But unfortunately, that didn't work on me. It was because the title 'Has something to ask of you, Bae Jae-seok' was still floating above his head. If his intention was merely to come to the arcade, his title would have changed the moment we arrived.
"So what's the matter…"
"Ah, did you hear about that? About the freshmen?"
It felt like he was hurriedly changing the subject but there was no need to drive him to a corner with a pointless thing so I answered him.
"No, I haven't heard anything related to freshmen."
"So you haven't. I know that you aren't interested, but it has made quite a ruckus."
"A ruckus?" I tilted my head. A ruckus? Was there a fight?
"Don't be surprised. You know the Twin Roses in our school, right? It's now the Triple Roses."
"…"
I waited for his next words, but he said nothing else.
"…"
"…"
"…"
There was only awkward silence between the two of us for the moment.
"…What? Was that what you wanted to ask me?"
"Hey, you bastard! You should be surprised! It's Triple Roses now! Triple! There are now three celebrity-like beauties in our school when other schools don't even have one!!"
I got flustered at him getting angry.
No, what about it? What has that got to do with me?
It was childish, but there was something called 'Twin Roses' in our school.
Oh, that's a really cringe-worthy title.
Was the world a land of martial arts to be giving them nicknames? And now that there were three of them, it had become 'Triple Roses'? Well, anyway, one of them was the Human Slayer, Kyung-eun, who was now in the same class as me, and the other was Han Min-kyung, the current student president, a senior. If Kyung-eun was a lively and active beauty, then Han Min-kyung, or Han Min-kyung sunbae[2] was a calm and cold ice princess. No, the word "ice princess" would be wrong. Rumor had it that she was more of an ice queen than an ice princess. She was often called the black rose, but it wasn't because she exercised any form of violence, but because of the aura around her.
"So what is it after all?"
"Excuse me, are you done talking?"
A female student wearing our school uniform approached us with a careful voice from one side. She had wavy permed hair that stretched to her shoulders and a small stature. It was… What should I say? Right, a real beauty.
Actually, it was better to label Kyung-eun and Min-kyung sunbae as beautiful women rather than beautiful girls. The female student had a startling cuteness that the two beauties didn't have.
'Ah, my standards will get higher if I get accustomed to these looks.'
For me, who wanted some peace, a woman who was such an outstanding beauty was considered a minus point. Even in this situation, she wasn't that far away from that fact as people in our surroundings mumbled.
"Haha, hello."
Bae Jae-seok raised his hand and acted like he knew her, and at that moment I had an ominous feeling. There was no way he would know a new freshman who just started school today. If that bum had known that beauty in advance, there was no way I wouldn't have known it until now.
But she bowed her head when she saw Jae-seok.
"Yes, sunbae-nim. Ah, is this sunbae here really the son of teacher Kwan Il-han?"
I flinched at those words and then looked at Jae-seok with cold eyes.
"Did you…"
Did you just sell me out? Bae Jae-seok just shrugged his shoulders when I looked at him with eyes that implied that.
"Sorry."
"Ugh, really."
This guy already knows how much I'm suffering due to this!
However, I couldn't let the 'problem' standing behind me discover that I was feeling annoyed so I just shot him a look that spoke 'let's talk later' and turned around.
"What is it… ah, I can speak without honorifics, right?"
"Of course. You are my sunbae."
"Thanks. So what's your business? For your information, wanting to meet my father is a no go."
"Eh, ah, I can't?"
So it really is because of that.
Jae-seok, who was next to me, acted restlessly when I let out a sigh.
"Hey hey, just do it for me."
"My father personally went around the fan clubs and said that they can't."
"But she doesn't even belong to any fan club. Besides, she said that she is acquainted with your father."
"Really?"
As far as I remembered, anyone who had a personal acquaintance with my father had never been ordinary. In a broader sense, wasn't the President of the United States one of them?
"Oh, to be exact, I'm not acquainted, but my sister worked with him. She asked me to deliver something to him, and I want to take the chance to ask him something as well."
She was a good-natured woman, smiling and giving an explanation, but I didn't care and looked over her head. I could see for sure whether her words were true or not just by checking on her title. I wasn't called a 'Lie Detector' for nothing.
But I was greeted with an unexpected result.
Supreme Magic Tower, Protection Barrier Class
Magician Girl, Kang Bo-ram
...
Please don't do this.