episode_0012

‘Isn’t this…?’

Choi Su-yeon was embarrassed and sweatdropped.

Who is Han Seong-jin?

He was the leader among the Jinsu Higher Education Academy and a famous gangster not only in Jinsu Bridge but also in the surrounding area.

Choi Soo-yeon herself also belongs to the second-year Iljin group, which is a group of similar types of people, but she just needed the sign as ‘Iljin Choi Soo-yeon’, and she neither liked nor participated in Iljin activities.

Of course, I didn’t really like people who were really outgoing, so I didn’t really consider the group of girls I hung out with as friends.

However, out of all the group, the most unresponsive third-year student, Saengyangchi, said that he would rehearse the dating course with him.

She was planning to leave after only throwing in a few tidbits, but when things went differently than expected, Soo-yeon Choi was quite embarrassed and stuttered.

“Seo, senior? Ah, ahaha… Of course, I would like to help if possible, but as you can see, I have a part-time job in the afternoons-”

“I’ll be doing that part-time job starting today, right? Since we work part-time from Monday to Thursday, Fridays and weekends are free.”

“Oh, that’s right! Look at my mind! But I’m a very boring kid, so you’ll regret it if I go with you, right? Rather than a boring kid like me, it would be better to take a friend of mine who can put you in a good mood…”

“No, just looking at what you’re saying now seems interesting enough.”

“Ugh… Does it really have to be me? It’s really hard for me to find time…”

“If it’s difficult to go, I’ll suggest something else instead.”

At that moment, Sooyeon Choi’s eyes lit up.

‘Hehehehe. It’s the art of negotiation! At first, they present conditions that the other party can never accept and then pretend to compromise while presenting their real purpose!

If you think that just because I look like this and hang out with a bunch of kids, my hair will be just as bad, you’re wrong! Well, let’s take a look!’

“Yes, what can I do for you?”

“You know that the kids and I regularly meet up on the weekends, right?”

A gathering is by no means a healthy social gathering, but is more like a gangster gathering where all the male and female gangsters from each grade, from the first to the third year of Jinsu Bridge, gather to drink and smoke in an empty lot.

After the drinking bar passes, the king game… Sodom and Gomorrah is where men and women are matched through the king game, where the person who will give orders is determined, and each person goes to a motel, PlayStation room, DVD room, or private room they have found and has a 1:1 or orgy sex party. Feast of.

Suyeon Choi had never participated in that meeting, but she knew very well what happened there through her Iljin friends who she usually hung out with.

I’m sick of the dirty jokes about how my stomach hurts from having to deal with three guys at the same time, or how I stayed up all night with the handsome guy I had my eye on.

Her expression stiffened for a moment, but Choi Soo-yeon quickly regained control of her expression and responded as if nothing had happened.

“Yes, I know.”

“I think we’ll be meeting again next weekend, and I’m going to announce there that I won’t be going to the meeting anymore.”

“Ah, I see. But that’s me-”

“You can follow me there and pretend to be my girlfriend. Other guys will understand if I tell them I’m going to stay away for a while because I got a girlfriend. What do you think, do you want to do it?”

“Which date course do you like? Daehak-ro? Hongdae? Garosu-gil? Itaewon? Just say the word! I will follow you wherever you go, personally escort you, and plan a course for you!”

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At 10 p.m., Soo-yeon Choi, who had finished her part-time job that day, opened the door to her empty house and fell down on the bed.

“Ah… Mr. What is this? As usual, I’m going to take other people’s money by telling them to do it. What kind of part-time job does Han Seong-jin not like? That’s especially where I work…”

Choi Soo-yeon, who was caught up in Han Seong-jin and eventually accepted his initial condition of ‘accompanying her to the date course rehearsal’, sighed heavily.

Since I started living in this private room, I haven’t had much to stress about, but that wasn’t the case today.

Moreover, considering that I would be in the same room with Han Seong-jin at least 4 times a week for 6 hours a day, I didn’t think that would be the case in the future.

To forget about the bad things, Soo-yeon Choi took out her cell phone and sent a message to someone.

[Me]: Youngbae senior~♥ What are you doing~?

The target is Gong Young-bae, a third-year male student she secretly likes.

To express his feelings to the fullest, he even intentionally sent a heart emoticon, but Gong Young-bae did not respond for a while.

“Are you busy…?”

In fact, it wasn’t the first time that Gong Youngbae was late in replying, so I was used to it, but I also felt a little disappointed inside.

The answer from Gong Young-bae came about 20 minutes later.

[Senior Youngbae♥]: I was talking on the phone with Eunji.

Choi Su-yeon was even more upset after seeing Gong Young-bae’s reply.

‘I even sent him a heart, but he said he was talking on the phone with another woman, so all I had to do was lie and say I was just taking a shower or studying… I’m being unnecessarily honest.’

Afterwards, Soo-yeon Choi had a few small chats with Gong Young-bae as a way to relieve stress.

And I felt good again at the thought that I would soon be able to separate my strongest enemy from Gong Yeong-bae.

When I think about that time, I was able to endure ridiculous things like rehearsing a date course with Han Seong-jin right away.

