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“Haa… … Haa… … ”

Do Yu-jin forced herself up, her body trembling as she exhaled the heat that had built up in her lungs with heavy breathing.

A red stream of blood was flowing out from his forehead due to the fact that he had slammed his head into the rock that was stuck in the ground with all his might, but Do Yu-jin quickly turned his head away without even paying attention to such a trivial thing.

And there, there was Erio, with her fairy-like appearance, drenched in sweat and disheveled, covered in something white.

“… … … … ♥”

But at the same time, he was lying on the floor with a strange look of satisfaction on his face, like a cat that had eaten its fill.

Looking at her lying unconscious without even a single thread on her, Do Yu-jin was frozen in a daze for a moment before blurting out the words.

“I really did it… … ”

Do Yu-jin is far from the typical male protagonist in romantic comedy comics who is so oblivious to women’s feelings that he is completely clueless.

No, rather, Do Yu-jin was quick-witted and had a remarkable ability to read other people’s emotions.

It’s true that I was born that way, but as an artist, I deal with more sensitive women than men, and I often look closely at their faces.

‘No, actually, even if you don’t know about women’s minds, any human with a normal mind can’t help but notice. After the incident with Tamamo in Japan, there was something she showed me,’

Erio?

This kid was an exception because he had a very poor knowledge of basic emotions and human relationships.

‘Come to think of it, wasn’t it when I was letting my guard down that he suddenly pounced on me and kissed me?’

By the way, what Do Yu-jin did to her was close to artificial respiration, so it was an exception.

‘It was my first kiss… … ‘

Do Yu-jin, who felt a little wronged for no reason, slightly lowered her gaze.

And then, immediately, realizing that he had just robbed her of a much bigger and more important first experience, he looked up again.

Do Yu-jin, who had been standing like that for a while, quietly covered Erio, who had fallen, with his white shirt.

After returning from Japan, Do Yu-jin was kissed several times by Erio, and even almost attacked by him while he was taking a bath.

But even so, Do Yu-jin desperately refused to accept her heart.

No, to be exact, I ignored it.

That would be the case, because Do Yu-jin had no intention of accepting her feelings.

It wasn’t that he was saying that he didn’t find Erio attractive as a person of the opposite sex or that he didn’t like her.

but……

Kook- Kook-

‘I simply don’t have the luxury of accepting this guy’s feelings… … ‘

As she said earlier when she fell into the lake, Do Yu-jin wanted to die rather than live.

The look in the father’s eyes as he was knocked down by a robber, filled with satisfaction at having protected his family, and the smile on the mother’s face as she was hit by a car and blown away in his stead, filled with relief that she still had strength left.

If these two things had not been there, Do Yu-jin would have taken her own life long ago.

After all, for Do Yu-jin, her parents were the reason and purpose of her life.

It may sound like an exaggeration, but to Do Yu-jin, it was the pure truth without a single lie.

When I was a child and knew nothing, I loved seeing them smile so I clung to them, and when I was becoming famous as a painter, I devoted everything I had to my mother who was lying in the hospital with her deceased father buried in her heart.

Wouldn’t it be stranger if the little boy who originally loved his parents cut off all other human relationships and lived only for them?

At least that’s what Do Yu-jin thought.

That’s why I worked even harder on the painting and tried to make them both happy.

Toouk-

‘In the end, both of them passed away in vain. And both of those times were because of me.’

That wasn’t true.

Because his father died because of a robber and his mother died because of a drunk driver.

But Do Yu-jin couldn’t shake off those thoughts.

No matter how much I thought about it, if I hadn’t had confidence, I think the two of them would have continued to live a normal, happy life.

‘When my mother passed away after my father, I really thought I was going crazy.’

Gyaut-

‘No, maybe I was half crazy? I don’t know.’

I somehow managed to keep my wits about me at the funeral home, thinking that I had to give the deceased a good send-off.

But after everything was over, to be honest, my memories were hazy because I had given up on everything.

The only memories that come to mind are of me just sitting blankly in the corner of the room, just breathing.

‘And so, unable to die like a corpse, I was still alive, and then by chance I saw the computer and broadcasting equipment in my father’s room and started [Circle Academy].’

I remembered that my father, who was a full-time internet broadcaster, once jokingly said that he wanted to see the ending of [Circle Academy].

And that was the trigger.

Do Yu-jin, who had lost her goal and fallen apart, got back up and achieved the things her parents had talked about when they were young, like the desires and goals, one by one.

Thanks to that, I was able to live each day somewhat like a human, but in reality, the only thing that had changed was my appearance.

Because Do Yu-jin’s inner self had not changed at all since the time when she lay like a corpse in a dark corner of the room.

And it was still the same today.

