episode_0007

Lunch that day.

Lee Yu-ri had lunch at a restaurant with Gong Young-bae.

Gong Young-bae kept opening and closing his mouth, hesitating, and Yu-ri Lee, who noticed this, spoke first.

“Youngbae, what’s wrong? Things have been strange since morning. What’s going on?”

“Ah, that’s… ”

Gong Young-bae finally decided to speak out and spoke out the words he had kept inside him all morning.

“Yuri, what happened with Han Seongjin yesterday?”

flinch!

Yu-ri Lee stopped moving for a moment, but then responded by eating as if nothing had happened.

“Uh, uh… There was a little bit, right?”

“What happened?! What’s going on?”

“It’s all in the past. It’s just that I got some help from him.”

“What’s going on? Why is such a scoundrel helping you?”

“It’s just something to say. It’s all over anyway and we won’t have anything more to do with it in the future, so let’s stop talking about it, okay?”

“What’s going on? Are you hiding something from me? Have you discovered any weaknesses? Is that kid threatening me?”

Lee Yu-ri, who didn’t want to talk about the fact that she almost got into trouble by street thugs on her way home yesterday because it wasn’t a very good memory, immediately felt annoyed by Gong Young-bae who kept asking her questions.

“It’s not like that, it’s really just a personal matter. And it’s all over and it doesn’t matter anymore?”

“Then why did you use that lunch box earlier…? ”

“Oh, that? Yesterday I was… I did this as an apology because I accidentally made him unable to eat the convenience store lunch box he bought.”

“Then you could just give it in money.”

‘Whoa…’ ‘

I wasn’t there at the time, and since I went home from school, I haven’t received a single text message asking if I arrived safely, so why am I so curious now?

Yuri Yu-ri quietly took a deep breath, suppressing the irritation rising inside her.

“I made a mistake and made other people unable to eat, so how can you just throw money at them without being polite? I also have to apologize.”

“Why do you have to do that?”

“Huh?”

“Han Seong-jin That bastard is a bully who has no answer at all. Why would you apologize or anything like that to a bastard like that?”

“……”

“Yuri I know you’re kind… Even though you weren’t threatened, don’t be nice to trash like that and don’t get involved. If someone sees you, you might look like a cheap person just like that guy-”

Ppajik

bang!

Lee Yu-ri, who became feverish after listening to Gong Young-bae’s words, placed her spoon down hard enough to make a sound on the empty plate.

Then, while grinning, he glared at Gong Young-bae.

“What? What do I look like? cheap? Were you looking at me like that?”

“No, that’s not what I meant-”

“Ah~ Even if you get help from someone, if the person who helped you is a jerk, don’t you think there is any need to be thankful?

Or do you think that all kids like me who express gratitude for getting help from a guy like that seem pathetic?”

Gong Young-bae also did not give up and raised his voice with a stubborn expression.

“No, why are you angry? If you think about it, isn’t the problem getting help from a guy like that in the first place? What were you doing to get help from a gangster like Han Seong-jin? Is there anyone other than the same type of person that gets involved with a guy like that?”

“Really? I’m sorry about that. She doesn’t behave well, so she’s not good enough to receive help from Han Seong-jin! I hope you’re successful so you don’t have to ask for anyone’s help!

Have you said everything you wanted to say? I don’t want to be in the same place as a cheap bitch, but I’ll get up first.”

Lee Yu-ri glared at Gong Yeong-bae with a vicious look on her face as if she were going to kill her, then jumped up from her seat and left the restaurant, stomping her feet nervously.

Gong Young-bae, who was left alone, ate the rest of his meal while receiving attention from other students.

“He didn’t say anything that I didn’t mean, but he doesn’t even think about what he did wrong and just gets angry.”

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After eating lunch alone, I cleaned the lunch box that Lee Yu-ri gave me and brought it to class.

As I reached the class, like Moses performing a miracle, I saw a strange sight as I separated students who were ignoring my presence and sneaking to the side.

According to the description in the original work, while taking a break after lunch, Lee Yu-ri usually chatted with her friends, went on a date with Gong Young-bae, or at least studied at her seat.

But this…

‘Seaweed?!’

Of course, the only person who would be lying face down on Yuri Lee’s desk with her long black hair hanging down in clumps would be Yuri Lee.

Even though her long, shiny and lovely hair hung down the desk like seaweed, Yuri Lee just lay still.

