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As I sat next to Min Seo-ah, I couldn't understand her heart her or her thoughts her her her.

What on earth are you thinking?

Even though it's clear that we've met for the first time today, he approaches me without hesitation as if we've known each other for a long time, so I'm just embarrassed.

The more I think about it, the more I can't help but think that it has something to do with the apocalypse game.

I couldn't even guess where to focus.

Let's take a quick look at what you know about the Apocalypse game. Or should I ask them outright by showing them the smartphone screen?

I was having more and more worries.

"Okay. Now. It looks like the last person to come to Seo-ah has arrived, so let's have a toast!"

In a quiet atmosphere.

A man who appeared to be an exaggerator stood up and spoke to change the mood.

People who don't have a glass quickly get a glass, and people whose glasses are empty are urged to fill them quickly.

"Are you done?"

All freshmen, as well as current students, were raising their glasses filled with alcohol.

The manager shouted after seeing that everyone was holding a glass.

"Cheers!"

"""Cheers!"""

And so the full-fledged freshman welcoming party began.

The quiet atmosphere had gone somewhere but the inside of the store became lively again with a toast.

In that noisy atmosphere, I thought I would be alone or surrounded by kids like me at the new student welcome party, but now there were so many people surrounding me that it was confusing me.

All the attention was on Minseo, who was sitting right next to me, but sometimes she would show interest in me and come up to me and ask me something.

Of course, the question is.

"What is your relationship with Seo-ah?"

It was a question related to Seo-ah.

When a man approaches me wearing comfortable clothes that don't look like a freshman and asks me what my relationship is with Seo-ah, I can't help but ask back because I don't know what to say.

"Yes… ?"

"That's literally it. I feel like they know each other."

Anyone can see it that way.

But really, Seo-ah and I have no relationship.

I knew it before, but we were not friends who broke up due to moving, and we weren't even lovers, but because of Seo-ah's incomprehensible reaction, it was naturally confirmed that there was something between me and Seo-ah.< Br>

Even if you tried to refute it, no one would believe it, and more than anything, since Seo-ah did not deny it, it became an established fact as time went by.

"Haha. I'm going to go to the bathroom."

I smiled awkwardly and ran to the bathroom, away from the seniors who no longer asked me overtly questions about Seo-ah.

The horse doesn't explicitly ask questions about Seo-ah.

Even when talking about other topics, I keep bringing Seo-ah into the picture, and it's giving me a headache.

I wish they would do it in moderation.

"Haa… "

Looking into the bathroom mirror, I sighed deeply at the sight of her exhausted face in just a few moments.

I think I got all the information I wanted to get. Just.

"Shall I run away?"

I seriously considered running away.

What kind of problems does a professor usually give, what is his / her personality, what should I do to get good grades, etc. It seemed like I had gotten all the information I needed, so there was no reason to stay here any longer.

If you are found to have run away, you will likely be punished later.

When I looked at the time, I realized that more time had passed than I thought, so my worries didn't last long.

"Okay. Let's just go home."

In the end, she decided to run away.

I left the bathroom.

I carefully passed the crowd of people who were already too drunk to maintain their senses.

I could still see Seo-ah and her seniors surrounding her in the distance, but it was none of my business.

"…"

It seemed like she caught Seo-ah's red eyes on the way, but she didn't care and left her store.

After the scorching heat, a cool breeze enveloped my body.

A breath of relief follows.

As she flipped her hair covering her forehead to the side, she used her hand to wipe away the beads of sweat that were exposed.

Numerous neon signs and various lights confused my eyes.

Is it because he didn't reject what was given to him and drank it to his heart's content? I guess I was drunk without knowing.

I leaned my back against the wall for a moment and looked up at the dark sky.

A sky as black as nothing, with not a single star visible.

Me in the game. So, am I, living in a destroyed world called apocalypse, looking up at the sky?

I get lost in thought for a moment.

As I was doing this, my troubled mind began to calm down, and the intoxication began to go away.

And to me like this.

"What are you doing?"

Seo-ah approached and asked.

"… ?"

She didn't even see when she came out.

Anyway, why is the kid here?

Until just now, it seems like I was caught up in my seniors and couldn't do anything.

"To go home? Or to get some fresh air?"

I don't know what makes me so curious.

"I'm going home."

