Novelist Running Through Time - Chapter 97



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EP 4 – Hunting Reds

“It’s late-”

Autumn is coming to an end. All the colorful autumn leaves fall off, and the trees slowly reveal their bare branches.

However, the pile of fallen leaves on the ground seems to desperately insist that fall is not over yet.

It’s that kind of season.

Through the club room window, I could see girls playing and digging through piles of fallen leaves. It seems that the old saying that middle school girls are an age where they laugh, tear, trample, and destroy at the sight of falling leaves is not wrong.

I slowly looked away from the window and looked at the club room.

Gu Yuna and Min Hyo-chan are talking anxiously.

“Unni Byeol, isn’t she coming today again?”

“huh. “They said he didn’t even come to school…”

“Where does it hurt…”

Gu Yuna hugged the pillow on the sofa with an expressionless expression. When I saw it, it was loneliness.

Gu Yuna tossed the pillow she was hugging to the side, walked quickly, and sat down in front of the laptop.

“Well, since they’re so busy, they may have forgotten about our club and didn’t come.”

It wasn’t that I didn’t come because I was sick, it just meant that I wished I had forgotten and not come.

“Anyway, Byeol-ni didn’t do much when she was using Demon Sword, right? “We just use it among ourselves.”

The intention was to continue club activities without disruption for the sake of Kim Byeol, who will return someday.

But Min Hyo-chan, who didn’t know that, got angry.

“hey! “Aren’t you worried about your senior?”

“I’m worried.” / It’s a fact

“what?! Ugh, no. “He really doesn’t know what’s going on…”

Gu Yu-na started writing without paying attention to the horny Min Hyo-chan. She was also a Safa expert who was well-versed in fan fiction such as Harry Potter, Jujukken, Haikyuu, etc.

(It’s a secret from Dad)

On the other hand, pink-haired Min Hyo-chan didn’t want to fight with a rat-sized girl, so he put on his headphones and was about to start playing a Chinese otaku mobile game.

Grumble – !

The club room sliding door opened.

Min Hyo-chan and I, and Gu Yu-na, who pretended not to do so but was actually waiting for Kim Byeol more than anyone else, turned our heads like meerkats to check on the visitor.

But unfortunately, the identity of the visitor was not Kim Byeol, but Park Chang-woon, a madman with Moon Chang-gwa with a thick beard.

“Why is it so dark? “Children of darkness?”

A senior novelist and middle school teacher wearing a modified hanbok strode forward, turning on the light in the club room.

He lightly ignored the pink-haired guy doing hip-hop and casually stroked Gu Yuna’s head and handed me a piece of paper.

“Our writer. “Do you know how this happened?”

“What’s going on?”

“Ham Barbara. Manager Neg wrote his resignation letter.”

The paper in my hand was the ‘Club Withdrawal Form’ submitted by Kim Byeol.

“ah……”

“What is this…”

While Min Hyo-chan and I were frozen in shock,

Gu Yuna said, grasping the situation faster than anyone else.

“Where is this sister’s house?”

* * *

Gu Yu-na calmly wanders into the teacher’s office to find out Kim Byeol’s home address, but I am also human.

Because I also had the bare minimum of humanity, I couldn’t bear to drop the monster called Gu Yu-na at Kim Byeol’s house.

Even if her mother presented me with an awkward situation. But wouldn’t it be wrong to release a microscopic mind-destroying biological weapon into the other person’s house?

So, I took responsibility and declared that I would meet Kim Byeol and persuade him.

Moreover, it is an unspoken theory that I was the person in charge of our popular culture and arts research club anyway, and Kim Byeol was a scarecrow.

In other words, in effect, I am the manager and Kim Byeol is an assistant member. And if a member of the department runs away, the manager has the duty to catch him, so it was natural that things happened like this.

However, the problem is that it is difficult to go to school and go home, but that problem was actually easy to solve.

“Hey, I have something to talk about with actor Kim Byeol. “Is it possible to meet up?”

I went to Baekhak Entertainment Management Team 2. This is a place in charge of actors, and Kim Byeol belongs here.

This is how I explained it to the confused employees.

“Actually, we are publishing a literary fanzine together. As an e-book. However, actor Kim Byeol suddenly stopped attending the meeting for personal reasons, so I came to see how he was.”

“Uh… that…”

“For your information, this literary fanzine is being distributed by the publication management department’s own publisher.”

“yes! “I’ll try to contact you first.”

I simply called Byeol Kim.

Isn’t this a very clear justification?

The effect was amazing.

“hey! What are you!”

Kim Byeol appeared.

I waved at her.

“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you at work, Senior Kim.”

“you···!”

“Let’s talk for a moment.”

“Don’t do this here, follow me right now!”

Kim Byul was so angry that he grabbed my wrist and dragged me away. Her growing children grow up faster in women, so I could not overcome her by force and was dragged by her.

She dragged me up to the dark emergency stairs, made sure there was no one there, and pushed me hard against the wall and scolded me.

“What are you! “What do you want to do with me?”

“Why don’t you come to the club?”

“If it were you, would you go out?!”

Kim Byeol’s fingertips were trembling. I had no clue whether it was a manifestation of my confused mind or acting, so I just focused on the conversation.

“Everyone is worried, so…”

“How can I go to that club! “There you are!”

Kim Byeol cut me off harshly and looked at me with resentful eyes. She was skilled at expressing her emotions, so the look in her eyes communicated to me more clearly than ever.

“You… looked at me pathetically.”

“……”

“At that restaurant, your mother and the chef were all watching, but you raised the price of the meal as if you were throwing a coin to a beggar and then walked out…”

Kim Byeol’s eyes, which were looking at me with resentment, became moist little by little. And a teardrop rolled down.

