Chapter 32: The extra is kidnapped by the princess in front of the main character under the name of a date.

“Now, don’t forget to clean up after you’re done eating. For today’s club activity, let’s freely disband around here!”

“””Thank you for your work~.”””

“Phew, I’m tired…….”

“Me too. It was my first time making omurice, and I realized it’s much harder than I thought. Especially making the omelet…….”

“Even so, the transfer student was good at cooking, wasn’t she? Does she cook often at home?”

“Ah, I had to mainly take care of my younger siblings’ meals, so I learned it through practice.”

……In the end, I ended up delegating most of the work to make the omurice to the three of them.

Even when I tried to help with stir-frying the rice or making the omelet, every time,

-It’s okay, Hayeon. Sit down.

I was blocked by those words and a face that felt somewhat pressured, so I couldn’t help.

‘It feels like……I’ve become a kept man…….’

A husband watching his three wives cook.

It’s the height of luxury.

‘Ah, Sejeong actually had three, didn’t she?’

Thinking about it that way, Sejeong seems amazing again.

In my case, I’m not even sure if I can properly date even one person.

Even in my previous life, I never properly dated a single woman.

‘I guess being an orphan was seen negatively.’

Then you might think, why not date someone within the orphanage? People did date occasionally.

But, in my case, I didn’t have any close female friends even within the orphanage, so I ended up not dating anyone until I received support funds and left at the age of 20.

Even after that, I didn’t really pay attention to that side.

After getting a job at the factory, it was a continuous struggle just to survive, so I didn’t have time to worry about that.

‘……Ah.’

Female, huh.

That kid was also female.

‘I hope they’re doing well.’

The kid I looked after like a real younger sibling.

After leaving the orphanage, I only called them once, but they’re sociable, so they’ll be living well anywhere.

“Hayeon. Is this enough?”

“Huh?”

I wondered what it was, and saw that omurice was served on a plate.

“Yeah. That’s enough.”

Normally, that wouldn’t even be enough to satisfy my appetite.

But this body refuses to eat more than a certain amount, primarily by making my stomach feel bloated, so overeating was impossible.

“Ah, can I take the leftovers separately and take them with me?”

I have to take care of my sister’s too.

If I don’t, there’s a high possibility that she’ll get sulky when she finds out later.

“Okay. You’re giving it to your sister, right?”

Sohee said that and put the omurice in a disposable container prepared in front of her.

‘I could have done it.’

But before I could say that, the omurice was already neatly packed, so I decided to receive it gratefully.

“Oh, Hayeon had a younger sister?”

“Didn’t I tell you? I have a younger sister. One.”

Sejeong looked at me with an expression that said she was hearing that for the first time.

‘Hmm……Now that I think about it, I don’t think I ever mentioned it.’

During the past week, I was paying attention to Sejeong, and I didn’t really talk about myself.

There weren’t many situations where I could.

“If you’re really curious……should I introduce you later?”

Siyeon might be annoyed, but she’ll come out if I tell her to.

She came out just fine when I introduced Jia and Sohee before.

This time too, if I set a time on the weekend, she’ll come out on her own.

“Is that okay? Won’t your sister be annoyed……?”

“You don’t have to worry about that. Then, I’ll contact you later when I set a time.”

Saying that, I took a bite of my portion of omurice with a spoon.

Nom.

‘Hmm.’

Why is it so delicious?

“This is good enough to sell? It’s really delicious.”

“Really? I’m glad…….”

Jia was nervous from the moment I started scooping the omurice, but when I said it was delicious, her face relaxed and she started eating her portion of omurice.

“…….”

The other kids followed me and took a bite of the omurice, then started inhaling it without a word.

‘Yeah, I understand that feeling.’

Fluffy, well-seasoned shrimp fried rice, and an omelet with perfect doneness.

Jia’s omelet had truly reached a state of mastery.

Somehow, we finished all the omurice, finished cleaning up, and were heading to the front gate.

“That’s…….”

A limousine with a remarkably large and long figure, even from a distance, was standing at the vehicle waiting line in front of the front gate.

“It’s the Student Council President’s car.”

“That’s right. It’s amazing. Is she going home at this time?”

As Sohee and Jia next to me said, that car was definitely Lee Seorin’s car, which I also rode in the morning.

Even if it’s a school for young ladies, there weren’t many cars that stood out that much.

“By Student Council President……you mean that princess who played games with us at the board game club before?”

‘Sejeong still has that kind of impression of her.’

They need to get closer quickly.

As her ability has awakened unconsciously, if they become close from now on, Lee Seorin is the right person for her to ask if her ability fully awakens later.

I have information too, but I can’t tell her openly, and in the end, she, as a member of the royal family, will know the most about the bloodline of the royal family.

‘I should use today’s appointment to introduce Sejeong to the Student Council President.’

If the two of them naturally become close through arcades and such like in the original, that would be the best result.

“That’s right. That person.”

“I see……It’s my first time seeing a limousine, it’s amazing.”

“Well, if you live in the dormitory, there’s no need to come here.”

Normally, Sejeong wouldn’t need to come to the front gate, but today she was walking with me to the bus stop.

It seems that Baek Ahra went into a meeting and it hasn’t ended yet, so she said she would come along to pass the time and wait until then.

‘Baek Ahra……I hope she’s okay.’

Following yesterday, she suffered such a thing today, so even if the kid looks okay, there’s a high possibility that she’s not okay inside.

It’s rare for her to show that much to me, and in reality, she’s not the type to reveal herself like that.

