Chapter 194: Love Triangle (3)
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 194: Love Triangle (3)
Shin Yu-jeong scoffed at Im Na-eun’s unexpected counterattack.
“Ha…! No matter how happy you are to see him, I just can’t accept that distance.”
“Why not…?” Im Na-eun asked back, her tone perfectly innocent, as if she couldn’t understand at all.
To think she could state her intentions so clearly without flinching in the slightest before a fiercely growling Shin Yu-jeong.
It was surprising, yet I could somewhat understand.
Come to think of it, she might have been shy at first, but she was always the type to express her will clearly.
“Are you two dating?” Shin Yu-jeong asked, glaring.
Im Na-eun glanced at me for a moment before shaking her head.
“No, not really…?”
It was a very ambiguous answer, leaving open the possibility that while they weren't dating, they were something else.
Shin Yu-jeong huffed, looking like she was about to explode with something much bigger.
Their completely unexpected squabble was quite a spectacle, but it seemed about time for me to step in.
If I let this continue, it would be a problem if our respective relationships were exposed to each other.
The solution to the current situation was simpler than I thought.
“That’s enough, Yu-jeong.”
From an angle Im Na-eun couldn’t see, I took Yu-jeong’s hand and squeezed it reassuringly, then put a little distance between myself and Na-eun.
“Na-eun was just happy to see me. We spent a lot of time together last semester, you know.”
“Well, that’s true, but…”
The angry atmosphere instantly subsided.
In return, Im Na-eun’s expression darkened.
She seemed quite disappointed that I was so openly taking Shin Yu-jeong’s side.
It’s fine.
I have two hands, after all.
With my other hand, I stroked Im Na-eun’s thigh a few times, as if telling her to understand.
“Yes… I think I was a little over the top. I’m sorry if it made you uncomfortable, Yu-jeong.”
Having grasped my intention, an attempt at reconciliation slipped from her lips.
Thanks to that, Shin Yu-jeong’s anger, which was already rapidly fading, plummeted to the floor.
Im Na-eun, for her part, seemed to have understood my meaning and let go of her disappointment.
“…I was a little sensitive too. Sorry.”
“N-No, it’s okay. So we’re good? No hard feelings?”
“Hey, I don’t hold grudges.”
“Hehe, that’s a relief.”
I’m glad it seems to have been patched up well.
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While I was sharing a risky, tightrope-like skinship with the women sitting on either side of me…
“It’s been a while, Do-jin! Yu-jeong and Na-eun, hello to you too!”
Elena, whose Korean had become much more fluent, arrived at our seats and greeted us.
And a moment later…
“Hi, it’s been a while. Did you… have a good break?”
Seo-yeon also arrived, looking much more comfortable around us compared to before.
With that, all the party members from the second semester of our first year were gathered.
At the same time, a familiar face stepped onto the stage.
“Good to see you, everyone. Did you all have a good break?”
“Yes, Sunbae-nim!”
A handsome face and a confident smile. Even his stylish attire, adorned with luxury brands.
Park Jin-woo, the role model for many female seniors and juniors, had taken the stage again this year.
He was a fourth-year now.
Normally, fourth-years go out for internships at guilds or the association.
“Did you hear? Jin-woo sunbae isn’t doing an internship.”
Instead of an internship, Park Jin-woo had chosen to stay at the university for another year.
The reason being…
“It makes sense. Jin-woo sunbae’s future is already set once he graduates, anyway.”
That was exactly what I was about to say.
Park Jin-woo’s father, Park Jeong-pal… is the guild leader of the Yuseong Guild, the 3rd-ranked guild in South Korea.
Where else would the guild leader’s son go?
Obviously, he’d go work under his father and prepare to inherit the guild someday.
Still, one puzzling point remained.
And that was…
“Still, isn’t it a bit strange?”
“What is?”
“I mean, if his path is already set, shouldn’t he be even more inclined to do an internship? Wouldn’t it be better to integrate into the guild as soon as possible and grow quickly?”
Right, that.
It was a bit odd that he would completely forgo an internship just because his future was decided.
If it were me, I would have gone straight to the Yuseong Guild for an internship to learn the ropes as quickly as possible.
No matter how much Korea University was one of the world’s top Hunter training institutions, there was still a significant difference from what one could learn in the field.
No, to be more precise, real combat was rife with variables you couldn’t possibly learn about otherwise.
That’s why a Hunter’s skills could vary wildly depending on where they did their fourth-year internship.
So why did he kick such an opportunity to the curb?
The answer to that… might lie with Seo-yeon.
As he proceeded with the O.T. with his usual brilliant rhetoric and eloquence, his gaze occasionally turned this way, just like last year.
