drift1

by shivanshsyal

do not read

1. Chapter 1

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My favorite romance novel hit the NTR drift.
And I became that NTR male blond bastard.

Ch. 10 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 10
Chapter 10 – Gyaru Junior Choi Soo-Yeon

Doesn't Yuri Lee know that I live alone?

No, I definitely know.

I already said this last week, and because of that, I submitted it to be discussed as an agenda item at the faculty meeting, and it was Lee Yu-ri herself who said that.

But am I a sane student?

And that wasn't it either.

I, Han Seong-jin, was a famous first-class member not only at Jinsu Higher Education Academy but also in this area, and I lived a life full of all kinds of rumors related to women.

Although he has sorted it all out now, he is such a promiscuous person that many of the rumors may be true.

The typical insensitive eunuch male protagonist in romantic comedies… That means he's not like Gong Young-bae.

Is he saying this because he knows what it means for a woman to come alone to a house where a man lives alone?

"Well, then I know so…! I'll go in first!"

After Yu-ri Lee said those words, she hurriedly went back to her house, probably because she was embarrassed. I laughed once at the sight, then passed by Yu-ri's apartment and headed toward my house.

The apartment where Lee Yu-ri lives is still an apartment complex where middle-class people can live, but the place where I live is a slum a little further out.

In this place where multi-generational houses are lined up, the sanitary conditions on the streets were poor, so there was a musty smell coming from the streets, and garbage bags were piled up in front of the residential areas, forming a mountain.

Things get a little better on collection day, but right before garbage collection day, it's absolute chaos.

To top it all off, rats are occasionally seen on the streets, and the cries of stray cats that come out at night and rummage through trash are no longer audible in daily life.

This is the neighborhood where I live.

I walked towards the oldest-looking multifamily house in that shitty neighborhood.

When I inserted the key into the old-fashioned iron door and opened it, which still had to be opened with a key because it didn't even have a common door lock, a very dirty and messy room was revealed.

The trash collection box placed at the entrance contains dozens of plastic lunch boxes from convenience stores.

In a room without a bed, the mattress on the floor instead of a bed looked just as disheveled as when I woke up this morning.

There was a mountain of unorganized clothes scattered all over the room, and the only thing that was there was an old model computer with poor performance and a guitar standing in the corner of the room.

Although I'm a 20-year-old adult, I'm still a student at a higher education academy in this world, and the house I live in now is closer to that of a person just starting out in society rather than a student.

At least I worked hard to organize it, so it's like this. At first, it was 10 times more messed up than this.

A guy named Han Seong-jin spent far more days sleeping somewhere else than at home…

"I guess I'll have to make it a place for people to live before Iuri visits."

I unpacked my bag, grumbled, and started cleaning up the house.

There was so much to organize in a house that wasn't very big, no matter how many times I cleaned it up, the trash kept coming out, and just removing the rust and grime from all over the house took several days.

After eating a quick lunch from a convenience store, I played some music on YouTube and cleaned the bathroom.

1 hour… 2 hours…

After several days of hard labor to make the bathroom that looked like it was full of cockroaches look like a place where people live, my arms hurt, and I was sweating like rain.

Even for a young man with a good physique and stamina, it was difficult.

"Wow, I'm thirsty."

I opened the refrigerator door, wiping the sweat from my forehead with my collar, but…

"Oh fuck."

There was no water.

Since there was no water purifier at home, I cursed to myself and went to a convenience store near my house with my check card and bought two bottles of water.

"It's 6,600 won."

Beep! Transaction has been completed.

My phone vibrated with a familiar electronic sound.

When I saw the text message sent to my cell phone, I sighed involuntarily.

[Web transmission]

[Xx Check Approval] Han*Jin (xxxx) 03/15 18:34

(Amount) 6,600 won Eleven Seven xx branch

Balance 162,442 won

There is only 160,000 won left in the bank account.

Fortunately, yesterday was the day to pay the rent, so there is still a month left until the next rent, so I wonder if I will be able to survive until the next rent at this rate.

'I need to get a part-time job right away.'

After breaking off ties with his parents, Han Seong-jin did not go through a real estate agency, but simply called the contact information written on a flimsy 'renting looking' flyer posted on a telephone pole, signed a contract directly with the landlord, and has been living there ever since.

Even though he could not expect any help from his parents, the reason Han Seong-jin has been able to live well without even working a part-time job is because he lived off of the money stolen from his gang and the compensation he received from them after organizing the gangs of other academies.

But I put an end to all those trashy activities and had no intention of making up the money that way.

What naturally follows after that is hardship in life.

The reason I only eat lunch boxes from convenience stores is not only because I really can't cook food, but also because of the hardships of living.

But that too is now a limit.

After returning home, refilling the water and cleaning the bathroom, I went back to the convenience store and asked the clerk at the counter.

"I have something to ask you."

"Uh… Yes?"

A male clerk who looked a bit older than me because he was a part-time worker was momentarily shocked when he saw my facial expression.

"When I came in earlier, I saw that it said that I was looking for a part-time job. Have you found one already?"

"Ah, you're looking for a part-time job."

Only then did the convenience store clerk look a little relieved.

"No, there were no applicants… Have you ever worked part-time at a convenience store?"

"Yes, there is. You will adapt to the job much faster than you think."

It was only half true.

Not as Han Seongjin, but because I had a part-time job before that.

"But are you sure you're okay? I'm the manager here, but this neighborhood is a bit…"

"The situation is bad, right? There are a lot of beautiful people trying to drink and smoke, and there are also a lot of guys who come and make a fuss."

"Huh? No, how do you do that…"

How do you know?

You know this because until last year, this was the place that Han Seong-jin used the most when he went out with his gang to smoke cigarettes.

The neighborhood is bad, the security is bad, and the gang, including Han Seong-jin, are flocking around, so from the perspective of a working person, the neighborhood itself can't seem to be in good condition.

Of course, I couldn't reveal that the leader of the gang was me, so I covered it up appropriately.

"I live here. I see a lot of strange people on my way around, so I have a general idea."

"… But do you really want to work part-time? There are all kinds of really special people here, and all the part-timers quit after they can't last two months. We want to hire people who will last longer…"

"Don't worry. I can guarantee that something like that will never happen here while I'm working. If it does, I can take care of everything. So, can you just let me work?"

In response to my earnest request, the manager made me wait for a while and then spoke to the store manager.

After talking several times and repeating 'yes, yes', he finished the call and came towards me again.

"Well, then when can I start working?"

"The faster, the better."

"Oh, so do you still have time? I have a part-time job in the afternoon and I need to go to the bathroom for a moment. Normally, two people are supposed to work in the afternoon, but one person quits… If you want to work, start training right away from today."

"But I haven't signed a contract yet, and I don't have a health certificate."

"Don't worry about that. If you're going to work, the store manager will come tomorrow and draw up the contract right away. You can apply for the health certificate and bring it to me as soon as you arrive."

They haven't signed a contract yet and don't have a health certificate, but they're trying to bring in people first, so it looks like they're in quite a hurry.

If they were going to mess around with the contract, I already knew how to deal with it, so I agreed to do the job without worrying too much.

The manager immediately informed me of my hourly wage, working hours, etc., And in the meantime, my afternoon part-time job returned after I had gone to the bathroom.

"Manager, I'm here… Huh? Who's next to me?"

"Oh, hello. This is the person who will be working part-time in the afternoons from now on. Hey, that person is the part-timer you will be working with in the afternoons from now on."

When I looked back, there was a very beautiful woman standing there.

…

– What, did you like this bitch? I'm sorry about that. This bitch has been my bitch for a while. Should I have told you in advance?

– What is this…

– Sigh… I'm sorry, senior… I… Everything was taken away from me… Even my first kiss and my first experience… I wanted to give it to you… I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise…

– No way… That's a lie, right? Are you doing this to make fun of me? Huh? Say something!

– I… I've become Seongjin's now… So I can't go back anymore… I'm sorry… And… I really liked you… I'm sorry…

– Ahhh!

…

Just like me, her hair was dyed blonde and tied in a ponytail, and unlike me, her skin was slightly tanned.

The makeup was quite heavy, and one arm was adorned with accessories, making her look quite flashy. It was truly the stereotype of a gyaru.

In addition, she has breasts as huge as Lee Yuri's, so any man's eyes can't help but be drawn towards her.

I know that woman.

"Choi Su-yeon?"

She was Choi Soo-yeon, a gya girl who was a year junior at Jinsoo High Education Academy and a member of the second-year group, and a person who had been blinded by Han Seong-jin like other heroines.

"Sungjin senior?!"

And Choi Su-yeon also knew me.

Ch. 11 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 11
Chapter 11 – Gyaru Junior Choi Su-Yeon (2)

Dyed blonde hair and slightly tanned skin.

Sooyeon Choi, who is truly the stereotype of a light novel gyaru, was one of the second-year girls at Jinsu High School.

However, Choi Su-yeon was a little different from other Iljin women.

Unlike the group of third-year students, including Han Seong-jin, and the first to third-year students who filmed Animal Kingdom, Soo-yeon Choi never crossed a certain line.

If you think about what was described in the original work, she hangs out with other Iljin girls, but she does it less often, and when other Iljin friends step into her 19 gold zone, she is always absent for one reason or another.

She was not described as bullying other students, nor was she in that position.

She didn't drink or smoke, and she was popular enough to be the number one junior among the male group, but even though she looked light-hearted, her steely side was often revealed.

Naturally, Choi Soo-yeon likes Gong Young-bae, the original protagonist of Love in School.

However, to put all of that to shame, one day, when she had no choice but to hang out at an Iljin gathering, Han Seong-jin caught her eye and forced her to eat her. After that, Choi Soo-yeon's ending was as I know.

Of course, I have no intention of doing such a forced thing now, so Soo-yeon Choi is still leading a very different life from the rest of the group.

In the end, no one in the story knew why she hung out with the Iljin group because her basic personality was different from that of her other Iljin friends.

Because it was depicted only through Choi Su-yeon's monologue.

But I know the reason, and I also know the secret that Sooyeon Choi is hiding.

When we met her in an unexpected place, Suyeon Choi looked at me with an expression that was both surprising and intimidating.

"Huh? You two know each other?"

In a moment of awkward silence, the convenience store manager, who had no idea about her situation, just looked at me and Choi Su-yeon and tilted her head.

Choi Su-yeon was the first to break the silence.

"Yes, he's a third-year senior at our academy… And he's working part-time in the afternoons?"

"Okay. Are you Suyeon Choi, a second year student? Please take care of me."

Choi Su-yeon clearly had a nervous expression for a moment at first, but she smiled brightly as if she had never done that before and started to control her expression.

"Yes! I feel much more at ease because someone I know is here! Please take care of me in the future, Senpai!"

Perhaps because of her natural acting skills, Choi Soo-yeon instantly changed her expression and greeted me with a smile even in front of me, who I didn't even like.

The manager, unaware of the circumstances, was just happy to have a new worker.

"Oh, I'm glad. It's hard to have just one girl in a place like this, so I was helping her with the work, but I was also a little tired. Oh, and Han Seong-jin… Did you say that? No, since we'll be working together from now on, I'll speak in peace, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Then, Seongjin, let's work from Suyeon starting today. Suyeon organizes the tasks well and tells you. If you don't know, ask me. The store manager is supposed to bring the contract tomorrow, so you can check the contents again and sign it. Don't forget your health certificate."

"Yes, manager."

After that, while the manager was manning the counter, Sooyeon Choi and I walked around the inside of a fairly large convenience store and received training on what to do.

Of course, most of them were things we all knew.

While the work training continued, we moved to a distance where it was difficult for the manager to hear our conversation, and it was only then that Soo-yeon Choi brought up topics other than work.

"I didn't expect to see Seongjin here."

"I didn't know you worked here part-time."

"And she didn't even know that her senior knew about me."

When I think about the future lives of Han Seong-jin and Choi Su-yeon that I saw, I smiled bitterly.

The day Han Seong-jin found out about Choi Soo-yeon's existence, she lost her virginity.

"Why did you think I wouldn't care about anything else? You go around with Jeong Ji-ah."

"Wow… You really remembered. Seniors, there were a lot of times when I wasn't around when playing with Jia, so I thought you wouldn't remember."

"Why did you want me to remember?"

"Hmm, I don't know?"

Choi Su-yeon smiled an unknown smile.

In fact, she didn't really like hanging out with such a group of people, but when she saw Choi Soo-yeon making an expression of regret that she couldn't hang out with them, she realized once again that the woman's acting skills were terrible.

I knew that the reason he was showing such a moderate attitude towards me now was not because he liked me, but because he simply did not want to cause conflict.

This time, I asked Suyeon Choi a question.

"But it's strange. How are you doing your part-time job while you're in your second year? I don't think part-time jobs will accept minors very often."

Flinch!

Choi Su-yeon's shoulders shrank momentarily, and she began rolling her eyes here and there.

Of course, it didn't matter what Sooyeon Choi answered because I knew the secret, but it was necessary in order to set up a net for her to make her mine from now on.
"Ahaha, for some reason, I told the academy separately. There is no problem, so don't worry about it…"

"What if something happens to a second-year girl working part-time in a place like this where the neighborhood is not safe? If it's because money is tight, I'll ask Yuri to check. I said I could submit it as an agenda item for a faculty meeting to ask for support for students in need. -"

I deliberately called her 'Yuri' by only her first name to appeal to the fact that her distance from Lee Yuri is very close.

And as I expected, Sooyeon Choi…

"Oh, no!"

He jumped up and stopped me.

"What's going on there?"

"It's nothing, manager!"

Su-yeon Choi, confused, took a deep breath and looked at me.

"Senior. I'm working here part-time… Can't you tell the academy?"

"Why, is there something I can't say?"

"Woah, it's a woman's secret! You probably have one or two woman's secrets that you can't tell anyone, right? It's not careful to try to find out all of those things!"

I looked around, but the reason is obvious.

The group that Sooyeon Choi usually hangs out with is the second year Iljin girls.

According to the description in the original work, when Choi Soo-yeon and her group of Iljin girls hung out with our Jinsugyo or other Iljin men's groups from other academies, they would usually leave out, citing reasons such as 'going on a date with a college student's boyfriend' or 'going to Papakatsu with an office worker.' Br〉

In reality, she was using that excuse to work part-time or meet Gong Young-bae secretly.

However, she is worried that if this fact becomes known to her gang, she may be criticized.

'And there might be an age issue.'

I looked at Choi Soo-yeon quietly while controlling her expression and answered.

"Then what will you do if I keep the secret?"

"Me? Uhm…"

Sooyeon Choi answered by flipping her ponytail in front of her shoulder and twisting her fingers.

"Oh, that's right! You mentioned Seongjin, 'Yuri' earlier, right? Are you referring to the student council president?"

"That's right."

"Huh! Then maybe the two of you are like that…?"

"We're not in that relationship yet."

In response to that answer, Soo-yeon Choi conjured up an image in her head of two people who seemed completely incompatible, and then she suddenly had another thought.

'We're not in that relationship yet…? So this means that at least one side is hoping for that to happen? Huh…?'

Choi Soo-yeon secretly likes Gong Young-bae.

And we also know that student council president Lee Yu-ri is childhood friends with Gong Young-bae and that they secretly care about each other.

At that moment, the corners of Choi Soo-yeon's mouth began to rise slightly.

'Wait a minute, isn't this an opportunity? If I do well, I think I can take down one person, right?'

Choi Su-yeon quickly finished her calculations and smiled brightly.

"Senior! I think I remembered something I can do for you in exchange for keeping it a secret!"

"Really? What is it?"

Suyeon Choi suddenly looks at me with a smile on her face.

Choi Su-yeon is the type of person who works hard to keep her head down, so there's no way she wouldn't bite into the rice cake that I pretended not to know.

"If you keep the secret, I will build a bridge between you and Yuri!"

'I asked.'

When I saw Sooyeon Choi swimming at full speed toward the net, I couldn't help but laugh.

"You're going to connect me with her? How? Are you close with her?"

"We're not close. Senior Yuri really dislikes people like me."

"You know that."

"But! Yuri is still a woman after all! She knows her weaknesses very well! A date course where I can captivate a woman for the sake of two people's love! A romantic place! A good restaurant! I can help you find out everything! There is!

If you just trust me, I can be the bridge of love between two people!"

By connecting Choi Soo-yeon with me, she also intends to eliminate one of her rivals, and also to distract her attention so that I, who is a real bully, doesn't pay attention to her for no reason.

It was an idea worthy of Choi Su-yeon, a smartass.

"Hmm, that's a perfect idea."

"Hehe."

Suyeon Choi proudly opened her breasts, sticking out her big breasts in front of her.

In her own way, she probably thinks she has drawn the best net for me, but unfortunately, you are the one caught in the net. Not me.

"But, even if you tell me this and that, wouldn't it be meaningless for me to go and find out on my own?"

"That's right! So, let's go together with Yuri to the place I told you about and have some quality time alone-"

"No, that's not what I'm saying. I don't know the way or what's around, so what can I do if you just point me to a few stores? It's not like I can plan a date course on my own, and I can't take Yuri right away. I don't have time because of student council work. It doesn't sound good."

"Ahaha, that's true. But, Senpai, he's quite handsome and manly, so he pushed through that level of difficulty with great force-"

"I need rehearsal."

Suyeon Choi smiled and clapped lightly at my words.

"Aha, rehearsal! Yes, rehearsal is a good thing!"

"There has to be someone to do it with you."

"I guess so. If you ask any of the girls who often hang out with your senior, they will say-"

"I've already decided on someone to give me rehearsals."

"Oh my, it's Seongjin sunbae of course! She has girls who will come running whenever her sunbae calls her, and I'm jealous."

"You."

"I thought so too! I thought so too…"

Choi Su-yeon, who had been listening to me half-heartedly and mechanically agreeing with me, belatedly understood the meaning of what I said and closed her mouth.

Then she tilted her head and looked at me.

"…?"

"?"

"Who… Is helping me?"

"You."

"… Huh?!"

Ch. 12 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 12
Chapter 12 – Gyaru Junior Choi Su-Yeon (3)

'Isn't this…?'

Choi Soo-yeon was embarrassed inside and sweating profusely.

Who is Han Seong-jin?

He was the leader among the Jinsu Higher Education Academy and a famous gangster not only in Jinsugyo but also in the surrounding area.

Although Choi Soo-yeon herself is part of the second-year Iljin group, she just needs the sign of 'Iljin Choi Soo-yeon', and she does not like and has never participated in Iljin activities. Br〉

Of course, I didn't really like people who were really outgoing, so I didn't really consider the gang of girls I hung out with as friends.

However, out of all the group, the most unresponsive third-year student, Saengyang, said he would rehearse the dating course with him.

She was planning to leave, but Choi Soo-yeon was quite embarrassed and stuttered as things turned out differently than she thought.

"Seo, senior? Ah, ahaha… Of course, I'd like to help if I can, but as you can see, I have a part-time job in the afternoons-"

"I'm starting that part-time job starting today, right? Our part-time job is from Monday to Thursday, so Fridays and weekends are free."

"Oh, that's right! Look at my mind! But I'm a very boring kid, so you'll regret it if you go with me. It's better for you to take a friend of mine who can put you in the right mood rather than a boring kid like me…"

"No, just looking at what you're saying now seems interesting enough."

"Ugh… Does it really have to be me? I really have a hard time finding time…"

"If it's hard to go, I'll suggest something else instead."

At that moment, Suyeon Choi's eyes lit up.

Hehe. It's the art of negotiation! At first, she presents conditions that the other party will never accept and then pretends to compromise, but then she presents her real purpose!
If you think that just because I look like this and hang out with a bunch of kids, my hair will be just as bad, you're wrong! Well, let's take a look!'

"Yes, what can I do for you?"

"You know that the kids and I regularly meet up on the weekends, right?"

A gathering is by no means a healthy social gathering. It is more like a gangster gathering where all the male and female gangsters from each grade, from the first to the third year of Jinsoo School, gather to drink and smoke in an empty lot.

After the drinking bar passes, the king game… Sodom and Gomorrah is where men and women are matched through the king game, where the person who will give orders is determined, and each person goes to a motel, PlayStation room, DVD room, or private room they have found and has a 1:1 or orgy sex party. Feast of.

Suyeon Choi had never participated in that meeting, but she knew very well what happened there through her Iljin friends.

I'm sick of hearing dirty talk about her having a stomach ache from dealing with three of her older brothers at the same time, or about staying up all night with a handsome guy she had a fortune in.

Her expression stiffened for a moment, but Choi Soo-yeon quickly regained control of her expression and responded as if nothing had happened.

"Yes, I know."

"I think we'll be meeting again next weekend, and I'm going to announce there that I won't be going to the meeting anymore."

"Oh, that's right. But that's with me-"

"All you have to do is come along and pretend to be my girlfriend. The others will understand if I tell them that I'm going to stay away for a while because I have a girlfriend. How about that?"

"Which date course do you like!? Daehakro? Hongdae? Garosu-gil? Itaewon? Just tell us! I'll follow you wherever you go, personally escort you, and even plan a course for you!"

At 10 p.M., After finishing her part-time job that day, Soo-yeon Choi opened the door of her empty house and fell down on the bed.

"Ah… What is this fierceness? I'll just order people around like I always do and take other people's money. What kind of part-time job is it that Han Seong-jin doesn't fit in? And of course, it's where I work…"

Choi Soo-yeon, who was caught up in Han Seong-jin and eventually accepted the condition he first suggested of 'accompanying her to the date course rehearsal', sighed deeply.

Since she started living in her own room, she hasn't had much to stress about, but that wasn't the case today.

Moreover, considering that I would be in the same room with Han Seong-jin at least 4 times a week for 6 hours a day, I didn't think that would be the case in the future.

To forget about the bad things, Sooyeon Choi took out her cell phone and sent a message to someone.

[Me: Senior Youngbae~ What are you doing~?

The target is Gong Young-bae, a third-year boy whom she secretly likes.

In order to fully reveal her feelings, she even sent a heart emoticon, but Gong Young-bae did not respond for a while.

"Are you busy…?"

In fact, it wasn't once or twice that Gong Young-bae's reply was late, so she was used to it, but inside she felt a little disappointed.

The answer from Gong Young-bae came about 20 minutes later.

[Senior Youngbae : I was talking on the phone with Eunji

After seeing Gong Young-bae's reply, Su-yeon Choi felt even more hurt.

She said, 'She even sent me a heart, but she said she was talking on the phone with another woman. All I had to do was lie about taking a shower or studying or something like that… She's being unnecessarily honest.'

Afterward, Choi Soo-yeon had a few small talks with Gong Young-bae as a way to relieve stress.

And she felt good again at the thought that she would soon be able to separate her most powerful enemy from Gong Yeong-bae.

When I think about that time, I was able to endure ridiculous things like rehearsing a date course with Han Seong-jin right away.

'Yes, Choi Su-yeon! Cheer up! If I just eliminate Lee Yu-ri, who has the cheat key called Childhood Friend, then I win!'

Judging from what they say, it seems like only Han Seong-jin cares about Lee Yu-ri, and it is obvious that Lee Yu-ri, as always, hates Han Seong-jin, who is a group of one-liners.

Her actions in trying to connect two unlikely unions were a bit prickly on her conscience, but the girl who was thirsty for her love didn't see anything like that.

Finally, I was freed from the penalty for cleaning up after school and was able to go home at 3pm when all school classes were over.

Of course, now I have a part-time job waiting for me that takes much longer than cleaning up after school and requires me to tackle it more seriously.

Lee Yu-ri, who didn't know that I had started a part-time job, glanced at me as I was packing my bag and spoke to me.

"It's good, I don't have to clean up after myself anymore."

"Well, how nice. I must have cleaned my classroom more often than I cleaned my house. I'm tired of just looking at it now."

"So now… Are you going to go straight home?"

"That's right. I decided to live steadily from now on. Don't worry, it won't leak anywhere."

"Who cares?! I just…"

"Just what?"

"Oh, it's nothing. Then go home quickly. I have to do my student council work."

"You've worked hard. Then, good luck, student council president~"

…

While walking down the hallway leading to the student council room, Lee Yu-ri looked through the window toward the playground where students were leaving school.

And I muttered quietly to myself.

"… There's no one waiting anymore."

Perhaps because she had gotten used to going home from school with Han Seong-jin, she was feeling a little lonely.

…

After arriving home, unpacking my bags and changing into civilian clothes, I lay down on the blanket and rested for a while before heading to the convenience store where I worked on time.

On the way to the convenience store, in all corners of the alley, you could see clearly gangsters, both men and women, sitting in groups, pointing at the convenience store and talking.

I checked the time on my phone and laughed.

'It's time to try smoking cigarettes.'

After school, between 3 and 4 p.M. Is the time when groups of people most often try to smoke cigarettes at nearby convenience stores.

"Senior, are you here?"

When I arrived at the convenience store, Suyeon Choi greeted me with a smile.

It seems like a pretty business smile right now.

"You came early. But is the manager not there today?"

"Because I found a part-time job, the manager missed his regular working hours. The store manager said he would come back after dinner, so we can just do our jobs in the meantime."

"Okay, then I'll take care of replenishing the inventory. Just give me the settlement fee."

"Yes~"

We immediately started doing our own tasks, and as I was taking out snacks and drinks from the warehouse and putting them on the shelf, I suddenly thought of the gangsters that were everywhere on the way to the convenience store and spoke to Suyeon Choi.

"Hey Choi Su-yeon, let me ask you something."

"What is it?"

"Aren't the beautiful people here coming to smoke cigarettes?"

As soon as she heard those words, Suyeon Choi let out a deep sigh.

It seems like a lot has happened.

