0% – Lee Eunsol
Watching the baseball team boy, Kim Jiho, approaching with his face as red as a ripe persimmon, I thought.
Should I accept this confession or not?
It was a bit scary to reject outright. The danger level between that idiot from the morning and this impressive baseball team boy was very different. If a guy like that tried to kill , could the surrounding students stop him?
“...”
I made a decision.
“Senior Jiho...”
“H-Han Yuri! S-sorry for coming twice. But... I-I just couldn’t let go of you while you’re growing bigger and bigger in my heart. When I t-think of you, I c-can’t even concentrate on p-practice...”
Wow, this kid is really sothing else?
Seeing Jiho’s pronunciation leaking out as if it wasn’t even Korean, I felt myself catching my breath. Because I could feel how madly this boy liked Han Yuri.
He can’t even breathe properly, can he? Yuri, what on earth have you been doing?
“The coach told to try once more... No, no! I didn’t co because the coach told to! I, I did!”
“Slowly. Speak slowly. I’ll listen,” I said it without realizing it because I felt frustrated, but hearing those words, the boy’s face turned even redder.
“S, s-sorry... w-will you, will you, will you go out with ?”
Smiling as kindly as possible, I held the boy’s hand and looked into his eyes steadily.
“Then, is this day one?”
“Uwaaaah!”
Kim Jiho scread and fell backwards.
What’s with being surprised when you ca to confess and got accepted?
So why did I accept the confession?
Clearly, one reason was that it was burdenso because he was soone too physically strong to reject outright. Also, looking at how the story was going and the title “The Girl with Demonic Charm”, it seed like crazy “confession killers” would keep coming at .
So, don’t I need a legitimate reason to reject confessions and a bodyguard?
As expected, it seed the choice I made wasn’t too bad. The baseball team boy, with tears almost falling, tried to hug tightly but suddenly started trembling on his own, and after literally making a spectacle of himself, he left saying we’d see each other after class.
When I turned around and returned to the classroom, I realized that the atmosphere in the classroom had changed sohow.
The surrounding girls started glaring at as if they were about to shoot lasers with their eyes.
Just as I was wondering what this was about, I heard a sharp comnt, “Congratulations! Yuri’s got a boyfriend now?”
“...Thanks.”
“Is it day one from today?”
“...”
“This is so cute! Right?”
“Yeah! I’ve never heard Yuri make such a nasal sound before!”
Girls. What kind of elentary school-like power struggle is this? Do you think your unni can’t handle such a pathetic war of words? Was this one’s na Kim Eunhye?
“Is that how it sounded? Eunhye, your ears must be really blocked. Ask your boyfriend to check your ears! Oh, you don’t have a boyfriend?”
The girl in front of glared at with her eyes wide open.
What are you going to do? Will I die if you glare at ? Are you dusa or sothing?
At that mont, another girl from across attacked.
“Didn’t you reject Senior Jiho when he confessed last month?”
I rembered them saying, “He’s here again,” when the baseball team boy ca. This wasn’t his first confession.
“That was then.”
“It’s different this ti. Why, because Senior Jiho got scouted for professional baseball?”
“...”
“Wow~! Yuri, you’re amazing! That’s right~! Yuri is so~o poor, right? You need a rich hubby.”
So they’re saying I’m dating him not out of pure feelings but because he seems like he’ll make a lot of money? I’m really sorry, but it took a while to understand what’s wrong with that.
Sorry, your unni here is actually a bit hardened by the world. When you get older, you’ll understand, too. Adults naturally consider occupation and assets in dating and marriage.
Even though I just found out now, Yuri’s family is poor? Then of course she should find a good husband or boyfriend.
“Just be honest, all of you! You—“
– Thud!
Before I could react, soone grabbed my shoulder strongly. Surprised, I turned my head to find Saerom, who had been following since morning. Seeing the girl’s face frozen like ice, I sighed.
Don’t tell she likes that baseball team senior too—
“Shut your traps, all of you!”
Right now, this girl seed like a completely different person from the one I saw in the morning.
It wasn’t just the problem of curses coming out of her mouth. I felt an intense pressure that was indescribable in words. So kids even staggered.
...Is this a natural reaction?
After crushing the surrounding people with just one word, Saerom started walking towards the corridor, strongly grabbing my arm. Her strength and montum were so intense that I couldn’t possibly stop her.
“W-what on earth? Why suddenly—“
A quiet voice flowed from the girl’s mouth as she ca close to my ear.
“Just now, you made a mistake.”
...She’s suddenly speaking formally?
“What on earth are you talking about?”
“Haa... You don’t understand the situation at all. Even though it’s school, you suppressed it too much, didn’t you? I thought your behavior was strange since morning.”
What did I do? Suppress? I was acting strange since this morning?
“Go ho right now. You’ll understand what I an as you go. And think about how to fix this.”
“...”
“Right now! I’ll make an excuse for your early leave.”
I really don’t know. What’s with this sudden developnt?
***– Theater
“What? What’s going on suddenly?”
Kain couldn’t understand the situation at all. Hearing those words, the other companions also showed puzzled reactions.
“What mistake did she make? And why is she suddenly being told to go ho?”
Elena’s words were echoed by Songee nodding her head. At that mont, Ahri’s expression darkened.
“...I think I might know what this is about.”
“What?”
“Was it this kind of developnt? I did think the level of charm was abnormally high...”
***– Lee Eunsol
In confusion, I packed my things in the classroom. Conveniently, I had an excuse because I had just fought with the girls.
But, where’s my ho address?
Laughing bitterly, I asked Saerom, who was at least soone I could ask sothing, and she whispered, “Suppress it moderately from now on,” along with giving the address. The ho address I looked up on the smartphone map app was a bit shocking.
“I live in a place like this?”
