chapter 34
34 – A guy I’m used to seeing for the first time 1
Hero Academy’s student Yuri Oh
Until just a few months ago, she was living a life like hell day by day, but now she is living a life that makes people think of the word happiness every day.
However, today’s Yuri Oh was in a different mood than usual.
It wasn’t particularly because something went wrong in her own life.
After the events of that day, no one harassed her in her academy anymore, and no one took her money.
She is no longer beaten or kicked for no reason, and she can put her entire meal in her mouth at every meal without worrying about her money.
It may be natural for her, but it is a situation that makes her feel happy enough for her.
However, in spite of that fact, today she is feeling a lack in her own life.
Her lack is that the person who is most important to her for the next four days, starting from today…
She gave her a new life, and the only person she could rely on was temporarily away from the academy.
‘Four days of training… how great it would have been if I had been in the same grade as senior Doyoung..’
Han Do-yeong leaves the academy with her classmates due to her spring training.
Now, after school, the fact that she didn’t have the person she used to go home with every day was giving Yuri a huge sense of emptiness.
‘But… I just have to endure it for four days… Just four days…’
Yuri calms herself down and heads home cautiously.
The house she is staying in is a quiet area located slightly outside the city.
A secluded place with a mountain right behind and not too many people.
When Yuri arrived there, feeling a bit empty at the fact that she had to eat alone in an empty house today, she tried to go inside her house.
But…
-Bushluck
“Huh?”
The next moment, a sudden sound of trees colliding.
Yuri automatically turned her gaze to that direction at the sound coming from the flower bed connected to the mountain.
“What.. What is it?”
A sign of something suddenly felt in a deserted place.
At this, Yuri’s face began to show a moment of embarrassment and a little bit of fear.
The momentary thought that came to my mind was an animal like a deer or a wild boar that often descends from the mountains.
Still, it wasn’t something to be afraid of as much as Yuri’s abilities could handle it lightly, but nevertheless, the fact that something unknown was approaching made the young Yuri feel afraid by itself. I had no choice but to make
“Who… who are you?”
Yuri asked in a trembling voice.
Shortly thereafter… The bushes began to shake again in front of her eyes, and something black slowly began to walk out of them.
That’s right…
“..!”
*
She has always lived a life that moves according to the trend.
Even if she saw a scene that was not right in front of her eyes, if it was the request of her flow, she acted accordingly without much resistance.
I was well aware that this kind of life is not very nice to see.
Without holding on to one’s own assertion, the life of simply following one’s instructions gave others and oneself the feeling of becoming a tool rather than a living person.
However, despite this, she has adhered to this way of life.
Because she was comfortable living that way.
Because living like that was the best way for her.
But…
Her faith in safety came to an end one day, in a really unexpected way, being shattered.
Soon, the aftermath… Everything she had been accustomed to so far was completely changed.
Her strength, her identity,
And… The very existence of her…
*
“Whoops!”
A sudden burst of heavy breathing.
With him, her vision, which had been trapped in the dark, began to brighten in an instant.
At the same time, what she began to see…
It was the new blue sky that clearly caught her eyes.
And… Looking down at her with the sky as her background,
It was the figure of a girl I had seen somewhere.
“Um… Are you coming to your senses?”
“….”
A girl looking at her and asking questions in her quivering voice.
So she slowly moved her head and started to look around her.
Then, what she began to notice were shabby apartment complexes.
Through this, she was able to easily recognize where she was and what state she was in.
‘..First of all.. Have you survived?
While thinking that, she instantly begins to feel a deep sense of relief.
Meanwhile, watching her like that, the girl next to her asked with a voice full of urgency.
“Oh.. Are you okay? Well… Say something. In case of emergency, call an ambulance right away.”
“!..”
With those words, the girl tries to take out her phone.
Then, recognizing the fact that the girl’s behavior could be quite dangerous in some cases, she squeezed all her strength and stood up from her seat.
And…
“Huh?”
She’ll close her girl’s cell phone as it is.
At this, the girl’s face began to contain doubts and emotions for a moment.
“The ambulance is fine. What’s more urgent now… “
– Growling..
“… “
The next moment, a loud sound automatically resonates in the stomach.
At this, she felt as if her face was blushing for a moment, and she was speechless as she was. Looked and said
“Okay, I think I know what I need.”
After saying that, the girl stood up and washed her clothes.
Then the girl felt her fern toward her as she was. He held out her hand and said.
“Then will you follow me? I was alone, so I was alone, so let’s eat together.”
“….”
A girl who talks to her when she sees her for the first time without showing the slightest bit of hostility.
Looking at the girl who seemed so overly nice, she grabbed the little hand and slowly rose from her seat.
‘Looking at it like this.. My hands have gotten really small..’
While thinking that, she once followed the girl behind her and went inside her.
And after a while. A meal that appears to have been prepared by the girl began to be served in front of her.
The composition of the menu itself was extremely simple.
Chilled steamed potatoes and sugar. And a plate of kimchi.
However, despite the simple composition of the menu, she reflexively reached out her hand and eagerly began to stuff the potato in front of her eyes into her mouth.
‘Delicious.. Really.. Delicious.’
She has tried many dishes without wanting to.
But at this moment, she truly felt that the potatoes she was eating were as delicious as any other delicacy she had ever eaten.
And at the same time, a heartfelt feeling of gratitude began to sprout in her heart for this little girl who willingly offered a meal of this size to herself, whom she had never seen before.
‘No matter how impatient it may seem, it’s rare to bring someone you’ve never met to your house and treat them like this.. That would mean that this girl is kind…’
While analyzing the girl in my own way.
At the same time, she swallowed the potato she was chewing in her mouth through her throat, thinking that a villain like this would be disqualified no matter how strong a girl was.
Then…
“Hey..But.”
A girl who starts to look at her with a curious expression on her face.
Then the girl’s mouth made some predictions…
But now, for her, her slightly embarrassing questions are starting to come out.
“What is your name? From the looks of it, I don’t think I’m Asian…”
The most basic part that can reveal her identity.
About this, she spoke to the girl in a cautious voice.
“Minerva..”