Chapter 87 – Blackmail (2)

Blackmail (2)

Cha Ha-yan looked at me with a blank expression for a while at the belated greeting.

“… What is it, really?”

Soon, he lightly frowned at me, as if to let me know he was angry.

“I’m not kidding people right now…”

A trembling voice with eyes full of confusion.

“Sometimes it’s cold, and other times it’s cold white… One world you, with a human name-“
“Desperately.”

Maybe she shrugged her shoulders at the sight of her holding her resentment even deeper than when they first met her.

I cut off her trembling whisper and made eye contact with her softly.

“There is no need to call you Seol-hee in front of Seol-hee.”
“…”

The name of Chaseolha is—

It was a name that had as much meaning to Cha Seol-hee as Cha Ha-yan.

It was three letters that naturally reminded me of not-so-good memories.

It has been taboo in the family so far, and it will be taboo in the future.

So, a very stimulating and unique name that only I can call.

“…”

After that, I turned her head toward the blue sky again.

The sound of footsteps I hear as I watch the white clouds floating very quietly on the blue drawing paper.

“… Then, you can just keep calling him Cha Ha-yan.”

It wasn’t until the Nan Cha Ha-in returned to her original position that she turned her head again.

“Well, you don’t want to do that?”

We stand close to each other again.

“… Why?”

I smiled lightly at her who asked her reason in a low voice at my refusal.

“Because I’m more familiar with Cha Seol-ha than Cha Ha-yan?”
“…”
“And Seolha is a name that only I can call.”

Took-!

One step – each other’s shoes briefly colliding with each other’s step.

I whispered as I moved a little closer to my face reflected in her large eyes.

… Why?

“… No?”
“…”

Even though my breath tickled the bridge of her sharp nose, she was still white with no movement.

I didn’t even nod her head, she didn’t even shake her, she let out a small smile at her, and I got her face back at her too close.

Even while tossing and turning for a moment, each other’s shoulders bump into each other countless times.

I put my shoulder on her shoulder and casually said the following words.

“Then don’t try to run away awkwardly like before. Because I almost was really disappointed.”

The voice and eyes changed in an instant.

Cha Ha-in, who was staring blankly at me, shook her shoulders at the sound of my chilled voice in her.

Her eyes widened in surprise.

After seeing her eyes, I smiled at her again casually.

“Like you, I like to hang out while getting some fresh air.”
“…”
“I’ve just been skipping lunch, but why is the person I’m supposed to be skipping with suddenly running away?”

Wheein-!

The wind gently tangles each other’s hair as they face each other.

I made it clear to her who still looked confused.

“Don’t go.”
“…”
“If you are there, I can use your excuse to rest for a while.”
“…”

It’s a word that takes a dark smile underneath to be serious.

To say it’s a joke, it’s a word that catches the eyes looking at you.

Cha Ha-yan did not open her tightly pursed lips at the cryptic request that could not be easily distinguished.

However, I finally turned her head to the front, sending a grateful smile to the little nod of her head towards me.

───────.

Except for the occasional rustling wind, the rooftop is quiet.

I just blankly looked up at the white cumulus clouds moving across the sky before I started talking.

“… Did you sleep well last night?”

As soon as the question was finished, a palpable tremble was felt in her shoulder, which she was touching.

“Now, is there any reason why you can’t sleep well?! Chi, the bed is soft, the blanket is warm, the room is moderately dark– yesterday, he passed out immediately after lying down?!”

Her vocal cords quivered incessantly, as if advertising that she was trembling.

I nodded my head proudly at the anxious gaze that touched my face like a laser.

“Ha, what about Han Se-gye?! Han Se-gye, did you sleep well yesterday?”

A blatant circling of words as soon as they are very obvious.

Realizing why Cha Ha-in didn’t act with that face, I responded to her change of words.

“Of course you slept well. I slept on the only blessed bed in Korea.”
“…”

At first, he tilted his head slightly, as if he didn’t understand, then looked at my smug expression, then half-closed his eyes.

“Ah yes.”

As she came out to her, her low voice resonated beyond her imagination.

“… I’m sorry to say this, but you’re a bit disrespectful.”

Wow-

Seeing her pretending to throw up as if to please, the laughter came first rather than the pictorial.

