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Jin Ye-seo stood there, deep in thought.

‘It’s no longer useful… Is that it?’

It was a pretty plausible story.

It has been a well-known fact for a long time that men as a species have no integrity.

Otherwise, wouldn’t those who obviously have lovers not be able to look at him with those dirty eyes?

“Ugh… ”

Jin Ye-seo felt her anger rising.

She had been with that man for quite some time, and Jin Ye-seo had to revise her assessment of him a little.

A man with a cruel nature that could be suspected of sadism, a terrible obstacle that blocks others’ paths at every opportunity, but still a person with a firmer faith and decent side compared to other jerks.

In addition, he has a surprisingly pitiful and dangerous appearance.

The destructive power was stronger than expected, so Jinyeseo unknowingly began to care about him and wanted to take care of him.

So, he willingly endured humiliation such as being forced to hug her or act as a wife that was not in his destiny.

She still treated him as a ‘friend’ up until now. But all she got in return was this one-night stand.

My shoulders slump in unnecessary disappointment. My excited heart crashes through the floor.

I thought he was a better guy than I thought, but I thought he was making a friend of the opposite sex for the first time… but in the end, I thought he was just like any other loser.

“Sigh… ”

What was even more frustrating was that for some reason, I had no intention of cutting him off completely.

***

“Uh…what did you say?”

Cafe street in the bustling Yoram district.

A cynical looking female student. Haewon looked at the blonde female student, who was rarely lost in thought, with a questioning look.

“Did something happen at the student council?”

“… Ah.”

Then Jin Ye-seo opened her mouth in a slightly languid and damp voice.

“… No, nothing happened.”

“Oh… Really?”

That’s not the expression. Haewon swallowed her thoughts.

After returning from the assignment, Jinyeseo began to take full responsibility for student council affairs as a first-year representative.

Originally, this position was supposed to be filled by the masked male student. However, since he won the last duel and expressed his intention to refuse, the representative position went to Jin Ye-seo.

It was a series of suspicious processes to the point that there were even rumors of suspicious backroom deals… but there was no way to not accept it.

Since her honor had already been damaged, she had no choice but to seek some material gain. However, this was a result of her family’s wishes being applied more heavily than her own.

Even that would have been an element of humiliation for him.

So I was wondering if something had happened at the student council… but judging by the reaction, it seems I was wrong.

“Uh. Seoyeon unnie takes good care of you too… Everyone else is fine too… The chairman is so unsteady that I don’t really trust him… But other than that, not really.”

Jin Ye-seo shook her head again.

“Hmm… ”

Haewon was one of the few students who was close to Jinyeseo. There were always a lot of people around her, but they were usually more like ardent followers than friends.

Jin Ye-seo also confessed her innermost feelings to her. Her family’s circumstances, her hatred for the masked male student, her praise for Baek Seo-yeon, etc.

But today, Jin Ye-seo’s appearance felt different than anything I’d ever seen before.

‘What the heck…’

“Oh, right.”

While Haewon was in deep thought.

Jin Ye-seo suddenly remembered something and thanked her.

“And thank you for helping me this time. Thanks to you, I was able to overcome a really big problem.”

“Okay. Something like that.”

Haewon answered in her characteristically indifferent voice.

“It’s nothing special.”

Before this commission week began, Haewon had received a request from Jinyeseo.

She was asked to put her name in a false name for the commission she was supposed to carry out.

It was a serious violation of the rules that would have resulted in a punishment equivalent to expulsion if caught, but in reality, it was not easy to manage hundreds of students one by one.

It’s something that’s been happening secretly even among seniors.

Of course, Haewon herself had no particular reason to participate in that effort.

However, it was a rare request from Jin Ye-seo, who I thought had nothing to do with such things.

Intrigued by this, she gladly accepted her request.

During the week of the request, Jin Ye-seo literally disappeared like a touch. And then she came back with a minor injury that required hospitalization in the ward for two days, and stood before her again like this.

It was a part that naturally drew my interest.

“So what’s really going on?”

Haewon asked Jinyeseo a question as if she was not interested.

