She felt a lot better after sighing. Where did she even muster all that courage from?

“Are you okay?”

“Want us to go scare him?”

Jiyoon told her friends that she was fine now, she was trembling when Geunseok was right in front of her. With her friends here, she could stand her ground. Her friends may be odd and rough, but they were very good friends nonetheless.

“Um, mind if I come in?”

Maru appeared by the entrance of the classroom, Jiyoon had called him as soon as she saw Geunseok enter the class.

“What are you doing here?”

“Why are all of you in such a hurry to bully this poor girl?”

Jiyoon had to frantically stop her friends from stopping Maru.

“No no, he’s fine. I called him here.”

“Really?”

Jiyoon stepped towards Maru.

“Geunseok just left.”

“I know, I saw him. What happened?”

“Nothing bad, just...”

Jiyoon turned to look at the two girls at the front of the class. She knew them by name, but not much else apart from that Maru approached the two and asked for a summary. Jiyoon couldn’t help but notice how nice of a person he was, especially...