Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel - MTL

Dyed blonde hair and slightly tanned skin.

Sooyeon Choi, who is truly the stereotype of a light novel gyaru, was one of the second-year girls at Jinsu High School.

However, Choi Su-yeon was a little different from other Iljin women.

Unlike the group of third-year students, including Han Seong-jin, and the first to third-year students who filmed Animal Kingdom, Soo-yeon Choi never crossed a certain line.

If you think about what was described in the original work, she hangs out with other Iljin girls, but she does it less often, and when other Iljin friends step into her 19 gold zone, she is always absent for one reason or another.

She was not described as bullying other students, nor was she in that position.

She didn't drink or smoke, and she was popular enough to be the number one junior among the male group, but even though she looked light-hearted, her steely side was often revealed.

Naturally, Choi Soo-yeon likes Gong Young-bae, the original protagonist of Love in School.

However, to put all of that to shame, one day, when she had no choice but to hang out at an Iljin gathering, Han Seong-jin caught her eye and forced her to eat her. After that, Choi Soo-yeon's ending was as I know.

Of course, I have no intention of doing such a forced thing now, so Soo-yeon Choi is still leading a very different life from the rest of the group.

In the end, no one in the story knew why she hung out with the Iljin group because her basic personality was different from that of her other Iljin friends.

Because it was depicted only through Choi Su-yeon's monologue.

But I know the reason, and I also know the secret that Sooyeon Choi is hiding.

When we met her in an unexpected place, Suyeon Choi looked at me with an expression that was both surprising and intimidating.

"Huh? You two know each other?"

In a moment of awkward silence, the convenience store manager, who had no idea about her situation, just looked at me and Choi Su-yeon and tilted her head.

Choi Su-yeon was the first to break the silence.

"Yes, he's a third-year senior at our academy… And he's working part-time in the afternoons?"

"Okay. Are you Suyeon Choi, a second year student? Please take care of me."

Choi Su-yeon clearly had a nervous expression for a moment at first, but she smiled brightly as if she had never done that before and started to control her expression.

"Yes! I feel much more at ease because someone I know is here! Please take care of me in the future, Senpai!"

Perhaps because of her natural acting skills, Choi Soo-yeon instantly changed her expression and greeted me with a smile even in front of me, who I didn't even like.

The manager, unaware of the circumstances, was just happy to have a new worker.

"Oh, I'm glad. It's hard to have just one girl in a place like this, so I was helping her with the work, but I was also a little tired. Oh, and Han Seong-jin… Did you say that? No, since we'll be working together from now on, I'll speak in peace, right?"

"Yes, that's right."

"Then, Seongjin, let's work from Suyeon starting today. Suyeon organizes the tasks well and tells you. If you don't know, ask me. The store manager is supposed to bring the contract tomorrow, so you can check the contents again and sign it. Don't forget your health certificate."

"Yes, manager."

After that, while the manager was manning the counter, Sooyeon Choi and I walked around the inside of a fairly large convenience store and received training on what to do.

Of course, most of them were things we all knew.

While the work training continued, we moved to a distance where it was difficult for the manager to hear our conversation, and it was only then that Soo-yeon Choi brought up topics other than work.

"I didn't expect to see Seongjin here."

"I didn't know you worked here part-time."

"And she didn't even know that her senior knew about me."

When I think about the future lives of Han Seong-jin and Choi Su-yeon that I saw, I smiled bitterly.

The day Han Seong-jin found out about Choi Soo-yeon's existence, she lost her virginity.

"Why did you think I wouldn't care about anything else? You go around with Jeong Ji-ah."

"Wow… You really remembered. Seniors, there were a lot of times when I wasn't around when playing with Jia, so I thought you wouldn't remember."

"Why did you want me to remember?"

"Hmm, I don't know?"

Choi Su-yeon smiled an unknown smile.

In fact, she didn't really like hanging out with such a group of people, but when she saw Choi Soo-yeon making an expression of regret that she couldn't hang out with them, she realized once again that the woman's acting skills were terrible.

I knew that the reason he was showing such a moderate attitude towards me now was not because he liked me, but because he simply did not want to cause conflict.

This time, I asked Suyeon Choi a question.

"But it's strange. How are you doing your part-time job while you're in your second year? I don't think part-time jobs will accept minors very often."

Flinch!

Choi Su-yeon's shoulders shrank momentarily, and she began rolling her eyes here and there.

Of course, it didn't matter what Sooyeon Choi answered because I knew the secret, but it was necessary in order to set up a net for her to make her mine from now on.

"Ahaha, for some reason, I told the academy separately. There is no problem, so don't worry about it…"

"What if something happens to a second-year girl working part-time in a place like this where the neighborhood is not safe? If it's because money is tight, I'll ask Yuri to check. I said I could submit it as an agenda item for a faculty meeting to ask for support for students in need. -"

I deliberately called her 'Yuri' by only her first name to appeal to the fact that her distance from Lee Yuri is very close.