Kim Byeol hysterically wiped away her tears as if she didn’t want to show them to me. And she glared at me with venomous eyes.

“know. It might seem pathetic to you. “The sight of them stooping like this just to get a role…”

“……”

“But I’m not a genius, I’m not young anymore, I’m not talented, and most of all, coach So Tae-woong doesn’t come to me and offer me his hand. Do you know what I thought as soon as I heard you didn’t have a TV at home? I thought it was a good thing I didn’t watch the drama I was in. “They must have thought it was a waste of time to skip school due to schedules and all while acting like a broke girl who only appears for less than 5 minutes in an episode!”

“……”

“……”

There was silence between us for a moment. I ended up looking into her bottom, and she inadvertently revealed her bottom.

Even though she had wiped away the tears earlier, a feeling of self-destruction that could not be wiped away was flowing from Kim Byeol’s eyes.

After pouring out all her emotions, Kim Byeol finally returned to her expressionless face and spoke to me helplessly.

“So… please just go. “Please don’t make me miserable anymore.”

“……”

“It is right for people who are not geniuses to do something like this. “You won’t understand.”

Kim Byeol said that and trudged down the stairs.

I said, looking down at her back going down the stairs.

“Iknow, right. “I really don’t understand.”

Kim Byeol stood tall.

“Then why don’t you beg me? “Please, please say something nice to director So Tae-woong?”

“······stop.”

“You said living poorly is a way to live. Then try saying it lamely. “Please tell Director So Tae-woong some kind words.”

“······Were you this kind of kid? “Do you like making fun of people?”

“You can’t do it, right?”

Kim Byeol, who had been going down the stairs, came back up quickly and stood in front of me.

Then he grabbed me by the collar and made a very distorted face.

“Please stop.”

“From what I see, that’s not why senior Kim is suffering right now.”

I slapped Kim Byeol’s hand that was holding my collar.

That dry grip fell away so helplessly that it was so hopeless.

I sat on the emergency stairs going up. Then he patted the seat next to me and invited Kim Byul to join us.

“Let’s sit here and talk. Senior Kim.”

“……”

“Don’t be too serious.”

“……”

“Write it. Uh-huh.”

Without realizing it, I developed the same verbal habit as when I was disciplining Gu Yuna, but it seems that it also applied to Kim Byeol, so she squirmed and sat quietly next to me.

I patted her back and slowly comforted her.

“I’m not a genius either. There are many people in the world who write better than me. I also wrote a lot of articles to please others in order to get ahead. And begging?”

I chuckled.

“Kim Sunban, you can’t talk about begging in front of me. It is said that children at orphanages beg from volunteers while acting cute. Since my pocket money is so small, I make up for it by begging. That’s our daily life. “I was no exception in the past…”

“······you?”

“Paper, transportation, writing utensils, how do I buy it all with pocket money? Of course, there was one teacher who took good care of me, but that wasn’t enough. I also lived a really miserable life. Please give me some money, please look favorably on my writing, please give me a certificate…”

“……”

“But the problem is this. Even if you bow your head, I have to bow down, and even if you hold on to your trouser legs, I have to hold on to you. Even if I beg for it, I have to do it. Only then can you be confident. But my friends beg for me, and my parents beg for me? Then people go crazy. “I think that’s exactly the situation senior Kim is facing right now.”

“……”

“I’m not fully owning my life.”

Kim Byeol suddenly lowered her head and began to tremble slightly.

I pretended not to notice and continued talking calmly.

“I’ve lived like this too, so how dare I look down on senior Kim? I apologize for what happened at the restaurant. “I hurriedly came out because it seemed like senior Kim was suffering, but I didn’t know he would be hurt this badly.”

A slightly tearful voice was heard from the lump of hair with its head bowed.

“really···?”

“Actually, I ran away too. When I see kids in school uniform being bullied or beaten, my heart sinks. It feels like my job. I used to get beaten up a bit in the past, and the aftereffects lasted for a long time… so it was very difficult to see senior Kim suffering there. So I ran away. “I never looked down on senior Kim…”

“……”

“So, stop acting like you’ve committed some crime against me and come back to the club. “Because everyone is worried.”

Kim Byeol didn’t answer for a long time.

But at that moment, I felt like the tangled thread was unraveling.

Sure enough, a clear voice came out from Kim Byeol, who lowered her head.

“······huh.”

I smiled reassuringly and stood up.

And I came down, leaving Kim Byeol sitting on the way up the emergency stairs.

Finally, just before I opened the door and went out on the stairs, I looked back at her because I had something I couldn’t say.

“Oh, and… it’s a bit awkward to say in this situation…”

“···?”

“Why would I get an autograph from director So Tae-woong that I didn’t ask for?”

“···!”

While getting the autograph, we exchanged a few words about one of my friends being an actor, and thanks to that, there was no need to add that director So Tae-woong was already aware of the existence of an actor named Kim Byeol.

Looking at Kim Byeol’s expression as she looked at me with wide eyes, it seemed like she fully understood what I meant.

I just smiled sheepishly.

And then he quietly left the emergency stairs, leaving Kim Byeol behind.

I hope she comes back to the club.

* * *

However, Kim Byul never returned to the club.

Every time we gathered for club time, we had to feel Kim Byeol’s empty seat.

That’s right…

“They say it takes about half a year.”

“really?”

“Because making a movie is not an ordinary task…”

Kim Byul eventually passed the ‘Communist Hunt’ audition.

I don’t know how much of my help went into it.