Chapter 26 – After Taking the Certification Exam…(1)

I was going to buy you a cake to tell you that you worked hard when you came back from the test…
Maybe that would have been difficult. Seeing my face like that, my younger brother suddenly said in a panic, probably because he had a disappointed expression.

“Hey, I’ll be back early.”
“Uh? No. Come and have fun with your friends.”
“I won’t go. I’ll just take a test and come back right away.”
“Uh?! Why? No, let’s play! Come play with your friends! Will you be angry if I come without drinking?”

Continuing to cover my mouth with one hand, I warned him to go and come, fearing that he would indeed return right away.
When I get into college, the kids I’m close to now study together, do assignments together, share good lectures, and share genealogies with each other.

My younger brother is handsome, has a good body… It wasn’t that she didn’t have friends or that she didn’t look unpopular, but I have to say she looks a little too lofty… I was a little worried because he was the type that made me feel like he might have a girlfriend, so I can’t confess to him.

“I’m really going… ?”
“Yes, do I really have to go?”

My sister asked again and then opened the front door with a nod of her head to see if she understood that I really wanted to come.
I want to accompany you to the test center, but… I knew that everyone was supposed to go together at the academy, so I couldn’t do that.
The younger brother, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped… She looked back and asked, frowning slightly as if asking something she had been curious about for a while but had been holding back.

“All right. There but… Why do you keep covering your mouth?”
“Oh, uh… No, I can’t speak.”

My face suddenly got hot… I tried to close my eyes and quickly close the front door.
However, her brother grabbed the doorknob and, not allowing it to close, continued to ask even more…

“Is it something you can’t talk about? Why?”
“Oh, no. I’m not talking.”
“Never? Don’t you want to talk?”

With that said, why won’t you really say something? The eyes that seem to… I felt upset and angry if I didn’t talk.
I finally… I’m too ashamed to tell you, but with both her hands covering her mouth and her head turned to the side… I told you why I was doing this.

“That, the smell, I mean… Boys don’t like the smell of semen… Still brushing… I did it twice and still…”
“Uh… ?”
“I’m going to drink a lot of mint tea later. I won’t cover it later in the evening… Aren’t you laughing?!”

Her brother smiled and then she just smirked and went to the elevator and waved her hand as if to come and go.
I hated that look, so I tried not to say anything… I waved her hand in case it would affect the test… Even so, I didn’t meet her eyes and turned my head and covered my mouth while talking.

“Good luck on the test, see you later.”
“Yeah~”

And immediately after brushing my teeth once more, I drank mint tea until I was full.
I didn’t swallow it with my mouth full, but I stayed still and swallowed little by little… Continue.
For some reason, I still felt strange because it seemed to taste like semen.

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Around dinner time, I made a meal first and ate alone… I thought it was a very long time since I was alone at this time.
Compared to the time I’ve been alone so far, I’ve only been together for a short time… I feel so empty without it already, so somehow… I felt very strange, and I kept wanting to do something by now, but I looked at my phone for fear that it would get in the way, but time passed without sending a message.

[Going to the exam]
[Go for it! Go for it!]
[Is there a prize for hitting well?]
[Uh… There is! Have a good look!]

Suddenly, time passed by… After the exam from 4:00 PM, there was a message on my cell phone saying that my brother had already finished the exam and that we would all go to the billiard room and drink.

She said she was going to go to a PC cafe before that… In China, I needed an ID to go to Internet cafes, and my sister’s passport was at home.
I wanted to, but it seemed like I moved to the billiard room because of several people besides my younger brother.
By the time I was still drinking… I called because I was worried for some reason, thinking that it was the first time for my brother to drink alcohol.

[Uh? What is it, what is it, ah~ hello~?]
“Uh? Hey, hello… ?”

But for some reason, it’s very noisy… Strangely, I heard a voice that didn’t sound like my brother’s.
I wondered if something had changed because I was drunk, but that didn’t seem to be the case.

[Ah~ Wow, the voice is not a joke! And!]
“Uh? Uh… ? I’m sorry, but I think I was wrong…”

Did you call someone else wrong? ? Did I accidentally get caught by a Korean? When I looked at the screen, I saw the word ‘brother’.
I didn’t make a mistake on the phone, but when I think that someone else answered it, why is someone else answering… I wondered if I was too drunk.