"Don't even talk about it. When it's time to start work, more than 10 teams come in an hour. There are more than one group of kids who make a fuss when you tell them they are going to check IDs, and sometimes the bad guys don't even try to hide it and even threaten you?"

"Threat?"

"Yes! My senior is the best at Eunbong Gonggyo, but he just said things like selling and telling me to be careful walking at night… The person who worked there before also quit because he was stressed out."

"Oh. Is it because you came from Eunbong Academy? Are other academies like that too?"

"Yes. Even though this place is big, it's not so much that I can't work alone, but that's why they use two people in the afternoon. That's why the manager was working until yesterday."

"Really? That's good. You won't have to worry about that for a while."

"…?"

Choi Soo-yeon is a member of the Iljin group, but she has never really played with the Iljin group, so she doesn't really know how good Han Seong-jin is.

All she knows is her name, her face, and that I'm Jinsu-kyo-chan.

And, fortunately or unfortunately, the opportunity to prove that my work at this convenience store was a good thing for Choi Soo-yeon came very quickly.

"Over there."

"Huh? Eh…"

Several male students with various hair colors and hairstyles entered the convenience store, and upon seeing them, Sooyeon Choi looked like she had been bitten by a bug.

"3 packs of ESSE Prime and Marlboro Red."

"You guys came a few days ago too, right? What's your ID?"

As soon as Choi Su-yeon finished speaking, those guys created an atmosphere of fear.

"Oh shit, you're annoying me again. We're adults."

A group of gangsters immediately surrounded the counter and threatened Choi Soo-yeon, talking informally to her.

"What are you going to do if we won't pay? We'll give you money, so all you have to do is take out the cigarettes. Looking at it, it looks like that corrupt guy who was there until yesterday isn't there either. If you don't want to get screwed, why don't you just quietly pay?"

As it is a dirty neighborhood with a lot of gangsters, they started threatening the clerk openly.

If Choi Su-yeon had been alone, she would have been unable to move.

But those guys chose the wrong timing.

As I came out of the warehouse, I strained my neck a little and spoke.

"What are you guys doing?"

Ch. 13 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 13
Chapter 13 – If You Don't Know, You Should Be Right

When I came out of the warehouse and attracted attention, everyone's eyes, including Sooyeon Choi, turned towards me.

"What is that?"

"Are you different from the person you were with yesterday?"

The gangsters slightly loosened the siege surrounding Choi Su-yeon in front of the checkout counter and turned to me.

"Hey, we came here to buy cigarettes, but our part-time job doesn't sell cigarettes."

"Really? From what I heard, they said they would just check your ID and sell it right away, right?"

"Ah, these fucking bitches can't even communicate, it's so fucking bad."

"Are you just talking about me?"

"Then who the fuck is the 'guy' here besides you?"

They were people whose spirit I had to admit to because they could maintain that attitude even after looking at my height and size.

Most students get scared just by looking at my scary appearance and physique.

"Well, aren't you guys 'bastards'? Just by looking at them, you don't look like 'bitches'. Or are you just psychopaths who believe themselves to be homo-romantic, non-binary, asexual, androgynous? The mental hospital is two blocks down."

"What a fucking bastard-"

"Seo, senior! What's wrong with you!"

The gangsters who had turned their heads all at once flocked towards me, and the situation reached a tipping point.

Sooyeon Choi, who thought I was doing something reckless, was shocked and tried to stop me, but the situation had already crossed many rivers.

When the gangsters heard Choi Su-yeon call me by the name, they openly laughed at me.

"Senior? H-what is it? So this guy is trying to make a show of himself in front of a girl he already knows?"

"I guess you still don't know that if you joke without knowing the topic, you'll be really screwed."

"Hmm, that's a harsh word. Just by looking at you, you look like Mija, but I'm a 20-year-old third-year student like the sky. Would you mind speaking a little more politely?"

"Fuhahaha!"

The gangsters burst into laughter at my words.

Among them, the raven-haired guy who seemed to be the leader laughed at me, tears streaming down his face.

"20 years old? No, fuck, then you weren't a college student, but an education academy student? Hey, did you say you were a third year student? I guess you thought we would treat you well if we knew that, but aren't you Kang Baek-san from Eunbong High School?"

"Gangbaeksan? Then, you know. It's Eunbongtong."

"Hey, they are the direct juniors that our brother Kang Baek-san cares about, right? If you don't want to get screwed, I think you should take back what you just said and kneel down and beg like a dog, right?"

"Aha, I was wondering why they were so brave, and it turned out they were Eunbong High School students. But since they didn't even know me, I guess they were first-year freshmen?"

"What are you talking about, you bastard?"

The first-year students at Eunbong High School, who did not know English, became irritated and gradually narrowed the distance with the intention of striking each other.

"Guys, I started working here yesterday and I don't want to make a fuss in the store. Why don't we go out and settle it through conversation slowly? For your sake as well."

"Ah, fuck. This guy is holding a hookah in front of a real woman. It's disgusting."

Whoa!

And the leader of the group of gangsters, Black Hair, punched me.

However, because the fist hit my cheek instead of my chin, I only took a step back, but I was still standing in my seat.

Instead, I felt a fishy taste in my mouth.

As a result of being punched in the face, the cheek flesh was chewed and burst open, causing bleeding.

When I put my hand to my mouth, the blood that came out of my mouth was still on my hand.

"Aaaaah! Senior! Rain, emergency bell-"

"Choi Su-yeon, don't do anything and just stay still."

I stopped Choi Su-yeon, who was about to press the wireless emergency bell, and looked down at the Eunbong School guys.

The guys were giggling among themselves and looking at me, as if they hadn't figured out the situation yet.

"Oh, you didn't faint after getting hit by that? You must be confident in your tenacity?"

"I thought I could do anything if I grew taller, but now I'm starting to regret it, aren't I?"

"Choi Su-yeon, did you clearly see it just now? Did you clearly see these guys first using violence against me while I was trying to resolve the issue through conversation? It must have been captured on CCTV, right?"

"Yes? Oh, yes…"

"Then that's it."

I adjusted my posture by tilting my head to both sides.

"Guys, I told you earlier that you don't know that you'll be screwed if you make fun of me without knowing the topic, right?"

"?"

"But I think you need to know who you really don't know."

After a short period of time.

Outside the convenience store, there was a scene that seemed quite strange to others.

Six boys were maintaining their posture with their heads pressed into the ground with their hands behind their backs, and in front of them was a large man squatting with a candy stick in his mouth.

Anyone could see that it was a sight that could only be seen in the military in the past, not a sight seen in society.

"Ugh…"

The gangsters kept moaning and staggering around as if the tops of their heads that were stuck on the ground were in pain, and each time I took out a piece of candy in my mouth instead of a cigarette and asked.

"Guys, are you in pain? You keep twitching?"

"Oh, no."

The guys who had been beaten to pieces barely answered while trembling in fear.

Among the six, none had bruises on their eyes or lips, and three had missing front teeth.

There were people who were hit so hard in the abdomen that they were still having trouble breathing, and those whose jaws had been rotated had barely come to their senses and were unable to maintain their balance properly.

"How do you think this brother feels about having to end up like this after getting beaten up by you guys so young?"

"S-sorry…"

"I was wrong, please forgive me this once…"

"Whether they know it or not, if they get caught selling cigarettes to Mija, the person who sold them will have to take full responsibility for it. Do you think this brother or that sister in there will have to be called to the police station and have to pay a fine because of you?"

"Oh, no."

"And you, black hair."

"Yes, yes!"

The guy who seemed to be the leader of the first-year group at Eunbong High School answered with enthusiasm in his voice.

"You guys are not 14 anymore, so you don't get the benefits of being a juvenile. There are witnesses who saw you beat me first, and it was all captured on CCTV. If you submit this to the police, you will all be sent to juvenile detention. Of course, there is evidence that I was beaten first, so it's self-defense."

When I gave a somewhat exaggerated scare, the guys, who had no idea what was going on, trembled even more in fear, with their heads still stuck.

"Well, I was wrong! Please just take a look!"

"Really? Did you really do something wrong? Do you want me to forgive you?"

"Yes, yes!"

"Everyone wakes up."

The six guys suddenly got up at the same time.

I sat cross-legged at the table outside the convenience store and held out my cell phone in front of me, like a boss disciplining an employee.

"Here, write down your names, grades, classes, and phone numbers on your cell phone. After I receive it, I'll call and check, so I'll search for those who lie on the spot, okay? Come forward one by one. Starting with your hair up."

One by one, they came forward without even making a sound and with trembling hands, they wrote down everything, including their numbers, in my phone book.

"Well, there are no lying guys. I also like honest guys."

"…"

"Now, I have a few things to ask you. First, from now on, tell not only you but also all your friends who aren't here. Don't even think about coming to this convenience store to smoke.

From now on, the moment I see Eunbong High School bastards, regardless of grade, coming here and trying to smoke a cigarette, you will be the first to fall into my hands. Do you understand?"

"Yes, yes!"

"And what did you do with Mt. Gangbaek earlier?"

When I pointed at my head while holding my phone, he turned his face pale and bent his back to 90 degrees.

"Well, I was wrong! I was wrong!"

"If you want to tell Kang Baek-san, tell him. If your juniors come to this convenience store and try to smoke cigarettes, your friend who goes to Jinsugyo will come and visit you. Just say this, and he will understand."

"Uh, uh…"

"Now, secondly, is there anyone who can blame you for being wrong?"

"I was wrong, brother! I was really wrong!"

The six guys must have taken it as a sign that they were begging me, so they bent down and begged with their hands and feet.

I immediately stopped their apology.

"Stop. I'll pretend that you've paid for the wrong I did by getting beaten so hard."

"…?"

"You bastards, you don't understand what I'm saying. I was so nervous because you were swearing at my sister in there and crowding around her. Furthermore, I wasn't shaking."

"I was shaking…"

"Should I ask for forgiveness from my sister inside too? Everyone follows me."

I lined up the guys behind me and went into the convenience store.

Choi Su-yeon, who watched me take out the guys one by one with one punch, just looked at me with a bewildered expression.

"Seo, senior…?"

"They have something to say to you. Now, guys. Should you be sincere and tell your sister that you did something wrong?"

"Well, I was wrong, sister… I won't do it again."

"I told you to be sincere."

When I lowered my voice slightly, they got scared and immediately fell to their knees and hit me on the forehead.

"I was wrong! I was so wrong! Please forgive me this once, I won't do it again!"

"Huh? Uh, uh…"

"Okay, if you're going to ask for forgiveness for what you did wrong, you should do that. Everyone, wake up."

They woke up at the same time again.

And I put my arm around the raven-haired guy's shoulder and pulled him towards me, and the guy who had been beaten to a pulp was dragged in, shaking in fear and unable to resist.

"Now, guys. I started work yesterday, so I'm quite busy, but honestly, going back and forth about submitting this evidence to the police station and making things worse is a hassle, right? So, I'm going to make a suggestion."

"Yes, yes… Ma, Ma, just say the word."

"Well, you have a good attitude. What I'm suggesting is that nothing happened here at the convenience store today. You've never been here, and we've never seen you. The reason you're like that is because you fought among yourselves." Br〉
It doesn't matter what the reason is. Whether it's a fight over rank, a girl, or a gang fight with another academy, it's okay. What it means is, 'You guys have never been hit by me.' Oh, you can tell Kang Baek-san. Anda Stan?"

"Yes…"

I put a little more strength on the arm that was holding the black-haired man's shoulder.

The scared guy was almost on the verge of crying and even his teeth chattered. With a few front teeth missing.

"Guys, I'm giving you a chance now. How should I respond in a situation like this?"

"Thank you, thank you…"

The six guys answered in hushed voices while looking at the ground, and it was only then that I loosened my arms around my shoulders.

"You're welcome. Now then, let's go in. Keep in mind what I said earlier."

"Yes…"

"Then have a nice day."

"Oh, hello…"

Immediately instilled with courtesy, the guys ran away without even looking back.

Ch. 14 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 14
Chapter 14 – Dating Course Examples and Events

After the series of commotions was resolved, I cleaned up the spilled items one by one, feeling the fishy taste of blood in my mouth.

After getting into a fist fight with the gangsters, I immediately started working as if nothing had happened without stopping, and Suyeon Choi was startled and came out of the counter to stop me.

"Senior! I'll sort it out, so you can take a break."

"No, you should get some rest. You must have been surprised by those bastards coming in droves and threatening you."

"No… Actually, I was more surprised to see my senior punching than them…"

"Hmm, sorry about that. But if we don't do this, those guys will come back with their gang…"

I cleared my throat and continued to clean the floor of the convenience store.

There were some that were in good condition, but the bags of some of the snacks had burst, and the contents had spilled out, so I picked them up with a dustpan and handed the empty snack bag to Suyeon Choi.

"I'm sorry, but please take a picture of this on the POS machine. I have to calculate it."

"You want me to calculate it myself?"

"Then I knocked it over, so I have to pay. Who pays?"

"… I'll calculate this. It was the Sunband that suppressed the rampage of those guys earlier, so it would be unfair to have to do this as well."

"No, but I-"

"No. Now, please hand me all the snack bags first. And hear, hear, ding, ding. And my card. Now, the payment is finished. I paid, so it's over."

Choi Su-yeon took a picture of the barcode and swiped the card.

Then he came out with a broom and dustpan and swept up the snacks next to me.

"I said I would do it."

"While you were suppressing those guys, I couldn't do anything and just scream. I also have a part-time job. So, I will do the same."

After that, we cleaned the floor in silence for a while.

After putting away all the spilled snacks and finishing mopping, we both returned to the counter and sat side by side.

There was a slightly awkward silence, and I was the one who broke it.

"Now those kids won't come to smoke."

"You're not coming?"

"To be exact, I 'can't' come. I scared anyone who comes here to smoke a cigarette and die. As long as I work, I won't have to suffer from the swindlers trying to smoke a cigarette in the future."

"What were you going to do if those guys actually reported it?"

Suyeon Choi asked with a worried expression.

Because my suppression was quite extreme.

"It's okay. They have proof of their actions, and I bluffed in self-defense, so I can't act carelessly even if I'm scared of going to juvenile detention center. Even if I tell you, he's a third-year student at Centipede Academy, and he's no good for me."

Kang Baek-san, the guy those first-year bullies mentioned.

Eunbong Industrial Higher Education Academy, Eunbong High School for short. He is the king of the Iljin group and is called Eunbong Tong. He is a famous gangster in the nearby area, but the fact that even that guy fought and lost with me, Han Seong-jin, remained in my memory.

This is a part where you can see how infamous Han Seong-jin is.

It's a pathetic achievement in the world, but to the idiots like before who treat adult words like shit, an older brother who is 2 years older than an adult who is 20 years older is more scary.

If they find out that Eunbongtong, whom they worship like a god, has already been taken care of by me, they will be too scared to even come near here.

"Sir, you were a scarier person than I thought."

Suyeon Choi's eyes look wary.

I clicked my tongue and sat back against the cigarette display.

"Tsk, I didn't want to do this anymore, so I worked part-time and tried to live a healthy life, but as soon as I started working, these guys started to get into trouble. I'm sorry to you.

"… Thank you, though."

"Thank you?"

"There have been many times like this before. When I had a previous part-time job, when kids like that came, the two of us would tremble and ring the wireless emergency bell, but the police would be late, and kids like that would curse, scream, and throw things over before the police arrived… You don't know how scared I really was back then. .

Even when I had a manager, it wasn't much of a difference because he couldn't touch me… But when I saw him do that earlier, I was scared, but I felt a bit relieved inside."

"What is it? Is this what you wanted to beat up if you could?"

"Well?"

Suyeon Choi stretched her arms upwards and to both sides, probably to relieve her tension.

"Anyway, thank you for helping me, even if the means were a bit rough. I also owe you a debt of gratitude to my senior for preventing such kids from coming in the future… Huh?!"

Choi Soo-yeon was suddenly startled and started to panic.

"Why are you so surprised all of a sudden… Huh?"

As I spoke, I realized the reason at the same time.

Something in his mouth was out of my control and ran down the corner of his mouth and down his chin.

I felt the fishy taste remaining in my mouth getting stronger, so I wiped the liquid running down my chin with my hand.

Choi Soo-yeon, seeing the red liquid on his hand, was startled and started to panic.

"Aaaaah! Senior, I'm bleeding, I'm bleeding! Toilet paper, toilet paper… Miss, what is it?! Why isn't there?! Hey, at least wipe it with this!"

Choi Su-yeon, who saw that the toilet paper that was always in stock had run out, took out a handkerchief from her bag and put it to her mouth.

In a hurry, I took Choi Su-yeon's handkerchief and wiped the blood flowing from the corner of my mouth.

Seeing me wiping away the blood, Suyeon Choi looked at me with a mixture of worry and anxiety.

When the blood stopped flowing, I took the handkerchief off my mouth and waved my hand as if it was no big deal.

"It's just that I bit my cheek, and it's bleeding because I got hit earlier. It's nothing special, so don't look at it like that."

"No, but…"

"What's wrong with me not being able to do anything while all this fuss was going on?"

Nod.

Instead of answering, Soo-yeon Choi nodded eagerly.

"Then, please escort me to the date course rehearsal on Friday."

"Ah… Are you really going to take me with you?"

"Instead of pretending to be my girlfriend at next week's meeting, you said you would plan a date for me?"

"Yes, that's right. I did, but… Haha… Okay."

"Why do you say you don't want to do this? Then you can just comfortably pretend to be my girlfriend-"

"It was a sigh of worry about how to plan a course!"

After the uproar, fortunately, my part-time job passed without much fuss.

Throughout her work, Choi Soo-yeon couldn't get the sight of Han Seong-jin overpowering her bully boys out of her mind.

A violent, barbaric and extremely primitive method.

She didn't like that kind of typical stand-up behavior, and she never harbored any illusions.

But why did she think Han Seong-jin was cool while she was watching it?

Is it because it is a prescription for extreme medication to save yourself from trouble? Or is it because she outwardly associates with her fellow students, and she gets into that situation without even realizing it?

When she couldn't figure out why she thought Han Seong-jin fighting earlier was a little cool, she spoke to her.

"Oh, Choi Su-yeon. That's the handkerchief I gave you earlier."

"Yes?"

"I'll take it home, wash it, and return it to you."

"Ah… You don't have to give it back."

"Is it because I put it in my mouth that I don't even want it back? That's too much."

"No, I didn't mean that…! Oh, okay, then wash it and return it! You're turning a real person into some kind of strange person."

Choi Su-yeon, who had accepted Han Seong-jin's joke, was sticking out her lips, but suddenly her thoughts wandered somewhere else.

'… But did this senior always have this playful personality?'

I have never met Han Seong-jin in person and only knew his face through photos.

The only thing I heard about him was rumors through his friends.

And the content of the rumor was truly absurd.

He said that he took three girls and formed a foursome, that he got into a gang fight with other academy members and won and then took the girls from that academy as trophies, that he got into a fight with a college student, and that he used the money he stole from his subordinates to run the club. I went to…

According to the rumors, he was a type of horse that was not worthy of being treated as a human being, and I thought that such a person could not have even the slightest humanity, let alone courtesy.

However, Han Seong-jin, who she started working with yesterday, was very different from what she expected.

As you can see in the photo, her impression was extremely harsh, but her attitude toward the convenience store manager was quite polite.

She was quite diligent in learning to work at a convenience store, and surprisingly, she adapted to the job very quickly, so much so that there was nothing more to teach her the day she started working.

Even though she was strong, she did not limit the work to herself, and she did her work diligently.

When he knocked down the gangsters one by one with one punch, I thought he was just as human as I first thought, but he never used more violence than was necessary.

Perhaps out of consideration for himself, he took steps to prevent future customers from coming to the convenience store to smoke, and even apologized, saying he was sorry for surprising them.

If you think about it, Han Seong-jin didn't do anything wrong in the first place.

'I really don't know. He's a strange person.'

It was still difficult to know what he was thinking, but Choi Soo-yeon thought that Han Seong-jin was not as depraved as she thought.

'Still, I'm not the type that you want to be involved with for a long time… I'll just introduce a course on Friday and take care of what I need to take care of.'

Ch. 15 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 15
Chapter 15 – Dating Course Examples and Practices (2)

Eunbong Industrial Higher Education Academy.

This academy, called Eunbong Gonggyo for short, was notorious as a den of gangsters known nationwide.

The students were completely out of the teacher's control, establishing their own order, and were already receiving solid training as prospective gangsters from a young age.

It is not an academy, but closer to a training center for prospective gangsters.

Among the students, none of them had flashy tattoos, it was quicker to find non-smokers, and even for first- and second-year minors, drinking, smoking, riding motorcycles, and fighting with gangs were basics, and it was a gathering of life-saving people where it was natural for men to be bitches and for women to sell their bodies.

The six first-year students at Eunbong High School, their faces covered in bruises, were groaning on the sidewalk block in the backyard of the academy, just like yesterday, with their hands folded behind their backs and their heads pressed into the ground.

They were first-year students at Eunbong High School who had suffered a huge blow the day before when they went to a convenience store to smoke a cigarette.

"So."

A man who spat while shaking a cigarette on the floor set the mood with his harsh voice.

With his hair pulled back in an all-back style, his forearms bulging with muscles, and a dragon tattoo extending from both wrists to his shoulders, he looks more like a gangster than a student.

It was Kang Baek-san, a third-year student, and the leader of Eunbong Academy, also known as Eunbongtong.

"Are you saying that you got beaten up outside under the name of Eunbong Gonggyo?"

"S-sorry!"

"Batta."

Immediately, one of her aides handed over an iron pipe that she didn't know where she had gotten it from, and Kang Baek-san, who took it, rolled up her sleeve to reveal her dragon tattoo bigger and approached the six first-year students.

"First, let's get the punishment for tarnishing the name of Eunbong School and then listen to the story. The bastard who makes noise will get his head kicked."

"…!"

Whoa! Whoa! Puck!

Immediately, Kang Baek-san's merciless beating was directed at the buttocks of the six guys, and when the beating was over, four of the six guys could not stand the pain and fell sideways and fainted.

"Get up. And who are you guys?"

"It's me, brother."

The raven-haired man, whose front teeth had been knocked out by Han Seong-jin's fist the day before, answered tremblingly.

A little blood was already seeping out from the buttocks of his school uniform pants.

"I got beaten up by some bastard."

"Well, I don't know who that is, but to a convenience store part-timer…"

"Huh, a part-time job at a convenience store? Since when did our Eunbong become such a dick that he gets beaten up by a bastard?"

"No shame!"

"Where is that convenience store?"

"The location is Eleven Seven in the back alley of xx-dong… Tongue, bro! But it seemed like the part-timer knew who you were! After hearing your name, he told me to tell him this…"

"You want me to tell you? Ha, I've been living this for a long time, so I hear all kinds of ridiculous things like this. So, what does that bastard say?"

"Ugh… Don't even think about coming to the convenience store where you work… To smoke cigarettes…"

When Kang Baek-san approached with bloodshot eyes and grabbed him by the collar, the raven-haired man was so scared that he shed tears, but continued talking.

That's because the fear imprinted yesterday was also enormous.

"Ha, ha, if I come to Eunbong one more time to smoke a cigarette, Jin… My friend from Jinsugyo will come visit me… That's right."

"What?!"

At that moment, Kang Baek-san let go of his hand holding the raven-haired man's collar.

Kang Baek-san's aides also understood the meaning of those words and just exchanged glances with their leader with shocked expressions.

"A friend who goes to Jinsoo Bridge…? Did that bastard say that out of his own mouth?"

"Yes, yes…"

"What does that bastard look like?"

As the black haired man explained the appearance of a convenience store part-timer, Kang Baeksan's face turned red, and he threw his iron pipe on the floor and cursed harshly.

"You fucking dog!"

There was no doubt.

Seongjin Han.

The guy who inflicted defeat for the first time on himself, who had completely conquered the entire area.

Just thinking about the humiliation of that time made me jump out of my sleep.

But… I didn't feel like I could fight again and win.

"Hey, you guys. Everyone turns off until the count of three."

"Yes, yes!"

The first-graders hurriedly ran away, dragging the four who had fainted two by two, and Kang Baek-san sat down in the backyard flower bed, trembling with anger.

"Captain, what should I do? I guess that part-timer is Han Seong-jin."

"How about you grab me and kill me?"

"If you go, will you win?"

No one responded to Kangbaeksan's words.

Kang Baek-san suppressed his rising anger and gave orders with his voice trembling.

"First, go to that convenience store and tell people not to provoke that guy unnecessarily. If you're going to smoke, go somewhere else."

"Captain, that doesn't mean you can just leave that bastard alone-"

"Who says he lets it happen? He soaks that bastard no matter what."

"Why not ask your brothers for support?"

"If we send out an SOS to our older brothers during these fucking kids' fights, how much of an asshole will they look at us!? We're just watching the situation from afar. Just wait until we find a way."

When I first said to Yu-ri Lee, 'It would be nice if we could have lunch together,' she reluctantly said that she would eat together.

That was already more than a week ago.

If I had hung out with a guy I didn't like, Lee Yu-ri would first have said, 'If only I had done this much, right? It's almost like saying, 'I won't eat with you anymore.'

"… What are you looking at?"

Even today, Friday, the second week in a row, Yuri Lee was still eating across from me.

Yu-ri Lee, feeling me looking at her, stopped eating.

"No, I'm just curious. I thought you wouldn't come near me because you didn't want to look at me, but surprisingly, you still want to eat lunch with me."

"Ugh…! I'm… Watching over you! Because if I leave you alone, you never know where you'll end up during lunchtime!"

"Oh, that's right."

I leisurely laughed and ate with Yu-ri Lee.

