#80. It’s just Jena’s.
I couldn’t help but be taken aback by Jena’s words.
“It’s Jena…”
Compared to her ferocious expression, Harin’s expression looked sluggish.
“Ah~ Inwook-ah, we worked out too hard yesterday, so we’re tired. That’s right~”
Harin placed her hand gently on her forehead and staggered as she rested her head on my shoulder.
“Because I was young, he didn’t leave me alone~ Yeah. It’s me.”
The more Harin said her words, the more Jena’s expression darkened.
“…Yes?”
But she did not step in front of us because she had something to say to me.
“After the academy today. Go somewhere with me. Choi In-wook.”
“That’s Jena…”
Due to a surprise incident between Harin and Sihwa, I had already postponed my appointment with Lee Ji-eun once.
If I throw away the pato today, I’m sure Lee Ji-eun will feel bad…
But I couldn’t refuse Jena’s request.
When I saw that face, the words “I had to go to the gym with Lee Ji-eun” Couldn’t come out of my mouth.
“Why. Are you going to sleep with me today? Do you want to?”
Harin laughed at her as if it was a pity.
“By the way, what should I do with this~ Inwook already.”
Harin ran her tongue over her lips and raised one corner of her mouth.
“We had a good meal.”
“…That’s your best bet.”
Jenna did not back down.
“Did you want to brag to me that you took the kid and ate it?”
Harin looked embarrassed because of Jena, who came out stronger than she thought.
“What…?”
“Please. Please don’t treat me like you, who ignorantly suck from the chest.”
“You’re done.”
Unable to watch her riot in her hallway any longer, I put Harin into her classroom.
“Yaang. Inuk-ah. She.”
“I’m going in first. Harin-ah. I’ll come after the story is over.”
When I spoke in a subdued voice, Harin gave up and went back to her classroom.
“…So. Where do you want to go with me today?”
Seeing Jena talking to Harin like that, she could immediately infer that she didn’t want to sleep with me either.
“I’ll see you later. Come out at 5 o’clock after the academy and talk.”
After a while, her class was about to start, so she turned her back on her words and headed to her classroom.
She returned to the classroom with a confused mind, and she greeted me with a tone that Lee Ji-eun said no to me.
“Ah~ Sensei~ You must have had a good day yesterday~”
“…I’m sorry about yesterday.”
It was because it was a mistake to leave the target for breaking the contract.
“Then instead, we’re teaching twice today, isn’t it?”
Lee Ji-eun secretly asked her to extend the teaching time, but I had no choice but to put on her sassy expression on her again.
“Ah… That’s it…”
Ji-eun Lee exclaimed with her palms wide open.
“If it’s an apple, it’s fine! Well… It’s only for a day or so.
…Write. I don’t think this is it.
“Hey, Ji Eun-ah, I’m really sorry.”
“Uh-huh! It’s okay if you don’t apologize!”
Whew…
Taking a deep breath, I spit out her words that I had to tell her.
“I. I don’t think I can train together today.”
“Ah… That’s not fun. Where’s the guy who puts out pato twice in a row?”
…I really want to train, but they don’t let me go.
“Jenna said she wanted to go somewhere with me?”
“Are you okay?”
She seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then she asked me.
“Then I’ll go too. Aren’t you going to play anyway?”
“I don’t know. Where are you going?”
“No. You’re breaking your promise with me without knowing where you’re going? It’s really too much.”
Ji-eun Lee put her nose on her nose as if she was full of energy.
“Instead, tomorrow is real. Seriously. No matter what happens. Even if a Level 5 monster falls from the sky, I will go to training. Please take a look.”
Ji-eun Lee shook her head and listened to me.
“Haaah… When do you get stronger like this?”
She must have said something she had said to herself, but what she said was clearly relevant to me as well.
So… When will I become strong too…
“Once you know. Then tomorrow is unconditional. Unconditional. You understand?”
“Okay. I’m really sorry.”
As I apologized to Lee Ji-eun, who had lost my stomach, she started her class at some point, and I blew her class while imagining where Jena was going to take me.
