Chapter 64 – Restart (2)
Awkward feeling.
It’s hard to put this feeling into words, but…
Like a missing screw.
Like the wrong button.
A strange feeling was taking over me.
While concentrating on that thought… Siwoo entered the classroom.
He was living the life of a typical insider who was cheerful and did well in school unlike Siwoo before.
“Hello Ji-eun.”
“Hi.”
Previously, Siwoo was very considerate and polite, but
Such an existence that lacked activeness.
There… Things were small… Today’s Siwoo was a pretty good kid.
“Can I sit next to you today?”
“Huh.”
The setting of a childhood friend does not change.
So there was a setting that Siwoo liked the author, so he sat next to me.
Originally paired,
Because it was the summer supplementary study period, I was able to sit as I wanted, just like in a university.
The appearance of the girls who came in then.
I shook my head watching it.
“Hey, over there is your husband.”
A girl who looks like a little kid playing in class.
The girl pointed to her late friend and said.
“Really… Under… I really don’t want to sit there… Can’t you please change it just once?”
Another sad girl.
Seeing that, I shook my head.
He dared to talk like that at a distance where otaku could hear.
Siwoo, who was staring blankly at it.
He gave me an apologetic look.
“I’m sorry Jieun.”
“Huh?”
Siwoo stands up with his bag.
He stood in front of the girls and smiled.
As soon as the handsome Siwoo appeared, the female students put on a fresh expression.
Siu looked at one of the girls who was late and had to sit next to the otaku.
“I will sit here. Sit next to the author over there.”
A female student who is momentarily conflicted by those words.
The female student smiled slightly at Siu and said.
“Go… Thank you. Siwoo.”
“No.”
Siwoo calmly sits next to the otaku.
And calmly talked to the otaku.
Siwoo looks very different.
Not the kind of self-centered Siwoo in the past, but Siwoo with the appearance of a really popular guy.
If it looks like that…
Trustworthy this time.
My expectation that I would be able to have a happy ending in the 2nd episode grew rapidly.
While I was thinking that, the girl who came next to me.
I thought you were just an ordinary NPC girl…
Looking at the name tag, she was no ordinary schoolgirl.
Seol Ha-yeon.
Unlike Eun Ji-hye, she has good sociability.
It was popular with both the kids who played a little in class and the kids who didn’t, so it was a so-called insider.
I erased my makeup because it was school,
I didn’t recognize Seol Ha-yeon because she was neatly dressed.
I couldn’t help but be nervous at the appearance of a new competitor.
If Siwoo in the first episode is a dating eunuch…
Now that he has become like the main character who is full of charm and has a manly appearance, people like Seol Ha-yeon started to seduce him.
“Hello Ji-eun?”
Seol Ha-yeon sits next to me smiling brightly like an insider.
I didn’t intend to make a bad first impression from the beginning, so I smiled and accepted her greeting.
“Hello, Ha Yeon-ah.”
“Lol… “
Ha-yeon begins to unpack.
Then he looked at me and started talking.
Ha-yeon is quick to gossip about all sorts of rumors, befitting an insider in school.
She suddenly asked me a question about the swim team.
“Jieun-ah, is the swimming club okay?”
“Huh?”
“You know… The man who came out of the boat… Deokbae.”
Ha-yeon refers to Kim Deok-bae, a physical education teacher.
I listened to her story to get information about this episode.
Originally… As a developer, I’ll remember…
Unfortunately, I couldn’t remember it well as it was foggy.
It feels like there are holes in the mass of my memories.
I couldn’t take the time to recall memories that were already gone, so I had to fill in the holes in this way.
“Are you talking about the gym teacher?”
Hayeon nodded at my answer.
She looked at me and carefully opened her mouth.
“… Is Ji-ae still in the hospital?”
Fortunately, I remember a female swimmer named Ji-ae.
If I remember right…
“She said that Deokbae was having a hard time mentally because of the sexual harassment… “
Jiae Kim.
She is an NPC whose name only exists and was one of the members of the swimming club.
After PE teacher Deokbae Kim confessed that he had sexually molested the members of the swimming club for a long time…
She suddenly disappears as she flees to her hospital.
I don’t know why…
It didn’t make sense that the ace of the swimming club, the next best to the author, was living in the hospital complaining of her mental illness.
If it was as it was, this incident led to Kim Deok-bae’s resignation,
The female swimming teacher who humiliated me in the first round had to come, but…
Since there was no golden sun this time, this event itself was not executed.
So, it seems that the story has been changed to say that the school covered it up instead.
“But… I really applied for the swim team at school… “
Again, our school is building a great reputation for its swimming team activities.
First of all, the swimming genius Lee Ji-eun and even before Lee Ji-eun produced numerous swimmers and made a name for itself as a prestigious school.
In such a place, if a sexual scandal spread, especially that Deok-bae Kim, a former Olympic swimmer, sexually harassed her, it was certain that it would cause a big wave not only in the school but also in society.
Now he is a man with a belly, but he was once a representative of the country.
Because of that kind of existence, he boasted a strong network related to swimming, including swimming associations as well as universities.
These reasons were mixed together, and the incident was eventually reduced and covered up by the school.
That’s why only some of the students who knew Ji-ae knew about it…
Seol Ha-yeon, like a famous figure in school, knew this well.