He obviously wasn’t looking at me; he must have been looking at Seo-yeon, who was sitting near me.
If I were to infer his psychology from this… it meant he had decided to stay at the university for another year for Seo-yeon.
“Well, look at this grand tale of pure love.”
A young punk like him, already crazy for a girl.
I’m seriously worried about the future of our country.
Tsk, tsk…
“Alright, that concludes the first part of the O.T. We’ll begin the second part once the freshmen arrive.”
While I was inwardly tutting, half of the O.T. had already passed.
All that was left was the session with the freshmen who had just finished their entrance ceremony, just like last year.
“This is more boring than I thought.”
During last year’s second-semester O.T., I was a freshman, so everything was new and I didn’t notice, but this event is surprisingly dull.
The second part will at least have the fun of listening to the freshmen introduce themselves, but the first part is a real sleeping pill.
I wish there was something exciting to wake me up…
As I wondered if there was anything, my eyes suddenly met with Im Na-eun’s, who was sitting next to me.
Just as I was starting to think there was something suspicious about her face, which had been a constant shade of light pink since I first saw her…
She suddenly reached out her hand.
“Do-jin, can I see your hand for a second…?”
“…My hand?”
“Yeah.”
What’s this all of a sudden?
When I extended my arm with my palm facing up, Na-eun placed her own clenched fist on top of it.
Then, I felt something hard on my palm.
“Q-Quick, close your hand.”
Her somewhat urgent tone made me clench my fist and hide the object without thinking.
I could feel something hard and angular in my grasp.
What in the world was this that she wanted me to hide it so quickly?
As I was slowly loosening my grip out of curiosity, Im Na-eun suddenly stood up, turned around, and approached Shin Yu-jeong.
“Yu-jeong! Let’s go get some coffee. My treat!”
“Should we? Hey, Kim Do-jin. You come too…”
“Ah, no! I asked him, and Do-jin said he doesn’t want coffee. So let’s just us go?”
“Huh? Hey, wait, let go of my arm…”
…When did I say that?
Displaying superhuman strength, Im Na-eun dragged Shin Yu-jeong away and disappeared.
It felt like she’d cleared out to give me a more comfortable space to check the object…
“What on earth is this…”
Just in case, I lowered my head so no one else could see and slightly opened my fist.
What I saw was a pink, rectangular object.
With ‘UP’ and ‘DOWN’ buttons, and even a power button… could this be…?
“A remote control…?”
A small remote of this color, with such a simple button layout… only one thing came to mind.
“Well, well, look at this.”
It seems this girl is dreaming of doing something outrageous.
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On the way back to the lecture hall after buying coffee at the cafe.
Even while chatting with Shin Yu-jeong, Im Na-eun’s mind was elsewhere.
‘Do-jin… My master would have figured it out right away, right? Hehe.’
Kim Do-jin.
For her master, figuring out the purpose of the object she gave him would be a piece of cake.
As she giggled foolishly at the thought of what was about to happen, Shin Yu-jeong, who was walking beside her, asked with a curious tone.
“Are you in a good mood or something?”
“Huh? Ah, hehe. I’m just happy to see my friends after so long.”
“…Seriously. And you’re the one who didn’t contact us once during the break?”
“Hehe, sorry. I was at my parents’ house, so I didn’t have much time.”
Even if she’d had the time, she wouldn’t have thought to contact them, but that last part was true.
Her parents’ house was an incredibly boring place.
A rigid mother and an old-fashioned father.
And her brother, five years her senior, who had inherited both their personalities.
It was a place filled with people who did nothing but suffocate her.
Her only joy while at home was the occasional phone call with Kim Do-jin.
And pondering what she would beg him, her master, to do for her when they met again.
Perhaps that was why her heart was pounding even more right now.
Because the thrilling moment she had only imagined in her room at home—a room that felt as cramped as a prison cell despite its size—was now at hand.
“Looks like those are the freshmen.”
“Yeah, I think so. The way they’re looking around reminds me of myself last year.”
“Heh, everyone’s like that in their first year. This place is huge.”
“Right, right.”
Laughing and chatting as they watched the large group of freshmen move past after their entrance ceremony, they soon arrived at the lecture hall.
The area that had been empty just a moment ago was now filling up with freshmen.
The moment she sat down in the empty seat to Kim Do-jin’s right, trying to calm her racing heart…
Bzzzz—
Along with a faint vibration, an indescribable pleasure washed over her lower abdomen like a wave.
The moment she writhed, feeling a shallow orgasm from the small wave created by that faint power…
‘It’s started…♥’
An incredibly sensuous smile graced her face.