Chapter 55: In the Hospital Room (2)

“Eujin-ah.”
“…Yes?”

Hyuna, the owner of Warehouse, spoke to Eujin, who was endlessly choosing clothes.

“You, did you fight with Su-yeong… I mean, Hiro?”

At Hyuna’s words, Eujin smiled and asked back.

“Suddenly~? It’s not like that… why?”

Looking at Eujin, who was smiling as she asked, Hyuna frowned.
Then she approached Eujin and raised her hand.

“Ahㅡㅡ Owowowowow, Ahahyoohㅡ”

“Do you think I just met you yesterday or today? I can see you pretending to be okay, so just tell me honestly when I’m being nice?”

Hyuna released the hands that were pinching both cheeks.

Eujin’s brow was subtly furrowed as she soothed the pain by stroking her cheeks, which were swollen red.

“What did I do, unnie? I was just choosing clothes like usual, and if you suddenly ask if I fought, I’ll be more embarrassed?”

Watching Eujin pour out words like a machine gun, Hyuna smiled and shrugged.

“You can’t fix the fact that you talk faster when you’re hit with the truth, Eujin-ah.”

“…Tch.”

“And you used to come to the store and sing about Hiro all the time, but since you brought the person in question to the store last time, you haven’t even mentioned her once, so wouldn’t I naturally be suspicious?”

Unable to find any more arguments, Eujin simply closed her mouth.

Hyuna sighed as she watched Eujin do that again.

“You really haven’t changed since college.”

“I’ve changed a lot? I earn money, I help unnie with work, and I’ve paid off all my debts?”

“You know that’s not what I’m talking about, that’s your disadvantage, Eujin.”

Hyuna sat down on the sofa with an electronic cigarette in her mouth.
There was no smoke rising, so it seemed like she was just bored.

“The cause is probably Su-yeong. I have no way of knowing what happened.”

“….”

“Look at that, look at that, she’s closing her mouth and turning her head away again.”

“I don’t know.”

“Yeah… I don’t know either, because Eujin won’t tell me? But I can guess roughly.”

Hyuna took the electronic cigarette she was holding in her mouth and became like an old schoolmaster, tapping his pipe and falling into thought.

The electronic cigarette tapped up and down, counting the long hours, and only then did Hyuna open her mouth again.

“Did you get dumped?”

“Who got dumped!!”

At the words that came out of Hyuna’s mouth, Eujin shouted in anger.

Eujin, realizing she had messed up, quickly lowered her voice and organized her expression, but of course it was already too late.

“What, you really got dumped? Did you like girls?”

“No, I didn’t get dumped and I don’t like girls??”

Hyuna and Eujin had known each other for a long time, and they had seen so much while working together that it was almost impossible to deceive each other.

Therefore, Hyuna could tell that what Eujin had said was true, but if that was the case, the anger she had shown earlier couldn’t be explained.

“…Really? It doesn’t seem like a lie… then what is it?”

Wondering, Hyuna racked her brain to find a stepping stone to connect the two contradictory pieces of information.

The stories about Hiro that Eujin had told her in the past.

And the time she brought Hiro and introduced her to her.

The story they shared while drinking with Hiro.

“…Ah?”

Hyuna suddenly remembered the content of the conversation she had with Eujin in the past.

“They broadcast with confidence, saying that it doesn’t matter because men can’t tell.”

“Isn’t that just fraud?”

“It’s fraud.”

Eujin said firmly.

Rarely, the smile on her face was gone.

It wasn’t a direct story about Hiro, but it was a word she said in passing while explaining the situation Hiro was in.

A word that Eujin, who rarely showed negative emotions, said with a serious expression.

“Actually, I thought Su-yeong was a netkama too.”

And Hyuna’s reasoning finally reached the answer.

“You don’t mean to tell me, you liked Hiro thinking she was a man?”

Eujin’s shoulders, which had returned to choosing clothes while Hyuna was thinking, suddenly soared and shrank as soon as she heard Hyuna’s words.

Seeing that, Hyuna asked Eujin again in disbelief.

“…Really? You really liked Hiro thinking she was a boy, but it turned out she was a real girl, so that’s why??”

Hyuna sighed deeply as she looked at Eujin’s back, who couldn’t say anything to her words and hung her head down.

Then, smoke rose.

“This is ridiculous.”

“…What is?”

“Everything.”

Hyuna chuckled and hiccuped, then buried herself in the sofa and tilted her body.

