"Ahh! Shuihui! What are you doing?!"
Minjoo looked at me with a furious look.
"What are you doing to Shinhui?" asked Minjoo angrily, "Wait! It's not what you think!", I yelled to try to explain myself.
"Shut up! I didn't think you were the kind of guy to take advantage of a helpless girl!" Minjoo angrily said.
She was about to slap me when Shinhui stepped in, "Wait, Minjoo! He's right, it's not what you think! I was apologizing to him for getting eliminated so early in the match!"
" What? Why? You don't have to apologize to this bastard!" she exclaimed, " Hey! I'm right here!" then I told Shinhui
"She didn't say it the way I tried to, but she's right. You don't have to apologize to me, and just try harder next time."
I smiled at her, and she smiled at me.
"Alright, I guess I'm sorry too for assuming you were trying to take advantage of Shinhui " said Minjoo while bowing at me, I smiled at her,
" Don't be, that's the right reaction you should have when someone is being taken advantage of. But just ask what's going on next time, okay?"
She smiled and said, "That's fine with me."
We walked outside to join the group, but...
"What took you guys so long?" asked Soonhyeok,
"Were you all having a moment of intimacy? Way to go, hyung-nim!" said Jinsung with a proud expression.
Minjoo and Shinhui start blushing and shaking their head and hands, "N-n-no! that's not what's happening!"
"Y-yeah! Why would we go out with an ugly guy like that?!" said Minjoo while blushing and pointing at me.
"Yeah! Yeah! They're both out of my league anyway! Wait...HEY! I'm not ugly!"
I was agreeing to what Minjoo said until I realized that she called me ugly. Then Minjoo started laughing hysterically, "I can't believe you agreed to me saying you're ugly."
Minjoo kept laughing until Jinsung interrupted her and started correcting her, "You're wrong! Jung-hwa is the second most handsome man I've ever seen!"
I agreed with him and started chanting with him,
"Junghwa isn't ugly!" " I'm not ugly!"
We continued to chant that I'm not ugly three times before Minjoo yelled at us to stop screaming. Then I thought to myself that if I was the second most handsome man that Jinsung's ever seen, then who's the first?
Almost immediately, Minjae walked out the door, and he was wearing a black coat and boots and a belt with some slightly tight black pants.
It was a funny costume to wear, but he looked cool in it, so I tried to talk to him, but he ignored me and quickly walked away.
I was curious to see where he was going but realized that it was time to go home, so I told everyone that we should go home. We all walked to the train station together since we lived around the same direction.
When we got to the station and we were waiting for the train. When the train gets here and I glance to my left, and I see Minjae two cabins away from me.
" Hey guys, look, Minjae's over there"
I point towards Minjae, but before anyone could turn to see, the doors open and we get pushed inside. We eventually sat down and I notice how many cockroaches there are, but I'm not the one that says something first.
"Eww! Ew! Ew! Ew! There's so many cockroaches!" said Minjoo with a disgusted expression. "Why's there so many cockroaches?!"
she angrily yelled, disturbing other passengers.
"Shhhh! Be quiet! You're bothering people! Haven't you been on a train before? Just ignore them."
I told her while trying to calm her down, and get her to shut up.
"Yes, just calm down and ignore them." said Shinhui, trying to comfort Minjoo.
"Thank you, Shinhui, you're the only one who cares about me!" said Minjoo while leaning her head against Shinhui.
I decided to ignore what she just said and take out my phone to read the latest chapter to a novel that I've been reading for 12 years called "Survival of The Fittest", and even helped make make it. I gave the author some ideas when he ran out. I forgot what he looked like because I only saw him once.
I read the recent chapter and srolled down all the way to the end. I scrolled down, then up again.
"Really? That's how it ended?"
[Notice: This is the final chapter]
" No way..."
I quickly click the return button to check the status of the series, and sure enough.
[Status: Completed]
"Wow, I can't believe it actually ended..."
This novel was made with my help, I thought he would at least tell me when or how it was going to end. When the author came to me, I was wondering why he wanted my help. It felt a little suspicious, but he only wanted my ideas, and when I read the first chapter, I took it as a challenge to finish this novel, this novel that helped me through the grief of losing my mother, this novel that I read when I failed to enter the gaming club twice, this novel that I read because I couldn't sleep at night. This novel that I read when I couldn't handle my boss "disciplining" me at my part-time job.
" What are you reading, Junghwa?" asked Shinhui while looking over my shoulder. I flinched and backed off a little because of how close we were.
"I'm just reading a novel."
"Oh! A novel? What's it about?" Shinhui asked with an excited face
"Y-Yeah, you wouldn't like it."
I don't want to freak her out or make her think I'm a loser because I read a novel that has 3250 chapters. Who wouldn't get freaked out?
" I love novels! Have you heard of "The Blue Princess" or " Legend of Athena "? I could recommend some websites to you if you want." Shinhui looked up at me with a bright look, but I'm going to decline. I don't think I'm going to find another novel as interesting as this one for a while, I think I might even re-read it.
"No, I haven't heard of those, and thank you, but I think I'm going to stop reading novels for a while."
Even though I said that, I'm still going to re-read this novel, and the epilogue.
"Oh, okay..." said Shihui, then put her head down almost as if she was a bit disappointed, I didn't mean to put her in a bad mood.
[Notice]
"Huh?"
I look down at my old smartphone and see a notification.
[Author's Words: thank you for reading this novel all the way to the end. The epilogue will begin shortly.]
The epilogue? Is there gonna be an epilogue? I was wondering if there was going to be an epilogue.
Then, a message quickly appeared in my on my screen.
-Thank you
"Thank you." Is this the author? The author of Survival of The Fittest? There's no way. I should ask him"
-Are you the author?