Transmigrated as the Side Top used as an Emotional Trash Can - Chapter 38.1
“Baeksand, get over here!”
“Eugh! You degenerates! Hahaha!”
I enjoyed a round of tag with the Drama Club members as we raced through the school. I usually enjoyed running, so I could have kept running away forever if I wanted to, but….
“Oh, what? Is he from our school?”
“I heard he’s a first-year? Oh….”
Quite a lot of students were staring at me as I ran around dressed as a woman, my hair swaying behind me, and it started to feel burdensome. So I ran for an appropriate amount of time, let them catch me, took a slightly painful beating, and was released. I should wash this off quickly. Having so many eyes on me felt a little uncomfortable.
“Hey, Baekhan. Someone told me to give you this.”
As I headed toward the restroom, some guy approached and handed me a familiar envelope.
“…Who gave you this?”
It was the envelope from an Affection Level Increase Coupon, something I hadn’t seen in a very long time.
“Byeongjun-ah!”
I rushed out of the school and looked around, quickly spotting Kim Byeongjun heading somewhere.
“How did you get this….”
I waved the envelope from the coupon Kim Byeongjun had delivered, intending to resolve my questions. But when Kim Byeongjun saw my face, his eyes widened as though he had seen a ghost, and his complexion rapidly turned pale, blue, and red in succession.
Ah, right. I must look ridiculous right now. I hurriedly took off my wig, at least. But Kim Byeongjun’s complexion showed no sign of returning to normal, and just as he had in the counseling room, he continued staring only at the ground.
“…When I heard you came looking for me, I thought you wanted to talk to me.”
“…….”
“There are so many things I want to ask you, but are you ready to answer them right now?”
Kim Byeongjun pressed his lips tightly together and didn’t answer. It was difficult to keep questioning someone who refused to respond. Maybe today wasn’t the right day. Still, could I take the fact that he had brought me the envelope as a positive sign?
“Then when you’re ready, and once you’re feeling alright, let’s meet again. You’ll do that, right?”
In the end, I took a step back. Kim Byeongjun struggled to nod at my words, then turned and left. After watching him for a moment, I turned around as well and began walking back toward the school.
“H-Hanrim-ah!”
At that moment, Kim Byeongjun, whom I had thought was going home, squeezed out every bit of his strength and shouted.
“I didn’t use those! That bastard did all of it! He told me to say you hit me! Be careful!”
I hurriedly turned around, but Kim Byeongjun quickly caught a taxi and disappeared in a fluster. Kim Byeongjun had omitted the subject, but I understood what he meant perfectly well. The coupon envelope returned to me was empty.
In other words,
“That means someone used, or is using, the six remaining coupons somewhere.”
Even with the Slowdown Penalty, the old me had nearly lost my mind from only three coupons. Could the person who had used as many as six still be sane?
The surprisingly enjoyable festival ended, and the summer vacation closing ceremony immediately followed.
The cicadas screamed as though they would tear the open sky apart, and the blazing heat of the sun scorched the earth as though it hated every living creature in existence. It seemed even the world inside a novel couldn’t escape extreme weather.
“Is the earth going to be destroyed at this rate? It’s hot….”
“…I’m taking a taxi to the academy today.”
Kim Jihwan immediately took out his phone and tried to call a taxi, but I stopped him.
“Since we got out early, let’s have some fun first.”
School had ended early without classes because of the closing ceremony, so I had been thinking about taking Kim Jihwan out for bingsu. Baek Hanrim’s parents had arranged for us to eat bingsu at a hotel where a chef they knew well worked, telling me to enjoy it with Jihwan.
“Is there somewhere you want to go?”
And as though it were only natural, Cha Gwonhyeok joined us too.
“Ah….”
I was about to ask Cha Gwonhyeok whether he wanted to come too, but I stopped. At this point, couldn’t the three of us be called best friends?
No matter how much of an obsessive main top and a sociopath he was, with a disposition that had been different from everyone else’s since birth, anyone with even the most basic awareness would have noticed something about the complicated currents within human relationships.
If I continued openly favoring only Kim Jihwan, Cha Gwonhyeok might feel hurt. I couldn’t completely trust Cha Gwonhyeok, but I couldn’t exclude him either. I might not be able to cherish him as much as Kim Jihwan, but I should at least show him the courtesy due to a friend.
Because you were the main top and the protagonist of this novel.
“Do you want to go to a hotel with me?”
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