chapter 197
197 – Encounter (2)
Before we knew it, it was dinner time.
Me and them walked towards the Clan House Dining Hall.
Now he lives in the clan house almost like a permanent resident.
The sight is so natural that it feels like I’m walking through my own living room.
Looks like everyone’s gotten used to clan house life.
Although there are not many people, it is fully equipped with the latest facilities, so there is no great inconvenience in staying there.
They don’t seem to have much complaints either.
In the case of Seo-yoon and Hwa-ryeon, I was a little worried because they were born into rich families, but it seems like they like the facilities in the clan house better than I thought.
That means Jihyun invested a lot of money.
How much did it cost… … .
“Teacher, didn’t you say you weren’t going to eat dinner tonight?”
“Just what… … .”
As I sit down on the chair, Yerin runs over and takes the seat next to me.
“… …It ended sooner than I thought.”
“Ehehe.”
Yerin’s eyebrows flinch and tremble.
“But what did you two really do?”
“conversation.”
“Is this a conversation between adults?”
“Well? Want to try it out?”
As I spoke with a meaningful voice and a subtle smile, Yerin looked up at my face for a moment before poking out her lips.
“… …Teacher, you’ve become too sly.”
“no?”
“It’s not that I don’t like it, but sometimes I miss seeing you flustered like you used to.”
Are you secretly enjoying seeing me flustered?
“By the way, what about Sister Hwaryeon? I thought you were coming with the teacher.”
“Oh, Hwaryeon? Well, I wonder. She might be asleep by now.”
It was half stretched out.
It’ll probably be difficult to move right now?
“You’re sleeping? At this hour?”
“I guess I was a little tired.”
I shrugged my shoulders and answered in a nonchalant voice, but Yerin’s suspicious eyes were piercing into my face.
“… …Teacher, it’s not what I think, is it?”
“What is that?”
“Uh, uh, um.”
Yerin stutters as if slightly embarrassed.
“What should I say… … Se, sek… … Anyway! Right? Right?”
“Ahaha.”
“Stop laughing and answer me, teacher!”
“I’m joking, I’m joking. So don’t look at me like that.”
“Then why don’t you come, Sister Hwaryeon?”
“You just don’t have an appetite today?”
“… … .”
Close your lips hastily.
But Yerin’s red eyes are looking straight at me.
The light gradually fades from the bright red eyes that resemble blood.
Dark shadows appear and pupils constrict.
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time, but how do you turn off the light in your eyes?
I’m quite curious.
“You said you would just talk to the teacher… … .”
Yerin begins to mutter, clenching her fists.
“I trusted you, teacher… huh?”
“Stop talking nonsense and eat this.”
I felt like Yerin’s switch would turn on if I left it alone, so I cut the steak into an appropriate size and put it in Yerin’s mouth.
“Whoosh, hoosh… … Big! Teacher, what are you doing now?”
“I feel even better today. Is it delicious?”
I used my fork to thrust the steak at Yerin once more.
Yerin stares at the steak for a moment and then suddenly turns her head away.
Until I could slightly puff out air into my cheeks.
“Teacher, do you know what I am? Don’t try to gloss over something like this.”
“So you’re not going to eat it?”
I clacked my fork and smiled secretly.
Yerin glances.
He hesitated for a moment, then accepted it with a calm expression.
Covering my lips and mumbling. What is this? It’s like feeding a hamster.
“… … I’ll take it since you gave it to me, but don’t think I’ll be satisfied with something like this. Okay?”
“What? Were you angry? I didn’t know.”
“… … .”
“Our Yerin. Even her jealousy is cute, cute.”
He chuckles and gently strokes Yerin’s head.
Yerin shrugs her shoulders and tries to avoid my touch, but she doesn’t mean to. She soon catches up to me. I quietly stroke her head.
“Your hair feels really nice. Do you take good care of it?”
“… … A, a little?”
“Doesn’t that seem a little too much?”
“Oh, anyway! Don’t pat my head! I’m not a kid.”
“From my perspective, he’s a child enough… …but isn’t he a little small?”
“Now, it’s not small… … !”
Why are you shouting while covering your chest?
I’m talking about height, height.
“You guys are really shaking, really.”
Jihyun, who had been maintaining her silence, could no longer bear it and muttered with a furrowed expression, tightly gripping her fork.
