episode_0021
by admin#21
“My chest feels so stuffy these days… .”
Yunseol had been troubled by a strange feeling of suffocation in her chest lately.
“Sister. Aren’t you being too hard on yourself these days?”
“That’s not it… .”
The appearance of villains has also decreased quite a bit recently, so if you think about it, it’s actually been more comfortable these days.
“… .”
Yunseol tried to recall when the feeling of tightness in her chest that she was feeling now started.
‘… Was it when that person Kim Mi-young wrote that strange article?’
No. Of course, I felt similarly suffocated back then… but it was completely different from the feeling I have now.
At that time, it felt like something was squeezing me to the point where I couldn’t even breathe.
What should I say about the tightness in my chest that I feel right now?
‘Irritated? Angry?’
Anyway, it feels a little lighter.
‘Then… is that the time?’
The next thing that came to Yunseol’s mind was the day she had bothered the boss after drinking too much at the cocktail bar.
‘No way. A bottle of alcohol…?’
I’ve heard that if a person drinks too much alcohol, it can cause health problems.
Come to think of it, it seems like the stuffiness in my chest got worse after that day when I went home hugged by my boss.
And yesterday too.
“Delayed.”
“Yes?”
“Does the average person… suffer from alcoholism for more than a week?”
“Um… Well? I don’t drink, so I don’t know.”
At that time, Lee Hui-yoon and Ji-yeon were talking about bottles of alcohol.
Squeak.
The door to the company break room opened… and a familiar red-haired woman came inside.
“Hello. Little Miss, Princess… No, Mr. Yunseol.”
‘Why does that person keep coming here?’
Yunseol thought as she saw Hwayoung enter the break room, and glanced at her from the corner of her eye.
Soon, Yunseol realized that the president was no longer in sight.
“Huh?”
─I was so flustered that I couldn’t help but let out a sound as the stuffy feeling that had been lingering around my chest disappeared.
“Huh? What’s wrong? Mr. Yoonseol. You look happy?”
“The stuffiness in my chest just disappeared… Hmm?”
And once again, Yunseol is embarrassed.
‘Did that person just call me Yoonseol?’
“That, right.”
Hwayoung’s words added to her confusion even more.
“Ms. Yoonseol. Do you want to have dinner together later?”
“… Yes? What, what did you say?”
Yunseol looked at Hwayoung for a moment, speechless.
‘Something, something has changed.’
The image of Hwayoung that Yunseol remembers is always confident and with a slightly mischievous smile.
But now, her appearance rather seems a little bit shy.
“… What’s wrong, Mr. Yoonseol.”
Hwayoung’s voice wavers slightly, perhaps because she still feels awkward being called Yoonseol.
Seeing her like that, Yunseol became confused.
‘What on earth happened yesterday that made people change like this…?’
Did he suddenly have a change of heart? If so, why?
‘…no way?’
“Do you not want to have dinner with me?”
“That’s not it.”
… does this have anything to do with the fact that the boss was my daily manager yesterday?
Yun Seol, who had thought that far,
‘Oh.’
I felt something strange about the stuffiness in my chest that had returned and answered Hwayoung.
“Okay. Let’s have a meal together later when you have time.”
Hwayoung smiled with satisfaction at Yunseol’s answer.
“… Yeah.”
She soon left the break room as if that was her purpose.
A moment of silence.
“Oh, unnie. That person. Is that really Hwayoung…?”
Ji-yeon, unable to believe Hwa-young’s sudden change in attitude, asks Yoon-seol quietly.
Yunseol answered her in a tone that seemed somewhat embarrassed.
“… I think that’s right.”
What made that guy change like that? Surely not. The boss?
“… .”
Yunseol thought.
I think I should go to the hospital sometime.
*
As a welfare measure at the Hero Association level, each hero is assigned their own doctor.
“Hello.”
The doctor and nurse that Yunseol visited this time were people she had known for quite some time, and could be said to be close to her.
“It’s been a while. Mr. Yoonseol, is there something wrong with you?”
“That’s… ”
Yunseol explained to the doctor in charge about the chest tightness she was currently feeling.
My symptoms started about a week ago after I had a drink too much at a cocktail bar.
From then on, whenever he thought of the cocktail bar owner, his symptoms got worse.
Also, seeing the CEO with his fellow heroes yesterday made me feel even more depressed.
“… Why is it like this?”
“Uh… .”
The doctor, who had heard that far, was a little embarrassed and asked Yunseol.
“Hey, Mr. Yoonseol. Could you tell me a little more about what happened that day?”
“Huh? Why…?”
“Ah. Then I think it will help us understand the symptoms. Right? Nurse Kim?”
They have been working together as a doctor and nurse for quite some time.
““… .””
For a while they had a silent conversation with their eyes,
“Oh, that’s right!”
The nurse agreed with him, her smile trying to hide her lingering fear.
