By Zephyria 
I should have realized my life was ruined when he grandly led a group to the school gate last time, using the excuse of wanting to see me, as if they were about to start a gang fight.
I scowled and caught my breath. My chest ached, and my head was spinning. Do Yun-hyeok, still leading me while I was panting, confidently went to a nearby mart, bought water, and handed it to me.
“Drink.”
“…….”
“Not drinking? Shall I make you drink?”
It wasn’t a threat, but a genuine question, literally. I was dumbfounded. He couldn’t tell I was trying to catch my breath, not refusing to take it!
But fearing what other nonsense this crazy kid might pull, I quickly took the water bottle he offered.
Why are there only psychos in this novel?
I managed to calm down and opened the water bottle, forcing myself to drink. My legs were still trembling even after we stopped, from desperately trying to keep up with Do Yun-hyeok’s rapid pace.
“Why are your legs shaking like that?”
“…….”
This guy?
“Can’t you talk?”
“…No.”
“What, you can talk.”
Do Yun-hyeok chuckled mischievously.
If the world allowed it, I wanted to slap his right cheek just once.
No, twice.
“I’m hungry, so let’s eat something first.”
“Huh? Hey, wait…!”
And then, just like before, Do Yun-hyeok dragged me into a nearby hamburger chain. I tried to brace myself with my legs, but it was futile. I was dragged along like a suitcase, I didn’t know why he was so strong.
“What do you want to eat?”
“I’m full, so I’m fine…”
“I don’t like bulgogi. The taste is too artificial.”
“…uh, uh…….”
He didn’t ask me…
Watching Do Yun-hyeok suddenly express his preferences, I slowly backed away. I was still confused about the situation.
He wouldn’t have brought me here just because he needed someone to eat with, right?
“Hurry up and choose. I’m hungry.”
“I’m not eating…”
“That’s why you’re so weak.”
I was speechless. What was I supposed to do?
I scanned the menu, but since I had eaten at the meeting earlier, there was nothing I wanted to eat. Besides, I disliked Lotteria burgers. If it’s a burger, shouldn’t it be Burger Queen?
“…What are you going to eat?”
“Me? Of course, the Crab Burger.”
Crab Burger, I heard that for the first time. I didn’t know Lotteria well, but did they have such a menu? I quickly found the Crab Burger on the menu, and it said it was a burger made with crab meat.
So, it’s a crab meat burger. How is it different from the crab burger in SpongeBob? I found a childish complaint and, seeing my chance, I mocked it internally with delight. But I couldn’t show it on the outside. It was the sorrow of the weak.
Do Yun-hyeok tapped my cheek with his long finger and grinned.
“SpongeBob eats this burger too. You eat this too.”
Was it really that?
Without waiting for my answer, Do Yun-hyeok put his hand in his pocket, sauntered over, and paid for two Crab Burger sets.
‘Is he buying them for me? Why?’
Do Yun-hyeok dragged me to a seat in the store. Then, resting his chin on his hand, he began to observe my face as if examining it. My heart trembled.
But I couldn’t just stand there trembling. I had to do something, come what may. Clenching my fists, I summoned my courage and asked Do Yun-hyeok.
“Why did you bring me here? To hit me?”
I took a slow breath and asked Do Yun-hyeok.
He wouldn’t have brought me here just to eat. I didn’t understand why he was buying me hamburgers, so I tried to negotiate for my own benefit.
I asked the question, prepared for anything, but Do Yun-hyeok looked at me as if asking why I would ask such a foolish question.
“I just kidnapped you?”
“Huh?”
“I was just bored. Play with me.”
…Play with me?
“Why? Don’t you want to play with me?”
“…….”
“But I borrowed you directly from Seong Hae-min?”
“…….”
“Are you worried I might hit you? I would never hit you. Where would I find a reason to hit someone as pretty as you? I’m not that kind of guy.”
‘Is he crazy?’
I reflected on myself for cursing the Four Heavenly Kings for their cheesy lines. I thought the Seoyeon High Four Heavenly Kings and Jeseong High’s pride Do Yun-hyeok were all the same, but… this guy was a psycho in a different way.
This was exactly why I felt repulsed by the character Do Yun-hyeok. He had no common sense! Even though we were talking, I couldn’t feel like we were communicating.
“Then, since we’ve safely escaped the Four Heavenly Kings’ sight, what should we do after eating? Do you like amusement parks?”
“…….”
“Hmm, no answer. Amusement parks aren’t good?”
Would you answer if you were me?
Whether his words about wanting to play with me were sincere, Do Yun-hyeok rested his chin on his hand and began to seriously ponder what to do next. I felt so bewildered it was like I had eaten a truckload of wasabi, my nose felt numb.