With an electronic cigarette between her fingers, she put her hand on her forehead and gestured to Eujin with her index finger with her other hand.

“Eujin, come here.”

“….”

“Come.”

“…Okay.”

Eujin sat demurely next to Hyuna with a sullen expression.

In some ways, it looked more like a student who had shrunk her body in anticipation of being scolded than being demure.

“Eujin-ah.”

“…Yeees.”

“First of all, let’s get this straight. It’s not good to misunderstand and be disappointed on your own, is it?”

“That’s right….”

Eujin didn’t make any fuss and readily admitted it, perhaps because she thought so herself.

“So, you really liked her?”

“…….”

“I see.”

“Yes….”

Hyuna, having received Eujin’s confession, asked Eujin because she suddenly had one question.

“But you, when you explained netkama to me in the past, didn’t you say you hated it so much?”

“It’s not just that I seemed to hate it, I actually hate it.”

“Your words don’t make sense…? For Su-yeong to be a man, she had to be a netkama.”

“That’s right….”

“You hate netkama.”

“That’s right.”

“But you have to like Su-yeong for her to be a netkama?”

“No, it’s not that I have to like her for her to be a netkama…!!”

Eujin shouted at Hyuna and poked Hyuna.

It didn’t seem to hurt much, and Hyuna let her hit her without much resistance while making “ouch” sounds.

“It’s not that I have to like Hiro for her to be a netkama… do I really have to explain this with my own mouth?!”

“I don’t have telepathy or anything, so wouldn’t I know if you told me?”

“…Sigh. Okay.”

Eujin, as if she had given up, released her shrinking posture and leaned back on the sofa.

“As I said before, at first I thought Hiro was a netkama, so I was trying to find out that she was a netkama.”

“Yeah, I heard it last time.”

“So of course I was trying to catch her as a man while being conscious of it….”

“…Oh my.”

Hyuna sighed.

As if she had figured out the whole story, she once again placed one hand on her forehead and buried her body completely in the sofa.

“You kept getting closer while being conscious of it, and then you thought she was better than you thought?”

“…Yes.”

“You thought she was good, and then you didn’t care much about whether she was a netkama or not?”

“……Yeees.”

“Then you suddenly started to like her, but when that happened, she had to be a man? So she had to be a netkama?”

“……….”

“Oh my god….”

Hyuna pressed her temples hard with one hand as if she was really troubled.

Eujin was barely able to open her mouth to Hyuna, who was frowning at her plight.

“…I’m stupid, right?”

“You’re not just stupid, you’re just an idiot, you idiot.”

“I guess so….”

Eujin looked at the ceiling and pondered.

‘What should I do?’

Even now, Eujin couldn’t completely give up her feelings.

Nevertheless, she couldn’t express her feelings because Hiro was a woman.

It wasn’t a matter of women and women can’t date, but

Simply

The Hiro that Eujin loved was the male Hiro.

She thought she could like her as long as it was Hiro, but when she actually met her, it wasn’t.

She. Eujin.

Couldn’t like Hiro who wasn’t a man.

That fact was strangling herself too strongly.

Her own heart was denying her own heart, so

She didn’t know what to do.

So she had been avoiding Hiro and trying not to think about her as much as possible.

“First, you have to face her again and talk.”

Hyuna’s words reached Eujin’s ears, who was lost in thought while looking at the ceiling.

“If you just keep avoiding it, nothing will be solved?”

Hyuna was right.

Whether she confessed or settled it,

In order to resolve this emotion, she had to meet Hiro and talk about it.

The only problem was

“But it’s a bit… awkward to suddenly ask to see her after unilaterally cutting off contact.”

She didn’t have the face to do so.

As Eujin hesitated and sent a look in her eyes asking for help, Hyuna willingly extended her hand.

“Okay, okay, I’ll go with you, so don’t worry too much, Eujin.”

“…Yes, thank you, unnie.”

Eujin’s mind was relieved when Hyuna said she would help.

“I wonder what Hiro is doing these days….”

“What, you didn’t know?”

“I was trying to cut off contact completely….”

Nevertheless, there were major events that came to her ears, but that was almost half a month ago….

Eujin took out her phone and went to Hiro’s cafe.

She thought she could get a rough idea of ​​her current situation by looking at the notice, so she went to the cafe and saw

[(Notice) Temporary Suspension of Broadcasting Due to Hospitalization]

Hiro’s hospitalization news was written.