Chapter 97 – Then I Got Slapped

Kim Joo-won and I looked at the TV, regardless of who said it first.
An unprecedented situation in which the academy was engulfed in the underworld without even using it.

“…Yes. The time has come for that incident to happen.”

And Kim Joo-won speaks as if he knows what it is because he has lived several lives.

“That case?”
“The case of Honghwa Academy being blown away.”

But I’m not a regressor, so I shouldn’t show any signs of knowing here.
At least for you, I don’t want to give you even the slightest suspicion.

“Now… You don’t have to dress up as a man.”

I heard Kim Joo-won’s voice, pondered for a while, then nodded.
As he said, starting today, Lee Seo-ha’s dressing as a man will be meaningless.
Since the academy that accepts female students has completely disappeared, even if they are found out, they will be able to stay attached to Cheonghwa.

“Is that okay…?”
“It’s okay. It’s not like what happened to the active Guardians right now.”

The boy said that and let out a small sigh.
In fact, if we were at the academy, it would have had a huge impact on our daily lives.
Me and him have already left the Guardian World and are living the lives of ordinary people…

“Well, now we’re outside too.”

I nodded at Kim Joo-won’s words.
Certainly, as he said, there will be a major upheaval in the Guardian society in the future.
But…

‘Can’t I go back to the original world only after I finish this novel?’

When I heard that guy’s words, a fact I had forgotten instantly came to mind.
From the first day we met, he had been pinching his nipples and had forgotten about it.
Those bastards named Readers seemed like letters to me and wrote them down.

‘How could I have forgotten that.’

Later, he was raped by Kim Joo-won, and his mind collapsed due to various things.
I forgot about it while I was gradually being tied to this guy.

“Seoha, why?”

The moment I remembered those facts I had forgotten, did my expression crack?
He suddenly came to his senses at the sound of Kim Joo-won’s voice, and hurriedly turned around, saying, “Uh, no.”

“It’s scary to think that even the academy has been eaten by the underworld…”

Then the boy sighed and smiled.
Unknowingly, I took his hand off his chest and gently placed it on his cheek.

“Seoha, it’s okay.”

Come to think of it, this guy was a regressor.
He didn’t really feel it because he was separated from the life he had lived as a regressor until now.

“At least in the future I know, the world has never been destroyed or anything like that.”
“…Okay?”
“So don’t worry.”

Kim Joo-won, who made an expression that only a person who knows the future could make, brushed my hair lightly.
It’s like no matter what happens, she’s willing to stop it no matter what.

“I will protect you no matter what happens.”

And, no matter what happened, I quietly took his hand, showing with my eyes that I would never lose it.

“… Creepy.”

I turned my gaze in response to the boy’s words.
If it weren’t for you and I, we wouldn’t be here.
Maybe I forgot about that fact.

“Joo Won.”
“Uh.”
“He’s not our Guardian.”

If you live, you don’t know if you will hate this guy.
Definitely not now

“I’m thinking about taking responsibility for me and the bird, okay?”
“Obviously.”

However, even if I say this, I will have to go back to the Guardian world someday.
Thinking that I should think about a method, I raised my body from lying on Kim Joo-won’s thigh.

*

A vibrating sound echoed from her bedside, and she slowly opened her eyes.
In a quiet house.
She slowly stretched her arms over her head, watching the ceiling of her room come into her eyes.

Pop.
As soon as I pressed the alarm off button, I stared blankly at the quiet room again and picked up the phone that was in her hand.

‘…Sister.’

Then, as she did when she was a child, she pressed the power button again, thinking of the person who had suddenly disappeared.
She hovered her finger over the Messages app icon that was pulled out on her wallpaper.

– Seoha Lee

Promising she would never lose it, she reached out her finger at the name.
She let out a small sigh as she still saw the 1 number next to the message.
Inside, hatred for the person who left me like this and disappeared slowly rose up.
The words he had told me then, that he would never leave me, seemed to be ringing in my head again this morning.

‘Bad bitch.’

She slowly got up from her seat, saying something she would never have said, especially to her older sister.
This time, almost a year has passed since my sister disappeared.
She reached out to the color lens tube that had been placed on the dressing table and opened the lid.

‘Sister, where the hell are you?’

It’s not like her sister’s, it’s not the perfect sapphire-colored blue eyes that seem to have been pulled out of the deep blue sea.
Like today, the day I want to see my sister goosebumps like this.
She would put blue colored lenses over her eyes and look in the mirror.

Then she could see her sister through the mirror, even though her eyes were a bit pale.
Although her breasts are slightly smaller than her sister’s, and her height is also slightly shorter than her sister’s.
At first glance, it was because Seoha Lee was in it.