Lee Yu-ri, who was glaring at me as if she didn't like my leisure, changed the subject.

"Hey, I don't have any student council work today."

"Really? Congratulations."

"No, that's not it…"

"Hmm? What is it? If you have something to say, say it."

I knew what Lee Yu-ri wanted to say, but I deliberately made fun of her by making her laugh.

Because I still needed to tame her a little more.

"Today, today, like home… Miss, it's annoying! Why do I have to say I'm sorry to you?"

Yuri Lee lost her temper and started complaining due to her embarrassment.

I smiled when I saw Yu-ri Lee like that.

"I understand how our cute student council president wants to go home with me on good terms, but that won't happen today."

"What's wrong with getting along… Well, but we can't do it today…?"

Yuri Lee's expression began to noticeably become glum.

I want to show this look to Gong Young-bae.

"Uh, I have an appointment."

"Oh, really… Really? Huh, hmm! Well, that's good! It's in the same direction as my house, so I was worried that we'd go home together every time and there would be some weird misunderstanding from the kids!"

"Okay, that's perfect. Oh, I have one more great thing for you. Shall I tell you?"

I said that while texting on her cell phone, and Yuri Lee, who didn't know her English, tilted her head.

"It's good for me…?"

"Uh. Hey, Gong Young-bae!"

When I finished texting and called Gong Young-bae, Gong Young-bae, who was eating at the table next to her, turned her head in surprise.

"Me…?"

"Then who else is Gong Young-bae here besides you? Come and tell me about your work."

"Hey, Han Seongjin! Why is Youngbae suddenly calling me?!"

Yuri Lee was startled by my sudden behavior and tried to stop me, but it was already too late.

Gong Young-bae looked as if she had no intention of resisting what I said and approached her, holding her empty tray.

"Sit next to me."

I said, pointing to the seat next to Lee Yu-ri.

Lee Yu-ri was glaring at me with burning eyes.

It's crazy?! What are you doing when you know that I fought with Youngbae?!

… He was saying with his eyes.

Of course, she didn't call this guy just because I wanted Yu-ri Lee and Gong Young-bae to reconcile and go back to a relationship that was more than good friends but less than lovers.

When I think about the absurd things Gong Young-bae said to me and the attitude he showed toward Yu-ri Lee, even though I couldn't see it with my own eyes…

"I was wondering if it would be a good idea for the two of you to reconcile now."

I said that, like a solemn professor, with my hands clasped in front of me and covering my mouth.

"… Reconciliation?"

"Dude, I heard everything from our student council president. I heard you guys had a fight?"

'… 'Our' student council president?'

Gong Young-bae's eyes twitched for a moment.

"I don't know why we fought, but we've known each other for over 10 years, and we haven't spoken for 2 weeks. What are you doing? Thanks to you, while our chairman was lonely, someone like me stuck around, ate together, and went home together. How annoying must he be right now."

'… Because of loneliness? You went all the way home together…?'

"It's a bit unexpected, but I can't just keep bothering our student council president forever, and don't you two need some time to talk, huh? I'll get rid of the distracters, so we can talk leisurely and make up. I'll see you for a moment. Furthermore, I'm going there because there are people."

…

And soon, Han Seong-jin got up with his cell phone and really left the place.

There was an awkward silence between Lee Yu-ri and Gong Young-bae because they didn't say a word for two weeks and didn't go to school together.

'No, why is Han Seong-jin suddenly acting like this? It's so awkward I'm dying…'

It was Gong Young-bae, with whom we always talked about various things and often studied together, but perhaps because she had cut off communication for the past two weeks, the atmosphere was quite strange.

But Lee Yu-ri decided to put aside the fight with pride after it came to this.

'Yes, when I think about it, Youngbae did say some unnecessary things back then, but from Youngbae's point of view, I may have been a bit sensitive. I don't know why, but Han Seong-jin created this situation… Let's reconcile.'

Lee Yu-ri took a deep breath and turned her head to Gong Young-bae.

"Youngbae, do you have anything to say to me? I have something to say."

"Oh, yes. I have one too."

"Yes, that's right. It might be awkward for both of us if we speak up first… How about we talk together on the count of three?"

"Okay."

"Then I'll count. Three, two, one…"

After counting the numbers, Yu-ri Lee opened her mouth at the same time as Gong Yeong-bae.

"I'm sorry for being so angry last time."

"Yuri, aren't you really embarrassed?"

And an eerie silence that could not be compared to before hovered between the two.

"… What?"

Sooyeon Choi received a message from Seongjin Han during lunch break.

[Senior Seongjin: Since we are going on a date course field trip today, would you please come to the third-year cafeteria for a moment? It's the 5th floor.

[Me : yes? What are you doing?

[Senior Seongjin: You have to decide in advance where to go and set the time, right? It would take a long time to do it via text message, so let's just say it directly.

[Me: It's a bit awkward for me to go to the 3rd grade cafeteria…

[Senior Seongjin: Wouldn't it be better than me going down to the second-year cafeteria and showing my face? If they see me, the 2nd grade kids will eat well

"Now that I think about it, that's true."

When Han Seong-jin, who was not known to anyone in Jinsoo School, came down to the second-year cafeteria, many students could pretend to eat.

Choi Soo-yeon, persuaded by Han Seong-jin's perfect logic, went up to the third-year student cafeteria, and while receiving countless gazes from third-year students, she encountered Han Seong-jin near the cafeteria entrance.

"Sir, I'm here."

"Uh. I can't take up your precious lunchtime for a long time, so let's decide where to go first. I don't know much about the places you mentioned. Where would you like the atmosphere in early spring like this?"

"It's not the cherry blossom season yet, so there aren't many places that are visually good. If you like an antique atmosphere, Seochon Village would be good, but if you're more of a glass guy, the art museum or COEX library would be good, right? And…"

Soo-yeon Choi called out some good places she knew, and Seong-jin Han wrote them down on her cell phone.

After a few minutes, Han Seong-jin gave her thumbs up and grinned.

"As expected, you are our elite part-time junior. Thank you. This helped me a lot… A lot…"

Then, as he saw something, he suddenly turned his head inside the restaurant and blurted out his words.

Choi Su-yeon looked at the direction where Han Seong-jin's eyes were looking because she wanted to know something, and had the same reaction.

There, her favorite senior, Gong Young-bae, and her student president, Lee Yu-ri, were having a very passionate conversation.

Ch. 16 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 16
Chapter 16 – Dating Course Examples and Practices (3)

What Han Seong-jin's gaze was focused on were Yu-ri Lee and Young-bae Gong, who were talking very passionately.

The moment she saw that, Choi Su-yeon's heart sank.

Because of the distance, I had no idea what the two were talking about, but it was clear that they were having a conversation.

And very actively.

Choi Su-yeon clenched her fists and trembled, threatening to bleed her palms.

'When I sent a message like that, the response was very dry… What, are you talking so hard to Yuri Lee? This is really… Too much…'

How hard did you try to win Gong Young-bae's heart?

As long as she was with Gong Young-bae, she took off her mask as the Iljin girl Choi Soo-yeon and showed her true self.

He tried hard to get over Gong Young-bae in order to overcome the gap between him and Lee Yu-ri, who were childhood friends of more than 10 years.

She also worked out really hard for fear of being compared to Jeong Eun-ji in terms of her body.

In order to find things that Gong Young-bae would like, she looked into a lot of dating courses, and there was no information that she didn't look for, including cafés, alleys, and restaurants with good atmosphere.

Nevertheless, after receiving Gong Young-bae's reply, she had no way of knowing what he thought of her.

Still, she appeals her presence like this, and at one time she thought that Gong Young-bae would look after her, and she actually went to a café with him a few times.

However, she did not appear as active as Gong Young-bae talking to Lee Yu-ri.

She just feels like she's continuing a minimal relationship.

Although I was heartbroken and saddened by her attitude, I tried to think that one day I would be able to push away Yu-ri Lee and Eun-ji Jeong and take Gong Young-bae's side…

'In the end, this is your heart?'

She thought she had an opportunity because she hadn't seen Gong Yeong-bae hanging around with Lee Yu-ri for the past few weeks.

Did she feel pressured because she sent messages too often?
Or maybe I just didn't like Gong Young-bae?

From the beginning, did Gong Young-bae not care about any other women besides Lee Yu-ri?

'No matter how hard I struggled… In the end, only Lee Yu-ri was important…?'

Choi Su-yeon bit her lip and looked away, barely holding back from wanting to cry.

Then she saw Han Seong-jin with a gloomy expression right next to her.

'Ah… Now that I think about it…'

There was a strong feeling that Han Seong-jin liked Yu-ri Lee.

So, is Han Seong-jin feeling the same way as he is right now? As a loser?

"Let's go somewhere else first."

"… Yes."

Seeing Han Seong-jin speaking with a dark expression, Choi Soo-yeon felt sympathy for her illness.

The two headed to the rooftop together, where no one came, locked the door, and sat down on the floor without saying anything first, leaning their backs against the wall.

Su-yeon Choi pretended that nothing was wrong and first offered her words of comfort.

"It's too bad, Seongjin. It seems like Yuri has more feelings for Youngbae, not for Seongjin."

"That's right. I decided to quit smoking and shake off my daily activities in order to somehow make myself look good. Was I making a useless effort?"

Han Seong-jin's words, sighing lightly, seemed to apply to Choi Soo-yeon as well.

She answered by pulling Choi Soo-yeon's knees to her chest and burying her face in her knees.

"It's useless… No. I only know what my senior was like before through hearsay… But I still think she's much better now than what I heard in the rumors."

"Haha, thank you for the comfort."

"It is also the junior's responsibility to comfort a heartbroken senior."

"I heard that you are one of the 2nd graders in our department, and you are much kinder than I thought. That idiot, Gong Young-bae, should have known this about you."

"That's what I'm saying! I've tried so hard to become a woman who doesn't lack anything… Huh?"

Choi Su-yeon, who was excitedly talking about her understanding of his situation, felt something strange about her and stopped.

"Seo, Senior Seongjin…? What do you mean? Why does the story about Senior Youngbae come up here?"

"Why are you coming out? You like Gong Young-bae."

"!"

"Look at my face. Whenever I'm bored at my part-time job, he pretends not to be and subtly brings up the topic of Gong Young-bae and asks me various questions. Did you think I'm not an idiot and wouldn't know that?"

Sooyeon Choi was so embarrassed that she suddenly woke up, and her pupils felt an earthquake and even her voice began to tremble.

"Oh, no, how can I do that… No, that's not it! I really didn't show it…"

"It seemed like I was trying my best, but I'm so cynical. Even if I fool everyone else, I can't fool myself."

"Uh… Ah… Ah…"

Choi Su-yeon, who was looking for an excuse with her mouth open, soon gave up and sat down on the pavement, leaning her back against the rooftop door.

"Ha… I've never heard that you're quick-witted… That's right. I had Yeongbae-senior in mind. But when I saw Youngbae-senpai and Yuri-senpai at the restaurant earlier… The efforts I've made so far didn't seem to be of much interest to Youngbae-senpai. I guess it was something I didn't need to worry about."

"I have to return the exact words you said to me. I don't know exactly what kind of person you are, but Jeong Ji-ah… Uh… I'm sorry for criticizing your friend. I liked you a lot better than Jeong Ji-ah."

"It's rude to say something like that to a broken woman."

"Is it okay to do this to a broken man?"

The two made eye contact for a moment.

There was an indescribable atmosphere, and then Han Seong-jin burst into laughter first.

"Puh-ha-ha!"

"Why are you smiling?"

"It's funny what we're like. The woman who liked each other and the man who liked each other were just seeing each other on their own, but we, who didn't even know that, were on the rooftop, comforting each other's wounds."

"That's right. We looked funny, and Seongjin was really unexpected."

"Why me?"

"It's just… She said she heard a lot of rumors. She heard that Seongjin senior says that if there's a girl he likes, he doesn't care if she has a lover or not. But looking at her now, she seems surprisingly pure."

"Well, the rumor wasn't completely wrong."

"Wow… Trash…"

Choi Soo-yeon, whose psychological distance from Han Seong-jin had become quite close, criticized Han Seong-jin to her heart's content.

She didn't know that just a month ago, it would have been unthinkable for her to hear someone say those words to Han Seong-jin.

"I told you. I don't want to live like that anymore. So I guess that's why I came up to the rooftop and was in trouble with you."

"Why am I in such a difficult situation?"

Choi Su-yeon looked up at the blue sky and grumbled that she and Han Seong-jin were jealous.

Another moment of silence.

And this time, Han Seong-jin was the first to break the silence.

"Hey, Choi Su-yeon."

"Yes?"

"All the rehearsals for the date course you were planning on finding out were all useless."

"Oh, I guess so. Too bad, senior."

"So this is what happened…"

Han Seong-jin began to look directly into Choi Su-yeon's eyes, and Choi Su-yeon also looked into his black eyes.

"Would you like to skip afternoon class to let off steam between the people who got cheated on?"

5th period after lunch.

The subject teacher who entered the class with the third grade class found two empty seats and tilted his head.

"What are those two empty seats? Is there anyone there?"

"The front row here is Yuri Lee's seat. She left early during lunch because she wasn't feeling well."

"The window seat at the back is Han Seongjin… I don't know where he is."

"What? No, then it's just a ding-dang? Oh, my… Okay, let's start class."

Surprisingly, Suyeon Choi quickly accepted my offer.

I became emotional because I saw with my own eyes that the man I liked was only paying attention to another woman.

Choi Soo-yeon and I, who had skipped afternoon classes, headed to Jinsu Station, a subway station near Jinsugyo Bridge, instead of the originally planned, famous date spot that requires a short subway ride.

Around Jinsu Station, there were many places to play, such as PC rooms, escape room cafés, PlayStation rooms and DVD rooms, and there were arcades that are hard to find these days, and the streets were lined with street vendors selling all kinds of food, desert cafés and snack bars.

Me, nominally suffering from the pain of a broken heart… Choi Soo-yeon, suffering from the real pain of a broken heart, walked down the streets of Jinsu Station together and shopped around in various stores.

"Wow! Senpai, are you really doing this to a weak and helpless girl like this and not caring about her?!"

"She said she was good at air hockey and told me to go at it with all my might…?"

Play air hockey in the arcade,

"Wow, the fish are gorgeous. Why is this my first time coming to a place like this?"

Walk through the underground shopping mall selling ornamental fish,

"It's just been our lunch break. Is that going to happen again?"

"What don't you know? A woman has a separate stomach for food and a stomach for dessert!"

Have snacks at a dessert shop.

We wandered around Jinsu Station doing things that exactly fit the meaning of the word 'dang-daeng'.

There is no set course, no destination or where to go.

I just go wherever my feet take me and stop by wherever I see.

Like typical delinquent students, we wasted all afternoon and only when our academy classes were over did we sit down on a bench on a nearby walking path and lean back.

"In the end, there was no such thing as a planned rehearsal of the dating course that I mentioned in the beginning. It was just a subway station near the academy, and the location was not famous."

"But it was nice to hang out with you like this."

Suyeon Choi's body, which had been stretching at my words, momentarily stopped.

Then she smiled and nudged me with her elbow.

"What is it? Are you trying to seduce a woman who was also broken-hearted just because she was broken-hearted? Isn't she recovering too quickly?"

"Did it sound like that? I just wanted to do something, but I wondered if you felt the same way as me."

"Um, senior, do you use mind reading?"

"If that were the case, I wouldn't have gone through something like today, right? I want it, mind reading."

"Phew, that's true."

"Anyway, thank you for going along with my insistence that we hang out together."

Choi Soo-yeon, and I's gaze crossed in the air once again.

Sooyeon Choi turned heads as she trimmed her signature side ponytail.

"What is it? It tickles. And it says 'it suits me'… Well, it's not like that at all."

"Oh, really? We hung out voluntarily? So are we that much closer now?"

Su-yeon Choi looked at me again at my joke and laughed.

"Sir, it's strange as expected."

Ch. 17 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 17
Chapter 17 – A Good Weekend With Yuri Lee

Sooyeon Choi and I only broke up after buying a cup of coffee each at a café.

"Then be careful going in, and I'll see you again on Monday. Today was good."

"Senior, please go in carefully. And… Yes, I felt fresh and not bad today either."

Choi Su-yeon grinned and turned her body to slowly disappear.

Choi Soo-yeon is always smiling, so you can't really tell what she's thinking. Anyway, on the outside, she's just one of the group of second-year students.

Because she belongs to the Iljin group, she has such a sense of entitlement that Gong Young-bae wonders if he is secretly reluctant to accept her.

I gave Soo-yeon Choi a little stimulation, and after pricking her weak point, Soo-yeon Choi became much more emotional than usual and gave herself up to a daily date with me.

She probably still likes Gong Young-bae deep inside, but it seemed like she was hurting her heart, so her taste wasn't very good.

But…

– That's because if I date someone, the other two might leave me…

Her shocking words from Gong Young-bae were still lingering in my head.

Even if I didn't break Choi Soo-yeon's heart today, Choi Soo-yeon is destined to continue to suffer inside because of Gong Young-bae's selfish and mean intentions.

'I'm sorry for giving you a hard time today, Suyeon. But I don't want to see her having a hard time looking at that bastard again. I will have you. And this time, I will repay your heart to the fullest.'

After breaking up with Sooyeon Choi, I carried her bag and turned on her cell phone.

Then, I clicked on her profile as I saw it on the group chat and sent her a 1:1 message.

– Hey, I'm Seongjin Han. Let me ask you something.

– Uh? What is it…?

– Is the president still at the academy?

And when I saw the reply that came back right away, my eyes widened.

– If you're talking about Yuri, she left school early because she was sick during lunchtime.

'What does this mean again?'

Considering Gong Young-bae's trashy mind and attitude of taking women's affection for granted, if he is told to reconcile with Lee Yu-ri, the conflict will only increase rather than reconciliation.

Anticipating that from the beginning, I even prepared a place for Yu-ri Lee and Gong Yeong-bae to leave alone, and showed Soo-yeon Choi the two of them talking, making room for me in her heart.

It seems like everything went well…

'What did he do to leave school early?'

I only expected that the conflict between the two would intensify, but I had no idea that Yu-ri Lee, the idiot, would completely abandon her afternoon classes and send her to school early.

I wanted to find out what happened by questioning Gong Young-bae, but…

"We should take care of our cute Yuri Mental Yuri first."

I sent a short message to Yuri Lee.

[Me: Hey, I heard it hurts. I was looking forward to making you a meal tomorrow, but if it hurts too much, don't overdo it

The read mark popped up right away, but the reply didn't come until I got home.

It was only when I had changed my clothes, washed up, and even drank water that I sent the message, and almost 40 minutes later, my phone finally rang.

[Lee Yu-ri: I'm sorry, but I don't think I can go tomorrow

[Me: Does it hurt a lot? Can you buy me some medicine?

[Lee Yu-ri: No, it's okay. Just leave it alone for now. My head hurts.

That's the end of the short conversation.

Of course she knew that Yu-ri Lee couldn't be sick, but now she just pretended to believe her when she said she was sick and didn't bother her anymore.

Instead, I have something to prepare separately.

"Ugh, now I really need to save money."

When I checked the last check card usage history text message, my steps toward the pharmacy became heavier.

After Lee Yu-ri finished her brief chat with Han Seong-jin, she put her cell phone down on the pillow by her bed with a weak hand, like she was dying.

She wasn't sick, and she wasn't sleepy.

But it felt like her heart was going to burst at any moment, and even the back of her neck and earlobes felt like they were heating up.

'I arbitrarily made a promise and broke it…'

She felt a little sorry for Han Seong-jin, but she couldn't find the energy to do anything.

"My younger daughter, are you very sick? Would you like mom to make you some oatmeal?"

Her mother's voice was heard from outside her room.

"No, mom… It's okay. Just let me get some rest."

After covering her with her appropriate words, Lee Yu-ri covered her head with her blanket.

When I think about what happened at lunch, my heart ached, and I was so angry that tears kept welling up in my eyes.

…

"I'm sorry for being so angry last time."

"Yuri, aren't you really embarrassed?"

"… What?"

Lee Yu-ri, who tried to reconcile with her, was shocked by those words, as if she had been hit on the head with a hammer.

Her Gong Young-bae was still looking at her with a reproachful gaze.

"Did you just hear what that bastard Han Seong-jin said? 'Our' student council president? Since when did that bastard become so close to you? And what? Are you lonely? You said you used to stick together and go home together? Aren't you embarrassed to hang out with a bastard like that?"

"You… Are you doing this to me because of that…?"

"I wonder how much leeway you gave that kid to be like that!"

"You're giving me space? Is that all you're thinking about? We haven't had any trouble since Han Seong-jin's semester, and it's less than what I heard, so we just had a normal conversation! Is that giving you space?"

"What can I do to impress a bastard like that? Haven't you heard the rumor about him?"

"They say it's better than the rumors I heard!"

"He's been kicking others since the first day of the semester!"

"It's a kick that said it would save us!"

As Gong Young-bae and Yu-ri Lee's voices began to get louder, the attention of the surrounding students caught their attention, but the two were just glaring at each other and not paying attention to the surrounding situation.

"Yeah, that's true. But don't you think about what label you'll get if you stick around with that kid? What do I, your childhood friend, think?"

"Ha? A label? What kind of label? If we go together a few times because it looks like the direction of the house, they say I'm suddenly ranked last in the whole school? Or that I can't do my job properly as the student council president? Or that I sold myself out?! And you? Why are you?"

"Don't you think that if you get labeled as weird, kids might ask you weird questions?"

At that moment, Lee Yu-ri remembered what Han Seong-jin said.

– Then, that bastard only sees the side of 'student council president, an honor student who is good at studying', not Lee Yu-ri. Aren't you a bastard who is not interested in the person you are and is more interested in 'the amazing me who hangs out with that kind of Lee Yu-ri' using your image?

At that time, I thought it was just comforting words and tried to ignore it.

However, as I listened to what Gong Young-bae said now, I had no choice but to admit that Han Seong-jin got the point right.

"Really, me. Is that what you were worried about? You, who are going to be in trouble because of me, not because of me being labeled as a weird one? Why, your childhood friend always has to be the student council president and the top student in the whole school, and if you say a few words to the academy's gang, you're the one to be cut off?"

"That's not what you're saying! Why do you only think in such strange ways!? Did you really hear something strange while hanging out with Han Seong-jin?!"

"That damn Han Seongjin, Han Seongjin! He has no influence on me and has nothing to do with what I'm doing now! Why have you been tripping over Han Seongjin since a while ago!

I was trying to make up with you! From your point of view, I just said I was sorry because I seemed to have been too sensitive last time! But what about you? You didn't do anything wrong to me? So you're not embarrassed by your first words? Is that what you're saying?!"

"What are you doing to have a bastard like that next to you! Is this normal now? This guy is talking to you like 'our president' and you're not saying anything!"

"No matter how Han Seong-jin behaves towards me, I make judgments about my personal relationships! It wasn't at the level of conversation between students in the same class, so I just left it alone, and if he crossed the line, I would have cut him off! Why are you so meddlesome in managing my personal relationships? !"

"You've taken good care of me, so now Han Seong-jin is acting like you're this close to me? No, maybe, seeing as that bastard has been eyeing you since the beginning of the semester, you've been secretly flirting with me without me knowing-"

Wow!

Gong Young-bae's face suddenly turned to the side.

Yuri Lee's red hand was shaking.

Tears flowed down Yu-ri Lee's trembling cheeks.

"… Fuck you."

A harsh six-headed character came out from the mouth of Lee Yu-ri, who usually doesn't swear at all.

"I have been looking at you the wrong person all this time. If I had known how poorly you were looking at me, I would have broken off my relationship with you first."

"What?"

"Do you know what I regret the most right now? It's not getting involved with Han Seong-jin or fighting with you like this. It's just you."

"Yuri, I know what you're talking about-"

"Don't call me by my name as if I'm friendly. I'm disgusted by that bitch who gives Iljin her honey and flirts with her. How can you put my name in that arrogant mouth?"

Yuri Lee stood up from her seat while continuing to shed tears.

"More than being twisted by Han Seong-jin, I'm more disgusted by the fact that I was childhood friends with a guy like you. Don't ever talk to me again."

Early before noon on Saturday.

Yuri woke up early in the morning, but she was still lying on her bed, half-conscious, staring at the ceiling.

Woooooung- Woooooung-

However, her cell phone did not leave her idle.

'Who is it, at this time…'

Yuri Lee woke up in surprise when she saw her name on her phone.

"Han Seong-jin…? Why is he… Hello?"

– Hey, you're home, right?

"Yes. But why did you suddenly call me-"

– I'm on the bench in front of your apartment. Can you come down for a moment? I have something to give you.

"What? What do you mean? What can I give you for coming to my house on the weekend morning?"

– It's no big deal. If you're concerned about not wearing makeup, it's okay to wear a hat and a mask. It won't take long. Yes or no?

"Oh, no, that's okay, but what is this…"

– Then get ready and come down. I'm on the bench.

And the call was disconnected.

"?"

Not knowing why, Yuri Lee hurried to the bathroom, washed her face, brushed her teeth, briefly trimmed her hair, and went down to the first floor wearing a jersey and slippers.

A large blond man was seen sitting on a bench near the entrance to the apartment, and Yuri Lee approached him with an embarrassed expression.

Han Seong-jin, who discovered Lee Yu-ri, stood up, waved his hand and greeted her loudly.

"Oh, are you here?"

"No… What have you been doing since Saturday morning? What are you giving me?"

"It's nothing special, just this."

The bag handed out by Han Seong-jin contained fever reducers and a bowl of oatmeal bought from a oatmeal store.

