Geum Seong-je. .²⁶

You and Sungjae were very good friends—one might even say the best of friends. After all, you were inseparable, and your interests were similar. It didn't bother you that he was Baek-jin's right-hand man for the Union. On the contrary, even after his repeated fights, when he came to you, you tended to his wounds and asked him to stay out of the fight. Although he didn't listen to you and continued fighting, saying that the Union came first for him. Despite all this, Sungjae himself invited you to play with him at the computer club. Incidentally, he taught you how to play, so you were just as good as him at games, and sometimes even beat him—and that was especially nice.
"Friendship between a guy and a girl doesn't exist" —you'd heard this expression many times, but you didn't believe it. After all, you and Sungjae were friends, so a guy and a girl could easily be friends without crossing a line. That's what you thought until the very day you developed feelings for Sungjae. At first, you didn't pay attention to it, thinking it was just a passing fancy. But as the days went by, your feelings grew stronger. You dropped hints, trying to make him understand, but he apparently didn't understand or was only pretending to keep the friendship together. Then, plucking up your courage, you wrote to him, confessing your feelings. You expected it to be mutual—after all, you were so close. But no. Sungjae replied:

• "Are you serious? Fuck, I knew you'd ruin everything. Fuck, I really did consider you my friend. Anyway, don't push me, it's not mutual."