Chapter 75 – The Good Boy (2)

Good boy (2)

“That’s an illness, sister-in-law.”

Tuk – Cha Ha-in, who had been sitting on his chair with his back stretched out at his thrown words, slowly turned his head.

Kik-!

Her sudden weight on the chair she dusted her off.

I leaned my back against her chair, not paying attention to the slight creaking.

“That’s an illness.”

I continued talking while looking at Cha Ha-yeon, who was sitting in her chair with the opposite attitude.

“Trying to treat everyone round and round, that’s a disease.”
“… In what part did I act roundly?”

Kik-!

Her waist leaned deeper into her chair as if to emphasize her keeping her straight posture with her ruler.

Cha Ha-yan, who was naturally looking at my chair, followed my gaze and looked down at the medical bag she was holding.

“… This is not round, but basic courtesy between people.”
“Therefore-“

Her expression, which was already cold to the fullest, settled down even colder as soon as she finished her words, leaked out in a hollow laugh.

“Where is the madman who extends that basic courtesy to a kidnapper?”
“…”

Her pursed lips and her expressionless face.

I checked her reaction, which was on a different level than before, and she let out her small smile at her openly.

“What’s your name?”
“… Suddenly?”
“What is your name?”
“One world.”
“… Yes, Mr. Han Se-gye.”

Cha Ha-yeon nodded slightly, and she rather straightened her waist and met her eyes with mine.

“Isn’t that what it looks like to people who lack basic manners like Se-Gye Han? As if you can only see something in your eyes.”
“…”

There was no such thing as her hedgehog, who raised her thorns and hissed.

I turned to her and shrugged her cheekily, shrugging her eyebrows and her shoulders at once without saying anything.

Cha Haein glared at me more intensely because of her appearance.

“But why did you suddenly ask her real name? You already know a two-letter name that’s easier to pronounce than a three-letter one, right?”
“… Don’t even dream about that, Mr. Han Se-gye.”
“Mr. Han Se-gye, Ms. Han Se-gye~ What is your name to the kidnapper?

It was a sarcastic gesture containing a soul that must have been lodged in her ear with her legs shaking wildly.

The trembling of her hands holding her medical bag is very clearly visible in her pupils.

“… Even now, I’m saying it with enough disgust. One. Count. Total. Seed.”

Cha Ha-yan cuts out my name letter by letter with burning eyes.

Kik-! Kik-!

I continued to lean back on the chair and let out a small exclamation in the posture of leaning and loosening it.

“Ah- so to conclude now, you mean that your sister-in-law was already cursing your brother-in-law by calling you by name?”

Drip-!

As soon as she finished speaking, I moved closer to her, pushing her chair in a split second.

“Then, as a brother-in-law, you can’t stay still, can you?”
“…”

Where did the anger from earlier go? Cha Ha-yan, who was hardened like ice, looking at me who had suddenly approached me.

I made eye contact with her who was moving hard with only her trembling pupils, and once again let out her small smile.

“Isn’t that right, Cha Seol-ha?”
“… It could have been a name, but that is not my name.”
“So. I also have another name that I want you to call me.”
“…”

Pink lips that were very stubbornly closed all the way.

Pop-! Pop-!

I chased the only noise that resonated in the room in the silence of each other’s stubbornness.

Moisture pooled under the chair Cha Ha-yan and I were sitting on.

It was only then that I calmly swiped the clothes that clung to her body and took away her warmth, and her delicately trembling body.

Drip-!

“First, take off the clothes you are wearing.”

After pulling the chair back, I stood up and forcibly opened the iron locker.

Kkeudeuk-! Kkeudeuk-!

He rummaged through the clutter in the locker and glanced at the white one, which was still not making any noise.

“What are you doing? You’ll catch a real cold if you stay there.”
“… Are you okay. There is also cold medicine in this.”

A face that doesn’t look okay at all as it shows me the medical bag it was holding.

Even though I was already far away to search the iron locker, I stared at Cha Ha-yan, who took a small step back, and laughed.

