Crash!
Something fell over loudly. A skinny blonde young man was sitting on the corridor floor.
It seemed he had been secretly eavesdropping on the conversation.
The person with drooping eyes like a cunning raccoon was Chad, the student council vice president.
His eyes, which had widened in surprise when he fell, narrowed again to half-mast, exuding a languid charm.
Unlike the muscular Martian, Chad had a tall and slim build, stylishly pulling off the slightly loose school uniform.
“…What are you doing, Chad?”
Martian extended his hand to Chad. Chad grabbed it and stood up, grumbling with a pout.
“I heard from the part about Luke losing his memories. I’m answering before you ask, Martian.”
“It’s not good to eavesdrop even if you know.”
“I can’t help being curious. Managing ‘students of concern’ is my responsibility too.”
“Haa.”
Martian let out a short sigh and left Luke’s room.
Chad leisurely followed behind, waving his feeble hand toward Luke.
“Hey, Luka! If you’re having trouble because you lost your memories, let me know.”
“Uh, huh?”
Was he calling my name with Luka? Luke silently stared at Chad, who was casually shortening his name.
“We’re the student council. We’ll help with any difficulties of a ‘student of concern’.”
Chad winked one eye, then exited while whistling.
Student of concern? Luke tilted his head.
‘Do I really need help?’
Luke bit his lip while looking down at the school uniform he was wearing. Dirty footprints were stamped on it like seals.
It was the fourth day of trying his best to adapt to the military academy somehow.
During that time, Luke had learned a lot of information about this body.
First, Luke was famous for being the perennial last place at the military academy.
He must not have had any friends, as no cadet other than the student council had spoken to him in four days.
Second, Luke was registered as a ‘student of concern’ and was in a position to receive surveillance disguised as care from the student council.
It seemed he had also been continuously bullied by a specific group during that time.
And lastly, Luke was now surrounded by guys who appeared to be that specific group.
The guys who looked like boiled potatoes looked down at Luke with contemptuous expressions.
After seeing only handsome men since coming to this world, seeing guys like boiled vegetables after a long time gave a sense of reality.
“Hey, Luke Golden. Long time no see?”
“Ah, hello. Haha.”
“Hello? He says hello to me. Guys.”
Hans turned around and snorted at his group. They burst out laughing along with Hans.
“Did your liver jump out of your belly after running away and coming back? You adopted son without a single drop of Golden count family blood!”
Hans’ chubby fingers poked Luke’s forehead repeatedly.
Each time he touched his forehead, Luke’s body was pushed back. Clang. His back hit the long corridor locker behind him, and there was nowhere left to escape.
“W-why are you doing this to me?”
“You really don’t remember after losing your memory? Did you forget what day it is too? Huh?”
The other glared at Luke with eyes as small as knotholes.
‘How would I know that?’
Although he tried to act as brave as possible, his shoulders hunched inward.
He had only heard about school violence, but when actually experiencing it, his hands and feet trembled.
“Why didn’t you buy the rabbit bread and two bottles of milk from the store up ahead? I’m hungry because of you!”
Wow, even in a medieval fantasy setting, bread errands exist. Luke looked up at the other in surprise.
Even his past life as Kim Ha Yun wasn’t easy, but his isekai life wasn’t going smoothly either.
“Is losing your memory everything? You should do what you’re supposed to properly. I swear!”
Ugh. Luke’s body instinctively shriveled up like a shrimp scalded in boiling water.
“Hahaha! Look at this guy.”
Ah, that was probably too pathetic just now.
Luke belatedly lowered his two arms that were covering his face and slightly straightened his bent back, but the potato gang was still busy holding their stomachs in laughter.
‘Yeah, laugh, laugh. Even I think it’s funny, how much funnier must it be for you guys.’
Luke bit his inner lip as he searched for the holy sword to save him.
‘Hi Bisby, help me out.’
「I’m sorry, Master. The great holy sword is briefly checking the answer from heaven because Master’s appearance just now was too embarrassing.」
‘Answer from heaven?’
「I’ll return after double-checking if Master is really my master. Then this embarrassment will subside too. Estimated check time: 14 minutes 58 seconds.」
‘What kind of holy sword feels embarrassed?’
Hey, Bisby. Bisby? Luke desperately called out to the holy sword in his mind, but there was no response.
At that moment, the student council he had met yesterday passed by in the corridor.
Martian, befitting the student council president, was wearing a neat uniform and had a gentle smile, while Chad was yawning languidly with his cadet uniform loosely draped.
