Chloe said with a hesitating voice. Her voice was always bright, but normally it didn’t have courage. She wouldn’t like sharing these kind of things. Hugo said with a gentle voice.
“Because we share this between us, doesn’t mean that we are doing something bad. It’s only to comfort ourselves. I will say honestly. Even if I know it in advance and sleep, I want to go to sleep after I get properly discouraged. And it would be the same for you.”
“……..If your results weren’t good, I think that you wouldn’t want to hear it.”
“If it was like that, I will probably work harder tomorrow. That would be better.”
Chloe looked at the floor for a long while without saying anything. It was at that moment when Hugo wanted to say something again. Chloe’s lips opened.
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That night, Jo Minjoon could properly sleep in a week. The boundaries of dawn and morning. The moment he got out of his room to go to the shower with a disheveled face, he heard a familiar voice.
“…….You ignored me yesterday?”
As morning came, the first voice he heard was from no other than Kaya. Since when was it? Kaya that was leaning next to his room’s door glared at him. Jo Minjoon smiled brightly.
“You woke up early?”
“Woke up early? So you are saying that you thought nothing at all about making me look stupid that can’t even differentiate norimaki with norikami?”
“Did you have breakfast? And the others got up?”
“……..Are you changing subjects?”
Kaya said as if she was flabbergasted. Jo Minjoon pointed his hair and said.
“Don’t you see how I look right now? Let me wash for now.”
He thought that while he was taking the shower she would go somewhere else, but even after roughly twenty minutes, she was still in the same place. Only then did Jo Minjoon get bewildered. It was the first time she had followed him like this.
“…….Are you like this because of what happened yesterday?”
“A wrongdoer is always the calm one. I really knew about it.”
“Yes. Just say so.”
“No, don’t say it, but it is like that. Are you also ignoring me because I am stupid and couldn’t learn?”
Kaya’s eyes shook. Rather than being angry, she seemed to be a little nervous. And only then did Jo Minjoon realize that yesterday’s minor action could have touched Kaya’s trauma.
“I don’t ignore you. Is there a person that ignores their friends?”
Kaya that wanted to reply back, closed her mouth at the word friend. Her face became complicated. Just like she had told to Martin a while ago, she didn’t like the word friend that much. Precisely speaking, she didn’t believe that friendship existed between people.
And of course, Jo Minjoon couldn’t know that far. He yawned and moved his feet. Kaya hurriedly chased his back.
“What is it? Why are you just leaving? I didn’t finish talking.”
“I’m sorry. I can’t reply because I’m sleepy. Let’s eat breakfast first. You promised me when I teamed up with you, that if I helped you would cook breakfast for me everyday. After that, you used to cook for me for a few days, but then you stopped doing so?”
“…That’s because people made fun of me.”
“And would they not make fun of you because you stopped making it for me? We are already marked as their teasing material.”