The Divorced Man Has Returned

#24. There is no chance of winning?

Today’s pair class was held in a corner of Namsan Park.

“Come on. I’ll finish it soon. How quickly it ends depends on your capabilities.”

The homeroom teacher declared it as if he knew the hearts of the students who were already thinking about looking at the flowers after class.

“Because an outdoor class is a class, there must be content.”

The homeroom teacher took something out of the bag and showed it one by one from his pocket.

“Does anyone know what this is?”

One student responded by raising her hand.

“It’s a magic stone!”

I couldn’t be this active because the guys who used to be naive no matter what questions I asked were early on.

The homeroom teacher also smiled bitterly with the expression, ‘That’s what you do.’

“Yeah. You’re good at answering. Can’t you do something like that on a regular basis? Guys.”

It was an absurd sound.

I thought that such an education with good voluntary participation was structurally impossible in Korea.

“Now. There are a total of three types of magic stones prepared today! The larger the size, the more power it contains.”

It was obvious just looking at it.

Clearly, this was supposed to be an exercise to improve the ability to detect magic.

“The large size is 10 points! The medium size is 30 points. The smallest size is 50 points. Those who get the most points are extra points. Did you understand?”

In short, the person who picked up those stones the most was the winner.

And, if possible, the key was to collect as many 50-point magic stones that were difficult to detect.

Harin nodded her head, listened to her explanation, and looked up at me.

“Inwook-ah. Do you have anything to do after today?”

Actually, it was me who unintentionally played too much recently.

Still, I did some training on the weekends or when I had free time, but compared to my previous life, I am nothing more than a cold person.

If at this pace, it would have taken a long time to recover the form of a previous life.

Actually, I thought it wouldn’t matter, but after the last brick breaking incident, I felt the severity and decided that I could not postpone the training any longer.

“Yes. I want to go to class today even if I finish early.”

“Chi…”

Harin kicked the floor to see if my answer was unsatisfactory.

“Then I can’t help it.”

Harin, who was looking at me, turned her body and walked to the other side of her.

“Follow me. This is my specialty.”

Well. Harin is a master of magical power detection.

She was probably the one she could easily find even if she had a 100-point magic stone that was smaller than a 50-point magic stone.

“Yeah. Let’s try to get first place this time too!”

I answered her with a smile.

“Of course~ I told you to trust only me! Come on! Are you just going the way I want you to go?”

“Okay!”

It will be over soon.

* *

…How should I accept this?

Although nearly an hour had passed, the only magic stones we were holding were the two largest 10-point stones.

“I… Harin-ah…?”

“Yeah, why are you calling me?”

“Are you sure it’s in the right direction?”

It was undoubtedly true that she, of course, Harin was a talented enough kid, but she was confident if she was me or she also sensed her magical powers.

And the direction she’s heading is exactly…

It was a grassy forest where nothing could be felt.

“Inwook-ah. Are you suspicious of me now?”

“Of course not. That… Rather than that…”

Harin made a strong impression on her.

“It makes me sad when it comes out like this.”

“No~ Harin believes it. Yeah. Yeah. If you go there, it will come out right away, right?”

“If you ask me one more time, I’ll be really mad.”

If she moved to the other side, there was even a 30-point mark not far away.

She closed her eyes once more and tried to sense it, but again, she didn’t feel even a speck of magical power in this area.

“Uh! It must have been detected here!”

She talked while looking at the grass that had nothing but ordinary stones.

“Hehehe. I think I made a mistake. Inwook-ah. Sorry!”

She apologized as she patted her own head slightly.

“Ah. It’s rare for me to make a mistake in detecting magic power, but it’s strange these days~”

“Then go to the place I’ve been looking for…”

“Inwook-ah! Give me a chance to make up for my mistakes!”

To be honest, it took me 30 minutes to find two 50-point magic stones.

I didn’t want to delay any longer because I had already spent about an hour and a half.

“No, no. You must have had a hard time concentrating too. I’ll do it this time.”

Harin noticed something dissatisfied, but she soon accepted my offer.

“Okay. Instead, there is a condition!”

Her self is already wrong and puts up a condition. Do you think that’s too much?

Still, it was impossible to unilaterally ignore the pair.

“Tell me first.”

“You have to find and pick only 50 points! At least two!”

Actually, considering the grades, it would have been better to keep that in mind.

