As expected, the hospital I was admitted to was the same as where Sung Ji Chan was.

“How did you end up here?”

Sung Ji Chan clicked his tongue. I felt a bit annoyed.

“Are you making fun of me?”

“Friends can tease each other.”

“You didn’t even come to rescue me. What kind of friend are you?”

When I said that, Sung Ji Chan retorted seriously.

“That’s because I trusted that bastard Seon Woo Jin.”

According to Sung Ji Chan, Seon Woo Jin was actually a hidden powerhouse, unstoppable when angered, and so on… I didn’t pay much attention and just let it pass.

“Still, you sent him alone?”

I remembered Seon Woo Jin facing all those Haesung Commercial High thugs by himself. How worried I was every time he got hit.

Sung Ji Chan felt wronged by my words.

“Hey, I’m a patient too, you know?”

Right. Come to think of it, he was hospitalized back then too.

But what was his diagnosis again?

I just realized I didn’t know why Sung Ji Chan was hospitalized. Since I remembered, I asked.

“Hey, why are you hospitalized anyway?”

“Me?”

Sung Ji Chan replied in a nonchalant tone.

“Concussion.”

Right. A concussion would warrant hospitalization…

Wait, what?

‘It was a concussion?’

I thought he just came here to recuperate, but it was more serious than I expected.

So there was a reason he had dry heaved and suddenly collapsed on the street before. The system said it was ‘still’ okay, so I believed it, but maybe it wasn’t really fine…

“It’s not that serious though. I’m being discharged tomorrow.”

Sung Ji Chan said, as if reading my thoughts.

“You should worry about yourself more than me. Are you okay? I heard you got hit on the head too.”

Judging by his ‘too’, it seems Sung Ji Chan also got hit on the back of the head by those Haesung Commercial High guys.

I fidgeted with the area where I was hit and averted my gaze.

“I’m… fine.”

Since I couldn’t say the system had healed me completely, I just brushed it off vaguely.

Sung Ji Chan tilted his head.

“You’re fine? That can’t be right.”

“Why not?”

When I asked back, Sung Ji Chan said with a serious face.

“Seon Woo Jin was really worried about you.”

I flinched.

“He said blood was pouring from your head and you looked like a corpse. Well, I couldn’t see since I was in my room. Anyway, he thought you were really going to die.”

Was I injured that badly…? Just then, I recalled Seon Woo Jin’s face, the last thing I saw before I closed my eyes. I’d never seen him make such a desperate expression before. He must have been very shocked.

‘I should thank him when I see him later.’

I’m grateful he came to save me and brought me to the hospital. Hmm, I owe him a lot.

“Where is Seon Woo Jin?”

“Don’t know, try contacting him. He’s probably at school.”

School? Come to think of it, what day is it today?

When I asked Sung Ji Chan, he said two days had already passed since I was kidnapped. So I had been asleep for a full day.

“I can’t believe it.”

“What?”

“I’ve never slept that long before.”

Sung Ji Chan looked at me as if I was ridiculous.

“Normally, people would say they lost consciousness, you know?”

That’s the same thing.

Anyway, I thought it could have been a big accident if not for the system.

Yeah. Thanks.

I expressed my gratitude obediently.

As I was exchanging idle chatter with Sung Ji Chan, a second visitor appeared.

“Lee Ju Eun!”

It was Yoo Hee Na.

“Oh my! Look how thin she’s become.”

Really? That can’t be right.

Yoo Hee Na touched my face here and there as soon as she arrived, then exclaimed in shock.

“Why are you so pale?”

Just… because I have no lip color…?

‘Maybe I should apply some lip balm.’

My body was actually perfectly fine, but Yoo Hee Na was making such a fuss that I felt awkward about how to react. I smiled awkwardly and tried to calm Yoo Hee Na down.

“I’m okay.”

“How can you be okay! I heard you were hit with a wooden stick!”

“No, really, I’m fine. Want to check?”

Finally, Yoo Hee Na ruffled through my hair at the back of my head and only after confirming it was clean without a single wound did she step away from me.

Yoo Hee Na said with a much more relaxed expression.

“What’s this, I thought something terrible had happened!”

It was terrible. I really did get hit.

Anyway, seeing someone worry about me made me feel touched. How long has it been since someone worried about me…?

Suddenly, I realized that in my original world, there was no one who cared about me like this. Of course, I wouldn’t have gotten injured like this there either.

‘I guess they are friends after all.’

I looked at Sung Ji Chan and Yoo Hee Na with fresh eyes.

When I first possessed this body, I never thought I’d feel this way about them. Back then, I was just busy trying to avoid them.

But now, well, I have to admit it.

I think of them as friends.

“I took notes for you while you were gone!”

Yoo Hee Na took out a textbook from her bag and showed it to me proudly.

