Chapter 24 – I Guess I Liked This Girl

The demon king left with shining silver hair fluttering over a white denim jacket. Feeling uncomfortable, I took my phone out of my pants pocket and checked the time. There was only one minute left until class time.

They decided to meet later anyway, so he probably wasn’t really going to die. Taking comfort in that, I climbed the stairs. Arriving on the second floor, I went into the lecture room where the demon king visited the other day.

I came here on Thursday too, but it felt a little unfamiliar maybe because there were many things going on over the weekend.
In such an unfamiliar atmosphere, I stood at the door of the classroom and looked around.

I saw people sitting with two or three friends, and I saw people like me sitting alone because they had no friends. However, what stood out the most in the classroom was the overcrowded crowd. He was talking to his classmates sitting around him with a handsome smile on his face.

“But there you are. Uh?”

He hardened his smile as soon as he saw me. The classmates sitting around who saw that face turned his head and looked at me. But the women’s expressions were spectacle.

“Hey, you really came!”

“Trash… “

“Can’t he be arrested?”

Everyone was looking at me with contemptuous expressions on their faces. In addition, people who were not friendly with Gwadae had similar faces.

Obvious, what The exaggerated guy must have spread false rumors to his classmates. Even if you tell me the truth later, I will lower your trust in me so you don’t believe me.

Of course, I wasn’t angry or annoyed when I saw that expression. The more that guy spoke nonsense, it was like strangling himself with his own hands. Besides, the people who believed it just believed what they wanted to believe, and it was not long before they knew the truth.

With that thought in mind, I walked to a seat close to the blackboard. But there was something more troubling. A very big difference from what was on Thursday. There was no glass next to the hype. When I looked behind me once more, I saw only the hype smiling proudly, but not Yuri.

She couldn’t come up in her classroom. I took care to be at the same time as Yuri, and moreover, this lecture was a compulsory subject in the first year.

I took out my phone and checked the time. It was over a minute past noon. I looked at the door to the classroom thinking, “Why aren’t you coming?”

Kiik

The door is open.

“Hello everyone!”

But it wasn’t Yuri, it was the professor.

I looked at the time again and it was over 2 minutes. If that professor didn’t come within 10 minutes, he would be considered absent even if he was in class.

Squeak!

The door opened again, and this time Yuri entered. She was wearing black slacks that exposed her ankles, and the same gray blazer she had seen at the cinema. She breathed heavily as she ran and saw a few strands of her hair stuck to her face.

Yuri hurriedly came in, and she stopped her steps as if surprised to see the professor standing in front of the podium. Her professor was tidying up her textbooks she had brought with her, then looked sideways at her and then lowered her gaze.

“I won’t be late. Please have a seat. Class begins.”

She spoke in an indifferent tone and flipped through her textbook. Yuri bowed his head to the professor and tried to sit in her seat. Then she stopped her steps again. At this time, her yuri’s pupils began to shake.

I wonder why, she turned her head to look at her. There was a lot of hype there. There was another girl in the seat where Yuri sat last Thursday.

Yuri, who saw that, seemed to panic. She looked around her, looking for an empty seat, that she wouldn’t sit around a guy like that.

I felt a little disappointed in Yuri, who seemed to notice her embarrassed face. It’s still my first love, but she was showing such a pathetic figure. Then she came out and met her eyes.

“!”

Seeing me, she smiled brightly. Then she glanced at the grandstand and sat down next to her. Yuri, who was sitting next to me, whispered softly as she took off her bag from her back.

“Hi”

How she ran, when she sat down next to me, I smelled the hot sweat and sweet perfume.

“Ah, yes.”

But my heart wasn’t pounding like before. If it had been before, she would have been the me who was at a loss for what to do just by being right next to her. But now she only cared about her hair clinging to her cheeks.

“Yuri, this.”

She said softly and she pointed to my cheek. Her hair was on this side, so it meant to clean it up. But Yuri said “What?” And she looked at me.

