Chapter 320 (2/2)

“I’m gonna change my name. What would be nice?”

“…?”

“Come on, give me some suggestions…”

I was saying that from the bottom of my heart.

It felt like a step from the small houses on the hill to the apartment complex where we were living. What Ban Hwee Hyul said to me earlier replayed in my head over and over that I could hardly put myself together.

‘I memorized it, Ham Donnie.’

‘I memorized it.’

‘Memorized…’

Oh, for what reason?! I paused my steps and stood still eventually. Yeo Dan oppa, who was walking a few steps ahead of me in silence, stopped too.

Having my head in my hands, I flung a question to him.

“What should I have said when I handed over his wallet?”

“… What?”

After a moment, he tossed the question with a slight grimace. Quickly raising my head, I almost shouted, “What should I have done to make him just forget me? ‘I picked this up on the way over…’ Is it indeed too lame?!”

Keeping his frown, Yeo Dan oppa replied, “No… I think it’s impressive enough.”

“I don’t want to look impressive but wish I can be forgotten!!”

“…”

He slightly wrinkled the bridge of his nose. Having seen that facial expression since middle school, I could clearly get what it meant.

‘Why did she turn weirder since I had last seen her?’

Reading his thought from the look on his face, I said to myself, ‘No, oppa, you can’t think that way if you get to know who that boy really is.’ Biting my lips in anxiety, I suddenly raised my head.

“Eek!”

“…?”

I shouted at Yeo Dan oppa, who was still sending me a suspicious gaze, “Would it have been better if I said, ‘Is this wallet yours?’ instead of ‘I picked this up on the way over?’ What do you think, oppa?”

He remained silent for a moment then murmured in a low voice.

“You ain’t the mountain god…”

Regardless of his response, I kept mumbling to myself while biting my lips.

‘What should I have said to make him forget about me? Well, since he already told me that he would memorize me, would there be no way for me to get over this situation? GOSH!!’ I tore my hair out again.

Unlike what Ban Hwee Hyul said, all I could do now was to wish that he had forgotten my name. I hoped that the Number 1 ranker in this novel wasn’t as smart as those in other novels. Thus, once he walked about five steps after saying, ‘I memorized it, Ham Donnie,’ I wished he would utter, ‘I memorized your name, Ham Baknoon.’

‘Oh, now I come to think of it…!’

The boys, who babbled about Ilsang High School or whatever, flashed through my head.

Lately, I seemed to memorize all the names of the punks in this neighborhood for no reason, but anyway, if Yeo Dan oppa was famous enough to be called as ‘the hound of hell’ or ‘the Angel of Death,’ he would have heard some rumors around here.

Didn’t something similar also happen to Eun Hyung? Ever since he became the nationwide Number 0 against his will, other kids told him about the latest gossips and rumors spontaneously.