Chapter 1 – 1. The Day Before the CSAT
Me, Jung Ji-hoo is the first in the entire school.
Starting from being an all-back student in elementary school until my third year in high school, I have never missed the first place in my entire school in my school records and mock exams.
It’s not that I’m a genius.
I was able to get good grades every time because I studied more time than others with a mind that worked better than others.
However, my study method is not particularly groundbreaking. I also solve problem books that everyone else solves, and go to an appropriate academy near my house where most students attend.
So what makes me different from others?
I’m not sure either.
To be honest, I don’t understand getting a score below 80 on a test. Unless the teacher made the test maliciously difficult, shouldn’t you pass at least 90 points if you understood the test range?
Well, since I’m a human, I could make a mistake and get a score in the 80’s.
These thoughts seem unlucky to others. But what if this is my heart?
There is only one kid in my class who is the only one who knows my thoughts. She’s sitting in front of me now, with all her might—
“Jihoo, can’t you just pull out just one strand?”
He was aiming for my hair.
“Isn’t it going off? Study at that time.”
“Aaaaah. I’m going to put it in my pencil case as a talisman.”
“No, you’re good at studying too, 4th grader in the whole school…”
Her name is Jeon Ji-hye. He is the 4th grader in my school and my childhood friend who went to elementary, middle and high school with me.
“I’m going to go to medical school at Korea University too!”
“What does that have to do with my hair? Where did the last pluck go?”
“The effect has run out…”
I am aspiring to medical school at Korea University, the best university in Korea. Rather than wanting to be a doctor, do you feel like applying because it’s the best department recognized by everyone?
In fact, getting a perfect score on the CSAT is more interesting than that.
In my blind spot, her hand creeps over her head. I confirmed it with my shadow, and quickly protected the top of my head with my left hand instead of my right hand holding the notebook.
“Plucking it hurts so much. If I lose my hair after this, are you going to take responsibility?”
“Yeah, I’ll take responsibility! So!”
“Ehh…”
Let’s not talk
Pushing her face away with the notepad, I looked around to see if our conversation had been a nuisance.
Fortunately, it wasn’t the atmosphere of studying, perhaps because of the effect of moving the desk to a larger size for the college entrance exam just a while ago.
Now we are sitting in order of attendance number. This is why wisdom, the number right in front of me, is in front of me.
Aww The scalp is itchy.
“Hi-Hi.”
“No, why two strands?”
Maybe that makes her happy, she smiled as she put it in her pencil case. A black ponytail flutters here and there.
‘Yes, I wish I could go to the same department with that.’
Unfortunately, her mock test scores do not guarantee her admission to medical school at Korea University. Unstable rather than impossible.
I hope she stays in better condition than usual in her CSAT field.
For reference, I passed the 1st round of admission.
In fact, there is one kid in my class who I think I will meet in the same department.
It is Min Hye-rin, the second-class student in the entire school.
Our class is the only ‘science-focused class’ in the year, so all the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places in the school are gathered. It is no exaggeration to say that the class ranking is the overall school ranking.
Min Hye-rin was staring at her mock exam from the front seat in the second row from her left. Her neat straight hair hangs past her shoulders to her waist. That long hair always surprises me. Every time I wash my hair every day, it seems like I have a lot of trouble.
She said, ‘The first time she saw her, she inadvertently bruised herself.’
Not because of her hair, but because of her looks. She was one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen in my life.
She is a goddess
Her dense face and flowing black hair exude admiration from people of all ages.
Her curvaceous body stimulates the lust of every man who has her eyes on her.
Her first meeting with her was the moment her ideal type changed to her. No one, no female celebrities can match her.
Thanks to her, I look forward to her college life. We were busy studying each other this year, but we will definitely become close at university…!
At that moment, pure white light covered the classroom.
“What is this…!”
The light suddenly disappeared after a while, and we were transported as a group to an unknown world… Of course, the same thing did not happen.
It’s not a novel
Wisdom and I turned our heads to what was supposed to be the source of the light.
“What, what was that? How did you do it?”
“No… I was just touching my phone. What is it?”
“I thought my phone would explode, hehe.”
“I thought you were blind.”
Apparently, one of our classmates did something with his cell phone. No, that output is possible with a cell phone? It makes no sense.
‘It’s none of my business.’
Jihoon Choi. A guy I don’t like. Frivolous and noisy If someone yells at me during break time, 90% of it is that guy.
When you graduate, you won’t see it anymore.
It was then that I felt the gaze. Looking that way, Minhye-rin turned her head and resumed the snowball fight with her test papers.
‘What is it…’
“It’s Jihoo.”
I turned my head to the presence of someone behind me. A couple of men and women were looking at us with smiles.
Park Min-ho and Seong Ah-young. They are our class representative couple.
“It’s the day before the exam, how are you feeling?”
“It’s just like that. Something doesn’t feel real.”
Haha, me too.”
Park Min-ho smiles cheerfully despite the trivial answer. Seong Ah-yeong started a conversation with Ji-hye.
Minho is the 3rd class and the class president in our class. He is sincere and has a good personality. Unlike me, he has many friends.
