Heo Gunpil Center - Chapter 124



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Episode 124. Summer: Friends (3)

There was a time when Jang Mi-mi’s relationship with Pi Ju-hee was on the verge of destruction.

Oh, so even now, we fight every now and then… .

“If you were going to act like this, why didn’t you act like this in front of the boss too?! But in front of the boss, you act all fake, like you’re nice and friendly!”

“What about you? Do you think the boss would have accepted you if he had known you were this kind of person?! What the hell—”

“Fucking well?”

There was a time when we fought really well.

At the time, Jang Mi-mi was certain that Pi Ju-hee was a social misfit who had no friends at school. But then, and now.

‘No, it wasn’t.’

Seriously… I didn’t want him to not have any friends to hang out with.

“That’s not good enough. He has a lot of money, so how would he look at someone like us?”

“Well, my mom works at a luxury goods store. When she came to pick me up last year, she said to Joo-hee, ‘What are you wearing, kid?’ She said that everything she’s wearing is luxury goods.”

This is it. This is where the groundless rumors started.

Jang Mi-mi realized why the rumor that Pi Joo-hee was the illegitimate child of a fourth-generation chaebol was spreading so widely.

Aside from alcohol and cigarettes, a person who doesn’t know any brands has received clothes from Seonggongrim… and sent them off thinking they were from a decent maker, and this is how it turned out.

“Really? Why didn’t I notice it?!”

“The real rich wear luxury goods that we don’t know about.”

“Crazy, so the rumor about the divine grandson is true?”

I don’t know what you heard, but that’s not it!

Rosemi tightly closed her eyes. The threads of misunderstanding were too tangled to resolve. Even the misunderstanding could not be resolved, because in order to resolve it, the entire long story had to be revealed.

“No. I thought he was the son of the Prosecutor General?!”

“Uh, really?”

“Yeah! He said he wrote ‘prosecutor’ in the career preference column and submitted it.”

So no!

By the way, if you wrote ‘prosecutor’ in the career aspiration column, are you the son of the Prosecutor General?! If you wrote ‘member of the National Assembly’, are you the son of the President?!

Jang Mi-mi gritted her teeth this time. She knew that since it was something she couldn’t write about as a lawyer, she had written down a person from the legal profession who was not currently in Heo Geon-pil’s fishing grounds in the career aspiration column.

“Hey, I want to live like that for just one day.”

As we rounded the corner of the hallway and reached the classroom, one of the crowd spoke.

“You can have everything you want!”

“no.”

Rosemi chewed on the cracked ice cream stick and threw it into the trash can.

“… … That can’t be it.”

He added, stepping into the class.

None of what they said was true, and Jang Mi was one of those who unintentionally knew the truth.

‘If I had everything I wanted, I wouldn’t have been so obsessed with getting the boss’s approval.’

……for a moment.

Suddenly she remembered.

‘Come to think of it… Pi Ju-hee decided to help more readily than I thought?’

Helping him with this plan was like giving me the recognition that was due to him. But why did he join the plan before Kim Min-soo?

“Mimiya? What does that mean… Damn, she’s at school.”

The one who had been asking Rosemi’s thoughts muttered. The class was particularly chaotic and noisy. His eyes were focused on a single female student sitting quietly at an empty table. The others in the group also muttered.

“Hey, that guy was in my class. I didn’t know he was in our class because he wasn’t even on the attendance sheet.”

“Wow, what’s with the face? I don’t think I could come out if it were me. Do you have a metal plate over your face… ?”

“You didn’t come here to drop out?”

Unlike the other students who were wearing casual clothes, the female student who was dressed up in her uniform looked like a very neat and tidy model student.

“… … .”

Jang Mi’s eyes opened wide as she looked at her.

Rosemi hadn’t seen her even once since she transferred to Yeonggam First Middle School.

“Mimi, you don’t know him well, do you?”