“No, I said something on my cheek.”

“What, what?”

Yuri gasped for her breath and wiped her cheek with her hand, clenched in her fist like her cat. Even with that, her hair didn’t fall out. Unable to see, I raised my hand. She ran her forefinger against her soft, sweaty cheek, pulling at her hair that was stuck to her moisture. She touched the place I had touched, and she glanced behind her for a moment, then she thrust her face into mine.

“Thank you.”

He whispered in my ear and fell to me. Besides, she even laughed a little when she saw me embarrassed by such a move.

“Uh, uh. Okay.”

Until now, she had never been this close to me until she was Yuri. All she did was act like her best friend, like her same-sex friend. But what made it even more strange was that she was just embarrassed by her behavior. She was rather excited when she asked if the demon king was pounding earlier.

She sees me sitting next to her and I figured her hype wasn’t giving crap to her, but then all of a sudden she acts like this so I don’t know what she’s doing. I turned around to see if he had ordered it, but he was talking to the girl sitting next to him.

In the midst of this chaos, class started. The professor explained what he would learn today with chalk on the blackboard and wrote it down. Suddenly, Yuri handed over a piece of paper.

What are you doing after today?

After the lecture, I immediately headed to the place where I was supposed to meet the demon king. Even though it was in front of the university, I went into an internet cafe with few people, and a woman with silver hair caught my eye.

It’s so easy to find, I thought the seat location I texted would be useless. With that in mind, I walked to the place where the demon king was.

She was concentrating on the game, not even knowing we were here. To be precise, it was focused on chatting. She was already dead and a gray screen appeared, but she was tapping the keyboard and sending certain words over and over again.

Curious to what she was writing, she muted her voice and sneaked back behind her. The demon king was playing only four consonants.

Sg
Sg
Sg
Sg
Sg
Sg
Sg

Seeing the demon lord constantly blaming the jungle, she felt a little relieved. When I saw her earlier, she was spleen as if she was going to die somewhere, but now she was embarrassed to blame others for her own mistakes. I asked her with her reassurance and absurd mind.

“What are you doing?”

“Oh! Are you here!”

Even though she was caught messing around with politics, she naturally raised her face and looked at me. She looked at me with a smile on her eyes, then looked at me and opened her eyes wide.

“Did Yuri come too?”

“Hello, senior!”

Yuri met her eyes and bowed her head. The demon king looked at me while bobbing her head.

I knew this without even thinking about it. The look in her eyes asked why she had brought her.

I couldn’t bring it. Every time she came to visit her in the hospital, she was conscious of the devil and did something she wouldn’t normally do. But when she said that she was going to an internet cafe like the devil, she said she wanted to go with her eyes tightened. I couldn’t say no by looking at her face, so I ended up bringing her.

While I was looking at the demon king, Yuri said with a lively smile.

“I’m sorry, senior. She came along because she wanted to play with Jiheon. Can I play with her?”

Even the brazen Demon King could not spit on his smiling face, and nodded his head with a trembling expression.

“Now, do as you please.”

“Yes! All right!”

After she gave her permission, Yuri sat to the left of the Demon King. She was in the exact opposite seat to me, who was sitting on the right to go 1-on-1 with the demon king.

“Jiheon!”

Then Yuri called me. She looked over the demon king’s silver hair and saw that she was beckoning towards me.

“Can you tell me how to do this?”

Come to think of it, it was the first time she had been to a PC room. No wonder she didn’t know how to turn it on or log in.

But, I have to fight against the Demon King…

“It’s okay. Go and tell me.”

The demon king, who fixed a pretty face like a doll on the computer screen, said. With an expression as if his soul had escaped, he said while stamping question marks on top of Bottom Miss Fortune’s corpse.

“Can’t we stick together even if the seats are a bit far apart? Come on, let me know.”

“Are you okay?”

“Didn’t you say it was okay? Help Yurina while Jim finishes it.”

