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-Did you leave behind someone in the previous world? To be honest, I am heartbroken every day because the Daehyup does not open its heart to me like this. But the girl will wait forever. The girl did not learn how to hide her feelings like most women.

Yeonhwa, I suddenly remember the story she told me in the beginning about how she liked me without any reason.

He asks if he left Jeongin behind. He also thought of Seol Yu-jeong, whom he had had a crush on for over three years.

But I could never say that he was Jeongin. It was a pathetic unrequited love that I never confessed my feelings for.

‘Why did Yeonhwa like me so much when I was so indecisive?’

Ji-hoon was the one who naturally thought of Yeon-hwa without any feelings even after seeing his old crush for the first time in ten years.

“Ah…fuck”

Ji-hoon’s thoughts are broken, and he comes to his senses in an instant.

The place where Seol Yu-jeong sat and the bookshelf where Ji-hoon was selecting a book were quite far away.

But her low voice pierced right into Jihoon’s ears.

“…?”

Was he swearing just because he made eye contact?

Jihoon, who returned to reality after ten years, was unable to adapt to others who looked at his very existence with disgust.

This is because he spent a long time dealing only with Yeonhwa, who always loved him unconditionally, and the warriors who looked up to him and could not hide their awe.

Ji-hoon, who was dumbfounded for a moment, walks over to where Seol Yu-jeong is sitting.

“Hey, why are you going to Yujeong again, you idiot! Why are you so clueless-”

A short-haired woman who is Seol Yu-jeong’s friend who was talking to him a little while ago grabs Ji-hoon’s arm as he walks and shoots him, but then freezes in place.

The strong male body can be felt from the forearm held in his hand.

Jihoon’s eyes look down indifferently at her hand holding her arm.

‘Was he originally this tall…?’

As I shift my gaze to his eyes looking down indifferently, his mouth opens.

“–Do not”

I was so distracted by his strange atmosphere that I couldn’t properly understand what was being said right in front of me.

“…Huh? What…what?”

“Do not touch it carelessly”

The woman understood Jihoon’s words correctly this time and hurriedly took her hand away from his arm.

In fact, Jihoon, who was filled with the stigma of being an E-level hunter in class 11 and the Academy’s representative failure student, was far from being scary.

Since the physical differences between men and women are meaningless when it comes to hunter abilities, all the academy students who knew of his poor abilities thought of him as funny.

‘But… what… why do I feel so overwhelmed?’

“What is your name?”

“Kim…Seonhee”

“Yes, Yujeong’s friend Seonhee. It is dangerous to carelessly touch someone else’s body. In some places, even a slight bump on the shoulder in a guesthouse…or a restaurant can result in life or death on the spot”

What kind of bullshit is this… Ji-hoon walks towards Yu-jeong again, leaving Seon-hee behind, who couldn’t understand what Ji-hoon was saying at all.

“Yujeong…isn’t she Seol Yujeong? Nice to meet you after a long time!”

Seol Yu-jeong faces Ji-hoon, who suddenly approaches her and greets her with a bright smile, with a horrified expression on his face.

“It’s been a while. I saw you yesterday, and the day before yesterday… We run into each other too often”

The words she spat out weren’t that aggressive, but you could clearly see her disgust through their connotations.

‘Oh, that’s right. Why do you keep forgetting? Me too… But why is he so picky?’

“Sorry, I’m a little out of my mind these days. By the way, is something bad happening?”

“What? What do you mean?”

“As soon as we make eye contact, his mouth looks like he’s swearing. What did I do wrong?”

Are you asking this directly? Of course, Yoo-jeong swore because she felt bad about meeting Ji-hoon.

But how many people would be able to answer truthfully if the person in question asked them with such iron on their face?

“Oh..well.. no, I just…I didn’t do it to you”

“Right? I knew it would be like that too. I probably didn’t do anything wrong to make you curse just because I made eye contact”

Yu-jeong looks at Ji-hoon, who keeps saying strange things.

Originally, Yu-jeong stayed away from Ji-hoon because he felt uncomfortable about his gloominess.

***

Yu-jeong also naturally knew that Ji-hoon had liked her since high school.

Although he didn’t show off or confess, there were many times when he greeted me cautiously or looked like a fool in a panic.

Also, I could tell just by looking at his eyes.

Yujeong, with her beautiful face with big eyes and sharp nose bridge, was popular since she was young.

As she grew up and her body became more feminine, more men became interested and approached her.

