Chapter 422: Chapter 422

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Her voice filled my ears.

“Donnie,” she called.

“Uh-huh.”

“Since you weren’t here in this apartment,” said Yeo Ryung in a subdued voice. I just nodded. She continued, “I really hated that.”

“Me too,” I replied composedly.

Pulling me more tightly into her arms, Yeo Ryung added, “I really wanted to move out of here. I did trust that you’re gonna come back like this…”

“I did too.”

“Don’t go anywhere from now on.”

Dropping those words, Yeo Ryung gave me a bear hug. Yeo Dan oppa was standing behind her while throwing a complicated glance at me.

I showed a timid smile at him. Instead of grinning back at me, he stretched his hand and just patted my head.

I closed my eyes stealthily at his rhythmical touch. Being surrounded by a warm atmosphere, I was about to fall asleep as soon as possible.

Swallowing the words that I couldn’t let out to both Yeo Ryung and other kids, I just left those unspoken. These people said to me to not leave, but I couldn’t help that.

‘Just once… I think things will work out if I go there again just one more time,’ I murmured to myself.

There was a time that I had been thinking it would be better to rather know nothing while being afraid of getting aware of the truth. However, I didn’t think that way anymore. Just by finding out a few truths, I was able to escape from the long-time concerns that bogged me down. And now if I could grasp all the truths…

‘Next March 2nd, I should meet the author of this novel!’ I promised myself. I decided to ask everything about what the person was aware of, if the person knew about me and understood what he or she had done. It would be best to see the author in person; however, maybe sending an email would be enough to get all the answers. It wouldn’t be that difficult. I clenched my fist.

Opening my eyes back, I looked at Yeo Dan oppa.

I recalled the original story of this novel again. Since Yeo Dan oppa wouldn’t date a girl who had ended her friendship with his little sister, he and I could still become an official couple due to his will.

The love and relationship between us, which felt like wearing someone else’s clothes, were all mine. It was utterly all my share.

“Yeo Dan oppa,” I uttered.

“Uh-huh?”

“I said this before…”

Yeo Dan oppa nodded. I took a deep breath.

Lucas told me to look further and at a wide-angle. He insisted that a pressured choice couldn’t be the right choice.

If someone asked me in the past that I wasn’t pressured to make that choice, I couldn’t answer that question confidently. That’s because I had believed that if somebody in this world could like me for a long time, only Yeo Dan oppa could be that person. That was actually true too.

In fact, I also trusted that I didn’t have a choice. All my wish, desire, effort, and action seemed useless back then.

Since that belief turned out to be not true right now, I continued speaking again.

“I like you very much.”

And that was my first, sole choice toward Yeo Dan oppa.

With his eyes wide open, Yeo Dan oppa soon burst into laughter. It was the most bright and shiny smile that I had ever seen in this cold weather.

* * *

The last day of the winter break ended. I became a sophomore in high school.

Article 35. The New School Year Starts with Nationwide Number 1! (Part 1)

Frankly speaking, no one would like the beginning of the new semester. So did I.

I couldn’t understand the main characters in animations who shouted, ‘Aja! Aja! Way to Go! Fighting!’ on the way to their first day of school.

Who on earth would like the end of the break? Besides, having low blood pressure, I wasn’t able to open the morning delightfully while enjoying the brisk air. Thus, I couldn’t even dare to dream about opening the first day of school like those characters in novels or animation.

‘A hypotensive patient, who can’t wake up in the morning, won’t be able to become the main character… Hey, don’t discriminate against people because of their level of blood pressure!’

Rambling such thoughts in mind, I flung open the front door. Instead of an electric scooter, there were a few small flower pots next to the house beside our unit. Two shadows in front of the door came into view. They turned to look in this direction then.

“Donnie!”

“You here?!” I replied while blinking swiftly but soon covered my eyes with my palms. As soon as I did that, Ban Yeo Ryung approached me and made a fuss.

