Chapter 65 – Cheers Before an Uncomfortable Conversation

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That was it.
What is written in the ‘Book of Memories’?

Of course, having read this far, it wasn’t hard to remember what happened next.
However, I wondered why the record stopped here.

‘Is it because the quest hasn’t been opened yet?’

The book is very thick, but most of the pages are white and blank.
In other words, the contents are written according to the progress of the quest I received.

The next content was obviously related to another quest.

What Park Da-in asked me was if he could have sex with another man.
I didn’t quite understand its meaning.
At first, she thought she had heard wrong, and it wasn’t until she heard Park Da-in ask her repeatedly that she realized that she meant it.

I think I got angry for the first time.
However, Park Da-in only smiled at me when I was angry.
He didn’t try to placate or change his mind like before.

When I saw Park Da-in’s smile at that time, my heart broke.
I felt dangerous.
I wonder if I can’t get away from this woman for the rest of my life.

Now that I think about it, Park Da-in didn’t even have to ask me that.
You must have already met as many other men as you wanted.
I was the only one who was bound by Park Da-in’s Hana.
She didn’t care if she had a boyfriend or not.
However, making me addicted to drugs and making such demands was a strategy to break me down.
To wait until I can’t get out of myself and hurt myself.
That was her build-up from the moment she first met me.

“Whoa…”

I felt my heart clear again.
My mind is clearer than when I didn’t read it.

Park Da-in was a much more evil woman than I thought.
Wasn’t she the woman who shamelessly came to the academy even after killing people?
There was no such thing as her morality in her in the first place.
It is natural that it is not a temper inherited from Joo-Ri Choi, who is not related by blood.
Probably not even on the side of her biological mother who lost her life.

‘It must be my father.’

It is highly likely that Park Da-in’s devilish temperament originated from her father.

Of course, regardless of what kind of people her parents are, the offspring can walk a different path.
But at least it wasn’t Park Da-in.
No matter what she was brought up with or what she saw growing up, she was giving herself the impunity to do her devilry.

You don’t have to read what follows.

Because I clearly remember what Park Da-in did to me.

NTR.

Then a man appears.
Da-in Park dragged a new man into her bed as if she didn’t even need my permission.
I did not participate in the act.
However, he could not escape from Park Da-in.

The two had already started a relationship while I was dating Park Da-in.
I just didn’t know about it.

That man was an arrogant and evil man like Park Da-in.
The two got along like a match made in heaven.
They had already received permission from both families and were dating.

Is it some kind of strategic love?
It was a love affair with the premise of marriage.
Her father is a member of the National Assembly, and her stepmother is the owner of a company that is on the rise.
The male side of the family is no less.

Just as the two of them laughed at me while having sex, I was Park Da-in’s complete toy.
Park Da-in, who was kicked out of the academy and needed someone to solve him.
I was just caught in her eyes.

‘That’s the curse…’

All I had to do was get away from the curse of my previous life and walk the path of blessing.

I fell asleep with her clear head.
I never had nightmares or tossed in my sleep.

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The next day, I deliberately went to the academy early.
The other students from class C were also here to check in anyway due to the strict academy rules.

I didn’t really want to face them face to face.
Although there was an aspect of having to continue her relationship with Park Da-in, the target of the quest, it was not essential to do something with her right now.
Rather than that, the meeting with Choi Ju-ri was more important.
I was supposed to meet her for lunch today.

Arriving at the academy early, as expected, none of the C class students were in sight.
I checked my attendance, booked a training room as usual, and went there.

I practiced diligently until lunchtime, and I didn’t get interrupted by anyone.

When I left the training room, Joo-Ri Choi contacted me at the right time.
She gave the meeting place today in her message.

It was a place I didn’t know, but I thought it might be a place where I could have a quiet conversation.
Even from her point of view, meeting me secretly won’t be easy.

Even if there is a difference in social status between me and her, there is not much difference in terms of age alone.
It was perfect for misunderstanding as a lover.
There was nothing good about Park Da-in’s father, Park Cheol-gwan, finding out.

Choi Ju-ri sent a taxi to her academy.
Traveling on it, we arrived at her restaurant, which she had informed us of in her message.

As expected, I had to take a taxi for quite a while, and it was a restaurant located in a fairly secluded place.
There is no signage and it is located in the basement.

I’ve been to a few restaurants that run this way.
Most of them were run by talented chefs and were 100% reservation-based.

Going down the stairs, the door was wide open before I could open it.
The waiting staff asked politely.

“Are you Choi Seong-gyu?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll take you to a reserved seat.”

The place where the staff guided us was the room.
The restaurant is not very large, but there are about two rooms.
We were guided to the largest of them.

The table had only the basic settings for the guests who had made a reservation, and Choi Ju-ri had not yet been seen.

“Can I bring you some food after the party arrives?”
“Yes.”

I took a deep breath and sat quietly in my chair.
To be honest, I was very hungry because I had been training intensely all morning.
The story to be shared with Choi Ju-ri was by no means light, but that thought came first.

I didn’t wait long before the door opened and the bright woman I had met yesterday entered.

“Sunggyu, did you wait a long time?”

She greeted me with her kind expression.

“No. I came soon too. I came here comfortably because he sent me a taxi.”
“What, with something like that. I was going to pick you up when the time was right, sorry.”
“No.”

Choi Ju-ri speaks in her bright tone and she sits across from me, but I feel that her atmosphere is not entirely comfortable.
Her words and actions seemed like her performance.

I knew what she had done to her yesterday her husband.
After she did that, she sent me a message.
It was clear that it would be difficult in many ways.

Anyway, today’s meeting was not just a place to eat together.
Making an appointment to say something about Park Da-in.

Choe Ju-ri would have expected it.
If it’s related to Park Da-in, the possibility of a good thing is extremely low.

In any case, there was no need to show each other any signs of discomfort before starting the meal.
The staff started serving the food and, as expected, the quality of the food was excellent.

I ate at a rather quick pace to satisfy my hunger, even though I felt a bit out of manners.
Choi Ju-ri watched me with a proud expression.

“Aren’t you eating?”

She seemed to be eating alone, so when I asked her that, Ju-ri Choi shook her head.

“Sorry for staring. For some reason, I feel good when I see you. I am not very hungry.”

She could have misunderstood if I said, ‘I feel good to see you,’ while we were eating together in a basement restaurant, but it wasn’t that kind of atmosphere at all.

Choe Ju-ri heard me and she ate at a slow pace when she became a little conscious.

Little conversation took place until the meal was over.
It was partly because I was eating rather quickly and focused on it, but it was also because the content of the conversation I was about to have was uncomfortable.

Choi Ju-ri ordered a cocktail when the employee asked for a drink to bring with dessert.
It was still very early, but she could read her desire to drink.
She couldn’t openly order alcohol, so it felt like she chose a weak cocktail.

In line with that, I directly ordered a drink.

“Please bring me draft beer.”

Choi Ju-ri was surprised by my words.

“Oh, are you going to drink?”
“Yes, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like a drink.”
“Excuse me~ What are you saying?”

When I ordered a beer, Choe Ju-ri canceled the cocktail she had ordered and asked for a beer as well.

I hoped that this beer, drinking face to face, would ease my mind a little.
As a hunter, I would never get drunk with a glass of beer, but Choi Ju-ri would be different.

After the beer was served, Choi Ju-ri actively raised her beer glass and held it out to me, unlike when she was eating.

“For our friendship.”

The word friendship was a little subtle, but it wasn’t bad because it didn’t emphasize the age difference.

I also raised my glass and bumped into hers.