75. As a friend (1)

1.

When I get too stressed out, I become calmer.

I’ve experienced this once or twice before, but today I felt a calmer spirit.

The first thing that came to my mind was about the parents I saw earlier.

A story about a woman whose last name changed to Han when I came to the reverse world.

Actually, scolding or nagging someone doesn’t mean that you’re interested in them no matter what.

That response can be interpreted as saying that he already regards me as a perfect stranger.

I didn’t even think that he and I were related.

Because they are worse than others, and there is no such thing as exchange anyway, I used to think of them as beings that I would have nothing to do with after I became an adult.

However, it seems that the 26-year-old’s mind was not something that could be twisted by her aunt.

The fact that she thought about what that person would say when she left the police station was proof that I was still obsessed with the word parent.

Even though I’ve lived without even the slightest exchange, I think I was still reminded of blood ties.

This is probably why it is said that blood ties are scary.

To think of the word parent despite being in a relationship like this.

On the other hand, the lady’s attitude was clear.

I had to come all the way to this place during the evening hours because of my work, but despite that, they treated me like a stranger.

If you want to make a stop loss, you have to do that.

I still have a long way to go.

Maybe I should become a bit more like a psychopath.

Hmm…….

It’s a very cheesy choice of words, but I wanted to say that you have to be cool.

Another thing that came to my mind was that I wondered if I was too entangled in the past.

This isn’t about parents, it’s about the world before.

Certainly, my life in the previous world was somewhat on track.

I received the highest score in the CSAT, entered the Department of Computer Engineering at Seoul National University, and went to school while receiving a scholarship.

I earned 50 million won at the age of 25 by working hard to death, and I was able to escape from the semi-basement.

They are all gone now.

Now these are things that remain only in my memory.

There is no going back then, and you will have to repeat the same effort for the same amount of time to get them back.

Even if you keep thinking about those things, there is no way to come back.

The only way to get it back is to start over.

Though the conditions changed a lot while doing things like gender reversal, there was nothing I couldn’t do.

Nevertheless, I was stressed out by myself, endlessly recalling the past.

It’s all over, but it was like this at one time, imagining the things only I know, thinking about how satisfying it would have been if I hadn’t fallen here, even though it was an effort I had to do anyway.

I think I had my own passion in the past, but now all that remains is whining.

If this is the case, then no matter what we do, we will inevitably fail.

… ….

Yeah, what.

I admit it.

I know that even the thoughts I’m thinking right now are, in the end, just self-brainwashing, and that there are very few people who have that mindset because it’s easy to say.

Still, it can’t be helped.

Shouldn’t you succeed somehow?

My future depends on my efforts, and I can do anything only if I succeed.

I walked down the street with those thoughts in mind.

My appearance has been cleaned up to some extent at the police station earlier, but it is still not in good shape.

I could feel people passing by on the street staring at me, but it wasn’t important.

I tried hard to brainwash myself as if I was suturing my head, but stress is different from that.

I still feel stuffy in my heart, and it seemed like it would take some time for this to resolve.

In that situation, I unconsciously picked up my phone and entered the contact list.

At some point, my hand is pointing at the contact number saved as Min Ah-rin.

What kind of psychology does this behavior come from?

It seems like you’re doing this because you want to relieve stress, but the only way to relieve it is to call Min Ah-rin?

I don’t smoke, and I barely leave alcohol at home…….

Anyway.

If you want to relieve stress by calling a friend, isn’t Cheon Se-joon the answer?

Are you doing this because you are closest to Min Ah-rin?

I don’t intend to tell you my situation when I call, but do I just need to interact with my best friend?

I had many thoughts yesterday and today.

I also reconsidered about my friendships, and came to the conclusion that I should live my life alone.

But what am I doing?

I thought about it over and over again, but it was still a question that didn’t come out with an answer.

Still…….

Because chatting with Min Ah-rin is fun.

It doesn’t matter anyway.

2.

“Han Seung-gi… Are you okay…?”

“Me? Why?”

“No, uh…, Did something happen…?”

I didn’t even say a few words. How could such a reaction come?

There was nothing wrong with his voice. I’m a person who usually uses a dry tone, and I was especially careful now. Because I didn’t want to create a bad situation.

The acting was perfect.

No matter how I think about it, there was no problem for me.

“Uh…, Is it because of school?”

Because of yesterday’s incident, my mood is quite low today, and it was the same at school.

Min Arin must have felt that too.

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But the answer that came back blew away my expectations.

“School? Why is that? …Ah! It’s not like that…”

Then what the hell is this about?

I was curious and asked, but they said it was just the atmosphere.

It was an incomprehensible answer to me.

Nothing different from usual?

This is a really objective statement.

Still, it didn’t matter.

If you see my face, you can tell at a glance what happened, but I didn’t intend to see Min Ah-rin’s face.

My current location is not too far from her house.

Unlike my local police station, this police station is located 40 minutes from my house.

Just near Minarin’s neighborhood.

It hadn’t been long since I left the police station, so I was still in the academy near Min Ah-rin’s house, but I didn’t really want to see her face.

There is Gao. How do you show this

Isn’t it? If there is Gao, do we have to show more?

Well, this is pointless talk.

I decided to change the subject in moderation.

I was just calling to chat, I had no intention of receiving anything comforting.

By the way.

“There is nothing to do…”

“Are you at the academy right now?”

“……?”

? What.

“Uh…. Is it in front of the mobile phone store…? No, it must be in front of the snack bar next to it.”

“??”

Something I couldn’t understand happened.

My arms were already getting goosebumps.

A snack bar you can see if you look sideways.

And next to it is a cell phone shop.

Has your phone been hacked?

No, my personal information could be sold for 120 won on the deep web. How does Min Arin know the real-time location information?

However, before my shock even wore off. More shocking words flew in succession.

“Hmm, I have good ears. After hearing it roughly, I think it’s a bit familiar.”

“Can you sense that by the sound?”

“The sound of kids talking…, The sound of cars thumping…, The song from that cell phone shop, they play that song a lot there.”

I knew that his physical ability was suspiciously good, but what is this?

…… And.

“You just wait there. I’ll be there in about three minutes.”

What is this…….

It will take at least 10 minutes to get here from Min Ah-rin’s house.

She never even asked me to come out in the first place.

No.

3.

As soon as I answered the phone, I could sense something strange.

Well, I have no idea why. It was just kind of like that.

If you have to argue, it’s strange that Han Seung-gi calls me first.

But more than that. I kept feeling nauseous.

It was Han Seung-gi who was no different than usual, but the only information given to me was his voice. Something was unpleasant and uncomfortable.

An unknown depression seemed to emanate from him.

Later, I also remembered what I was like at school.

He kept bruising with a tired-looking face.

The number of words decreased significantly and he ate only a little.

Aside from that, there are various clues.

It was so much fun until yesterday morning, but it was clear that something had happened.

There was also the suspiciousness of the phone itself, but when I thought about what happened at school, anxiety welled up.

When I thought about the fact that something had happened to Han Seung-gi, my body felt extremely stuffy.

Stress piled up for no reason, and I started to get angry for no reason.

In the meantime, I heard various sounds over the phone.

Various sounds that I wouldn’t have bothered with normally.

I instinctively focused on them, and I could see that Han Seung-gi was outside and that the place where I called was a place familiar to me.

I was also surprised.

I was confident in my abilities, but that wasn’t enough.

Still. There was no time to be surprised.

The more I stayed, the more stuffy my chest became.

So, without changing clothes, I opened the door and ran out.

It just felt like it had to be, and it was an instinctive reaction.

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