The World Is Already Hypnotized 240

Chapter 240 – Invasion of the Demon King of Highgre (32)

I have friends whom I have always hung out with since childhood.

The four of them naturally became friends because they lived nearby and went to the same kindergarten.

That’s me, Kim Min-jae, Ok Mae-hyang… And Joo Seo-young.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that they played together every day when they were young.

We were each other’s best friends, good counselors, and comfortable enough to meet casually at any time.

The relationship continued through elementary and middle school without any problems.

However, when they moved on to high school, the four people who thought they would be together forever scattered.

Naturally, I thought all of my friends would go on to Nagwon High School, but Seoyoung, who had low grades, was the first to drop out of Nakwon High School and broke away from the group.

Min-jae said that she was leaving for language training in New Zealand because of her mother, Oh Jeong-yeon’s annoyance.

Having already received notice of acceptance to Nagwon High School, I was a bit shocked at how young I was at the time.

Do you have to break up with your friend?

I also said that I wanted to go to New Zealand, but her mother got scolded.

“You are really stupid. Even Auntie Hee-ae must have been dumbfounded.”

“Even so, my mother slapped her calf… My mom really doesn’t listen to me.”

At that time, I visited Okmaehyang and expressed her frustration.

Ok Mae-hyang was a good friend who always met whenever he contacted her.

That said, he didn’t always take my side, and he was a confident guy who always pointed out what to criticize.

“Hee-ae, because I’m scared. I’m not one to accept her son’s fooling around.”

“Ha… Anyway, I never dreamed that Minjae or Seoyoung would go to a different high school.”

“Fool. At this age, everyone will go their own way. Rather, it’s more unusual to have friends from kindergarten until middle school.”

“What are you talking about? Aren’t you sad that you won’t be able to see them?”

“Not really”

Okmaehyang has always been a chic and cold woman.

I remember that we met, probably around 10:00 p.M., At a local park.

I was riding on a swing, and the jade hawk leaned against her pole with her hands in her pockets.

Perhaps because it was a cold winter, Okmaehyang’s face was a little red.

“… What… It might be a bit lonely not being able to meet you.”

“To? What else does that mean Didn’t you go to Nagwon High School together? There’s no way you’ve fallen.”

Since she was short of first place in the entire school, there was zero chance that Okmae-hyang, who had been winning numerous awards at the International Olympiad, would fail her high school entrance exam.

“I’m going to America this time.”

“What?! USA? Nonsense!”

“Why can’t you talk? In the yard where Kim Min-jae is also going to study abroad.”

“No, her mother pays for her, but you… You’re on bad terms with her mom. How are you going abroad?」

Ok Mae-hyang’s mother, known as a scientific genius, was a shaman, her most unscientific job.

That’s why the name Okmae-hyang, which has a bit of an old-fashioned feel, was given, and the reason she’s been wearing only hanbok since kindergarten is because that’s the only clothes she has at home.

Unfortunately, because of her unusual mother, Ok Mae-hyang was known as the ‘daughter of a shaman’ or ‘the girl who wears strange clothes’ and had no friends. Outside of us

Of course, Okmae-hyang, her adolescence, is only harming her, and there is no way she can get along with her parents, who do not fit her values.

No, in the first place, even if she got along well, she couldn’t possibly afford to study abroad with her family in Okmae-hyang.

Okmae-hyang, who cooks at our house because she doesn’t even have money for food, and when it rains a lot, the roof leaks, so Okmae-hyang takes refuge in our house to study abroad.

I couldn’t believe it.

“I was specially recruited by Black Stars this time.”

“Black Stars? Ah… Is it the company name? Huh? But being hired… Did you get a job while still underage?”

“I decided to go to America on the condition that I study at school during the day and do research at the company in the evening.”

“Hey, then you’re going to scatter too. If this happens, I’d rather have Seoyoung who remains in Korea at least a friend I can rely on.”

“… Well… ? Joo Seo-young said he was put in a crazy school?”

“Ah, Seoyoung’s original grades were low.”

“Don’t hang out with him too much.”

“Under?”

Occasionally, Ok Mae-hyang would gossip about others, especially Joo Seo-young.

That’s why the other kids often brought up her words to gather as a group of three, except for Ok Mae-hyang.

I just liked the fact that the four of us were hanging out together.

“He didn’t even think about joining Paradise High School. A kid who has no interest in studying, a kid who is preoccupied with hanging out. Hoyoung doesn’t suit you.”

「Ah~ Where is it other than hanging out with friends」

“It doesn’t matter if we end up as friends. Do you like Seoyoung?”

Okmaehyang glanced at me.

Joo Seo-yeong was a famous beauty even in school.

It was to the point that sometimes idioty bullies would come to ask me for Seoyoung’s phone number.

When I was in puberty, if there were pretty girls around me, I naturally developed feelings of liking, and I was no exception.

“I like it, but… 」

“After I’m gone, I just cut off contact with Min-jae and Seo-young and live on.”

“Hey then, who am I playing with? I thought you’d be by my side until the end, but you’re gone too… How can you make such a sudden decision?」

“… Do you wish I hadn’t gone?”

Ok Mae-hyang suddenly asked with a serious expression.

If I had matured a little more then, I think things might have gone differently.

“Of course I wish I hadn’t gone.”

“… I don’t want to live with my mother anymore. I can’t live in that shaman’s house any longer. I don’t want to miss this opportunity.

