Childhood Friend of the Zenith

What was the cause? How on earth did it come to this?

There were too many questions.

No, seriously—what the hell? How did this happen?

Since I couldn't understand, I asked, and Hyun Soyeon answered calmly.

"I said I wanted to go. Then they told me to go."
"Wait... what?"

You said you wanted to go, and they just told you to go? What kind of insane logic was that?

"...Are you saying the Commander told you that?"
"Yes!"

She was confident. Cheerful, even. What the hell are you?

It was already hard to grasp why the Commander had agreed to this in the first place, but the biggest question was—

"Why do you want to go?"

I couldn't understand why she wanted to join this mission in the first place. She had no reason to follow along, so why was she tagging along?

Ah.

"Just to check—… is Namgung Jin going too?"
"Oh, yes! You didn't hear?"
"..."

So Namgung Jin was coming too?

That wasn’t what I had originally been told. Hearing this now made things click into place.

'Is this like what happened with Mi Horan?'@@novelbin@@

Thinking back, when my father set out for Hanan, Mi Horan had followed him. This situation seemed similar in a way.

'…No, wait, isn’t it a bit different?'

It did feel somewhat different. Hyun Soyeon wasn’t interested in Namgung Jin himself.

'She had feelings for Namgung Hyeong.'

At least, she had once harbored feelings for the future Gwiseon.

And Namgung Jin was already in love with Mi Horan. I had no idea why Hyun Soyeon was going this far, but—

'So the real problem is…'

In the end, Hyun Soyeon was coming with us.

"Hmm…"
"Why? Do you not like it?"

She noticed my reaction and asked with a teasing tone. Without hesitation, I answered.

"Yes."
"Oh my!"