Short-hair… It’s been a while.

I looked at her, now distanced, with a sense of nostalgia.

After being caught by the fan club, I became isolated from my friends who I used to spend time with regularly. Although the harassment stopped after becoming a school celebrity, the relationship with the kids didn’t recover.

So these days, I spend most of my time with Hee-na. It would be a lie to say I feel no regret about growing distant from the kids, but I don’t actively seek to restore the relationships, so I just continue like this.

As always, Short-hair, with her bright face, squeezed in among the kids and shouted, “Yesterday, the delinquents from the school next door were found collapsed in the alley!”

She hasn’t changed.

She’s still the same Short-hair, the source of information.

I wonder where she gets these kinds of news so relentlessly. At this point, I’m curious about the sources of these rumors.

“Really?”

“What happened?”

“Was it a fight?”

Short-hair attracted the attention of the kids and said, “Listen, there’s a rumor that it was all done by one person.”

“What?”

“Really?”

“Oh, come to think of it, I heard that rumor too!”

Another kid opened his mouth with a surprised expression.

“They say delinquents in this neighborhood are being hunted these days?”

What’s that again…

“Do only delinquents get targeted?”

“We’ll be okay, right?”

“Maybe it’s really a strong person!”

“How can someone take on so many people alone?”

Without me realizing, it seems like there’s some kind of neighborhood patrol formed in this village.

‘There are really all sorts of things.’

I’m curious about this one again. Has a justice-seeking leader appeared? In the limited stories I’ve seen in the Inso world, the characters with a sense of justice were mostly female leads who became teachers.

‘…Could it be that a former school bully is coming to the school?’

No, then the genre would change. Yeah, it wouldn’t be a ‘female lead becoming a teacher.’

In one worldview, there can’t be two female lead protagonists…

‘Well, anyway. Another peaceful day in the Inso world.’

There are so many rumors that it’s become too bothersome to pay attention to them. I turned my attention to the diary.

Written on the unfolded page were these words:

Connect Seol Yubin and Ji Seung-hyun

Ugh… darn it.

I held back tears and briskly drew two lines over the sentences.

‘Will she really not come back?’

Just thinking about Seol Yubin still brought tears to my eyes.

‘Enough, it’s a thing of the past. Let’s set a new goal.’

Be strong, Lee Joo-eun. I bravely turned the page of the diary.

‘Now, what should I do from now on?’

I got lost in thought, staring at the blank page.

First, let’s think about the current situation.

So far, it was before the original story began. Seol Yu-hwa hasn’t appeared yet, and Seol Yubin was still quietly attending school.

However, by Seol Yubin leaving earlier, the start of the original story was pushed forward.

Now, the heroine Seol Yu-hwa can appear at any time without it seeming strange.

‘I need to be mentally prepared.’

Actually, it wasn’t necessarily a bad thing that Seol Yu-hwa’s appearance came earlier.

The sooner the original story starts, the sooner it will end.

‘Well, it’s another peaceful day in the Inso world.’

These rumors are so frequent that it’s become tiresome to pay attention to them. I shifted my focus back to the diary.
The problem is that I have to create a happy ending…

‘Excluding those who naturally have a happy ending without doing anything. Who were the characters scheduled for a bad ending?’

I pondered carefully.

‘Since Seol Yubin has left, let’s skip her for now. We can think about it if she comes back later. As for other antagonists… Yoo Heena?’

I glanced at Yoo Heena sitting next to me.

Yoo Heena was grumbling as she worked on the homework I had given her.

‘…So, she turns dark later on.’

Just by looking at Yoo Heena’s current state, I couldn’t imagine it somehow.

Of course, Yoo Heena had picked a fight with me before, but in the end, she seemed less threatening than the fan club.

‘It seems like she can be prevented from turning dark if handled well.’

In my opinion, Yoo Heena wasn’t inherently a bad person. There seemed to be room for redemption.

‘Hmm.’

At least, from what I’ve seen so far, there is no way that Seong Jichan and Yoo Heena will be connected.

It wasn’t just an issue with the original work. In the first place, Seong Jichan didn’t see Yoo Heena in that way at all.

So, whether or not it was because of Seol Yuwha, Yoo Heena needed to graduate from Seong Jichan.

‘This is the part where I need to intervene.’

Alright, as a friend, I should help Yoo Heena not go down the wrong path.

But this won’t be a task that can be accomplished overnight.

‘I need to practice gradually detaching Yoo Heena from Seong Jichan.’

I secretly wrote in the diary.

Help Yoo Heena Become Independent

Alright, that’s done.

‘Who else could be an antagonist?’

Hmm… Hae Sung High School?

‘Are they also targets for a happy ending?’