86 – Yerin Ryu and her last name Sega (3)

“You are so naughty, sir… ….”

Muttered with a slightly troubled expression while slightly sticking out Yerin’s lower lip.

“I mean, I was really surprised.”

The light gray hair hung limply.

The eyebrows and the corners of the eyes are down.

It looked like a sullen puppy’s tail.

It was a bit strange.

“I’m sorry. Stop without me noticing.”

I smiled bitterly and scratched my cheek.

Yerin’s reaction was sharper than expected.

When I put her hand on her shoulder, she couldn’t forget the cold stare at her.

She refused to let anyone approach her as she huddled her body like a hedgehog.

Perhaps that behavior is a defense mechanism to protect itself.

Yerin was abandoned by the surname family when she was young.

During her adolescence, she was shunned and harassed by her family just because she was an illegitimate child, and she lived a hard life with her mother.

She was bullied even at school because she was from a single parent family.

She was teased because she didn’t have a father, because she was poor.

She must have been in her school days with only scars.

She remembered hearing at first glance that Yerin responded with indifference and no response.

She must have realized from experience that if she resisted violently, she would crush her even harder.

Therefore, she could say that it was only natural that Yerin was more wary of others than necessary and continued to be indifferent.

Perhaps my obsessive personality was also supported by such an environment.

‘Come to think of it, how did I get close to Yerin?’

Suddenly, her old thoughts rose to the surface.

She was hazy like a thick fog, but she remembered clearly.

The place where I first met Yerin was in Hanbit Park, where the darkness fell.

In the dark shadows and the soft moonlight, the image of Yerin sitting on a swing alone and looking up at her was clear in her mind.

At that time, Yerin was quietly watching the moonlight with a melancholy face.

She was a little girl alone late at night, so she glanced at her a little worried.

Then suddenly Yerin met her eyes.

“Teacher?”

“…… Why?”

“What are you thinking about so intently all of a sudden?”

“…… No, just.”

Around the time she was reminiscing about her old memories, Yerin’s voice gently caressed her ear. Thanks to that, I woke up with my eyes wide open.

I sat down on the chair scratching the back of her neck with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“It just reminded me of the old days.”

“Any old thoughts?”

She said lightly, as if it was nothing.

Because I didn’t want to talk nonsense.

Yerin tilted her head and raised her question mark above her head.

She was staring at me blankly, blinking her eyes as if in doubt, but soon stopped her interest by taking a bite of iced chocolate.

“By the way. Teacher.”

“Why?”

Yerin whipped up an iced chocolate.

He lowered his eyes a little and glanced at my face.

Suddenly, Yerin, who was stirring the iced chocolate topped with whipped cream three or four times with a straw, spat out her words.

“…… Please refrain from jokes like before.”

“Are you surprised?”

When I asked again, raising the corner of her mouth, Yerin glanced at her sideways and then she carefully stroked her belly.

“…… It’s bad for your heart.”

She couldn’t figure out why she was stroking her belly when she said it was a prank on her heart.

As I stared blankly at Yerin, who gently caressed her belly with a shy but sympathetic expression, I coughed because of an incomprehensible, uncomfortable feeling.

I felt like I needed to get out of this fire somehow.

“By the way, Yerin.”

“Yes, sir. Please speak.”

I looked around once.

I was able to realize that people around me were peeping at me. The conversation between me and Yerin was a bit curious.

“Why did you suddenly ask to meet in a place like this after you haven’t heard from me for a week?”

It was a simple question, but it contained several meanings.

Because the Ryu Ye-rin in front of me was a person of interest who made Korea shake up now.

There are probably few people in Korea who don’t know the three letters of Ryu Ye-rin’s name through the past few weeks.

Sangsang son of family name family, successor of family name family.

It was never a good choice to meet me in such an open place, amid attention as a leading role in a so-called ‘surname tax scandal’.

In a fairly sensitive situation like now, if the news that you met a stranger alone spread through the media, it could be quite annoying.

Perhaps it was something that might hinder Yerin’s future.

And I also felt a bit pressured to meet in public.

To put it simply, I was worried that I would get embroiled in a useless controversy, and I was worried about what the surname family would do if they paid attention to the relationship between me and Yerin.

But there was something a little more worrisome than that, and that was Ganghwaryun.

I didn’t know how Ganghwa-ryun would accept it because of Yerin and I’s love scandal.

Isn’t Ganghwa-ryun, who is presumed to have quite a crush on me, able to show more reactions than necessary?

It was never a good choice to create friction with Ganghwa-ryun, who is inheriting the lineage of Korea’s largest gangster organization, Heuksanhoe.

Of course, Ganghwaryeon knows that Yerin and I have been together since the old days.

I won’t do anything strange with stupid rumors.

But didn’t they say that they knew the hot road in the water, but they didn’t know the people in the cold road?

She seemed to be disapproving of Ye-rin, but she didn’t want to provoke Ganghwa-ryun unnecessarily.

‘Anyway, through this meeting, I think I’ll be able to hear all the swear words…… I was wondering if Yerin can relate to my topic…….’

Anyway, for the time being, I thought I would have to close the Hunter Gallery again.

Should I get rid of this?

No, that’s a bit disappointing.

Hmm.

‘By the way, why the hell did Yerin think about asking to meet in a public place?’

I couldn’t figure it out even after thinking about it.

But I didn’t refuse Yerin’s request.

While worrying about the aftermath of this meeting, he pursued a meeting with Yerin.

This is because Yerin has never once stopped contacting me and then asked me to meet her out of the blue.

