Chapter 128.2

‘I feel so ashamed!’

His fingers fidgeted incessantly.

His toes, as if trying to poke through his shoes, stiffened.

It felt like exposing the dark, awkward memories of his edgy teenage years for all to see…!

“I see! As expected of President Han. Your ‘claiming justice’ statement became so impactful that it turned into a popular meme online. Students frequently use it in various contexts, like ‘I will claim love,’ ‘I will claim friendship,’ ‘I will claim success,’ ‘I will claim her,’ and more.”

“Haha… Yes, I’ve heard…”

Baek-hyun struggled through the interview, stuttering throughout.

Watching him fumble, his secretary sighed quietly, thinking, “Ah, President…”

“And let’s not forget the infamous insubordination against the Student Council President. It was so cool that everyone praised it.”

“What? Ah, no. That’s…”

“You boldly declared, ‘I’ll live as I please,’ and hurled insults and profanities…”

Baek-hyun broke into a cold sweat, tugging at his tie. Sitting in the hot seat, he could only smile awkwardly, hoping this broadcast wouldn’t reach the Student Council President’s ears.

Han Baek-hyun, the Ahsung High School Student Council President, had become a celebrity, and the school’s approval ratings soared.

He received a Platinum Mileage award and was on the path to success.

If he wished, continuing as Student Council President wouldn’t be an issue.

***

Ahsung High School.

Kim Dalbi leaned against a locker, staring at her smartphone screen in deep thought.

Students passing by glanced at her out of the corner of their eyes.

“There’s the goblin.”

“What’s she doing?”

“She looks suspicious…”

“Scary… Is she plotting something?”

The students whispered in hushed tones, but Dalbi paid them no mind. She was so focused on her phone that she couldn’t hear anything else.

Dalbi was now attending Ahsung High School as her true self, Kim Dalbi, not as her alias Kim Yeon-hee.

She was no longer in disguise, attending school with her natural light pink hair.

Everyone knew that Dalbi was one of the Six Sinners, the Goblin.

Most students still kept their guard up around her.
But Dalbi couldn’t care less about any of that.

“Hmmm…”

Right now, her biggest problem was…

[Hi, nice weather today]

Kim Dalbi typed a message on Coconutalk but deleted it.

‘No… that’s too casual. I should be more direct…’

[Wanna grab lunch together today?]

She erased it again.

‘Too sudden, that’s rude…’

[Hey Woo-jin, it’s Dalbi. Today]

[Today feels like a bibimbap kind of lunch, bibim]

[By the way, what do you like?]

[Let’s go grab some bibimbap]

[Ahn Woo-jin! Come out! Let’s have lunch]

She kept writing and erasing messages.

“Huuu…”

Dalbi buried her forehead in her locker, letting out a deep sigh. Passing students flinched.

The recipient name on her Coconutalk was Ahn Woo-jin.

Dalbi wanted to have lunch with Woo-jin.

But.

‘What should I send to make it sound natural?!’

For 20 minutes now, she’d been agonizing over what to write in the message…!

‘Ugh. I’ve never been in this situation before. We’re still kind of awkward…’

Dalbi let out a deep sigh and helplessly stared at her phone screen again.

“…Huh?”

Her face gradually turned pale.

[Kim Dalbi: Ahn Woo-jin! Come out! Let’s have lunch]

The message…

‘Oh no… I accidentally sent it…!’

*Thud!*

Dalbi slumped to the ground, clutching her head.

‘Aaaahhhh!!’

Dalbi was on the verge of screaming.

Passing students started watching her from a distance, intrigued by her strange behavior.

‘What do I do? What do I do?! Ah, delete! Maybe there’s a delete function…!’

Dalbi frantically tried to delete the message.

Just then, the “1” next to the message disappeared.

It meant the recipient had read it.

‘He read it…’

Dalbi’s world crumbled in despair.

Her face filled with sorrow, and her eyes spun in circles.

She even messed up her hair.

‘He won’t think I’m weird, right? No, of course he will. I went and sent a message like that…! This is so wrong. Ah. Ah…!’

Just as Dalbi was lamenting inwardly.

*Buzz.*

Her phone vibrated, and Dalbi quickly checked the screen.

[Ahn Woo-jin: What do you want to eat?]

[Ahn Woo-jin: Oh]

[Ahn Woo-jin: I have a list of places I wanted to take you to]

[Ahn Woo-jin: Want to see?]

[Ahn Woo-jin: There are so many places I want to go with you]

[Ahn Woo-jin: (puppy scratching its head emoji)]

“Wow…!”

*Shine!*

Dalbi smiled brightly, moved by the responses.

Her sparkling eyes.

It felt like stars were twinkling around her face.

A total of six replies.

One of them even had a cute emoji…!

It was a response that made Dalbi’s heart flutter!

“Hehehe~.”

For a while, Dalbi held her phone close to her chest, smiling blissfully.

To the passing students, the sight was quite unnerving.

“What the heck is wrong with her…?”

“Whatever it is, she seems off mentally…”

“Well, she is one of the Six Sinners, so it’s no surprise something’s loose.”

“Ahem, but she’s really pretty…”

“Yeah, super pretty…”

The students quietly whispered as they watched Dalbi from a distance.

But Dalbi, lost in her happiness, couldn’t hear a word of their conversation.