Calibrating the NTR Drift in the Light Novel - MTL

The news of Yuri Lee leaving early without notice quickly spread among the third-graders.

Even though early departure without permission was not a trivial matter, I wonder if it was enough to cause rumors, but the problem was that the target was Lee Yu-ri.

Someone is Yuri Lee.

Since she was a freshman, she was the top student in her grade, never missing first place in the school, and from then on, she was a famous bright student who was rumored to be the ace of the student council and worked on the student council.

To this day, he still holds the title of first place in the school and is now the student council president.

I was the type of person who had to worry about whether to go to medical school or law school because I didn't lack anything in terms of college entrance exam or academic achievement, and if I wanted to, I was almost guaranteed admission to any university in Korea, including Seoul National University.

But Lee Yu-ri left school early without permission last week.

From the morning, the story spread from the 3rd graders in our class to the other classes, and from the 3rd graders to some of the first and second-graders in the club.

After first and second-graders found out, the rumor spread throughout the school in an instant.

This kind of thing was usually nothing more than gossip that wouldn't last a day, but it also means that a person named Lee Yu-ri was a famous person in the Jinsu Church.

But I wish the rumor would end there.

"Now that I think about it, student council president, don't you hang out with Han Seong-jin quite often these days?"

"I think I saw you two going home together after school the other day."

"Huh? Me too! I thought it was a mistake, but was it real?"

"Then you couldn't believe it… You two were fooling around together?"

"Well, there's no way the student council president would hang out with a guy like Han Seong-jin…"

"I don't think you two have gone home together more than once or twice? You used to always go home with the student council president, Gong Young-bae, but you don't do that these days, right?"

"Didn't you see me in the student cafeteria last week? The one where you two had a really fierce fight?"

"Did the student council president switch men and fight because of that?"

"Wow… Is it because Yu-ri Lee looks like she doesn't know anything about that, so you're crossing her fingers?"

"The student council president cheated on me?"

"I heard you already slept with Han Seong-jin!"

The rumors started to spread, and before I knew it, Yu-ri Lee was becoming a slut who had become attached to me and abandoned Gong Yeong-bae, who had been like a half-lover.

Perhaps because of rumors, Gong Young-bae tried to say something to Yu-ri Lee after the third period ended, but Lee Yu-ri very coldly slapped Gong Young-bae's hand away and walked away.

Looking at his expression and attitude, it seemed like he was starting to feel stressed, although he didn't show it.

I don't mind spreading any number of bad rumors based on facts about me, but I decided to stop the spread of strange rumors about Lee Yu-ri.

She pretends to be strong on the outside, but she is softer than you think, and her heart is easily swayed, so she will pretend that nothing is wrong and pile up her wounds.

"Hey, what are you guys doing?"

"Hey!"

When I intervened, the female students who had been enlarged and reproduced rumors among themselves jumped up in fear.

I pushed the most talkative one against the wall and growled with a threatening expression while deliberately showing her forearms.

"You fucking have a knack for turning people into idiots behind the scenes? I and the student council president have never even held hands, so when did we start dating and even have sex?"

In fact, we have held hands once.

Even with their hands clasped like a couple who loves each other very much.

However, Lee Yu-ri was drunk at the time, so she wasn't normal and couldn't remember, and she would never do that if she was sober, so let's give it a no count.

"Ah, no… We heard that too…"

"What did you hear? From some bastard. Bring me here."

"Ugh, uhhh…"

"Hey, you like rumors so much, but didn't you really hear the rumors about me? The rumor that women are also fans of me when I'm in a shitty mood?"

Hehe!!"

Unfortunately, the rumor was true.

Han Seong-jin, not me, was really like a woman when she was in a bad mood, and there were many times when she would hit her in the face.

… The more I look back on my memories, the more trashy life seems.

"Han Seong-jin! What are you doing!"

Lee Yu-ri, who saw me threatening the girls, rushed over and shouted at me.

I heard that voice, but I didn't let go of my threatening attitude towards the girls who were reproducing the rumor and I still kept my gaze fixed.

Yu-ri Lee, who couldn't see it, forcibly pulled me away and hit me.

"What are you doing?! Do you really want to go to the disciplinary committee? Follow me to the student council room!"

"… Hey, if you really don't want to be searched on the street, watch your mouth."

"Han Seong-jin!!!"

Yuri Lee forcibly dragged me.

While going to the student council room, I could hear the sounds of extremely nervous girls crying from behind.

Yuri Lee opened the locked student council room door, leaving us alone in the empty student council room.

Yuri sighed and glared at me with her resentful eyes.

"What's wrong with you? What are you doing to them?"

"They make people into idiots by spreading rumors."

"You beat up people like that and then make threats? Even to girls? Are you this kind of person? To me… To me…"

"What about you? Tell me."

"I… Honestly, you were very gentle and kind to me! If you behaved like that with other kids, you wouldn't have any weird rumors about you! If you don't like rumors so much, just put up with it once and treat other kids like you did with me-"

"You're wrong."

"…?"

Yuri Lee looked like she didn't know what was going on.

He makes this expression a lot when he's with me, and it's such a cute face every time I see him.

"It's not my rumors I'm trying to stop, it's your rumors."

"My rumors…? No, I don't care, so you can just leave it alone!"

"I guess it doesn't matter?"

"…?"

"I can't even get angry because I'm worried that my reputation will be tarnished if I get angry, but because I get angry, I keep my mouth shut like a sulky child. I don't want to look like that anymore, but even Gong Young-bae said something to you earlier. I'm so annoyed now, right?

