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Among the crowds of girls gathered around Ban Yeo Ryung, some were, of course, aiming to get close to the Four Heavenly Kings since this was a world of web novel, but a lot of them approached her while being attracted to Yeo Ryung’s pretty face or to just befriend her.

Kim Hye Woo asked me, “What are you gonna do? What if her best friend position changes?”

As soon as he spoke that way, Kim Hye Hill pinched him on the side.

Looking angrily at him, she uttered, “Oppa, stop that crap! Donnie and Yeo Ryung are best friends forever. Don’t you know how long they have been together?”

“Hey, that long history is now gone from her mind.”

“Urgh, oppa!” shouted Kim Hye Hill, then she turned her head abruptly to me.

“Why are you listening to this bull**? He thinks that he’s speaking the truth,” said Kim Hye Hill.

That was when I put my hand down from my chin. I replied slowly, “Oh… but…”

“Oh? But?” The corner of Kim Hye Hill’s brows slightly went upwards as if she was frowning.

Showing a smile, I replied, “Well, actually, maybe he is telling the truth…”

“What?”

Kim Hye Hill’s brows met in the middle.

She mumbled, “Then the reason why you’re just sitting here all day and not going to her is…”

Scratching the back of my head, I laughed, “Haha, when I began to think that we must start all over, I had no idea where I must start.”

“What the…”

“I’d say… you know, we’ve been together since the time we can’t even remember. And that’s why we’ve become friends so naturally…”

Putting my hands together, I wiggled my fingers as if I were feeling nervous.

“Hmm… At that time, I might have appealed to Yeo Ryung, but now? Will she still like me? Can we still become friends? Thinking about those things, I kept wondering…”

“You’re ridiculous.”

Kim Hye Hill struck a retort with her usual, confident attitude, but I had a different thought. Well, as of now, Kim Hye Hill could be assured that way since she didn’t know what had happened to me when I was thirteen.

Scratching my nape, I concluded, “It’s better to approach her when she recovers her memories. Right now, it can worsen the situation. Don’t you think so too?”

“Hey, what if her memories don’t come back?”

The voice that came from behind me belonged to none other than Yoon Jung In. I turned my head back.

Before I got to ask, ‘Since when were you there?’ Yoon Jung In added a remark ahead of me.

“What are you gonna do if Ban Yeo Ryung doesn’t recover her memories?”

“Hey, why are you being so pessimistic?”

With a giggle, I waved my hand and turned my head. However, for some reason, they were all looking at me quite seriously. When I had eye contact with the Kim twins, that was when I realized that they were sincerely taking the possibility into consideration.

Come on, wasn’t amnesia usually resolved right before the end of a TV drama or novel? That’s just a device to grow chemistry between the male and female leads, wasn’t it?

Thinking to that extent, I suddenly realized that according to the current situation, the possibility of Ban Yeo Ryung and Eun Jiho having a romantic relationship was as small as that of the earth coming to an end due to the collision of meteorites. No, the possibility of the destruction of earth could be higher…

My chest suddenly felt heavy as if there was a rock loaded on top of it. My face also turned pale. Sitting still that way, I soon got up from my seat.

“… E… excuse me?”

“Hey, good idea.”

Listening to Yoon Jung In cheering me that way, I felt displeased, but I headed to the classroom next door.

The hallway was full of people. Unlike the Four Heavenly Kings or the main characters of a web novel, I didn’t have Moses’ miraculous power. Thus, I had to make my way through the crowds wholly by my body.

When I reached the middle of my way, I thought for a moment, ‘Should I just go back to my classroom?’ If Ban Yeo Ryung found me looking so messy like this, she would think that a caveman came to say hi to her.

However, it was also too late to return. At some point, I was pushed all the way to the front of the crowds.

As soon as I stood in front of them, I had to see someone confessing his love to Yeo Ryung of all things. According to his nametag, he seemed to be a senior, but the Four Heavenly Kings were standing beside Yeo Ryung like a surveillance tower. Thankfully, weirdos couldn’t pull a stupid trick on her.

While I sighed in relief, the senior boy shouted with a blush.

“I… I had a crush on you for a long time! I tried to just watch you from a distance, but I heard that you’ve lost your memories…”

I tilted my head in wonder, thinking, ‘What does it have to do with confessing his love and Ban Yeo Ryung suffering memory loss?’

“Since you lost your memories, you might be in need of a person to rely on! What if I stay beside you…”

On the other hand, Yeo Ryung seemed to be lost in thoughts. Looking up at the boy for quite a while, she blurted out, ‘Oh,’ then continued speaking with a refreshing grin.

“Why should I rely on you?”

“Excuse me?”

“Please describe yourself in a hundred words–are you reliable?”

‘Yeo Ryung, even during a college interview, no one can clearly respond if someone asks a question like that,’ I thought to myself. And it became true.

Stammering with a reddened face for quite a while, the boy covered his face, in the end, then ran out of the classroom. Watching the miserable sight, I soon returned to my classroom.

Just like the Kim twins, who stopped by at Yeo Ryung’s classroom earlier, my hair was also messed up as if I were having a bird’s nest on my head.

They asked me anxiously one after another, “What happened?”

“Another refusal?”

Hey, that sounds like I went there to confess my love. Shaking my head, I tossed a question feebly.

“Describe yourself in a hundred words–are you reliable…?”

“What?”

“Come on…” Then I added with a murmur, “I’ve been totally misunderstanding it…”

To get along with Yeo Ryung again, getting qualified was first, instead of the size of my heart.

Whenever it was the break between classes, the news from the next-door class was delivered in real-time. It seemed like I was hearing the traffic from the radio during the holiday.

The number of people who confessed their crush to Yeo Ryung was eleven in the morning. When it was close to lunchtime, the number reached twenty.

Exclaiming, Lee Mina folded her fingers and began to calculate the numbers seriously.

“Twenty people? Let’s see. So, the average number of students in every grade is about three hundred. If half of them are boys… what’s the percentage of twenty out of four hundred fifty?”

Kim Hye Hill, perching on the desk beside her, replied nonchalantly, “About four percent.”

“Whoa, if she doesn’t recover her memories for a month… no, just within two weeks, she would get love confessions from the entire boys in the school! Then it’s like conquering this school, right?”

Yoon Jung In, sitting beside her, put his arm around her shoulders and said, “You should take out those who have girlfriends.” However, he got into a headlock.

“I told you not to do that in class!”

While Lee Mina showed a temper, Kim Hye Hill pointed outside the window. The words that slipped from her mouth afterward made us emit a whoop and stick our heads out of the window.

“Not just OUR school,” she uttered.

Indeed, a huge crowd of people was there outside the window. They looked like zombies rushing into the school to hunt the survivors.

Touching my forehead for a second, I murmured, “… I must ask Eun Jiho for a ride back home…”

“Yeah, that sounds good,” replied Shin Suh Hyun who was standing beside us with a stiff face.

We looked around outside the window for quite a while. This large-scale event was taking place just because of someone’s loss of memories. Geez, how could this be possible?

Then when the bell rang for lunchtime, at last, I got up from my seat. Usually, I would eat lunch with my friends in this class, but today it was different. The kids asked me a question, shining their eyes, as if they knew what I was gonna do.

“Ah, you’re having lunch today with Yeo Ryung, right?”

“Yeah, whenever there’s a chance, I’ll keep taking a trip down memory lane, and who knows if her memories come back? So, I should probably have lunch with her for a while…”

“Oh, sure, good luck.”

Listening to the showers of cheers, I threw a glance at Ban Hwee Hyul.