I Don’t Want To Be An Ojakgyo Chapter 127

Cory generally tried to soften his expression whenever soone looked discomfited by his face, but he didn't try at all for Eric. Cory wasn't the type to try to look gentle for strangers, so he probably wasn't doing this just because it was Eric.

"Do you want to go to our afternoon class together?"

Eric said, glancing at Cory to gauge his reaction. Cory was just staring at him, but Eric flinched, scared. His pride seed to have been scarred. He walked towards with a slightly stiff expression on his face.

Eric had definitely co to our club room to head over to our afternoon class together. That made happy, so I hurriedly stood up and hurriedly walked over to him.

Cory stared at my smiling face as I ran towards him with a shocked expression on his face. Then, he sat up straight when he saw Eric open his arms wide and when he hugged .

I, who had on so tight rose-colored glasses when it ca to Eric, was happy that he had co to see . It was embarrassing, but I hugged him back.

Eric asked a question as we left the room. There was a loud crashing sound as soon as we got out.

What happened, did Cory trip or sothing?

"Cory DuBois, why was he glaring at like that?"

"He was just staring at you. He has sharp eyes, so he always gets misunderstood because of that."

"….Mm, I can see that."

With that conversation, Eric continued to walk, staring in front of him.

On our way to the training hall, Eric began to walk faster. I had to almost break into a run to catch up to him. I didn't know if he was just a fast walker or if he didn't want to match his steps with mine, but I walked faster to walk next to him.

As the two of us walked together to the training hall, there was an awkward air between us.

The sounds of our steps were the only noise around us. I wanted to beco close, boyfriend and dating whatnot, but there were no opportunities for us to be close.

I don't think I'd ever approached anyone because I wanted to beco close to them. Relationships just naturally happened as I'd lived life, so this was sothing that I hadn't really worried about. I had always been busy trying to live out my life instead of forming relationships or friendships.

I disliked the awkward air between Eric, my boyfriend, and I. I wracked my brain for a topic to talk about.

"Wow, the day is so long. I'm exhausted."

"….."

"You're probably having a harder ti because you transferred, right? Are your classes okay?"

"Yeah."

Eric said halfheartedly. Even when I attempted conversations, he didn't seem to want to respond. This wasn't just today–it was usually how it was when we were alone. When there were people around us, he always spoke kindly to and treated well.

I never had a long conversation with Eric. Eric seed to be a boy with low self-esteem but a huge sense of pride. He always loved to talk about his own experiences but didn't like listening to others'.

I always had to find the topics that he enjoyed speaking about. Most of those topics were the ones that allowed him to brag about himself.

I just told myself that he was like this because he was young, and just let him talk about whatever he wanted. I wanted to get closer to him, even if it was like this. Even if I would've cut them off in an instant if he was anybody else.

Eric had to have things that he didn't like about and was holding back on. My ideal romance was one where the other person understood and tried to work with the other person, but when I was him, it felt like I was the only one caring about this.

Ugh, I didn't know. Relationships were complicated.

Eric suddenly said that we needed to stop by the red class and dragged to his class.

I had definitely told him that I didn't want our relationship to be told to a lot of people, and he had told that he understood.

But on that day, he put in front of his friends, put his hand around my waist, and started bragging about how we were toing out.

On our way back to the training hall, I told him that this made angry. He didn't listen.

It was okay, but there really didn't seem to be a right answer when it ca to this.

Eric got ahold of a cara that had pictures of the junior year end party and looked at it in front of .

He looked surprised at a picture of dressed up in a dress and spoke.

"What, you can look pretty when you're dressed up too?"

Then, he demanded for to doll myself up like I did that day, so I imdiately refused. First, I was in swordsmanship, and I also did magic. I was busy all the ti, so any kind of makeup was soon ruined.

Moreover, I was always busy working on requests before school. If I tried to put on makeup, it would make a huge dent in my daily schedule. I didn't even attempt to do so.

At my explanation, Eric said that I should put my daily activities on the back burner and make so ti for him.

He wouldn't even listen to whatever I said, and he would always cut off if I tried to say sothing. I didn't want to fight, so I haphazardly agreed and ca out three minutes later wearing makeup. The two of us ended up fighting.

But, strangely, he was always kind and gentle during swordsmanship class. Especially in front of Swanhaden and Hylli. He had been kinder to Cory, as well. It seed like he was nicer to my friends than to .

Eric didn't seem to care that I hung around with boys. It felt like I was the one that cared more.

Because of that, I always dueled with Hylli during swordsmanship, just as usual. Swanhaden didn't have any energy these days, so he didn't care if it was class or what–he was always just splayed on the ground near a tree, as if he was dead.

Hylli couldn't seem to concentrate on the duel. He just kept glancing at before finally opening his mouth to speak.