I said as I quietly placed the lunch box down on the head of her desk.

“What are you doing?”

“Go away… ”

Yuri Lee answered weakly without even raising her head.

‘I wonder what’s going on. Did you fight with Gong Yeong-bae? That’s the only reason why he’s so weak right now… ‘

There is virtually no other possibility other than a fight with Gong Young-bae.

I spoke with a victorious smile on my mind.

“Is something bad happening? It’s not a person, it’s a corpse.”

“Go… ”

“Here is the lunch box. I took hand sanitizer and lathered it up, but if it feels uncomfortable, go home and wash it again with a sponge.”

“……”

“And thank you. Your lunch box tastes much better than the school lunch.”

“It’s not like that, and you just say things out loud.”

Yuri Lee was still face down and turned her head to reveal a blank expression.

“Looking at your expression, your mentality is completely gone? What’s going on?”

“…… Hey, if I talk to you like this, do I sound like a cheap girl?”

I cursed inside.

Gong Young-bae, what on earth are you talking about?

I calmly thought about what to say and comforted Yuri.

“What kind of cheap woman makes lunch boxes for others to eat?”

“Not like that. If I were to have a normal conversation with you like this, would I be treated as the same type as you?”

“You’re the same type of person as me. Why, someone says you’re the same bitch as me just because you talked to me?”

“I didn’t say that, but… ”

“Hey, Yuri Lee. Let me ask you just one question. Do you enjoy hanging out or talking to me?”

“No.”

Immediate answer.

I smiled and sat down on the desk in front of where Yuri Lee was sitting and faced her.

“I was hoping you would say yes, even if it was just a lie.”

“I told you so. I hate idiots like you the most.”

“Okay, I got it, I got it. Then you don’t want to be involved with me, nor do you enjoy being involved with me. Then you can’t be in the same category as me in the first place, so why do you care about such idiotic words?”

“……”

“Rather, I don’t know who the bastard who said that is, but I know that he views you as a complete asshole.”

“What does that mean?”

Only then did Yuri raise her head from her desk and sit down.

I thought it was just a heart attack, but seeing this reaction, I was 100% sure it was Gong Young-bae.

“ Student council president Lee Yu-ri, an honor student who is good at studying, is worth having as a friend. Do you think Lee Yu-ri, who talks like this with people like me, is cheap? Then, that bastard only sees the side of ‘student council president, an honor student who is good at studying’, not Lee Yu-ri.

Aren’t you a bastard who is not interested in the person you are and is more interested in ‘the amazing me who hangs out with that kind of Lee Yu-ri’ using your image?”

“……”

“If it were me, I would have stuck my fist in the top of the bastard who said that.”

“Sigh.”

Yuri Lee chuckled lightly.

And he looked straight at me with a slightly more relaxed expression than before.

“You’re surprisingly good at speaking, aren’t you? I thought the only things on my mind were alcohol, cigarettes, and women.”

“Hey, I told you this yesterday too, but if you don’t be careful about what you say, you could get scolded really hard.”

“Thank you, though. I feel much better. Ah~ Now that my stress is gone, I suddenly feel very sleepy. I’ll close my eyes for a moment, so will you go away?”

“ji just said what he had to say, but then he took what he needed from me and then told me to go away? That’s really shameless.”

“But I hate people like you. It’s disgusting so I want you to go to your place.”

“Ha, I really can’t hit this thing. Okay, I’m going.”

Although she still said that she hated me very much, I couldn’t quite feel the sincerity in Yu-ri’s voice and expression as before.

That’s why I let her be alone for a while without bothering her any more.

After lunch time, Yuri Lee returned with almost the same level of tension as usual and attended class just fine.

However, unlike yesterday, I did not exchange a single word with Gong Young-bae during the break and did not even look at Gong Young-bae at all.

And around 4 p.m., when all classes were over and I had to carry out after-school disciplinary action.

“Ugh, I don’t want to do this already. I can’t believe I have to do this 8 more times.”

I stretched and got up to clean up after the classroom.

At that time, the back door of the classroom opened and a female student with long black hair stepped inside.

“Is there a lot to do? Looking at the cleaning situation yesterday, I can’t leave everything to you, so I’ll help you.”

“Yes, thank you, student council president.”

Lee Yu-ri, avoiding my gaze, has never looked so cute.