“Then what the hell is the problem?”

I vomited the remaining laughter and gently met her eyes with Cha Ha-yeon.

“Why is Cha Seol-ha, who slept well last night, alone on the rooftop?”
“…”
“The atmosphere in the lounge isn’t that bad.”
“…”

I followed Cha Ha-yan’s gaze to the end, trying to avoid my gaze.

Cha Ha-yan, who was trying to pass the conversation with silence this time, opened his mouth with slightly dry lips in response to my persistent waiting.

“Uh- huh, adjusting to jet lag?”
“…”
“Such a similar adjustment period… ?”

A ridiculous answer from the princess who moved from Banseok University to Banseok University.

Cha Ha-yan’s eyes quietly swept the floor around my eyes, which were still not satisfied and narrowed.

“It’s just- everything is still a bit awkward and uncomfortable…”

“I also feel strangely a little stuffy…”

Creeping—a very quiet chanting while looking at my eyes.

Cha Ha-yeon hurriedly added her final words to her gaze looking down at her without any change of expression until the end.

“My, starting tomorrow, this won’t happen—”

Took-!

Steps that go beyond being stuck and dig a little deeper.

She stopped talking and continued stroking the shoulders of Cha Ha-in, who shrunk her body.

A thumb circled above her shoulder.

“Why, starting tomorrow, that won’t happen. Being awkward like you is rather natural.”

I could clearly feel her shrunken shoulders slowly loosening.

I continued to caress her shoulder as she gradually returned to her normal height, confirming her.

Cha Ha-yan looks up at me calmly, licking her lips without a break, wondering what she is worried about.

I said in a whisper to her that she did not avoid her touch of mine, and she showed her line at the corner of her mouth.

“Still, if Seol-hee finds out, I’ll be worried. Let’s keep this a secret between us.”
“…”
“… Got it?”

In response to her question as he brushed his thumb over her shoulder with a little more intensity—

“… Yes.”

Cha Ha-in, with a very delicate voice, nodded her head politely.

Alone.

The condition that must be pre-determined in order to instill the values ​​I want is to be alone.

An isolated state in which external variables cannot influence.

In that sense now Cha White was pretty faithfully insulated from the variables around her.

Even Seol-hee, who cared for her sister so much, couldn’t come to her senses at the sweetness of her change of priorities.

Seol-Hee Cha stayed in the lounge despite her behavior unbecoming Cha Ha-Hyun, who would have never left her conversation for no reason if it was normal, and Ha-Han Cha went up to the rooftop alone.

Like that again, the kind Cha Ha-yan, the calm Cha Ha-yan—

Here she is, feeling her cramps at being Cha Ha-in, who listens to her older sister very well.

It was only after I tasted the comfort I created that I became conscious of my discomfort.

“It seems like I’m the only one benefiting from this unintentionally.”
“… Yes? What good is it?”
“It’s been a few days since I met you, but I already have quite a few secrets that only we know.”
“… What is the benefit of that?”
“It’s just— the more secrets that only you and I know, the more special it seems to be between us.”

A smirk full of mischief.

Cha Ha-yeon smiled at the bait I threw and frowned as if she saw something she couldn’t see.

“I felt her from the beginning, but Se-gye Han seems to like all pretty girls.”
“What did you feel from the classroom?”
“Well, if you pretend, you pretend. Every time I had breakfast, you sat across from me and stared at my face.”

She shrugged her shoulders with a slightly smug expression, tilting her head at her gesture and pressing her shoulders with a little force.

As if counterattacking at my beckoning, Cha Haein bounced her shoulders several times.

I laughed at the way her hand on her shoulder automatically moved up and down, and her expression asked, ‘Am I wrong?’

Cha Ha-yan, who eventually bursts into a small laugh together, as if being infected by my empty laugh.

“… So, she just said with her mouth that she was very pretty?”
“Well, just because I’m not pretty doesn’t mean I suddenly become ugly—.”

Her beckoned her gently sweeping her own long hair and fluttering it to her side.

Wheein-

“Pu-heap- tu-!”

Caught in the oncoming headwind, I shook my shoulders more heavily at the hair tickling her lips again.

He turned her around and put her face against her, waving her hand in her hair as she hurriedly slapped her in the face.

