I'll take responsibility…… I'll take responsibility…… I'll take responsibility…….

Ha Tae-ung's one remark, drifting about her head all day like a buoy.

"Is it true?"

"If you want to know, go and ask her yourself."

"Are you mad! You know what Jiyu's like……."

The lunch hour.

Behind her, the girls in her class whispered.

All of it came through unfiltered.

Talk she would have flared up at on any other day.

But today it is a Jang Jiyu gone limp, without even the strength to react.

Since morning her state had been blank.

Ha Tae-ung, met on the road in front of the school on the way in.

Trusting his sense for investment, she had put her whole fortune into a Bitcoin futures long yesterday.

It was, purely and simply, the whole of what her mom had left her.

Her dad does not know about that money either.

No — it is truer to say he knows and pretends not to.

Because of what conscience he has left, he had not put a hand on her mom's inheritance.

Her mom, who had used a secret overseas account.

It was an account on which coin futures could be traded.

She had put in ten billion at ten times leverage.

She had seen the figures printed in Ha Tae-ung's account and decided to believe.

On the other hand she was uneasy too.

So she had thrown out a joke about responsibility, and the response was beyond anything she had expected.

The words he gave her with a grown man's presence, looking at her with a hot gaze — I'll take responsibility…….

"Tch……."

A snort of laughter leaked out of Jang Jiyu's mouth.

Because of her dad she had made up her mind never to trust a man as long as she lived.

With the words I love you he had seduced a star of a mother who was doing well enough on her own, and ruined her.

In the end he abandoned her mom.

Her mom, betrayed by the love she had trusted, in the end chose death by her own hand.