“Oh, that’s it.”
The doctors and nurses’ dedicated acting was successful.
Yunseol thought that they, who had been in a relationship since the beginning of the hero, would not lie to her in this situation.
“Actually… .”
I spoke honestly about what happened that day…
““… .””
… After Yunseol’s story ended, silence flowed through the treatment room.
“Ahem.”
“Oh my. What should I do… .”
The doctor in charge of Yunseol coughed slightly, looking slightly embarrassed, and the nurse next to him had to try hard to hide the smile spreading across her lips.
‘Oh.’
Yunseol was slightly embarrassed when he saw their reactions.
‘… Did I say something strange?’
Yun Seol was bullied by her peers because of her appearance, which was too bright compared to others.
That’s why she replaced elementary and middle school with homeschooling.
To make matters worse, Yunseol’s powers began to develop when she first entered high school… and since then, she has been busy preparing to become a hero, so her interactions with children her age have been extremely limited.
In other words, Yunseol had never experienced the bitterness of love that other children of the same age experience at least once.
She didn’t realize that the story she was telling was almost like a story of unrequited love…
“Maybe I’m a drunkard?”
… As a result, a situation arose where a single word could elicit both admiration and sighs from the viewer.
Whispering.
A doctor and a nurse were talking among themselves in voices that Yoonseol couldn’t hear.
After a while of their discussion.
The doctor in charge of Yunseol, who could not bring himself to tell her the truth, slightly avoided her eyes and spoke.
“Uh… Mr. Yoonseol’s symptoms are…typical of a boss…no, they seem like cold symptoms.”
Love cold.
“I guess you drank too much… It seems like your immune system is greatly weakened. Oh, I don’t think you need to prescribe any medication, and you’ll get better if you rest.”
“Ah… I had a cold.”
Somehow, I felt like something was heating up.
“Thank you. Then, take care.”
After that, Yunseol agreed with the doctor’s words and left the examination room.
‘Ugh. The hero caught a cold… How pathetic.’
As I was about to leave the hospital, I was mocking myself.
“Excuse me, Mr. Yunseol. Wait a minute!”
A nurse came out of the examination room and followed her and spoke to her.
“… Nurse?”
Yunseol felt somewhat puzzled by the sight of the nurse following her with a slightly embarrassed face.
To her, the nurse finished telling her what she had not been able to say in the examination room.
“That, Mr. Yoonseol.”
“Huh?”
The nurse is one of the people who has been watching Yunseol since she was a high school student, that is, since she first became a hero.
The Yunseol she first met was an ordinary girl with a gentle heart and kind personality.
However, while working as a hero, Yunseol suffered from various rumors, and at some point, he began to have a cold and expressionless attitude.
The nurse, who had been feeling very sorry for Yunseol, couldn’t stay still after hearing Yunseol’s story.
“The cocktail bar owner that Yoonseol just mentioned.”
“… Yes.”
“How about meeting that person and talking to him?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Just, everyday stories. Or stories about something funny that happened that day. Various things.”
Anyway, that guy called CEO is a man.
If you talk to this innocent and pretty child, you will develop feelings of favor that you didn’t have before.
The nurse was half-convinced of that.
“… Why? We’re not really that close.”
But naturally, her words sounded a little strange to Yunseol.
Suddenly, I was asked to meet with the owner of a cocktail bar and talk to him. What does that have to do with a cold?
The nurse noticed Yunseol’s hints.
She convinced Yunseol by making up some plausible arguments.
“Then, perhaps, the stuffiness in your chest will get better? Originally, mental stability is important for immunity… Spending time with friends is also a good way.”
“The boss and I aren’t really friends… .”
“Then let’s be friends from now on! When I listen to Yoonseol’s story, he seems like a good person. I think we’ll be good friends.”
Of course, the friend she was talking about here was her boyfriend, but Yunseol had no way of knowing that.
“Good guy…right?”
Yunseol responds with a slightly red face to her words.
‘What should I do? I look like a rabbit.’
The nurse who saw her had to barely resist the urge to hug her.
“Well, I hope it goes well!”
With those words, the nurse returned back into the hospital.
“… .”
Yunseol stood there blankly for a while after she left.
Soon, Yunseol imagined herself and the cocktail bar owner becoming close friends.
‘Friends with the cocktail bar owner?’
After work, he and his boss go to a cocktail bar, open up about the day’s events, and have a pleasant chat.
Let’s picture that scene in our mind…
Heart pounding.
‘…Huh?’
A feeling somewhat different from the stuffiness she had felt until now came over her.
Heart pounding.
Or is it that Yunseol notices the feeling that the people of the world call excitement?
‘They say summer colds are bad.’
…unfortunately, it was quite a distant thing.
.
“Mister. What’s wrong?”
“No. My ear suddenly feels itchy.”
“… Isn’t that someone swearing at you, old man?”
Hey. No way.
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