“What’s wrong? Does somewhere hurt?!!!” asked Ban Yeo Ryung in a fluster.

I uttered, “No, but my eyes…” I added to myself, ‘You’re too dazzling…!’

That was when I finally realized that I had returned to this world.

It wasn’t just a day or two that I had seen her, but Ban Yeo Ryung in her school uniform looked so gorgeous that my eyes were almost getting blind. Probably because female main characters in web novels usually wear school uniforms, Ban Yeo Ryung looked so fabulous in those outfits. Of course, Yeo Dan oppa, who looked the same as Yeo Ryung, was needless to say that he was attractive in that uniform too.

Yeah, right. The universe I was living in right now was a place where many people could blind others simply by their outstanding appearances. Shaking my head for a second, I soon slapped me on the cheeks twice.

Yeo Ryung asked me bewilderedly, “Donnie, what are you doing?”

“I braced myself for a second,” I replied.

I would be staying in this world for about a year, so I shouldn’t go blind just by glancing at the female main character’s beautiful face! If that happened, I would be disqualified for being a character in the world of a web novel.

Clenching my fist, I spoke determinedly, “I’m gonna do an adjustment training from now on. So…”

“What?” asked Ban Yeo Ryung with her eyes wide open. She still looked confused.

Stretching my hand out to her, I uttered, “Come beside me and link your arms to mine.”

Yeo Ryung’s vacant face quickly brightened.

“Girl! If you wanted to do arm in arm with me, you must have told me!”

Shouting that way, Ban Yeo Ryung snatched my arm in a flash with a dazzling grin.

Next, I turned my head aside to look at Yeo Dan oppa, who was just silently watching the situation until now. Stretching my other hand to him, I uttered, “Oppa, give me your hand too for my adjustment training.”

“Let me know if you need both hands,” he replied. Yeo Dan oppa then also grabbed my hand.

‘Um, I don’t need both hands though…’ Thinking that way, I flaunted a silly smile on my face.

* * *

It felt very fresh on the way to school.

Although the weather wasn’t that warmer yet, a delightful breeze was blowing; the flower buds on the wall were getting ready to bloom, which ushered the arrival of springtime.

However, I wasn’t in a good mood.

Shortly after grabbing both Yeo Ryung and Yeo Dan oppa’s hands delightfully, I had to glance around cautiously on my way to school as if I was a Mission Impossible spy. Yeo Ryung and Yeo Dan oppa looked at me in wonder.

Tilting her head, Yeo Ryung asked, “What’s wrong, Donnie? Are you looking for someone?”

“Huh? Ah, I’m…”

I wasn’t sure whether I should tell her I was looking for someone or trying to avoid someone. Making a rough response, I turned my head again. And because of that, I wasn’t able to see both Yeo Ryung and Yeo Dan oppa’s stiff faces.

The person I was searching for was none other than a ‘suspicious new student.’

Honestly, our second year in high school would be riskier and tougher than our freshman year. Although we had to now focus on college preparation, where on earth in web novels did they ever consider this matter seriously? Thus, I decided to, instead, get aware of the unstable factor in advance.

An undercover cop at school? A nationwide Number 0 who accidentally became a teacher? A top idol group member wearing glasses to camouflage her beauty? How many of them would be hiding here? With those thoughts in my head, I began to see this sight as a battlefield instead of an ordinary, way to school.

Even after Yeo Dan oppa dropped us in front of our school entrance and headed toward his school, I kept wandering at the entrance for quite some time. Watching me behaving that way, Yeo Ryung showed a suspicious look on her face.

She asked, “Donnie, aren’t we going to the auditorium? Or else, we’re gonna be late for the opening ceremony.”

Since the female main characters in web novels often skipped classes and ran late to school, Yeo Ryung reacted like a model student, which made me want to compliment her as much as I could. However, instead of praising her, I put my forefinger on my lips.