Though they’ve reached the extreme of their fatigue; by overcoming such hardship and adversity, the freshman and the seniors formed a mutual respect for each other.
Whether it’s the talent show or the training of hell, in several hours or so, they would all leave those behind and nothing will remain except for their happy memories.
So they all shared drinks as the night draped over.
At 11 PM, one by one, they all fell to sleep in exhaustion.
***
“Huaa.”
Lee Hyun woke up and soaked in the fresh air.
Although last night he seemed to have drunk too much till having a hangover, there was no change in his morning schedule.
‘And now, we’re going to return.’
He was a little disappointed, but it seemed he accomplished the motives he came with.
The fact was as soon as he returned home; he’d reconnect to Royal Road.
During the three days and two nights of absent, he was certain that things had developed somehow.
He’ll once again slipped into the shadows in the subversive activities of a dark gamer by making money through quests and items with his ambitious colleagues; and this will become nothing more than just a dream.
It was a fierce battleground rather than just a game!
Lee Hyun needed to return to that world.
‘Today, I may have a bit of time to go to the Dojang. Need to do a bit of morning exercise.’
Lee Hyun removed himself out of the temporary residence.
He loosened his rigid muscles by moving around and had intended to run.
But just as yesterday, he spotted Seoyoon sitting on the rock.
‘When did that happen?’
Lee Hyun approached her and spoke.
“Hi.”
“……”
“Why are you up early?”
“……”
Still no reply. Lee Hyun quietly took a seat beside her, and that was all as he remains seated.
Once Lee Hyun sat down on the rock.
His mind was still troubled as he thought about being unable to exercise, so he didn’t want to just silently sitting there.
Lee Hyun no longer spoke, while Seoyoon was still hesitantly trying to find what to say.
Even though she really wanted to share a lot, she did not know where to start or how long the wait in between each reply should be.
30 minutes in silence.
Cheosseokcheosseok!
The sound of the waves in their current vicinity could be heard, along with the cries of the seagulls.
The rise in Lee Hyun’s anxiety was directly proportional to the rise in Seoyoon's feeling of comfort.
As the greeting breeze blew, the day was becoming brighter.
They watched the sun rising over at the faraway horizon!
Suddenly, there was a gentle touch on Lee Hyun’s shoulder. It was the unable to win against the drowsiness Seoyoon's head leaning on it.
It was due to being the second day already that she could not sleep well, along with the fact that she was tired from the out of the norm alcoholic drinks.
And here it was, her trusted friend Lee Hyun, presented comfort from the built up tension and knocked her to sleep spontaneously.
Segeunsegeun.
Seoyoon's breathing rhythm sounded in Lee Hyun’s ear.
With each exhale, Lee Hyun could feel his own heart reacted to it as the beats increased in strain.
In this place, it was just Lee Hyun and Seoyoon.
Although the students were still sleeping on the sandy beach, they were at a distance away.
Moreover, Seoyoon had already drifted to dreamland in a seemingly drunken slumber due to the hearty drinks from the previous day.
In other words, it was an opportunity given by the heavens!
There was no other way but to say Seoyoon was defenseless in this state before Lee Hyun.
Lee Hyun’s eyes filled with murderous intentions.
‘You treat me like fodder, huh. And during my cold you jammed that food-to-kill porridge down my throat!’
It was a golden opportunity to take revenge.
As it seemed she was deeply in her doze, he could have picked her up and tossed her into the sea.
Holding grudges infinitely!
However, Lee Hyun’s mind soon wandered off from the thought. Though vengeance would be thrilling, he was afraid of the troubles to come in the future.
‘I don’t know how she will manage after I throw her into the sea!’
Still, in his internal rampage he paid careful attention to not wake up Seoyoon. Then a thought hit.
‘Let me adjust a bit to have you sleep more comfortably.’
Lee Hyun gently lifted up Seoyoon's head and placed it on his lap. After which, he observed Seoyoon's face in detail.
‘There’s gotta be an ugly corner somewhere.’
He still had not given up on his childish revenge.
The first time Lee Hyun saw Seoyoon's face was in the instructor’s cabin.
But because he noticed the ‘murderer’ mark during that event that he did not examined her beauty in more detail.
Nevertheless, a fragment of Seoyoon's face remained in his mind that he went to sculpt the Statue of Freya.
The image he had at that time was indeed beautiful.
But he did not know that the beauty exceeded what he had imagined.
The second meeting where he saw her was on the Plains of Despair, where her loveliness shone even more.
Then, during the times they risked their lives in the northern parts, he took peeks at her in his spare time.
But with each and every time he saw her, she continuously exuded attractiveness.
It wasn’t because Seoyoon was increasingly becoming more and more beautiful.
She was already beautiful from the beginning. It was because the more closely he got to look at her face, the more beauty he saw in her.
Eyes, nose, eyebrows, forehead, chin and lips.
There was no way to totaled up her features.
While wondering how dreadfully beautiful something was, a new attraction came into play whenever he took a look.
No matter how long he stared at her face, he could not get tired from the sight. With each and every sight to admire, he had no choice but to look!
Lee Hyun wanted to find flaws in Seoyoon's face.
He leaned in so close that he can feel each of her breath, a rare chance to do so since she was still sleeping.
‘Skin. Well, it’s perfect. Not one crease and I can’t even see a single pore. How can human skin have such milk like quality? Facial feature. Great. It’s the perfect golden ratio of placements if I was sculpturing. Long eyebrows…how does her hair even have such orderly placements?’
Trying to find any facial flaw in her, even if it was just a tiny ugly part in her, did not work out.
‘Fine, I admit the face is too good. What about other places…’
Lee Hyun’s eyes ran downward. He could roughly make out the figure through the dress. And here still, he could not find a fault.
Tall and slender, her body was also good.
The calves, thighs, and even the waist line were smooth.
Even the freaking toes exposed from the sandals were also beautiful!
Lee Hyun did not hate women.
He simply wanted to avoid having a relationship with one because there will be money to spend. But this idea has changed quite a bit after watching Seoyoon.
‘If it’s her then it’s prolly ok to treat her to a Kimbap shop. No wait. If I do that then it’ll go bad if she develops a habit of wanting to go there. Oh yea, I suppose I could treat her at an udon stall or sumthin!’ (??? sushi shop or something, google image sushi, but not sure what else it also encompasses.)
This was a somewhat of a significant change in him.
Lee Hyun was still giving Seoyoon a lap pillow even as the sun fully emerges.
The sunrise from the sea was a spectacular sight to behold.
Due to the fact that yesterday morning was filled with fog that he could not able to see such sunrise; but today, not a single cloud in the sky could be seen in this sunny weather.
From where the sky and the ocean attempting to touch one another, the sun seemingly burned them both as it rose.
“Ahh!”