"The rumors are making the rounds, but are you really going out with that kid nad Eric?"

"………yeah."

"Wow, you're lying."

I had always planned to join the royal knights in advance and always tried to speak formally to Hylli, but I couldn't control my emotions at the mont and just ended up speaking casually. Hylli didn't really care how I spoke to him, so this wasn't really a problem.

Actually, he responded just as casually when I spoke to him casually.

When I agreed, Hylli's expression stiffened as he muttered sothing quietly.

"I never thought you would like anybody."

Hylli seed genuinely intrigued at the fact that I was dating soone.

"But are you really going out with them? You're not just imagining the whole thing?"

He didn't seem to believe that I was actually going out with soone as he cracked a joke, but I couldn't laugh along. At Hylli's joke, I quietly muttered to myself.

"…….maybe, that might be the case."

I was the one that was confessed to. But after that, I was the only one in the relationship. Hylli's expression darkened when he saw mine darken as well.

We were dueling, but Hylli noticed that I couldn't concentrate at all and put his sword away. At his request for a short break, I nodded and flopped to the ground, right where I stood. Hylli handed a bottle of cold water.

I drank a few sips when Hylli, who had been staring at the entire ti, spoke up.

"What's wrong."

I was a bit grateful for Hylli's worried tone. My mood lightened slightly.

"I just had a small fight with him."

"About what?"

"Just sothing small."

He asked what kind of small thing it was, but I didn't respond. Even if it was sothing miniscule, if I vented my anger about what happened between the two of us, I would end up speaking from my perspective, and they might misunderstand Eric.

I always believed that it was better for the involved parties to fix the problem instead of getting a third party involved, so I kept my mouth shut. He didn't listen to what I said at all, but I wanted to find a way to get Eric to listen to my perspective.

Hylli just stared at gulping down my water without another word, before smiling, saying, "That's just like you."

"I want you to break up with him."

"Why?"

"My sharp senses are tingling. It feel like you're just accumulating your own shaful history right now."

Hylli said this in a casual tone, but I felt like those words were genuine. I had an ominous feeling that my future self would deeply regret what my current self was doing. Moreover, Hylli was a walking, talking piece of shaful history. His senses were usually pretty sharp.

I laid down on the ground and stared at the sky, and Hylli, who also seed tired, laid down near and stared at the sky.

"If I was him, I'd purposely lose against you if it wasn't a huge issue."

"What?"

We had been quiet for a while before he spoke. He had seemingly put a lot of thought into this.

I had been thinking back to everything that had happened with Eric before, so I didn't pay attention to his words. So when I gave him a short reply, Hylli's expression stiffened as he frowned.

"I feel like I just said sothing really weird earlier. You can't misunderstand, okay?!"

Hylli tilted his head as if he said sothing weird and got angry at . Then, as if he was making an excuse, he continued to speak.

"I was talking about when I had soone I like! Mm? Wait. What is this."

"What'd you say earlier?"

"It's nothing. I'm just talking to myself. I, I thought of sothing really weird earlier."

"What are you talking about?"

"I don't know."

Hylli scrunched his eyebrows and stared at my face before shaking his head. Hylli and I t eyes during his strange actions. He avoided my gaze imdiately before smiling awkwardly. anwhile, Hylli still seed to be confused.

"Anyway, why is Swanhaden like that nowadays?"

Hylli had gotten really weird, so I changed the subject to look at Swanhaden. Swanhaden had covered his face with his jacket and was lying on the ground like a corpse.

He usually played hooky like that all the ti, but now he had a depressed aura around him. The wooden Swan had been holding was splintered into pieces around him.

"I don't know. I was curious too so I asked him, but he just kept throwing sharp objects at . Maybe he's just sensitive these days."

Hylli also seed confused as to why Swanhaden was like this nowadays.

"He doesn't co out of his room after school, he doesn't eat, and he's reading a weird book titled, 'The Virtue of Finding Peace Even When You Want to Kill Soone'. Anyway, be careful. I'm being careful too."

I shouldn't think that way, but I couldn't help but beco nervous. I was reminded of dream Swanhaden. Seeing him suddenly beco dark and gloomy like this made worry about him–I couldn't help but be reminded of dream Swanhaden because of it. Swan was soone who couldn't beco twisted. The safety of the people relied on it.

When I turned my head to stare at Swanhaden, I ended up eting his gaze.

I gave him a small wave. We hadn't t eyes in a while.

Swan responded to my greeting. Although he didn't greet back, he made a large heart with his arms. I wondered why he suddenly made a heart and frowned.

Swanhaden dropped his arms onto the ground, turned his body, and flopped back onto the ground.

"No…………..It's too late."

"It's over………."

"Murder isn't an option, Swanhaden."

