Chapter 127 – Drinking Too Much

People seem to change easily, but they do not change easily.
And that goes for me too.
Living as a woman for over a year, I’ve been through all sorts of odd things.
Even so, my taste hasn’t changed much.

“Sister.”
“Huh?”
“Do you like meat a lot?”

Seo-yeon tilted her head as she took her to her barbecue restaurant located in the old town, slightly out of front of the academy.
It was as if he was asking if it was really right for him to come here.

“It’s just because it’s quiet here.”
“Quiet?”
“There are many eyes in front of the school.”

After thinking about my question for a moment, she nodded her head with an “Ah.”
That kind of gaze that you can feel because it’s in front of a boys’ school.

Probably good prey.
Even though the female students who survived Honghwa’s destruction were transferred to Cheonghwa, it wasn’t that many.

“Because I don’t know who might be.”

Of course, as long as you eat in front of school, there will be no problem.
Occasionally, people who have lost their eyes on Seoyeon and me will be able to approach me, but even that will be enough if I eradicate them.
I don’t like being looked at like that.

“Hmm.”

In an instant, Seoyeon’s eyes turned to me.
I don’t know what you’re trying to say, but I stop when I go in.

“Is there a guy you like?”

The unstained and pure gaze of a female college student turns to me.
It reminded me of Seoha Lee’s documents I had seen the other day.
It’s me, I’ve been 20 years old since the first time I used this body, so she accepted it that way.

“Oh sorry…”

In fact, I briefly remembered the real identity of Lee Seo-ha, who was older than Kim Joo-won and not twenty-one.
Not a year old, but an age that will differ by at least 5 years.
She’s a lot older, and it’s possible that she’ll have enough of wanting to play pranks on her mother-like sister.

“It’s okay. It’s not like there’s a guy I like or anything like that.”

There are guys who mix flesh, but I don’t really like them.
It just happened that way.

“Auntie, it’s three times three servings.”

In fact, this small meat restaurant you enter now is a place that Kim Joo-won of the original work used to be quiet.
To be honest, I don’t know the taste.
I’m good at cooking though.
Because of the influence of Go Ara’s unfortunate childhood, Kim Joo-won, a yellowish palate who ate anything well, described the place only to the extent that it was edible.

“And soju or something…”
“Three bottles of true light.”

Seoyeon cut her off.
She’s me who doesn’t know how to drink. She didn’t care if she drank anything, but maybe she wasn’t like that to her.

“Whatever is, anything.”
“Why.”
“Well, my sister doesn’t drink.”

She smiled at her self-indulgent questioning and understanding.
It might be embarrassing to bring him to a meat restaurant like this rather than a pub.
Seoyeon, who just laughed and joked around without any wrinkles, was really cute.

“Yeah.”

Place the meat on a well set fire.
She rests her elbows on the table and rests her chin on her chin, receiving Seo-yeon’s staring gaze as she grills her meat for her younger brother to eat.

“Our Seoyeon-in has grown up. She already likes to drink.”
“What.”
“Where are you, be careful if you don’t want to ruin your life like someone who is good at psychokinesis, okay?”

Seoyeon smiled at my words.
Then she said, “You’re good to me, sister,” She said, and she was the one who opened the jar before her meat was even cooked.

“If you’re really worried, don’t cut off the phone on your own and keep in touch often.”

That you’re a brother
Indeed, it was a strange existence.
Did someone say that
If you can’t see it, you’ll be worried, if you see it, you’ll get annoyed and go crazy.

“Hey, Seo Yeon-ah. You should contact me often. I wonder if your sister didn’t go to the wrong world and die.”
“Huh? Did you know that she’s stronger than her older sister?”
“What are you saying? It’s not even a losing guardian.”

The tick mark is the gap in Seo-yeon’s mouth, and when I put the grilled sausage with her, her mouth closes in an instant.
Watching her wriggling, that’s what I thought.
If it’s a younger brother like this, wouldn’t it be okay?

“Ruler.”

The moment I put the cooked meat on the plate in front of her, Seoyeon pours a drink into my glass.
Then, to her raising her glass to say a toast to her.
After pouring her cup into her stomach, she ate the cooked pork belly and let out a small sigh.

“Sister.”
“Huh.”
“What are you worried about?”

Seoyeon nodded at her words.
Dream.
In the name of saving a new child, an element that bothers me when I return to the academy.

“Yes.”

Seoyeon pours another glass into my empty glass.
Then, she snatches the tongs from my hand and grills the meat herself.

“Why, what happened to the academy?”
“No.”
“Then what’s going on?”

Again, she briefly rolls her empty glass with her fingertips.
Seo-yeon has no idea exactly what happened to me, Kim Joo-won, and Sae-ah.
It’s just a matter of work, she only knows that her new baby has been kidnapped and that she’s here to develop the strength to save her child.
“There is, but I don’t know.”

Who is the guy who kidnapped Sae-ah?
I didn’t tell her that she was hopelessly strong and why she was like that.

“What?”
“I wonder if I can talk to you about this.”

And, even the story that she has that nightmare every day.

“Sister.”
“It’s not because Seoyeon doesn’t trust you. But…”

Even to you, I don’t want to share this pain I’m going through right now.

“Yeon-ah Seo.”
“Huh.”
“Actually, I think I’m a bit shaky these days.”

Originally, when I was living as Lee Soo-hyun, I was an only child with no siblings.
Even when she was living as Seoha Lee, she did not know much about Seoha Lee and her family because her family history was never described in the original work.
Because of that, I felt a little bit like that.
She has a heart that Seo-yeon never thought she was like a real family member.

“Why, what’s going on? Talk to me.”