‘Yes, Choi Su-yeon! Cheer up! If I just eliminate Lee Yu-ri, who has the cheat key called Childhood Friend, then I win!’

Judging from what they are saying, it seems that only Han Seong-jin cares about Lee Yu-ri, and it is obvious that Lee Yu-ri, as always, hates Han Seong-jin, who is a one-liner.

Although her actions of trying to connect two unlikely unions pricked her conscience, the girl who was thirsty for love saw nothing that much.

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Finally freed from the penalty for cleaning up after school, I was able to go home at 3pm when all school classes were over.

Of course, now I have a part-time job waiting for me that takes much longer than cleaning up after school and requires me to tackle it more seriously.

Lee Yu-ri, who didn’t know that I had started a part-time job, looked at me secretly and spoke to me as I was packing my bag.

“It’s good, I don’t have to clean up after myself anymore.”

“Okay then. How nice. I must have cleaned my classroom more often than I cleaned my house, but now I’m tired of just looking at it.”

“Then… are you going to go home right away?”

” That’s how it should be. I decided to live steadily from now on. It won’t leak anywhere, so don’t worry.”

“Who’s worried?! I just…”

“Just what?”

“Oh, it’s nothing. Then go home quickly. Because I have to do student council work too.”

“You’ve been through a lot. Well then, good luck, student council president~”

……

While walking down the hallway leading to the student council room, Lee Yu-ri looked through the window toward the playground where students were leaving school.

And I muttered quietly to myself.

“… No one is waiting for you anymore.”

Perhaps because she had become accustomed to going home from school with Han Seong-jin, she was feeling a little lonely.

……

After arriving home, unpacking my bags and changing into civilian clothes, I lay down on the blanket and rested for a while before heading to the convenience store where I worked on time.

On the way to the convenience store, in all corners of the alley, you could see clearly gangsters, both men and women, sitting in groups, pointing at the convenience store and talking.

I checked the time on my phone and chuckled.

‘It’s time to try smoking cigarettes.’

After school, between 3 and 4 p.m., is the time when groups of people most often try to smoke cigarettes at nearby convenience stores.

“Senior, are you here?”

When I arrived at the convenience store, Suyeon Choi greeted me with a smile.

It seems like a pretty business smile right now.

“You came early. But is there no manager today?”

“Because I found a part-time job, the manager missed his normal working hours. The manager said he would come after dinner, so we can just do our jobs in the meantime.”

“Okay, then I’ll take care of refilling the inventory. Please adjust the settlement amount.”

“Yes~”

We immediately started doing our own work, and as I was taking out snacks and drinks from the warehouse and putting them on the shelf, I suddenly thought of the gangsters who were everywhere on the way to the convenience store, so I talked to Soo-yeon Choi.

“Hey Choi Su-yeon, let me ask you something.”

“What is it?”

“Aren’t you here to smoke a cigarette?”

As soon as she heard those words, Suyeon Choi sighed heavily.

It seems like a lot has happened.

“Don’t even talk. When it’s time to start work, more than 10 teams come in an hour. There are more than one group of kids who make a fuss just because they ask for an ID test, and sometimes the bad guys don’t even try to hide it and even threaten them?”

“Threat?”

“Yes! My senior is the best at Eunbong Gonggyo, but he just said things like selling or being careful on the night road… The person I worked with before also quit because he was stressed out.”

“Hoo. Are you from Eunbong Bridge? Do other academies do the same?”

“Yes. Even though this place is big, it’s not so big that I can’t work alone, but that’s why I use two people in the afternoon. That’s why the manager was working until yesterday.”

“Really? That’s good. There won’t be anything to worry about for the time being.”

“…?”

Choi Soo-yeon is a member of the Iljin group, but she has never really played with the Iljin group, so she doesn’t really know the extent of Han Seong-jin.

All she knows is my name, my face, and that I’m the best Jin Su-gyo.

And, fortunately or unfortunately, the opportunity to prove to Choi Soo-yeon that I was working at this convenience store was a good thing came very quickly.

“Hey.”

“Yes? Eck…”

Several male students with various hair colors and hairstyles entered the convenience store, and upon seeing them, Sooyeon Choi looked like she had been bitten by a bug.

“3 packs of ESSE Prime and Marlboro Red.”

“You guys came a few days ago too, right? What is your ID?”

As soon as Choi Su-yeon finished speaking, those guys created an atmosphere of fear.

“Ah fuck, you’re annoying me again. Because we are adults.”

A group of gangsters immediately talk informally and surround the counter, threatening Choi Su-yeon.

“What are you going to do if we don’t pay? I’ll give you money, so all you have to do is take out some cigarettes. Looking at it, it looks like the corrupt guy who was there until yesterday isn’t there either. If you don’t want to get screwed, why don’t you just quietly calculate it?”

As it is a dirty neighborhood with a lot of gangsters, they started threatening the clerk openly.

Indeed, if Choi Su-yeon had been alone, she would have been unable to move.

But those guys picked the wrong time.

As I came out of the warehouse, I strained my neck a little and spoke.

“What are you guys doing?”