Chapter 42 My Ex-Girlfriend Decides to Commit Suicide

Reytana’s outfit is extremely eye-catching.

This isn’t some medieval fantasy, but clearly the modern society we live in today,
yet wearing a black nun’s habit still inevitably draws attention.

So I had no choice but to look for a restaurant with relatively few people.

Even though it was already hard to find a place that wasn’t crowded on a weekend evening, I came to this place because it seemed less busy.

But instead of crowds, I encountered an even more awkward presence.

“Sigh…”

As Reytana and I entered the restaurant, I found myself face to face with Yoo Eun-ha, who was enjoying her meal in a corner of the restaurant.

Yoo Eun-ha looked at us and clearly recognized us.

I was already sighing at this meeting that seemed like a cruel joke of fate.

“Hero… isn’t that Yoo Eun-ha?”

“Yeah, looks like it.”

But even though I sighed, I had no particular reason to avoid Yoo Eun-ha.

“Reytana. Let’s sit over there.”

“Uh…? Okay.”

I led Reytana to an empty table a bit away from Yoo Eun-ha.

Then I called the waiter and started ordering.

“I’ll have the tomahawk steak. Reytana, what about you?”

“Um… I’ll just have the filet mignon, please.”

“Yes, understood. A tomahawk and a filet mignon, correct? Please wait a moment.”

The waiter wrote down our orders, bowed politely, and left.

I’m deliberately trying not to pay attention to Yoo Eun-ha.

I just plan to eat quietly and leave.

Whether my ex-girlfriend is eating here or not is none of my concern.

After all, if we talk, it’s obvious we’ll just end up arguing.

I hope we can both avoid getting involved in tiring situations.

But…

Unlike me, my ex-girlfriend doesn’t seem to think the same way.

“Hey. Lee Si-woo. You…”

Yoo Eun-ha stopped eating and began striding toward us.

Then she glared at me with a face full of anger.

“You… are you determined to mock me?”

“What are you talking about?”

“Don’t play dumb…! You’re doing this on purpose.”

And with a voice that seemed to have a knife-edge to it, she continued.

“You must be happy, Si-woo? After breaking up with me, dating all these beautiful women. Seems like you’re trying to get revenge on me somehow. Do you think I’m going to blink an eye at something like this?”

Yoo Eun-ha continued her criticism of me.

“What a complete waste of effort! I’ll never regret anything.”

With a scornful laugh, she seemed to want to fight with me somehow in this situation.

“Haah…”

Seeing her behavior, I couldn’t help but sigh.

The reason Yoo Eun-ha is acting this way.

Actually, I’m not unaware of it.

Eun-ha, being full of pride, is probably trying to maintain her dignity by criticizing me like this.

I understand very well why Eun-ha is behaving this way.

After all, we dated for 7 years.

That dating period was definitely not a short time.

“Eun-ha…”

My ex-girlfriend Yoo Eun-ha, who appears stronger than anyone, is actually a fragile woman.

I looked once at the face of my ex-girlfriend whom I once loved.

Until just now, I was trying not to care at all, but I simply can’t help caring.

Because my ex-girlfriend, Yoo Eun-ha, just looks too pitiful.

Yoo Eun-ha’s current state.

Her appearance was truly terrible.

Her once immaculate lips were cracked in various places.

Also, her once glowing skin showed slight wrinkles, evidence of how much she had suffered.

Her brilliant and clean silver hair, unable to receive proper care, now hung limp like a dirty rag.

Her already thin figure had become even thinner… and numerous small changes reflected her situation.

It’s immediately obvious that Yoo Eun-ha is struggling now.

“What kind of state is this…”

I sighed once more and stroked Yoo Eun-ha’s hair.

Even though Yoo Eun-ha was angry with me, I wasn’t angry at all.

The emotion I’m feeling toward Yoo Eun-ha right now is pity.

I feel sympathy for Yoo Eun-ha.

In the past, though arrogant, Yoo Eun-ha was still an impressive woman, but her current appearance is too miserable.

In her past, when she had good abilities and power, her arrogance felt like the dignity of an emperor, but now it feels like nothing more than the desperate struggle of a dying animal.

Still, she’s the woman I once loved.

And she’s the ex-girlfriend with whom I had a long relationship for 7 years.

Of course, we didn’t always get along well, but we were still together.

Like it or not, 7 years is such a long period that feelings inevitably develop.

Naturally, seeing my ex-girlfriend in such a state did make my heart soften.

“Eun-ha. Just come to my house. Stay there for a while. And if you need money, I can lend it to you.”

I offered Yoo Eun-ha a warm word.

To be honest, some might call my decision foolish.

It’s almost impossible for anyone but a complete pushover to say such things to an ex-girlfriend who thoughtlessly dumped them.

But I’m going to do it.

I’ve always been indecisive and somewhat of a pushover by nature.

No matter how hard I try, I don’t think I can treat people harshly.

“…”

Hearing my words, Yoo Eun-ha maintained silence for a moment.