If he says he’s fine, then he’s fine.

I got up from her seat, passed the Demon King, and Yuri sat down next to her. Turning on her computer, I told her what she needed to know in her PC room.

“Press the power button, and the screen is on, so you don’t have to touch it. Oh, and since this is prepaid, I have to sign up or become a non-member. What do you want to do?”

“What is different?”

She asked a question that didn’t make much sense to me, her pure eyes shining. She seemed a bit annoyed, but she held back and continued explaining.

“If you sign up and put money in, you can come and do it anytime. Oh, just as much money. And for non-members, no matter how much money they put in, once they turn it off, it’s over.”

“Oh yeah?”

“Huh. Then what will you do?”

“Then… Jiheon. Do you come here often?”

“Sometimes they come.”

“Then I want to join.”

“Okay. Then let’s do this first.”

I got up from my chair and moved to the right side of the glass. She was trying to comfortably hold the mouse in her place, but she unintentionally ended up with her back turned to the demon king on the right side of the glass.

“… You.”

The demon king quietly called me, so I turned my head. The champion came back to life and was at home.

“Why?”

“Hey, maybe.”

“What.”

“… “

She looked at me without speaking. Under the dim lighting of the PC room, I could see the devil’s eyebrows slightly furrowed.

“What’s the matter. What’s the matter?”

She continued to stare at me without a word, so she couldn’t stand it and asked. Then she turned her eyes to the screen and answered.

“It is nothing.”

If it’s nothing, why is it like that?

No, the demon king was a bit strange today. It’s like wearing clothes, and you don’t show a spleen look, but now you just called me for no reason. Is there something weaving up without my knowledge?

With that thought in mind, he tried to call her. But Yuri called me and couldn’t.

“Jiheon. What’s the matter?”

“Uh? No, no.”

She decided to play later anyway, and decided to do this for now and ask separately.

After helping Yuri sign up for her membership, she went to the kiosk to deposit money. She tried to help with that too, but she refused, saying she could do this.

Now that Yuri was gone, she thought it was time to ask a question. But this time the phone rang again. I didn’t know the number, but I had a sense of who it was, so I couldn’t answer.

“Hello.”

-Ah yes, ●●It’s from the newspaper. Are you sure you are the person who sent the email about Lee Ha-joon’s identity?

The woman’s words over the phone confirmed that my guess was correct. The newspaper saw the e-mail I sent and contacted the phone number listed there.

“Yes, I am.”

-It says here that Lee Ha-Jun is not a hero, he is a real hero. Is it true?

“Actually, I am that person.”

-You sent me a picture, do you have it?

“Everything is there. I have the clothes I was wearing at the time, the treatment records, and the number of the police officer who came at the time.”

-Is it so…

She seemed to be pondering something, mumbling her words. But that worry didn’t last long.

-… Is it possible to interview now?

“Yes! No, it’s kind of like that now. Could you please wait for ten minutes?”

-Are you okay. I’ll contact you a little later.

“Yes!”

I cried and hung up the phone. And he said to the demon king who was playing the game without looking at me.

“Hey, I got a call from the newspaper!”

Hearing that, the demon king answered with his eyes fixed on the screen.

“Oh oh! Then Genga comes out with a knight!”

“It will! It will probably be out by evening!”

It’s an internet newspaper, so it won’t take long to publish.

“I’m going to the interview now, the game later!”

“Okay! Then expect good news!”

“Okay! See you later!”

I hurriedly cleaned up my seat and got ready to go to my room. In the meantime, Yuri, who finished the calculation, approached.

“Jiheon-ah, where are you going?”

I finished her preparations and answered her.

“I’m sorry, but I have something urgent to do, so I’ll go!”

“What?”

Leaving behind Yuri, who was making an absurd expression, I hurriedly left the internet cafe. But I should have understood the demon king’s words properly at this time. She said expect good news, not expect it.