Chapter 358 (1/2)

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However, Yeo Dan oppa didn’t look displeased at all.

“When it was your thirteenth birthday…”

“Oh,” I nodded. That was why it wasn’t in my memories. I wasn’t in this universe when I was thirteen, so Ham Donnie back then and now were utterly different people.

Thinking to that extent, I suddenly felt very strange.

In his memories, the two would be the same people, which was truly not. Ham Donnie at that time and Ham Donnie now should be considered as completely different individuals.

While I was absorbed in thought, Yeo Dan oppa’s remark continued at a slow pace.

“You used it to tie your hair only once, which was the day I gave it to you. You never used it afterward, so I thought you might have lost it or so. You also had strangely avoided me later on, which made me think that you were feeling too sorry to even talk to me.”

“Ah…” I smiled awkwardly.

I never knew that the time that I avoided him for a moment had been adapted to something that way.

At first, I didn’t like both Yeo Dan oppa and Ban Yeo Ryung. Of course, I was since my original world and the next-door neighbors were gone, and these two had replaced those spots.

Thirteen was a way younger age than it sounded; thus, I even suffered some silly daydreams about aliens kidnapping my next-door neighbors, and the Bans taking that place instead.

I kept thinking that way even after I was aware that this universe was resembling the world in a web novel so much. Thinking that I had studied the earth wrongly through novels, I was trembling with fear of maybe I were the only one, who wasn’t under the control of memories, and someone else would discover the fact.

However, why would someone throw me those people to me as my new, next-door neighbors? Wouldn’t it be an angel or a devil playing tricks on me? Besides, the Bans were too fabulous and perfect to believe that those people were existing in front of me.

I dropped my gaze to the table. Anyway, it was engraved in his memories that, back then, I had avoided him for a while since I lost the hair tie he had given to me.

As if he read my thoughts, Yeo Dan oppa continued, “But one day in the summer, you suddenly showed up with that hair tie, which made me a little surprised.”

“Really?”

“So, I thought you found it back since you began to talk to me a lot afterward.”

I retraced my memories again.

If it happened during summer, it would be around the time when the incident with Baek Yeo Min had occurred less than a month ago and, at the same time, I started to get used to adapting myself to this new universe. Above all, it was the time I began to have a crush on… Yeo Dan oppa.

Feeling somewhat embarrassed, I turned my face away from him and looked outside the café.

‘Argh! Myself in the past had made those shameful moments, but why is it me, who must feel ashamed of them? Yes, of course, since those two are the same people, but still…’ I stopped thinking for a moment.

The thirteen-year-old girl, who didn’t dare to use the hair tie she got as a gift from Yeo Dan oppa and just stored it carefully in the drawer, wasn’t me. I was very aware of the fact. And I could now guess why she could only react that way. Resting my chin on my palm, I let out a shallow sigh and murmured to myself.

‘So, this tedious history of unanswered love was already ongoing at that time, huh?’ Rolling my eyes, I threw a glance at Yeo Dan oppa and kept thinking, ‘Well, having this handsome guy living next-doors, no one can help but fall in love with him.’

I felt like I was now in a slightly subdued mood.

Meeting the Four Heavenly Kings, I didn’t have to split and think about the part of me they knew and didn’t know. That was because they were those whom I befriended once I entered this universe.

Yeo Dan oppa and Yeo Ryung were, however, different. And this fact even made me think about something like this––Which did they prefer? Me before thirteen or after thirteen?

That was when I suddenly heard Yeo Dan oppa’s voice in the silent air where only the sound of putting the teacup back on the saucer had come through. I raised my head.

“When I was young…” Speaking that way, his eyes were on the outside of the café, just like I did earlier. However, I could tell that he wasn’t actually looking at the sight outside. His glance was wandering somewhere in the past.

The hot, sunlight pouring apartment hallway, where wet laundries were hanging on the balustrade and bikes with training wheels were still left in front of the doors… the summertime, a few years ago…

‘How long has it been?’ While I wondered that way, Yeo Dan oppa continued to speak. My eyes widened at his remark.