‘I hope Sejeong stays by her side and takes good care of her.’

I couldn’t keep taking care of her, and the two of them spent much more time together than I did.

And that would definitely be much more helpful in bringing the two of them closer together.

“The princess wouldn’t be there, right?”

“Probably not? She’ll be in a meeting with Baek Ahra.”

I thought about it when Siyeon came in late or left early because of the student council, but why do they make the kids do so much work?

If they say it’s leadership education, there’s nothing to say, but even when I saw it in the comic, this part was incomprehensible.

-What kind of crazy school entrusts the budget to students?

The meeting they’re having now was a budget meeting for the upcoming festival.

Because it was shown from Baek Ahra’s point of view in the comic, I remember that clearly.

“Let’s go. It’ll be a nuisance to the driver if we keep staring.”

“Okay.”

Anyway, she volunteered to do it herself.

If it’s hard, she’s a princess, so she’ll take care of it.

I decided to see that car again at the convenience store we agreed to meet later, and was about to turn toward the bus stop.

The moment I passed right next to the window.

Whirr.

The limousine’s window rolled down.

“Hoobae-nim(junior). You’re finally out?”

‘……?’

When I looked at the place where I heard that sound, there was a very familiar face.

“It’s later than I originally thought, but it’s still not too late, so it’ll be okay.”

A possibility I had been thinking about in my head.

But, a possibility that I had ignored, thinking it couldn’t be.

‘What is this person doing here instead of being in the meeting?’

“Get in quickly. We made a date appointment, didn’t we?”

Lee Seorin, who should definitely be in the meeting, was greeting me warmly.

“Hmm, is that the omurice that Hoobae-nim and your friends made? It looks delicious.”

No.

I wasn’t planning on getting a ride again…….

‘I didn’t think she’d be waiting near the front gate.’

I agreed to meet, but I never thought that the Student Council President would be waiting for me at the front gate.

‘I ended up leaving the kids behind.’

The three people who saw Lee Seorin’s face all had similar expressions to mine.

An expression that said, why is that person coming out of there?

And that expression, upon hearing the word ‘date’ from the Student Council President’s mouth, turned into an even more incomprehensible expression.

-……Date?
-It’s not like a date. I had an appointment with the Student Council President before……Anyway, I’ll go ahead! See you tomorrow!

‘I tried to gloss it over like that.’

However, looking at the messages piling up on my phone, it seems that it wasn’t glossed over at all.

Thinking about explaining it later, my still-aching head started throbbing again.

‘The me in a few hours will take care of it.’

Thud.

I turn my phone over so that the screen is not visible.

First of all, before that, there was something I was curious about right now.

“……Sunbae (senior). I have a question.”

“What is it, Hoobae-nim (junior)?”

“What are you doing here instead of being in the meeting?”

“Huh? Meeting?”

Lee Seorin puts on her characteristic sly expression, but it was useless against someone who already knew.

“Baek Ahra said there’s a meeting hosted by the student council today?”

“Ah…….”

That, you mean…….

“I’m embarrassed to say, but I left it to the vice president.”

“To the vice president?”

The vice president, is it that person?

Well, she’s someone who can’t do anything about things related to Lee Seorin, so if she asked her, she would have accepted.

‘Still, skipping a meeting.’

I couldn’t understand.

Even if she made an appointment with me, she left an important meeting to the vice president and came out.

She could have done it tomorrow instead of today.

“If there was a meeting, you should have just told me and changed the appointment time to tomorrow.”

If she had just said so, I would have changed it without much trouble.

“……Actually, I realized after making the appointment. That there’s a meeting next week.”

That was a little surprising.

Lee Seorin isn’t that clumsy of a person.

“So I tried to change the day……but I don’t have Hoobae-nim’s contact information, do I?”

That’s right.

I didn’t exchange contact information with Lee Seorin.

There was no point of contact to do so.

“So, I was going to tell Hoobae-nim directly, but I was really busy last week……Actually, I came this morning to tell you that too.”

“Really? Then why didn’t you tell me?”

My tone became somewhat accusatory, but it was a question that came purely out of curiosity.

Lee Seorin hesitated for a moment at my question, then,

“Actually……I forgot.”

Saying that, she blushed.

‘She forgot.’

“Even someone like Sunbae makes mistakes like that often, huh?”

Hearing those words, Lee Seorin makes a somewhat sulky expression.

“No. I don’t normally make mistakes like this.”

“Yes. I know.”

I know.

“Really!? I’m not that clumsy. Don’t misunderstand, Hoobae-nim.”

‘Even if you say that.’

It was impossible not to imagine that image after hearing a story like that.

“Anyway, so I just left it to the vice president to keep my appointment with Hoobae-nim as scheduled. The meeting will proceed without any problems even without me if that kid is there, and I can just get the minutes from the secretary tomorrow.”

‘I see.’

Hmm.

I roughly understood the circumstances that led to this.

‘No, it doesn’t make sense to prioritize an appointment over a meeting.’

But, that was another matter from acceptance.

An appointment with someone you’re not even close to, you can just break it.

It’s not like I’m a helpful connection to Lee Seorin.

Should I call this diligent, or should I call it negligent?

‘Was she that interested in the commoner experience?’

Is that it?

‘Well, I guess…….’

She’s a princess, but she even goes to arcades alone.

It would probably be more fun for me to go out than to have a boring meeting.

‘I can’t say I forgot to say it because I was looking at her face…….’

The truth, only Lee Seorin knew.