Episode 337
Autumn, when the green leaves turn orange, is slowly passing away, and early winter is coming to the Academy.
“Now we are nearing the end of the semester. When winter vacation begins soon, a year has passed fairly.”
The person holding the microphone was Sohaejeong, one of Gaon’s teachers. Taking off her glasses, she said with a smile unlike her usual cold appearance.
“1 year. It’s short for some and long for others. Among the students, there are people who are satisfied with the time, and there are people who are sad. But time passes equally for everyone.”
Minesweeper’s soft voice echoed through the auditorium.
“What did you feel during the year?”
Shin Yoo-seong thought at the question of the minesweeper. What have you learned in the past year?
But even if someone asked, it was difficult to answer. A year of living outside has changed more things in Shin Yoo-seong than 10 years in Mt. Musin.
And it seems that the other students did the same.
“To be honest, I mean. I thought the Hunter job was very difficult. In the past, I just thought it was cool. When I go outside… well, what should I say?”
Joo Ha-jin scratched his head while chatting with a female classmate. She was ashamed to say that she had said nothing, but the female student nodded her head knowingly.
“Hey, I think I know that feeling. We’re students, so we’re at the very end.”
“yes. I must say that it is still a bit far from the image I longed for.”
“Yeah, that’s right. It’s too hard to do it yourself~”
Shin Yooseong naturally smiled as he listened to the two people talking next to him.
‘Right.’
Most of the media only shows the bright side, but Hunter grows up in hardship and adversity at the risk of his life. That was an obvious truth that had nothing to do with the water supply. And that time flows equally to everyone, just like Minesweeper said.
‘Is it because of that? Everyone has become a completely different person.’
It wasn’t just about skills and mana. If you compare the students with the first test, all the students have become different people. Even just looking at Joo Ha-jin talking on the sidelines, unlike the time when he acted on his own, he had a trustworthy partner, and Lee Si-woo grabbed the gun he hated so much and was recognized by his father.
‘And…’
Shin Yuseong turned his gaze to the other side and saw Sumire smiling bashfully while looking at himself. Sumire, who was called an inferior student without confidence at the beginning of the school year, and Sumire now are completely different people.
How is it possible to face such a big change in less than a year at most?
‘But…’
If someone asked which Sumire was real, Yoosung Shin could answer without hesitation.
Sumire, who lowered her head with low self-esteem, as if she were the same person at the age of 5 and now, and Sumire, who smiles brightly with blushing cheeks like now, are all the same Sumire.
“Hey there… Yoosung, did you get anything on my face?”
Maybe it was because he was staring at it too much, but when Sumire blushed in embarrassment, Shin Yuseong shook his head and said,
“no. I just remembered the first time I saw you, Shiu and Sumire.”
“Ah…”
Sumire laughed as if relieved at Shin Yoo-seong’s words, and took advantage of the noisy surroundings to sneakily hold Shin Yoo-seong’s hand.
“I see. It will be a sophomore soon.”
Sumire, who stopped talking for a moment as if feeling the afterglow of a year’s time, looked up at Shin Yuseong, close to her body.
“…If you think about it, a lot happened.”
Perhaps Sumire was one of the people who underwent the biggest change in Gaon. Growing up to be a fairly promising necromancer at Isshin’s party, Sumire endangered her friends in the dungeon, and eventually, unable to overcome her trauma, she ran away from Japan and came to Gaon.
If I hadn’t been able to get out of that abyss, how long would I have had to spend in self-reproach and self-loathing?
Sumire whispered quietly, holding closer to Shin Yoo-seong, perhaps ashamed of whether the other students would hear it.
“For me… the happiest moment in my life was being Yoosung’s partner.”
“To say it’s the best thing in life is undeserved.”
Shin Yuseong replied modestly, but Sumire shook her head vigorously, saying that this was the obvious truth.
“I really am. Yooseong… is he the only one… who recognized my worth?”
Shin Yooseong thought. What kind of memory is the moment of trust that Sumire is talking about? Is it the moment when I borrowed my hair from Jewel Island? Is it the moment when we became a party together? Or was it the moment when Jin Byung-cheol recommended him to go on a dungeon raid with Sumire?
‘Perhaps… all of them.’
I feel that it is excessive, but Shin Yoo-seong also knew it. That Sumire never forgets the things she did with her. It was clear that the ‘moment of trust’ that Sumire was talking about was all the moments she had with Sumire.
“It’s no big deal. Because you were originally a person of value.”
As Yoosung Shin began to spit out sweet words around the horse, Sumire carefully looked around.
Hwihwi-
What the hell are you checking like that? Sumire, who checked her surroundings three times, came into Shin Yoo-seong’s arms as if she thought she had secured her safety.
“Yoosung-!”
