My Girlfriend Is a Shaman

29 – The Boy of Urban Legend #1

A considerable amount of time had passed since her first love, but Sarah had never honestly revealed her feelings to Jinwoo. Because she was very worried that if she confessed, she would be rejected.

‘If you confess and get rejected, it’s all over.’

What if my confession is rejected?

How should I look at Jinwoo’s face from the next day?

Perhaps my relationship with Jin-Woo became awkward and my close friendship could have been broken. Sarah couldn’t bear her grief if she lost not only her love but also her friendship.

━━It can’t be real without you

But after she heard those words from Jinwoo, little by little, her feelings for Sarah began to stir. Jinwoo said it was natural for Sarah to be by her side. If she went a little further, or rather a little further, she could be interpreted as saying that she couldn’t live without her childhood friend.

Jinwoo was fast asleep next to Sarah.

Sarah thought as she stared at Jinwoo’s face.

‘What on earth is he thinking?’

Sarah wanted to know Jinwoo’s feelings.

But it was a shame to ask her directly about her feelings.

If she asked and was told no, she would be remembered as a black person for the rest of her life.

━Do you like me?

━No.

You may end up wearing a blanket every night. Sarah felt quite embarrassed just thinking about hearing her negative answer. In order to avoid negative consequences, she had better ask in a more stealthy and roundabout way.

‘Okay. It might be okay to just think about it a little bit.’

Sera decided. Up until now, she had been hiding her feelings and living as if nothing had happened, but she decided that from now on she would start a search war.

What Sarah was seeking was a certain victory.

[This station is Seoul Station.]

As time passed, the train carrying Jinwoo and Sarah arrived at Seoul Station.

Sera woke Jinwoo up from his sleep.

“Jinwoo, wake up.”

“Ugh.”

“I have to go home.”

Jinwoo and Sarah took a taxi and arrived at Hyehwadang.

After that, Jinwoo returned to his house, and Sarah went into Hyehwadang. Although she couldn’t be with her tonight, Sarah didn’t feel sorry. I’ll see you at school the next day anyway.

*

Monday morning dawned.

Sera arrived at school early in the morning.

1St grade, 1st class.

This was the classroom of the high school where Sarah was assigned.

It’s only been a week since the semester started, so I’m not yet familiar with the classroom scene.

Because it was so early, Sarah was the only one in the classroom. It was something she was used to. Because Sarah tended to go to school earlier than others. But even though she started school early, she wasn’t always alone.

━━Drur!

After a while, Jinwoo came into the classroom.

“Hello, Sarah.”

“Good morning.”

Sarah waved her hand to Jinwoo. Should we say that our habits are similar? Jinwoo also went to school early. It was their daily routine to talk in an empty classroom in the morning. It seemed like that daily routine would continue even during the three years I attended high school.

Daily life as usual.

But it felt a little different to Sarah. Now was the time to open Jinwoo’s mind. On the way to school, a good idea occurred to me.

‘Couple compatibility app’

It was literally an app that looked at the compatibility of men and women. I read a review that said that if you write down the names of a man and a woman, it will clearly show you how compatible they are with a score. While Sarah was using the app she had installed on her cell phone, she planned to ask Jinwoo to do something. Her plan was perfect.

━Jinwoo, our compatibility score is XX.

━It’s so high!

━Aren’t we a suitable pair? What do you think?

It was roughly like this.

Sera gestured to Jinwoo.

“Jinwoo, come quickly. I installed something interesting on my phone.”

“What is it? Is it a psychic app?”

“It’s more fun than a psychic app.”

Jinwoo, curious, approached Sarah.

Sera turned on her phone and showed Jinwoo the app.

Jinwoo looked at the name of the app and made a puzzled expression.

“Couple compatibility app…? What is this?”

“It’s literally an app that checks the compatibility of a man and a woman. If you enter the names of a man and a woman, it shows you a score on how good your compatibility is.”

Sarah added her words as if nothing had happened.

“Aren’t you curious? If you look at the fortune telling, it says that you are my nobleman. You are a nobleman who is said to help the heavens. Of course, if you score on the app, you will not get a high score, right?”

“Oh… I’m curious.”

“Let’s do it right away.”

My childhood friend asked me something.

Sarah opened her app with a smile on her face. The app screen came up and there were two blank spaces to write her name.

“I’ll write it down.”

“How many points will we get?”

Sarah entered Kim Jin-woo and Kang Se-ra in her blank space. After that, she leisurely pressed the button, and numbers indicating compatibility appeared on the app screen. Anyway, all I had to do was get a decent score. As soon as Sarah’s score came up, she was about to throw out the comment she had planned.

“As expected, heaven recognizes our compatibility…”

“…Gasp.”

But something was wrong.

Jinwoo was looking at the app with a surprised expression.

Sera was similarly surprised when she checked the app’s score.

0 Points.

It was 0 points. A surprising score was obtained. It was the first score I saw in my life. Neither of us had ever gotten a score like this when we took a test at school. Jinwoo opened his mouth with a laugh.