Kook-

Do Yu-jin is a human being who cannot even properly bear the weight of his own life.

Do you get other people’s attention on such a topic?

There may be an irresponsible person who could do that, but at least it was impossible for Do Yu-jin.

‘Of course, Yuna and Yumi accepted it… … but that’s a bit off topic. In the first place, I accepted those two with impure thoughts.’

To be honest, Do Yu-jin had some expectations for those two.

‘If time passes and the world’s crisis is prevented, and something that can be called an ending comes, and those two grow up cleanly… … then I can die without any regrets, right?’

To put it simply, the two were a kind of insurance policy for Do Yu-jin, who would live a happy life on her behalf.

‘I know it’s a bit too much, but it’s natural for children to leave their parents’ embrace at some point.’

It was too unconscionable of a statement to come from Do Yu-jin, who had seriously wished to take her own life because she could not forget her dead parents, or rather, who had wished for it in real time.

‘… … Those two are honestly my daughters, but they are also older than me.’

Knowing that fact, Do Yu-jin timidly added an excuse at the end of her speech.

Do Yu-jin turned her head with a slight sense of unease.

Because that wasn’t what was important right now.

‘No matter how much I think about it, if I want to die comfortably and cleanly, I should just abandon Erio here… … ‘

Of course, just because I said I was going to throw it away, that didn’t mean I was really going to throw it away.

He just said that he wanted to forget about today’s incident and continue on with his relationship as before.

‘I remember the gaming community saying something about this before. What was it? Throwaway eating?’

It was such a crappy idea that it made the listener frown, but it was actually an effective method.

Even Do Yu-jin was confident that it wouldn’t be particularly difficult to make it happen.

There was no one here right now, so if I could just silence Erio, the perfect crime would be automatically completed.

However.

Buck buck buck-!

“Oh, really!”

Despite knowing him, Do Yu-jin scratched her head nervously and agonized over the choices right in front of her.

Because the biggest chains that filled his heart, the countless words he had heard from his mother and father, were quietly looking at him.

“Sigh… … ”

Do Yu-jin looked down at Erio, who was traveling through dreamland, making a noise without even knowing what was happening, and muttered quietly.

“No matter how I look at it, there’s no advantage to accepting you, only disadvantages.”

Do Yu-jin quietly muttered her inner thoughts, and poked Erio’s cheek with her finger with a hint of irritation.

“But are the words of the two people who passed away so precious to me that I have to endure all those things?”

Hearing that, Erio let out a small grunt as if he didn’t know, but in reality, the answer was no different than what had already been decided.

If Do Yu-jin could ignore her parents’ words like that, she would never have been living this life in the first place.

“Sigh… … ”

Do Yu-jin, who had made her choice, sighed and got up.

And just like when I first fell into this world, I walked from Hell difficulty to an even more difficult place in order to keep the words of the two people who told me to live happily.

Swish-

Even now, without an inch of hesitation or regret, he reached out to the fallen Erio.

“It’s my personality, but I really don’t know why I have this personality. If I had been born with a personality that didn’t listen to my parents like other kids, it would have been convenient in many ways.”

Do Yu-jin lifted up Erio, who had fallen while grumbling.

In that state, Do Yu-jin took Erio into the lake and lightly washed his body in it.

Even though I could erase the traces through [Transparent and Distorted Existence (6★)]… … Still, this was a matter of feeling.

‘I feel a bit weird washing the body of a girl who passed out… … Well, it’s something she’s been asking me to do all the time, so it’ll be okay, right? I guess I should wash myself too… … Okay?’

Do Yu-jin, whose whole body was drenched in sweat and an unidentified liquid, touched her forehead and opened her eyes wide in surprise.

‘What, the wound is gone?’

Do Yu-jin, who was flustered by the unexpected situation, thought about it for a moment and found the answer.

‘Is it because [To you who is connected to the origin of the beginning (10★)]?’

Do Yu-jin thought that this was simply a buff that strengthened the body.

But looking at the current situation, it seemed like there was some secret hidden that he didn’t know about.

‘I just wrote it to make my posture more comfortable and to increase my stamina, but I ended up discovering new abilities in this way.’

Do Yu-jin was amazed for a moment and then walked away with Erio and his luggage, who had fainted.

By the way, the place Do Yu-jin’s footsteps were headed to was not Erio’s dormitory, but Do Yu-jin’s dormitory.

If we went back to this state, I couldn’t even imagine what Yuna and Yumi would do.

And then the next day, he went back to his room and slept with Erio.

“… … !”

Do Yu-jin, who woke up with her eyes open, couldn’t help but be shocked.

“… … ”

“… … ”

As soon as he came to his senses, he saw Yuna and Yumi standing right next to him, staring at him with indescribable eyes.