episode_0598

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Immediately after the so-called ‘sightings of Seol Da-bin’ exploded among the second-year students.

Despite being a hot topic for a whole 30 minutes among students addicted to YouTube shorts, the group chat rooms that Seol Da-bin belonged to maintained the same tranquility as always.

It couldn’t be helped.

Unexpectedly, Da-bin seemed fine – I thought she would be depressed, but she could still smile –

Although mostly positive stories were heard, in the end, people couldn’t be sure until they saw it for themselves.

That’s why no one in the group chat rooms containing the three letters of Seol Da-bin’s name could ask about it.

[Lee Ji-yoon]

– Senior. Have you heard the news?

[Seol Da-bin]

– Huh?

[Lee Ji-yoon]

– Seo Woo-jin had a sex affair with senior.

– I’m worried about how to tell my sister.

[Seol Da-bin]

– Ah.

– Yes.

– Honestly, I think I’ll just get cursed at…

– For now, I think that’s the right way to go….

It was like that everywhere except for one place.

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Well, of course, he would have asked Da-bin senior for permission first before telling me.

He’s not a psychopath, he wouldn’t have started by blabbing to my sister without any consultation.

I, who was comfortably lying in bed after sleeping in, stretched in place and closed the chat room.

It’s the weekend, so it’s okay to sleep in this much. That’s why I spent the night with Seo Woo-jin yesterday.

“Ugh….”

Anyway.

What I’m worried about right now is how Seo Woo-jin will tell Lee Ha-yoon…, no, my sister, ‘I had an affair with your friend’? – That was it.

It seemed a bit fun in the early morning, so I said I would help, but from a general point of view, it’s a story that’s out without any room for persuasion.

It’s definitely a failure if you just rely on the fact that my sister is kind.

Being kind and being stupid are similar but different.

My sister often gives up her own interests for others, but she’s not a fool who can’t make any judgments.

Then, there had to be something more, a ‘reason’.

Not just because Da-bin senior is a pretty type with a sharp impression, and her breasts are big and easy to grope, and her reaction during sex is surprisingly cute, but a reason why he had to meet Da-bin senior.

And if there’s a reason to give….

“…Hmm.”

There’s none.

From the beginning, the relationship between me, senior, and Seo Woo-jin started with Da-bin senior’s greed.

I can’t possibly persuade my sister with a reason like, “I secretly had sex with Seo Woo-jin when my sister was drunk, and she found out and made it a hush money deal.”

…My sister wouldn’t hit me because of her personality, but she would sigh deeply.

Then what way should I think about it….

“Going out?”

“Yeah. I have somewhere to go.”

While adjusting the pillow under my chest, which I had placed to support myself while lying down, I heard Seo Woo-jin and my sister’s voices from outside.

Somehow, the savory smell of soybean paste stew lingered around my nose, so they must have been having breakfast together just before I got up.

“Where?”

“That…. What we did yesterday. They called me out saying it would be good if I was there like last time.”

“…Ah, the friends we happened to see yesterday said your expression looked good.”

“So they’re calling me out again.”

What we did yesterday?

What did Seo Woo-jin do yesterday?

I remember him coming to pick me up and then going back saying he had something to do.

And then a few hours later, I went out to the living room to drink water while playing a game, and I remember him taking off my sister’s clothes.

But at that time, I only heard that he had something to do, but I didn’t hear what it was.

Eventually, I slowly got up and focused on the sound outside.

“It can’t be helped…. Still, it’s a relief that it’s helpful. Right?”

“Yeah. Besides, she’s your sister’s friend.”

My sister’s friend?

Then the first thing that comes to mind is Da-bin senior….

Help?

What help?

“Ugh…. Da-bin’s boyfriend, even thinking about it now….”

…Aha.

“I’ll be back, sis. I don’t know when I’ll be back…, but I’ll contact you when that kind of atmosphere is created.”

“Okay, okay. Let me know if Da-bin seems to be feeling much better.”

“Okay.”

His expression looks good, so they’re calling him out again this time.

Looking at it, he’s going to meet her under the guise of comforting senior.

It’s the weekend, so…, he’s probably planning to have a lot of sex without my sister knowing.

Yeah, yeah. Well, Seo Woo-jin, you only hear good things about you in class….

The excuse of comforting Da-bin senior, who broke up with her boyfriend, isn’t entirely strange.

…Moreover, it seems like there’s a possibility of using it as one of the ‘reasons’ that I was worried about until just now.

That’s beside the point.

“…….”

That’s strange.

The senior who recently broke up with her boyfriend is meeting with you alone, who happens to be popular.

Honestly, doesn’t the picture look a bit strange?

“…….”

…Maybe.

Are there more than just the two of you?

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“Why do you have so many friends?”

“That was a friend from high school.”

“Anyway, we’ve already run into three people today.”

“…Isn’t it usually like this? It’s not like we’re hiding in some dark alleyway wearing masks and hats, we’re walking around as if to say, ‘Please look at us-!’”

“…Is it usually like this?”

“Ah, well, you have to be in the infirmary, so you have fewer, but…. You must have childhood friends.”

“…….”