“… Don’t be ridiculous…”

And shortly after, Yoo Eun-ha rejected my offer with tears flowing.

Yoo Eun-ha was the Rank 1 S-class hunter.

Along with that, she was the guild master of [Frozen Heart], the undisputed #1 guild, a rare beauty, and a woman who was more accomplished than anyone.

Such a woman had absolutely no fear in anything she did.

Because of that, Yoo Eun-ha became more arbitrary and increasingly arrogant.

She thoroughly punished anyone who opposed her even slightly.

And she elevated those who flattered her even higher.

Despite such an attitude, she was very popular.

Many people spared no effort to become involved with Yoo Eun-ha.

They treated Yoo Eun-ha with kindness as if offering their liver and gallbladder.

Yoo Eun-ha reigned like a queen, haughtily, as if the world revolved around her.

But after losing her abilities, everything changed.

After losing her abilities, people’s attitudes toward her all changed.

The people she had trampled in the past took revenge on her as if to prove a point once she lost her powers.

The people she had granted favors to acted as if none of it had ever happened, and no one helped her when she had nothing left.

Yoo Eun-ha had no choice but to fall in complete isolation.

Yoo Eun-ha experienced all of this in the span of a month.

Among people who changed as easily as flipping a hand.

But.

Yoo Eun-ha tried to accept it all calmly.

She tried to think that those people were the problem and that she herself had done nothing wrong.

No matter how miserable the situation she faced, she never despaired.

Because she was still Yoo Eun-ha.

Because she didn’t want to be miserable.

Because misery was what she hated most.

She thought that even living like this now, she shouldn’t be miserable.

“Don’t be ridiculous… I said don’t be ridiculous…”

But, she was now so miserable that tears were about to fall.

Yoo Eun-ha tried not to cry, but she couldn’t control the tears that kept coming.

She couldn’t bear how utterly miserable her current self was.

The reason was none other than her ex-boyfriend, Lee Si-woo.

“Hey. Si-woo. Why are you doing this…”

Yoo Eun-ha had tried not to cry at all during the past month.

Because that was her only remaining pride.

No matter how painful and difficult, she tried never to cry.

But now, she couldn’t control the flowing tears.

It was because she hated how good this warmth felt after a month.

She couldn’t understand why Si-woo was giving her this warmth.

“Just curse at me. Just tell me I got what I deserved and curse at me. Just tell me straight that you’re glad a bitch like me is completely ruined.”

When Yoo Eun-ha spoke to Si-woo, she was hoping he would curse at her instead.

She hoped he would say things like: Look at you now, after dumping me despite bragging you’d become better than anyone. Serves you right. She hoped for words like that.

But Si-woo didn’t do that. The man who should hate her more than anyone was instead showing her sympathy.

He was the only one.

The only person who gave her warm words after she completely fell like this.

Because of such a person, she now felt so miserable.

She absolutely didn’t want this warmth.

Especially if it came from the ex-boyfriend she had ruthlessly dumped.

“Why… why are you making me more miserable? Why…!”

The flowing tears wouldn’t stop even if she tried to stop them.

She never wanted to receive this kind of pity.

Yoo Eun-ha might have wanted something other than pity.

If that had been the case, Yoo Eun-ha would never have shown tears.

“Hic…”

Yoo Eun-ha ran out of that place immediately.

Her emotions were overwhelming her. She couldn’t stay here any longer because she didn’t want to show her crumbling self anymore.

After leaving the restaurant, Yoo Eun-ha had no choice but to go wherever her heart led her, just following what her heart told her to do.

And the place she arrived at after running for a while was…

The rooftop of the building where the [Frozen Heart] guild used to be.

“Haha… the view is nice.”

The rooftop of her company, visited after a long time.

It’s now been seized and become someone else’s building… but it was once a place where her brilliant self existed.

Yoo Eun-ha standing on the rooftop railing of such a place.

She was smiling.

Though she had tried to live with a firm resolve somehow, after meeting Si-woo, Yoo Eun-ha couldn’t help but crumble.

Now she had completely lost all motivation.

“Just… let’s die. What’s the point of living.”

This was actually something Yoo Eun-ha had been prepared for for a long time.

The current life is difficult, and the future life will be even more difficult.

In such a life, Yoo Eun-ha didn’t want to become submissive.

Yoo Eun-ha had no intention of bending her pride because of mere material things.

One might wonder what pride is, but to her, pride is invaluable.

Because that’s all she has left now.

So she’s going to die.

To protect the last thing she has left.

“Haah…”

Yoo Eun-ha sighed deeply.

Like a star falling from the night sky…

Yoo Eun-ha fell from the rooftop.

But.

She stopped.

“Huh…? My ability…”

Although Yoo Eun-ha had already fallen from the rooftop, she was able to stop.

“My ability has returned…?”

Pure white ice crystals bloomed from Yoo Eun-ha’s hand.

The Rank 1 S-class Yoo Eun-ha’s ability had returned.