Breaking Up with the Heroine of the Female-Oriented Game - Chapter 133

Chapter 133

Reconciliation (4)

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“Ah.”

It was bewildering.

Yoo Seolhyun swallowed hard.

She blinked repeatedly as she looked him over.

Lee Jinhyuk. He was right there in front of her eyes.

Dark hair, handsome features, decent build, and so on.

Even after scrutinizing him for a moment, it matched the face of Lee Jinhyuk in her memory.

“…….”

He was just sitting on the plush sofa, slowly chewing on a snack while making eye contact with Yoo Seolhyun.

His slightly pale eyes reflected her image.

Yoo Seolhyun’s expression gradually distorted.

She unconsciously bit her lower lip.

She felt deeply insulted by the sight of Lee Jinhyuk calmly sitting there to greet her.

You dare mock me by taking on the appearance of someone who’s already dead?

She hadn’t planned on ending this nicely from the start, but seeing him like this made her blood boil even more.

She thought he had just borrowed Lee Jinhyuk’s name, but to think he would go so far as to openly imitate his appearance.

Yoo Seolhyun opened her tightly closed lips at his brazen behavior.

She wanted to immediately vent the heat bubbling up inside her.

“Who are you?”

Yoo Seolhyun immediately raised her spear.

The sharp blade and faint magical energy were ominously flickering.

As if ready to stab at any moment if he made a wrong move.

“I said, who are you!”

She shouted angrily.

A startled presence could be felt from outside.

It was the security team. They were about to rush in at Yoo Seolhyun’s voice, but like professionals, they remained silent without a separate signal from her.

“Yoo Seolhyun.”

He called her name in a calm voice and expression.

She felt an indescribable sense of rejection at his actions of calling her with the same face, expression, and voice as him.

“I am……”

“I don’t know who you really are, but imitating him in my home was a mistake.”

Yoo Seolhyun exuded a chilling killing intent.

Though quite thick killing intent enveloped the man imitating Lee Jinhyuk’s appearance, he seemed unfazed.

It was intense enough to make an ordinary hero trainee tremble.

Right, you must have some skills to come to Yoo Seolhyun’s sanctuary alone, huh?

Perhaps facing him alone like this could be dangerous.

If this man had overwhelmingly superior skills to Yoo Seolhyun, he could take her hostage right away.

Rationally thinking, it would be right to question him while accompanied by the security team.

But Yoo Seolhyun didn’t call for the security team.

Because she still wanted to face him alone for now.

“Shapeshifting ability? Cloning ability? Doppelganger ability? Or did you use some special makeup?”

There are various supernatural abilities in this world.

It means one could transform into someone else’s appearance flawlessly.

Wasn’t there someone like the cloning mage So Yuyeong in Rebellion in the first place?

Since there had been cases of some villains imitating Lee Jinhyuk’s appearance to try and deceive Yoo Seolhyun and Jin Soyeon, she couldn’t let her guard down.

“Which organization are you from? What’s your purpose? What were you thinking imitating him?”

Yoo Seolhyun gathered more magical energy with a deeply wary expression. But the man didn’t take any defensive stance. He was too defenseless even if his skills were good. One wrong move and he could get stabbed by the spear.

What is this man thinking?

If he really intended to deceive Yoo Seolhyun, he would have prepared a situation convincing enough to fool her.

But to openly come in Lee Jinhyuk’s appearance and shamelessly sit alone in the reception room, it was truly impossible to be deceived even if she wanted to be.

“I’m not imitating, it’s really me.”

“They all say that.”

“Well, I expected you wouldn’t believe me, but I guess words alone won’t be enough.”

Lee Jinhyuk scratched his chin with a bitter smile.

“Yoo Seolhyun, I’ll cut to the chase. I actually died and came back to life. Through an artifact.”

“Ha.”

Yoo Seolhyun scoffed.

The best excuse he could come up with was resurrection?

And through an artifact out of nowhere?

It was truly an absurd thing to say.

“You had a resurrection artifact? I’ve never even heard of artifacts that can resurrect people in the first place?”

“I know it’s hard to believe, honestly. But remember that ring called Blessing of the Star among the auction items we stole? It was actually a resurrection artifact.”

Blessing of the Star?

A resurrection artifact?

Come to think of it, she did recover the Space Ring and Blessing of the Star from Lee Jinhyuk’s body.

At the time of recovery, she had wondered why Lee Jinhyuk was wearing the Blessing of the Star whose effect was unknown.

If it was really related to resurrection…

No.

What nonsense.

There’s no way such a convenient story could be true.

Reality is always cruel. Yoo Seolhyun knew well that miracles don’t exist in this world.

“Actually, the reason I suggested stealing the auction items was to retrieve the Blessing of the Star. I wanted to obtain an artifact that could resurrect me just in case. Well… I didn’t expect to use it at that time though.”

“Alright, let’s say I believe you for argument’s sake. But you’re not wearing the Blessing of the Star now, are you? How were you able to come back to life?”

“It activates immediately upon death, that’s why.”

Lee Jinhyuk secretly added “probably” at the end.

“I didn’t expect resurrection to take this long though. Oh, by the way, I wonder if resurrection would have been possible even if I was cremated? That’s a bit curious.”

“……”

“But where’s the Blessing of the Star? You didn’t return the auction items, did you?”

“……I still have it for now.”