“… I will really turn around.”
“…”
“Hey, Cha Seol-ha.”
“I am Cha Ha-yan, not Cha Seol-ha. And it’s really okay.”

See- I’m not at all okay, and I still have a lot of medicine.

Cha White stretches her back, showing her medical bag once more.

I let out a deep sigh as I looked at her lips, which were slowly turning blue, on her desperate face.

Haaa-

With a sigh that seemed to extinguish her ground, Cha Hae-rin shook her shoulders a little.

“What are you thinking right now, Chaseolha?”
“…”
“I told you so much that I was your sister’s husband, what did you hear until now, really. And if I had that thought, I would have done it long ago, I wonder if I was wrestling with you like this.”
“…”
“You know that, but you keep complaining strangely.”
“I didn’t think that way, I’m really fine with—”

Etch-!

A clear coughing sound came out forcefully as she interrupted.

Cha Ha-yeon, with a bright red blush, hurriedly brought out her medical bag as she tilted her head slightly and saw me let out her long, empty laugh.

“Approximately… Antipyretic and cold medicine—it’s in here.”
“Yes—you can be shy in front of strangers. It can be enough Besides, there are medicines, so there won’t be such a serious problem.”

However-

I lengthened my ending and faced Cha Ha-yan with a puzzled look.

“To sum up what you said, you mean to use a medicine that you don’t have to use because of a moment of shame. There is a solution, but I will not use it and waste the medicine.”

… Her!

Her body trembled as if she had been stabbed by a false laugh that contained quite a bit of her emotion.

“So obviously, the person who preached that an innocent person could die because of your unnecessary actions is now stubborn, right?”
“…”
“I’m not joking, the person from earlier was Mr. Cha Ha-yan, and you in front of me are not Mr. Cha Seol-ha, are you?”
“…”

I pointed to the cot across her screen to her who didn’t say anything to see if she still had a conscience.

“So, take off the clothes you are wearing right now, shake off the towel in your bag and wipe off the remaining water on your body, and cover the blanket on the bed to warm yourself up.”
“…”
“I came to pick up a sister-in-law, but there’s a little kid.”

As if her last grumble had been the decisive blow, she stood up from her chair as something pursed her lips with a disgruntled look on her face.

After catching a glimpse of her as she finally walked to her cubicle where her cot was, she searched her iron locker again.

… Do you want to be somewhere other than your locker?

I took a quick look at the wide open iron lockers and then moved a little to the side.

A stand-up hanger that is very fortunately provided there.

While pulling out a basic wire hanger from the hanger stand – she turned her head at the sudden noise.

Drooling- Drooling-

Cha Ha-yan dragged several of the chairs surrounding the table near the partition.

So I called her by the name of the woman who worked hard to connect her chair and her partition to create her artificial barrier.

“Hey, Cha Seol-ha.”
“…”

A wire coat hanger sticking out towards Cha Ha-yan, who turned her head in surprise.

Drooling-

Cha Ha-yan, who had hurriedly approached by breaking through the chair barrier, was handed a wire coat hanger and then bowed his head hesitantly.

“Go, thank you.”
“Wow, after being stubborn and not stubborn, now you’re pretending to be nice again.
“… Thank you, Han Se-gye.”
“You’re welcome, Cha Seol-ha.”

Cha Ha-yan looked at my smiling face and turned around with a frown.

I glared at me, carefully trimmed the barriers of her chair, watched her disappear behind her screen, and then sat back in her chair.

Only after a very long time has passed, the sound of noodles and flesh gently flowing slowly and quietly.

“… De, don’t listen!”
“Wow, you’re starting to get really annoyed. I will tell Seol-hee everything my sister-in-law has done.”
“I, what am I— do you think I have nothing to tell you?! I will tell you first!”
“Yeah- I’d rather be so angry and take it all off quickly, please. Don’t catch the live person for nothing.”
“… Gee, really—really, you speak unluckily, Mr. Han Se-gye.”
“Uh- thank you, Mr. Seolha. I hear that a lot on a regular basis.”
“… Profit-!”