Even if you pretend like you don't care about the rumors going around, are you completely indifferent right now? If I stay still, I get more worried, so as soon as it's break time, I open the workbook that I already solved and don't even move the sharpener.

Even if you try to show on the outside that 'I'm fine~', I can clearly see what's going on inside you."

"You… You…"

Lee Yu-ri says with an expression, 'How do you do that?'

Since I already knew everything about Yu-ri Lee's personality and tendencies, I had a rough idea of ​​what she was feeling right now, and most of my guesses were correct.

"There have been a lot of rumors about me for a long time. Do you think I would care about them now? But you don't, right? Anyway, wouldn't it be better to be the student council president who is top of the school and pretty, like before, rather than being rumored to be a slut who hangs around with Iljin? So I got angry on your behalf."

I said that and stroked Yuri's head.

I thought that this level of skinship would be accepted now.

As expected, Yuri Lee just felt my touch without saying anything while my rough hand was gently stroking the top of her head.

And when I took her hand away, she looked at me with mixed emotions.

"I… I really hate you…"

"That's too much. I gave you the best comfort I could give you."

"That's the problem! Why are you… Why are you doing this to me? Why are you being so kind to the other kids as before? Why are you so kind to me? Why do you treat me so gently? Why do you keep acting so strange to me? If you keep doing this, I really…"

I really think you'll like it.

Those words couldn't come out of Yu-ri Lee's mouth.

"Okay. You told me not to do that, so I won't do anything like before. But the fact that the two of us hung out together is a really ridiculous rumor, so just tell me not to do that too, okay?"

"Okay…"

I moved to my seat right next to Lee Yu-ri.

Yuri was only looking at me with her lips tightly closed, as if she was holding back her tears.

"And if you're upset, don't hoard it and let it out. It's going to make you sick, that's what I'm saying. Tell the kids clearly not to spread strange rumors. Do you think they'll be upset when the student council president speaks to the top student in the whole school? I'm scared, so I'm going to hold back even if it hurts. If you do that, the kids will listen to you kindly."

"Okay…"

"Tsk, anyway, you take a lot of effort like a child."

"I'm sorry…"

"Well, since we're here, why don't we just stay here for a while during the break? I'll freshen up."

"…"

Yuri stared at me for a moment and then adjusted her chair to face me diagonally.

And silently, he leaned his eyes on my shoulder.

"You must have been very stressed."

"… I'll stay like this for a moment."

When Yu-ri's eyes touched, her shoulders felt slightly moist and warm.

I wanted to hug her, but I held back.

Because there is order in everything.

We stayed quietly in her student council room, with Yuri leaning her head against me and me embracing her.

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"Senior! Is the rumor true? That you and Yuri-senpai held hands and danced around together?"

At lunchtime, Soo-yeon Choi heard the rumor that was spreading among the second-graders and ran over to ask.

"Don't you remember who I was with that day?"

"Ah."

"But why did you come all the way here to check that?"

Hehe. No, no! From what I heard, you go home together with Yuri-senpai, and it seems like you get along well in many ways, right?"

"So?"

"I had no clue at all, but I would like to congratulate you on becoming such a relationship with Yuri-senpai! And I also came here to brag a little!"

"Boasting?"

Hehe… Yum!"

Sooyeon Choi smiled brightly and thrust her cell phone in front of me.

A chat message with Gong Young-bae appeared on the screen.

Surprisingly, the first message came from Gong Young-bae.

The content starts with how are you doing these days, and it's been a long time since you dated together, but you're bored, and it's light flirting comments like whether you have time on weekdays or weekends.

The time spent…

'It's break time for third period, right?'

I was certain that he had sent a text message to Choi Soo-yeon after he had tried to talk to Lee Yu-ri due to lack of time, and she had completely ignored him.

'You bastard… I'm dying of jealousy because of the rumors between Yuri and me, but since Yuri ignored me, did she change her course this way? What on earth do you think of Sooyeon?'

Causes jealousy.

It was an obvious ploy to make Yu-ri Lee jealous by showing her flirting with Soo-yeon Choi and make her look back at herself.

If she asks to meet Choi Soo-yeon, it's obvious that she'll say yes, so she's going to take advantage of her like this?

I smiled at Choi Su-yeon, barely holding back my anger.

"What, are you doing well too?"

Suyeon Choi spread her fingers in a V shape, her face turning slightly red.

Hehe, it just so happened to be like that. I had almost given up on it until yesterday. Isn't it amazing that we both thought we were failures, but surprisingly, we were successful?

So! Thank you for everything going well with Senior Yuri… Or even congratulations! I also came because I wanted to show off! Youngbae and I will get along much better, so I will often give you dating advice from now on!"

As for Sooyeon Choi, her relationship with me is not that deep yet.

She spent some time hanging out together, but that was it.

Like Yu-ri Lee, we weren't able to see each other in the same class all the time, and because our houses were in different directions, there was significantly less time to see each other, and, crucially, there was a lack of a big opportunity for the relationship to develop rapidly like Yu-ri Lee.

That's why she liked Gong Young-bae from the beginning, and when Gong Young-bae tried to approach her, she quickly became happy.

But…

'Will Gong Young-bae, who approached you with such dirty intentions, treat you properly?'

I felt sorry for Choi Su-yeon.

It could have been over after being hurt once, but you will inevitably be hurt a second time.

I can't stop you from getting hurt a second time.

No, even if it could be prevented, it would not be prevented. In fact, the timing would be brought forward.

Just like Lee Yu-ri, Choi Su-yeon needs to see the bottom of Gong Young-bae at least once.

'Gong Young-bae, thanks to your greed to keep all three of them in the fishing grounds while not responding to the wishes of the others, you will soon lose your second girl as well.'