Chapter 48 – The Daughter of a Conglomerate

“Why are you here?”

Kim Joo-won looked around and asked me in a dissatisfied voice.
Was it because she didn’t like the fact that she was attracted to the person she used to play with every day?
Although he looked at me with eyes that he did not like when he recklessly dragged himself.

“Stay still. I’m not trying to get revenge.”

Maybe for the first time
Saying that as if ignoring his opinion, I started looking around at my phone.
I, who used to be dragged around by him, was now dragging him around.

“Hmm, what would you like?”
“I don’t need a good cell phone.”
“What? Can you buy me anything I want?”
“I think I have the right to refuse to buy you something.”
“…Then what did you do when I told you to stop?”

Kim Joo-won kept his mouth shut.
Originally, he would have said something saying that he didn’t listen to him.
Is it because a place is a place now?

“I don’t think I would buy it.”

After that, he quietly started following me around.
Won’t understand
He suddenly dragged me to an electronic device store saying he would buy me a phone.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with what Kim Joo-won said.
Originally, if this guy did something to me, it’s normal for me to hate seeing his face.
In particular, it would be normal for him to not even imagine buying something.

But I don’t know how.
Now, I had dragged him to a general electronics store to change his phone.
To a place located a little far from the academy.

“I know.”

To be honest, I didn’t quite understand what I was doing right now.

Even though I hated it as if I was going to die like that.
I get really anxious when he disappears.
And when I saw that he was using an old smartphone that was all broken.
I brought him here to buy it for me.

“I don’t even know why I’m doing this.”

After answering Kim Joo-won’s words, I picked up one of the latest models.
I left it for experience, but it was locked.
If I say I’m going to buy it, they’ll come out with a new one wrapped in a package right away.

“I choose the color I like.”
“I hope it’s not blue.”
“Yes? But what can I do?”

I put the experience device of the model I decided to buy in its original place and turned my attention to the staff.
“I’m going to get one that looks exactly like my eye color.”

After throwing a word like that to Kim Joo-won while looking at the approaching employee.
“Can you get this in blue?” He said, glancing at him.
Kim Joo-won frowned a little, probably not liking the fact that I wore blue.

“You mean sapphire blue?”
“Yes.”

Is it because there are many people?
He didn’t say anything more, but quietly started watching what I was doing.
Although I’m not a talkative person from the beginning.
“Here it is. How would you like to pay?”
“I’ll ask for a lump sum.”

Still, it was easy to buy because it was quiet.
Only the sticker was cut off, and the smartphone revealed in the box.

“…”

It came into the hands of Kim Joo-won.
I left the general electronics market and started walking down the street again.

Maybe he wasn’t used to having a device in his hand that he thought had nothing to do with him.
After a while, take it out of his pocket again.
Then, you carry it in your hand.
After a while, I put it in my pocket again as if it was annoying to carry it in my hand.

“Is it that good?”
“…”

I’m not sure if I’m satisfied or not.
At least one thing was certain.
The guy was amazed at the machine that came into his hands unexpectedly.

“Why did you buy this for me?”

I know.
I don’t know why I bought you a phone or something.
If it’s what you did to me, I’d be glad if I didn’t stab you with a knife, let alone a phone.

“Well.”

But you can’t really answer like that.
After answering the bastard’s words, I looked around.
I walked around the streets and looked around to see if there was a place to fill my stomach.

“You don’t really need a reason, right? The important thing is that it’s yours.”
“What the hell are you…”
“Well, it’s because I don’t want to see you carrying around something that’s rudely broken, so don’t break it and use it well.”
“…Thanks.”

A street that seems to have been stripped of reality almost as it is.
Even though the background is a hidden world, there are not enough guardians to prevent reality from being eroded.
It’s such a gloomy view of the world that they don’t even go through the personality test properly and drag all the awakened people into guardians.

“Hey, Kim Joo-won.”
“Why.”
“You know that I’m not going to sit down and eat with you hahahoho, right?”
“What do you mean?”
“I’m a little hungry.”

It’s almost 6:30 in the evening now.
I haven’t eaten anything today

“Are there any good restaurants around here?”
“…”
“I’m not going to ask you to buy it, so tell me where you know.”

