Chapter 3 – I’ll Give You Two Options

Return.
It is the curse of a continuous source in time that cannot be cut off.

‘Joo Won, then goodbye.’

You don’t know how long I’ve waited for this day.
A day of revenge to tie up the woman who left me after doing such things to me.

“Kim, Kim Joo-won?”

The day before the entrance ceremony.
The room in my memory that I visited.

“Who are you.”

Although he has an innocent face that knows nothing.
A face that definitely matches my memory.

The name that left on its own after telling me about those things.
Seoha Lee.
I repeated the three letters in my head.

*

Me before
Although she worked hard on how to deal with the fact that she was caught by the regressor Kim Joo-won, she was a woman.
Last night she spent time without a harvest because she couldn’t think of anything.

“Ha ha, fuck.”

Seeing that the outside of the veranda window was bright, I unknowingly spit out the curse that came up from the depths of my heart without going through a filter.
I soon realized what I was saying and sighed, “Ha ha.”
Originally, the character Seo Ha Lee is not a character who curses, so I should be careful in this part.

‘It’s pretty, but it’s dirty pretty.’

Looking at the full-length mirror hanging on the wall, the appearance alone is insane.
Not only the face, but also the beautiful body of Lee Seo-ha was reflected in the mirror, and a sigh came out of nowhere.
Maybe it’s because of the setting that I was quite pretty for a man since I was a man.

“Whoa.”

Thanks to her, now that she’s become a real woman, it’s harder than expected to dress up as a man, so I let out a sigh.
After somehow tying up his hair and putting on his school uniform, he managed to see a reflection of him in the mirror that was close to his male Lee Seo-ha days.

‘The chest…’

However, to say that he was still a man, the softness of her body felt through her clothes was enough to be felt with one hand.
Everything else is soft, but the chest is strangely hard because of the bandages.
Anyone who touched her body would be a little suspicious.
I let out a sigh of relief in my situation.

‘I’ll have to buy some shoulder pads.’

I don’t know if there is such a thing in this world, but it’s a world view that was written based on modern times, so there will be pretty much everything.
With that thought in mind, I left the room leaving behind the thought of dressing up as a man.
As I inhaled and exhaled lightly, I matched the setting to be the second-in-command.
The dimensional ability that he had been practicing hard for a month began to manifest for the first time at the academy.

‘Two-dimensional space, open.’

In the place where I was, there was only a blue afterimage that would soon disappear.

*     *    *

Tsinghua Academy.
It is the main stage until the graduation of the main character in the novel ‘The Returner Has Everything’.
The place where the regressor Kim Joo-won used as a stepping stone for growth.

And, a supporting role until the middle when the main character of the original work, Kim Joo-won, understood and helped him.
The place where you officially see Lee Seo-ha for the first time.

‘It’s over there.’

Despite arriving at the auditorium, the location of the entrance ceremony, quite quickly through a different-dimensional space.
Grey-haired Kim Joo-won arrived first and sat in his seat, just looking in front of him.

‘Should I pretend to know or what?’

In the 3rd episode of the original work, Lee Seo-ha, whose personality was quite good.
‘Yo! Did you find your way into the room well?’
At that time, Kim Joo-won actually intentionally opened the room door to see if Lee Seo-ha had properly entered the academy.
As if he had come to the wrong place, he made an awkward smile on purpose and came out casually.

But now the situation is completely different from then.
First of all, I, that is, Lee Seo-ha, unlike the original work, is a woman, but she hides that she is a woman from Kim Joo-won and is found out that she entered Cheonghwa Academy.
If I pretended to know first, I couldn’t figure out how Kim Joo-won would turn out.

‘Let’s not act like we know each other first.’

Fortunately, it’s just that he hasn’t pretended to know me first.
Is a horn.

“Lee Seo-ha.”

Kim Joo-won, who was only looking ahead, called my name right away, as if he knew how he knew I was coming.
I heard his voice clearly in my ears as I moved slowly, making no noise to avoid him who was sitting at the entrance.

“You have great courage.”
“…It’s none of your business.”
“If you want, I can tell you your secret right now to the School Office.”

Fuck.
Even though I was cursing him in my heart, the moment I stopped and listened to him because of those words.
At the sound of his voice, which sounded like he was speaking in a commanding voice, I stopped and started staring at Kim Joo-won.

“Come to my room by 5pm today.”
“What? Why am I-“
“It looks like you want to be taken to the safflower.”

I kept my mouth shut.
Guess who isn’t a regressor.
I don’t know what it is, but it seemed like I would stick my tongue out at the guy who already knew that there was a reason I came to Cheonghwa while dressing as a man.

“It’s 5 p.M., Don’t be late.”
“…Okay.”

But it’s different from the atmosphere where you can say something more.
He said that and said nothing more.
I checked his eyes little by little, then moved on and passed Kim Joo-won.
How did it come to be like this?
If he hadn’t forgotten that he was going to drop by the room in the third round yesterday, wouldn’t the situation be like this?

‘Fuck.’

