‘It’s just that he looks really scary. So much so that even though I did nothing wrong, it feels like I did something wrong….’
Thinking again, this is my fault. I should get rid of such arrogant prejudice and live without it.
‘I wonder if the original Ha Hyun knew this too.’
Not just my master… the fact that there were others who cherished him.
A twelveyearold might have found it a little hard to know.
(This is a time marker.)
Three days have passed since then. I spent my time in peace.
Getting up, doing Qi exercises, eating, training… Since the bishop came to watch me train, as my master had asked, I didn’t become complacent.
The death row inmates were quiet as I thought, so I thought I would continue to live without any incident until my master returns.
But precisely on that thought, in the afternoon,
“……You, Executioner. Can you spare a moment?”
Death row inmate Ryu came looking for me.
Regardless of whether his intentions were good or bad, since I never thought he would come to me directly, I looked blankly at the face of the inmate who spoke to me.
At first, the inmate tried to look calm, but as my gaze lingered on him, his face began to turn red.
Only then did I come to my senses and reply.
“Ah, yes.”
It wasn’t out of any intention, I really just belatedly grasped the situation.
“Where should we go?”
“No, I just have something to say… Let’s talk here.”
He sat down on the floor of the practice hall as if he was about to sigh heavily. I watched him for a while and then decided to join him.
As I sat down in front of him, the inmate who had been silent for a while finally let out a deep sigh. Then he started to talk as if pouring out.
“I came to apologize. I’m sorry.”
I had guessed from the look on his face that he had not come to start another fight.
‘But I didn’t expect him to apologize from the start.’
I just looked at him.
But this time, the inmate didn’t hesitate at my gaze. As if the hardest part was starting to speak, he continued to talk as if he had gained momentum.
“I was jealous of you. Doing that on top of it was not befitting a disciple of the path, as Elder Jin Neng said. No, the fact that I was jealous in the first place was not a mindset a disciple of the path should have.”
“ThThat’s right.”
“In fact, since then, I have been in agony because the elder didn’t say anything. Last night, he called me, and I met him after preparing to be scolded, but instead of scolding me, he said that it would not be good to create more discord among the executioners and told me to leave them as they were. When I heard that…….”
I thought he was taking a breath, but sure enough, the inmate stopped, seeming breathless. Realizing that he was speaking very hurriedly, he slowly inhaled and then finished the sentence in a deflated voice.
“……So when I hear it, it just makes me more embarrassed.”
“Yes…….”
It was not just an apology, and I was embarrassed about this because I didn’t know what conversation I had had when I was called to the High Priest.
However, apart from my embarrassment, the culprit who really laid everything out without hiding anything now added, mumbling as if he had calmed down.
“And the kids who were with me then didn’t really think about it, but I was a bit impulsive…… Even so, what was wrong was wrong, so those guys can’t lift their heads by now. Everyone wants to apologize, but I came first saying I would go. I’ll say it again…… I’m sorry.”
The expression of the culprit who had finished speaking was gloomy. But inside, I made an untimely admiration.
‘A thief is a thief indeed.’
After all, this person also passed the entrance exam and had spent a long time at the volcano.
In addition, among the disciples of the same distribution as me, excluding me, Ryu was on the youngest side. I think he’s 23 now or something.
Of course, it was a lot compared to 12.
But if you think about the number twentythree separately, whether to call it young or young, anyway, it was not something very adult…….
Of course, if you pick a fight with a 12yearold at that age, you’ll go back to the starting point, but it wasn’t something anyone could do to confess ‘that’ mistake to a 12yearold like this and apologize like this.
Anyway, if I had tried to pass this off as if nothing had happened and he had even apologized, there was only one thing I could do.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
