What Should I Do?

After lunch, I checked my phone and saw Yuna's message in the group chat, making no attempt to hide how much she was looking forward to meeting me this time. She seemed to have a lot of things she wanted to do.

And time passed until it was the day before I was supposed to meet Yuna.

"She's calling again..."

Honestly, it was getting a little exhausting. If things were normal, I would have had no reason to receive—or put up with—this kind of attention and obsession, and dealing with it was mentally draining. But unlike those men who had approached me with malicious intent, the attention and obsession I was receiving now were pure. She might simply want to become close to me, or she might be relying on me, like Yuna.

Unnie tried to reassure me that everything would be fine, but what could I do about being anxious...? She was relying on me because she was having a hard time, but what if she got hurt because of me while she was still so young that she hadn't even become an adult? And what if her relying on me was only my misunderstanding...? Judging from the circumstances, she clearly was relying on me, but she might deny it herself. I really didn't know.

"When your thoughts are tangled, getting a good night's sleep can help too."

"Thank you, unnie."

After listening to unnie, my head seemed to clear a little, and my heart settled down somewhat. I let go of my idle thoughts, lay down in bed, and tried to sleep. Fortunately, drowsiness soon came over me, so I surrendered myself to it and gradually fell asleep.

When I opened my eyes and got up, the contents of a strange dream still lingered in my mind. For some reason, I had been holding a staff and casting something like magic before plunging straight into the sea. I kept having weird, nonsensical dreams... It would have been better if I could just forget them, but having a dream like that on the day I was meeting Yuna gave me even more to think about.

[Jia, are you awake?]...