However, Jin Ye-seo hesitated and took quite some time to answer. But in the end, as if she could not overcome her frustration, she cautiously opened her mouth.

“Just… There’s someone who’s kind of annoying these days.”

“Annoying… person?”

“Uh. Don’t ask any more. Just thinking about it makes me angry.”

However, Jin Ye-seo cut off the words with a single stroke. In Hae-won’s mind, who was swallowing her regret, the image of someone wearing a mask was somehow drawn.

I couldn’t think of anyone else who would have made that book of truth. I don’t know how the man who was said to be hospitalized in the ward managed to scrape the book of truth.

‘Did you hear anything from the student council? I guess there’s senior Yeonminha there too…’

During the last Southern mission, Haewon, like the others, had been saved by him. In return, he gave him a piece of candy during the festival.

With information about the true story he wanted.

However, I didn’t feel any particular pangs of conscience. He was my savior in the first place, and most of the information he gave me was superficial, something I could easily figure out if I just looked into it a little.

Of course, the sight of him beating up Jin Ye-seo was still a horrible memory… but honestly, she thought that Jin Ye-seo had provided the excuse to some extent.

Of course, she had a pretty good relationship with the girls, but the Jin Ye-seo she knew was someone who treated the boys like bugs crawling on the floor.

‘How could I not be dizzy when I receive such treatment?’

The only difference was that he had overwhelming power.

Unlike most men who wouldn’t even think of going up against Jin Ye-seo.

“And… ”

“?”

Haewon was just spreading her wings of imagination.

Jin Ye-seo hesitated, but spoke again, rekindling the dying spark of conversation.

“That… This is a story about a friend of mine?”

Haewon secretly cheered. Well then, that’s right. It looks so frustrating, so there’s no way I’ll just let it go.

‘What on earth is going on…’

However, Haewon couldn’t help but look dumbfounded after hearing the story she told.

“What, what… ?”

***

“What brings you here?”

The place Jin Ye-seo happened to head to in the midst of her frustration was in front of the ward where he was still hospitalized.

I just happened to come across it. The sunlight was warm and her ‘specially’ well-groomed hair had a shiny sheen. ‘Today’, she had put extra effort into adjusting her clothes since the morning.

“I’d like to request an interview.”

“Is that so? First, please write your name and grade here… ”

It was a series of truly incredible coincidences. She hadn’t originally planned for this to happen. But when it happened this many times, there was nothing she could do about it.

‘Since I’ve come this far, I might as well ask how you’re doing…’

He’s clearly a mean and annoying man, but who else would care about that poor guy if not himself?

Jin Ye-seo was worried for no reason. She was worried that the man would stay up all night crying again. There probably wouldn’t be anyone by his side right now.

As a ‘friend’, I can’t help but ask how you’re doing.

‘… No, it just so happened.’

Jin Ye-seo, sitting quietly in the corner of the ward garden, braced herself. In fact, she was not the type of person to avoid problems that came her way. She wanted to resolve her worries today.

‘… How about we just have an honest conversation? No, tell me what I think… ?’

Of course, I definitely heard that advice from Haewon, but that doesn’t mean I acted this way because of that advice.

Never.

‘It’s because I’ve been too kind to you. Anyway, if you treat men a little better… you have to tell them harshly that it’s not okay…’

At that moment, Jin Ye-seo clenched her fist.

From the entrance to the garden, I began to sense someone’s presence.

It’s someone’s footsteps, a familiar weight that I’ve heard dozens of times already.

It sounds quite refreshing, it seems like the recovery is going well without any problems.

At this, she smiled brightly without realizing it. The promise she had made just now melted away without a trace.

And then, without realizing it, I was about to say the title he had forced upon me.

“Honey… Huh?”

Jin Ye-seo, who had discovered something, could not finish her words. She could only distort her face.

The man was having his wrist grabbed tightly by a female student who had appeared from somewhere.

She was someone he also knew very well. A second-year senior in the Department of Magic, and a female student who had been by his side like a leech the whole time.

To the compassion of the Reds.