Therefore, Yu-jeong was someone who could tell at a glance that a man liked her.

Being liked by someone is definitely a good thing. Unless the target is that idiot.

When Yoo-jeong’s friends found out that Ji-hoon liked her, they made fun of her, either intentionally or jokingly.

“Yoojeong~ Isn’t it about time Jihoon understood your feelings? Hahaha”

“Yoojeong! Isn’t that almost a confession? Have you ever seen your face turn bright red when you say hello? Kkkk”

puberty. Yu-jeong, who is sensitive, hated the teasing from her friends. He felt bad that his friends kept tying him up with Jihoon, who was poor and incapable.

Of course, Yoojung also knew that Jihoon had not done anything wrong.

Other than the fact that he likes me, he has never confessed inconveniently or bothered to pursue me.

However, for a young female student, reputation among her friends would have been more important than anything else.

At some point, whenever Ji-hoon appeared, Yoo-jeong looked down on him and acted dismissively, as if telling people around him to listen.

It didn’t matter if Jihoon didn’t like him anyway, and if he did, his friends would make fun of him less…

***

“If something bad happens, try pizza and cola. You’ll feel better. A pizza place I know well–”

What nonsense does this sound like? Are you trying to make me laugh out loud now? Yu-jeong responds sharply.

“What? Why am I eating pizza with you?”

Ji-hoon appears to be embarrassed by Yu-jeong’s harsh words, and lightly steps back and waves his hands.

“No no. I’m not saying we should eat together. He was telling me about a pizza place he knew well. I don’t know if anyone else knows, but I don’t eat pizza with you. Because then I’d feel like I’d committed some kind of sin…”

Yujeong’s brow furrows severely. What kind of nonsense has this guy been saying since a while ago?

Ji-hoon may not know about other women, but he felt like he would be committing a crime against Yeon-hwa if he ate pizza with Yu-jeong, who he had a crush on before he went to the parallel world.

Jihoon thought he should leave quickly before the conversation continued.

“Read the book diligently, bye”

“No, what…”

“Hello there, Seonhwa, you too”

“Seonhee…”

Seeing Ji-hoon suddenly leaving in a hurry, Seon-hee picks up a book and comes to Yu-jeong.

“Yoojeong, isn’t there something strange about her?”

“Huh?.. What.. What?”

“No, when I grabbed his arm earlier… the muscles… oh and the height… was he originally that big?”

Even so, Yu-jeong felt that Ji-hoon was somehow much bigger.

“Oh, and I heard from the 11th class kids who went on the E-class gate subjugation mission earlier… that he killed the king goblin with one hit?”

“What? What kind of nonsense is that? Jihoon Kang? Not anyone else, but Kang Ji-hoon? I must have heard something wrong..”

“Uh..right? It seemed like he was out of his mind as he had just returned from defeating the Class 11 kids, so I’ll have to ask again later.”

While talking like that, Seol Yu-jeong opened the book again and did not realize that her gaze kept going towards the door where Ji-hoon left.

***

Chairman’s Office

“No, Professor Jin. There is no one who doesn’t know that Professor Jin is talented… There isn’t one… But wasn’t this report written too roughly?”

Jin Seok-hyeon, who completed the E-level gate suppression mission and visited the chairman’s office after writing a related report, is in great trouble.

“Kang Ji-hoon… this student. It’s so bad that I even memorize his name. He’s the guy who was a failure all year long, right?”

“Yes.. That’s right.”

Professor Jin Seok-hyeon’s expression becomes even more distorted, and Chairman Song Yu-kyung’s face is filled with dissatisfaction.

“No matter how much it is an E-level gate, when did the level of our academy get so high that one student from class 11 can take out a boss mob in one go?”

Listening to Song Yu-kyung’s reprimand, Jin Seok-hyeon felt very unfair, but was able to understand her.

If I hadn’t seen it, I wouldn’t have believed it either…

“The contents of the report were not written incorrectly or roughly. It’s true.”

“No, hey Professor Jin–”

“Quarterly evaluation to be held next month. The Chairman should also observe. Our academy will probably become noisy.”

After finishing speaking, Jin Seok-hyeon bows his head for a moment to show respect, then opens the door to the chairman’s office and leaves.

“Kang Ji-hoon…Kang Ji-hoon…Professor Jin is not the kind of person who talks like that…”

Little Lee Chae appears in Song Yu-kyung’s eyes, and for some reason, an unknown sense of anticipation surrounds her.