Chapter 139
A Little Money and a Place to Live Tomorrow is Enough (1)
“Sister Seol-hwa… Why did she suddenly act like that?”
‘Sister Seol-hwa’. Han Jae-jung could sense from that expression that Joo Ah-yoon was still emotionally agitated.
After becoming a magical girl, she had consistently used the term ‘senior’.
Unlike their past when they lived like family, she changed the way she addressed him to maintain some distance and make rational judgments.
Language created by reason dissolves like water when emotions run high.
Even after she stopped crying, Joo Ah-yoon didn’t leave Han Jae-jung’s side. After the doctor came to examine him and left, she immediately clung to him like a butterfly and embraced him again.
Han Jae-jung’s hand now naturally and repeatedly patted her back like breathing, and feeling this intermittent vibration, Joo Ah-yoon leaned her face even deeper.
“…Was she lonely?”