The crowd gathered in front of the door whispered, waving at the schoolgirl who suddenly appeared to be the reason for the commotion.

“We were in the same class last year, but he hasn’t been coming to school since you transferred here.”

“By the way, you haven’t been to school halfway through the year already. Aren’t you missing out on the number of days of unauthorized attendance?”

“Be quiet. But, the reason you didn’t come out is because you’re crazy! That guy…!”

You didn’t come out because you met the conditions?!

“condition?”

“Conditional meeting! I’m talking about original dating!”

As Rose Mi pointed out the word she didn’t know the meaning of, another student in the group spoke up instead.

Jang Mi-mi still hadn’t taken her eyes off the female student sitting alone at the empty table.

“… …Who saw it directly? Did he admit it?”

“Hey, that’s not true. Who would admit that! But, there was a kid who saw him riding in a forklift with people who obviously looked like gangsters. Rumors spread that he was a pervert, but he didn’t deny it!”

Jang Mi-mi approached the female student and asked.

“What’s that guy’s name?”

“huh?”

“name.”

“Uh uh… Hanbyeol. Park Hanbyeol.”

Then he quickly approached the female student,

Bam! The group just before grabs her. She shakes her head as if telling them not to talk to her.

“Mimi! Don’t talk to me for no reason. The rumors are really bad! That guy… That guy is really not like that!”

“Yeah. I know your personality, but it’s better not to talk to him.”

Swish.

Rosemi shook off the hands they were holding. If it was a sinking, it was a sinking.

“When I quit archery, there were all kinds of rumors going around.”

I thought they were holding on with quite a bit of force, but when she grabbed his wrist and lowered it, it came off so easily.

“Mimiya?”

“There was no truth in any of it.”

“Yes?”

People tend to believe only what they see. Oh, but it’s so two-faced. Sometimes people believe what they hear from other people’s mouths more than what they see with their own eyes.

“Sorry. I’m a little disappointed.”

And, and Rosemi… … .

“I want to believe what I see with my own eyes.”

He believed only what he saw.

Her ears were filled with strange tales, more bizarre than the common folk’s tales, and her eyes were able to see into things that could never be seen.

“hi!”

But even if the rumors are true,

“My name is Jang Mi.”

Even if that’s the case.

“You, come play with me today!”

“……uh?”

“Where should I go after school? Should I go to a cafe first?”

“Yes, why did you… No… No, sorry. I… … .”

Jang Mi-ga whispered into the ear of the female student, Park Han-byeol.

“… … !”

Then, Park Han-byeol’s eyes opened wide like Jang Mi-mi’s a moment ago.

“How do you do that…!”

“Are you going to play?”

He smiled faintly.

* * *

[Stone head] Hey hey

[Dolmeori] Sorry!!! I suddenly had an urgent engagement, so I don’t think I’ll be able to go buy chips…!!!

[Dolmeori] Let’s go buy chips tomorrow!!! I’ll buy them!!!

[Stone head] (emoticon)

During the break before the last period began, Pi Joo-hee, who was taking an online lecture on her tablet, received messages one after another.

“… … .”

Pi Joo-hee, who had taken out her earphones at the sudden message, checked her watch. There was one period left until the end of the school year at Yeonggwang First High School, but Yeonggwang First Middle School had already finished the school year.

[Me] Yeah.

[Me] So that the boss doesn’t worry, you send a message in advance.

[Me] And it’s not ‘ke’ but ‘ge’

It didn’t really matter since I could always go buy game chips. Pijuhee replied.

But for some reason, half of the break time seems so quiet… … .

“Oh, anyway! Where did we end our conversation?”

“I, I, I am so…!”

Is it because of my mood?

Pi Ju-hee, who had been looking around at the noisy surroundings, resumed her online lecture.

“Eh?”

Suddenly, a female student from the cubicle next to me stopped looking at her phone and spoke.

“Why is Mimi playing with him?”