"This is…"

"I heard from the kids yesterday that you left school early because you were sick. So I brought you some. This oatmeal is delicious."

"…"

"I didn't know if I had a cold or what, so I just bought it as a fever reducer. Of course, I have medicine like this at home, but it worked well when I was sick."

"…"

"I was curious about the meal you made, but I'll ask you to do it later. You promised me first, so I can't forgo this. Take care of yourself."

"Black…"

Something hot rose up in Yuri Lee's throat.

Just the day before, the bag of antipyretics and a bowl of oatmeal seemed to fill the hole in her heart that had been left gaping after she saw the depths of her childhood friend and the man she deeply liked and announced that she was breaking off relations.

She eventually couldn't hold it back and bent her knees and squatted on the floor, tears streaming down her face.

And then she started crying bitterly.

"Ugh… Ugh! Ugh!"

Ch. 18 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 18
Chapter 18 – A Good Weekend With Yuri Lee (2)

It took less than 5 minutes for Yu-ri Lee, who started crying so desperately, to calm down.

We sat side by side on the bench in front of the apartment where I had been sitting just a moment ago, and Yu-ri sniffled, rubbing her eyes, which were red and swollen from crying.

"Sniff…"

"Did everyone cry?"

"Sniff… Sigh… Phuhu, I'm embarrassed… What kind of shame is this…"

Yuri tried to smile and pretend she didn't care, but her voice was still quiet, and her shoulders were shaking.

"If I ask what's going on, will you tell me?"

"Haa… What are you hiding when you look like this? You left Gong Young-bae with me at lunchtime yesterday, right?"

The title that Lee Yu-ri calls her Gong Yeong-bae has changed.

She had always been called 'Youngbae' in a friendly manner, but now it had become a more formal title, 'Gong Yeongbae'.

"That's right."

"What happened after you left…"

And Yuri Lee told me what happened yesterday.

In the middle of it, she recalled the verbal abuse that Gong Young-bae had made to her, and her emotions overtook her again and she even shed tears.

And I didn't do anything and just waited for her, and only after she calmed down a little did I tell her the whole story.

"… That's why I did it."

"I guess it was a lie to say it hurt."

"… Yes. I'm sorry I even bought you medicine and oatmeal."

"It's okay. How much can I do?"

In fact, it was more than 10% of all my assets, so I felt like I was being cut off.

"Should I beat that bastard as soon as I see him on Monday?"

"Don't do it. You're really trying to bring me down."

Yuri Lee was staring blankly in front of her with her dead eyes.

She expected that the conflict between the two would grow, but she had no idea that Yuri would be hurt to this extent.

Where on earth does that bastard Gong Young-bae reach?

When I only watched the original Love in School, I thought it was just a typical romantic comedy where the heroines were victims of being abused by the tactless male lead and Han Seong-jin, but I never thought I would fall even further after learning the truth about this.

They say there is a floor at the bottom, so maybe Gong Yeong-bae was the motif?

"Thank you for listening to my complaint. I'll go in now."

"Wait a minute."

I caught Yu-ri Lee as she tried to get up.

"Aren't you even angry?"

"Huh?"

"Well, I guess it's natural for someone to treat me like that because I've done something. But what about you? You're tied to me and treated like that, and you're not angry?"

"It's okay… I decided to finish it now, but what's the point of getting even more angry now? It's already hard enough."

"Isn't that the problem?"

"What do you mean?"

Lee Yu-ri twitched her dry, tear-stained eyes.

Even though she didn't have any makeup on and even after crying, she was so pretty.

"Why should you have a hard time? Is it a crime that you and I go in the same direction to the house? Or did you volunteer to help me clean up after the classroom? Isn't that what the teacher told you to do?

When did you ever catch up with me because you liked me? "I've never taunted you, so why do you have to be treated like that?"

"…"

"Why do you have to be hurt and have a hard time when a bastard who was your childhood friend criticizes you like that? Don't you think it's unfair?"

"Yes, but…"

"It's okay to get beat up a few times, but don't you want to at least give a shit to that bastard who treats you like that?"

"I'm not sure what I want to say."

"Instead of being so hard, let's show how happy we are as if we don't care about what that bastard said. Let's also show that everything that bastard said was wrong."

"How?"

"How do you do it? How do you do it? Our president is ranked first in the entire school, but I don't know why he has no more brains than me, who is a total idiot when it comes to this."

"Ugh…!"

Yuri's face turned red, and I continued to attack her before she could say anything more.

"You're not sick, right? Then take this up first and come back out by 12:30. Let's go on a date."

"What?!"

"Dating is a joke, and when you're in a bad mood, what's the point of staying in a corner of the house and losing your mind? You should do something else and forget about it. I'll be waiting for you, so come out when you're ready."

"No, wait a minute! Forcing it like this-"

"Come on, hurry up and go in. I won't accept rebuttal from a mentally broken person. If you're going to refute, come back to your senses first and then refute. I'm here."

"Huh? Really?! Oh, I got it! I got it!"

Yu-ri Lee, who was pushed back into the apartment by Han Seong-jin's hand, smiled as she looked at the oatmeal and antipyretic in the oatmeal bag in her hand.

Just a moment ago, I was lying in bed, half-conscious about what happened yesterday, and staring blankly at the ceiling.

Why is my mind so calm now?

By crying out loud? Or is it because this is your first time receiving such sincere consolation? Either that or…

'Gasp!'

Or is it because I saw Han Seong-jin's face? The moment this thought passed through her head, Yu-ri Lee blushed and shook her head vigorously.

'My, what am I thinking? That can't be possible!'

Lee Yu-ri, who returned home shaking her head, placed the bag containing the fever reducer and oatmeal on the table, then quickly ran into the bathroom and took off her clothes.

After taking a quick shower, she stayed in front of the bathroom mirror for a while, applied her own lotion, raised her eyelashes, and took out her sister's cosmetics and perfume from her shelf.

"What, where have you been? Yesterday, I looked like a corpse all day, but suddenly I felt energetic… Huh?!"

Her older sister, Lee Yu-min, suddenly walked up to her younger sister doing her makeup, and when she found her cosmetics and perfume, she screamed.

"Hey, bitch! This is mine! Who wants to use it as they please!"

"Oh, you always steal my snacks and ice cream! Try to be quiet!"

"Look at how shameless this bitch is?! What's so bold about stealing other people's money?!"

"It's so noisy, please touch my hair. I don't have time. I have to leave by 12:30."

"What, is it a date? Is that the bitch who was in trouble yesterday? Who are you on a date with? That kid named Gong Young-bae?"

At that moment, Yuri Lee turned her head with a look that seemed like it was going to kill her.

Lee Yu-min was startled by the look in his younger brother's eyes and withdrew his hand from touching his head.

"Look at your eyes. Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's not him. And don't talk about that kid."

'Hmm? Did you fight? Are you going on a date with another guy to vent your anger after the fight? Puhup, you're cute, my little brother.'

Lee Yu-min nodded his head in understanding and brushed his younger brother's hair as he diligently applied makeup to his face.

Lee Yu-ri, who was putting on makeup, was muttering to herself without stopping.

'Never! I'm definitely not preparing like this because I'm happy! They even brought me oatmeal on the weekend morning when I was sick, so I'm just showing my sincerity, yes!'

Just before 12:30, Yuri Lee came back out to the bench in front of the apartment where I was waiting.

Wearing a white blouse with a black ribbon and a long black skirt, carrying a not-so-big black bag on one shoulder.

It was a simple black and white outfit, but the hangers were so great that I felt like I was looking at a celebrity.

Yuri Lee's explosive body seemed to burst through the black ribbon blouse, and the sexy body contrasted with the elegant attire, attracting even more attention.

She had applied BB cream and foundation to her face, and looking at the sparkle under her eyes, it seemed like she had done a lot more than that.

She usually didn't wear any makeup and looked like that even when she went out, but she even put on makeup, so it's not a waste to say that she has a beautiful appearance.

'Mr. Ha, I'm going crazy.'

I planned to exercise a lot of self-control and slowly take my time to make Yu-ri Lee, Soo-yeon Choi, and Eun-ji Jeong, who hadn't even started work yet, into my women.

But now, when she saw Yu-ri Lee in front of her, she thought that she would be willing to lose everything if only she could put away all her work and everything and knead those huge breasts with both hands and kiss them, and do even more than that.

Are you saying that this is why a man ruins his life?

"Um… Am I strange? This is the first time I've come out like this…"

'Be patient, be patient! Don't be defeated by your instincts! The East Sea and Baekdu Mountain…'

If you don't hold back now and try your hand at it, everything will be in vain.

I exercised superhuman patience, controlled my stiff, surging desire, and barely answered. Instead, with full sincerity.

"Hey… You're really fucking pretty. Don't come to the academy like that. All the boys will be mesmerized."

"Hey, you're talking strange! But… So, you're saying we look good together?"

"Uh. It's so bad."

"Hehe…"

Yuri Lee smiled softly at my praise.

"So, where are we going?"

"Well… To do something you haven't been able to do before?"

"What is that?"

"Actually, do you know everything except studying?"

In the original work, there was no description of Yuri Lee doing anything other than studying or working for the student council.

At most, I just watch dramas or webtoons occasionally.

In that case, we should allow Lee Yu-ri to freely experience things that she might not have been able to do before.

"As you can see, I have a lot of experience in playing."

"It doesn't sound very good."

"So today, just trust me and follow me."

Normally, when saying a line like this, the national rule is to hold the woman's hand and lead her away, but I didn't do that.

Because Yuri Lee's wariness toward me still remains.

Instead, I was right next to her, slightly but definitely closer than usual.

Even though I was next to her, almost like a lover, Yuri glanced up at me and didn't say anything, and I walked along at her pace.

Ch. 19 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 19
Chapter 19 – A Good Weekend With Yuri Lee (3)

Yuri Lee and I were looking at each other, sweating beads.

"Huh… Haha…"

"Whoa… How are you?"

"Let's do it one more time, okay?"

"Again? You said it was your first time, and you're already hooked? Was it that good?"

"Yes. Quickly, quickly…"

Yuri Lee begged with her eyes, and I complied with her request.

I took out a 500 won coin from my pocket and inserted it into the machine in front of me.

When we put in the 500 won coins we exchanged for the money we brought, cheerful music started playing from the device, and I stepped on the right footrest and started selecting a song.

"Which one do you want?"

"Exciting!"

Although Yuri was sweating profusely, she answered immediately with a very excited expression.

For Lee Yu-ri, who had never had any other hobbies other than occasionally watching webtoons or dramas, things like DDR, an arcade that has long been out of fashion, were a great stimulus.

As arrows divided into up, down, left, and right continued to fall on the game screen, Lee Yuri and I began dancing on the DDR device.

"Huh?! This, profit… Now, wait a minute, why is this so fast… Argh! I'm dead again!"

However, her body, Yuri Lee, could not withstand the barrage of arrows and died quickly, and since I did not play DDR often, she did not last long and died.

"Mr. Ha, this is difficult."

"Let's play one more round, okay?"

Yuri begged, raising one of her index fingers, but this time she refused her request outright.

"Hey, it's already the 5th game. It's hard for me too. Let's not just do this and do something else. We have a lot of time today anyway, right?"

"Hmph…"

At the arcade, we spent time playing coin karaoke and DDR, and Yuri Lee quickly became hooked.

Perhaps because she had just opened her eyes to the new stimulation, Yu-ri Lee did not act cold like usual, but instead pouted her mouth and made a whining sound like a child.

I placed my finger on Yuri's lips, which were poking out while laughing.

Originally, if I did something like this, Lee Yu-ri would have looked at me like a bug, but she had a strong feeling that it would be okay now.

"Look at that lip sticking out. Are you a kid? There are plenty of other things to do, so this is the end of the arcade."

Yuri Lee's lips were moist and slightly sticky because of the lip balm.

Yuri saw her finger touching her lips, and she lifted her eyebrows slightly and took her finger away.

"So, where are you going next?"

She looked like she was asking 'what are you doing?' But she wasn't upset at all that I had put my finger on her lips.

It means that the boundaries in Yu-ri Lee's mind have already become much lighter.

I smiled to myself and answered Yuri's question.

"Have you ever been to an escape room café?"

"I just know the name, but I don't know what Denji does…"

"I've lost half my life. Of all the places I'll go today, this is probably the most intense."

"…?"

I searched through her memories and searched for an escape room café that would give Yuri Lee her most intense first experience.

It didn't take long to make a decision, and I immediately took Yuri Lee to an escape room café near Jinsu Station with a sign saying 'Amazing'.

"Welcome! It's amazing! Are you two? What would you like as the theme?"

"Do you want to choose a theme?"

I gave up the choice of theme to Lee Yu-ri.

"Theme? What theme?"

"Should I say the atmosphere of the room we're going into…? You'll know when you choose and go in."

"Uhm…"

Lee Yu-ri was troubled as she looked at the catalog given by the clerk.

This café is unusual in that it only shows the name of the theme in the catalog, but does not tell us at all what type it is.

And what Yuri Lee chose…

"Ah! I found it!"

Yuri Lee pointed to a part of the catalog.

『Dogs, Cats and Mystery Pension』

"Isn't the name cute? I'll go with this!"

Perhaps Yuri Lee just saw the name and imagined something like a cat café.

We pooled our money, paid the bill, and headed to our room with the guidance of the clerk.

A small enclosed space of no more than a few pyeong.

The surroundings were dark, and only white light illuminated this dark room.

A few seconds after hearing the clerk lock the door, a dark and deep male voice was heard filling the room.

– On a snowy Christmas Eve five years ago, a man who brought several of his pet dogs and cats stayed in this very room.

Yu-ri Lee was startled by that voice, but soon looked around the dark room with expectant eyes.

However, the next moment, a male voice was heard, completely changing the atmosphere.

– At midnight on Christmas, the man killed all of his beloved dogs and cats with his own hands.

"What… Say…?"

Yu-ri Lee was greatly embarrassed by the gruesome contents and froze in place.

At the same time, the white light that illuminated the room changed to an ominous red color.

"Surprise! What is this?!"

– The dogs and cats cried out for help, but the owner killed them all one by one.

– Wow

At the same time, a very ominous and creepy cat cry echoed in the room.

"Mom!"

Yuri Lee became panicked and clung to me and screamed.

– But when the police arrived, all that was left in the room was a horrible blood stain, and they couldn't find the dog, the cat, or even the man. In order to escape this room, you must find out where they disappeared to.

– Wow

– Awww

Hehe!"

The theme chosen by Lee Yu-ri: 『Dogs, Cats, and Mystery Pension』, Despite the cute-looking name, it was a fairly high-quality horror thriller theme.

"Thank you for using us!"

After an hour, we left the escape room café while being greeted by the clerk.

Somehow, I succeeded in solving all the puzzles in exactly one hour, but…

"Huhhhhh… Hibb…"

"Hey, stop crying. It's over."

When the horror atmosphere of the escape room café reached its peak, Lee Yu-ri, who was half out of her mind, became a gumball completely stuck to my arm by the end.

When everything was over and the door was opened, he ran out, whining like a child, and has been like this ever since.

"W-I thought I was going to die because I was scared! What is that? They said they were dogs and cats! I thought it was a dog café or something!"

"But you chose the theme yourself, right?"

"Uh-huh… You have to tell me, you bastard! I really thought I was having a heart attack!"

"No, I didn't know either. Is there anyone who memorizes the theme of an escape room café?"

"Hi… You bad guy… You tricked me…"

Only after receiving the afternoon sunlight did Yuri finally calm down, and all the while, she didn't stop whining about how she had lied to me and called me a bad person.

The last time he tried to ostracize me and ended up in an alley that was a gangster's hangout, and the way he chose the escape room café theme today, doesn't he have the temperament of an asshole?

I took her to her nearby convenience store and comforted her by buying her a chocolate.

Even though Yuri kept complaining to me, she just ate the chocolate I gave her.

Yuri Lee was so surprised that she even began to hiccup, and while she was sitting on a bench in the main street for a while, she just chewed chocolate in silence.

"Mumble… Hiccup."

"Have you calmed down now?"

"No."

Seeing Yu-ri Lee still with a pouty expression, I lifted her hand and wiped the tear stains from her eyes with my collar.

"Kya?!"

Although Yuri was shocked, she didn't throw away my hand, and thanks to that, I was able to erase her tear stains while feeling the texture of her cheeks.

"My makeup will be ruined. I came out looking pretty to show off, but it's a waste."

"Who, who said you put makeup on to show off?! Hiccup!"

"Isn't that right? I heard this is the first time you've come out like this, so I thought you were doing it to show me off."

"Ah… No! I'm really alone in this strange delusion… Hiccup."

"Is that so? I guess I was mistaken because I wasn't in a good mood. Then, when things have calmed down, shall we go to a calmer place this time?"

"Isn't it like an escape room café? If you cheat again, I'll be furious."

"No. Um… How about watching a movie?"

Yuri Lee tilted her head at my suggestion.

"Movies? I don't really want to see anything that's showing right now."

"I'm sorry, but going to the movie theater is difficult because I don't have a lot of money. After paying the entrance fee to the escape room café earlier, I don't have any money now…"

"But how can we watch a movie?"

"A DVD room or something?"

Then Yuri narrowed her eyes and looked me up and down with an expression full of disbelief.

"Even though I've never been there, you think I don't know what the DVD room does?"

"What are you thinking? Really, just watch a movie. I won't do anything weird."

"… Is it true?"

Instead of answering, I put my little finger, and although Yuri looked disapproving, she ended up putting her little finger on my finger.

"If you do something strange, I'll really scream."

"I realize once again that I don't have any trust from you."

"So, it would have been better if I had behaved properly on a regular basis. Sigh… I feel a little uncomfortable… But it will be cheaper than the movie theater. I will choose the movie instead."

"Okay, so this time, don't make a fuss by choosing a strange movie and crying alone?"

"That's not it!"

Yuri crossed her arms and walked ahead, looking upset.

I quickly walked next to Yu-ri Lee and poked her protruding cheek.

"But did you really hate escape room cafés that much? To the point where you never wanted to go again?"

Yuri swatted away my hand that was poking her cheek and quietly took a bite of the last piece of chocolate.

And after swallowing it, Yuri turned her head to the side, avoiding my gaze, and she answered quietly.

"… Next time, go somewhere that isn't scary."

Ch. 20 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 20
Chapter 20 – A Good Weekend With Yuri Lee (4)

When it comes to DVD rooms, they are better known as a place where couples can rent a room and have sex at a cheaper price instead of a motel, rather than their original purpose.

"Let me see this."

"It's 16,000 won."

While Yu-ri Lee chose a movie, and we pooled our money to pay the fee, the DVD room clerk took turns looking at me and Yu-ri with an envious look on her face.

Lee Yu-ri has a face that will make anyone walking down the street turn their head at least once, and her body is truly explosive.

There's no way the DVD room clerk would know, but he's a brilliant student who has always ranked first in the school for three years, and he's also a diligent student council president.

She is truly a true daughter.

Bringing such a woman to the DVD room would seem to the store clerk as a declaration that from now on I would have intense, sticky sex with that perfect woman for two hours, and I couldn't help but be envious.

'Don't be so jealous. I haven't nailed it yet either.'

However, we stopped by to use the DVD room for its original purpose, not for such a distorted purpose.

Honestly, as soon as she enters, she will have a huge urge to take off Yuri's clothes and message and suck those huge breasts like crazy, but I can't throw away the opportunity to make Yuri my woman just because of a momentary impulse.

We bought a decent-sized popcorn and two bottles of cola and went into the designated room.

As we entered the room, where countless couples had stopped by and moaned before we arrived, the air felt subtly warm.

I wonder if I was the only one who thought that, but Lee Yu-ri said, avoiding my gaze and taking a step further away.

"I really promised. Don't do anything weird."

"I said I won't do it. If I do something like that, I'll be a real dog."

When she put in her DVD and pressed the play button, the movie Yuri selected started playing.

"But what kind of spirit is this? This is my first time seeing it too."

"This? I don't know because I haven't seen it either. But I heard it was very popular with girls. I haven't seen it, so I was curious what it was like."

But we didn't know.

The power of Lee Yu-ri's temperament as an idiot.

No, in this case, should I say it was actually golden?

– Ugh… Ugh… How could you do this to me, how! What you loved was not me, but our family property?!

A sobbing woman and a silent man.

And…

-Why are you blaming yourself like such a fool? If you do that, then what will become of me who only looked at you? Wake up! Don't collapse! Don't make a fool of me who has only looked at you my whole life!

The male protagonist comforts a heartbroken woman.

And the subtle feelings that sprout in a woman's heart.

Deepening relationships, growing love.

It was a typical melodrama without a particularly unusual plot, so how did they choose a movie that so well suited my current situation?

If you're a golden person, choose a movie that's golden, and if you're an asshole, choose a movie that's an asshole.

Yu-ri Lee, who was watching the movie, must have felt that, as she kept looking back at me and didn't know what to do.

When a fairly high-level bed scene between the female protagonist and another man appeared, Lee Yu-ri cooled off the rising heat by placing both hands on her cheeks.

However, there was no way to prevent the pornographic moans of the actors in the movie from echoing in a dark space where only the man and woman were alone.

Yu-ri Lee's hands were resting helplessly on the floor, and she was gulping her saliva and staring at her screen.

'Shall we set the mood just a little bit?'

I pretended to look for popcorn in her hand and gently placed my little finger on Yuri's little finger.

"!"

Yuri Lee was startled, and her shoulders shook.

She came out of thin air and caught Yuri's gaze for a moment, but whether it was because of her heated atmosphere in the movie or because she empathized with her situation as the wounded female protagonist, she didn't push me away. Br〉

Even though she was clearly feeling the touch of my little finger, she stayed still without removing her hand, and I didn't even engage in any further skinship.

So we watched the movie with only our little fingers touching.

"Goodbye."

The DVD room clerk greeted us with an expression that made him even more jealous than before.

Baby, nothing happened, so stop being jealous.

Perhaps because of her own connection to the movie scenario, Yu-ri Lee was unable to open her mouth easily and was only following me, and in the end, I was the first to brighten her mood.

"How was the movie?"

"Huh?! Ah, w-a movie? Yes, it was good. It was fun. I guess the spectacle was…"

"A spectacle… Was there such a thing?"

"Oh, wasn't there?! I guess I confused it with another movie! Ah, ahaha…"

I guess I was watching the movie with too much focus on our current relationship.

I punched Yu-ri Lee, who was speaking gibberish.

"I really liked that movie."

"Huh? Is that so? That's surprising."

"Uh. I feel like I'm looking at you and me."

"Hibb."

Yuri Lee started hiccuping again.

"W-what are you talking about…"

"You're smart, but shouldn't I tell you that? Anyway, strangely enough, I thought of us while watching the movie. You are the female protagonist, and I…"

"Now, wait a minute!"

Yuri stretched out her hand and covered my mouth, squeezing her eyes shut and screaming.

Her face was as if it was going to explode, and her hands seemed to be getting hot too, perhaps because of her mood.

"Ba, bar, rice! Aren't you hungry?! I'm starving right now! I haven't eaten anything all day! Why don't you go to the meat buffet? I'll make dinner! My, I'll buy it!"

"Oh, are you buying it for me? I'm grateful."

Seeing her extremely embarrassed reaction, I couldn't wait to hug her.

Lee Yu-ri's heart began to pound as if it would explode at Han Seong-jin's words.

– I feel like I'm looking at you and me.

She is a female protagonist who cried out after seeing the depths of the man she originally loved and being abandoned.

The male protagonist who was only looking at the female protagonist.

The female protagonist slowly opens her heart to the man's comfort, their deepening relationship and burgeoning love.

And on the dirty bed…

'Seo, can't it be that Han Seong-jin is me…?!'

Han Seong-jin was very different from what I had heard.

As if the vicious rumors were lies, there were no accidents in the new semester, and no one was seen hanging out with the group.

And above all, he was friendly to himself for no particular reason.

He was very hostile to Han Seong-jin from the beginning, but he saved him from his thugs twice, comforted him when he was heartbroken, and listened to his stories.

When he heard the news of his early departure, he was worried and called him, and thinking he was sick, he even bought him fever reducers and oatmeal.

When I heard about what happened with Gong Young-bae, I got angry with her and ended up hanging out with her like this today to make her feel better.

Would I be able to do all this if I didn't like it?

As soon as the thought reached that point, Yu-ri Lee's heart began to pound in her head as if it was beating in her head.

'Nonsense, nonsense… Is it true? Oh, I guess not… Why did he bring me here? This guy is from Iljin, and I just studied. There was no contact with each other, right? These people are like living somewhere else entirely.

But there's no way he likes me. Come to your senses, Yuri Lee! You are so self-conscious now! I'm still mentally upset because of what happened yesterday and that's because I haven't fully recovered!'

"Hey, what are you thinking like that?"

"Nothing!"

Lee Yu-ri, who had been trying to deny the possibility creeping up in her head, came to her senses at a single word from Han Seong-jin and shouted.

However, once he became aware of it, he began to worry about the way Han Seong-jin was looking at him.

When I was watching a movie in the DVD room, the feeling of my pinky fingers touching each other came back to life, and it felt like it was tickling my hand.

And then my thoughts reached the bed scene in the movie…

– I feel like I'm looking at you and me.

The female and male protagonists of the movie had a passionate affair.

The fact that Han Seong-jin said those words meant that he and…

Chin

"Mom!"

Lee Yu-ri, who was lost in her thoughts and imagining all sorts of things, failed to see the slightly raised sidewalk block and got tripped.

Just as he completely lost his balance and was about to fall forward, Han Seong-jin quickly stepped forward and caught him with his strong forearm.

The firmness of Han Seong-jin's forearm between her collarbone and chest could be felt even through the clothes.