Sumire decided once again what she had already decided. After all, his only marriage partner is Shin Yoo-seong. Perhaps because of the extremely stuck bean pods, Sumire thought that there was no man more caring than Shin Yoo-seong anywhere in the world.
“Really always me! If it wasn’t for Yooseong, I’d never be able to change.”
The moment when the love moon for Shin Yoo-seong is extremely full. Sumire, who couldn’t control her emotions, was grabbed by the back of the back and subdued by a mysterious hand.
“Eolssigu- you’re playing a lot. Hey, what are you doing in the corner during your speech?”
It was none other than Kim Eun-ah, who made a very uncomfortable expression, who overpowered Sumire.
“Why is Mr. Eun-ah here! This is class F’s line…”
Sumire looked at Kim Eun-ah with an aha face. I must have checked several times, but when the hell did Kim Eun-ah come?
Sumi-re guessed the situation, but Kim Eun-a was sure that she must have rushed urgently after watching only Shin Yoo-seong and Sumi-re in the A class line from far away.
“Does it matter where the line is now?”
When Kim Eun-ah threatened, as if it were a city guard, Sumire remained ignorant.
“I just wanted to say… thank you.”
“Then did you just say it! My body touches…”
Kim Eun-ah, who was blushing, pointed out what was wrong, but the opponent was not easy to gain the upper hand.
“But, Eun-ah…”
Sumire, somehow in a cooler atmosphere than usual, prepared an attack that Kim Eun-ah couldn’t escape.
“I heard from Yoosung. What happened at the amusement park…”
Knock-
“Uh…”
Kim Eun-ah stopped on the spot, stiff as a stone statue. While I was answering, I tried to drag the time out by saying “Uh…”, but that was a pointless resistance.
Took-
Sumire was smiling as usual, but that was definitely not the usual Sumire smile.
“That’s it…”
Kim Eun-ah stepped back and quickly shook her head. What was the story Sumire heard? If it’s a subject you guess, how far have you heard it?
Kim Eun-ah, who lost the initiative, stuttered and wiggled her fingers. As if she had read Kim Eun-ah’s thoughts, Sumire put in a special move.
“… a kiss. Did you?”
When asked how far he knew, the answer was simply ‘everything’. Now that it had become a head-to-head match, there was no point in rolling my head.
If you change your mind, wouldn’t this be a good thing? Knowing that the player was taken away and kissed himself, wouldn’t he give up cleanly even if he thought of resentment?
“Yeah! My I did!”
When Kim Eun-ah, who came to a conclusion after some plausible reasoning, came forward rather confidently, Sumire shook her head.
“I’m OK. It’s just… Teaching Yoosung what love is… No! Having a family together! It’s something I’ve always dreamed of!”
Then, Sumire said that she didn’t care, and rather proudly claimed ownership of Shin Yoo-seong’s shares. Eunah Kim was at a loss for words.
“Ha, but… I already kissed Yooseong and that…?”
Eunah Kim’s argument was simple.
Kissing, of course, happens while dating. So, of course, he is dating Shin Yoo-seong. Apparently, this was Kim Eun-ah’s common sense, but Sumire did not accept Kim Eun-ah’s argument.
“are you okay! I can do it too!”
“what!? Ha, but…”
Kim Eun-ah’s hand, pushed by the momentum, struggled pathetically with no place to go, but Sumire did not stop.
“I am confident. As much as Yooseong made me happy, I am the one who can make Yooseong the happiest in the world…”
Rather, he pressed Kim Eun-ah with the correct method and savagely attacked.
“I’m confident too…”
“Then it’s a match! Stealing a kiss secretly and avoiding a match is cowardly!”
Sumire always yielded.
Whether it was my younger brother, Shin Yoo-seong, or Kim Eun-ah, I was always for the sake of others.
Even if it was the largest piece of meat in the curry or the last remaining fried chicken, there was nothing I couldn’t give up for someone important to me, even if it was a huge treasure.
However, the moment the target became a new meteor, Sumire decided to duel. He declared a victory by drawing a sword he had never drawn before.
“uh? But… But I and Yoosung…”
“It’s no use even if you insist! Because I was the one who liked Yooseong before Eunah!”
The bloody battle between Kim Eun-ah and Sumire started in the corner of the auditorium, and the surroundings started to buzz.
“In the end, this division was born. I was kind of expecting it.”
As if no one doubted the relationship between Shin Yoo-seong and the party members, Rhenia let’s get lucky.
“Except for Siu, all the party members are girls. Yuseong is also…”
“Rumor has it that Lee Si-woo also turned into a woman?”
“…wow. That’s great too. really.”
Rush-student guesses began pouring in. It is a well-known fact in the academy that Shin Yoo-sung even brought a little boy, a self-proclaimed dragon, to live in an insolvent room. The story of one dragon child and three wives was already a theory.