‘It’s proven that I’m a good-looking bastard at the point where I have a girlfriend.’
Anyway, I have a good relationship with him.
The four of us were hanging out like that, and the homeroom teacher came in and guided us to the CSAT test site.
* * *
On the day before the exam, school ends before 12:00. The purpose is to go to the entrance examination hall in advance and check things out.
I put on the padding that was on my chair and put my notes in my bag to get ready to go home. Wisdom was urging me silently.
Min Hye-rin doesn’t seem to be having a snowball fight yet, and the insider group is taking group selfies in the classroom or something. It’s not my job, so I went out through the front door with Jihye.
“This is really the end…”
“Yeah······.”
Thinking that tomorrow is the final destination of my 12 years of study, I feel new. Wisdom also muttered with a look that erased her usual playfulness.
“I hope we can all smile and see each other again.”
“······Yes.”
‘Lie.’
You’re not that kind of kid
In terms of years, that’s 12 years. We shared more than half of our lives with each other. I know her as well as she knows me.
As her acting skills improve day by day, she is also a better match for an actress than a doctor.
‘It’s the same for me too.’
* * *
Min Hye-rin’s gaze was following Jeong Ji-hoo as she left the classroom with Jeon Ji-hye, not the mock exam.
Tomorrow is the exam. Last chance to beat him. There are final exams for the second semester after the college entrance exam, but without worrying about bad luck, he will definitely not do his best.
‘Must, definitely overcome.’
I will confidently receive a perfect score on the CSAT and recapture the first place in the entire school.
In fact, since she entered high school, she had never been in first place in the entire school, so the word ‘recapture’ was awkward, but she took it that way.
She’s been smart since she was a child. Without much effort, she only took classes properly, which is enough for her to maintain first place in the entire middle school. From elementary school to middle school graduation, she never missed the first place in the entire school.
Until I met Jeong Ji-hoo.
In middle school, she was the reigning queen of the school. Excellent grades, looks that look like celebrities, and even a body that looks like a model. People of both sexes gathered around her, and her teachers couldn’t touch her. She didn’t even bother to deny it.
Min Hye-rin’s life was an easy mode. Until she met Hu Ji.
Even in high school, people naturally gathered around her. But her pride wouldn’t allow it. She devoted all her energy to her studies, and although she was a voluntary assassin, she never defeated him.
She was indignant every time she heard her school grades. Indignant, indignant, indignant, I couldn’t see anything else. Her 3 years is 3 years with Jeong Ji-hoo, and tomorrow is the culmination of 3 years.
Min Hye-rin folded her test paper, put it in her bag, and draped her beige coat over her school uniform. She waved off some of the guys who wanted to take a selfie with her and left the classroom through her front door.
‘Let’s go to the test center first, then go home.’
She walked down the hallway, responding appropriately to text messages from her middle school friends asking them to do well in the CSAT.
‘Well?’
She felt something strange and flipped her hand holding her phone over. Her immaculate skin is exceptionally whiter today. No, this is not pure white-
‘Is it shining…?’
Immediately after, the brightness of light exploded. Barely covering her eyes from the overwhelming amount of light, she collapsed in extreme dizziness.
As the light gradually faded, she narrowed her eyes.
It was an unknown alley in the middle of the night.
‘…?’
* * *
“Jihoo, what are you going to do after the exam?”
I was walking to the front door after changing my slippers on the first floor with Jihye. I feel a strange pleasure to go out of school before 12:00.
“What are you going to do?”
“Me? I even made a list! Learn to bake, ride a bike, travel, work a part-time job—”
There are so many things to do.
“I just want to rest. Roll around in bed.”
“It’s a house idol.
What is the aftermath If you’re going to make a nickname, make it sincere.
It’s true that I’m a homebody. I don’t really have a hobby other than reading web novels from time to time. First of all, high school students waste time playing. But our house…
“Are you okay? Are your parents here?”
Also you know me too well
“That’s right…”
“Then… Do you want to rest at my house?”
I saw wisdom with a sidelong glance. She was also glancing at me. She rolled her hair to the side of her, as if embarrassed in her heart.
“My mom will return to Korea next year, so I’m the only one left… I’m also bored being alone… How is it?”
I told her my answer as she mumbled with a shallow blush on her cheeks.
“No.”
“?!”
After the exam, of course, you need to prepare for the interview. So after the interview, I was going to say it was okay.
Her face was shining
At the moment, her eyes are blank with doubt, but she asks, opening her eyes wide in surprise.
“Jihoo, why are you shining…?”
As if not giving us time to react to those words, the violence of light hit us.
It felt like I was the only one left in a pure white world.
I couldn’t feel anything except the sight and the tingling for a while, and when the light gradually subsided, I opened my eyes.
And the accident stopped in an incomprehensible situation.
First, the wisdom that was next to me just before has disappeared,
Second, before I closed my eyes, it was almost noon in the morning, but it was in the middle of the night,
Third, I must have been walking in the city, but now I was standing in a dense forest.
“What the fuck…”
