Chapter 61: Extra goes for a night walk with the chairman

“Coo….”

After finishing the bath, as soon as Sejeong lay down on the luxurious bed prepared in the room, she fell into a deep sleep.

‘She must be tired.’

Even if the body is completely healed, it doesn’t mean that the accumulated mental fatigue is also healed.

…Even now, when I’m about to fall asleep, a building engulfed in flames appears.

Death is not something that you adapt to by experiencing it.

I only realized that when I shoved my head into the wide-open jaws of the flames.

Fortunately, judging from the fact that I’m still alive, it seems that I didn’t die instantly, but I lost consciousness, so it was easy to infer how strong the impact was.

Even I’m like this, what about Sejeong, who directly carried me out after I fainted?

‘…I wish she would tell me what happened.’

I didn’t ask her about it like I was digging.

Sejeong briefly explained that ‘After I fell, I awakened my ability, healed you, and then brought you out,’ but considering the trigger for Sejeong to awaken her ability in the original work, it was clear that it wouldn’t be a good story.

Swish, swish.

I wiped away the slightly flowing drool with a prepared handkerchief, and then pulled the blanket that had slipped down to below her neck.

“Ugh….”

Then, Sejeong frowned a little as if she was uncomfortable.

It seemed that the pulled-up blanket was stuffy.

“But you have to cover yourself well with the blanket.”

“Mmm.”

Maybe she’s answering in her sleep.

The sight of her muttering softly was cute, and I couldn’t help but laugh.

‘…I should get up soon.’

While I was watching Sejeong’s sleeping face, the time Lee Seorin mentioned was approaching.

Click.

Just in case she wakes up at the sound of the door closing, it was when I was carefully closing the door.

“Are you finished with your business?”

“G, Gasp….”

I barely suppressed the scream that was about to come out, but even so, my startled heart didn’t calm down.

“Hehe. Were you that surprised?”

When I turned around, Lee Seorin was smiling contentedly at my surprised expression.

“…Well, if someone suddenly speaks behind you without any prelude, anyone would be surprised.”

It’s not that I reacted unusually.

If there was a sign, I wouldn’t have, but a sound coming from right behind me without any prelude had that much power.

“I thought you would come at 12, but you came earlier than I thought?”

The time indicated by the luxurious clock in the hallway was 11:40.

It was close to 12 o’clock, but there were still about 20 minutes left until midnight, which Lee Seorin had mentioned.

It was also one of the reasons why I didn’t think Lee Seorin would be there.

“My work finished faster than I thought. It was just paperwork anyway.”

Lee Seorin, who answered while twisting her side hair, was wearing much more comfortable clothes than when I saw her in the morning.

Her face was flushed more than usual, and her hair, which was usually styled as if it were set, was loose and naturally flowing down.

It seemed that she had just washed, and all that sense of life added up, making her feel somewhat alluring.

If I took a picture of her current appearance and put it up for auction at the academy, there would probably be a lot of suspiciously wealthy young ladies who would be willing to buy it no matter how much it cost.

Of course, I didn’t take a picture of it.

“…It’s a little embarrassing to be seen like this.”

I must have stared too much.

“Ah, I’m sorry. You looked different from usual, so I unconsciously….”

“No. It’s okay. I’m not trying to blame you. And anyway, I too….”

With those words, Lee Seorin’s eyes, which were meeting my eyes, briefly went down and came up.

“…No. It’s nothing.”

Is it my imagination that her face turned a little redder?

It was a short moment, but I could tell where Lee Seorin’s gaze had landed.

It was on my chest.

“….”

Even though it’s comfortable clothing, Lee Seorin is wearing clothes that feel like activewear, but unlike her, I’m currently wearing pajamas prepared by the staff.

It would have been fine if it were just ordinary pajamas.

If it was long sleeves, long pants, or even short sleeves, short pants, it would have been fine… but the problem is, this pajama is supported by two shoulder straps, so to speak, it’s like a sleeveless top.

In addition, I wasn’t wearing a bra right now.

I handed over the underwear I was wearing to the person who was working, saying that they would wash it.

Based on the size I mentioned during the swimsuit, I received new underwear, but I only put on the panties and left them in the assigned room.

I could have put it on right after taking a bath… but I didn’t want to wrap the freshness felt after taking a bath with a stuffy bra.

In the first place, it was clear that no woman would want to wear a bra immediately after taking a bath.

‘…Still, I didn’t intend to keep my underwear off until the senior came.’

I planned to cool down as much as possible, then go back to my room before Lee Seorin came, put on my underwear, and meet her.