"Are you okay? Look ahead carefully."

"Ah… Ugh…"

Even before watching the movie, I would have said thank you if this situation had happened, but now I couldn't even say thank you out of her mouth.

For some reason, saying thank you made her feel like she was admitting that she liked Han Seong-jin.

When we arrived at the meat buffet guided by Lee Yu-ri, we had been starving all day, so without worrying about anyone else, we set up the table and immediately picked up the meat we wanted to eat and grilled it.

Yu-ri Lee, who had been acting like a soulless person the whole time she came to the buffet, seemed to come to her senses a little bit when she saw the food.

"Auntie, please give me a bottle like the last time here."

"Huh? What are you doing? Order me a drink?"

"Uh. Why, aren't we in first or second grade anymore? What's the problem with a 20-year-old adult ordering drinks?"

"No, that's it… I've never drank alcohol…"

"Really? Then, try just one drink today. You must have already been in a bad mood because of what happened yesterday, but one drink will relieve your bad mood."

"… Tell me honestly. Since when did you start drinking?"

Yu-ri Lee's eyes narrowed, and her characteristic folding of her arms when admonishing appeared again.

"I won't tell you because I think you'll be so disillusioned with me if I find out."

"… That's understandable."

When the alcohol came out, I poured half a glass of soju into Yu-ri Lee's soju glass, and asked her to pour some into my soju glass as well.

"Now, I hope you have a fun date today and that our Yu-ri Lee's mood improves… For you!"

"It's a real Oba."

Chang!

We clinked our glasses together, and I immediately took a sip, and Yuri carefully put it to her mouth and then took her glass away with a frown.

"Wow! It tastes weird!"

"Tsk, tsk, I guess our president hasn't grown up yet because he doesn't know this taste."

"Ugh, my mouth feels weird. Ugh stew, stew… Ah, I think I'm going to buy it. I don't know why I'm drinking something like this."

…

…

1 hour later.

"No, I hit the tail ~ It's really that … Isn't it a dog?"

Lee Yu-ri, who said she didn't know why she was drinking this, was so drunk from three glasses of soju that she was complaining with her twisted tongue.

This is my first time getting drunk like this at a meat buffet, which is not a bar but has plenty of meals and hot stews.

'I didn't know alcohol was this weak. If possible, you shouldn't let people drink it.'

"Hiscy … A little bitter … Garbage … I don't know two things ~ 10 ~ I was deceived ~

Yu-ri Lee held her glass in her hand and started drinking, and as soon as I saw it, I snatched it from her.

"Hey, are you making a mistake on your own? And stop drinking. You're drunk."

"Oh no? I'm not drunk at all…"

"It's just a regular repertoire for drunk people."

"Hey, Hanseongji people."

Yuri Lee called me in a loud voice.

Her eyes were so blurry that if she was left alone for a moment, her hair would turn into a mess.

"Why?"

"Why are you so nice to me?"

"…"

"I'm a rescuer, I'm on my side, I'm a rescuer, I'm buying you medicine~ I'm buying you oatmeal~ Why are you doing this?"

If it turned out like this anyway, I wouldn't even remember it, so I decided to express just a little bit of the desire I had suppressed all day.

"Because I like you."

Ch. 21 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 21
Chapter 21 – A Good Weekend With Yuri Lee (5)

"Huh!"

The next morning, Yu-ri Lee woke up in surprise, as if something was chasing her.

And as soon as she came to her senses, her head started pounding.

A strange feeling that makes you feel dizzy or like something is inside.

"Huh…"

As soon as she recognized that sensation, something rose inside Yu-ri Lee.

Yuri immediately covered her mouth, ran to her bathroom, and started emptying her stomach.

"Wooweee!"

At the sound of Yu-ri Lee's loud vomiting, her older sister, Yu-min Lee, walked out of her room and clicked her tongue.

"What did that bitch do yesterday to come in smelling like alcohol and throw up?"

"Ugh… Don't talk to me…"

Finally, Yuri rinsed her mouth and walked out of the bathroom.

"Hey, wash your face. She put on her makeup and didn't even wash it. She just fell asleep and now look at her face."

"Miss… What time did I come home yesterday?"

"It was a little before 10 o'clock, I guess?"

Yuri Lee looked at the clock hanging on the wall.

10:30 in the morning.

She had been stretched out for over 12 hours.

"You said you wouldn't even drink alcohol, but you came in really upset? What did you do all day yesterday? Did you really meet a guy?"

"Oh, something like that-"

Lee Yu-ri, who was about to say no, paused for a moment.

And yesterday, a date that wasn't a date with Han Seong-jin passed through her head.

Arcade, escape room café, DVD room, etc.

"… Well, it's something similar."

"Wow, you've been so relaxed since the first day you met a guy, and you ended up drinking alcohol that you didn't even drink before and came home like that? It's a miracle you didn't stay out all night. Is that because of how much you drank?"

"I don't want to hear things like that from a girl who has been spreading her legs since the first day she met a guy. And I really haven't had a few drinks…"

"There's nothing this bitch can't say to her! And she's much more noble and gentle than you think?"

"Ha, does she have an older sister, Ji-sun? I believe what she said was that she got accepted to Seoul National University from Eunbong Public School."

"Mr. Lee…"

The sisters immediately started bickering, and the fight only stopped after Yu-ri Lee finished washing her face.

"So who is the guy? You must be really handsome, seeing as you hung out and drank alcohol? Do you have a picture?"

"It's not like that. And alcohol… Alcohol…"

Lee Yu-ri, who was tracing her memories, suddenly stopped speaking.

How did she end up drinking alcohol that she said she would never drink again?

Firstly out of curiosity, secondly to relieve stress.

She was extremely weak to alcohol and started to get drunk as soon as she drank one drink, and she relieved her stress by swearing at Gong Yeong-bae.

Surprisingly enough, Han Seong-jin listened to her complaints, and she, feeling better, drank her second drink.

Yu-ri Lee, whose mind was going back and forth, expressed all the disappointment she had felt towards Gong Yeong-bae and asked for Han Seong-jin's understanding, and he sympathized with her and comforted her.

With the reins loosened, she drank her third glass and even her tongue curled up and asked Han Seong-jin why he treated her so well.

"Uh… Uh, uh…"

At that time, Yuri Lee was so drunk that she became unimaginably disheveled, but her film did not stop, or she became speechless.

The only thing Han Seong-jin didn't know was that Lee Yu-ri was the type of person who remembered the situation clearly even when she was drunk.

Unfortunately, even though Lee Yu-ri was drunk from only three glasses of soju, she was able to remember what Han Seong-jin had responded at that time, her own words after hearing those words, and her entire process until she returned home.

Lee Yu-ri, who remembered everything…

"Ugh, wow!"

She ran into her room screaming, her face redder than it had ever been in her life.

Lee Yu-min grinned when he saw the back of his younger brother, who was screaming wildly.

"What, you pretended to be a normal person, but didn't you really spread your legs while you were drunk?"

…

…

Yuri Yu-ri pulled the blanket over her head and pulled out his hair.

'Oh, you must be crazy! You must be really crazy! What on earth have I done…'

She remembered everything, so clearly it was damning.

– Because I like you.

– Hmm? Better? You like me?

– Uh.

– Okay, pretty guy. Do you confess? Yesterday… Do you know what happened to me?

– Know. That's why I want to be next to you instead of that bastard. Don't you like it?

– Hehe… Is it cold…? I guess you don't understand?

– Well, I knew that. For now.

– But… Today…

Yuri Lee answered with a bright smile, resting her chin on both hands.

– Today… Take care.

'Aaaaahhh! Crazy bitch! You crazy bitch! If you do this, you're really flirting!'

Yuri Lee kicked the blanket away.

However, much to her chagrin, her smart brain was able to clearly print out the events that followed and play a video in her master's head.

Lee Yu-ri held Han Seong-jin's hand tightly and walked together to her house, humming her song.

And not just holding hands, but clasping hands like lovers would do.

From the moment they left the meat buffet until the moment they arrived at the apartment, the two did not separate their hands for even a moment, and Yuri Lee waved her hands and feet back and forth exaggeratedly like a child.

'It doesn't make sense… What on earth did I do…'

Yu-ri Lee, who remembered everything until the last moment, fell down on the bed trembling and shed tears again.

Although they barely avoided a catastrophe that led to a kiss or something worse, this was already a shock enough for Yu-ri Lee, who had never even held a man's hand.

"Stupid… Stupid, Stupid,Stupid…"

Knock!

It was a chat alarm that woke Lee Yu-ri, who had fallen into an endless abyss of self-destruction, from her thoughts.

Lee Yu-ri, who checked the chat, was startled and jumped out from under the blanket.

[Han Seong-jin: Are you awake? Have you sobered up?

"Uh, what should I do? What should I do?! Now, pretend to sleep… No, I already read the text…"

Since she couldn't read anything since she had already seen it, and it was difficult to say anything, Lee Yu-ri just held her cell phone.

Fortunately, before she could think about what to say, Han Seong-jin spoke to her again.

[Han Seong-jin: If you haven't eaten, come out for a moment and sober up.

[Me: Again? I don't want to go anywhere today

[Han Seong-jin: You're not going somewhere to have fun like yesterday. You were a mess yesterday, so you should take a break.

[Han Seong-jin: There's a good hangover soup restaurant nearby, so we can come out and eat and have a drink.

Yuri Lee took her cell phone and thought about it for a while before finally replying.

[Me: Okay

And then I fell on the bed again and pulled out my hair.

"What should I have known? I did that yesterday and then again a day later! Seriously, why am I doing this!"

Meanwhile, Lee Yu-ri ran to the bathroom and started doing her simple makeup.

After calling Yuri Lee over, I once again confirmed the reality that was left to me after yesterday's weekend date.

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"Fucked."

From arcades to all kinds of arcade machines including DDR, coin karaoke rooms, escape room cafés, and even DVD rooms.

Although it was all Dutch, it wasn't a small amount of money for me, and Yuri said she would buy the meat buffet, but I ended up drinking 3 glasses of soju, so I even bought it all with my own money.

There are three weeks left until the part-time salary comes in, and there is less than 80,000 won left. This is a serious crisis of survival.

Should I buy corn flour or dried seaweed?

If you add the cost of hangover soup to eat later…

More than half of my entire wealth was spent on a single purchase in less than 24 hours.

"Wow… Yuri, I love you so much."

Still, yesterday's date was very good.

Even though there was still a lot of wariness towards me, thanks to Yu-ri Lee becoming an idiot, we were able to go home together, holding hands like a couple.

I grabbed my wallet, which was almost starving, and headed back toward Yu-ri Lee's apartment.

Unlike yesterday, when Yuri looked as stylish as she could, today she came out in a much more casual sweater and jeans, and when I saw her, I waved her hand happily.

"Doesn't your head hurt? I've never seen someone so drunk after drinking three glasses of soju in my life."

"Ugh… Don't talk about that…"

"Do you remember what you did while drunk yesterday?"

"!"

Yuri Lee's pupils shook violently at my question and shook her head.

Well, even though I was that drunk, I didn't seem to be in a state to remember anything.

"It's a shame. It would have been funny if I had remembered. Or at least I should have taken a video."

"Ha, don't do that! I hate feeling like this! Never again! I'll never drink again!"

"Okay, okay, I won't offer alcohol from now on, so don't worry. The hangover soup restaurant isn't that far away. Let's go."

Yuri wiggled her fingers, and then she walked next to me.

The hangover soup restaurant on a Sunday morning was quite crowded, but fortunately we were able to find a table for the two of us.

"Aunt, please give me a bowl of bone hangover soup here!"

"Huh? One bowl? You're not eating?"

"I'm not drunk enough to need a hangover. And…"

I answered with a slightly exaggerated cry.

"I have no money anymore."

At that moment, Yu-ri Lee made a gasping expression.

She was someone who knew roughly what my situation was like.

"That's right, now that I think about it, your personal circumstances… Wait a minute, aren't you overdoing it yesterday? Huh? Come to think of it, yesterday's meat buffet was…"

"I did it."

At those words, Yuri screamed and repeatedly said she was sorry and hit her forehead on the desk.

Only after she calmed down a bit was I able to continue the conversation.

"But it's not serious yet."

"Isn't it serious enough that you can't even buy a bowl of hangover soup? It can't be done. If you go to the academy tomorrow, I will immediately tell you about your personal situation and ask you to discuss it at the tuition support faculty meeting-"

"Hey, I started working part-time a while ago. As long as the salary comes in…"

"When do I get my salary?"

"Three weeks later."

"How much money is left?"

"…"

"Tell me."

Unlike yesterday, when I was fidgeting and avoiding her gaze, her eyes were straight open, and she was glaring at me.

I had no choice but to reveal the truth.

"76,000 won."

"…"

"…"

"Are you really crazy?! How can you survive for three weeks with that? You can't do it, stop spending money on unnecessary things starting tomorrow! I'll even buy hangover soup, so just eat it! And… I also bought some of it yesterday.

And I'll prepare you a lunch box in the morning, so don't buy a lunch box from the convenience store! I'll give it to you when you get to school in the morning, so come out earlier than usual and meet me, so we can go together!"

"Oh, are you providing breakfast? They look like newlyweds?"

"!"

Yu-ri Lee, who was talking excitedly, understood the meaning of what she said and blushed again and avoided eye contact.

"… I really hate you."

Ch. 22 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 22
Chapter 22 – The Girls I Fell in Love With

On Monday morning, I woke up to Yuri Lee's talk alarm.

[Yuri Lee: Are you awake? Come to my house by 7:30

"It's cute."

Yuri Lee really seemed to wake up early to prepare a lunch box for me.

All kinds of emotions were mixed, from gratitude to cuteness to feeling a little sorry.

After quickly washing up and getting dressed, I went to the front of Yuri's house and saw Yuri wearing a black skirt, a white shirt, a red tie, and a checkered skirt, holding a small bundle in her hand.

Lee Yu-ri, who spotted me, waved her hand, and we joined and walked to school together very naturally.

"Is that your lunch box for me? What's in it?"

"I put in roughly anything. Don't expect much… I just made it!"

"Heh, yes, I guess so."

"What, why are you smiling?"

"Because it's cute."

"Cute…! Ah, what are you talking about, really? It's annoying that you act so relaxed! Take it! I'm going!"

Yuri jumped up, lost her temper, and roughly pulled out her lunch box.

As soon as I received it, Yuri showed off her anger and walked ahead, but even in her anger and the way she walked ahead, leaving me behind, I could not sense her sincerity.

The proof is that even though I immediately followed him and walked next to him, he didn't speed up and just walked together.

"Are you upset?"

"No."

"Oh my~ You were so cute when you went home after drinking on Saturday, but now you're full of thorns."

Yu-ri Lee stopped at my words and looked at me with trembling eyes.

"My, my, what am I…? I don't remember anything…?"

"Oh, I thought so. It must have been hard to get that drunk after three glasses of soju. How did you do it?"

"I don't know! I don't know! I don't remember, so don't talk about it!"

In the end, Yuri didn't make eye contact with me even once the entire way to the academy.

…

Meanwhile, when Yu-ri Lee remembered her Saturday night, her face started to explode again.

– Because I like you.

Even though she was drunk, she still remembered everything clearly.

And of her own volition, she packed and prepared her lunch for the man she said she liked.

As Han Seong-jin puts it, it's like a newlywed…

'Oh, no!'

Yuri shook her head vigorously.

'I'm not taking care of him because I like him! That's because a guy who can't afford to pay tuition keeps insisting that he doesn't need a tuition support system, so as the student council president, I have to give the least consideration to the students in my class…'

However, as she began to become conscious again, she became afraid of looking at Han Seong-jin's face, and her heartbeat only became faster.

…

Because it was earlier than usual, there were still few people at the academy.

Before entering the classroom, we headed to the flower bed next to the playground and sat down on the bench there.

I forgot my packed lunch in the classroom last morning, and since the penalty period for cleaning up after school was extended, I decided to eat it here.

When I opened the lid, a menu with everything I needed was revealed, including steaming white rice, Vienna sausages, stir-fried anchovies, vegetables, and kimchi.

It was almost the same menu as the lunch box I made last time, but there was a slight difference…

"What is this?"

A shape is made with black beans on top of rice.

Even though it was still early spring, Yuri Yu-ri was sweating profusely and avoiding my gaze.

"Did you even put decorations like this just to give it to me? It's cute."

"No! I just had some beans left…"

"Then you can just roughly put it on. Why did you put so much effort into making a star shape?"

"That… Seems a little insincere, so…"

I smiled and stroked Yuri's head.

Normally, Lee Yu-ri would have made a fuss, but after seeing what she was doing, I thought it was okay.

"Hey, why are you doing this so fucking cute?"

"Huh! Why are you stroking my head and making a fuss?! And don't say things like that!"

"Did you not want to hear it?"

"…"

Seeing his silence when asked if he didn't want to hear it, it seemed like he didn't really like it.

It seems like we've come a long way now.

However, if I go any further here, my likeability may drop again, so I decided to stop here and quickly finished off Yuri Lee's homemade lunch box.

While I was eating, Yuri Lee stayed right next to me as I enjoyed the lunch box she made and looked at me quietly.

"Ah~ I ate well. I almost died of hunger, but thanks to you, I survived."

"Was it delicious?"

"Huh. I wish I could eat it all the time."

At the words, which could be interpreted in many ways, Lee Yu-ri's face turned red again, and she snatched up the empty lunch box.

This guy is really easy to understand if you just look at him.

"Who does it all the time?! Only until you get paid for your part-time job. After that, even if you ask me to do it, you won't do it!"

"Just give me the container. I'll wash it and then bring it to you like last time."

"I'll just do it. If you're done eating, let's go in."

After finishing our morning date, which was not a morning date with Yuri Lee, we went into the classroom together.

The kids in the class started going to school one by one, and of course Gong Young-bae soon showed up as well.

As soon as I saw Gong Young-bae, I was tempted to give that bastard a few hits, but I decided not to make a fuss because she would only end up in more trouble.

Instead, I decided to provoke Gong Young-bae as soon as he sat down.

This guy's seat was two rows in front of my desk, so I didn't have to raise my voice that loudly.

"Hey, Yuri Lee. Come here for a moment."

"Oh, why again?"

I saw Gong Yeong-bae flinching at me naturally calling Yu-ri Lee, and Yuri Yoo-ri obediently coming when she asked me to come.

He didn't turn his head, so he couldn't see the two of us, but I was sure he was listening to the conversation.

You fucking bastard, fuck yourself for daring to make the person who would be my woman cry.

"Next time I go to an escape room café, shall I try a thriller?"

"What?! I'll never do that! Last time I was scared to death, but you're asking me to do something worse than that?"

"Well, it was really cute to look at. It wasn't like screaming, crying, hugging, or making a fuss."

While saying that, I glanced at Gong Young-bae from the corner of my eye and saw him shaking.

But what can you do if you flutter?

On the other hand, Yu-ri Lee blushed so brightly that steam came out and jumped up.

"My, when did I do that?!"

"Hmm? If you don't remember when that happened, if you go to the horror-themed escape room one more time-"

"Waaa! Waaaaa! Okay, I got it! That's it! That's why don't go for the horror theme!"

"Now I'm being honest. Then, I'll slowly look into escape rooms later… Then, how about DDR instead?"

"Oh! That's great! It's great exercise, and it's a lot of fun."

When I mentioned when her weekend date was the most exciting, she immediately smiled brightly and nodded like a child.

"But do you have money?"

"Hmm, actually, that's why, but for something as expensive as an escape room, it's going to be hard until I get paid… I guess I'll just have to make do with something like DDR in the meantime, right?"

"I like it. Oh, and air hockey looks fun, how about that? Coin karaoke too! It's cheap, so next time I go, I'll try that!"

"Are you already making plans for a date next weekend? Isn't our president so infatuated with me?"

"Ah, what are you saying again? Seriously, whenever you say something, you always fall into that direction! That's enough, if I've said everything I have to say, I'll go back!"

Yu-ri Lee pouted her mouth and walked away again.

Even though she must have seen Gong Young-bae just two rows ahead, Lee Yu-ri had no hesitation in mentioning my weekend date or talking about our next appointment.

As if Gong Young-bae is being treated as an invisible person.

They say that when a woman harbors resentment, frost falls even on May and New Year, and it was a little scary that she was so angry at Gong Yeong-bae that she treated him so openly.

But Gong Young-bae, isn't this all your karma for only getting girls' affection and not wanting to give them an answer?

After Yuri becomes completely my woman, I will introduce her to you too.

…

Gong Young-bae felt like her insides were burning as she listened to the conversation between Han Seong-jin and Yu-ri Lee.

Date, our president, escape room café, arcade, DDR, coin karaoke…

There was not a single word that did not pierce Gong Young-bae's eardrums.

Gong Young-bae was so impatient and anxious that he kept shaking his legs, but he kept his cool on the outside and kept repeating to himself without ever looking back.

'Yuri… Are you acting like you want me to listen to you just because we had a fight last week?'

My stomach was boiling.

Gong Young-bae still thought that what he said to Yu-ri Lee last week was sincere advice, and he believed that it was Yu-ri Lee's problem that he couldn't accept it.

'No, don't be upset. I'm the one who likes Yuri the most anyway. We've been together like that since a long time ago, but there's no way he would leave me and give his heart to someone else, especially a scum like Han Seong-jin.

Anyway, Yuri, you're in the palm of my hand. A guy like that is just physiologically unreasonable for you. If you don't take my advice and act petty like that, I will stay silent until you realize your mistake.'

He still didn't know that Yu-ri Lee's heart had already been stolen by Han Seong-jin.

Another part-time job is scheduled from today to Thursday.

You'll be very busy for the next four days, so make sure to sleep hard during class and build up your stamina…

"Han Seong-jin!"

The plan was broken as soon as morning assembly time started.

My homeroom teacher called my name with an angry expression, and soon all the students' eyes turned to me.

"You're skipping the entire afternoon class on Friday? It's not even been a month since the semester started, so what are you doing!"

"I'm sorry."

Yu-ri Lee, who was sitting in the front row in the middle of the classroom, looked at me with an angry expression.

Because she had no idea that I had cheated.

"Ha, I can't live, I can't live… Han Seong-jin, from today onwards, for two weeks, you will be in charge of cleaning up after school and doing weekly morning work."

"Huh?! Wait a minute, teacher! Right after that academy in the afternoon-"

"It's noisy. Then you shouldn't have left school early without notice. And Yuri, if you get a hospital diagnosis, you have to submit it too, right?"

"… That teacher."

When Lee Yu-ri heard that I was working part-time in the afternoon, she looked at me once and then at the teacher, then raised her hand.

Because Yuri Lee was such a model student, the teacher responded in a much gentler manner than when she scolded me.

"Yeah, why are you doing that?"

"… I… I don't have a medical certificate. Actually, I was just faking it. I'm sorry."

Ch. 23 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 23
Chapter 23 – Girls Who Fall in Love (2)

The news of Yuri Lee leaving early without notice quickly spread among the third-graders.

Even though early departure without permission was not a trivial matter, I wonder if it was enough to cause rumors, but the problem was that the target was Lee Yu-ri.

Someone is Yuri Lee.

Since she was a freshman, she was the top student in her grade, never missing first place in the school, and from then on, she was a famous bright student who was rumored to be the ace of the student council and worked on the student council.

To this day, he still holds the title of first place in the school and is now the student council president.

I was the type of person who had to worry about whether to go to medical school or law school because I didn't lack anything in terms of college entrance exam or academic achievement, and if I wanted to, I was almost guaranteed admission to any university in Korea, including Seoul National University.

But Lee Yu-ri left school early without permission last week.

From the morning, the story spread from the 3rd graders in our class to the other classes, and from the 3rd graders to some of the first and second-graders in the club.

After first and second-graders found out, the rumor spread throughout the school in an instant.

This kind of thing was usually nothing more than gossip that wouldn't last a day, but it also means that a person named Lee Yu-ri was a famous person in the Jinsu Church.

But I wish the rumor would end there.

"Now that I think about it, student council president, don't you hang out with Han Seong-jin quite often these days?"

"I think I saw you two going home together after school the other day."

"Huh? Me too! I thought it was a mistake, but was it real?"

"Then you couldn't believe it… You two were fooling around together?"

"Well, there's no way the student council president would hang out with a guy like Han Seong-jin…"

"I don't think you two have gone home together more than once or twice? You used to always go home with the student council president, Gong Young-bae, but you don't do that these days, right?"

"Didn't you see me in the student cafeteria last week? The one where you two had a really fierce fight?"

"Did the student council president switch men and fight because of that?"

"Wow… Is it because Yu-ri Lee looks like she doesn't know anything about that, so you're crossing her fingers?"

"The student council president cheated on me?"

"I heard you already slept with Han Seong-jin!"

The rumors started to spread, and before I knew it, Yu-ri Lee was becoming a slut who had become attached to me and abandoned Gong Yeong-bae, who had been like a half-lover.

Perhaps because of rumors, Gong Young-bae tried to say something to Yu-ri Lee after the third period ended, but Lee Yu-ri very coldly slapped Gong Young-bae's hand away and walked away.

Looking at his expression and attitude, it seemed like he was starting to feel stressed, although he didn't show it.

I don't mind spreading any number of bad rumors based on facts about me, but I decided to stop the spread of strange rumors about Lee Yu-ri.

She pretends to be strong on the outside, but she is softer than you think, and her heart is easily swayed, so she will pretend that nothing is wrong and pile up her wounds.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?"

"Hey!"

When I intervened, the female students who had been enlarged and reproduced rumors among themselves jumped up in fear.

I pushed the most talkative one against the wall and growled with a threatening expression while deliberately showing her forearms.

