Chapter 86 - It's Raining Balloons

"Aigoo, will Ye Rim get hurt because of me ?!" Eun Ha muttered in astonishment, realizing that during some moments of her absence her best friend was in trouble. The Ukrainian fighter's turf seemed to want to settle accounts with Ye Rim!

The fairy had left the company of the Hunter, who was talking to the werewolf in the locker room. The auditorium was almost empty now, except for a few people and the two mobs that were about to face each other. "What to do?" Eun Ha wonders in worry, trying to figure out a way to end the impending fight.

She searched  high and low for something she could use, as the Hunter's warnings not to use magic now were fresh in her mind. But if necessary, she would use it, anyway.

All she saw was a large net suspended from the high ceiling of the event center, containing thousands of balloons. For some reason that wasn't used tonight. 'If that could be used to distract them... If Ye Rim can run away…'

It was her best idea at the moment.

...

Ye Rim felt her heart flutter, the two groups of men had the same number and seemed equally capable, at first glance. She didn't want her friends to get hurt, but she knew she had to do something to stop the fight.

"Hey, what if we we could talk peac…"

But then she understood that the group of foreigners didn't even speak her language.

"How about… Forget it," it was clear in their eyes that they were not at all inclined to dialogue or forget resentment, no matter what language they used. The 'namaste technique' would not work as well as it did with Ji Ah.

As each of the groups stared at each other furiously just before the clash, she really thought she would love a miracle to happen. At this point apparently only something supernatural could save her. She looked up at the ceiling with a sigh…

And it started raining balloons.

"What the…" Decidedly the torrent of balloons and shredded silver paper falling on everything and everyone seemed the necessary miracle coming through. They all looked up, attracted by the sudden mess of silver, blue and red showering over them.

This, however, delayed but did not nullify the confrontation.

Absolutely drawn to the bizarre image of men trying to fight and beat each other in the midst of balloons that slowed their movements, it crossed her mind that it was something worth recording for posterity. It was so ridiculous and childish that everyone looked just like boys playing in the ball pool. Some began to laugh at their opponents, while others just got angrier at the unlikely shredded paper rain. Ye Rim took advantage of the moment when she was forgotten and half hidden by the colorful blur and took several steps back, moving away from the mayhem. She even saw her friend Ji Woong looking over his shoulder to see if she was all right, and nodded. Seeing a clear exit, Ye Rim rushed over before they realized she was running away.

"Aigoo! I need to stop this stupid fight!" she spoke under her breath, looking for something useful. Coming across the fire alarm near the exit door was the best thing that could have happened. "I won't get any better. I'm sorry to simulate something of this gravity, but this fight has to stop!" With conviction Ye Rim broke the glass and sounded the alarm, which soon rang throughout the building.

She still looked back, thinking how crazy it had all been, and really hoping her ploy would work.

'Oh, when I get that girl…!' She thought, annoyed.

…

"… And that's how I got out of there," Ye Rim finished telling Jun Hyeon the night's adventures on the phone. The doctor listened her recollection of the events since they last talked with the same strange shiver of cringe and affliction as he listened her other stories. He just wished to be there to stop it and grab her out from such stupid dangerous situations.

Jun Hyeon was having coffee in a beautiful place across the lake that gave the Zurich its name, enjoying the late afternoon sun. Earlier, Ye Rim's adventures had stunned him, knowing that she was going unattended to a MMA fight after her irresponsible friend. And listening to the rest of the adventure now made him even angrier. There were so many reasons to be exasperated that he didn't even want to start listing them in his mind. Much less out loud, of course. Since, for all intents and purposes, he was just a friend.

But this peculiar situation might give him the freedom to say things that would be misinterpreted as jealous if they were… otherwise dating? Oh, surely Kim Jun Hyeon wouldn't miss the opportunity to say what Ye Rim needed to hear now.

Taking a sip of coffee, he began,

"Well, my friend, that makes me worried. You exposed yourself unattended in a place full of men, attracted the wrath of a stranger and his friends unintentionally, even unintentionally caused a fight, and committed wrongdoing by sounding a fire alarm improperly… "contrary to what he had imagined, his long speech died in this part. His mind wandered for a moment to his own past. "Of all things, I don't know which one was the worst. Why are you always in trouble? If I was there…"

"Hey, it's not like that! What happened tonight was extreme, okay? But not quite! I don't live… 'getting in trouble'! "Across the world Ye Rim protested, but he well realized that her voice wavered, as if she knows very well that she will defend a huge lie. But he would not let it pass. The realization that this nonsense almost really hurt Ye Rim because of her friend, whom she trusted so much, but seemed much more concerned about her own fun ... oh, that really made Jun Hyeon very angry.

"You are really unashamed, Ye Rim!" Ah, the delicious freedom to say the things you wanted without the social veneer! He'd never spoken to a girl like this before _ except of course, Ji Hyeon. Within his outraged irritation it even drew a half wry smile from Jun Hyeon. "That little mouth of yours really told a lot of lurid stories the time we went out with Dae Won. And today. And even the day we met! Don't tell me that your performance at Mr Young's grave is a normal thing in your daily life, please! Or I will think you are completely crazy. After today, when you narrowly escaped… Why, if I was there, I was the first to pull your ear, "Jun Hyeon really would. She was very lucky and had no fear because she had no idea what violent men can do when they are angry. He, as a doctor, had already seen his share of victims.

"Oppa… I know. I really know I was lucky. I don't know why that man got so fixated that he forgot to fight, but I don't think I deserve such anger just for showing up next to the ring!" she justified herself, and Jun Hyeon just wondered if she really was like that. Annoying at all times, and innocent while she was very smart.

"In any case, don't come after telling me I'm not right. Your 'friend' the fighter you spoke to. Was he your boyfriend?'

"I do not know why I need to talk about it," she tried to turn, "by chance this is some kind of jealousy?"

"Haahahahahahah"

"Hahahahaha!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

He laughed a hearty laugh, and held this laugh cynically into the cell phone's microphone so she could hear his reaction clearly. 'What a player! She wants to make me admit that I don't have the qualities to be at the right level for her. Hfff! '

"None of that, Ye Rim. But as your friend, what's the matter with telling me? Should we have secrets? What is your relationship with him, exactly?"

After a silence on the other end of the line, Ye Rim sighed and answered his teasing,

"No, we haven't. At least in the past, I know he would have liked to be my boyfriend, but that's not how it happened."

"Hmm, even in your answer you're elusive. I thought we were in a sincerity relationship!" he complained sarcastically.

"Yes, we have nothing to hide. We're not trying to look like our best version of ourselves, are we? Since we're not trying to impress or seduce each other!" she agreed quickly, her tone slightly annoyed, Kim realized.

"No, not really. It's okay to see you without makeup or after cleaning the apartment. Or knowing that you have cramps, a stomach ache or are constipated, anyway, all these things that are not at all s.e.xy but happen in the life of a human being."

"Yesssssss!" she agreed with exaggerated vehemence," or about your foot odor or that you drool on the pillow, or that you trim your eyebrows…"

"I DON'T DROOL on the pillow, but yes, I trim my eyebrows. What would happen if I didn't do it?"

She started to laugh, and said, "Well, oppa, there's a curiosity I always wanted to know, promise me to answer without any evasion."

Without imagining what it could be, Jun Hyeon agreed. He just didn't expect the question to be,

"Oppa, what were you doing in the cemetery that day?"