And I’d wear an outer garment along the way.

“…Senior, can I go back to my room for a moment?”

So, going back to my room to get dressed was an action that was planned from the beginning.

It absolutely wasn’t because I became embarrassed when I saw Lee Seorin paying attention to my apperance.

When I looked up at the night sky, countless stars were shining brilliantly.

In inverse proportion to that, the moon is waning, but rather, it added depth to the night sky.

Whoosh….

What’s in front of me is not the sea, but a pond, yet the sound of strong waves flows in.

It’s the sound of trees.

The trees, which have probably never seen the sea in their entire lives, were making a very similar sound as if longing for it.

“The scenery is really nice.”

The place I arrived at, dressed and following Lee Seorin, was the back garden around the palace.

“Right? It’s my favorite place in the back garden.”

Lee Seorin smiled brightly, as if she had been complimented.

“It certainly deserves it.”

It was not easy to encounter this kind of scenery in everyday life unless you go to a tourist spot.

Besides, considering the possibility that there is no one else in a place with this kind of atmosphere, it could be said to be an even more valuable sight.

…Thump, thump.

We walk along the well-paved dirt road, the two of us.

Soft lamps illuminate the front dimly at intervals along the path, but beyond those lamps, it was not visible where the path led.

However, that didn’t make my footsteps hasty.

Leisurely.

I match my steps to Lee Seorin’s, one step at a time.

Accordingly, the footsteps intertwine in the air as if made by one person.

“…Junior.”

It was when those footsteps had not yet reached twenty steps that Lee Seorin spoke.

“Are you, dating Sejeong?”

My footsteps stop.

Golden eyes meet my eyes directly.

“Did it show that much?”

“Actually, I knew from a long time ago that Sejeong liked you.”

“…You knew.”

Normally, when you hear such words, you could interpret it as hearing it from someone or noticing it with your intuition.

However, if the person who said those words was Lee Seorin, who could directly see other people’s feelings with her eyes, it could be interpreted differently.

“I, have the ability to know the feelings that other people feel towards me by color.”

I was surprised.

I never thought that Lee Seorin would reveal her ability to me.

It’s…I thought it was okay to reveal that people with the blood of the royal family have supernatural powers.

Because, I’m a person who knows that Yoon Sejeong has healing abilities.

I expected that much background knowledge to be explained… but I never thought she would reveal her ability so bluntly.

Besides, Lee Seorin’s ability was of no help to reveal.

The ability to know the feelings that other people feel towards you.

It was possible to read the trust at once, which is the most important thing in building relationships.

I never thought she’d reveal that to me.

Even in the original work, only the emperor knew that ability, apart from Yoon Sejeong and Baek Ahra.

All the abilities of the royal family were secret even to each other, except for the emperor.

“Sejeong showed me jealousy without knowing it whenever she talked with you. Of course, she was so openly jealous that I could tell even without seeing her feelings…but the jealousy I saw at noon today, the color was different.”

With those words, my right hand is caught by Lee Seorin’s left hand.

“An anxious yet somewhat relaxed red color. That’s when I realized. Ah, the two of them are already dating.”

Then, she began to interlock her fingers.

I moved my hand to express my intention not to interlock my fingers, but Lee Seorin persistently dug into my hand.

“…I realized. The relationship between the two is already out of my hands.”

A slight struggle ensued, and eventually Lee Seorin succeeded in pushing her fingers between my fingers.

I could have shaken it off.

I could have strongly pushed it away.

However…I couldn’t do that when I saw Lee Seorin’s expression in front of me.

“What kind of feelings…do you have right now?”

The golden light that shone until a while ago was colorless, and what was contained in Lee Seorin’s eyes was colorless despair.

“When we first met and you grabbed my chin, what kind of feeling was it?”

“When you gave me a doll, what kind of feeling was it?”

“After that, when we sat side by side in the car, when we went to a convenience store together, when we shared the omurice you made, when we played innocently in the playground at sunset, and, and….”

What poured out was all the time I had spent with Lee Seorin.

“Why, why, can’t I know only about you….”

I couldn’t answer that question.

If that was asking why Lee Seorin’s ability didn’t work on me, I couldn’t answer because I didn’t know either.

And, if that was asking about my feelings for all the time I spent with Lee Seorin….

I couldn’t answer that either.

Because I didn’t have the capacity or ability to take responsibility for it.

Whoosh….

The wave crashes once again.

As if the wave had taken away time from us, we stood there for a while without saying a word.