Chapter 28 (1/2)

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Yoo Chun Young was sitting down with sagged shoulders as he began to explore his dreamland with his arms folded. As if he looked pathetic or precarious dozing off, a boy who sat next to Chun Young lent his shoulder.

Yoo Chun Young was, again, living a life deeply asleep leaning against someone’s warm shoulder today. Yeo Ryung Ban and I giggled at him and turned our heads back to look at the stage in front.

Nothing will change in our senior year in middle school, but since we went to a prestigious school, it was a period for those who aimed at achieving the same elite education in high school to keep doing their hardest at a school with the same caliber of prestige.

The principal, the chairman of the board, and a government official conducted their speech one after another. When Kwon Eun Hyung and Eun Jiho wrapped up the ceremony with their student speech, Yeo Ryung Ban and I had also abandoned the real world in exchange for the comfort of the land of dreams with our heads close together.

At last, there were instructions announced to check the class lists attached on the glass doors around the hall. Yeo Ryung Ban and I stood up from our seat half asleep and headed to the entrance.

It was hard to find my name through the crowds of students near the lists. While I raised my head to scroll down the list of Class 2 and Class 3, a hand came out of the crowds and tapped the top of my head.

Who was it? I looked around wondering the person who had the gall to place their heavy hand on my head, but I could hardly find them among the crowds. As I rolled my eyes in confusion, the hand popped out again from the crowd and pulled my wrist. It was Jooin.

He smiled brightly while bending his golden eyes on me. A sour expression enveloped my face as I asked,

“Umm… are we in the same class?”

“Yeah!”

“Wow!”

I hugged him tightly with glee only for me to realize in shock that he got taller. He seemed to have the same height as me earlier, but after the break, he reached more than 170 cm.

I, of course, met him often during the break, but I never knew before now that he had grown taller. As I looked up at him in surprise, this time, another hand from another side touched my left shoulder.

When I turned back, I saw Yeo Ryung Ban and the rest of the Four Heavenly Kings hurdled together. I didn’t waste my time asking Yeo Ryung Ban if we were in the same class—Law of the Web Novel Article 6. The Protagonists Are Always in the Same Class with Their Besties.

Instead, I had my eyes on Eun Jiho, who looked delighted. Then I knitted my brows abruptly. After seeing that, he also frowned his brows accordingly and asked, “Dude, what’s wrong with your face?”

“Oh my god, Mr. Eun Jiho. You better watch your mouth. There are so many people around here; how could you reveal your evil personality so easily like that?”

I gave grinned after what I had asked. The boy seemed to hast lost his self-control as if the opening ceremony had gotten him all fired-up.

Eun Jiho clenched his molar and smiled at my kind advice. He then asked me with much clarity on his tone,

“What-is-wrong-with-your-face?”

“Oh, Eun Jiho, get out of my way. Donnie, I have sad news.”

Yeo Ryung Ban pushed him away to deflect whatever he was trying to say and stepped forward towards my direction. Her face was, however, as serious as that of an actress in a soap opera, so I knew right away that her seriousness was naught but an act. Instead of feeling concerned, I pulled my face to look serious as well following her directive.

I asked, “What’s up?”

“It’s that… ugh, Eun Jiho over here is also in the same class with us this year.”

I stepped closer to her and grabbed her hands. Then I yelled out loud, facing each other with teary eyes.

“Oh lord, what a tragedy!”

“We are so unlucky.”

“Oh, what the hell.”

As Eun Jiho muttered in an annoyed voice, Eun Hyung and Yoo Chun Young cut in between our tightly held hands. I turned my head to them thoughtlessly as I felt dumbfounded after gazing at their brightly lit faces. Oh, come on, hell no…

The moment I was about to ask what I had in mind, someone near the class lists gave an exclamation of joy.

“Wow, so dope! The Four Heavenly Kings are all in the same class!”