[Sister~ We’re at a chicken restaurant right now! Do you know the Korean chicken restaurant next to the subway? A place that also sells jjajangmyeon~]
“Uh… ? I know, I know…”
[Then come over there~ Because we are having so much fun!]
“Uh? Hello? Hello?”

… The phone just hung up.
I tried calling again, but no answer.
… I was worried that I might have lost my mind because I was really weak with alcohol, so I thought about what to do… I started changing my clothes.
I am also very weak to alcohol, so I was very worried thinking that my younger brother might be just as weak as me.

It’s been a while since I’ve worn sportswear or comfortable clothes… It’s nighttime, and I thought my younger siblings would see it, so a turtleneck mini dress that a friend bought me a while ago… Still, in my opinion, I took out pretty clothes and put on makeup, albeit a little… I tied my hair up and got ready to go out.
The bar wasn’t too far from my house as it was a college town, and it was within 15 minutes of walking. I’ve been to this place a few times when I was in college, and it’s a Korean bar run by Koreans.

Unusually, they sell jajangmyeon and chicken together… It is also popular with Chinese who want to try Korean food after watching Korean dramas, and Korean students often come here. It was such a bar.
Arriving in front of the bar not long after, I walked up the stairs with a little quicker step to the second floor… I went to the bar where my brother is.

“Uh?”
“Uh… ?”

And as soon as I went up, I met my younger brother who was sitting inside the table and heard the door open and looked towards the entrance.
My younger brother was wearing the same clothes as when he left home… Oddly enough, when it was illuminated by the bar’s lights, it had a completely different feel and look like a different outfit than when I saw it from the front door.

A black jumper, a black shirt, and jeans… Come to think of it, wearing mostly black made it look like it matched with me in a strange way.
If I stand up, I’ll look different because of my jeans, but since I’m sitting down, only my upper body is visible, so I think it’s because of that.

Contrary to what I was worried about, I was surprised to see my younger brother looking so normal, and all the friends around him followed my younger brother’s gaze and looked at me as his eyes were fixed on one place as he suddenly became quiet.
And I’m kind of weird… I walked slowly to the table and greeted my sister’s friends, rarely looking down at her sitting at the table.

“Oh, hello. Some I’ve seen before, and there are a lot of people I’m seeing for the first time today.”
“Uh? Wow! Is this really your sister?”
“Wow~ I only heard about it through rumors, wow, wow. Uh… Sister… Right? Something looks young…”
“Hello! Hello~”
“Uh? But why did you come here all of a sudden… ?”
“Look out.”
“Uh? Uhh…”

One said so, and my brother came out from the inside to see if he thought so, and came close to me and stood between the table where I and my friends were sitting and asked while completely covering me.

“Why are you here?”
“Uh? That is… I’m worried.”
“Are you worried?”
“Yes… Hey, I was wondering if I was too drunk. Because I have friends…”
“Clothes… Why.”
“Ah, I’ve never shown you wearing something like this… Weird?”

My friend said it looked good on me, but I wasn’t wearing it because I was shy about the tight fit.
After graduating, most of my clothes really turned into sportswear, and out of all the clothes I had, I wore clothes that looked like college students, didn’t have lint, and looked the cleanest and prettiest… For some reason, my brother did not answer and just looked down.

“Hey, isn’t that strange too?”
“No… Fit well.”
“Wow, it’s good. But why are you talking respectfully with your sister?”

For some reason, I felt itchy in my ears that they looked good together, and I thought it was fortunate that the slightly dark purple lighting in the bar would cover the redness on my face.

“It doesn’t matter if I’m polite or rude.”
“It’s just a little funny. Right?”

I’m somehow… I’m not good at interpersonal relationships, but I’m strangely sensitive to the atmosphere and emotions around me, so I got the feeling that my sister’s friends are a little tired of it.
I mean, should I say that it feels like that again? A boy who looked drunk for some reason said that, so I asked just in case.

“Uh… Are you the person who answered the phone earlier?”
“Phone call?”
“Ah~ I answered the phone because you called earlier. You went to the bathroom earlier.”
“Why do you answer my phone calls?”