"You fucking have a knack for turning people into idiots behind the scenes? I and the student council president have never even held hands, so when did we start dating and even have sex?"

In fact, we have held hands once.

Even with their hands clasped like a couple who loves each other very much.

However, Lee Yu-ri was drunk at the time, so she wasn't normal and couldn't remember, and she would never do that if she was sober, so let's give it a no count.

"Ah, no… We heard that too…"

"What did you hear? From some bastard. Bring me here."

"Ugh, uhhh…"

"Hey, you like rumors so much, but didn't you really hear the rumors about me? The rumor that women are also fans of me when I'm in a shitty mood?"

Hehe!"

Unfortunately, the rumor was true.

Han Seong-jin, not me, was really like a woman when she was in a bad mood, and there were many times when she would hit her in the face.

… The more I look back on my memories, the more trashy life seems.

"Han Seong-jin! What are you doing!"

Lee Yu-ri, who saw me threatening the girls, rushed over and shouted at me.

I heard that voice, but I didn't let go of my threatening attitude towards the girls who were reproducing the rumor and I still kept my gaze fixed.

Yu-ri Lee, who couldn't see it, forcibly pulled me away and hit me.

"What are you doing?! Do you really want to go to the disciplinary committee? Follow me to the student council room!"

"… Hey, if you really don't want to be searched on the street, watch your mouth."

"Han Seong-jin!"

Yuri Lee forcibly dragged me.

While going to the student council room, I could hear the sounds of extremely nervous girls crying from behind.

Yuri Lee opened the locked student council room door, leaving us alone in the empty student council room.

Yuri sighed and glared at me with her resentful eyes.

"What's wrong with you? What are you doing to them?"

"They make people into idiots by spreading rumors."

"You beat up people like that and then make threats? Even to girls? Are you this kind of person? To me… To me…"

"What about you? Tell me."

"I… Honestly, you were very gentle and kind to me! If you behaved like that with other kids, you wouldn't have any weird rumors about you! If you don't like rumors so much, just put up with it once and treat other kids like you did with me-"

"You're wrong."

"…?"

Yuri Lee looked like she didn't know what was going on.

He makes this expression a lot when he's with me, and it's such a cute face every time I see him.

"It's not my rumors I'm trying to stop, it's your rumors."

"My rumors…? No, I don't care, so you can just leave it alone!"

"I guess it doesn't matter?"

"…?"

"I can't even get angry because I'm worried that my reputation will be tarnished if I get angry, but because I get angry, I keep my mouth shut like a sulky child. I don't want to look like that anymore, but even Gong Young-bae said something to you earlier. I'm so annoyed now, right?

Even if you pretend like you don't care about the rumors going around, are you completely indifferent right now? If I stay still, I get more worried, so as soon as it's break time, I open the workbook that I already solved and don't even move the sharpener.

Even if you try to show on the outside that 'I'm fine~', I can clearly see what's going on inside you."

"You… You…"

Lee Yu-ri says with an expression, 'How do you do that?'

Since I already knew everything about Yu-ri Lee's personality and tendencies, I had a rough idea of what she was feeling right now, and most of my guesses were correct.

"There have been a lot of rumors about me for a long time. Do you think I would care about them now? But you don't, right? Anyway, wouldn't it be better to be the student council president who is top of the school and pretty, like before, rather than being rumored to be a slut who hangs around with Iljin? So I got angry on your behalf."

I said that and stroked Yuri's head.

I thought that this level of skinship would be accepted now.

As expected, Yuri Lee just felt my touch without saying anything while my rough hand was gently stroking the top of her head.

And when I took her hand away, she looked at me with mixed emotions.

"I… I really hate you…"

"That's too much. I gave you the best comfort I could give you."

"That's the problem! Why are you… Why are you doing this to me? Why are you being so kind to the other kids as before? Why are you so kind to me? Why do you treat me so gently? Why do you keep acting so strange to me? If you keep doing this, I really…"

I really think you'll like it.

Those words couldn't come out of Yu-ri Lee's mouth.

"Okay. You told me not to do that, so I won't do anything like before. But the fact that the two of us hung out together is a really ridiculous rumor, so just tell me not to do that too, okay?"

"Okay…"

I moved to my seat right next to Lee Yu-ri.

Yuri was only looking at me with her lips tightly closed, as if she was holding back her tears.

"And if you're upset, don't hoard it and let it out. It's going to make you sick, that's what I'm saying. Tell the kids clearly not to spread strange rumors. Do you think they'll be upset when the student council president speaks to the top student in the whole school? I'm scared, so I'm going to hold back even if it hurts. If you do that, the kids will listen to you kindly."

"Okay…"

"Tsk, anyway, you take a lot of effort like a child."

"I'm sorry…"

"Well, since we're here, why don't we just stay here for a while during the break? I'll freshen up."

"…"

Yuri stared at me for a moment and then adjusted her chair to face me diagonally.

And silently, he leaned his eyes on my shoulder.

"You must have been very stressed."

"… I'll stay like this for a moment."

When Yu-ri's eyes touched, her shoulders felt slightly moist and warm.

I wanted to hug her, but I held back.

Because there is order in everything.

We stayed quietly in her student council room, with Yuri leaning her head against me and me embracing her.

"Senior! Is the rumor true? That you and Yuri-senpai held hands and danced around together?"

At lunchtime, Soo-yeon Choi heard the rumor that was spreading among the second-graders and ran over to ask.

"Don't you remember who I was with that day?"

"Ah."

"But why did you come all the way here to check that?"

Hehe. No, no! From what I heard, you go home together with Yuri-senpai, and it seems like you get along well in many ways, right?"

"So?"

"I had no clue at all, but I would like to congratulate you on becoming such a relationship with Yuri-senpai! And I also came here to brag a little!"

"Boasting?"

Hehe… Yum!"

Sooyeon Choi smiled brightly and thrust her cell phone in front of me.

A chat message with Gong Young-bae appeared on the screen.

Surprisingly, the first message came from Gong Young-bae.

The content starts with how are you doing these days, and it's been a long time since you dated together, but you're bored, and it's light flirting comments like whether you have time on weekdays or weekends.

The time spent…

'It's break time for third period, right?'

I was certain that he had sent a text message to Choi Soo-yeon after he had tried to talk to Lee Yu-ri due to lack of time, and she had completely ignored him.

'You bastard… I'm dying of jealousy because of the rumors between Yuri and me, but since Yuri ignored me, did she change her course this way? What on earth do you think of Sooyeon?'

Causes jealousy.

It was an obvious ploy to make Yu-ri Lee jealous by showing her flirting with Soo-yeon Choi and make her look back at herself.

If she asks to meet Choi Soo-yeon, it's obvious that she'll say yes, so she's going to take advantage of her like this?

I smiled at Choi Su-yeon, barely holding back my anger.

"What, are you doing well too?"

Suyeon Choi spread her fingers in a V shape, her face turning slightly red.

Hehe, it just so happened to be like that. I had almost given up on it until yesterday. Isn't it amazing that we both thought we were failures, but surprisingly, we were successful?

So! Thank you for everything going well with Senior Yuri… Or even congratulations! I also came because I wanted to show off! Youngbae and I will get along much better, so I will often give you dating advice from now on!"

As for Sooyeon Choi, her relationship with me is not that deep yet.

She spent some time hanging out together, but that was it.

Like Yu-ri Lee, we weren't able to see each other in the same class all the time, and because our houses were in different directions, there was significantly less time to see each other, and, crucially, there was a lack of a big opportunity for the relationship to develop rapidly like Yu-ri Lee.

That's why she liked Gong Young-bae from the beginning, and when Gong Young-bae tried to approach her, she quickly became happy.

But…

'Will Gong Young-bae, who approached you with such dirty intentions, treat you properly?'

I felt sorry for Choi Su-yeon.

It could have been over after being hurt once, but you will inevitably be hurt a second time.

I can't stop you from getting hurt a second time.

No, even if it could be prevented, it would not be prevented. In fact, the timing would be brought forward.

Just like Lee Yu-ri, Choi Su-yeon needs to see the bottom of Gong Young-bae at least once.

'Gong Young-bae, thanks to your greed to keep all three of them in the fishing grounds while not responding to the wishes of the others, you will soon lose your second girl as well.'

Ch. 24 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 24
Chapter 24 – Girls Who Fall in Love (3)

Yuri Lee and I will be punished for cleaning up after school for two weeks.

Even though Lee Yu-ri is the top student in the school and does a good job as the student council president, the fact that she is leaving school early without notice is not something that is easy for her to ignore.

Instead, perhaps because of her behavior and reputation that Yu-ri Lee has built up over the years, if she receives her two-week punishment properly, the academy will cover her unauthorized early departure and will not write it down in her life book.

It seemed that Yu-ri Lee would have something to show off at her academy if she went to a prestigious university.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sad. I'm so sad that the academy treats me so blatantly discriminatory. How sad are you going to live?"

Of course, I was shallow.

After everyone in the class had gone home and the two of us were left cleaning the empty classroom, I shouted that, and Yuri Lee looked half pathetic and half sorry.

"No, if you behave well on a regular basis, that's fine."

"Heng. Even if I lived like I do now, if I had left school early, it would have been the same anyway. Since I'm as old as you, I get special treatment from the teachers."

"Um… Sorry."

"Why are you apologizing?"

"No, but I think you'll be a little angry because they're discriminating so openly…"

"It's okay, I was just kidding. If I had cared about such things, I wouldn't have lived like that in the first and second years in the first place."

I opened the window and shook out the blackboard eraser.

It was the first time Yuri had been officially punished, but she had already been helping me clean up after school under the pretense of watching me, so we divided up the work quite naturally.

"Oh, but can I finish the work in 30 minutes? I work part-time starting at 4 o'clock, so I can't be late."

"Okay, I guess I can do it as quickly as possible. But what kind of part-time job is this? Now that I think about it, I didn't hear that."

"Hmm? Didn't I tell you? It's just a part-time job at a convenience store on weekdays. Except Fridays."

"Convenience store? Then, can I go look around after you're done?"

"No!"

I immediately cut off Yuri's question.

The place where the convenience store where I worked was located was an underdeveloped area that had not been redeveloped and was like a slum infested with gangsters.

A place where if the sun goes down and a woman, especially a woman with the looks of Lee Yuri, walks alone, there is a very high probability that something terrible will happen.

It wasn't that far from Yuri Lee's house, but she'd probably never set foot in a place like this, and there wasn't anything good about coming.

When I shouted, Yuri opened her eyes in surprise.

"I'm surprised. Why are you yelling? Is there a reason why I shouldn't go?"

"I've only been working for a short time, so I already get noticed when I bring someone I know. And the place I work is a bit… Okay."

"That's a bit like that? Is it a black company? Did they not write a contract or something?"

"No, I don't mean that… It's better not to know, so don't be too curious. Anyway, you can't come to where I work."

"…?"

…

…

Cleaning up was completed in 30 minutes, and Han Seong-jin packed his bag as soon as it was finished.

"Phew, I won't be late. Then Yuri! I'm leaving first because of my part-time job!"

"Oh, yes. I have to stay because of student council work."

"That's too bad. I wish you would have come with me, at least to the house."

"Who, who?!"

"I don't have any part-time work on Friday, so let's hold hands and get along well together then!"

"What are you saying, go away quickly!"

Although there was nothing in her hand, Yu-ri Lee made a gesture to throw it as if she had something, and Seong-jin Han laughed when he saw that and ran away.

As Lee Yu-ri gathered her bag in the classroom alone to go to her student council room, Han Seong-jin's words kept ringing in her head.

– I don't have any part-time work on Friday, so let's hold hands and get along well together then!

– Because I like you.

Han Seong-jin's surprise confession heard on Saturday.

Those words never left her mind for a single moment.

'No way, no way… But are you serious…?'

Han Seong-jin, who consistently expresses his liking.

A confession she made because she thought she was drunk and couldn't hear it.

Now, every time Yu-ri Lee remembers his face, her heart beats, and her face blushes as she unconsciously imagines him returning home with Han Seong-jin on Friday.

'Oh, no. That can't be possible. Yeah, you're probably just playing a prank on me.'

Until now, I am trying hard to deny my feelings.

As I was about to leave the school gate, I heard someone calling me from behind.

"Huh? Senior Seongjin!"

When she turned around, a very pretty girl with her dyed blonde hair pulled into a side ponytail looked at me and waved her hand.

She is wearing earrings, bracelets, hairpins, and all kinds of accessories, and has a busty body that doesn't look out of place compared to Lee Yuri.

The skirt was so short that it looked like her underwear could be seen when she walked, and her skin was slightly tanned, giving it a faint brown color.

"Sooyeon, why are you coming out now? You always arrive before me."

"Why are you leaving now?"

"I got disciplined for skipping school and cleaning up after school, so let's go now."

"Do you remember who you played that tinkling with?"

"Ah."

Sooyeon Choi was punished for cleaning up after school just like me.

However, even though Choi Soo-yeon received such punishment, the smile did not leave her face.

Hehe. It's always hard work to win love! But these punishments from the academy can't stop my pure love!"

"… Isn't that too much of an overstatement based on just one tap?"

"Oh my! Big love always starts with this small first step!"

Sooyeon Choi, who jumped up and dismissed my argument, suddenly looked at me and leaned her head on my shoulder with her grin.

"But senior~ It's so sad, what should I do?"

"I feel bad? Me? Why?"

"You teased me so hard on Friday, to be honest, I almost let you go, right? But this is what happened. To be honest, I think I'm better than Yuri-senpai. Hehe."

"What? You're better than Yuri? Look at your confidence?"

"Huh? Are you looking down on me now? Hehe, but that's too bad. Even if I wanted to prove it to Seongjin, I can't do it anymore."

"Hmm, you have a point. Anyway, congratulations on this, and I should congratulate you too. Let's do our best together."

Choi Su-yeon nodded her head vigorously in excitement, and for some reason, when she saw that expression, she thought she looked like a squirrel.

But she congratulates you on the outside, and you should know.

"So, you guys have decided to date for sure?"

"Huh? We're not there yet… It's just a matter of time!"

"What? We haven't even dated yet, and we're talking about love? It's still a long way away."

"What?!"

"This senior is on a date with Yuri all day on Saturday. DDR, coin karaoke, escape room café, DVD room-"

"D-DVD room?! No, then you already did it?!"

Choi Soo-yeon is shocked, putting her hands to her mouth.

I have corrected statements that may have been misunderstood.

"It's not what you think, I really just watched the movie. Anyway, we had dinner and drinks, and we were already at the end of the line. Would you say that there is a difference between you and Gong Young-bae, who have never been on a date, as much as heaven and earth? "

"Profit… Ooh, we're going on a date too!"

"Really? When?"

"Maybe this weekend…?"

"Is it still uncertain? Okay, try your best~"

Soo-yeon Choi started poking her side and poking her lips.

"What is it? It won't work anyway, but try your best~ Does it sound like this?"

"Did it sound like that? That's why these quick-witted guys…"

"Senior!"

After screaming, Soo-yeon Choi held her cell phone and tapped the screen vigorously while walking to her convenience store with her mouth out.

It looks like he is texting with Gong Yeong-bae, so there is a high probability that he is planning a date.

Choi Su-yeon's text messages continued periodically even after we started working, and whenever she had some free time, she was always on her phone.

And when she got off work about an hour ago.

"Sir! Look at this!"

Sooyeon Choi smiled brightly and thrust her cell phone at me.

What appeared on the cell phone screen was Choi Soo-yeon's message asking her to go on a date this Saturday, and Gong Young-bae accepting it.

My eyes lit up when I saw that.

'It's here!'

I asked, keeping my cool on the surface and not showing off as much as possible.

"Is it because you were trying to get a date because you were glued to your phone all the time instead of working?"

"Oh my? I was working hard? Because I am a talented woman who can juggle work and love, love and work at the same time."

"I got this promise. Congratulations. But have you decided where to go?"

"Hmm, if we go on a date course in Seoul from the beginning, you will think that Youngbae is such a burdensome woman, right?"

"Anyway?"

"How did you say you dated Yuri?"

At those words, I smiled happily and told her the date course that Yuri Lee and I went on.

I deliberately told Choi Su-yeon's thoughts in one direction by even mentioning the name of the company we visited.

Choi Soo-yeon, who heard about Lee Yu-ri, and I's date course, nodded repeatedly and started writing her notes.

And after my part-time job ended that day.

After breaking up with Soo-yeon Choi, I sent a text message to Yu-ri Lee.

[Me: Hey, are you free this Saturday? No, in time. Let's date

Ch. 25 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 25
Chapter 25 – Girls Who Fall in Love (4)

Late at night, a little after 10 p.M., Lee Yu-ri's cell phone vibrated while she was studying in her room.

Lee Yu-ri checked her cell phone without thinking and was surprised to see the sender of her message, so she stopped working on her workbook for a moment.

"Han Seong-jin…? Why is he…"

When I checked the contents, there was a fairly short message.

[Han Seong-jin: Hey, are you free this Saturday? No, in time. Let's date

Seeing her last words, Yuri fanned her hand to cool her flushed face.

"What is it, boy? You didn't even give me time? Did you leave something for me? And what about the date… Why are you doing that with me…"

– Because I like you.

At that moment, Han Seong-jin's voice, which she heard on Saturday, suddenly popped out of Yu-ri Lee's head.

"Why do I… Do I…"

When she came to her senses, Yuri Lee had already sent a reply.

[Me: Where are you going? I won't go to an escape room café

"Ahh! Ah! You're being swayed by this bastard again! What are you really doing!"

After sending her reply, Yuri grabbed her cell phone, fell on her bed, pounded her head on the pillow, and screamed.

Han Seong-jin's reply arrived quickly before Yu-ri Lee could finish wrestling with her pillow.

[Han Seong-jin: I don't have any money, so it's going to be a bit difficult until I get my paycheck… I guess going to an arcade or playing video games will work, right? Before that, you can walk to a nearby park or a walking trail. Let's play briefly and briefly and then part ways before dinner. Call?

[Me: That's enough… Okay

[Han Seong-jin: Okay then, let's meet during the day on Saturday and see you tomorrow and come out nicely!

[Me: Do you really want to talk nonsense? I'm going to study, so I won't reply any more

There were no more chats from Han Seong-jin, but Lee Yu-ri was still lying on her bed, continuously scrolling through the short chat she had with Han Seong-jin.

Continuing from last week, I got to spend time with Han Seong-jin this weekend.

It won't be a luxurious course like last time, but I thought it would be nice to walk together in a quiet park.

'But… Walking in the park just the two of us is huge, something only couples would do…'

– Because I like you.

Han Seong-jin's voice in her heart came out again, and Yuri buried her face completely in her pillow out of shame.

Although she pretended to reluctantly accept through her chat, she was actually quite happy that Han Seong-jin wanted to meet with her again this week, just like last week.

It felt like steam was rising between my two ears that were not buried in the pillow and the back of my head.

Lee Yu-ri was secretly happy about Han Seong-jin's date proposal, but she hated herself a little more.

Perhaps because she took the opportunity to get along with Gong Young-bae, Choi Soo-yeon's frequency of doing other things increased significantly this week.

She even made up a lie to go on a dinner date with Gongyoung Bae today, which was Wednesday, and made her manager work as a substitute.

Was the girl blinded by love that scary?

'Really, Gong Young-bae, you're such a bastard too. Even if you treat him just a little bit well, he likes it so much, but he's so greedy that he just takes care of that kid.'

Meanwhile, her manager, who did not know the reason why Soo-yeon Choi missed her part-time job, felt sorry for her because it was her first time working peacefully.

"Sooyeon is really unlucky. There isn't a day like today where Mija doesn't come over to smoke, but why did she hurt her leg today?"

"Oh, the manager, you don't know."

"Huh? What don't you know?"

"Now, no one will come to this convenience store to smoke cigarettes."

"Huh? Why? That was the biggest problem at our store, so why all of a sudden?"

"As long as I'm here, you won't come. Because I told you not to come. No, should I say that you 'can't' come more accurately?"

"…?"

"Anyway, nothing will happen while I'm here. So, manager, don't cut me off and make sure you keep using me for a long time."

"Huh? Well, yeah…"

While she was working, Soo-yeon Choi would occasionally send me photos of her dating Gong Young-bae, and she would brag about it.

Apparently, the date course I went to with Lee Yuri was scheduled to go on the weekend.

She sent her several photos, including one with only half of her face showing on her cell phone and one with Gong Young-bae visible behind her, and one that looked like it was taken by Gong Young-bae, and she kept saying, 'Aren't you jealous? 'Aren't you jealous?'
She boasted.

And after she boasted like that, she made sure to make sure to take good care of Yuri, senior, if you don't want to lose him!

I could roughly guess why Sooyeon Choi was like this.

'He didn't really like Yuri to begin with.'

In her original work, Love in School, Choi Soo-yeon was quite disapproving of Lee Yu-ri.

She had ample reason not to like him, since she was basically the childhood friend of the man she liked.

On top of that, Choi Soo-yeon was ostensibly one of the second-year students, and Lee Yu-ri was the type of idiot who really disliked those students, so they couldn't get along well with each other.

Choi Soo-yeon was the character who was always impatient, thinking that she was being pushed out by Yu-ri Lee, but she probably didn't want to miss this opportunity since I showed signs of things going well with her.

If only Lee Yu-ri is eliminated, the only people left for Gong Young-bae will be Choi Soo-yeon and Jeong Eun-ji. She must have judged that she has a chance of winning because the relationship between Jung Eun-ji and Gong Young-bae is not as deep as Lee Yu-ri's.

Therefore, she thought that the better I did with Lee Yu-ri, the better Choi Soo-yeon would do with Gong Young-bae, so she kept encouraging me.

There would be no way to know whose position is actually being encouraged.

I said nice things to Choi Soo-yeon's beat, such as 'It looks good' or 'It looks good on you,' and Choi Soo-yeon got even more excited and chattered with her chat.

[Choi Soo-yeon: If Youngbae and I officially date, I will at least give him a treat! What do you want to eat? Chicken Ribs? Chicken? Pizza? Just say anything!

[Me: Really? Did you make a promise with your mouth? I don't refuse anything given to me

Of course, unfortunately, I will never get food from Choi Su-yeon for the above reasons.

The week went by in an instant.

It was natural, but the rumors about me and Lee Yu-ri did not last long and died down quickly.

Not only did I act threateningly once, and Yuri Lee was also criticized for the completely false fact that she 'got into trouble with me', and she wasn't a celebrity to begin with, nor was she even a source of gossip worth burning for a long time.

And today, Saturday, I had three events scheduled.

The first is a date with Lee Yu-ri.

The second is to drive a wedge into making Choi Soo-yeon my woman.

The third and final one is…

[Hwang Seong-tae: You know that today's meeting is at 7 PM, right? We'll all meet up, eat meat, and then move to the empty lot next to our hideout in xx-dong. The kids will prepare all the drinks, and we've also put all the bikes on standby.

[Me: Got it

It was the day of the Jinsugyo school year integrated Iljin meeting.

In this meeting, which had been decided since the beginning of the semester, Han Seong-jin originally reigned as the king.

Meat, alcohol, and cigarettes were all given to those in the first and second grades. In the king game, the king was always chosen, and Sodom and Gomorrah was recreated by making people strip as they wanted.

He would take any woman he liked and have fun with him, and when he got tired of it, he would bring in another woman.

From 1st grade to 3rd grade, the first choice for all the girls was Han Seong-jin, and the other guys just took the girls that Han Seong-jin threw.

However, I did not go to the Iljin meeting to rule as a king like usual.

I'm thinking of leaving this meeting after showing my face at dinner to declare that I will completely withdraw from this meeting and never get involved again.

That's all for now, we have to give Yuri a good time while we're together.

When I looked outside, I saw a lot of rain falling.

"It's not a good day for a date."

If Choi Soo-yeon and Gong Young-bae give up their date due to the weather, the meaning of today will be greatly diminished.

Before leaving, I sent a text message to Suyeon Choi to check the situation.

[Me: Are you guys going on a date today too?

When I saw the reply that came a little later, I smiled happily.

[Choi Su-yeon: Yes! I'm going to follow the date course my senior told me about! Rain like this can't stop me!

"I heard it's good to have the ability to take action."

After checking Sooyeon Choi's schedule, I quickly got ready and left the house to meet her.

When I went in front of Yuri Lee's house, I saw her looking up at the rainy sky from inside the first floor entrance of her apartment.

As I waved her hand from the parking lot, Yuri came straight out and approached me, opening her umbrella.

"The weather isn't very good today."

"But you were looking forward to going on a date with me, right?"

"I didn't expect it."

The expression on his face says, "I was looking forward to it," But what.

I laughed and approached Yuri Lee.

"But why do you open the umbrella?"

"What are you talking about? It's raining."

"Just one is enough."

"…?"

"I just have to go like this."

"Kya?!"

I hugged Yuri's waist and pulled her towards me, and she came helplessly into my arms.

Yuri Lee shouted in a voice full of embarrassment.

"Ooh, umbrella! The umbrella is broken!"

"Then just fold it."

"What are you talking about? Why are you like this? Why are you like this?"

"Are you going to fold the umbrella?"

I asked while looking directly into Yuri's eyes, and when our eyes met, Yuri opened her mouth and lowered her head.

"Wow…"

Then she closed her umbrella.

Ch. 26 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 26
Chapter 26 – Girls Who Fall in Love (5)

My date with Yuri Lee went very smoothly.

Lee Yu-ri obediently came under my umbrella and left it behind, muttering things like 'Why do I have the same umbrella as you…', But as soon as she arrived at the arcade, her attitude changed.

We sang excitedly at the coin karaoke room, and afterward, we sweated it out by playing air hockey and DDR.

