I Want to Buy Ha-yeon’s Time

The morning commute to school always makes me feel depressed.

If I didn’t have to go to school, I’d be playing Deron right now…

It wasn’t the first time I’d had these thoughts.

“Uh!”

“Huh?”

An unfamiliar voice came from behind me.

The owner of the voice, filled with a subtle tremor, anticipation, and a strange excitement, was a male student.

A face I’d never seen before.

A stranger.

“You, you’re Blood Demon King-nim… right?”

The informal speech at the beginning eventually changed to polite speech.

Someone recognizes me.

Could he be a Deron user?

I crossed my arms and nodded.

As the master of the Deron Gallery, managing fans was also my role.

“Yeah, that’s me. What’s your business?”

I took a step back and asked.

In the game, I’m a very powerful warrior, but here, I’m just a delicate pretty girl.

So, seeing someone taller than me naturally makes me shrink back.

Of course, I didn’t show it outwardly.

“Ah, just… I was just amazed…”

“Is that so?”

“Ah, yeah. I was just amazed… Sorry.”

The male student trailed off like that, turned around, and walked away.

I thought he’d at least ask for an autograph, so I felt a little disappointed.

“Ha-yeon-ah.”

“Ah.”

This time, the voice that reached me belonged to someone familiar.

A cold voice that seemed strangely stiff.

Judging by the unusual sharpness, she must be in a bad mood.

I turned my head and saw So-hee standing with her arms crossed, showing off her large breasts, looking at me.

I sent her a message saying I’d be at the classroom soon, but she couldn’t wait and came to meet me.

“Who was that guy earlier?”

“That guy?”

“The one who was talking to you.”

“He’s my fan?”

“Fan…?”

“I’m the master of the Deron Gallery, after all.”

So-hee tilted her head, as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.

I nodded and sighed.

So-hee, who doesn’t use that community, wouldn’t understand.

How popular her one and only friend is.

“So, you don’t know him?”

“Yeah. I don’t even know his name.”

I’ve already forgotten his face.

All that remains is the voice filled with a strange tremor.

Even after my answer, So-hee stared intently at the end of the hallway.

Even if she keeps looking like that, she won’t see that male student who disappeared…

“So-hee-ah.”

“Yeah.”

“About the gold I borrowed yesterday…”

Perfect timing.

I carefully opened my mouth.

Yesterday evening, after the raid ended, So-hee suddenly gave me more gold than I had asked to borrow.

“Gold?”

“Yeah. I think you lent me too much…”

“Keep it.”

So, it seems it wasn’t a mistake on So-hee’s part.

I sighed and opened my mouth.

“It’s too much. I only asked for 1,000 gold.”

“It’s okay. You can use as much as you want.”

“I’m going to pay you back.”

“I don’t want it.”

I narrowed my eyes and looked up at So-hee.

If I stand too close, I can’t see her face because of her large breasts, so I had to take a step back.

What is So-hee’s purpose?

Why is she trying to give me so much gold?

The current gold price in Deron has dropped slightly, but 10,000 gold still maintains a high value.

“You really won’t take it back?”

“Nope.”

I stroked my chin at So-hee’s words.

There is a way to send gold through the mailbox, but that would incur a fee.

The only way to transfer gold without a fee is through a trade.

“Ha-yeon-ah.”

“Huh?”

While I was pondering how to return the gold to So-hee, she came closer and wrapped her arm around mine.

“Ha-yeon, you spend time to farm gold, right?”

“W-well… that’s true.”

“Then, can I buy Ha-yeon’s time with gold?”

My time with gold?

I stared blankly at So-hee’s words, my mouth agape.

“How about it? Good idea, right?”

The words that she would buy my time with gold.

When I heard that from So-hee, I was greatly shocked.

I could see how much So-hee wanted to be with me, and I realized how much I had neglected her all this time.

A precious friend is even giving me gold to play with her.

I might have been an excellent guild leader, but I was a failure as a friend.

“Th-that…”

“That?”

So-hee pushed her face, full of smiles, towards me, as if asking if there was a problem.

Looking at that face, I couldn’t open my mouth easily.

“I… I can make time even without gold…”

“But if you do that, you always say you don’t have gold and go farming all day long.”

“W-wouldn’t it be better if So-hee came farming with me instead? Getting gold and giving up my time… it’s a little…”

“A little…?”

I mumbled and avoided her gaze.

“A little weird…”

So-hee’s proposal sounded like a very good one at first glance.

But she and I are close friends.

Buying and selling time between friends was something that couldn’t happen in my common sense.

So-hee seemed to hesitate for a moment at my answer, then nodded as if she had made a decision and held out her hand.

The hand that slid down like a snake ran down my arm and dug between my palms, interlocking our fingers.

“Holding hands. 200 gold.”

“Huh…?”

“200 gold has now been paid off.”

“Ah… Ah…! No. I!”

So-hee didn’t listen to me.

She just led me by the hand and dragged me into the classroom.

