The S-classes that I Raised

Ch 27: OFF(3)

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“Han Yoojin-ssi?”

Kim Sunghan worriedly looked at the man across from him at the table.

The glass that had fallen from the man’s, Han Yoojin’s, hand rolled until it caught against a plate and stopped. The spilled alcohol dripped drop by drop from the table to below.

“Are you alright?”

At the question, Han Yoojin slightly shook his head. Then, he sighed deeply.

“Kim Sunghan-ssi.”

He sighed consecutively and raised his drooping head. Looking at the half unfocused eyes and reddened skin, anyone would be able to tell that he was extremely drunk.

“It seems like you are very drunk. Let’s get up.”

“No, wait.”

Han Yoojin shook his hand in refusal.

Despite being drunk, it was a clear, correctly pronounced voice, so Kim Sunghan soon had a confused expression. Was that person really drunk?

“There is still something I need to do.”

“Something you need to do?”

“Yes, I don’t want to do it but… there is no other choice. Ah, really why this, this kind of……”

He mumbled something and then rubbed his face with both hands. It was an expression that said he really didn’t want to, so it made you wonder what exactly he was going to do.

“If you tell me in detail, I can help you.”

“Help… um, no. Just please sit still. And please don’t laugh. And please don’t treat me like a crazy guy. You just have to sit solemnly like normal… Yes.”

Then he let out another extremely deep sigh[1].

Han Yoojin took out ice from the pitcher and rubbed it against his cheek with a face that looked like it might even cry. It seemed like he thought he was doing something to recover his senses.

“This really isn’t my real thoughts, Kim Sunghan-ssi.”

“Yes.”

“But still, if it is okay, can you sincerely listen? I, really don’t want to be like that. But I think I definitely have to speak now with this chance.”

“Please speak.”

Kim Sunghan unconsciously straightened his posture. It certainly seemed as if he was like that because he was drunk, but instead of drunken antics, he seemed too normal.

Could it be that he was about to speak up about actually important things?

The Han Yoojin he had been watching for the last few days was someone who was concealing many secrets. If it weren’t for the fact that he was definitely Haeyeon Guild’s older brother, he would have been entirely suspicious. Instead of someone who had just registered as an Awakened Person, he knew too much and was too skilled.

You couldn’t help but tilt your ear toward him, who was saying that there was something he needed to say, while he was drunk, at the moment when his wariness was peeled off.

“Kim Sunghan-ssi.”

“Yes.”

The tips of Han Yoojin’s lips trembled slightly. After hesitating, he finally spilled his innermost thoughts.

“I love you.”

“……Excuse me?”

Kim Sunghan asked back, with the stupidest expression he’d ever had in his 30 odd years of life. The one phrase that struck his ear couldn’t connect to his brain right away and instead felt like it was spinning around nearby.