When Lee Yu-ri started singing and using her body in the arcade, it was obvious that she got quite excited.

"Shoot! Ah! Why can't I just keep shooting!"

Lee Yu-ri, who was playing a mini-basketball game, got angry and stamped her foot when her ball kept not hitting.

Although her academic ability was better than anyone else's, her athletic ability was poor, and she missed everything she did, and I, who was worse than her, helped her to give her a sense of accomplishment.

"Aren't you throwing with too much force? It would be a bit different if you just changed your posture a little bit. Well, like this."

As if giving her a back hug, I went behind Yuri and placed my chest on her back and held her arms from behind.

Yuri shook her shoulders in shock and turned her head back, rolling her eyes.

"You… Are you doing this now, not so subtly, but so openly?"

"You didn't like it?"

"…"

Yuri bit her lip and turned her head forward again without answering.

This guy is almost over it now.

I moved Yu-ri Lee's wrist, which was holding the basketball, to help her maintain her posture, and then took her body away.

"In that situation, think about moving only your left wrist and throw it like this. You know the line that the left hand is only the girdle?"

After I showed a demonstration in the air, Yu-ri Lee followed suit, but once again, the ball fell without even hitting the goalpost.

I used that as an excuse to continue the skinship, and Yuri only glanced at me each time but did not stop me.

After several attempts, Yuri Lee managed to score a goal, and as soon as she scored, she jumped up and down in excitement.

"I finally put it in! Oh, I was so annoyed I thought I was going to die!"

"Congratulations, high five for victory?"

Wow!

Yuri Lee touched her palm with mine without resistance.

Anyone can see that we are a couple who gets along well.

Perhaps conscious of that, after giving a high five, Lee Yu-ri immediately withdrew his hand, looked away, and lightly tapped my chest with his fist.

"But why have you been groping my body since a while ago? I didn't even give you permission."

"I didn't even say I didn't like it."

"Oh, no, that's it! I just meant to teach you the movements. Just make me do that…"

"You?"

"If you stick to my back like that, your breath will be in my ear… Ah! I don't know! Anyway, don't touch my body like that! If anyone sees me, they'll think I'm a really light person! I'm not that kind of girl, right?!"

Yu-ri Lee gets angry.

However, when we finished her date at the arcade and went outside in the rain, she stood in front of the arcade entrance, even though she had her own umbrella, and waited for me to open it.

It's cute.

We walked away, clinging to each other inside my umbrella with Yuri Lee.

"It's raining like this so taking a walk in the park doesn't seem like a good idea. Shall we go to a café?"

"Then. Why did it rain today…"

"Why? Aren't you secretly waiting to go on a date with me?"

"Oh, no, it's just because the weather is bad…!"

"Yeah, yeah, everything Yuri said is true."

I stroked Yuri's head, and even though Yuri's hair was soft, she didn't move my hand away from touching her hair.

"You're really annoying…"

We moved to a nearby café and talked about various things while drinking coffee.

From stories about our weekday rumors to Yuri Lee's student council work, etc.

In particular, what exactly Lee Yu-ri does in the student council was never described in detail in the original work, so she was fun to listen to in her own way.

"Then what do you do during sports day?"

When one of the things that the student council does is to prepare a budget for the sports day in May, I suddenly became curious.

Even though there was a big event called a sports day in the original work, Yuri Lee never appeared at that event.

At that time, the only talk at the sports day centered on Choi Soo-yeon and Jeong Eun-ji.

"Me? I have to work with the student council members to check if there are any problems at the sports day and submit a report on the results."

In short, it meant that she could not attend the sports day because of work.

It's said that the student council president in this world has a lot of real power and a lot of work to do, unlike the high school student council president, but it's a bit pitiful that she can't participate in the sports festival that only happens once a year because she's working.

"Then you can't participate at all. Is that okay?"

"Someone has to do it anyway. The student council president has such great authority that he even prepares the budget. And I'm terrible at using my body."

"Oh, I could understand that just by watching him play basketball with DDR."

"Hey!"

"But it's a pity. Whether you do well or not, it would have been nice if you had participated too."

"… Why?"

"No, just. I thought it would be nice to run a sports team with you. I wanted to try something like 2-person 3-legs."

"2, 2 people and 3 angles… Why am I doing that with you…"

"Or sexy cheerleader Lee Yu-ri, giving me her love and support?"

"Hey! Do you really want to keep saying strange things?!"

Yu-ri Lee, who shouted angrily, drank her cup of coffee with a blush on her face and then changed her subject.

"Hmm, hmm. Isn't there something you need to take care of before then? It's not the sports day until May."

"Hmm? What is it?"

"Message test!"

When the word 'mock test' came up, I quietly averted my gaze.

However, Yuri Lee moved her seat next to me and started nagging me, as if she had just found her new stage.

"When I thought about it, it wasn't important to just hang out like this. Do you know that there is a mock paper test in April next week?"

"I know…"

"How about studying?"

"… Would you like to go and play another round of DDR?"

"I did it, I didn't."

"I couldn't do it."

Yuri Lee sighed deeply at my answer.

"You're always interested in dozing off in class and doing other things and having fun. You start studying with me next week. There's no dating or anything else until then."

"Oh, so you're acknowledging that what we're doing now is a date?"

"…!"

Yuri averted her gaze and answered as if nothing had happened.

"You, I'm just hanging out with you! Since I've been hanging out with you this much, promise me you'll do your best and study properly! Or, I'll lend you a workbook today, so you can go to a study café later in the evening and-"

"Oh, I'm sorry, but not today. I have somewhere to go later in the evening."

"Oh… Really?"

Yu-ri Lee's expression becomes noticeably glum.

I want to kiss you.

"Uh. I have to leave around 5 o'clock or earlier. Don't worry, I'll be with you until then."

"I see… Then shall we talk more about studying in preparation for the written test?"

"Can I just go now?"

While I was chatting with Yuri Lee about various things, time passed by, and it was already past 4:30.

While I was talking, I occasionally looked at my phone and checked text messages.

'I think it's about time…'

When I had free time between café dates with Yu-ri Lee, I was encouraging Su-yeon Choi to follow my date course with Young-bae Gong.

It tells us where we went last weekend and at the same time tells us that the café we are currently in has a great atmosphere and is a place where many couples come.

While I was anxiously waiting to see when it would arrive, I saw a man and woman folding an umbrella through the glass door of the café.

The man was a good-looking handsome man, but his style was ordinary, and the woman was dressed much more extravagantly than the man, and had blonde hair with a great body.

'It's here!'

It was Choi Su-yeon and Gong Young-bae.

The moment I saw the two entering the café, I sat down next to her and blocked her view of the entrance, so she wouldn't see them.

"What, what?"

Yu-ri Lee, unaware of her situation, suddenly saw me closing the distance between her and tilted her upper body back slightly.

"It's just that you looked prettier while we were dating."

"You're saying something strange again! Do you really want to keep doing this?!"

"But I'm not kidding."

"… Huh?"

…

Yu-ri Lee's heart started pounding again as if it would explode at Han Seong-jin's words.

I wanted to push him away, telling him to stop talking nonsense, but the distance to Han Seong-jin was too close for that.

And while I was moving today, the feeling of snuggling next to him and holding an umbrella with him… Wasn't that bad.

He was a man with a sturdy physique and massive muscles. He was rumored to be an unreasonable gangster, but when I actually talked to him, he turned out to be much more normal and gentle than I expected. In addition, he had a manly face.

Last week, after hearing Han Seong-jin openly say, 'Because I like you,' Lee Yu-ri herself felt that her heart was being shaken severely.

The feeling of being protected wasn't bad.

It felt perfect to be treated as a precious woman by someone.

It was the first time that I felt that my position and situation were taken into consideration with great care.

When I looked at Han Seong-jin's black eyes, I felt like my heart was going to jump out.

The two stared at each other for a long time, and in the end, Lee Yu-ri asked Han Seong-jin in a crawling voice as if she was possessed.

"… Hey, Han Seong-jin. Let me ask you something."

"What is it?"

"You know what you said last time. Do you… Really like me?"

"What did you do last time…? Did you remember that? Weren't you drunk?"

"Even though I was drunk, I still remember everything. So answer me. Do you… Like me?"

The silence that fell between the two felt like eternity to Lee Yu-ri.

Lee Yu-ri felt relieved and regretted saying those words to her heart.

She blamed Han Seong-jin for not answering right away, and at the same time, she hoped he would just say something.

And instead of answering, Han Seong-jin extended her hand first.

He caressed Yuri's cheek with one hand and folded his rough hand on Yuri's small, soft hand.

"Then let me say it one more time. I like you."

Lee Yu-ri confessed this time while completely sober and completely sober.

Ch. 27 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 27
Chapter 27 – Girls Who Fall in Love (6)

I didn't know that even though Yuri was so drunk, she still remembered everything that happened.

Although she was surprised, she still wasn't embarrassed.

As for Lee Yuri, I guess she has already crossed over 90% of the way to me, and there is only one final step left to make her my woman.

So she confessed openly.

She was said to be a good-sex heir, and Han Seong-jin was a good-sex heir, but Lee Yu-ri was too far from a good-sex heir, so she needed to follow the old, traditional ways.

At my confession, Lee Yu-ri's face turned the brightest it had ever been.

She was so embarrassed that her eyes couldn't stay in place even for a moment, and she couldn't say 'uh… Uh…' As if she had become mute.

I wanted to hear an answer to Yu-ri Lee's feelings right away, but a type like Yu-ri needs time.

And there is one more thing to work on.

"I… I, I… I…"

"Isn't it difficult for you to say yes or no right now?"

Yuri slowly nodded her head.

"There's no need to try to answer me now. You would have originally hated people like me, but now you can't make a decision all of a sudden."

Nod.

"If I stay next to you for no reason, you'll become more conscious and confused, so should we stop today's date? It's almost time for me to go as well."

Nod.

"I don't mind waiting, so I promise to answer you whenever you make up your mind. As soon as possible. Okay?"

Nod.

It felt like dealing with a dumb person.

"Then shall we go? Oh, now that I think about it, I think you remember everything that happened last week, right?"

Nod.

"Then you remember how we got home that day, right?"

"…"

This time he lowered his head and nodded much too late.

"Then can I consider this as permission?"

While saying that, I clasped Yuri's hand.

One of the most basic postures for couples to express their affection for each other.

Yuri Lee was startled and flinched, but instead of pushing me away from clasping my hands, she calmly relaxed my grip.

He still didn't say a word and didn't even make eye contact out of shame, but it was a tacit permission.

She, sober and sober, accepted me clasping hands with her like a couple.

With one hand, I held hands with Yuri Lee, and with the other hand, I picked up the tray with our empty coffee cups on it and went to put them where the drinks were dispensed.

And while walking, Gong Young-bae and Choi Soo-yeon made eye contact, albeit for a brief moment.

Gong Young-bae, who was on a date with Choi Soo-yeon, felt like his heart was sinking.

No matter how you look at it, the familiar face with dyed blonde hair, tall stature, and bulky body was Han Seong-jin.

Fortunately, the other person didn't seem to recognize him and quickly turned his gaze elsewhere.

However, when Gong Young-bae saw the woman standing next to him, his heart began to beat so hard that it felt like it was going to explode.

Long, shiny black hair, a very voluminous body even for a 20-year-old, and even moles under the eyes.

'Yuri… Li…?'

It was Lee Yu-ri, a childhood friend whom I had known for over 10 years since I was young.

The sight of her with Han Seong-jin was frighteningly familiar to me now.

However, there was something that I just couldn't ignore…

'Why… Why are you holding hands?'

Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri were holding each other's hands tightly.

And not just holding hands, but clasping hands like a couple in love.

Even though the two people were crossing their fingers, Yu-ri Lee did not shake off the hand, but instead blushed and accepted Han Seong-jin's hand with great embarrassment.

Gong Young-bae felt like cognitive dissonance was coming.

Suyeon Choi was saying something next to her, but she couldn't hear anything.

'A guy like Han Seong-jin… I heard you hate an Iljin guy like that the most in the world… But why are you doing that there? Why is he holding hands like a couple? Why are you making such an embarrassed expression instead of getting angry?'

Gong Young-bae felt like he was going out of his mind with anger and jealousy.

Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri walked out of the café, still holding hands like a couple, and after a brief conversation, Han Seong-jin left first.

…

Meanwhile, Choi Soo-yeon almost screamed in joy the moment her eyes met Han Seong-jin's.

It was a matter of whether the other person saw him or not, but it didn't really matter.

The important thing is that Han Seong-jin and Lee Yu-ri were so close that they almost looked like a couple.

After Lee Yu-ri completely goes to Han Seong-jin, the seat next to Gong Young-bae becomes virtually empty, and she thought she could fill it.

'Seongjin senior, nice! Cheer up more!'

The two couples left the café while they secretly cheered for Han Seong-jin's love for their own.

And after a while, Gong Young-bae stood up.

"Suyeon, I'm going to go to the bathroom for a moment."

"Yes~"

Gong Young-bae walked out through the entrance of her café holding her umbrella, and Choi Soo-yeon hummed as she looked around at the photos she had taken today.

Then she realized that she also wanted to go to the bathroom, so she approached the café worker and asked.

"Hey, where can I go to the bathroom here?"

"Go to the door inside the building over there in the bathroom and turn right."

"Thank you… Um?"

Choi Su-yeon, feeling something strange about her, tilted her head.

"The bathroom is inside the building… Why did you go out the door over there?"

An unknown anxiety slowly grew in Choi Soo-yeon's mind.

…

After Han Seong-jin left, Yu-ri Lee felt like the warm feel of his hand still remained on her hand.

Last week, I was so drunk that I couldn't even feel anything, but the man's hand I held for the first time was much bigger and warmer than I thought.

'You really like me…'

Even while Lee Yu-ri felt confused, her heart continued to pound when she thought of Han Seong-jin's confession.

If you divide it into likes and dislikes, it feels much closer to likes.

'Ji, are we really dating like this…? But it doesn't change the fact that he's part of Iljin… I definitely hate kids like that… Why am I so happy?'

After standing in place for a long time, barely able to calm herself down while holding on to her trembling heart, Lee Yu-ri opened her umbrella and headed out into the rain, pondering the answer to Han Seong-jin's confession.

However, less than a minute after she started walking, someone stopped her from behind.

"Yuri!"

At first, she was excited about a moment because she thought it was Han Seong-jin, but soon Yu-ri Lee's heart cooled down.

The voice that called her was a bit higher and thinner than Han Seong-jin's.

And it was a voice I had known for a long time before Han Seong-jin's deep, deep voice.

When Yuri Yu-ri looked behind her, her face changed from that of a girl who was excited by her first visit to a cold and cold face.

"Why are you here?"

"Wait… Talk to me for a moment."

"I have nothing to say to you."

Lee Yu-ri could not possibly forgive Gong Yeong-bae.

Because Gong Young-bae's words of treating her like a cheap woman who was coquettish with Han Seong-jin just because she had a few words with him were still stuck in her heart.

"I just saw it all. Are you… Dating that bastard Han Seong-jin?"

"You… Were you really stalking me?"

Yuri Lee asked back with an expression of disbelief.

If that were the case, she did not intend to treat Gong Young-bae as a human being at all.

"No! I saw it while I was on a 'café date' with Sooyeon!"

Gong Young-bae put extra emphasis on the phrase 'café date' with the intention of arousing Lee Yu-ri's jealousy, but her expression did not change at all.

"Suyeon? Ah,~ That second-grader you used to visit often? She came on a date? Congratulations."

"Huh…?"

Gong Yeong-bae was completely dumbfounded by Lee Yu-ri's words, as she calmly congratulated him without being angry or jealous.

"Why are you so surprised? Since you're the bitch who's been hitting on Han Seong-jin, I immediately congratulate you on finding a new woman."

"You… Are you really saying that because of that… That's why you're doing this to Han Seong-jin? They even hugged each other like a couple? She told me to fuck you just because I said that one thing?"

"Ha."

Yuri snorted as if she was shocked.

"If anyone hears it, they'll think I'm hanging out with Han Seong-jin just to watch over you, right?"

"Then isn't it?"

"Don't be mistaken. You have nothing to do with it. No, maybe it has something to do with it? Because you treated me like that that day, I ended up letting go of all my feelings for you and started hanging out with Han Seong-jin?"

"You… Are you still saying what I said was wrong? Even after seeing what you're doing with Han Seong-jin?"

"That's wrong. It's not because I taunted Han Seong-jin first that you said such harsh things to me, but because you said those words, I went to Han Seong-jin."

And Lee Yu-ri made a bombshell that tore Gong Yeong-bae's heart to pieces.

"I was confessed to by Han Seong-jin."

"What… What…?"

"He says he likes me. Han Seongjin."

"W-what… Of course, you refused, right?"

"…"

"Lying… Yes! You're lying! Are you lying to make me jealous!? Are you doing that to me just like I did last week and then intentionally sticking around with Soo-yeon?!"

"… Are you deliberately sticking around with her to make me jealous? Are you really the worst?"

"What kind of bastard is Han Seong-jin? You know it because you heard the rumors! He goes around messing with any girl he likes, and since he was in first grade… No, the rumor is that he's never stopped drinking, smoking, or even riding a motorcycle since he was in middle school! How many kids were ripped off by that bastard's gang?"

"Maybe he was like that in the past. He even acknowledged that. But… He's changed."

"What…?"

Gong Young-bae was having a hard time breathing now.

Even though she said this, Lee Yu-ri was defending Han Seong-jin.

"Ever since the semester started, he has never hung out with his group. He is now working a part-time job to make money, and even though he has less than 80,000 won left for living expenses, he refuses to help with tuition, saying he has to take care of it himself. Furthermore, he quit smoking and drinking. "Right now, I'm trying to live a normal life somehow."

"You… Why do you protect a child like that…"

"And most of all, he really cared for me."

"..? What does that mean-"

"You and I have known each other for over 10 years, but if you think about it, have you ever done anything for me first? On Valentine's Day, I always made chocolate first, and you bought it from the convenience store.

I've made lunch boxes for you, but I've never eaten the lunch box you made. At least you always left everything, right?

When I ask you to go somewhere with me, you don't have any opinions, and when I was 11 and almost got bitten by a street dog, I cried, but you abandoned me and ran away first. Do you remember that time we had a fight and didn't talk for a few days?

When I think about it, I was a fool for sticking around because I liked you."

"I'm sorry, Yuri. I'll apologize for what happened then-"

"Han Seong-jin took me to arcades, escape room cafés, and all sorts of places to entertain me even though he himself had no money.

Instead of running away like you, he protected me from the front, and like you, he didn't say a single word that hurt me and comforted me while thinking about what I would think and how I would feel after being hurt by you.

Things I've never received from you."

After pouring out all her words, Lee Yu-ri sighed, not sure if she was controlling her anger or shaking off the last of her emotions.

"Let's just get it over with."

"!"

We have been living with each other for more than 10 years.

When the words to end the relationship came out of Lee Yu-ri's mouth, Gong Young-bae's eyes filled with tears.

"No, this is also a strange thing to say. I never even started. What happens to me or not with Han Seong-jin is none of your business. So from now on, don't suddenly show up like this and act like it's natural or like you left something to me."

Leaving only those words, Yu-ri Lee walked further and further away, holding her umbrella.

"Yuri! Yuri!"

Gong Yeong-bae called desperately, but she didn't even look back and soon disappeared into the crowd of people.

Gong Young-bae, who had been standing there for a long time just listening to the sound of the rain, forced back tears and returned to her café in a dizzy state.

'Gwae, it's okay… Suyeon is there… Eunji is there…'

When Gong Young-bae entered the café, he suddenly felt strange.

Choi Su-yeon, who was supposed to be there, was not there.

'Did you go to the bathroom…?'

Gong Young-bae turned on her cell phone to ask where she was.

There were several messages from Choi Su-yeon on his cell phone.

[Choi Su-yeon: Where did your senior go? I heard there is a bathroom here in the building

[Choi Su-yeon: Senior?

[Choi Su-yeon: Does it take a long time? Please give me an answer

[Choi Su-yeon: Sorry, senior. My body suddenly feels so good, so I'll go in first.

Ch. 28 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 28
Chapter 28 – Girls Who Fall in Love (7)

Even after Choi Su-yeon went to the bathroom, Gong Young-bae did not return to her seat and did not even read the text message.

"Where did you go…? Did you go to the wrong building's restroom? You didn't even look at the message…"

[Me: Does it take a long time? Please give me an answer

When Gong Young-bae didn't read it no matter how many times she sent it, Soo-yeon Choi went to look for it herself.

"Umm… It's the men's restroom, but I can't go in here…"

Soo-yeon Choi was walking around in front of the bathroom, grabbed a man who was approaching, and asked.

"Hey! I'm really sorry, but could you please check to see if there's anyone inside the men's restroom?"

"Ah… Yes, yes!"

When the man saw Choi Soo-yeon's enormous breasts, the corners of her mouth went up, and he hurried into the bathroom.

But the bathroom was empty, and after he came back out, she shook her head.

"There's no one there?"

"Really? Where did he go…?"

"Oh, hey, if it's okay with you, hehe-"

"Thanks for checking!"

Sooyeon Choi returned to the café, leaving behind the man with a devastated expression.

"Hmm… I have to go look for it! Anyway, it takes a lot of work."

In less than 30 seconds after opening the umbrella and going outside in the rain, Soo-yeon Choi succeeded in finding Gong Young-bae.

"Yay~ Youngbae sun…"

Su-yeon Choi, who was trying to talk to me, paused for a moment.

Gong Young-bae was talking to someone in the rain with an umbrella.

The person facing Gong Young-bae is…

'Hey, Yuri?!'

A body that is not inferior to anyone else's, long, soft and shiny black hair, and cute spots under the eyes.

It was Lee Yu-ri, the student council president who was her romantic rival whom she always disapproved of and at the same time harbored a slight sense of inferiority.

Since he was already a second year student, he didn't have much time to spend with them, so having someone like him in the same grade or even class was such an unfair fight.

'Didn't you go out with Seongjin earlier? Why are you still doing that over there? No, rather, why are you two talking? How dare you do that to my senior Youngbae…!'

Suyeon Choi was grinding her teeth as she secretly stood close enough to hear the two people talking.

It was raining, so it was very easy to cover my face with an umbrella.

"I was confessed to by Han Seong-jin."

"What… What…?"

Lee Yu-ri received a confession from Han Seong-jin.

As soon as Choi Soo-yeon heard those words, she jumped with joy and covered her mouth with her hand to hide her smile even though no one was watching.

'Nice senior Seongjin! You finally did it! If we continue to date like this, I will be the one sitting next to Youngbae-'

However, Choi Soo-yeon's joy did not last 10 seconds.

"Lying… Yes! You're lying! Are you lying to make me jealous!? Are you doing that to me just like I did last week and then intentionally sticking around with Soo-yeon?!"

A word from Gong Young-bae.

That one word shattered Choi Su-yeon's world and tore it to pieces.

'Did you… Do something… To make me jealous?'

Suyeon Choi was on the verge of having trouble breathing.

Dreamlike times of the past week.

The week in which she was able to fully enjoy her time with Gong Young-bae without Lee Yu-ri, who always bothered and bothered her, seemed to be fading away like a sand castle in front of the waves.

It was all fake and an illusion.

'You didn't meet me because you liked me…?'

She thought that Gong Young-bae liked her as much as she liked her Gong Young-bae.

But she realized that wasn't the case.

Gong Young-bae was only interested in Lee Yu-ri.

In order to get Yuri's attention back, she just 'pretended' to hang out with her.

Of course, Gong Young-bae also had a crush on Choi Soo-yeon.

However, there was no way for Choi Soo-yeon to know that she had been managing the three women because she monopolized all their affection but did not want the other two to leave if she gave that much affection to someone else, so she thought that Gong Young-bae was not interested in her at all.

Choi Su-yeon's heart was shattered like glass hit by a rock.

Choi Soo-yeon was so devastated that she wanted to sit down and cry, but if she did, she would be seen.

She returned to her café, holding her charred heart.

As soon as Choi Soo-yeon saw the empty seat in her café where her and Gong Young-bae's bags were placed, she couldn't hold back and burst into tears.

"Uuuuu…"

There was no interest in me at all.

She was using me to divert her attention.

I liked my senior so much, but how…

All kinds of thoughts swirled in Lee Yu-ri's head, creating chaos.

"Huh… Ugh… Huh…"

Once the emotional dam broke, Soo-yeon Choi cried, ignoring the stares of other customers in her café as her sorrow and sadness, her despair and self-destruction that she was not loved came all at once.

And with her trembling fingers, she sent a message full of typos.

[Me: Sorry, senior. My body suddenly feels so good, so I'll go in first.

Soo-yeon Choi left the café after packing her bag and almost ran in the rain, crying bitterly.

"Ugh… Ugh… Ah!"

Choi Soo-yeon, who couldn't see clearly because she was crying and wanted to get out of the place right away, only walked faster and slipped in the rain and fell.

The lost umbrella rolled on the floor, and she was exposed to the rain.

However, as she was suffering from her charred heart, she did not even think to pick up her umbrella and just sat there and shed her tears in vain.

"Huh… Hah… Haha… Aha… Ahahahaha!"

Then she suddenly started laughing like someone who had completely lost her mind.

Soo-yeon Choi, who had lost her senses because her despair was so great, laughed while being hit by the rain. People tried to help her, but when they saw her, she backed away and just walked away.

She is a woman who sits down in the rain, bursting into laughter and tears at the same time as her whole body gets hit by the rain.

Anyone could see that she was a crazy lunatic, but no one understood her burnt insides.

She shouldn't have been there…

"Hey, what are you doing?"