With her pale frown on her arrogant frown, she quietly reached out her hand to her and she straightened her hair that covered her face.

“…”

She loosened her hands that were on her shoulders and carefully tidied up her hair with both hands.

Cha Ha-yeon, who had been playing around very lively, closed her mouth again like a porridge.

The more she removes the hair that gently tickled her face, the more clearly the facial features are revealed.

Her I carefully met her eyes with her, which matched so well with the blue sky that stretched out behind her like her background.

A face that is too suitable for the background of the blue sky.

There was only one word I could say to the coolness that naturally made my eyes feel refreshed just by looking at them.

“It’s good to be honest.”
“…”

Where did the proud expression from before go?

I checked her well-groomed hair once again and slowly turned her body facing her.

Took-!

An urgent hand grabbed my sleeve as I turned toward the iron door.

“Hey, stop talking, where are you going…”

I pointed to Cha Ha-in, who was looking at me with round eyes as if she was startled, at the iron door on the roof with her chin.

“To work. We have to work hard to feed Cha Seol-Ha, who is like a pig.”
“Hey, I haven’t eaten that much since I came here, so why are you suddenly calling me a pig!”
“You said it because you were thinking about what to eat in the future?”
“Her-! Huh, really! Uh, how can you call a woman a pig…”

Took-.

Cha Ha-in, who let go of her hand holding the sleeve of her dress and looked at me with eyes full of resentment.

I gave her the last words as I took back the sleeves of her free clothes.

Anyway-

“See you tomorrow, Cha Seol-ha.”

A somewhat out of the blue promise with the place and time omitted.

“…”

She nodded her head without saying anything.

Looking straight into my eyes, very clear.

***

The transport vehicle behind it rattled and let out an engine sound.

I quietly swung around on the brown elastic pavement that looked like a running track.

A vast baseball field covered with green artificial turf and densely packed sports facilities around it.

The search crews whimpering and carrying armfuls of something, going back and forth quickly between the facilities.

Thud-!

“… Hee-hee-hee-.”

I desperately looked at my eyes and looked sideways at the search crew who were putting the captured supplies on the floor.

The search crew gritted their teeth and tried to put down the goods lightly, but in the end they put the goods down quite loudly, surprising themselves.

I waved my hand lightly as I watched the beads of sweat drenching the bodies of the female searchers who were spitting dry.

“I’m sorry, boss!”

I hurriedly nodded at my gestures—a female search agent who crouched down and ran to the nearby sports facilities.

I couldn’t do anything about the strength that was much more lacking than men’s by birth.

If you volunteered to join the search team, you should bring your own mental strength or whatever you can bring with you to fulfill the search mission.

I silently scratched my forehead, thinking alternately between the women who made up the majority of the camp and the female search crew now working hard carrying supplies.

It was right to use all available resources, even if they were somewhat inefficient.

“…”

I watched the loot pile up like a small hill in front of the trolley.

From baseball bats to gloves, tennis rackets and badminton rackets—

First of all, everything that could be scratched at the gym was being scratched.

Like this, all the search crew were busy following my instructions and moving everything that seemed useful to the library.

From the convenience stores and restaurants located on the south side of the university to all the loot left behind in the college.

From the survivors who gather at the student center to the survivors from the South who are still relentlessly living their lives.

It seems to monopolize all survivors and supplies south of the university.

Thanks to that, the royal authority, the source of my power, was also growing very explosively.

Tring-!

[Kingdom: 299]

A three-digit kingship that makes you feel at ease just by looking at it.

It was the aftermath of the growing size of absorbing the remaining survivors on the south side and the effect of the camp members who had been stopped in succumbing unknowingly and unknowingly starting to adapt to me.

Tring-!

[Kingdom: 300]

Even now, the royal authority that has risen in real time.

Thanks to that, the kingship that reached ‘300’ updated a new status window message in front of my eyes.

[Your destiny is unlocked by the royal stats that have reached a certain level.]

[Select the third grace of the tyrant.]

[One. Health of human beings themselves]

[2. The land where birth is blessed]

Newly renewed graces after [Oasis in the desert] And [First step of modernization].

I began to peruse the message with a big smile, thinking of the enormous perks that made it possible to distribute water and electricity.