“Okay… Because you don’t get along very well with your mother. Don’t even do that.」

“But… If you find a place to live other than the shaman’s house, there’s no need to go to America.”

「Where to live? Where should I find a rented room? Are you going to do something like a part-time job?」

Again, it was midwinter.

There was nothing strange about the fact that her face was flushed with the incense of jade mae, who was not even wearing her scarf, and her lips trembled as she breathed out her long breath.

“Chamberlain… Is it your house… 」

“My house? We have no room left in our house. And no matter how close we are, isn’t living together a bit like that?”

“…」

Okmaehyang had no reaction.

As always, it was expressionless.

But now that I think about it, it seems that Ok Mae-hyang was struggling to keep her mouth shut and manage her expression.

Although I didn’t notice it at all at the time.

I got up from the boring swing and took off the scarf I was wearing and wrapped it around Ok Mae-hyang.

Jade Mae-hyang stood still and stared at my face, motionless like her mandarin seat.

I think I tried to keep my image in my eyes because I know very well that I will not be able to see it for a long time.

“You’re such an idiot, how did you get Nagwon High?”

“Hey, why are you dissing all of a sudden? I’m not good enough to compare with you, but my grades aren’t bad.”

“I’m sure Jiwon will catch up soon.”

“Don’t bring up Jiwon. Even if he takes the CSAT now, he is a child who will be accepted into Nakwon University. Anyway, I don’t know why there are so many smart girls around me.”

“You must be an idiot.”

“Do you want to keep teasing me?”

That was the last one

Okay… After the conversation of the day, Okmaehyang disappeared in front of me.

No calls, no text messages, no reply.

Later, I got annoyed and didn’t contact him.

She’s a guy in America anyway, so I can’t meet her… The real problem was Joo Seo-young.

Joo Seo-young, who went to the idioty school, was completely blown away, so she started hanging out with the so-called Iljin type of kids.

Unlike Okmaehyang, we barely interacted even though we lived on a street where we could meet each other just beyond an apartment complex.

To be precise, I wanted to hang out with Joo Seo-young, but she kept me away from that.

She once met by chance on the street and said hello, and she was told this.

“Hey, Hoyoung Kim. Don’t talk to me when I’m with my friends. She says she’s embarrassing.」

Joo Seo-young said she rode a motorcycle or hung out with a group of silly kids who dropped out of school.

She said he was smoking a cigarette every time she saw him and she was always intoxicated by the smell of her alcohol.

In a word, she had a rough life, but because she had a pretty face, she didn’t suffer much.

There were always a lot of men around me, and I could earn more money than most office workers just by reselling things I received as gifts from men.

“Kim Ho-yeong, don’t you have a present for me?”

“Ai-san, being a childhood friend is useless, really.”

“Hey! Don’t contact me unless I’m giving you something!”

Heard by rumor

Seoyoung says that her boyfriend alone has 16 and her boyfriends are beyond the triple digits, so I can’t even count them.

But, she says, she doesn’t date anyone because she genuinely likes them.

The people I’m meeting now also have too many guys who just push me around rather than as boyfriends, so it was closer to the concept of taking some useful guys with me like a hukou.

I felt sorry for my childhood friend who had changed and wanted to help him, so I advised Seo-yeong not to live like that.

“What? What’s she saying don’t live like that, you fucking bastard. Ah~ What does a mother-to-be solo person who has never had sex say?”

“You weren’t like this before. Calm down. If Min-jae or Mae-hyang sees you now… 」

“Ah stop stop! Apart from Minjae, don’t even mention Okmaehyang! Oh, what a scary year. She doesn’t even want to think about it!”

「? Why is it spicy?」

She asked in a displeased tone as Joo Seo-yeong smoked her chain-smoker.

“Are you still in touch with him?”

“No, I went to America and couldn’t contact you.”

“Whoa… Fortunately The shaman’s daughter. Even on the day she was going to study abroad, she called me and said, ‘If you hurt Hoyoung, I will make you regret it to the point of death, so please be nice to me. Ah~ When I open my mouth, nagging and nagging… Now that she’s gone, are you nagging me? Let’s fuck each other live on our own? I’m on a different path from you.”

“What is different?”

「You’re the best of the best~ I’m on the glamorous path~ How would a guy like you who will never have sex with a girl in his life understand my life? You have to work hard to earn money to get a job, but I’m not like that. Can’t you see in the mirror?”

“I thought we were pretty close though… 」

“Ah, I’m talking about when I was young~ What’s the use of maintaining a relationship with a guy like you who doesn’t have anything special about it? Really don’t mess around anymore and don’t stick to me. Sincerely”

Childhood friend… Even when I saw the woman I thought of raising her middle finger with a contemptuous expression, I felt that I couldn’t back down like this.

The next day, when I think of how she confessed to Joo Seo-young and was severely blacked out, she still sells out.

Joo Seo-young was embarrassed, so she burst into tears, and was she Kim Eun-seong? She even got beaten up by a guy she didn’t even know her name by now.

Thinking about it now, it was an idiot, but at the time, I didn’t like losing money to a childhood friend I’d liked for a long time.

What… It’s a distant memory now.

The past is just the past.

“High Gree High Gree! High gray high gray! High-gre human Ju Seo-young! I will obey any command of the great Hoyoung! High gray high gray! I am Joo Seo-young, a high-gre human who exists for my master! Whether it’s the pussy or the ass, use it like a tissue and throw it away! High Gree High Gree!”

—Because Joo Seo-young, who ignored me, is now dancing a high-gre dance of obedience in front of me.