The Law of Webnovels Chapter 198

Chapter 198: Chapter 198.

I diverted my eyes back onto Jooin. Still, he didn’t say anything with downcast eyes. I gave him a gentle squeeze on his hand.

‘If he was about to react like this, I should have told him about it earlier,’ with that thought in mind, I opened my lips.

“Jooin.”

“Huh?”

“I think you are truly a nice guy no matter how good and bad you are.”

My words moved the corners of his lips slightly. He then lifted his eyes to look at with a subtle smile on his lips.

I raised his hand and waved it in the air as I usually did when playing tricks with him. Jooin then grinned a little more. I smiled and continued.

“Um, and… oh, you know people often say that even if we eat the sa nu at the sa restaurant, it’s totally different depending on who you eat with. Eating with an uncomfortable boss and a friend we like tastes completely different.”

“Yeah.”

Jooin nodded again with a face that seed to hold back his laughter. I smiled back at him with a loud voice.

“You know what? Although our als and the cafeteria were much the sa, every ti I had lunch with you, it was such a blast. That’s who you are to .”

What I just said sared a deeper smile on Jooin’s lips. He was now giggling with his other hand, which was not holding mine, on the desk. I laughed again too.

A gleam of moonlight stread through us with a dazzle. I wondered for a mont whether he could see blushed to the roots of my hair; however, I soon decided to remove such a thought. It was a little embarrassing, but I wanted to tell him more, the words he could trust.

Jooin was now looking at with a clear smile. His deeply twinkling brown eyes seed to be waiting for the next words to co out of my mouth. As soon as I caught that gaze, I ca across what to say after. I opened my mouth again.

“And… there is this saying…”

I tried not to be aware of it, but my voice seed to subside into silence while I was speaking. A faint gleam of wonder sared in Jooin’s eyes. Trying not to be conscious of it, I tried to avoid his gaze and spoke in a trembling voice.

“It may not sound great, but no relationship is perfect. Thus, in the end, the only thing we can choose is from whom we’ll get hurt… that’s all.”

“…”

“Do you know what first ca across my head after hearing that?”

As if it were carved under the moonlight with a blade, the look on Jooin’s face, staring at , was too sharp and vivid that I felt sohow afraid to see him. Raising my hand to cover my eyes, I kept on talking.

“I thought that it’s inevitable to get hurt by you guys in the end. One day, if you all disappear from this world and I never get to see you again… and do you know what I also had in mind at the sa ti?”

“…”

“Maybe it’s a good thing that you guys don’t rember . That’s because you all won’t rember ; therefore, you guys won’t get hurt…”

With that said, I closed my eyes tightly at last. My superhuman-like effort to swallow the tears went fine; however, for that reason, my throat felt as hot as if I had swallowed lava.

Only when I finally had the assurance that I wouldn’t cry, I breathed heavily and removed my hand around my eyes. Then I slowly turned my head.

Jooin was looking at with a strange face as if he had seen for the first ti in his life. I grinned.

“Jooin, the fact that I’ve decided to be your friend ans I was getting ready to get hurt from you anyway, so please… please don’t worry too much about yourself hurting .”

“Mama.”

“I’ll be fine if you hurt a bit or so. I chose you as the one who could hurt .”

Jooin kept his silence for a while. I stood still quietly while dropping my gaze at the floor too. How long had it been? He slowly moved his arms to give a hug.

Among the Four Heavenly Kings, it was none other than Jooin who took into his arms the most. He similarly hugged other girls too, but there wasn’t any chemistry of love or that kind of tension embodied in the act, which always felt so natural, therefore.

Didn’t Jooin also embrace before when I was the only one assigned to Class 1-8 during the entrance ceremony? Recalling that mory, I slightly smiled, but at the sa ti, I breathed in through my nose. The tips of my eyes were a little sour.

Jooin disconcerted this way sotis. When it happened to be in this kind of situation, I suddenly felt him as a very big, grown-up man, which perplexed . Although he was always taller than , Jooin had this child-like vibe.

I hesitated for a second then buried my face onto his shoulder. Jooin remained still. Putting my arms around his back, I thought, ‘Jooin seems to be my big brother at this mont, so why not lean on him to cry as much as I can?’

It was then when I had those thoughts in mind while shoving my face onto his shoulder. I could feel Jooin opening his lips from his movent. His voice rang above my head.

“Mama.”

“Uh-huh.”

“You know, this is what Jiho also admitted.”

‘Yeah,’ I said with a nod. What ca after from his mouth made giggle.

“I’m super smart, right? If Eun Jiho admits it, it’s really sothing.”

“Agreed.”

“So, no matter how hard soone tries to get you out of my head, I will never ever forget you.”

Opening my eyes wide, I could hardly believe what he just said. As if I was hit in the back of my head, I was in a daze, and at the sa ti, I felt as if my feet were floating in the air. Both of us seed to sink to the bottom of a lake.

I lifted my eyes.

When our eyes t, Jooin bent his brown eyes and smiled at a slow pace. His signature lovely smile made laugh again as I thought it was the first ti to see that grin today. At the sa ti, my tears burst.

Smiling and crying simultaneously, I held Jooin’s back for quite a while. He then spoke again.

“I promise that I won’t let you be alone in that world.”

“Jooin…”

“As I did before, I can call your number, that didn’t exist, for six hours. I won’t forget anything about what happened among us and where you were. I’ll tell the rest of the kids for us to rember everything about you and to find you no matter where you are. I will, mama. You have my word.”

With that said, Jooin grabbed my shoulders with both hands affectionately and locked his eyes with ; however, I couldn’t say a word from bursting into tears.

Blinking my eyes a couple of tis, I opened my tearful lips, but again, I was at a loss of words. Jooin remained silent for a while as he saw sobbing with my face buried into my hands.

It wasn’t long before I finally caught my breath and opened my lips.

“That lady is such nonsense…”

“What?”

I heard Jooin tossing the question to in perplexity.

My face was still full of tears, so I just continued speaking without even thinking to remove my hands from my face.

“That lady who said that you’re weird and creepy… it’s truly unbelievable. There’s nothing wrong with you… you’re such a good person…”

“No, mama.”

Jooin spoke with a tender smile as if he felt ludicrous. It was such a refreshing grin like a sunny day after the rain. Keeping the smile, Jooin dropped the last sentence.

“I’m just… returning what I got.”

* * *

While I watched Jooin holding my hands together in anxiety, he stuck his head out to the hallway and checked around.

He then said to , “The man we saw earlier isn’t here as I expected. As long as we don’t stay for quite a while with the lights opened, it seems fine.”

“I see.”

“This ti, let’s just check if the light goes on and then turn it off ASAP.”

“Cool.”

I replied with a nod and grabbed Jooin’s hand hesitantly. Holding each other’s hand, we exchanged looks of relief and giggled.