She looked up at the black sky again from her gaze that had been directed at Seo-ah and said,

"Okay. Then I want to go too."

"Really… "What are you?"

"What?"

When she said without hesitation that I was going, she said, "I am going." I was so dumbfounded that I started laughing.

He asked, moving his eyes from her skyward gaze to her.

"Do you know me?"

"Uh, I know."

"Other than things you can easily find out, like my name and age."

Seo Ah, who was tilting her head as if asking why she was suddenly asking such a question, shook her head.

"Then I don't know."

"Okay. You don't know me. I don't know you either. But what's wrong? Still? I'm curious, so let's ask."

Coupled with the intoxication, I don't even know what I'm talking about.

Still, I took out the smartphone from my pocket and showed the screen.

Specific apps. Pointing to a game app called Apocalypse with an all-black image.

"Do you know this?"

I was confident that this must be related to Seo-ah's behavior towards me.

Otherwise, I can't understand her reaction.

By the way.

"What do you mean?"

Seo-ah wonders what the kid is talking about. She asked, with a look on her face that had no idea what she was pointing at.

"This is an apocalypse game. Don't you know… ?"

"Apocalypse game? I can't see anything?"

Am I pointing it wrong? I turned my smartphone and looked at the screen.

Then my finger was pointing exactly at the app named Apocalypse.

Why do you say you can't see anything?

"Sleep. Look again."

This time, I ran the Apocalypse app.

As soon as I ran it, after a short loading time, I immediately saw myself in Apocalypse sleeping with her in her bed.

I thought it was too late, but fortunately Seo-ah said she still couldn't see anything. They said there was only a black screen.

Only then did I realize that this screen and the game itself were not visible to Seo-ah.

Then what is it?

The truth feels like it is falling further into the labyrinth.

Suddenly, my head hurt.

She held her throbbing forehead and gently closed her eyes.

Because of this, I feel like things are getting a little better.

"I don't know. Me too."

She spoke in an empty tone and let out a long sigh.

"I'm going to leave. See you next time."

I walked away with a short goodbye.

She begins to walk side by side next to me.

"I have to take the subway too."

When I told him not to misunderstand, I remembered one thing I had forgotten.

Come to think of it, she and I lived in the same neighborhood, right?

Whatever it is, I'm going to ride the same subway as her and get off in the same neighborhood as her.

"I know."

"How?"

When she inadvertently answered that she knew, she stopped walking.

Words that cannot be contained.

Seo-ah was clearly suspicious of me.

I don't know what she was suspicious of, but she was so annoyed that she decided to just gloss over it.

"There is a station right in front of here, and when I saw it going this way, I thought it must be taking the subway. Why?"

She spoke as calmly as possible, wondering if she could do that. She did and she looked at me with questioning eyes.

"Or else."

She took her steps again.

As I was doing that, I heard urgent footsteps trying to catch up with me, and then they stopped right next to me.

"That's right."

Seo-ah gives a belated answer.

"That's right. Something's strange. It doesn't necessarily mean that you can take the subway if you go this way, but you said it as if you were sure."

It was accurate.

Although it was accurate.

"What?"

She shrugged her shoulders and brushed it off.

"As expected, it's strange."

I could hear her muttering, but I pretended not to hear it and came down to the basement and stamped my card at the turnstile.

Seo Ah followed behind and held up her smartphone.

Soon the train arrived and she got on top of it.

The interior of the train becomes quiet as the night deepens.

There were many places for her to sit, so she lowered her butt and sat down next to me like a chewing gum.

Even though she tried to ignore it, she couldn't help but be bothered. She smiled and said that the elderly woman sitting across from her was a nice couple.

Sick of it.

An intense gaze felt from the side.

I leaned back and closed my eyes, trying to get some sleep.

Still, the gaze I felt was disturbing my sleep.

"You live in the same neighborhood as me, right? Are you afraid I'll wake you up when I get off?"

"…"

Whenever I do something, I talk about it in relationship to it.

Of course, she might think that way because she lives in the same neighborhood, but I swear I never felt that way.

I got up from my seat with a slightly tired look on my face and sat down in another seat.

She still sits next to me.

"Think whatever you want."

She said with a feeling of despair.

It means that I don't care what you think or what your illusions are.

Only then did Seo-ah turn her eyes that had been fixed on me.