A low-pitched male voice was heard from behind her as she cried and laughed.

And her rain no longer fell on her head.

"I took my umbrella away and cried in the rain. I thought he was a crazy person and thought he was doing something crazy, but it turned out to be a face I recognized."

"Huh… Hah… Wait, Seongjin senior…?"

The person behind Choi Soo-yeon holding her umbrella was Han Seong-jin.

Inside the café, I clearly made eye contact with Gong Young-bae and Choi Su-yeon.

Then, he very quickly turned his head and pretended not to have seen her at all. He and Lee Yu-ri walked out like a friendly couple, deliberately putting their hands together so that Gong Young-bae could see clearly.

After I got far enough away that I could no longer see Yu-ri Lee, I went back to the café from earlier, covering my face with an umbrella.

And sure enough.

In front of the café, Gong Young-bae and Yu-ri Lee were seen fighting over something.

I couldn't hear it well because of the sound of the rain, but I could roughly guess what it was about, and it wasn't really important whether I knew it or not.

The important thing is… Choi Soo-yeon, who followed.

From the moment the blonde haired girl came out of her café, I had my eyes on her.

After standing there for a moment, Soo-yeon Choi went back into the café. After a while, she packed her bag and ran out of the café.

Gong Young-bae and Lee Yu-ri were still arguing at that time.

I just ran after Choi Soo-yeon, and after running for a while, Choi Soo-yeon fell and got covered in rainwater, but without even picking up her umbrella, she sat down and cried and laughed.

When Suyeon Choi recognized me, she stopped crying and laughing and spoke quietly.

"… Senior… Why are you here?"

"I saw it while passing by."

"Senior, you should just date Yuri. Don't worry about me and just go on your way."

"I don't think that will work."

"Go."

"What if you don't like it?"

"I told you to go! Go! Go! Don't worry about me and go!"

Choi Su-yeon suddenly spoke informally and became abusive.

I grabbed Sooyeon Choi's hand and forced her to stand up, so she could face me, then grabbed her shoulders.

"I don't know what I'm doing here, but I'm still cold. If it rains, I'll catch a cold."

"Ugh… Ugh… Keuuheu…"

"I can't use my clothes like this. Follow me. I'll lend you some clothes."

"Uuuuux!…

Soo-yeon Choi was filled with tears, but eventually she couldn't hold it back and cried bitterly into my chest, and I patted her back weakly.

…

…

We came to my house together.

The whole time we were walking, Sooyeon Choi didn't say a word with her dead eyes, and even after she entered my room, instead of looking inside the house, she just stared blankly into space.

"Use these clothes. Go in and wash yourself. I won't do anything weird, so don't worry."

"…"

Choi Soo-yeon only slightly lowered her head and then entered the bathroom and started taking her shower.

No matter how much we knew each other, there was no sign of hesitation about coming into the house of a man who lived alone and taking a shower.

No matter how much Choi Su-yeon belongs to the Iljin group, it is only on the surface, and her behavior was quite uncomfortable for me, who knew her true self.

This probably means that her heart is severely broken.

A little over 30 minutes later, Sooyeon Choi finished her shower, dried her hair, and came out wearing a shirt and pants that were quite large compared to her body.

"Thank you. And I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier."

There was no emotion in her voice, and her eyes were still dead.

Then she slowly started unbuttoning her shirt in front of me.

"What are you doing?"

"Isn't this why you brought me here? You've seen my breasts a few times while working."

Did you get caught?

"It was the same for other boys, my friends' boyfriends, and even the convenience store manager and store manager. It's the same for seniors, right? It doesn't matter anymore, so use whatever suits you."

Soo-yeon Choi was so desperate that she began to exhibit self-destructive behavior.

Her heart was broken, and she was thinking of just throwing everything away, including her virginity.

If I hadn't brought him here, he would have done the same thing to anyone else.

Just before Suyeon Choi unbuttoned her last button, I grabbed her collar, which was about to fall down her shoulders, lifted it back up, and grabbed both of her shoulders.

"Hey, get dressed. I won't tell you twice."

"Senior, my body is the goal. You think she is an easy and comfortable woman who will run to you whenever you call her and say hello to her."

"She would be lying if she honestly said she didn't want to be with you, but I never thought of you as that kind of woman."

"Don't lie!"

Suyeon Choi shouted again in informal language with tears in her eyes.

This is completely insane.

Instead of answering, I pulled Sooyeon Choi towards me and hugged her tightly.

I spoke while desperately trying to control my other self, who was about to jump up, as I could feel the soft, elastic, huge breasts that were not even wearing a bra under my dress shirt.

"I don't know what made you so upset, but this won't change anything. It won't make you feel better. I'm not having sex with you right now. Instead…"

I lightly wiped Choi Soo-yeon's eyes, which had begun to shed tears, with my hand.

"I want to hear your story. Why are you like this? Why are you so hurt that you're trying to get out?"

"I, I… I…"

Tears flowed again from the corners of my eyes that I had just wiped with my hands.

"Aaaaah! Aaaaah!"

And Sooyeon Choi completely broke down and buried her face in my chest and sobbed.

Ch. 29 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 29
Chapter 29 – Girls Who Fall in Love (8)

While confessing her story, Soo-yeon Choi choked several times and sought water. Each time, her emotions became so intense that she hugged me and cried.

And when the story was over, she laughed helplessly, rubbing her dry eyes as if no tears were coming out.

"Ha… Haha… I'm funny, right? I feel like I'm dating alone, and I feel like I'm in love alone. Furthermore, I thought that if you get along with Yuri, I'll get along with Youngbae… But the person I'm giving the rice cake to is… I didn't even think about it, but I was drinking kimchi soup by myself. Wow, this is the first time I've felt so miserable in my life… Ugh…"

"It's okay. It's going to be hard, so don't say more. Come here."

I tapped my hand on the floor next to me, and we sat together on the blanket I was sleeping on, leaning my back against the wall.

"How many times should I give that bastard Gong Young-bae a beating?"

"Yes. Very good."

When she asked the same question, Lee Yu-ri told her not to do so, but Choi Soo-yeon immediately responded by telling her to hit her.

Although her personality is different, it probably means that she has suffered a lot.

Of course, it seemed like she didn't say it because she truly wanted me to beat up Gong Young-bae.

Suyeon Choi dropped her head to the side helplessly and muttered, resting her head on my shoulder.

"… Senior, do you have alcohol?"

"There are some things I bought before that I didn't drink, but why? Are you going to drink alcohol?"

"I don't think I can survive if I don't drink."

"What kind of drink is 2nd grade?"

"I'm 20 years old by kneeling."

"But no. Looking at what you did earlier, I don't know what you'll do if you get drunk in this state."

At my words, Sooyeon Choi raised her head for a moment and looked at me, then rested her head on my shoulder again.

"Aren't you surprised? I'm 20 years old."

I can't honestly say that because I knew that…

Since he was the one who revealed it first, I brought out a comment to further capture Choi Su-yeon's heart.

"Then what changes?"

"Yes?"

"Does it really matter whether you're 19 or 20? All I see in my eyes is a girl whose heart has been broken so badly that she's emotionally unstable."

"… And even though my senior treated me so well, I am the woman who ran to Youngbae as soon as I had the chance. You were also annoyed inside. You were disillusioned."

"Not at all? Even though you said you liked Gong Young-bae in the first place, I was the one who suggested Ddaeng-daeng take you along. If you think about it that way, aren't I the worse person?"

"Yeah, but I… I…"

"Don't try to find reasons to criticize yourself. You're not that bad of a woman."

Choi Su-yeon brought her knees to her chest and bowed her head.

It seemed like she was shedding tears again as her shoulders were shaking.

I gave her a moment to calm down and then asked another question.

"But I'm curious as to why you kneeled. Did you repeat a grade?"

Of course, I knew the reason, but I pretended not to know and asked.

Let's narrow the distance between Choi Soo-yeon and her by making her share all of her secrets with me.

"… I went to study abroad."

"Oh, study abroad? Where? America? Japan? Europe?"

"When I was in middle school, I went to America. I didn't want to go, but my parents forced me for a year to go there to study…"

"It must have been difficult. Did you communicate well?"

"… Living wasn't a problem. But after I finished studying abroad and returned to Korea, I naturally ended up taking a year off… All my friends went to higher education academies, but I was the only one in middle school.

Because the kids in my class are different ages, they are reluctant to me… Do you know how I feel when I find out that a group chat room has been created without me?"

"It must have been like a dog."

"All my friends were a grade higher, so I no longer had to run into them, and the kids in my class were ostracizing me… Meanwhile, at home, they were constantly telling me to get better grades."

"Hearing what you say, it seems like you studied quite a bit before, but did you get derailed because of that?"

"… Yes. It was my own way of rebelling. At first, I was scolded and kicked out of the house, but now I'm just treated like a child who gave up at home.

It suits me right now, right? I was abandoned at home, I was separated from my friends, and what was left was a relationship with a delinquent son who was deviant and a fake relationship… Nothing about me is real.

He was a man who liked my only support, and I was just a convenient junior who could be exploited. He's just an inconvenience to everyone, and he's so pathetic that he's not loved by anyone… Hehe… Ahaha hot…"

As Soo-yeon Choi spoke, she began to make more and more self-destructive comments again, and I gently held her head and pulled her to my shoulder to stop her.

There was no resistance, and Sooyeon Choi just rested her head on my shoulder.

"Don't talk like that. As I said before, you are a good enough woman. On the contrary, that bastard Gong Young-bae is an asshole. If someone like you, who has a pretty face, kind personality, and a lot of charm, says he likes you, but you don't even know that, is that a man? You eunuch. Or does that guy like men?"

"Phew."

"Isn't there a possibility? If you had done that to me, I would have hugged you with open arms. How can a woman like you cling to me, but then become a man and not respond to her? It's clear. It's clear that that bastard likes men. "

"Then isn't the senior the most dangerous?"

Suyeon Choi said, still leaning her head on my shoulder.

"Me?"

"To be honest, my senior is also quite masculine and handsome. He's tall and has a nice body. His behavior was a bit… A bit like that, but I don't hear much about it these days. If I were gay, I think I'd target him first, right?"

For a moment, I had a very terrible imagination that I shouldn't have, and I shuddered.

"That's creepy. Don't say that because it's scary."

"He started first."

"That's right. I was wrong. I'm scared to death, so please don't say that. Do you see that I'm getting goosebumps? Look at my arms."

I showed my skinny arms, and Suyeon Choi traced my forearm with her finger and smiled lightly.

"Sir, it's strange as expected."

"Why me?"

"There are things I heard directly from my friends, and it's strange that he suddenly changed so much, and it's strange that he's so kinder than I thought, and I thought he'd ask for my body after he broke up with me, but that's not the case, and it's strange.

On that topic, I went straight to Youngbae, but he didn't say anything, so it was strange, and since I was abandoned, he brought me home like this. Why are you being so nice to me?"

"What have you been hearing from me so far?"

"Yes?"

I looked directly into Sooyeon Choi's eyes.

Choi Su-yeon, who was wearing my men's shirt and pants, looked strangely sexier even though she wasn't showing anything.

"Why am I being nice to you? Because you are a very nice girl. Does a man need any more reason to be nice to a girl he likes?"

Choi Soo-yeon's eyes, which were staring at me, gradually began to shake.

Then, Suyeon Choi, who understood everything, suddenly raised her head and took it off my shoulder.

"Sir, your prank is a bit excessive. I didn't know you had this type of personality…"

"Isn't it a joke?"

"Eh…"

"Then you thought I was just saying empty words to comfort you? Unfortunately, I am far from that kind of lip service."

"Yeah, but you're dating senior Yuri…"

"Oh, we're not dating yet."

"Still…?"

Choi Su-yeon tilted her head.

Anyone who saw us would have thought we were dating.

"He said he liked it, but I thought he needed time to gather his thoughts, so I told him he could respond later."

At that moment, Sooyeon Choi's eyes changed slightly, and she glanced at me.

"… Then you confessed to Yuri earlier, and now you're bringing another woman to her house?"

"That's right. I'm a very greedy and selfish person when it comes to women, so when I see a good woman, I want it all. Yuri Lee and you too."

"Wow… I've never heard such a shameless thing in my life. It wasn't just that it was strange, but there was no answer at all."

"I haven't learned anything. Please understand."

Suyeon Choi, who was looking me up and down as if looking at her trash, leaned back against the wall and placed her head on my shoulder.

"But… I feel like this shameless possessiveness is better than a made-up favor, so I don't think I really have an answer."

Sooyeon Choi slipped her arm between my arms and crossed her arms, hugging her tightly.

"Sir. Shall we… Do this?"

It was obvious what we wanted to do.

To be honest, as soon as I heard those words, my lower abdomen began to swell like an active volcano exploding, but I answered while fighting against my desires.

"I said not now."

"Why? You said you liked me."

"It's not that you really like me as a man, you're just doing it to break your heart and destroy yourself in some way.

"I try to brainwash myself by thinking, 'I'm such a dirty bitch, so it's natural for me to be treated like that.'"

"…"

"Honestly, it doesn't matter if it's me or anyone else right now, right? I just need a reason to destroy myself. I don't feel good with a guy like that, and more than anything, you'll regret it for the rest of your life."

"… How do you know that?"

"Do you think you'll feel any better after doing this with me? It'll make you want to die, right? I don't have the hobby of watching the girl I like get ruined like that right in front of my eyes. And… I have to leave later than anything else, so I don't have time. "No."

"…? You're going out again?"

"Uh. I told you the other day. We're gangsters… No, I just decided to get together with kids who are similar to me."

"Ah."

It was only then that Sooyeon Choi remembered the 'meeting' I had mentioned once before.

In the first place, Su-yeon Choi must have heard this story many times from the girls in her second-grade class.

"I have to get ready soon, so you should get ready to go home too. Please return your clothes later. And since you are already a good enough girl and a child who deserves to be loved, don't have strange thoughts and leak out in the middle. Well, even if I say this, it won't be much of a consolation. ."

Suyeon Choi was silent for a moment, then she grabbed my collar.

"I don't want to go home."

"Hey, that doesn't mean I'm going to join you in destroying yourself-"

"Not that. My senior said that back then, right? He told me to either rehearse for the date course with him, or pretend to be his girlfriend and participate in the meeting instead, so I could have an excuse to leave the meeting. I still remember it."

Choi Su-yeon took a deep breath, perhaps trying to calm her stomach.

Then, facing me, she stretched out her arms, wrapped them around the back of my neck, and whispered into my ear.

"I said I was a woman worthy of love, right? Then prove it to me."

"You…"

"I will go to that meeting with my senior. As a 'girlfriend'."

Ch. 30 Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel 30
Chapter 30 – Iljin Meeting

"No."

I flatly refused her request.

But Choi Su-yeon did not give in and responded.

"Why?"

"This is not the place for you."

"So, if you don't want to rehearse the date course, you told me to follow you there and pretend to be your girlfriend? What if I said I knew?"

Even after she revealed that they were the same age, Choi Soo-yeon, who had maintained her respectful manner, suddenly asked her in informal language.

In the first place, it was obvious that Choi Soo-yeon would 100% reject it, so it was a bluff she used as a negotiation technique…

'I didn't expect this.'

She didn't know that Choi Soo-yeon would come with her.

However, I couldn't just refuse it because, as Soo-yeon Choi said, I had already bluffed about this before, so I was caught in the middle of the argument because of my statement.

While I was at a loss, Choi Su-yeon's condition began to worsen again.

"As expected, did you lie too? Did you just say something to make me feel good? Even though you didn't mean it at all? You said I was a good woman or that I deserved to be loved… Yeah, I knew that. Haha. . I was fooled by someone twice in one day, huh? You wanted to do that to me?"

"Oh, no! Okay, let's go together! If I stick with you, they won't do anything weird."

When I saw Choi Su-yeon about to start having another seizure, I quickly allowed her to accompany me.

Then…

"Heung, thank you, senior. I really didn't want to go home like this."

Choi Soo-yeon's expression completely changed, and she returned to her usual tension, as if it had never happened before.

Her face was still a little dark and her eyes were swollen and a little puffy from crying, but her expression was smiling.

I had no choice but to admit that I was taken advantage of by her Choi Soo-yeon.

Sooyeon Choi and I headed to the meeting place, a meat restaurant.

"Sooyeon, didn't you say she's never been to a place like this before?"

"Yes."

"Do you know what those bastards do together?"

"I know."

"What is it?"

"After eating, we get together to drink and smoke? And then when it's over, aren't we going to a motel? I heard that's what my friends did with their seniors and juniors, so it seems like that's the case."

I don't know anything.

"Suyeon, I am giving you serious advice for your mental health, but it is not too late, so just go."

"You don't want to? If you rescued me from the rain and took me home, then take responsibility."

"You might faint from shock. And if I go there, I can't keep acting like I am. Those bastards will look at me strangely. Are you really doing this because you know what you're doing there?"

"You're making such a fuss. Do you think anyone will know that you're trying to scare me? Don't even think about throwing a smokescreen at me and just leave."

It's not really a smokescreen this time.

Sooyeon Choi: Can she imagine what she will see from now on?

…

We arrived at her meat house while I was worried about her inside.

"Suyeon, I want to warn you in advance, apologize, and ask for your understanding. From now on, no matter how I treat you in there, and no matter what you see in the future, don't be surprised, rebel, or show any awkwardness. You will become prey."

"Prey…?"

Everyone except me was already seated in the reservation room of the meat restaurant we were staying at.

The most prominent and central place is left empty.

"Han Seong-jin! Are you here? I've left a seat empty, so sit down quickly."

"Hello, Senior Seongjin!"

"Hello, senior!"

Among the group of third-year students, the higher-ranking ones greeted me lightly without hesitation, and among them was Hwang Seong-tae, who was kicked out by me while chasing Yu-ri Lee and Gong Yeong-bae on the opening day of school.

The lower-ranking 3rd graders got up from their seats and stood still, while the 1st and 2nd graders bent their waists 90 degrees and bowed loudly, like low-level gangsters greeting their boss.

I also had a tattoo on my forearm, but the other first to third-graders here had even more tattoos than me.

No matter how you look at it, Soo-yeon Choi froze on the spot when she saw the atmosphere of this place, which looked like it was just a gangster gathering and not students from a higher education academy.

And several of the girls there recognized Choi Soo-yeon and shouted.

"Huh? It's Suyeon, right? Suyeon!"

"Ah… Hello Jiya."

A group of girls sitting on one side of the table waving their hands happily at Choi Soo-yeon.

Among them, the girl with curly hair who seemed to be the leader had two pairs of piercings in her ears, and her makeup was so heavy that she almost looked like a girl.

It was Jeong Ji-ah, the leader of the second-year female group that Su-yeon Choi belonged to.

"What? You always asked me to come, but you never came, so why did Seongjin come with you?"

"I brought her because she is mine."

At my words, Soo-yeon Choi looked at me quietly, and I strongly wrapped my arms around her waist and pulled her towards me, as if to show off.

"Oh, oh~"

Boys around me cheered, and many of them looked at me with envy.

Choi Soo-yeon, a second-year student, was a beautiful girl who was famous not only among other students but also among the students.

Because it was so difficult, I would have expected that she would be easily picked on by anyone at a gathering like this, but since she never shows up, she is the type of woman who is just a pie in the sky.

Soo-yeon Choi became my woman, and she came to this meeting for the first time, so everyone who was thinking about picking on Soo-yeon Choi swallowed their regrets only to taste her again.

"Bring another chair."

"Yes, senior!"

I said that as I sat down in the middle seat, and immediately one of the first-graders rushed over with a chair and placed it next to me.

As everyone naturally moved aside, Choi Soo-yeon had space to sit, and I deliberately placed her very close to me.

On the other side of Choi Su-yeon sat Jeong Ji-ah, the leader of her group, and on the other side of her was Hwang Seong-tae, the second-in-command of our group.

Jeong Ji-ah teased Choi Su-yeon by poking her cheek.

"Hey~ You always meet college guys. When did you date Seongjin oppa? I'm jealous. Hey, you've achieved great success?"

"Ah, ahaha… Chu, what is success…"

"Ah~ Seongjin oppa is so excited too. I really wanted to hang out with you today, but I can't do it because the other person is Suyeon. Or can I join you too?"

"That's done for now."

I cut everyone off, and as soon as I opened my mouth, the surroundings immediately became quiet.

"We have a new guest today, so let's not make too much of a fuss and eat quietly, okay?"

"Yes!"

Everyone answered loudly, and Hwang Seong-tae, who was sitting next to me, raised his voice by banging on the table.

"Hey, these babies. Captain, there's no drink in the cup. Come and follow.

When Seongtae Hwang scanned the table with his eyes, I stopped him.

"It's okay. I just have to get it from Suyeon."

"Huh? Okay, okay. Hey guys, the boss said it was okay, so come and pour me a drink. Oh, there you are. Come and sit next to me."

Hwang Seong-tae called one of her first-year students to sit next to him, as if calling her a call-girl, and the girl poured her drink very skillfully, even though she was still underage.

Seongtae Hwang sat the first grade girl down next to her and started massaging her breasts.

When Soo-yeon Choi looked at that place in surprise, I nudged her side with my elbow as a way to give her some attention, and it was only then that Su-yeon Choi came to her senses and turned her head in the opposite direction without saying a word.

"Hey, Captain. It's been a while since we've all gathered together like this. Should I say something?"

"One word… Yes, I have to do it."

I sighed, paused for a moment, and looked at Hwang Seong-tae.

"No, why don't you just take the lead today?"

"Me?"

"Okay. Think of yourself as the king and give it a try. I'm not in a good mood today, so I don't have much motivation."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw the corner of Hwang Seong-tae's mouth twitch.

Because of Han Seong-jin, he always stayed as second-in-command and only watched what others thought, but now that I have given him the right to lead the game, he must think that he is the king at this moment. I had dreamed of it so much.

Hwang Seong-tae did not refuse and accepted my offer without hesitation, then stood up, raised his drink, and shouted.

"It feels so good to see you guys like this! Now, let's make a toast to say that our friendship will last forever! Our friendship!"

""Forever!""

'Our friendship will forever be ruined.'

I clicked my tongue inwardly.

If they were normal people, they wouldn't be so divided among their friends.

After Hwang Seong-tae's congratulatory speech, a meat and drinking party took place.

Among the people gathered, there were many first and second year students, but they were all just living their lives, so I didn't care about such things.

They don't sell alcohol if there are minors, but it looks like it's full of gangsters, so even the working people didn't dare come to the room.

Jeong Ji-ah, the leader of the second-year female group, bombarded Su-yeon Choi with questions the whole time, and the other men were also busy glancing at Su-yeon Choi's body with her eyes.

As the alcohol slowly trickled in, the true purpose of this 'gathering' began to be revealed.

"Chuhup… Ha… "

Hwang Seong-tae was heavily intertwining with the first-year girl he had called, one hand on her chest and one hand under her skirt, and the girl was also playing with her fingers, putting her hand under Hwang Seong-tae's clothes and groping her chest. .

Ji-ah Jeong, who was sitting next to Soo-yeon Choi, was also facing her boy, who she didn't know was a first-year or second-year student, and was sitting on top of her legs, shaking her buttocks, groping each other's bodies and kissing.

Suyeon Choi, shocked by the lewd acts unfolding in front of her, opened her eyes and looked at me.

She was speaking with her eyes.

I want to get out of here quickly.

I didn't intend to stay here for a long time in the first place, and I didn't want to expose Sooyeon Choi to a place like this for a long time, so I stood up and told everyone.

"Hey, if everyone has eaten, let's get up quickly."

"Yes, senior!"

Then everyone, who was ready to have a group orgy at any moment, answered loudly, got dressed and got up.

At this meeting, some of us third-graders, especially first and second-graders who wanted to gain a good reputation from me, immediately ran out of the room and went to pay.

Because in this group, third-graders, including me, are the kings.

'Tsk.'

Even that didn't make me feel at ease.

It's obvious that all that money was collected by harassing and extorting money from people anyway.

After we finished eating, I was going to leave and announce to everyone that I would no longer attend this meeting.

But…

"Suyeon! This is our first time here. Are we going to go to the karaoke room for the second time? We're going to get a room at Junko."

"Huh? I…"

At Jeong Ji-ah's words, Choi Soo-yeon glanced at me.

But before I could say anything, Jeong Ji-ah was already pulling Choi Soo-yeon by the arm.

"You're not going to come all the way here and get rid of it, are you? To be honest, I'm kind of upset that you don't come out to places like this much. Since you're here, let's have some fun, shall we?"

'Damn it.'

I could have taken Sooyeon Choi with me here.

The problem is that I was planning to cut ties with these guys from now on and wash my hands of them, but Choi Su-yeon is not able to do that.

Even after today, Suyeon Choi has no choice but to belong to that group for the time being.

Even if the relationship is made up of lies and pretense, they are the only ones who give Choi Soo-yeon anything resembling a 'friend' right now.

Someday I will have to cut my losses, but it is too early now.

Whatever the reason, if Choi Soo-yeon is left out again, her reputation among that group will definitely deteriorate.

Like saying it's expensive for no reason, or just trusting Han Seong-jin and making a fuss about it.

Because she is in a different grade, it is difficult for me to protect her properly.

They say things like our friendship will last forever, but if they feel even the slightest bit offended, they can immediately brand and punish the kids they played with until yesterday.

If you want to bring it out, you can bring it out, but Choi Soo-yeon is in charge of everything that might happen after that.

I couldn't let Choi Su-yeon be taken for that reason.

She leaves me here and goes alone?

That is even more impossible.

"Let's all go out. Those who took the room at Junko take the lead."

The time to hold this meeting was postponed a little later.