As I ca out of the classroom, walked through the corridor, and left the school building, I slowly started to “realize”.
“...”
Awakening was shedding one’s shell.
As cracks form in the shell I had put on myself, indescribable knowledge seeped into my head. A wicked breath that ordinary people couldn’t dare to understand filled my lungs.
This is really too much! This was the story?
“Ugh... Grandpa! You should have endured a bit more!”
Grandpa should have figured this out! Since he got off so quickly, I’m the one who ended up realizing THIS. What should I do? How should I proceed now?
“Yuri!”
As I was walking across the playground, confused about what to do next, Kim Jiho, my “day one boyfriend” who spotted , started running towards with a broad smile, waving his hand.
I awkwardly smiled back and waved, but then I was shocked. As soon as the sturdy baseball team boy entered my sight, an impulse I never imagined I could feel towards a human filled my soul.
So that’s why! That’s why “Han Yuri” always put on a shell inside the school! It must have been because she couldn’t endure this disgusting impulse.
“Yuri! What’s with the bag?”
“...I have a headache, so I’m leaving early today.”
“W-what! Oh no! I was going to tell you after class!”
“What is it?”
“Today, I’ll walk you ho!”
“...”
“I-I heard. T-that your house is in a bit of a dangerous place. Usually, you go with Saerom... But Saerom isn’t here today!”
“...”
“Don’t misunderstand! It’s not that I’ve been asking around about you, just, just by chance...”
“You’re saying you’ll walk ho?”
“Yes!”
I muttered without realizing, “How devoted.”
Did he feel that last comnt was a bit sharp?
The boy, montarily flustered, seed to misinterpret my intention and started making strange excuses.
“D-don’t misunderstand. I-I’m really not thinking anything weird. I’m saying this because I’m genuinely worried. So—“
“Alright. I’ll wait, so go tell your coach.”
I didn’t suspect at all that this baseball team boy would try to do sothing sneaky under the pretext of walking ho. Honestly, I didn’t care about such trivial issues.
Rather, I wanted to check how strong my “impulse” was.
Kim Jiho babbled sothing to his coach and soon returned to with a bright smile. I wondered what kind of coach allowed a promising player to skip training to walk his girlfriend ho, but whatever.
Every ti I saw “young students” walking around the playground while waiting for Kim Jiho to return, I slled a fragrant scent. My wildly beating heart told how intense my thirst was.
“...”
The thirst intensified several tis when I saw the boy holding my hand and grinning.
“...”
About 20 minutes passed? When we were passing through an alley after leaving the school, I finally stopped. I couldn’t endure it anymore.
“Senior Jiho.”
“Yes?”
“Go back now.”
“What? We can’t even see your house yet? We’re almost there, so let’s just—“
“Go back.”
“Y-Yuri?”
After strongly grabbing Kim Jiho’s arm and stopping him, I stared into his eyes intently. The boy, who at first showed a shy reaction, soon had a sowhat dazed expression.
“Go back.”
“...Alright.”
***In the alley where a beautiful girl like an angel descended from heaven had passed, the boy who had been leaning against the wall with a dazed expression soon ca to his senses. Why did his angelic girlfriend tell him to go back?
Maybe she was embarrassed to show her poor ho. The boy concluded this, and turned back, pondering how to approach more naturally next ti.
Suddenly, the boy realized that there were several dark bruises on his arm where Yuri had gripped tightly.
“Yuri is much stronger than she looks, huh?”
– Lee Eunsol
I ran frantically towards ho. After passing through several shabby alleys too dangerous for a pretty girl like Han Yuri to live in, I finally saw a dilapidated abandoned house at the end of the alley.
“H-heheh! Hello!”
“...”
In front of the house door was a pot-bellied man who looked ntally unstable.
“H-hello! You, you! You’re Yuri, right? U-Uncle has seen you sotis. D-do you need money?”
...If I were myself from school, I would have felt quite in crisis now. Should I have brought Jiho all the way here? If the sturdy Jiho had been beside , this vagrant wouldn’t have even dared to make eye contact and would have run away, right?
At best, he was just a pervert vagrant at the bottom of society, with nothing left after repeated failures in life, but he was still an adult male. For a high school girl, it was a great danger and not easy to escape without supernatural power.
So I used it. Supernatural power that was.
– Click!
The mont the brooch on my head clicked, a blue butterfly floated through the air and flew towards the vagrant. The man wondered what this was, but in less than 5 seconds, he was rolling on the ground.
I had no worries or anxieties about using the brooch. The “Girl with Demonic Charm” that I belatedly understood was a plot where it was okay to use abilities. I had already used powers akin to hypnosis repeatedly.
– Ring ring!
“Gangdong Police Station—“
“There’s a strange man collapsed on the ground here.”
It would be troubleso if this guy died here. After roughly reporting, I entered the dilapidated abandoned house. It was really a place that didn’t make sense for a high school girl to live in.
Of course...
She must have chosen it on purpose. It would be easier to dispose of “prey” in a place like this.
There were no parents or family inside the house. If I had any such beings in the first place, it would only be Saerom, who was still at school.
Instead, the thick sll of blood that made my heart flutter and the disgusting sll of internal organs turned my stomach.
...That’s a lie.
Far from turning my stomach, I felt an irresistible impulse. The craving I had felt since leaving school and shedding my shell beca stronger than ever before.
I turn around dazedly and look in the mirror.
I saw two red lights rising like blood in the darkness.
Suddenly, the school uniform skirt started to sway.
A trace of wildness that peeked out between my legs gently brushed the floor.
...I’m hungry.
This thirst and appetite could never be satisfied with human food.
I knew that I was not the “chased” but the “chaser”.
“The Girl with Demonic Charm”
“with Demonic”
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“The Tale of a 21st Century Gumiho”
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