Even in the midst of playful chatter, the presence of people across the partition quietly flows in.

Her I spoke to her at the noise of her wire hanger caught in her little chin between her windows.

“Have you taken off your underwear too?”
“Muh, what are you talking about?! That, why is Han Se-gye asking about that?!”
“No, if you take half-naked clothes off and catch a cold halfway through, there’s nothing more absurd than that, right? If you’re going to take it off, take it off neatly.”
“… It’s all, it’s all naked– Don’t talk to me!”

However, unlike her ending, the rustle again – beyond the partition filled with the sound of rustling.

I didn’t speak until I heard the hanger snapping on the window sill again.

“Did you wipe off all the water remaining on your body with the towel in your bag?”
“… I-I’ll take care of it, so please don’t talk to me!”
“Did you shake off all the dust that was buried when you wiped the chair?”
“…”

The sound of towels being ripped open quietly without a word.

Unable to contain it, the sound of loud laughter echoed even louder.

“Is there a blanket on that cot?”
“… There is. Please don’t talk to me now. It’s something I can do all by myself.”
“It’s the last time anyway, so listen to it. Did you cover that blanket tightly and lay down on the bed?”
“… Yes, I lie down.”
“Okay.”

A conversation that ended with a nod from her that she wouldn’t see.

Kik-!

I leaned back comfortably in my chair and stared quietly out the window.

───────.

During the long silence, alone outside the window, the raindrops pounded nonstop.

I looked out the window, which had become completely dark at night, and thought about tomorrow.

Strangely, the current rain doesn’t seem to stop easily.

It started in the morning and continued to rain until late at night, but the rain did not diminish at all.

‘… Is it the early rainy season?’

Early summer can be called early summer, but the rainy season started at an ambiguous time for some reason.

Had something like this happened before- I looked back at the time and naturally let out a blank laugh and shook my head.

Zombies popped out because there were zombies before.

It was a world that had been distorted too greatly to reflect on the past and anticipate the future.

“… Mr. Han Se-gye.”

Her sweet voice permeates after a very long silence.

I knew that the constant sound of tossing and turning the covers kept me awake, but talking to me was unexpected.

“Why.”
“… So—what are your plans for tomorrow?”
“There is nothing grandiose that can be called a plan. Just get back to the library as fast as you can.”
“Then wouldn’t it be better to go back to the library quickly while you’re here?”

… If I had thought of that, I would have done it a long time ago.

Without answering, I stared at the Rock Church beyond the window and slowly answered her question.

“… You will naturally know why I did it tomorrow morning, so go to sleep, Mr. Cha Seol-ha.”

Pop-! Pop-!

A soft tapping flowed like a second hand into the classroom, once again enveloped in silence.

I must have vomited all the water before I knew it, and I looked down at the water droplets on the hem of my clothes, which were gradually getting longer. I brushed off my clothes once.

“… Gwa, are you okay?”

Her question seems to be unfinished.

“You must have been very wet, too, Mr. Han Se-gye… Oh, aren’t you cold?”
“Why-? If I say I’m cold, will you give me some space?”
“… The real person itself is low-quality, Mr. Han Se-gye.”

Contempt filled instead of the concern that was clearly present in the question earlier.

I responded with a small smile at her cold words.

“I’m not foolish like you, so if I were cold, I would have taken at least your blanket, so go to sleep, Cha Seol-ha.”
“Ji, aren’t you really going to be struggling with a cold tomorrow?”
“… Go to sleep.”

A short sentence that cuts off a conversation that will continue like a banquet.

I stayed silent as I listened to her toss and turns that continued after that.

The sound of the rustling of the blanket that was cut off after quite a while.

Do-doo-dududuk-!

I still listened to the sound of rain hitting the window, and now I focused on the partition through which only the sound of even breathing could be heard.

Whether the reason she couldn’t fall asleep quickly was because she was worried about me or because she wasn’t used to sleeping—

I hoped she would get used to that bed.

“…”

Yet.

There were so many things to do and words to share before going back to the library.