A cup to be refilled.
Stories that you can’t easily get out of your mind.
“I dream every day these days.”
“Dream?”
“When Sae-ah was kidnapped… That moment keeps reappearing in front of my eyes.”

But, what about now?
Am I accepting her into her family?
…I do not know.

“Ah.”

Seoyeon probably can’t relate to how I feel.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with not being able to empathize.

“That’s why it’s so hard.”
“…”
“What happened that day?”

Pour another cup into it.
A moment I didn’t want to remember.
However, in order to save the bird, to bring out that moment again, which must be recalled constantly, chewed and swallowed.

“It was an ordinary day. I wrote while watching the leak at home, and Kim Joo-won followed my will and went to school to listen to lectures.”
“…Huh.”
“But he said he was a little late because he had assignments that day. Of course, I waited without thinking. Seeing what you’re doing, you might be a little late if you do what you have to do at school.”

Without adding the remaining raw meat, Seoyeon starts to pay attention to my words.
Just about the truth of that day when it ended just like that happened then.
It’s the first time I’m talking about the things that forced me to come back to the academy even though I’ve been hiding well for over a year.

“And, anyway, the late time he said was really late, around 7 to 7:30 in the evening, so there was no need to wait.”

The moment when I went out casually, met the real Lee Seo-ha, was defeated mercilessly, and took Sae-ah away comes to mind again before my eyes.
I feel like my stomach is choking at the thought that the determination that can’t be shaken and shouldn’t be shaken is shaken.

“But, that guy didn’t come in after 8 o’clock. Even if I called him, he wouldn’t answer.”

I didn’t even eat the pork belly that I had ordered as a side dish, and poured alcohol into my stomach.
At the same time, without even checking if the other person was listening, I emptied my glass while talking about my story several times.
It looks like tears will come out.

“Sister.”

In the current situation where I shouldn’t come out, did I drink too much without knowing it?

“Sister!”

Eventually, Seoyeon reached out her hand to stop me from drinking any more.
It was only after he stopped me by grabbing my wrist that I was able to slightly avert my gaze.

“Stop drinking.”
“…Why?”
“You drank too much.”

I looked away.
Before I knew it, three empty bottles were greeting me on the table.
Seoyeon hadn’t even had a few drinks, so it’s probably because I emptied them all.

“Okay.”

It was then.
Even if he was an Awakener, was it unreasonable to hit such an amount on a body that had never even drank alcohol?
With the feeling of an instant overturning of vision, the body collapses sideways.

“Sister!”

After Seo-yeon’s shocking words, she puts her mind at the center of her consciousness that is rapidly sinking to the surface.
Blurry vision.
All that was left at the end was a silence filled with false rest.

*

“Ha, sister really.”

She let out a small sigh as she looked at her sister who had collapsed from drinking too much alone.
What should a person who doesn’t drink drink drink so much by himself?

“How are you going to go back to school…”

Her drunkenness made her head throb when she saw her dead sister asleep.
It’s a shame since I didn’t drink much, what should I do if I suddenly collapse like this?

“My sister’s phone…”

She searches through her fallen sister’s pockets and pulls out her phone.
I’m still sane, so I can somehow go back…
Our unanswered sister wonders when she will come to her awareness of herself.

Whether she had children or whether she lived with a man.
Anyway, she’s still in her pretty twenties.
What the hell are you going to do when you fall down defenseless like this?

‘Really, I’m glad she’s quiet like her sister.’

She looked around.
I felt fortunate that there were no customers other than the table with the two uncles.

That would also be the case, since this was the old town of the area where Cheonghwa Academy belonged.
Due to the nature of the lack of guardians, there must be some who are not of good quality among the academy students.
She had to call someone quickly before her sister caught sight of such people in such a defenseless state.

‘Kim Joo-won…’

I swallowed when I saw the three words “Baby father” Registered in the phone book.
No matter how much I did my best for my sister, this bastard was not at the level of saying that the quality was bad.
She wondered what she would do if her sister was so drunk that she lay down defenseless and she threw it at him.
In the end, it was the moment when she made a phone call to the human, wondering if there was anything she could do.

“Ah.”

In that moment, it caught her eye.
Seeing the three letters “Yoon Si-hoo” Written under the name baby’s father, I felt a sense of relief inside.
At least this person wouldn’t do anything strange to her sister, considering the way she showed me back then.

– …Lee Seo-ha?

So it was a phone call.
Rather, I thought that it would be better to ask this person.
However, I couldn’t understand why I received it in a surprised voice.

“Sihoo brother?”
– …Are you Seoyeon?
“Yes. How have you been?”

Short regards.
However, from that cold voice, I could tell that something was not right between the two of them.
Because I wasn’t someone who spoke in such a cold voice.

– It looks like you and Seoha are together.
“Yes.”
– If you are calling about Seoha-related matters, call Kim Joo-won. She’s her husband, and she won’t touch Seo Ha. Then.

After saying that, the phone hung up.
I was dumbfounded by Yoon Shi-hoo’s attitude of just saying what I had to say and then cutting it off.
What the hell happened, why did the two of them get so twisted?

“What the hell were you doing…”

Little resentment of her sister.
In the end, the only way left for me was to call that Kim Joo-won.
But I can’t do it like this, so I have to.

“Ha.”

I sighed and prepared my mind for a moment, then tapped the word baby dad to call.
But at that moment, a voice came from outside.

“Hey, are you sure you’re here?”
“Uh. They say it’s cheap here and it’s quite nice.”

I slightly turned my gaze to the man’s voice, and at the same time as I felt his chest sink down, my heart began to beat faster.
Tsinghua Academy.
Several men in uniforms from the same academy that made her sister like this entered the store.