“Okay. I’ll give it a try.”

Fortunately, I succeeded in detecting two very small magical powers not far away.

This time, I took the lead and found a way with Harin.

The distance between the two magic stones was less than 50 meters.

At this point, I decided that even if Harin’s condition was a little strange, there was no problem in finding it.

“Harin-ah. Can you feel the magic stone over there?”

She closed her eyes for a moment, then opened her eyes and nodded her head.

“Yeah! Seeing that it feels weak, it seems like a 50-point score is right?”

“Okay. Then I’ll bring the magic stone from the other side. You bring the one over there.”

“Okay! No problem! Oh~ I’m good at it~”

She stroked my hair a couple of times on the subject, who was much taller than me, and then walked in the direction I gave her.

Then let’s get rid of it right away.

I arrived at a place where I could feel the magic at a quick pace and followed the grass.

I think it’s roughly like this… Come out quickly…

And not long after, I found a golden magic stone that was slightly larger than a nail.

Huh… Did Harin find out by now?

I put the magic stone in her pocket and moved in the direction Harin sent.

“Harin-ah?”

It must be around here, right?

“Hey!”

I heard Harin’s urgent scream.

“What’s going on!”

I instinctively started running right in the direction I heard her scream.

And the moment when she was about to cross the forest where she was supposed to be.

Suddenly, I felt like someone was pulling my foot, so I fell forward.

The place where the outstretched hand landed to regain balance…

“In… Inuk-ah?”

The distance between Harin and I is one finger. No, maybe it was shorter than that.

“…Are you okay?”

“Ah… Yes.”

“Aren’t you injured somewhere?”

Common sense was that she would not get hurt in the park, but she still asked her to confirm.

“Yes, but Inuk-ah.”

“Huh?”

“…Too close.”

Harin, who turned her head with a blush on her face, spoke to me in a low voice.

It was then that I realized that I was talking in the same posture as if I had attacked Harin.

“Ah! Sorry!”

He got up from her seat and held out her hand to her.

Harin held my hand without hesitation and got up to shake off the dust.

“But what was the scream?”

“…Bugs.”

She answered me with a disgusted look on her face.

If Harin from his previous life was also a bug, he would start a game every time he ran into it.

[No, Harin-ah. Why are you so good at beating monsters, you can’t move on to bugs?]

[Are insects disgusting?]

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No matter how you look at it, aren’t the visual monsters that look like magnified bugs hundreds of times?

[…Then what about the monster?]

[The monster is big!]

…It was me who gave up on understanding.

“I can.”

She continued to comfort Harin by explaining how ferocious and disgusting the bug she had seen was.

“So. Did you find the magic stone?”

“Yes!”

She handed me a golden magic stone that looked identical to the one I had.

“Good job. Then we now have a total of 120 points… Wouldn’t this be enough?”

“That’s right! I think that’s enough!”

Harin nodded her head with a happy expression.

After returning to the place where the homeroom teacher was, we submitted the magic stone.

“Hmm… It took quite a long time for the first place in the last practice. You guys.”

‘…He did.’ I wanted to talk with my index finger, but I held back.

“Still, if it’s 120, it’s true that you’re in the top rank, so it was hard. Now go and play.”

“Yes~”

Like me, Harin didn’t have a specific schedule after that, so she went to the bus stop chatting and trembling together.

But she remembers that Harin didn’t ride the bus…

She was always with her driver, so when she dated me she was the first woman I ever rode on a bus or subway.

Does Harin in this life also use public transportation?

“Harin-ah. Do you want to take the bus too?”

“Yes. It will take a while for the side to go to my house. You go first.”

Her answer, which was so natural, felt a bit foreign.

“Okay. Then I’ll ride this one.”

“Yeah, go inside carefully. Thank you for today too, Inuk-ah!”

* *

“Did you take pictures of everything? Butler.”

“Of course. Miss.”

After receiving the photos, I started to check whether they came out properly one by one.

According to the plan I had made in advance, in the photo, Inwook looked as if he was attacking me.

And in the next photo that follows, Inwook looking at me with deep eyes and me with the above-mentioned face slightly turning my head.

Whoever looked at me, I looked like a young lady who had lost my first kiss.

Okay. Would this be enough?

“You worked hard. Then, send this photo as it is to the address I took.”

After all, you have no chance of winning, right?

You Shihwa.