Chapter 396: Dusk Soil Moon (3)
Jeliel's question left Flame's mind in a chaos. Just by asking such a question, Jeliel had essentially denied all the widespread rumors up until now.
Moreover, Flame understood how much resolve it must have taken for Jeliel to ask that question.
In other words, Jeliel hadn't gotten as close to Baek Yu-Seol as people might think and clearly didn't know much about him.
"But... What do you mean, 'what's your relationship'? Why are you asking me that?"
"Because you've been hanging out with him after school..."
That was utterly out of the blue. As far as Flame knew, Baek Yu-Seol always disappeared after school to go somewhere with Jeliel.
"What are you talking about? I thought you two were all lovey-dovey, going on dates or something."
"That's... not it. After school, he always says he's busy and disappears somewhere."
"So, he wasn't spending time with you?"
"I thought he was hanging out with you this whole time."
"No, he wasn't..."