Those words were clearly audible to Pi Joo-hee’s ears, who was wearing earphones.

The female student who was flipping through Shinstar Stories on her phone stopped at Jang Mi-mi’s account. What was posted on Jang Mi-mi’s story was a selfie with a student who seemed to be her friend.

“What, do you know Mimi too?”

A female student who was watching the story with me asked. This female student had become close with Jang Mi-mi as part of a school project last year where seniors and juniors were paired up.

“Yeah. We hired some people last year when the broadcasting department was short on personnel.”

“Ah, but why is there that guy next to Mimi?”

“Hey, that’s him. Why, we had that when we were in middle school.”

A kid who was rumored to be a demanding kid…!

Pi Ju-hee, sitting on the opposite side of the table, couldn’t see the girl’s phone screen, but her keen senses were focused on their conversation.

Pi Ju-hee closed the workbook she was working on while listening to an online lecture.

“Crazy, is that him?!”

“That’s right. Didn’t Mimi’s friends tell you? They must have told you. Why did they even upload the Shinstar story when it was so obvious…?!”

In line with their conversation, Jang Mi’s reply arrived.

[Dolmeori] Hey, that’s what I’m talking about anyway

[Dolmeori] I think I’ll be late todayㅜㅜㅜㅜ

[Dolmeori] I’ll send a message to the boss in advance

“… … .”

Couldn’t you speak better too?

Pi Joo-hee approached the group of female students without any further hesitation.

“excuse me.”

As he opened his mouth, the class became quiet again.

“Who is that person?”

Pi Joo-hee asked, pointing to the student next to Jang Mi on the phone screen. The female student was standing next to Jang Mi, who was smiling brightly, and was laughing awkwardly.

“Huh, huh? Huh, huh… Huh? Huh? Huh?!”

The female student who owned the phone stammered instead of answering. Her face was gradually getting hotter from her neck, and she looked like an overloaded robot.

“… … ?”

Pi Ju-hee had to wait a little while before she could answer, as if she had come to her senses as if she had rebooted.

* * *

“I, I… … .”

Park Han-byeol opened the door in a hurry, holding a drink and a piece of cake in front of her at a cafe on the second floor near Yeong-gang-jung. Her hands, which were holding her school uniform skirt, were drenched in sweat. Cold sweat was also constantly running down the back of her neck.

“Me, me… why did you ask me to play? You know all about me, right… …”

“Oh, I don’t really believe rumors. I’ll have to try it out for myself.”

Rosemi said, taking a bite of the cake she had bought for herself.

“I told you the shortcake here is really crazy. You should try it too.”

“… … The picture you uploaded to Shinsegae… Why don’t you delete it now? You have a lot of followers. If the kids see me and you together… … You too, will be rumored about me… … .”

“That’s why I uploaded it.”

“……Yes?”

“The kids don’t talk well in front of me. It’s like a rumor.”

She smiled again as she handed over the cake. Park Han-byeol bit her lip.

“You, you don’t know that! No matter how many friends you have, if one or two of them turn their backs on you, it’s over! Even if you tell them the truth then! No one will believe you!”

“Well, definitely. It would be a bit sad if everything was lost overnight.”

“So hurry up…!”

“But it doesn’t matter. If a friend turns their back on you before you even check with them, then they weren’t your friend at all.”

“what?”

“I know.”

Because I have a real friend.

Outside the window, the sunset was beginning to pour down. Ah, I wish I could see the stars at night. Rosemi looked up at the sky once.

“……tell me.”

Blood finally burst out from the lips that had been chewed hard.

Park Han-byeol gripped her skirt even tighter. Blood was rushing to her already dirty fingers, which were red enough to show her flesh.

“Sir, how did you know that the person around you was in a coma?”

“… … .”

Rosemi put down her fork and stared at her intently.

No, to be exact… … .

“If you can see it.”

Park Han-byeol stared at the ghost behind her.