CH 78

33. Kwon Joo-Hoo (1)

Ye-Hyeon refused, but Baek Hae-Won insisted on taking him back to the accommodation. Eventually, Ye-Hyeon sat in the passenger seat and glanced at Baek Hae-Won while he was driving.

“Go home safely, Ye-Hyeon.”

Baek Hae-Wpn lowered the driver’s window in half and waved to Ye-Hyeon through a narrow gap. Even under the dim light of the street lamp Baek Hae-Won shone gracefully.

Ye-Hyeon bowed deeply and entered the accommodation as if running away.

“Ugh, this day had been too long.”

From close-knit events to negotiations with Baek Hae-Won. Everything happened in a day. Ye-Hyeon threw his tired body into the soft bed. Ye-Hyeon did not move for ten minutes before he held his cell phone. While sending a thank-you message to Baek Hae-won, he also sent a simple message to Shin Do-Gyeom and Yoon Seung-Jae.

Baek Hae-Won immediately sent an emoticon. Ye-Hyeon laughed at the cute emoticon that did not match his real character.

Ye-Hyeon yawned and checked the message sent to Yoon Seung-Jae again. There was no sign of his message being read. It’s normal to ignore to be ignored by Shin Do-Gyeom whenever he contacts him, but Yoon Seung-Jae used to reply in less than a minute. However, Yoon Seung-Jae did not check the message even after 1 and 2 minutes, and time passed.

‘Should I not just let Yoon Seung-Jae go?’

Yoon Seung-Jae’s drooping back, which he had forgotten because of Baek Hae-won, kept appearing before him.

Ye-Hyeon was thinking about what to do and sent another message asking if they could eat together when he had time tomorrow. It was a little awkward to suggest when it was usually Yoon Seung-Jae’s nagging first every time.

Ye-Hyeon scratched his head awkwardly and put his cell phone on the side of the pillow.

He buried himself in a blanket and opened the inventory. The inventory expanded by five spaces and contained slow, poison, blindness, burns, and paralysing potions.

‘Well, I wouldn’t have to use it in a C-class dungeon.’

Ye-Hyeon organised the status ailment potions one by one in the corner of the accommodation. After putting the shovel on the wall in the inventory, there was nothing more to do. It meant he couldn’t put it off any longer.

Ye-Hyeon opened the target window with an unwilling look. He decided to attack earnestly but couldn’t have been happy to check how much others hated him with bare figures.

<Target>

1. Kwon Joo-Ho: Intimacy 0 / Affection 100

2. Baek Hae-won: intimacy 0 / Affection 0

3. Shin Do-Gyeom: Intimacy -29 / Affection -15

4. Yoon Seung-Jae: Intimacy 19 / Affection 25

Intimacy Points: 50

Affection Points: 80

“Sigh. It’s really negative 100 points…… What?”

Ye-Hyeon, who had messed his hair in annoyance, opened his eyes wide. Surprised, Ye-Hyeon unintentionally tried to rub the number written on the target window with his thumb, but his thumb passed through the window.

Kwon Joo-Ho’s affection also did not have a negative mark on the front. In addition, the intimacy was not negative, contrary to expectations, but just zero points.

He couldn’t believe it. Kwon Joo-Ho’s affection didn’t change even after repeatedly putting on and off the window.

“It’s not negative 100 points?”

Ye-Hyeon murmured vainly. However, his affection could not have been 100 points, judging from Kwon Joo-Ho’s blunt attitude.

‘Yoon Seung-Jae is a 19-year-old kid who is not yet mature, Shin Do-Gyeom hates me for no reason, and Baek Hae-won, who I thought was normal, turns out to be a dual personality. What’s next? Kwon Joo-Ho, who thought he hated me, actually likes me?’

In any case, none of the four targets was normal.

Yoon Seung-Jae, who has 20 points of affection, sticks to him like that, but he probably wouldn’t know what to do once it reaches 100 points. Is it because they are not close enough? But it’s still 100 points?

He glanced at it again.

“Is it an error again?”

There was also an error in obtaining the experience, and there was no guarantee that this was not an error either.

‘When he was registered as a target, his affection suddenly soared to 100 points.’

Ye-Hyeon bit his lips, recalling various possibilities.

‘What should I do?’