Like a calf being dragged to the slaughterhouse, I was dragged into the classroom and ended up sitting on So-hee’s lap.

So-hee’s black stockings and my white stockings rubbed softly against each other.

“T-there. Everyone’s watching…”

“Sitting on my lap is 500 gold.”

“Ah…”

I shut my mouth at those words.

700 gold that had to be repaid disappeared with just holding hands and sitting on her lap.

“How is it?”

So-hee asked with a bright smile.

I couldn’t say anything to that question.

I just kept my mouth shut and prayed that this strange situation would pass quickly.

So-hee’s bizarre behavior continued after that.

She was relatively quiet during class, but as soon as class ended, she wouldn’t let me out of her arms.

“Hugging like this is 700 gold.”

Currently, So-hee and I were facing each other, hugging each other.

The soft thighs of So-hee felt under my butt, and the subtle rubbing of stockings against each other when I twisted my body.

Even the stinging gazes piercing my back.

It was not a situation where I could even lift my head.

I buried my face between So-hee’s breasts and let the break time pass.

“S-So-hee-ah…”

Lunchtime started after the morning classes were over.

The kids in the class seemed to be used to my and So-hee’s behavior now, and they didn’t look at us.

I sat on So-hee’s lap and carefully opened my mouth.

“Why?”

“It’s t-time to go eat.”

“I know.”

“Then we should slowly get up…”

“We’re going to wait for Ellie, right?”

“That’s…”

I moved my legs back and forth at So-hee’s words.

The smooth feeling of the stockings sliding softly stimulates my thighs.

It was then.

Just as I heard the sound of small footsteps from across the hallway, the closed door burst open and a snow-white girl poked her head in.

“Ha-yeon! So-hee!”

The only foreign girl in the school.

It was Ellie.

She opened the classroom door and ran in naturally, panting as she squatted near my desk.

“Hek… Hek…”

“Ellie…”

“Hek… Let’s go, go eat… Hek…”

I looked at Ellie and glanced at So-hee.

Shouldn’t we get up now?

But So-hee didn’t let go of the hand that was wrapped around my waist.

Rather, the more I wiggled my butt back and forth, the tighter she hugged me.

“Heuhek… Um…?”

Ellie, who was recovering her stamina while breathing heavily.

She raised her head and tilted her head as she looked at me and So-hee.

“What are you two doing?”

“This is…”

Just as I was about to open my mouth to answer Ellie’s question, So-hee answered faster than me.

“Affection expression.”

“I see… Do friends express affection like that?”

Ellie nodded at So-hee’s answer.

She looked back and forth between me and So-hee, then turned around and stuck her butt out towards me.

It seemed like she was trying to sit on my lap, but she couldn’t sit down because she was short.

“Eit…!”

She even jumped.

But So-hee stood up abruptly before Ellie could sit on my lap, blocking her attempt.

“We’re going to eat. Let’s go.”

“Ah, ah! Let’s go together!”

Ellie, who had been pushed back because of the sudden rise, and So-hee, who left Ellie alone and pulled my hand.

Ellie quickly ran and followed alongside.

So-hee’s bizarre behavior didn’t stop even after arriving at the cafeteria.

“Here. Ah.”

So-hee brought the meat side dish she had received to my mouth.

Directly, with her own chopsticks.

I wondered if this was a bit much and glanced around.

As expected, the gazes of the other students were sharp.

Only Ellie, who was sitting next to me, was focused on her own food.

“Delicious…!”

Hagu hagu-

Ellie was busily munching on rice with her small mouth.

“Hey, So-hee-ah…”

“Open your mouth and it’s 100 gold.”

“Ah.”

My body moved reflexively.

I chewed on the meat side dish that had been pushed into my mouth and looked at So-hee.

She was just smiling, as if she was so happy to see me eating.

Those chopsticks.

My saliva must have gotten on them.

But So-hee didn’t seem to care about that and immediately picked up her own side dish and ate it.

That behavior continued afterwards.

While we were eating like that, Ellie, who was sitting next to us, asked a question.

“So-hee. Ha-yeon. Do friends usually feed each other like that?”

A gaze that looked up as if she was really curious.

Just as I was about to answer that gaze, So-hee’s mouth opened faster than me.

“Close friends do sometimes.”

“I see… It looks a bit unsanitary, though.”

“It is, but. It’s okay because we’re friends.”

“Um…”

Ellie seemed to hesitate for a moment at those words, then put the meatball she had received on my plate.

It seemed she couldn’t bring herself to bring it to my mouth.

“Here, Ha-yeon. Please accept my sincerity.”

I can’t not eat this.

I gave a slightly awkward smile and picked up the meatball that Ellie had given me and ate it.

“Oh… I feel a little strange… This time, So-hee, you should accept it too.”

Ellie handed her meatball to So-hee as well.

So-hee watched that scene and made a hesitant expression for a moment.

But she also ate the meatball like me.

Ellie smiled brightly at that sight and shook her short legs wildly.

She seems happy.