had now faded a lot.
“By the way, what… Yes, it was.”
She nodded her head while muttering to herself, shouting ‘Anyway!’ and turning the topic around.
“She was really, really strong. Just at the party… I was wielding a sword, but I thought it would be amazing even if I didn’t really know anything.”
“Hmm… .”
“And when Hyeonu looked at her and asked her to do a match, she was rejected because she had an urgent business, and then she asked me to contact her whenever it was convenient for her, but she was rejected. Then, when I thought the commotion had subsided, it disappeared out of nowhere.”
Han Soo-young growled a little.
“I used to reject him every day, but this was probably the first time he was rejected.”
Then, all of a sudden, I noticed that her eyes were very sunken.
He looked quite tired.
“You look very tired.”
“uh?”
At my words, Han Soo-young was surprised for a moment, then looked bashful and smiled.
“what… Did you drink a lot of tea? I didn’t want to cause anyone else to worry… .”
She shrugged her shoulders as if nothing had happened, and then began to stretch with a squeak.
With a peek, the hem of her robe went up to reveal her belly button, so I quickly put the cardigan she had taken off and put it on top.
“Be careful.”
“yes? hey how are you After all, the only person I see around here is you.”
It’s not that she and Hyeonu Choi have deliberately placed themselves in a place where it’s not too dark.
That’s why, as she said, there was no one around except us.
“It’s just that Master gave me and Hyeonu something. It’s because I slept late these days because I was researching and studying a bit.”
“Oh, he?”
“yes. He came up here a few days ago, gave us a book, and then walked away saying that he wouldn’t be able to contact us for a while and that he had to do business.”
Han Soo-young muttered with a look of worry dripping down.
“I’m worried that you will be in good health.”
“… You will be in good health.”
I couldn’t even tell him that I met him a few days ago, so I had nothing to say back except these words.
But as if that was enough, Han Soo-young looked at him with a small smile.
“Thank you for your concern. … But I don’t think Jihyuk is in a position to talk to anyone else, do you?”
She naturally reached out and stroked my cheek with her finger.
It was so natural that he couldn’t react.
“Look, it’s crumbly. Jihyuk, what’s wrong with you?”
“What… .”
I wiggled my tail and did not deny her words.
As she said, it was true that I had not slept for a while.
She, Hyun-woo Choi, and Ye-seul Jin.
Is it really right to tell the truth to these three people?
How will you take my words?
Wouldn’t they be angry or despised that I had deceived them in the meantime?
Even though it was something I had to take responsibility for, I couldn’t help but feel fear.
When such troubles bit their tails, the day suddenly became brighter.
“… … .”
“Oh, right. Would you like to see this?”
As I quietly shut my mouth, she glanced at me and pulled out something.
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One letter.
Ironically, the letter never came to me, but I knew what it was.
“I didn’t even know you would come.”
It was a letter from Urea.
The content, like Cass Lyle’s, was written in a long and polite tone, suggesting what it would be like to come as an exchange student.
“I did too. … I really hope you will come.”
For some reason, Han Soo-young looked at it with a gaze that seemed to disassemble it thoroughly.
Then she threw the letter she was holding in her hand and put it on the table.
“I have no intention of going.”
“It could be a good opportunity, why?”
“… Are you serious about that? Do you want me to go away?”
Han Soo-young looked at me with an expression that she had been hurt inside.
Embarrassed by the unexpected reaction, she quickly smirked and smiled.
“What am I going to do with you and Hyeonu? I prefer to go out with you two and laugh and talk.”
she added quietly.
“And someone I trusted told me never to go to Urea.”
“okay? Did your teacher say that?”
“no.”
Han Soo-young shook her head.
She was silent for a moment, but she seemed to choose what to say.
“… Just someone you can trust. I’m not the type of person who would ever say anything that would harm me, but he told me never to go to Urea.”
“Uh… .”
“And like I said before, I have no intention of going anywhere alone, leaving the two of you.”
So this is it.
Han Soo-young started tearing up the letter with those words.
Considering that there are students who work their entire lives to receive that letter, it was never an action to be taken lightly.
… As I’ve thought for a long time, even when burning the book of Necromancy, once she made a decision, she had a tendency to rush back and forth.
“I brought you a drink. What are you doing now?”
Choi Hyun-woo, who returned with a tray of drinks ordered, tilted his head as he watched Han Su-young tearing something up.
Han Soo-young, who had snapped his fingers and set fire to it, instantly wiped out even traces of it, and sticking out his tongue at him.
“I won’t tell you.”
“What, not even a child… .”
Hyunwoo Choi muttered like that and sat down next to me.
As always, iced Americano was placed in front of him, sweet tea in front of Sooyoung Han, and coffee that was sweet enough to tingle in front of me.
“What? Hyunwoo are you going to die? I have a birthday earlier than you Who is the child?”
“Yeah, it’s only been a week. To be honest, if you ask other people, they will all say that I look older.”
“What?”
Han Soo-young frowned at the words of Choi Hyun-woo, who snorted as if it was plastic.
Then he quickly turned his head and looked at me.
“Jihyuk, who do you think is older than the two of us?”
“uh?”
“What do you have to ask? Jihyuk probably thinks I am more mature.”
“You be quiet!”
Seeing the two of them arguing, I smiled a little.
Because I knew well why they were doing this.
“Thank you both.”
“yes?”
“What is it, Jihyuk?”
As I watched the two people pretending not to know, I said clearly.
“You’re doing this to relieve my tension. Even arguing that doesn’t suit me.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
The two of them kept their mouths shut as if they were stabbed by my words.
Not having the courage to look at those two, I grabbed my coffee and sip it.
“Well.”
When the coffee was put down, it wobbled and rippled.
It looked like his hands were shaking.
I made up my mind many times, but when it finally came, I was not afraid.
Is it really the right thing to say, maybe even now, I can just do something that didn’t happen… .
Leaving behind all those thoughts, I looked at the two of them.
“If I have to tell you… .”
“Wait a minute.”
Han Soo-young, who stopped me, closed her eyes and started muttering something.
As soon as she signed the seal, she moved her hand as if to scatter something around her, and a hazy membrane surrounding us appeared and shook.
“done. Now no one will hear us, and no one will see us.”
I bowed my head slightly to thank her.
Hyun-Woo Choi and Soo-Young Han.
The two were looking at this side with serious expressions on their faces.
It felt as if that gaze was rebuking me for some reason, and my breathing started to get a little rough.
“Ji-hyuk.”
Seeing me like that, Hyunwoo Choi quietly opened his mouth.
“it’s okay.”
He nodded as if he was really okay.
Han Soo-young said with a small smile.
“It will be fine.”
Can it really be?
I closed my eyes.
“As for what I was trying to say… .”
take a small breath
The two still looked at me without saying a word, as if to talk to me whenever it was convenient for them.
“I am true.”
I am not of this world
At those words, the faces of the two changed completely.
I quietly waited for the two of them to respond to my words.
The wait didn’t last long.