“Should it be something more stimulating? Then a club? They don’t open during the day. So you want to spend the night with me. I’m fine with that.”
“…….”
“Then let’s go to the club next time. How about a karaoke room? Or an arcade? What do you like? A manga cafe? What else is there?”
I looked at the person in front of me with a face that looked like I had stepped in something foul.
‘What does he really want from me?’
In my memory, Do Yun-hyeok was a despicable and petty person. I tried my best to figure out his intentions. But I couldn’t read him. He seemed genuinely thoughtless.
‘…Is he really the Do Yun-hyeok I know?’
I even started to wonder if he was a different person with the same name.
When I didn’t answer, Do Yun-hyeok lowered the corners of his eyes and looked at me.
“I’m doing this because I want to be friends with you. Ah, you dislike me because I’m from Jeseong High? Then should I cause trouble and transfer to Seoyeon High? It’s a bit dangerous. But I think I can handle it if it means I can be with you.”
He must be really crazy.
“No.”
“I see. You don’t want me to get into danger?”
At my firm reply, Do Yun-hyeok grinned and reached out to mess up my hair. Looking at his handsome face with a smile, I was confused whether his “I see” meant he understood I was talking about transferring or not.
Just then, the vibration bell for the hamburgers rang, and Do Yun-hyeok quickly got up to get them.
As I watched his retreating back, I suddenly remembered that Do Yun-hyeok was called a mad dog in the novel. I wondered if he was called a mad dog not because he was “crazy about fighting,” but simply because he was crazy.
In fact, in the novel, Do Yun-hyeok was a truly pathetic character. A completely unreasonable person who even committed illegal acts!
Although the time for a major confrontation with Seoyeon High hadn’t arrived yet from the novel’s perspective, Do Yun-hyeok was someone who would even kidnap Ban Pyo-ran to try and defeat the Seoyeon High Four Heavenly Kings in a future nationwide gang fight, or whatever it was.
Reading it, I wondered why he would go to such lengths, what was so important about hierarchy that he would do such things.
But seeing his behavior now, I wondered if he even knew the meaning of the word hierarchy.
‘I don’t know.’
I gave up trying to understand him with my common sense and knowledge.
In any case, Do Yun-hyeok was a friend of Ban Seo-yi, the typical villainess in teen romance novels, and a character who targeted Ban Pyo-ran to destroy the Four Heavenly Kings. He was a despicable villain who would use a jackknife when his opponent used their fists, and so on.
“Here, eat.”
“…….”
Do Yun-hyeok placed the tray on the table and began to eat the burger heartily, despite his delicate appearance that suggested he would nibble daintily. Each time the large burger entered his mouth, half of it disappeared.
‘What’s going on in that brain of his?’
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t touch the burger he bought and just watched him eat.
“Huh? Why? Shall I feed you?”
Do Yun-hyeok, while eating his burger, looked at me with a grin, like a dog wagging its tail.
Seeing his actions, his brain seemed to be made of rocks, unlike his perfectly sculpted face. The discrepancy with the character I knew beforehand was too great. I thought this guy had managed to come up with a despicable scheme. No, this must be why he did everything Ban Seo-yi suggested.
I shook my head. Do Yun-hyeok returned his attention to eating his burger. Perhaps he was hungry, as he ate with gusto.
“No.”
“Why?”
“I’m full.”
“You should have said so earlier.”
I did say so!
“Well, what can you do? I’ll eat it all.”
“…….”
“Still, at least drink some cola.”
He was truly crazy, in a different way than Min Si-hu. While Min Si-hu deliberately acted cute and spoke awkward lines as if he had learned them from a tutor, this guy acted purely on his own feelings, disregarding everything around him. Seeing his actions, it was clear he lived as if tomorrow didn’t exist.
I gazed at Do Yun-hyeok eating his burger.
I thought he might be trying to use me to create conflict with the Four Heavenly Kings, but his behavior didn’t seem like it. Moreover, his mention of transferring to Seoyeon High, an enemy school of Jeseong High, didn’t sound like a joke.
I felt ridiculous for being so tense around such an idiot. Overwhelmed by sudden fatigue, I lowered my guard and asked.
“But… why do you want to be friends with me?”
Hearing my question, Do Yun-hyeok stared at me intently.
Why is he looking at me like that?
Feeling his gaze was burdensome, I awkwardly averted my eyes. Do Yun-hyeok drew his characteristic charming smile, like a dashing guy. His smile was full of mischief.
“Just because.”
“……?”
“At first, I went to see you because you were Seong Hae-min’s twin, but the moment I saw you, I picked you.”
Picked me for what?
My skull?