“…Don’t you? …Um, well. But Seo-yeon senior sympathizes….”

“I’m getting tired of standing, should we rest for a while?”

“Yes? Ah, yes.”

The advertisement that started yesterday was sailing smoothly again today.

As Seol Da-bin said, it was our usual job to deliberately hide our appearance, but this time, we were exposing ourselves here and there.

Besides, Seol Da-bin and Baek Seo-yeon’s appearances are good at attracting attention, so we keep running into people who we wouldn’t normally even notice.

As a bonus, I’ve memorized the faces of the students while living in the infirmary, so I’ve been subtly approaching them whether they know Seol Da-bin or not.

Unfortunately, all the students I approached today were first-year students who didn’t know about Seol Da-bin’s situation….

“Okay. Let’s rest for a bit. And I think there’s a famous cafe around here.”

“There is. It’s not famous, but it’s a cafe I used to go to with my friends.”

“That’s even better. Is it close from here?”

“It’s close. About 5 minutes? Maybe a little longer?”

All I have to do is give the impression to the students and Lee Ha-yoon, who receives the news, that I have been meeting Seol Da-bin for a long time.

I was about to turn around without caring.

“…? Who is it?”

Suddenly, my pocket vibrated, so I took out my phone.

Judging by the long vibration, it’s a phone call, not a text message.

Therefore, the letters written on the screen I checked were.

It was Lee Ji-yoon.

“Just a moment.”

“Why?”

“Because of the phone call.”

Lee Ji-yoon doesn’t enjoy making phone calls.

Before that, there’s a statistic that the younger you are, the more you prefer texting, and the older you are, the more you prefer phone calls, but anyway, Lee Ji-yoon has almost never called me first.

I said ‘almost’ because I don’t remember exactly, but in reality, it may have never happened.

In that sense, this sudden phone call had a magical effect that made me worry about this and that, even though it wasn’t a big deal objectively….

But I can’t keep ignoring it.

Turning my head away from Baek Seo-yeon and Seol Da-bin, who were looking at me, I answered her phone call with a strange feeling.

“Hello?”

– Where are you?

It’s just like Lee Ji-yoon to be so rude.

Thanks to that, I answered familiarly.

“Gwanghwamun.”

– Why?

“…I’m meeting Seol Da-bin.”

I hesitated for a moment whether to hide the reason, but I didn’t.

I chatted with her for a while in the early morning, and I thought it wouldn’t be particularly strange for Lee Ji-yoon to see me with Seol Da-bin now.

If she was someone I had to hide from, I would have made up an excuse, but Lee Ji-yoon is already someone who has mixed saliva with Seol Da-bin for a long time.

So, when I answered without difficulty, the next question came right away.

– Isn’t it easy to be misunderstood if you two meet alone like that? There’s even a rumor that Da-bin senior broke up with her boyfriend?

“That’s…”

– Besides Da-bin senior, is there anyone else next to you?

“…….”

Baek Seo-yeon is here.

Lee Ha-yoon knows this, and almost all the other second-year students in the academy know it.

But only Lee Ji-yoon doesn’t know.

Only Lee Ji-yoon, who knows the relationship between Seol Da-bin and me, doesn’t know.

Only Lee Ji-yoon doesn’t have a friend who will tell her that she saw the school nurse with two pretty girls.

If Lee Ji-yoon finds out that I, Seol Da-bin, and Baek Seo-yeon are together,

It was obvious what she would think of these three.

“…….”

I can tell her later someday.

But right now, it’s hard to say, ‘Actually, there are a few more women’.

It’s still a bit difficult.

“…Who’s on the phone?”

“Ji-yoon.”

“Ji-yoon? Why all of a sudden?”

– Hello. Senior.

“Oh, Ji-yoon….”

I wonder if she was curious about me slurring my words while talking on the phone. Seol Da-bin, who came right next to me, asked a light question about who was on the phone.

Maybe her voice got in, Lee Ji-yoon greeted her politely, unlike usual.

But it seems like she has no intention of skipping the question she just asked.

– Senior. Are you alone with Seo Woo-jin right now?

Lee Ji-yoon is asking very directly.

Before I could say anything about it.

Seol Da-bin answered as if it was nothing.

“Huh? No? Seo-yeon senior is here too. The one who was the student council president last year.”

– …Seo-yeon senior.

“Yeah. Baek Seo-yeon senior. Me, and Seo Woo-jin. Like this, three people.”

– I see. Thank you. Have a good time.

“Okay. Have a good weekend, Ji-yoon…, …Ah? She hung up?”

“…….”

“Did she call just to ask this?”

“…I don’t know.”

…Because she doesn’t know how much Lee Ji-yoon knows.

“Haa……, …?”

While I was turning off the phone screen while worrying about how to clean up the mess later.

This time, it vibrated several times briefly.

[Lee Ji-yoon]

– At least she knows how to think a little.

– Did you think that if you had someone like the student council president next to you, you wouldn’t be suspected?

– I thought you were just a perverted monkey who could only think about sex 24 hours a day….

– Good job.

“…….”

For now,

I think I can breathe a sigh of relief.