“Here, you’ll need this to catch up on the classes you missed, right? Take it. I took notes for you. No need to thank me!”

I took the textbook from Yoo Hee Na and opened it. And then.

“……”

I was speechless for a moment.

I’m sorry to ruin the warm atmosphere, but… Hee Na. Is this really what you call taking notes?

The textbook was filled with scribbles of lesson content in handwriting resembling that of a lower elementary school student. Some parts had shaky and broken writing, suggesting she had dozed off during class.

‘…I guess I’ll have to study on my own.’

It’s not like notes are as important as they were in college, since it’s just high school level anyway, right?

I closed the textbook with a slight smile.

“What, you’re not going to look more?”

“Um… my head hurts…”

“Of course, you shouldn’t study when you’ve injured your head! It’ll make your head hurt!”

What does that have to do with anything?

“Then I’ll leave the textbook here, so return it to me later!”

Yoo Hee Na said cheerfully.

But if I have your textbook, what are you going to do…? Are you planning not to attend classes…?

I looked at Yoo Hee Na with eyes that demanded an explanation, but Yoo Hee Na was already distracted by Sung Ji Chan and didn’t even notice me.

It seems Yoo Hee Na will soon come to me crying with her report card again. I shook my head at the foreseeable future.

“Oh, by the way, Lee Ju Eun, when are you being discharged?”

At Yoo Hee Na’s words, I pondered for a moment.

‘Yeah. When am I being discharged?’

No, before that, who even admitted me here in the first place?

As such thoughts started to give me a headache, Sung Ji Chan spoke.

“It’s not like anyone’s going to ask you to pay anyway, so just rest here thoroughly and then get discharged.”

“Huh?”

I asked back.

“I don’t have to pay?”

Why not? It’s fortunate for me if I don’t have to, but still.

Actually, I was worried because this private room looked too expensive. So I was planning to leave as soon as possible.

Sung Ji Chan said as if it was obvious.

“This is Seon Woo Jin’s family’s hospital.”

What did he say?

“Really?”

“You didn’t know?”

I nodded.

“He deliberately brought you here, do you think he’d ask you to pay? Seon Woo Jin will take care of it, so don’t worry about it.”

I was purely amazed.

‘That guy was really rich after all.’

I had my suspicions when he was living alone in a nice place despite being a high school student, but he really was from a well-off family. Is this the spec of a third-generation chaebol…?

‘Then is Sung Ji Chan really from a chaebol family?’

While it’s common in romance novels for chaebol male leads to be as plentiful as pebbles on the ground, the thought that Sung Ji Chan might actually be a chaebol suddenly made me curious.

“Ji Chan.”

“Yeah?”

“Let’s be good friends.”

“All of a sudden?”

I decided to get on the good side of Sung Ji Chan, who might become a future chairman.

“But did you contact your parents?”

At Sung Ji Chan’s words, I shook my head.

“No. It’s not like I was injured that badly anyway.”

“Still, they’ll worry if you don’t come home.”

“They won’t know anyway since we don’t live together.”

“You don’t live together?”

Why are you so surprised? I answered nonchalantly.

“Seon Woo Jin lives alone too.”

“That’s because he has a terrible personality.”

“Me too.”

Sung Ji Chan looked at me with eyes that didn’t believe me at all, but I just shrugged my shoulders. There’s no need to explain the detailed circumstances. It’s not an important story anyway.

“Oh, by the way. Did you hear about that? The sports festival they’re holding this time…”

With Yoo Hee Na’s next words, the topic naturally shifted to something else.

As we laughed and chatted, quite some time had passed before we knew it.

“Well then, take care! Call me if you get bored!”

Yoo Hee Na said goodbye and returned to her home. Sung Ji Chan also went back to his room.

Finally, I was left alone in the hospital room.

“Phew, now I can rest a bit.”

As an introverted person, I needed time to recharge after socializing with people. I lay down on the bed.

‘But… there’s nothing to do.’

This wasn’t a world with smartphones to begin with, and even my flip phone had disappeared somewhere in the chaos.

‘I’m bored.’

I was always surrounded by noisy people, so while the peace that came after a long time was welcome, it also felt empty.

‘Come to think of it, this was my daily life before the possession.’

I don’t know when I got used to being around so many people.

I got up from the bed and went to the window. Then I looked outside. It had already gotten quite dark outside.

‘Maybe I should go out for some fresh air.’

I think it would be nice to just sit on that bench over there, not going too far.

‘Alright, let’s go out.’

Having decided, I turned around to leave.

At that moment, someone knocked on the hospital room door.

‘Who could it be?’

I raised my voice slightly.

“Yes, come in.”

Then, with a creaking sound, the door opened and someone entered.

I was slightly taken aback when I saw the person’s face.

“Um… hello?”

The man who entered looked at me silently.

It was Seon Woo Jin.