The Burdens of Popularity

Yu Chaerin was quite sociable among her friends.

Her usual lively demeanor and easygoing personality drew people to her. She was, simply put, a popular person, like a capybara.

However, her easygoing nature also led to many conflicts. There were always a few scheming women who took her for granted and picked fights. This was especially common in college.

“Chaerin, everything about you is great, but this one thing is a little...” — pseudo-friends, those bastards, who would smile and try to gaslight her with such words. She almost fell for it a few times at first, but her quick intuition allowed her to escape quickly.

Thanks to that, her ability to <F1>Grasp/Understand</F1> the atmosphere also improved, even when it was unnecessary. Although she was currently on a leave of absence, one could say she had a rather war-like college life.

Anyway, her knack for quickly catching onto strange atmospheres was one ability developed thanks to all that.

It was less about reason and more about *intuition* honed through social experience. And this time, her *intuition* was telling her something was going on between them.

Yor and Hanbyeol Shin, fellow Streamers, had met, and the atmosphere was strangely off.

“Hmm?”

Feeling a sense of unease, she slowly observed the mood...