Ye-Hyeon intended to study the target method by analysing the target before the following gate schedule. The strategy should be based on intimacy and affection, but the deviation between positive and negative 100 points was too large.

‘Let’s first check whether it’s an error or not.’

Ye-Hyeon hesitated for a moment and then picked up his cell phone.

***

Ye-Hyeon arrived an hour earlier than the meeting time, leaned on the table and glanced at the entrance of the meeting place. Contrary to his determination, Ye-Hyeon eventually failed to meet either Yoon Seung-Jae or Kwon Joo-Ho during the holiday. They ignored Ye-Hyeon’s messages as if the two had planned it.

‘As expected, his affection can’t be 100 points. If it is, then he should have replied right away.’

Ye-Hyeon squinted his eyes with a disapproving look.

Kwon Joo-Ho only replied this morning. Ye-Hyeon asked Kwon Joo-Ho to come to the meeting place 30 minutes earlier on the pretext that he had something to say.

“Five minutes left.”

Ye-Hyeon murmured and rubbed his sore eyes.

During the break, Ye-Hyeon tried to grasp the pattern by organising as much as he remembered when the affection and intimacy increased for each target.

For now, Yoon Seung-Jae’s intimacy and affection increased well when accompanied by physical affection. Shin Do-Gyeom’s affection increased when Ye-Hyeon closed his mouth, and his intimacy usually decreased when he opened his mouth. Baek Hae-Won and Kwon Joo-Ho had nothing to guess because their scores had never gone up or down.

It was just as he knew it, so there was nothing special.

“I really don’t know…….”

Ye-Hyeon has never had a crush or fling with anyone, let alone dating. Even when he saw Yoon Seung-Jae and Shin Do-Gyeom’s affection rising, he couldn’t even guess at what point they were rising.

Nevertheless, he could not waste his time as he had done so far. In the end, Ye-Hyeon chose to blindly put information in his head, like cramming education.

– It’s not hard to date

– Why you’re the only one who can’t date (Fact bombing)

– ツRevealing the know-how of a plugging geniusッ

– (Click) Want to know how to make a good wrap? (Click)

– If you do this, you can escape from being single!

– If you don’t do this, you’ll be out of love!

Ye-Hyeon clicked his tongue as he looked through YouTube’s viewing list. He memorised the whole thing like math formulas but wondered if it would work properly.

‘It’s better than doing nothing.’

Ye-Hyeon pressed the power button of his phone with his eyes half close. The face reflected on the phone looks very haggard.

It was partly because he set up all night to study relationships but because of what he heard from Shin Do-Gyeom. Ye-Hyeon made wounds on his body and repeated them recklessly to heal. If the wound was too small, it healed without even feeling the sensation, forcing him to make quite a deep wound.

Attacking skills cause physical fatigue, while healing causes his mind to overload.

‘When is Kwon Joo-Ho coming?’

When Ye-Hyeon was getting nervous, Kwon Joo-Ho opened the door and entered.

“You’re here?”

Ye-Hyeon suddenly stood up and approached Kwon Joo-Ho as if he were half-running. It was the first time that Ye-Hyeon had greeted Kwon Joo-Ho openly.

Kwon Joo-Ho stared at Ye-Hyeon’s attitude, which was different from usual, for a while, and only nodded slightly. It was a stark response.

‘What a 100!… No, it is not sure yet.’

Ye-Hyeon forced his eyebrows not to frown. He didn’t want to let go of the string of hope because plus 100 points was better than minus 100 points.

‘So, it said it would be good to smile shyly while making eye contact and adding compliments, right?’

Ye-Hyeon quickly scanned Kwon Joo-Ho from head to toe. But he didn’t see much praise.

“……I think you look really good in black.”

“It looks good on you.” I don’t like it because it’s dark. Why do you always wear black?’

Ye-Hyeon said anything roughly, saying it as if it was a compliment. Ye-Hyeon didn’t know what a shy smile was, so he smiled how he usually does.

Come to think of it. He had never smiled at Kwon Joo-Ho.

‘Is it really 100 points?’

Ye-Hyeon moved inward without much expectation.

Still, 80-plus points of affection were piled up. He could get one more skill soon if he got a little more.

I want Kwon Joo-Ho as the end game. I just know he liked him for a long looongggggg time even before regression. Though if it is not him, YSJ is also good.