Swanhaden seed to grow more emotional as soon as he saw my face. He muttered quietly to himself. Seeing how he was using the third person to describe himself, it seed like Swan really wasn't in his right mind.

Cory generally tried to soften his expression whenever soone looked discomfited by his face, but he didn't try at all for Eric. Cory wasn't the type to try to look gentle for strangers, so he probably wasn't doing this just because it was Eric.

"Do you want to go to our afternoon class together?"

Eric said, glancing at Cory to gauge his reaction. Cory was just staring at him, but Eric flinched, scared. His pride seed to have been scarred. He walked towards with a slightly stiff expression on his face.

Eric had definitely co to our club room to head over to our afternoon class together. That made happy, so I hurriedly stood up and hurriedly walked over to him.

Cory stared at my smiling face as I ran towards him with a shocked expression on his face. Then, he sat up straight when he saw Eric open his arms wide and when he hugged .

I, who had on so tight rose-colored glasses when it ca to Eric, was happy that he had co to see . It was embarrassing, but I hugged him back.

Eric asked a question as we left the room. There was a loud crashing sound as soon as we got out.

What happened, did Cory trip or sothing?

"Cory DuBois, why was he glaring at like that?"

"He was just staring at you. He has sharp eyes, so he always gets misunderstood because of that."

With that conversation, Eric continued to walk, staring in front of him.

On our way to the training hall, Eric began to walk faster. I had to almost break into a run to catch up to him. I didn't know if he was just a fast walker or if he didn't want to match his steps with mine, but I walked faster to walk next to him.

As the two of us walked together to the training hall, there was an awkward air between us.

The sounds of our steps were the only noise around us. I wanted to beco close, boyfriend and dating whatnot, but there were no opportunities for us to be close.

I don't think I'd ever approached anyone because I wanted to beco close to them. Relationships just naturally happened as I'd lived life, so this was sothing that I hadn't really worried about. I had always been busy trying to live out my life instead of forming relationships or friendships.

I disliked the awkward air between Eric, my boyfriend, and I. I wracked my brain for a topic to talk about.

"Wow, the day is so long. I'm exhausted."

"….."

"You're probably having a harder ti because you transferred, right? Are your classes okay?"

Eric said halfheartedly. Even when I attempted conversations, he didn't seem to want to respond. This wasn't just today–it was usually how it was when we were alone. When there were people around us, he always spoke kindly to and treated well.

I never had a long conversation with Eric. Eric seed to be a boy with low self-esteem but a huge sense of pride. He always loved to talk about his own experiences but didn't like listening to others'.

I always had to find the topics that he enjoyed speaking about. Most of those topics were the ones that allowed him to brag about himself.

I just told myself that he was like this because he was young, and just let him talk about whatever he wanted. I wanted to get closer to him, even if it was like this. Even if I would've cut them off in an instant if he was anybody else.

Eric had to have things that he didn't like about and was holding back on. My ideal romance was one where the other person understood and tried to work with the other person, but when I was him, it felt like I was the only one caring about this.

Ugh, I didn't know. Relationships were complicated.

Eric suddenly said that we needed to stop by the red class and dragged to his class.

I had definitely told him that I didn't want our relationship to be told to a lot of people, and he had told that he understood.

But on that day, he put in front of his friends, put his hand around my waist, and started bragging about how we were toing out.

On our way back to the training hall, I told him that this made angry. He didn't listen.

It was okay, but there really didn't seem to be a right answer when it ca to this.

Eric got ahold of a cara that had pictures of the junior year end party and looked at it in front of .

He looked surprised at a picture of dressed up in a dress and spoke.

"What, you can look pretty when you're dressed up too?"

Then, he demanded for to doll myself up like I did that day, so I imdiately refused. First, I was in swordsmanship, and I also did magic. I was busy all the ti, so any kind of makeup was soon ruined.

Moreover, I was always busy working on requests before school. If I tried to put on makeup, it would make a huge dent in my daily schedule. I didn't even attempt to do so.

At my explanation, Eric said that I should put my daily activities on the back burner and make so ti for him.

He wouldn't even listen to whatever I said, and he would always cut off if I tried to say sothing. I didn't want to fight, so I haphazardly agreed and ca out three minutes later wearing makeup. The two of us ended up fighting.

But, strangely, he was always kind and gentle during swordsmanship class. Especially in front of Swanhaden and Hylli. He had been kinder to Cory, as well. It seed like he was nicer to my friends than to .

Eric didn't seem to care that I hung around with boys. It felt like I was the one that cared more.

Because of that, I always dueled with Hylli during swordsmanship, just as usual. Swanhaden didn't have any energy these days, so he didn't care if it was class or what–he was always just splayed on the ground near a tree, as if he was dead.