And as I expected, Sooyeon Choi…

"Oh, no!"

He jumped up and stopped me.

"What's going on there?"

"It's nothing, manager!"

Su-yeon Choi, confused, took a deep breath and looked at me.

"Senior. I'm working here part-time… Can't you tell the academy?"

"Why, is there something I can't say?"

"Woah, it's a woman's secret! You probably have one or two woman's secrets that you can't tell anyone, right? It's not careful to try to find out all of those things!"

I looked around, but the reason is obvious.

The group that Sooyeon Choi usually hangs out with is the second year Iljin girls.

According to the description in the original work, when Choi Soo-yeon and her group of Iljin girls hung out with our Jinsugyo or other Iljin men's groups from other academies, they would usually leave out, citing reasons such as 'going on a date with a college student's boyfriend' or 'going to Papakatsu with an office worker.' Br〉

In reality, she was using that excuse to work part-time or meet Gong Young-bae secretly.

However, she is worried that if this fact becomes known to her gang, she may be criticized.

'And there might be an age issue.'

I looked at Choi Soo-yeon quietly while controlling her expression and answered.

"Then what will you do if I keep the secret?"

"Me? Uhm…"

Sooyeon Choi answered by flipping her ponytail in front of her shoulder and twisting her fingers.

"Oh, that's right! You mentioned Seongjin, 'Yuri' earlier, right? Are you referring to the student council president?"

"That's right."

"Huh! Then maybe the two of you are like that…?"

"We're not in that relationship yet."

In response to that answer, Soo-yeon Choi conjured up an image in her head of two people who seemed completely incompatible, and then she suddenly had another thought.

'We're not in that relationship yet…? So this means that at least one side is hoping for that to happen? Huh…?'

Choi Soo-yeon secretly likes Gong Young-bae.

And we also know that student council president Lee Yu-ri is childhood friends with Gong Young-bae and that they secretly care about each other.

At that moment, the corners of Choi Soo-yeon's mouth began to rise slightly.

'Wait a minute, isn't this an opportunity? If I do well, I think I can take down one person, right?'

Choi Su-yeon quickly finished her calculations and smiled brightly.

"Senior! I think I remembered something I can do for you in exchange for keeping it a secret!"

"Really? What is it?"

Suyeon Choi suddenly looks at me with a smile on her face.

Choi Su-yeon is the type of person who works hard to keep her head down, so there's no way she wouldn't bite into the rice cake that I pretended not to know.

"If you keep the secret, I will build a bridge between you and Yuri!"

'I asked.'

When I saw Sooyeon Choi swimming at full speed toward the net, I couldn't help but laugh.

"You're going to connect me with her? How? Are you close with her?"

"We're not close. Senior Yuri really dislikes people like me."

"You know that."

"But! Yuri is still a woman after all! She knows her weaknesses very well! A date course where I can captivate a woman for the sake of two people's love! A romantic place! A good restaurant! I can help you find out everything! There is!

If you just trust me, I can be the bridge of love between two people!"

By connecting Choi Soo-yeon with me, she also intends to eliminate one of her rivals, and also to distract her attention so that I, who is a real bully, doesn't pay attention to her for no reason.

It was an idea worthy of Choi Su-yeon, a smartass.

"Hmm, that's a perfect idea."

"Hehe."

Suyeon Choi proudly opened her breasts, sticking out her big breasts in front of her.

In her own way, she probably thinks she has drawn the best net for me, but unfortunately, you are the one caught in the net. Not me.

"But, even if you tell me this and that, wouldn't it be meaningless for me to go and find out on my own?"

"That's right! So, let's go together with Yuri to the place I told you about and have some quality time alone-"

"No, that's not what I'm saying. I don't know the way or what's around, so what can I do if you just point me to a few stores? It's not like I can plan a date course on my own, and I can't take Yuri right away. I don't have time because of student council work. It doesn't sound good."

"Ahaha, that's true. But, Senpai, he's quite handsome and manly, so he pushed through that level of difficulty with great force-"

"I need rehearsal."

Suyeon Choi smiled and clapped lightly at my words.

"Aha, rehearsal! Yes, rehearsal is a good thing!"

"There has to be someone to do it with you."

"I guess so. If you ask any of the girls who often hang out with your senior, they will say-"

"I've already decided on someone to give me rehearsals."

"Oh my, it's Seongjin sunbae of course! She has girls who will come running whenever her sunbae calls her, and I'm jealous."

"You."

"I thought so too! I thought so too…"

Choi Su-yeon, who had been listening to me half-heartedly and mechanically agreeing with me, belatedly understood the meaning of what I said and closed her mouth.

Then she tilted her head and looked at me.

"…?"

"?"

"Who… Is helping me?"

"You."

"… Huh?!?!"