Most of all, she couldn’t get out of her head that she had said, ‘I’ll get back to you after taking care of some urgent matters’ before Yerin cut off contact with her for a week.

Right after defeating her Kim Hannah, Yerin spat out those words with her face as if she had made up her mind.

But, I never dreamed that an urgent business would cause a scandal with her surname.

Anyway, as if things didn’t go as well as expected, Yerin contacted me about a meeting like this in a week.

What the hell happened?

“Ah, sorry sir. She suddenly asked to meet in a place like this after she cut off contact without any explanation…….”

Yerin fiddled with her coffee cup with a weak expression.

“Actually, one of the reasons she cut off contact with the teacher was that she would be a bit hesitant if the teacher were around.”

“Are you hesitating? What?”

She asked without much thought, and Yerin avoided her gaze without saying anything.

“…… Just, this and that.”

I didn’t ask any more useless questions while I was quietly watching Yerin who answered in a slightly low voice.

Because it seemed like it would be good for me and Yerin not to ask.

Yerin fiddled with her coffee cup with a slightly weak face.

I looked at him quietly, then turned my back.

Because I thought it would be good to change the fire.

“By the way, I was surprised. I didn’t expect that the fact that I had defeated Hannah Kim and the fact that her surname was related to the family would be so out of the blue.”

“Ah.”

“I also found out about that fact through the news. I will give you a hint.”

“I’m sorry. I don’t want to cause unnecessary worry to the teacher…….”

It’s useless to worry, Nawon.

“At first, I had no intention of disclosing anything about Hannah Kim or the family name.”

“Really?”

“But I suddenly had a different idea.”

Yerin squeezed her coffee cup tightly with a slightly complicated expression.

“…… The thought that she might not be able to protect you.”

Ryu Ye-rin, who was weakly stirring a straw with slightly curved eyebrows, glanced up and met her gaze.

“At the time, I said it as if it was nothing special, but in fact, Hannah Kim was really strong. She probably wouldn’t be able to take it down so easily if it wasn’t for the match of her abilities.”

It is fortunate that Hannah Kim and Yerin are of the highest quality.

Of course, I didn’t doubt Yerin’s skills, but Kim Hanna was one of the world’s top rankers in name and reality.

If Yerin had fought with her abilities uncovered, she would have been quite dangerous.

“Maybe I was a little conceited like an idiot. For beating her siblings and even knocking down her father. The fact that I won won’t change no matter how much it was thanks to the compatibility of my abilities.”

At the age of her husband, she defeated her successor candidates and her head of the surname Sega, so it was no wonder that Yerin was a little conceited.

“But after fighting Kim Hanna this time, I knew for sure.”

“… ….”

“That I am still weak.”

“… ….”

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Yerin said that she must be one of the strongest in Korea, but she didn’t seem to like herself as she is now.

“If you climb the tower in the future, she will be exposed to many dangers. But I started to doubt a little whether I could protect them from that threat…….”

“Yerin.”

“If I had Jihyun as strong as her older sister, there would be no problem.”

Yerin slightly bit her lower lip.

“Jihyun and her unnie had sparring a few times…… I was stronger than any opponent I’ve ever fought…… If Jihyun is the older sister, she will be able to defeat her without much difficulty even if an enemy greater than Kim Hanna attacks. That’s a bit envious.”

I wondered if Jihyun’s case should be an exception.

Because it was a clear example of what it means to be brave in Gaecheon.

There was no person in Korea who could guarantee victory by fighting Ji Hyun.

He wasn’t called Korea’s representative hunter for nothing.

“In a short time, Jihyun couldn’t become as strong as her older sister, so she needed my own strength to protect her teacher.”

“So you purposely challenged the surname Sega?”

“…… Although she acted a little impulsively.”

Yerin put on an expression of disrespect.

“It was something I had to sort out someday anyway. There was no way they would leave me alone there. That’s why I decided to act first when there was a cause of my own.”

“As for the justification, is that Hannah Kim?”

“Yes. Once people…….”

Yerin carefully examined her surroundings and softly whispered in her ear.

“…… You would think that the Seong family hired Hanna Kim to assassinate me. Because of that, it was easy for her to attract Jihyun and her older sister.”

It seemed that the justification that the clan members were attacked and the truth that Ji-hyeon had hooked up with Hannah Kim because of Ji-hyeon made Ji-hyeon move.

“And she, and another reason why she has been keeping her quiet all this time, is because she thinks that in a few weeks she will be able to deal with it in no time.”

I blinked my eyes.

What kind of confidence is that?

Do you have a corner to believe in?

“But it looks like it will take a little longer than I thought.”

Yerin said as if she was a little sad.

“Because I have to go back to my hometown tomorrow, I won’t be able to see you for a while. That’s why I told you to meet me urgently like this.”

“Um.”

Last Name Tax Things didn’t seem to work out.

She didn’t know what she was doing, but she was a little worried.

“Can I help you?”

“It’s okay. It just takes a little longer, but things are working out.”

Looking at her face, I don’t think she’s lying…….

“Well, if that’s the case, I’m glad. Ah. But if we’re not going to see each other for a while, why do we need to meet at a cafe like this?”

If you meet at home, you can have a comfortable conversation without paying attention to others, isn’t it?

“Ah, that… ….”

Yerin blushed slightly and slightly looked away from her.

“That…… When she’s alone with her teacher…….”

Yerin wiggled her fingers and bit her lower lip, raising her voice cautiously.

“…… What should i say about that It’s only a week. I met the teacher.”

“Yes. However?”

“…… That’s why I think I can’t stand it.”

“…… What can’t you stand?”

I was speechless at the sight of Yerin shyly hiding her face and averting her eyes.