Hylli couldn't seem to concentrate on the duel. He just kept glancing at before finally opening his mouth to speak.

"The rumors are making the rounds, but are you really going out with that kid nad Eric?"

"………yeah."

I had always planned to join the royal knights in advance and always tried to speak formally to Hylli, but I couldn't control my emotions at the mont and just ended up speaking casually. Hylli didn't really care how I spoke to him, so this wasn't really a problem.

Actually, he responded just as casually when I spoke to him casually.

When I agreed, Hylli's expression stiffened as he muttered sothing quietly.

"I never thought you would like anybody."

Hylli seed genuinely intrigued at the fact that I was dating soone.

"But are you really going out with them? You're not just imagining the whole thing?"

He didn't seem to believe that I was actually going out with soone as he cracked a joke, but I couldn't laugh along. At Hylli's joke, I quietly muttered to myself.

"…….maybe, that might be the case."

I was the one that was confessed to. But after that, I was the only one in the relationship. Hylli's expression darkened when he saw mine darken as well.

We were dueling, but Hylli noticed that I couldn't concentrate at all and put his sword away. At his request for a short break, I nodded and flopped to the ground, right where I stood. Hylli handed a bottle of cold water.

I drank a few sips when Hylli, who had been staring at the entire ti, spoke up.

"What's wrong."

I was a bit grateful for Hylli's worried tone. My mood lightened slightly.

"I just had a small fight with him."

"About what?"

He asked what kind of small thing it was, but I didn't respond. Even if it was sothing miniscule, if I vented my anger about what happened between the two of us, I would end up speaking from my perspective, and they might misunderstand Eric.

I always believed that it was better for the involved parties to fix the problem instead of getting a third party involved, so I kept my mouth shut. He didn't listen to what I said at all, but I wanted to find a way to get Eric to listen to my perspective.

Hylli just stared at gulping down my water without another word, before smiling, saying, "That's just like you."

"I want you to break up with him."

"Why?"

Hylli said this in a casual tone, but I felt like those words were genuine. I had an ominous feeling that my future self would deeply regret what my current self was doing. Moreover, Hylli was a walking, talking piece of shaful history. His senses were usually pretty sharp.

I laid down on the ground and stared at the sky, and Hylli, who also seed tired, laid down near and stared at the sky.

"If I was him, I'd purposely lose against you if it wasn't a huge issue.""What?"

We had been quiet for a while before he spoke. He had seemingly put a lot of thought into this.

I had been thinking back to everything that had happened with Eric before, so I didn't pay attention to his words. So when I gave him a short reply, Hylli's expression stiffened as he frowned.

"I feel like I just said sothing really weird earlier. You can't misunderstand, okay?!"

Hylli tilted his head as if he said sothing weird and got angry at . Then, as if he was making an excuse, he continued to speak.

"I was talking about when I had soone I like! Mm? Wait. What is this."

"What'd you say earlier?"

"It's nothing. I'm just talking to myself. I, I thought of sothing really weird earlier."

"What are you talking about?"

Hylli scrunched his eyebrows and stared at my face before shaking his head. Hylli and I t eyes during his strange actions. He avoided my gaze imdiately before smiling awkwardly. anwhile, Hylli still seed to be confused.

"Anyway, why is Swanhaden like that nowadays?"

Hylli had gotten really weird, so I changed the subject to look at Swanhaden. Swanhaden had covered his face with his jacket and was lying on the ground like a corpse.

He usually played hooky like that all the ti, but now he had a depressed aura around him. The wooden Swan had been holding was splintered into pieces around him.

"I don't know. I was curious too so I asked him, but he just kept throwing sharp objects at . Maybe he's just sensitive these days."

Hylli also seed confused as to why Swanhaden was like this nowadays.

"He doesn't co out of his room after school, he doesn't eat, and he's reading a weird book titled, 'The Virtue of Finding Peace Even When You Want to Kill Soone'. Anyway, be careful. I'm being careful too."

I shouldn't think that way, but I couldn't help but beco nervous. I was reminded of dream Swanhaden. Seeing him suddenly beco dark and gloomy like this made worry about him–I couldn't help but be reminded of dream Swanhaden because of it. Swan was soone who couldn't beco twisted. The safety of the people relied on it.

When I turned my head to stare at Swanhaden, I ended up eting his gaze.

I gave him a small wave. We hadn't t eyes in a while.

Swan responded to my greeting. Although he didn't greet back, he made a large heart with his arms. I wondered why he suddenly made a heart and frowned.

Swanhaden dropped his arms onto the ground, turned his body, and flopped back onto the ground.

"No…………..It's too late."

"It's over………."

Swanhaden seed to grow more emotional as soon as he saw my face. He muttered quietly to himself. Seeing how he was using the third person to describe himself, it seed like Swan really wasn't in his right mind.