The hulking student council secretary Bolton and the student council treasurer Eren, who was as small as Luke, followed behind.
They were busy discussing student council agenda items as they walked.
As the student council passed by, Hans’ group put their arms around Luke’s shoulders, pretending to be friendly.
“Smooth out your face.”
Hans pressured Luke while clenching his molars. Chad waved at Luke, who couldn’t smile or frown.
“Yawn. Hi, Luka. You have a lot of friends today too.”
At Chad’s greeting, Martian’s gaze, who had been talking with another cadet, quietly turned to Luke.
Unlike the smile on his lips, his ice-blue eyes directed at Luke were still cold.
“Well, I’m not doing so well actually… Ugh.”
Luke, who was telling the truth, let out a groan. Hans’ forearm had pressed hard on Luke’s shoulder area.
‘This damn bastard!’
Luke tried to remove Hans’ arm with both hands, but it wouldn’t come off easily.
Meanwhile, Hans waved his other hand at Chad with a smile.
“Hi, Chad. We’re playing with Luke right now. Let’s play again later.”
“Sure, sure. Take good care of Luka, Hans.”
Chad stretched as he continued on his way. Martian and the other student council members who had been staring at Luke did the same.
As they disappeared to the end of the corridor, parting the bustling cadets, Hans immediately grabbed Luke’s collar.
“You bastard, haven’t you come to your senses yet? Your lips are as light as a pig’s bladder, looking like a girl.”
“Ugh, I can’t breathe. Let go!”
Luke scratched Hans’ back of the hand hard with his nails. As flesh was gouged out, Hans frowned.
“Looks like you didn’t just lose your memory, but your manners too. Want me to help you find them again?”
With those words, Hans opened the cleaning supply cabinet at the edge.
Then he pulled out a long mop from inside and locked Luke in.
“What is this? Open this right now!”
Luke pounded and shook the metal door with his fists, but he couldn’t get out.
The cabinet wouldn’t open because the mop had been placed like a bar from the outside.
‘This feels strange.’
For no reason, his breath was choked and his limbs trembled. An indescribable fear rose from beneath his feet and constricted him.
‘It seems the original Luke Golden was afraid of enclosed spaces.’
This must be why Giselle had sent him in an open carriage.
Although the soul had changed, the fear remembered by the body remained the same.
“Open… open it.”
Luke pounded on the cabinet while trying to take deep breaths.
But all he heard through the thin metal door was shallow laughter and fading voices.
“Open, it.”
It was hard to make any more sound. Huh, huh. Luke took big breaths repeatedly.
He tried calling the holy sword, but there was no response.
Panic disorder? Or claustrophobia? His mind gradually turned blank.
Dong, dong. As the tower bell rang in the distance signaling the next class.
Creak, thud.
There was a sound of something coming off the metal door, and the cabinet door that wouldn’t open no matter how much he pounded opened with a creaking sound.
White light seeping through the narrow door crack.
‘I’m alive!’
He wanted to rush out of the cabinet right away, but Luke hesitated for a moment.
He didn’t want to show such a disheveled appearance to others.
Luke tightly clasped his trembling hands together, took a deep breath, then wiped the tears on his cheeks with his sleeve and put strength in his legs.
‘Okay. Let’s express gratitude as calmly as possible.’
As he opened the cabinet door and came out…
‘How did this happen?’
Surprisingly, there was no one around. He looked left and right, but the empty corridor was only quiet.
‘Did the door open by itself?’
All that remained was a mop split in half and a faint scent of perfume lingering in the air.
‘It’s a scent I’ve smelled before.’
He sniffed like a dog, but couldn’t recall the owner of the scent.
‘Why did they help me and just leave?’
The fact that they disappeared without a word meant they didn’t want to show that they helped. Well, there’s nothing good about getting involved with someone who’s being bullied.
So they must have secretly helped and ran away.
“Still, thank you for helping.”
Luke muttered toward the empty corridor, then thought of the Hans gang that had locked him here.
‘I won’t let it happen twice.’
Then he bent down to pick up the broken mop and carved his name in the corner of the cabinet door with the pointed part of the stick.
Adding one more name to the cabinet door covered in scribbles wouldn’t stand out, but it was a fairly meaningful act for her.
It was a sort of mark that she had survived here today too.
You think I’ll break down over something like this? My life is worth much more than that.
‘I’ll live on tenaciously!’
Luke threw away the stick, dusted off his hands, and ran towards the classroom.
The musty mop smell had seeped into his clothes, but this much could be washed off.
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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