But even that, when you put your hand on the mirror and feel the chill of the cold glass, everything ends.
I’m sure what I see in the mirror is that she’s a woman that even an older sister can trust.
Rather, the mirror tells me that you are Lee Seo-yeon, not Lee Seo-ha.
Because you draw the line that you can never become Lee Seo-ha.

“Sister, please come back.”

Just before May of last year, there was an incident in which two students disappeared without a trace at Cheonghwa Academy.
The target is Kim Joo-won and Lee Seo-ha.

Originally, they say they tried to hide it as much as possible inside the academy.
Two guardian candidates who were supposed to become guardians in the future and protect society from the other side of the world had disappeared, and one of them was the second of the Hyeonseong group.
Even if it was known, there was nothing good about the image of the academy or the image of a conglomerate called Hyeonseong.

Originally, it was said that her father and the dean of Cheonghwa Academy talked about it and tried to cover it up quietly without informing the outside world.

But I just couldn’t stand watching it.
Her older sister, who disappeared like a rape horse named Kim Joo-won.
Even when her older sister was mentally tied up and abandoned by a bastard named Kim Joo-won, she hated the academy for not taking any action.
I couldn’t just think of each other’s image and watch as the rape victim silently tried to bury the case of disappearing with the rapist.

‘Lee Seo-yeon, you’re really crazy.’

Then I got slapped on the cheek.
The day I broke the case in the media.
My eldest brother said he stabbed me for the first time.

‘Crazy? I? It’s you who are crazy.’
‘Ha, I was told that this is because I grew up without a mother…’
‘Crazy. Did you say everything?’
‘Seo Yeon-ah. Rather, that’s what I want to say.’

It was probably the first day I had a fight with my older brother, whom I had only been afraid of.
It wasn’t enough to quietly bury her sister, she blasted one such incident in her press.
Because the eldest brother who was scary, who was stabbing me, at that moment seemed like a demon to be driven out.

‘Don’t you really see that there’s a reason for asking?’
‘Ha, I heard that my sister disappeared with the raping horse, but Hyun-seong is more important?’
‘…I can’t understand the language.’
‘Rather, that’s what I’m going to say.’

But at least that much, I probably wouldn’t have left the house.
Older brother, it seemed like you and your sister didn’t have a good relationship from the beginning.
But…

I still can’t forget the gaze of his father who stood at a distance behind my older brother and looked at me.
It’s as if her sister doesn’t care.
Even though her sister, who is like her mother to me, has disappeared, the gaze that looked at me with emotionless eyes.
Rather, those two eyes that look at me who exploded the incident and ask what I will do in the future.

But after that, there was more shock that followed me.
The case that Hyeon-seong’s daughter disappeared with the rapist was consumed only as gossip and disappeared.
After that, only the image of Hyeonseong and the academy was ruined, and they were forgotten like ghosts.

Later, after the inside story of the incident was known to some extent, there was a little bit of public opinion that only cursed the academy, knowing that Hyun-seong was not involved at all.
Only that.

Her interest in her older sister, who had the ability to move through space, quickly cooled.
In the end, I had to leave the house and live alone like this, with no reward for breaking the incident.
As a price for breaking up the case to find my sister, the family I will return to is completely gone.

“Puh…”

After washing my face, I looked in the mirror.
Is it because I took out the blue lens?
Why did I not like the fact that it was Lee Seo-yeon, not Lee Seo-ha, who was looking at me in the mirror?
Since I’m Seoyeon Lee, it’s natural for Seoyeon to be looking at me in the mirror.

She lightly applied makeup to her face and put on her clothes.
Now that the shield called Hyeonseong was gone, I had no choice but to go to college to survive.
To find her sister, she must prepare for her future.

“Ha.”

I left the house and let out a small sigh.
The steps to the bus stop were quite heavy.
The more time goes by, the less likely it is that she will find her sister…
It was because I was going to school and that time was too precious.

“Uh?”

But I can’t help it.
If I try to find it randomly without any preparation, I will surely be broken.
Because my sister wouldn’t want that from me.

“Wait a minute!”

However, if miracles exist, why not hope for them at least once?
In the back of a man who is somehow familiar. It really seems like it’s been a long time since I’ve been running.
To not miss him.
Even the act of grabbing the wrist of a member of the opposite sex, which I would never have done normally, and even calling one person to stand up.

“…?”

When I grabbed my wrist, the walking man stopped.
It must be that he is trying to confirm the existence that has suddenly caught him.
Maybe at that time, I sincerely prayed.

It’s fine if this man I caught is that raping horse bastard.
Please, I want something to do with my sister.

While I was so eagerly wishing, the man turned around and revealed his face to me.
He held on until he did something he wouldn’t normally do.