* *
After all classes, I met Jena at the back door as promised.
“Let’s go.”
As soon as I arrived, Jena turned her back without saying a word and set off.
I was hesitant to try to talk to her about something, but I decided not to talk to her because I was overbearing.
She wasn’t stupid.
She couldn’t have known what it meant that Harin and I went to school together in the morning.
I didn’t need to hurt her any more by saying anything.
It was her liquor store where she took me.
…Do you want to buy a drink?
Looking at the corner of China’s kaolyangju, she looked around for a while and then lifted up an expensive-looking box engraved with a dragon.
“Give me this.”
When the employee who received the box scanned the barcode, the price stamped on the checkout counter was a whopping 500,000 won.
It was never a small amount.
“Yes… Jena. What are you living for?”
I just wanted to keep quiet, but I couldn’t stand it because I was curious.
Jena was never a fan of her.
If she liked coffee, she liked it a lot, but was not very interested in alcohol.
“Gift.”
Gift…?
“Ah. Then, can I wrap a gift for you? Guest?”
“Yes. Please.”
The owner started packing with a smile as if he was happy after catching the number after a long time.
“Who will give it to you.”
At least I wasn’t.
If I had to say that I had a preference for alcohol, I tend to prefer whiskey or Western liquor a little more.
“Inspiration.”
It was an inspiration… No one could guess.
I wondered if it was a friendly title for my father, but that wasn’t the case.
Jena because she always called her father her father.
After finishing her calculations, she led me to the bus stop again.
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Not knowing where she was going, I stood next to her and looked at her without saying anything.“…Choi Inwook.”
She turned her back to my face and looked out of her window, and then she opened her mouth.
“…If something unexpected happens, don’t be surprised.”
From her words, I guessed that the place we are going to now is by no means an ordinary place.
“Is it difficult to explain in detail?”
After hesitating for a while, Jena slowly opened her mouth.
“I’m going to see my master.”
…Master?
This was a story I had never heard in my previous life.
Jena was extremely reluctant to bring up the story of her hunter activities in her previous life.
I didn’t even explain why at the time.
What I do know is that it didn’t take long for her to be active, and she only knew that she quit her hunter due to an incident.
Even after her marriage, she tried to talk to her several times, but she said it was a memory she didn’t want to recall.
I knew better than anyone that everyone has something to hide, so I didn’t bother to ask.
The bus, which had been running for such a long time, was running towards the final station.
Already out of Seoul, the foothills of the mountains have begun to be seen.
“Let’s get off here.”
After following her, I really got the feeling of coming to her country after a really long time.
Of course, it was not very far from Seoul in terms of actual distance, but seeing the sun hanging over the ridge, I couldn’t get rid of that feeling.
Jena She started climbing the mountain along a dirt road rather than a paved road.
How much higher do I have to go?
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No. Before that, what’s on top of what’s on the bottom?I wondered if her teacher was the kind of uncle who only went into the mountains to train.
“Stop.”
As Jena put the present she had prepared for her on the floor, she rang the bell tied to a wooden pole a couple of times.
Dang. Dang.
When a dull sound resounded from the old bell, a middle-aged man with a long beard walked down from the thatched house above us.
“…Certainly. You seem to be related to me.”
With a low-pitched voice, he stuttered and walked down towards us.
“I should have already talked to you on the phone.”
“Still, it’s a story that’s so easy to believe, I can’t believe it. Because the world is so cruel.”
“I have a lot of inspiration and fear.”
The man Jena called inspiration was really a visual that could have come out of the Joseon Dynasty.
In particular, his costume was wearing a blue jade-colored improved hanbok, so he felt like an actor from some historical drama.
“So. You are Jena’s.”
…That? …What the hell does that mean?
The man who looked around my body looked at me with a curious expression on his head.
“The magic circuit is broken. This. Very.”
“Take this or that.”
Jenna threw the present she brought to him.
“…Surely you must have been my disciple.”
The spirit who took the drink giggled and nodded.
“Yes. Come in.”
So we followed him into the very suspicious-looking thatched house.