Chapter 314 – Date of Mina Han (4)

Han Min-ah, who had been making a subtle expression since we first met today, had a subtle expression even after entering the bakery cafe.

A subtle expression of longing for something, like a puppy that seemed to have been told to wait for a snack in front of it. No, since I’m Hanmin, a cat with a fish in front of me would be more suitable than a dog.

I don’t think it’s because he’s an extreme workaholic, so he doesn’t show symptoms of separation anxiety when he doesn’t go to work.

It was a story that could have been possible if it was Han Min-ah. He must be quite a workaholic.

That’s why I carefully watched Minah standing next to me choosing the bread.

Before long, she managed to find one thing about her that was different from her usual.

‘Skirt… I’m wearing it.’

Her long torso, down to her hips, was hidden by her hoodie, so she hadn’t noticed on their first meeting.

She never thought Han Min-ah, who always wears only pants, would show up wearing a skirt.

When she thought about it again, it was a really unexpected outfit. For the past eight years and six months, including her school days, I had never seen her wear a skirt or dress.

She might say that during her school days, she had a school uniform, so wouldn’t it be strange not to see it, but in this world, wearing pants bottoms as a girl’s school uniform was one of the choices that was taken for granted.

Not all costumes were unified with the pants school uniform, and it was a rule that women could choose to wear either a skirt or pants.

In that respect, Han Min-ah wore only school pants for all six years of her school days, and even during retreats, school trips, or other external schedules, she did not even pay attention to costumes that were open below, such as skirts or dresses.

On a day like this, she appeared out of nowhere in a skirt-type outfit, and if she was fresh in many ways, she was fresh.

Her sister, Jeanna, also wore a short miniskirt that reached above half of her thighs.

No way… Is it because I didn’t notice the change in my clothes that my expression was subtle from earlier?

Han Min-ah also thought of today’s schedule as a date, so she had been paying attention to her outfit, but there was a possibility that she felt depressed because I didn’t recognize her.

She wasn’t a boy, and it wasn’t common for her to get angry when she didn’t notice that a girl had changed in her attire, but it was because the extent of the change itself that Hanmin knew was quite large.

It won’t hurt too much once you mention it.

“… The skirt is pretty.”

“Ehh?!”

As if startled by my voice, Hanmin-ah, who jumped up her body, almost dropped her bread tongs, so she hurriedly grabbed her hand holding her tongs behind her body.

“Are you out of your mind? What’s wrong all of a sudden?”

“Hey… ! Yes, it’s because you’re suddenly muttering strange things!”

“What about the compliment that said the skirt was pretty? Didn’t you come here because you wanted to hear that?”

“Oh no… ?! Did I just wear it because I wanted to? Me, can’t I wear something like a miniskirt?!”

“It’s not that I can’t, it’s because the outfit is different from usual, so it’s fresh.”

“… What, what to say… Since when did you care so much about how I dress? .”

Certainly, during her school days, she didn’t really care what kind of clothes Han Min-ah wore.

She was very close to her then-Ah Han Min-ah, so I deliberately tried to think of her as a friend rather than a woman.

Especially during that time, it was also a time when I was surrounded by women who saw me as a man and harassed and molested me with deep eyes.

In that respect, Mina, who treated me like a normal friend until the end, was a person I was thankful for in many ways.

With her slightly reddened face, she denied my question, and once again I threw her words mixed with her compliments indifferently.

“Please wear that often. It’s fresh and looks a lot better than wearing only pants all the time.”

“I am Namisa! You don’t care what I wear or not!”

“Well? I don’t know about other days, but today I’m dressed like that to show myself, so can’t I say something like this?”

“You, I came to show you… Tah, it’s not really like that… ?”

“I see.”

Whether it was because she was shy to hide her true feelings or whether she was really dressed to suit her mood regardless of me, Hanmin-a didn’t seem to have any intention of saying anything more about how she dressed.

I also cut off the conversation appropriately according to her wishes and focused on choosing a coffee to accompany her with bread.

“I’m going to drink a warm Americano, what would you like?”

“… Same for me.”

“Do you want me to do the calculation first and send it to Cocoa Pay later? Over there, this and two Americanos…”

“Wait, wait. I’m going to do the calculations, so get out of the way.”

“You don’t have to say you’re going to pay because you’re a woman. I know all about your situation, but will I get it from you?”

“It’s not like that, get out of the way to get a discount and points!”

… Ah.

“Well, first of all, give the carrier a discount. Earning SJ points and earning mobile app stamps for point payment with Samwol Card…”

When I saw her back in front of the cash register receiving all the benefits, a small laugh leaked out without my knowledge.

Yes, that kind of look is really Korean.

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Han Min-ah was still confused.

