Chapter 526 (1/2)

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Eun Hyung continued speaking concernedly, “Even though we stop teasing Jiho and apologize to him, I think we can’t help if the problem actually stems from Yeo Ryung’s feelings toward him… She’s going through a hard time right now, losing all her memories. We can’t ask her to change her mind and try to trust a stranger whom she feels very uncomfortable with.”

I replied with a groan, “That’s true.”

“Yeo Ryung isn’t able to consider others’ feelings and control her emotions herself.”

What Eun Hyung said all made sense, so I just heaved another sigh.

Touching my temple with my forefinger, I diverted my gaze back in the direction where Eun Jiho disappeared. Since our destination is the same, we would meet him in front of our house, but what should we do afterward? As Eun Hyung said earlier, we could apologize for teasing him, but how could we deal with Eun Jiho getting his feelings hurt because of Yeo Ryung revealing her true emotions? There was obviously no solution for that now and forever.

Being lost in thought for a moment, I suddenly turned my head to look at Yeo Ryung.

“Yeo Ryung, you said you can’t believe that Eun Jiho and you were friends, right?”

“Huh?”

As if she roughly understood the overall situation through our conversations, Yeo Ryung hesitated for a second then nodded meekly.

“Uh-huh…”

“Then would you believe it if we have proof?”

“Oh, yeah, the evidence! I wasn’t able to think about it!” shouted Jooin, snapping his fingers. He even looked somehow refreshed.

Whoa, how could I come up with something that Jooin wasn’t able to think about it? It was unbelievable. Staring at him for a second, I switched my gaze back to Yeo Ryung. She nodded with a frown.

“Yeah, maybe… perhaps…” she replied slowly. Then she added in a small voice, “But does it really exist?”

Listening to those words, I realized that Yeo Ryung was sincerely not regarding Eun Jiho as her friend. Oh, poor little Eun Jiho… I even felt pity for him.

I covered my face with my hand and nodded determinedly. ‘Come on, there would be, at least, something,’ I thought. As Eun Hyung mentioned earlier, we had a long history of friendship. Besides, it was during our middle school to high school years that we’d spent much time together. When we were about to go on field trips or a short getaway, our parents gave us cameras to take as many pictures as possible. Even I had a lot of photo albums from middle school. Thus, I became very confident.

When we entered the entrance to our apartment, Eun Jiho was there waiting for us, as we expected. He still looked sulky, but Eun Jiho usually had a straight face, so it was difficult to read his mind.

“Are you still mad?”

Asking carefully, Eun Hyung approached him, but Eun Jiho turned around abruptly. I could tell that he was still in a sulk. However, as Jooin told me earlier, Eun Jiho was generous enough to forget about it soon, but the problem was Yeo Ryung.

I turned around and secretly exchanged eye contact with Jooin.

Entering the passcode on the door lock, I stepped inside my house with quick and big steps then took a bunch of photo albums from the drawer.

Looking at the stack of pictures, Eun Jiho became bewildered.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

Acting nonchalantly, I put down the albums on the floor and replied, “What am I doing? Bringing back Yeo Ryung’s memories! Before her parents get back from work, we should, at least, try something to let her know the truth.”

“Oh…”

“She’s in most of my pictures like more than half?”

In fact, pictures without her seldom existed except for the beginning of our freshmen year in middle school. So were the Four Heavenly Kings. They were also taking a lot of part in these albums.

Opening the first page of it, I laughed in my thoughts, thinking, ‘Haha, this is it! Things will get sorted out ASAP, right?’

Jooin, sitting beside me, also flipped through the pages of another album to help me find the pictures of Ban Yeo Ryung and Eun Jiho.

So, that was our goal–finding the picture of Eun Jiho and Ban Yeo Ryung looking close.

While we sat flop on the living room floor, flipping pages, Yeo Ryung came close and began to look at the albums interestingly, resting her chin on my shoulder. A moment after, Eun Hyung and Yoo Chun Young also took a seat on our sides and looked through the photos.

At first, we were about to find the pictures that had only Ban Yeo Ryung and Eun Jiho in them, but taking a close look at each of them slowed down the process.