Chapter 524 (1/2)

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“… You… are… Eun Jiho…”

Unlike when she named the other two boys, Yeo Ryung paused between her words, calling Eun Jiho. Her brows even met in the middle as if something didn’t please her.

While the Four Heavenly Kings looked at her nervously, I, sitting beside her, suddenly realized something.

‘Oh, my god! Is she…?’

Right, the author of this novel was such an old-fashioned dude! That’s why he or she would have considered adding the ‘memory loss’ plot, which had been out of trend for more than a decade, in this timing–right after the Ranking Battle episode.

I had this question in mind for the last four years–Where on earth did Ban Yeo Ryung’s romance disappear, and why doesn’t it show up?

Then I turned my head toward Eun Jiho. His gorgeous appearance came into view. His platinum blond hair dazzling like the fur of an arctic fox, beautifully chiseled facial features in the sunlight which seemed like an artist’s masterpiece, long slim limbs, and his gifted, toned-up body that’s worth his growth…

Eun Jiho was the perfect male MC for a web novel, then as now.

Despite his brilliant appearance, Eun Jiho always fought, quarreled, and played stupid jokes with Ban Yeo Ryung every day. He even boasted off how great he was, which distressed us all. Although these two were very close, I couldn’t detect any signs of romance taking place between the two.

I rubbed my chin with a serious expression on my face. Then the reason that Ban Yeo Ryung lost her memories out of the blue could stem from Eun Jiho, no?

Since they couldn’t develop any romantic chemistry this way, the author might have decided to draw a bigger picture by pressing the reset button in order to re-start their relationship all over again.

I murmured in a low voice, “But is it that much necessary to press the reset button…?”

Human memories weren’t like computer data. Removing someone’s seventeen years of memories just to create a romance between two people was too harsh.

I stared at Ban Yeo Ryung and Eun Jiho with subdues eyes. The tense air between the two seemed visible.

Meanwhile, Eun Jiho raised his finger and pointed at himself. Looking confused, he asked, “Me, what?”

“You…”

That was the only word Yeo Ryung blurted out. Once again, she kept her mouth shut with a frown.

I waited for her next words anxiously. Wouldn’t it be something like,

‘Why does my heart pound whenever I see you?’

‘Are you the one I’ve been waiting for?’

‘What’s going on between us?’

Then I exclaimed again, thinking, ‘Indeed, I’d be better in writing novels than this author, right?’ Even now, if this person tossed me his or her pen and note, I could write a much normal… I mean a much happier story than this one.

That moment, Yeo Ryung uttered with a grimace, “You… were you really my friend?”

It would be followed by something like this then, ‘Not a boyfriend?’ I was still filled with anticipation, waiting for Yeo Ryung to finish her words. However, what she blurted out next while clinging herself to my arm broke my expectation into pieces.

“Donnie, I hate him.”

“What?” asked Eun Jiho in bewilderment.

Meanwhile, Yeo Ryung shook her head and said, “When I see you, my mind comes across some special…”

Some special feelings? Like love?

“… Some special anger…” uttered Yeo Ryung.

“Hey, Ban Yeo Ryung!” shouted Eun Jiho as if he forgot that he was in front of a patient. He continued, “Please keep a two-meter distance from me! But it’s true that you and I were friends!”

Eun Jiho fell into a rage, shouting, ‘Geez, what did I do wrong?!’