Her mind was still filled with all sorts of worries, to the point where she was confused about what had confused her in the first place.

One of them was a brief compliment from Seong Tae-gyeong that I heard shortly after entering the bakery cafe.

‘I recognized that she was wearing a skirt…’

She had a momentary thought that if it was the guy she knew, she might break up with her until the end without noticing, but luckily, she didn’t seem to be so attentive.

It was a costume she put on with a lot of courage on her own side, so it was a pleasure if she was happy that they recognized her.

Aside from that, it was still embarrassing for her to be found out wearing these clothes.

It was an act that she couldn’t help herself that her defensive words came out as a reflex to Seong Tae-gyeong’s compliment of her own dress.

‘When you say you’re pretty, you should just say thank you… Why are you so hot that you keep saying weird things…’

The body that had been moving completely different from what I had thought from earlier was now on the verge of resentment.

Where the hell is a woman who has been praised for being pretty and then desperately denies it?

In that she even wanted to be recognized in her head, what Seong Tae-gyeong said was undeniably true, so she felt that her own actions were even more stupid.

‘You won’t tell me that you’re pretty from now on… Haa, really Hanmin-ah, idiot, really…’

Even as she sat across from him and ate a light meal, the stupid thing she had just done didn’t get out of her head.

Even after denying Seong Tae-kyung’s praise, what kind of behavior did he push him in front of the checkout counter?

How Seong Tae-kyung would have looked at herself, who had done all sorts of embarrassing things in front of a man, from discounts to earning points to point payments.

Recalling that situation, Han Min-ah reached the point where she couldn’t even tell whether she was chewing the bread that came into her mouth or whether she was drinking coffee through her mouth or nose.

‘I’ll just get a discount from the carrier… Really embarrassing…’

The way he stupidly denied the compliment he gave him, the way he took out various cards and apps in front of the counter to pay bills, and even Seong Tae-kyung’s face looking at him from the other side.

All of this created mixed emotions in Han Min-ah that added to her confusion.

“Ate it all? Will it wake up soon?”

“… Huh.”

In the end, Han Min-ah, who has been experiencing only melancholy feelings since entering the bakery cafe, gets up from her seat without even remembering what kind of bread she chose and ate.

At the crossroads in front of her cafe, she quietly raised her left hand in the direction of Seong Tae-gyeong, as before.

‘This time, for sure…’

It is a short distance of about 10 minutes at most to her cinema building, but even for that short time, her desire to walk side by side holding her hand rose again in Han Min-ah’s heart.

Especially since she had just been inside her cafe, looking back at the series of actions she had taken, she somehow had to make up for her mistakes in this situation.

She slipped her hand out of her clothes and carefully stretched it toward Seong Tae-gyeong, although she wanted to snatch his right hand.

Contrary to her impatient mind, her body couldn’t move properly.

‘Haa, let’s just close our eyes and catch it just once… !’

When she screams in her heart, blaming her own body for doing only what she is told not to do and not doing what she is told to do.

She suddenly felt the sensation of something large and warm grabbing her own left hand.

“Hey?!”

She never expected that she would hold her hand first on Seong Tae-gyeong’s side, so Han Min-ah jumped up from her seat with a startled reaction again.

In response, as a reflex, her ears and tail also poked out from under her body.

“Uh, uh, uh, uh.”

“What are you so surprised about? With just a little bit of holding hands.”

“… Tah, weren’t you surprised? That, but why did the hand suddenly… ?”

“Only one hand came out of my clothes and was pathetically digging into it, so I thought he meant to grab it, so I grabbed it.”

“Didn’t you ever dig?! This, I had a strange misunderstanding and fell asleep…”

“Okay? Is it comfortable to let go?”

At least this time, because of her shyness, words like ‘Is that so’ came out of Han Min-ah’s mouth, but luckily, at this moment, she also gathered her courage and was able to express her sincerity, albeit in a small way.

“I already caught it, but I just hold on to it…”

“Okay then.”

“…”

Until just now, she had been thinking for a long time about whether she should reach out to her first, but now that part was not important to Han Min-ah at all.

The fact that she was already walking hand in hand with Seong Tae-kyung was such a joyous moment.

So she still hadn’t noticed that her own ears and tail were sticking out inadvertently.

Until Seong Tae-gyeong hinted at Min-ah Han’s private parts.

“… Just hide your tail a little bit. I can see all your panties.”

“Mi, crazy! Why are you saying that now?!”

“Of course I knew you would manage to hide it.”

Right after that, Han Min-ah hurriedly calms her emotions and puts her protruding tail and ears back to normal.

The date between the two continued a little longer in a strange atmosphere that felt familiar yet unfamiliar.