“Is that so? Then check the Blessing of the Star once. It’s a one-time ability, so the gem breaks after using the resurrection ability.”

“……That’s.”

Certainly, his words were correct.

Yoo Seolhyun clearly remembered that the gem part of the ring called Blessing of the Star was broken.

But even so, she couldn’t readily accept his words.

“There are a few people besides me who know that the Blessing of the Star is broken. Give me more convincing evidence that you’re Lee Jinhyuk.”

Still, this man knows more than expected.

To think he would even know that Lee Jinhyuk and Yoo Seolhyun had conspired to steal the auction items.

Since they had kept the auction items a secret between themselves, not many people should know about it, so how does he know?

Is he really, really Lee Jinhyuk?

As absurd as it sounds, did he really come back to life through an artifact?

If by any chance he really did resurrect…

“How about the fact that I’m a future sight ability user?”

Future sight ability.

It’s one of the secrets he had been hiding.

But it wouldn’t mean much now.

“Quite a few people know you’re a future sight ability user.”

“That’s right. I told Soyeon, Roxanne, and a few others.”

“……”

“And Yoo Dahee also suspected I was a future sight ability user at the end, so it’s not much of a secret anymore.”

The way he muttered to himself while nodding his head was very similar to Lee Jinhyuk’s habit.

So Yoo Seolhyun bit her lip hard.

She shook her head vigorously, inwardly denying that he could be Lee Jinhyuk.

“What should I say to make you believe me?”

If only there was physical evidence, but there’s no way there could be physical evidence that he’s the real Lee Jinhyuk. So he had no choice but to persuade her.

“Ah, do you remember the first bet we made?”

“Bet?”

“Oh, you know. The bet we made when we teamed up for the performance evaluation.”

Lee Jinhyuk grinned.

“I said something like ‘In exchange for following my orders, if I break my promise, I’ll be your errand boy during our academy life. How about it?’ right?”

“Ha.”

He even knows that?

“You nodded your head as if it was interesting.”

“……”

“And when we had an important conversation about clearing the Youngdeung Mountain Dungeon, we talked about various things at a cafe.”

“……”

“Also, during Soyeon’s stalker incident, I asked for your help on the rooftop.”

“……”

“And what else was there… Ah, right.”

He smiled slightly as if remembering something amusing.

“……Didn’t I already get rejected by you twice without doing anything?”

0 confessions, 2 rejections.

You still remember that?

I’m quite the grudge holder, you know. Lee Jinhyuk smiled faintly.

“You said my face wasn’t your type, right?”

He suddenly joked, “Really. What’s wrong with my face? Isn’t it quite decent? Your standards are unnecessarily high because Lee Siwoon and Kang Daehan are around.”

“You.”

“Hm?”

“You’re really Lee Jinhyuk?”

“That’s what I’ve been saying.”

“T-That can’t be. Resurrection, such a thing can’t possibly……”

“It’s just that no resurrection-related abilities have been discovered so far, it doesn’t mean they don’t exist at all.”

Yoo Seolhyun hesitated with a slightly confused look, then chewed on her lips.

Her eyes showed that she absolutely couldn’t believe in resurrection.

No, it seemed like she didn’t want to believe it.

Because if it turned out to be fake later, she would receive an indescribably huge shock.

It was a psychological defense mechanism to protect herself.

“You must have some mind reading ability or telepathy or something to read my thoughts and answer……”

“So you’re saying I can transform into Lee Jinhyuk, use mind reading, and I’m acting to deceive you?”

Lee Jinhyuk suddenly shrugged his shoulders as if dumbfounded.

“Well, I guess that could be possible. In fact, from your perspective, that would be more realistic than resurrection.”

Lee Jinhyuk nodded with a face of complete understanding.

“Then how about this?”

“W-What?”

“Christmas is coming up soon, right?”

“So?”

“So I’ll make one prediction.”

Prediction…?

“It will snow this Christmas. A white Christmas.”

“The weather forecast didn’t say anything like that.”

“Do you find my words as a future sight ability user more credible, or the weather forecast that’s wrong all the time?”

His bold and brazen words.

“You don’t think I can imitate future sight ability too, do you?”

When he spoke so bluntly, Yoo Seolhyun suddenly closed her mouth.

“If you still can’t believe me, shall we wait until Christmas?”

“……Haa. No, that’s enough. I said enough.”

“Yoo Seolhyun?”

“……Ah, really, what is this.”

Yoo Seolhyun let out a hollow laugh, then finally lowered her spear.

“You came back to life……? Really……?”

“How many times do I have to say it? Have you been deceived all this time?”

Seeing his playful face, for some reason an indescribable emotion was slowly welling up from deep inside her heart.

Surprise? Joy? Gladness? What is this emotion?

In any case, it’s clearly some kind of overwhelming feeling.

“You, really……”

“By the way, Yoo Seolhyun, there’s something urgent I want to ask you.”

“W-What is it?”

“Ah, it’s nothing much.”

Come to think of it, didn’t he say he had something he wanted to ask from the moment they met?

Something important enough to suddenly visit in the middle of the night.

“I actually went to Soyeon’s house first.”

But.

“Soyeon wasn’t home.”

As expected, should I say?

“Do you know where Soyeon went?”

He didn’t think about Yoo Seolhyun at all.

“Nothing happened to her, right?”

He only worried about Jin Soyeon.

As always.

Every time.

Always.

Continuously.

Only Jin Soyeon.

End of Chapter