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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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The convenience store worker’s name was Seo Narae.
Since it was time for her shift change, Narae-noona asked me to wait for a bit, then quickly finished the handover.
Having nothing else to do, I sat at the table outside the convenience store and killed time, slurping on the chocolate milk that noona had given me.
After waiting for about ten minutes,
Narae-noona came out in a hurry, looking left and right to find me, worried that I had disappeared.
“I’ll take you home.”
“Do you know my house?”
“Of course~ I’ve been there often.”
Narae-noona casually linked her arm with mine.
I looked at her in bewilderment, and she looked back at me, as if wondering what the problem was.
“Why?”
“No, it just seems like there’s not much distance between us. Were we… very close?”
“Ahaha… right. I treated you like I normally would. You must be confused since you lost your memory. Sorry.”
“It’s not that I dislike it, I was just curious. What kind of relationship did we have? Were we lovers?”
“Lovers???!!!!”
When I asked, making eye contact, she jumped.
“No, no. In-ho and I were not in that kind of relationship. We were just a noona-dongsaeng who knew each other at school.”
She quickly waved her hands in denial.
“Okay, okay, I understand. Why are you so serious about it? You’re making me feel awkward.”
“I’m not being serious. I’m just…”
Narae-noona mumbled, lowering her face with cheeks as red as a ripe persimmon.
“Anyway, it’s still a relief. I’ve already met two people who know about me.”
“Two people? Ah… you’re talking about On-yu.”
Her face darkened in an instant.
Both with her previous reaction and now, she seemed to know something.
“You know about On-yu, right? On-yu said that I and On-yu were always together, do you know anything about that?”
I swallowed the phrase ‘the truth of the statement.’
Casually, as if I was just curious, I played the role of ‘the composed me.’
“I don’t know if I should say I know well or not at all.”
Narae-noona’s pace slowed down.
“Why?”
“Well, I’ve only seen On-yu a few times. I can’t say what she’s like just from that.”
“But you seem to know something? Judging from your reaction at the convenience store earlier.”
“Hmm… what I know about On-yu is only what you told me.”
“Me?”
“Yeah. It was what I heard from you before you lost your memory, so I don’t know the truth either. Ah, of course, I trust what In-ho says 100 percent. But, you know… everyone has their own personal perspective, right?”
“So, as someone who heard your evaluation of On-yu, I don’t think I can say anything objectively… hehe.”
She hurriedly tried to make amends.
If what Narae-noona said was true, it could be inferred that the former me talked about On-yu, and that the evaluation wasn’t favorable.
If I had said good things, there would be no reason for her to be so embarrassed.
Since I already concluded that On-yu wasn’t normal, it didn’t really matter to me whether I heard the answer or not.
But thanks to this, I was able to gather my thoughts even more.
“Please tell me. How did I talk about On-yu?”
“That’s…”
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When I returned back home, I quickly ate the triangular kimbap to satisfy my hunger.
[You were annoyed that On-yu kept sticking to you and interfering more than necessary.]
Hearing Narae-noona’s words, I felt a little let down.
I thought that On-yu and the former me were sworn enemies, but it was no different from the usual troubles that friends experience at that age.
“Well, since she tends to be overprotective, maybe that didn’t sit well with me.”
Even while I was in the hospital, she treated me like a child, so I guess it must have been because of that.
“I should finish the computer investigation that I couldn’t earlier.”
I roughly left the triangular kimbap wrapper on the table and went upstairs.
Since I didn’t know the ID itself, I first searched for the portal site ID.
I found the ID through cell phone verification and changed the password.
“Let’s see… the inbox….”
Whether it was because we were past the era of using emails, there wasn’t anything special besides spam emails.
But the email address was just the beginning.
Usually, people tend to keep their IDs consistent.
I put the ID into the major portal sites and searched.
It seems that I wasn’t someone who was very active in communities, as there were very few posts.
At most, it was just gaming questions?
Normal.
But why was I erasing my internet history?
It didn’t seem like there was anything to hide.
Just in case, I accessed the cloud storage.
But the cloud storage said I wasn’t a member, as I didn’t seem to use the same ID.
Was there a difference in the creation date?
Why did I use a different ID?
After cell phone verification, I skimmed through the list of files in the storage.
“What is this, they’re all Word files?”
The file names were dates.
What kind of records are these?
When I clicked download, a progress window appeared.
“I’ll go get some water while the files are downloading.”
I was a little thirsty, so I went downstairs and poured myself a glass of water.
I put the water bottle back in the refrigerator and returned to my room with the cup.
*Click*
I locked the door.
I felt the blood drain from my face, and goosebumps rose on my skin.
The triangular kimbap wrapper that had been on the table was gone.
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