“Hey, we’re a bakery?”

“…Bread.”

“Is this a fortune approved by heaven?”

“That can’t be…”

Thanks to you, all the comments I had planned were lost.

Sarah opened her mouth with a cold expression.

“…That can’t be possible.”

A chill came out of Sarah’s voice.

Jinwoo, who was laughing, was embarrassed.

“Se, is it Sarah?”

“It was a crappy app that wasn’t worth installing. Does it make sense that our compatibility is 0? Who on earth created this trashy app? I can’t wait to see your face.”

“Woah… Calm down. Come down.”

Sarah immediately deleted her app from her phone. Her sharp voice made Jinwoo break into a cold sweat. The atmosphere was ruined in an instant. The atmosphere was something very important to the girl.

“Huh.”

I had no choice.

Sera put off the opportunity to lure her childhood friend to another time.

*

This was after deleting the app.

Jinwoo and Sarah spent time sitting in the back of the classroom. Soon enough, the time for the two to talk quietly came to an end. Slowly, other students began to appear in the classroom.

“Jinwoo, it’s Sera. Hello.”

“Hello.”

“You guys come to school early? You both arrived first last week, and you’re the same today.”

“Because I’m bored at home.”

Students who entered the classroom saw Jinwoo and Sarah and said hello. Students continued to enter the classroom one by one, but at some point, students stopped entering the classroom. There were still many empty seats.

━━Roaring Roaring

The hallway was noisy.

Jinwoo raised his head and looked into the hallway through the window. Students were gathered in the hallway talking loudly about what had happened.

“Sera, do you see anything happening outside?”

“Let’s go too.”

Jinwoo and Sarah got up from their seats and went out into the hallway.

The number of students gathered in the hallway was much larger than what I saw through the window. Students who were going to school gathered in groups in the hallway instead of entering the classroom. There were so many students that it was difficult to see what was happening.

There were quite a few students from Class 1 in the hallway.

Jinwoo grabbed a male student from his class and asked him a question.

“Kyubin. What’s going on? Why are you all in the hallway?”

He was a male student wearing glasses.

Kyu-bin answered Jin-woo’s question.

“No wonder everyone is gathered together! Today is the day the gold medalist goes to school.”

“Gold medalist?”

“You don’t seem to know? In fact, there is an incredible judo player in the same grade as us. He has swept all the national competitions since elementary school. He is a monster who won a gold medal in the youth world competition in middle school.”

“…A monster?”

“Can’t you see it over there? It looks scary just by looking at it. Today is the day he goes to school for the first time.”

Kyubin pointed between her students with her finger.

There was a boy standing there, his whole body lumpy. He wore a school uniform, so you could tell he was a boy. He was so big that if you saw him from the outside, you wouldn’t be surprised to think he was an adult.

“Wow…!”

“You’re a judo genius! I’ve seen you on TV!”

“Give me an autograph!”

The students around him surrounded the big boy and started talking to him.

That boy was a judo player.

A boy who sweeps gold medals in competitions every year.

Quite the divinity of Korean sports.

Since the person of interest came to school, an uproar was bound to occur.

Kyubin looked at Sarah and me and smiled.

“Are you surprised? We go to the same school as the hope of the Korean judo world. He might win a gold medal in the Olympics later. If you want an autograph, you better get it now.”

“I see.”

However, Jinwoo and Sarah remained calm even after hearing the story.

In fact, Jinwoo and Sarah already knew who that boy was. It was not just someone I knew, but someone I knew very well. There was less reaction from the two people than expected, so Kyubin made a puzzled expression.

“Are you saying he’s a good guy on TV?”

“I know. It wasn’t that surprising.”

“What?”

“Because I know him.”

Jinwoo and Sarah called the big boy’s name.

“Joo Hyuk!”

“Hey, candy thief!”

At that very moment, the large boy turned his head towards Jinwoo and Sarah.

The boy looked at Jinwoo surrounded by students and waved his hand happily.

“Hey!”

The big boy’s name is Lee Joo-hyuk.

This was the same Joo-hyuk who almost died when he was possessed by a girl, Gaek-gwi, when he was in elementary school.

As time passed and Joo-hyuk became a high school student, he somehow became a great judo player.

“Jinwoo Kim! Brother!”

Joo Hyuk’s voice rang loudly in the hallway.

Kyubin, who had always been proud, was very embarrassed.

“Ji, did you really know each other? With Lee Joo-hyuk?”

“I said we’re friends.”

“Huh…”

Sera added a word.

“By the way, that’s not my friend. If you want an autograph, ask Jinwoo, not me.”

From afar, Joo Hyuk walked majestically, laughing.

“hahahahaha.”

It was Joo-hyuk’s secret to find his mother after being possessed by a ghost.

After that incident, Joo-hyuk learned judo and trained his body, and somehow he ended up becoming a gold medalist.

I learned Judo to ward off ghosts, but it was not particularly useful for exorcism.