Transmigrated as the Side Top used as an Emotional Trash Can - Chapter 32.2
“One strawberry milk and three pizza buns! I’ll leave the money here!”
The owner of the school store was the kind of man whose smile grew much wider for cash payments than card payments, so I took the hint and contributed to his tax evasion.
“Guys…! I’m coming out!”
Even after buying everything, I couldn’t force my way through the swarming crowd. The school store at lunchtime was packed like bean sprouts in a steamer. Kim Jihwan, who had no desire to squeeze himself into it, stood outside the store and blankly gazed up at the clouds. Kim Jihwan liked making up rules and playing games inside his head, so was he playing a game where he earned one point every time a heart-shaped cloud passed by?
I found Kim Jihwan adorable in my head as I squeezed through the crowd and advanced toward the entrance. I wanted to hurry and give him the strawberry milk.
Rumble-.
“Agh! Don’t push!”
“Which bastard was that?!”
Suddenly, the line inside the store collapsed. The crowd shoved against one another, making my body sway violently. It wasn’t just that I staggered. My feet ended up lifted completely off the floor. Fortunately, I was wedged between people, so I didn’t fall. Instead, I couldn’t move at all.
“Oh, boy….”
Slide-.
Just as I sighed to myself, two feet slipped beneath my dangling feet.
“Step on my feet.”
The owner of the feet told me to stand on them. I followed his instructions and turned around. I saw familiar slippers and a pair of large feet.
“Gwonhyeok-ah, thank you.”
It was Cha Gwonhyeok.
Cha Gwonhyeok let me stand on top of his feet, bringing us quite close together. We remained that way for a while, enduring the surging crowd of students.
“…….”
“…….”
The school store was loud and crowded. A brief silence formed between the two of us. Just as I opened my mouth to say something because it had grown awkward, Cha Gwonhyeok beat me to it.
“About Byeongjun.”
Kim Byeongjun’s name came from Cha Gwonhyeok’s mouth.
What in the world was he about to say? I turned to Cha Gwonhyeok with suspicion filling my gaze. His face was right in front of mine. Had I ever looked at Cha Gwonhyeok from this close before? My mind went blank for a moment. Cha Gwonhyeok seemed to feel the same because he remained silent and hesitated slightly. For a very brief moment, an exchange of incomprehensible emotions and gazes passed between us.
Then I came to my senses first and spoke.
“Yeah, what about Byeongjun?”
The moment Kim Byeongjun’s name left my mouth, Cha Gwonhyeok seemed to come to his senses too. I could feel the focus returning to his previously hazy eyes. He looked as though he had been deeply absorbed in something and had just awakened from it. Then, as though displeased that his concentration had been broken, his brow twitched sharply for an instant.
“…Want me to teach him a lesson?”
I couldn’t understand him at first, so I gathered the scattered words inside my head and pieced them together.
So, just now… Cha Gwonhyeok had asked whether I wanted him to teach Kim Byeongjun a lesson, right? This terrifying person, who might have already killed me several times?
“What do you mean….”
Was this what it felt like when a devil offered someone a deal?
When I remembered the moments of my deaths, my heart began beating abnormally fast. My head rang as though there wasn’t enough blood reaching my brain. My body’s reactions had become slightly out of control. Because of Cha Gwonhyeok.
“Teach him a lesson…?”
I ended up reacting openly to Cha Gwonhyeok’s words without thinking. I should have laughed it off like usual, but I couldn’t. Because I was afraid of Cha Gwonhyeok….
If the fear I felt now could deceive me into believing it was love, like the suspension bridge effect, then I felt as though I could love Cha Gwonhyeok just as much as Kim Jihwan. There was only one reason I was afraid of ghosts. Because I couldn’t fight them off. Cha Gwonhyeok was exactly the same. I couldn’t fight him off, and I couldn’t touch him. If I harmed Cha Gwonhyeok, then who would give Kim Jihwan a happiness that couldn’t be exchanged for anything else in the world?
The number of things I feared most in the world had increased to two. Ghosts and Cha Gwonhyeok.
“It was a joke.”
Cha Gwonhyeok’s words finally brought me back to my senses.
“Huh?”
“I said it was a joke. Wasn’t it funny?”
It wasn’t funny.
But I smiled, as though I had heard an amusing joke.
“You like joking around more than I expected, Gwonhyeok-ie-.”
If the main top put his mind to it, he could do far more than merely teach someone a lesson. He could bury them somewhere in the mountains. So wasn’t it you who pushed me into the crosswalk, poisoned me again and again, and ordered a contract killer to murder me?
“Hahaha.”
Cha Gwonhyeok laughed. It felt as though he were looking inside my head and mocking me. My paranoia was getting worse and worse. It was probably because I had only recently escaped after dying repeatedly. I couldn’t simply pretend not to notice the hostility I felt toward him and tuck it away.
“Looks like Hanrim-ie didn’t find it funny. Sorry about that.”
Cha Gwonhyeok spoke lightly, trying to bring the situation to an end. But once my hostility had raised its head, it didn’t easily subside. Because of that, I momentarily lost control of myself.
“Don’t teach Byeongjun a lesson.”
I couldn’t trust someone like you, who truly seemed capable of killing another person.
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