Reader Mage-Stubbing August 10! Chapter 89: 89-I’d Do Anything To Be Immortal

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Merlin was the first to arrive at the disciplinary committee’s office. Or so he had thought. “Merlin! Hi!” Kim Minji was dutifully stacking together Senior Sun-Hee’s comic books as she tried her best to keep the room tidy. Merlin knew she had good intentions, but she really was gutsy, touching that cold woman’s books like that. Didn’t she consider the possibility of freezing to death? “How are you doing? Are you all better now? You should be resting?” She poured questions upon questions, overwhelming Merlin as she crossed the room to bob up before him where he was standing. Too closely too, that Merlin had to lean back to put some space between both of them. “I’m fine,” he replied. “What about you? I don’t think we’ve actually talked since that day at the ward.” She wrung up her nose, seemingly annoyed—at the question? Merlin wasn’t sure. He blinked. “I kept texting you and got no replies,” she said. “Even after Monday’s and Tuesday's classes, you just vanished. I thought you were avoiding me.” Merlin blinked. “What? I wouldn’t. My phone got spoiled so I was unable to reply to my messages, and I’ll be honest, I’m not really good at keeping track of things like that. It’s kinda overwhelming sometimes.” He then stretched a tote bag at her. “Thank you for the humidifier. I know it took too long to return and I apologize. I promise I didn’t use it after that day at the ward, I just didn’t get a chance to bring it over to you. And I totally forgot on Monday and Tuesday.” Kim Minji stared at him for a second and chuckled. She took the tote bag and said, “Messages scare you?” Merlin’s forehead creased. “Erm… Not exactly. It can just be overwhelming sometimes.” She pursed her lips in thought. “Ah. So you must prefer calls instead. Noted.” He hadn’t said that, but he didn’t mind receiving calls from her. Sometimes he always thought his phone was too dry to be a phone. Maybe that was why he never really considered checking his messages. After all, it was not that messages were overwhelming, it was just that he barely received any so he thought there was no point in checking them and just muted the app totally so that he didn’t feel depressed about the whole thing. “Oh! The freshmen are here!” President Sakamoto’s voice poured into the room as he sauntered in. Merlin was about to turn around to give his greetings when an arm wrapped around his shoulder. “Are you feeling better now? It was nasty back then, and then again after.” Merlin’s lips twitched because he understood what the president was talking about with those vague words. He sighed. “I’m better now. Thank you for stepping in when you did. “No big deal!” President Sakamoto slapped Merlin’s back, sending him sauntering forward. “Well, you guys aren’t on duty today, so why are you here?” Merlin was about to give his reasons when Senior Will and Senior Sun-Hee walked in as well. He bowed to them in greetings, but their eyes lingered on him far longer than was normal—at least to them. That video had done a lot to change how others viewed him, hadn’t it? “No reason in particular,” Kim Minji replied to the president’s question. “I just came to tidy up the place.” “Oh, tidy…” President Sakamoto nodded. Then his nods slowed. And then his face paled. “Tidy? Say, Minji-chan, you didn’t touch Sun-Hee’s books, did you?” Oh, shit… Merlin’s breath froze. He shifted his eyes slightly towards Senior Sun-Hee, and even if no one could figure it out, he could. She was silently fuming. He had only guessed it earlier, but she really didn’t like anyone touching her books. Kim Minji, however, was still oblivious to what exactly was going on. “Ah, yeah,” she said with a smile. “They were all littered about and—” President Sakamoto pounced on her and grabbed her by the shoulders. “No~ She keeps it that way because it’s easier for her to figure out which she was reading and at what time before putting it down.” He glanced over his shoulder at Sun-Hee who was still silent but obviously fuming. Merlin wond