Even if I tried, I regret that it was already too late, and my name was written on it.
Heading to the second seat in the front, I carefully put my hips together.
On the way to my seat, it wasn’t that there weren’t any people glancing at me as if they thought something was suspicious.
Fortunately, everyone turned their eyes away from me as soon as they saw how the coat was flattened.

‘I wonder if I didn’t need to put this in.’

I sat down and briefly brought his hand to my groin.
I put it in case I need to take off my coat.
As I adjusted the position of the pad I had tucked inside my underpants, I quickly looked around so that no one would notice.
At this level, even if it was a man, no one would notice.

“Oh, hello Seoha?”

At that moment, I turned my head and heard the voice of the man next to me for the first time.
Right next to me, the owner of the senior seat, Yoon Si-hoo, smiled at me and slumped her body into his seat.

“Uh, hello.”
“You look tired.”
“I’m kinda tired.”

Please don’t tell me
I have to say it down so that it sounds neutral on purpose, in case I don’t want people to know that I’m a woman because of my voice.

“What’s the matter with the guy who was lively when I first saw him?”

Do you know the nervous feeling of being afraid to be found out because of your voice?

“Ringing.”
“Hehe, okay. I won’t talk to you, so take a break then.”

Fortunately, Yoon Si-hoo was really happy to say hello, so she roughly turned her attention away from me and looked around to find someone else.
“Oh Yoon-tae!” He stood up and ran to another student.
And as soon as he was gone, he let out a sigh of relief.

Seats right next to the chief and second seats.
If you look closely, you can see that it is a thin line that is different from that of men, or that it is a pure white nape.
Even though there were quite a few things that made me suspicious as a woman, fortunately, Yoon Shi-hoo didn’t doubt me.
This suggests that my dressing as a man is more successful than I thought.

‘Kim Joo-won…’

As long as that regressor doesn’t open his mouth, he’s somehow dressed as a man, stuck at Cheonghwa Academy.
It was because he said that he could see hope that he could somehow survive next to him.

‘Let me be careful. Then they won’t get caught.’

Of course, that doesn’t mean you can act confidently.
Coincidentally, Seoha Lee’s ability is not a fighting type that fights by moving the body directly, but a type that fights various strange phenomena from a distance based on his own ability.
I closed my eyes for a while until the entrance ceremony started, thanking me inwardly when I was creating the setting for Lee Seo-ha in the past.

I never expected what would happen to me in the future.

“Ha.”

That’s how I finished the entrance ceremony safely.
After the students had time to introduce themselves to each other, after hearing what they would learn at the academy, it was 4:30 after the day’s work was over.
At the entrance of the dormitory building, I let out a small sigh.

Kim Joo-won’s words, telling him to come to his room by 5pm all day and wait for him, hadn’t left his mind.
It was because the time he had warned me about, 5:00 p.M., Had come one step closer.

‘What the hell am I going to do?’

I was caught already disguised as a man.
He also realized that there was a reason why he had to stick to Cheonghwa Academy, even dressing as a man.

I use the weakness of being a woman who has to stick to Cheonghwa Academy.
Even if he told her to lie in his arms because he was hungry for a woman right now and was going to fuck the woman right in front of her.
It was my situation right now that I couldn’t resist and didn’t know if I had to listen to him without moving.

It may look vicious.
It may look like something out of the ordinary.

But that’s the way of Kim Joo-won, the third regressor who decided to take everything.
It was the choice of Kim Joo-won, who devised a way to live on his own so that he could survive.

‘Hate.’

It was because I was the one who molded the character like that and made that kind of narrative for him.
Even though I don’t want to understand Kim Joo-won’s way, I started to feel that I hate myself for being able to understand her.

“Are you here quite early?”

A two-dimensional space was opened.
I came out of the room, swimming in the blue light, and slowly started to go to his room.
When I went to Kim Joo-won’s room, it was as if he had been waiting for me to come.
The figure of the guy sitting on the chair and welcoming me came into my eyes.

“…If you have any business, can you say it quickly and finish it?”

Maybe a real woman would look pretty cool if she saw him like that in normal circumstances.
To me now, he only looked like a bastard trying to shake me by holding on to my weaknesses.
Thanks to her, when her words came out a bit brusque, Kim Joo-won looked at me and smiled.

“You’re not in a position to say that right now, Seoha Lee.”
“…So.”
“Hmm, I like it. Your cocky attitude is what I wanted.”

The guy got up from his seat with an incomprehensible noise.
Suddenly, as if trying to get closer to me, I started moving slowly.

“That way, it will taste like trampling on it.”
“…?”

It’s like, when I didn’t notice that Lee Seo-ha is a woman now.
As if she’s trying to figure out her true identity.

“But, that too.”
“…!”
“Shouldn’t you be arrogant while looking at the other person, huh?”

The guy who came close to me grabbed my shoulder, dragged me into the room, and pushed me into the center of the living room.
By the time she squeezed her aching shoulder with her hand, letting out a small moan at the pain she felt on her thin shoulder.

“I’ll give you two options.”

A man’s words that would make me stunned.
Came clearly to my ears.