Kim Joo-won put on a look as if he was worried for a moment at my words.
Anyway, now I am Lee Seo-hara, a single woman.
Although he doesn’t discriminate between men and women.

“This way.”

He was a guy who would benefit from saving even a penny right now.
It must be a burden to buy and eat outside a meal.
I don’t know if it’s after becoming a guardian, but now I’m just an orphan and an academy student.

“Here.”

The place where he was led by Kim Joo-won’s hand.
It was a soup restaurant located in a shabby alley, slightly away from the main street.

“Hey, Kim Joo-won.”
“Why?”
“I thought it would be difficult for you to date a girlfriend later.”

Kim Joo-won frowned at my words.
They asked me to bring them because they were delicious, so I brought them to the fullest, but since they say things like that, it’s worth it.

“I’m really saying this for you, but if you get a girlfriend later, never take her to a soup restaurant.”
“Are you going to play with me now?”
“What are you saying, if you’re not going to do something, don’t do it. Why do you say that when I tell you not to, huh?”

But this was really for that guy.
Because on my second date with my first girlfriend I dated when I was in college.
Advice that I can give you because I prayed for three days to relieve my girlfriend who was upset after taking me to a soup restaurant for dinner after watching a movie.

“Really sad.”
“Aren’t you my girlfriend?”
“Then why don’t you stop?”
“What.”
“You mean calling me to your room every 5pm.”

In an instant, the atmosphere cooled.
I don’t know anything else, but there was an unspoken pressure not to touch it.
A child like a pervert.

“I told you first. If you need something, I’ll take a picture for you.”

Before entering the soup restaurant.
Stopping, I turned around and looked him straight in the eyes.
But looking at his unrepentant eyes, all that comes out is just a sigh.

“Okay, what should I talk to you about? Let’s eat.”

I did it this far though.
Maybe even if I can’t go back to the way it was before.
I came up with the idea of ​​how to restore the current relationship, which has become abnormally twisted, to its original state.
Because it was a vain hope.

He still thinks of me as his plaything.
As long as the leash of going to Honghwa Academy is in his hand.
It was just confirmation that there was no way out of him.

“Lee Seo-ha.”
“Why.”

At that moment, I heard Kim Joo-won’s voice and turned my head.
He grabbed my wrist again.
He asked me to follow him and suddenly started dragging me to a place other than the soup restaurant.

“What, what is it? Where are you going?”

Kim Joo-won didn’t answer my embarrassed voice and didn’t let me go.
I knew from experience that if he didn’t answer, I wouldn’t answer until the end.

“Ehh…”

I sighed and quietly started following him.
However, since my wrist hurts so much, I was told to hold it lightly.

“Go in.”

The place where he was caught and led by his hand.
I thought I would never come back with this guy.
It was a large grocery store that sold a variety of food materials.

“What, what are you going to do?”
“It’s not your part-time job, so don’t worry about what I’m going to do, tell me what you want to eat.”

It seems that Kim Joo-won has already come several times.
He naturally moved his steps and asked me.
This guy
I remember that I didn’t include the description of being good at cooking.

“What, are you going to do it yourself?”
“Are you quick or slow?”
“…Just stir-fry the meat.”

I guess I became good at cooking while returning.
In order to survive in the other side of the world, there was a time when the Guardians put in the setting that each of them learns a lot.
That would work like this

“It’s surprisingly simple.”
“What.”
“I thought if I were the daughter of a conglomerate family, she would be able to talk about cooking that I’d never heard of anywhere.”

For a moment, be surprised at the unexpected part.
Let go of your annoyance at the words of a guy who seems to be teasing you for being simple.
His eyes widened at the words that followed.

“What?”
“Wait a minute. I’ll be right back.”

The fact that Lee Seo-ha came from a conglomerate family, she had never told him.
It was because he knew that.

“What did you just say…”

But when I came back to my senses to ask how I knew that, I looked back.
Kim Joo-won had already disappeared.
I stared blankly at the spot where he had disappeared, and sat down on a nearby chair.

I thought I would have to ask him how he knew.