“Ji-eun, be careful too.”
“Me?”
“Of course. I don’t know about you, but not only the male students, but also the man with the boat looking at you that way.”
“If so… “
When I made a puzzled expression, Ha-yeon imitated the facial expressions of sloppy male students.
I felt once again that he was definitely a fun friend.
“Anyway, be careful. Ji-eun.”
“Thank you for your concern.”
The gym teacher came in while I was talking with Ha-yeon.
He took a quick glance at the class and then sat down on the chair next to the podium.
“Today is self-study time, kill time on your own and go home.”
Deokbae Kim, who said this and looked at his phone with his legs up on the desk next to the church.
Seeing that, Seol Ha-yeon shook her head.
“There is a story about that person watching porn openly like that… “
Hayeon talking to me like a whisper.
When I heard that story, I thought that this person deserved it.
“What are you talking about, Seol Ha-yeon?”
Seol Ha-yeon flinched and lowered her head.
He whispered to me, “Your ears are also bright.”
“Yes, my ears are bright.”
Meanwhile, Deokbae Kim scratches his side with his hand.
He suppressed his annoyance and continued the story.
“If it’s noisy, the vice-principal will come, so everyone quietly take care of it. Sleeping, self-studying, or even playing games on your phone.”
At those words, the students who looked at Deokbae Kim started to do their own thing.
Children playing mobile games on mobile phones.
I told them not to make noise, so even though I was right in front of them, they were talking to me via Choco Talk.
Children watching videos by connecting Bluetooth earphones.
Among such children, Siwoo opened a book and showed himself studying.
Unlike before… How to say, Siwoo looks dignified.
There were colored glasses on him, but they had already disappeared.
Then Hayeon touched my elbow.
She sent me a note, not a chocolate talk.
Hayeon doesn’t know my ID.
So she used the old way, a note, rather than Choco Talk.
-Could you tell me your ChocoTalk ID? 🙂
Hayeon even sent a cute emoticon.
I remembered her words to stay close to her the more enemies you have, so I decided to let her know her Choco Talk ID.
I repeat
Seol Ha-yeon is aiming for Si-woo.
In a way, he was also my enemy.
An alarm that pops up on my cell phone as soon as I receive my ID.
Seol Ha-yeon seemed to have added a friend right away, so Choco Talk arrived.
-Hi~
And the cute emoticons that come with it.
I also sent a reply.
-Hi.
-Are you using the picture as a profile picture?
Hayeon talking about my profile picture.
I answered her question.
– Yes, it’s a picture of me when I was young.
-You were pretty when you were young.
Her praise was burdensome.
Again, Lee Ji-eun always lives with the nickname of a farmhand, so her childhood was not much different.
A situation where you can’t even tell if you’re a girl unless you’re wearing a girl’s swimsuit.
When I saw her complimenting her even though she was like that, I immediately felt that Seol Ha-yeon was a strong enemy unlike Eun Ji-hye.
Seol Ha-yeon praises this without changing her expression.
It was an NPC I created, but I immediately felt that she was a fox when I saw it through Lee Ji-eun’s senses.
Friendly,
A person who can be friends with anyone.
It seemed that there was a reason why they approached me.
But we are just getting to know each other.
That’s why she wasn’t enough to fully notice Lee Ji-eun, who was like a bum.
The time between sending unimportant chocolate talk.
The bell rang announcing the end of formal class time.
Ding dong dang dong.
Deokbae Kim wakes up as if he is annoyed when he hears the sound.
The gym teacher let out a long yawn and made a rough hand gesture as if pushing the students away with his hand.
“Okay, class is over, go home.”
Deokbae Kim said that and left the classroom first.
When he left, the classroom became noisy.
“It was nice to talk a lot today. Ji-eun See you later.”
“Okay.”
Seol Ha-yeon wakes up with a bag.
She disappeared into her pack.
Siwoo naturally approaches me.
He smiled and looked at me.
“Do you want to go home together?”
“Good.”
Siwoo and Jieun are heading in the same direction on their way home.
The two of them had been going together since childhood, so they even went home from school together.
Siwoo and Jieun came out of the classroom together like that.
When I came out, I heard a bad voice.
“Hey, Jieun Lee.”
The identity of the eerie voice is Kim Deok-bae, a physical education teacher.
He came slowly to me.
“I think you and Siu are too close? Are you two dating?”
I repeat
Our school was banned from limited dating for the swimming team.
“No. Teacher. The way home is the same, so we just go together.”
“Hmm… “
Kim Deok-bae stroked his beard and swallowed his silence at Si-woo’s answer.
I even made Siwoo look cool in his aggressive actions.
“Well, I understand.”
Then, Deokbae Kim looked at me.
He looked me up and down.
“Kuhm… Anyway, Lee Ji-eun, be careful with your behavior. No matter how much you are the ace of the swimming club, by-laws are by-laws. Remember that I am always watching.”
Then, Deokbae Kim goes to the teacher’s office with his hands behind his back.
I started to get annoyed with his unpleasant words and gaze.
Siwoo looking at my complexion.
He smiled and looked at me.
“Let’s go home.”
“Huh.”
Me and Siwoo going down the stairs like that.
Behind them, Kim Deok-bae, who pretended to have entered the teacher’s office, was staring at the two.