“Seojun, Han Seojun.”
“Huh? Why?”
“You know, I have a dog.”
“okay?”
How could that be?
I’ve never seen a dog before.
By the way, why did you suddenly start talking about dogs?
“I’ve been saying this lately. Maybe it’s because she’s in heat, but she keeps trying to have babies.”
Stab the sausage with a fork.
It goes in with a whoosh.
The plate was cracked from the force applied.
Jihyun stares at me while chewing on the sausage.
“So I’m thinking about getting my cat neutered these days. What do you think?”
“Haha. That’s funny.”
So you’re saying I look like a male dog in heat right now?
Well, from Jihyun’s perspective, that’s understandable.
“Is it fun?”
“uh.”
“Ha… … I’m so pissed. I can’t just beat that thing to death, really.”
“Don’t be like that, Jihyun. You know I love you.”
“Wow, is this guy really crazy?”
Jihyun swears with a tired face and then lets out a deep sigh.
“You’re getting more and more shameless as the days go by. Now you say things like that without even thinking.”
“You only do that when you’re lying. Is it true that I love you?”
“… … Okay, let’s stop talking.”
Jihyun was pressing her temples as if she had given up.
“I remember him not being this shameless… … He started acting strangely after regaining his memories.”
“Rather than saying I’ve become weird… … I’ve become more honest. How old were you before I regressed? Did you think I wouldn’t be able to properly say I love you like a teenage boy?”
To be honest, I felt a little awkward saying it.
But if the other person acts shamelessly, it’s hard to get properly angry.
That’s why I do this on purpose.
“We’re already married.”
“The me before I returned really married you? Ha. I can’t believe it. How could I… … with a womanizer like you?”
“Looking at you now, it doesn’t seem like that’s necessarily the case.”
“That’s why I still regret it.”
“Ahaha.”
“Don’t laugh, you idiot. It makes me mad.”
We continued our dinner while chatting about this and that.
It was an everyday scene no different from usual.
It could be said that our usual behavior was to make silly jokes and make jokes.
“Oh. Now that I think about it, I have something to say.”
By the time dinner was almost finished.
I carefully moved my lips.
Because there was something important to say.
“Charlotte came to see me earlier.”
“what?”
moment.
Jihyun’s eyebrows trembled.
Even Seo-yoon, who was elegantly enjoying her tea, glanced at me.
… … Both of them seemed very interested in the word Charlotte.
“That woman came barging in again?”
“Oh, that’s right. Actually… … .”
I started explaining everything that had happened earlier.
Jihyun and Seoyoon, who had been out and didn’t know that Charlotte had barged in, just silently listened to what I had to say.
As the story came to an end, Jihyun let out a deep sigh.
“Oh, really. It’s so annoying… … .”
Jihyun furrowed her brow as if she was quite displeased.
Ji-hyeon really disliked Charlotte because of the trouble she caused last time.
In fact, not only Jihyun, but also Seoyoon, Yerin, and Hwalyeon are quite wary of Charlotte and dislike her.
Me too.
“Well, it would be more accurate to say that they sneaked in rather than barged in.”
I shrugged and answered.
Jihyun nervously ran her fingers through her hair, and Seoyoon looked at me with a worried expression on her face.
“Seojun, you don’t think something happened, do you?”
“Don’t worry, Seo-yoon. Nothing happened.”
I smiled and waved my hand as if to reassure her.
“That’s fortunate, but… … why did you come here?”
“I think it was because of the letter.”
“Is it a letter?”
I quietly took out the letter.
He slowly handed it over to Jihyun and Seoyoon.
Jihyun read the letter with a frown.
I quickly skimmed through the contents of the letter.
Suddenly Jihyun snorted, “Ha.”
“What? You want to meet in a week?”
“Last time, Edelin sent an invitation through Charlotte. This seems to be an extension of that.”
Phew, let out a deep breath.
“So what are you going to do?”
“What should I do? I have to meet him.”
“It could be a trap.”
“You know that’s unlikely.”
If you were trying to capture me, there was no need to go through all this trouble.
Because it’s something that can be done just by pushing through with force.
“Did you forget that I said I would accept Edelin’s invitation last time?”
“No, I remember. I do remember, but now that it’s come to this, I feel a bit weird.”