“Come on, come on! Cherish the people around you! You’re the star of the romance that went down in the history of Shinseo Middle and High Schools. You shouldn’t make your girlfriend wait.”0

The Inquisitor chased me out of the library. My mind was blank. I didn’t know what to say. After a brief pause, the library door closed.0

“Uhhhh…” 0

The school was quiet. The gray granite hallway looked smooth under the sunset. No one was coming and going in the hallway. All I could hear was the sound of students kicking a soccer ball in the distant playground, shouting “Pass! Pass!”0

It felt as if I was sleepwalking.0

“What’s really going on…?” 0

“The student council president will probably be waiting at the school gate today as well! You shouldn’t make your girlfriend angry!”1

I had never been to high school, but I still attended middle school for about two years. I was quite familiar with school itself. 1

Let’s go to the school gate first.0

The white pillars and walls of the hallway were painted with lines of light green. The color wasn’t a pretty shade of light green, though. It looked tacky, the color of artificial peas.0

Stairs. There should be stairs nearby. Ah, found them.0

As I reached the top of the stairs, I sensed that someone was nearby, so I looked up. There...1