Chapter 28 – After Taking the Certification Exam…(3)

When the younger brother heard that, he suddenly became quiet.
For some reason, it suddenly became quiet… When I looked up at her face, it was very strange… He had a complicated face.
Seeing that expression, I thought I might have said something again, but I was surprised and said it in a hurry.

“Oh, oh no. It’s not that I hate him because he’s my brother. Just that, a little… Oh, what should I say therefore…”

I stay quiet I was wondering how to tell you… Even though no one is there, I look around, get closer to my brother… I tried to whisper in her ear with her face blushing.
But I can’t reach my height… I put my hand on her shoulder, raised my tiptoe, brought her face close to her, and moved as close as I could to her still brother’s ear, and said:

“Chi, if you didn’t like it… You wouldn’t have done that yesterday.”
“Uh?”
“I never imagined anything like that. Still, in case it smells slightly… I mean, it bothers me.”

And after I spit out everything I was trying to soothe, I was so surprised that I even said this, so I pushed my brother away.

“Ahhh… No, what I just said was wrong, so please pretend you didn’t hear it…”

And the younger brother, for some reason, has a much more relaxed face than before… I ran my hand over her cheek and sniffed it over her nose.

“I don’t…”
“No, don’t! Do not!”

It was really embarrassing to the point where I couldn’t stand it.
I should brush my teeth more, what if I smell a little bit. While regretting that I should have had more mint tea, I clung to her arm so that my sister couldn’t lift her hand… I suddenly felt very sorry when I saw my brother who seemed to be in a very relaxed mood.
I got a call like that and came out on my own because I was worried, I should have worked hard and rested while playing today…

“Today… Sorry.”
“Uh? What?”
“I have to drink and play with my friends, but I have to go out… You came out because you were offended because of me.”

For some reason, I try to be nice to my younger brother, and the more I worry, the more I feel like I keep making mistakes, so I lost my confidence.
Even when I was in college, the kids around me were really knowledgeable, cold-hearted, and calculating… I’ve even been told that she seems to show what it’s like to survive alone, but for some reason I don’t think she’s ever really shown that to her sister.

“I wanted to go home to see my older sister because it wasn’t fun. What.”
“Still, on a day like today, I have to go play…”
“… I want to go play with my sister.”
“Uh?”

As she said that, her sister grabbed my wrist again.
There’s a really big difference in height… It seemed that the wrist held in a hand that was almost twice as big as mine somehow made my hand softly squeezed as well.
I was startled and looked into her brother’s eyes… For some reason, my heart was pounding again, so I averted my gaze. I feel like they really want to play together. She thought urgently about where to go.

Since it was nighttime, the places I could go to play were quite limited.
Besides, I don’t know if my brother will like the places I like… I quickly thought about which places a college freshman and a boy in their 20s would like, and which one they could go to at this time.
And after thinking about it, I remembered something my brother’s friends were talking about earlier.
Obviously after… Because I said there was a place I was going to go to for the second time today.

“Then, with my sister… Club, do you want to go?”
“… Club? A club?”

My younger brother heard me and asked back in surprise as if he had never imagined that those words would come out of my mouth.

“Have you ever been to Korea?”
“… Yes, no, once. A friend asked me to go.”
“Oh, how was it? It was fun… ?”
“At that time… No one wanted to go with me.”

Still, she was a little surprised when he said that he hadn’t been to a club before.
I’ve never been to a Korean club, and I’ve only been to China once and never went back.
It’s dizzy, noisy, hard to hear, dark… Some people might like that mood, but I didn’t like it a bit. Should I say that quiet is my preference…

However, my younger brother is still young, and I thought that I would like to take him to a club because I thought that he would like it if I think of boys around his age.

“You haven’t been to China. How is it? Hmm… I’m going with my sister, so it won’t be long, wait a minute? Thinking of watching… For some reason, when I go to a club, they give me a little money. I didn’t go because I didn’t want to go even if I paid, but it’s just one person’s admission fee. My younger brother will be able to enter for free.”
“Have you been there many times?”
“Ah… Well, a lot of my friends went… Me too… Once… Are you. It doesn’t fit me for some reason.”

… She didn’t tell her sister, but she knew that her mother often went to her club, so she didn’t want to go there even more.
For some reason, I frowned when I saw the kids dancing a little naughty… I also didn’t like the smoke.

“How is it? There is a club near here that many Korean students go to… Is there a bakery you went to before? A Korean brand came in. There are a lot of Koreans around here, so it’s not too Chinese-like, but it’s not without its exotic side… It’s fun, I think I’ll do it… ?”

To be honest, it was hard to be sure. My younger brother might not like the club as much as I do.
However, I didn’t like it because I had one reason that was clearer than the others, and my younger brother didn’t know that, so I told him thinking that it would be different, and my younger brother looked me up and down quietly and said.

“Well, um… I want to go.”
“Ah, then I’m going to go to a club with my sister today and have cocktails and hang out!”

My sister also said she wanted to go, so for some reason, she wanted to go to the club she didn’t want to go to, so she let go of her wrist, and on the contrary, I grabbed the hem of her dress and dragged her away.
It’s really not that far away, and I arrived in front of the club in less than 3 minutes… Her brother looked around in front of the club and she followed me past the entrance.
I can hear a lot of Korean around the stairs going down to the basement in front of the building, and I feel like this is really China.

As I approached the entrance, I reached out to the staff in a suit as they came to my mind, and they stamped it without taking any money.
But they didn’t give me money, so I thought it was like an event before and today I took out my wallet and tried to lower my brother’s admission fee, but the employee who was watching my brother quietly told me to pass and put a stamp on it.

“Uh… ? I guess they come with me and do it for free.”
“I don’t think so…”
“Yes?”
“No, I think so.”

It seemed like he said something, but I couldn’t hear it anymore as I went down the stairs.
At the counter at the entrance, I could see other people entering the changing room near the entrance and depositing light luggage while paying a storage fee.

I think it happened because there were a lot of thefts, but it was a system where you could simply go in with a card or phone and play as you like.
My brother and I didn’t have anything to entrust, so we went right in, and we saw a completely different scene in front of us.
The lighting was getting darker, and when I went a little further inside, purple, red, and blue lights were leaking out in sync with the sound of boom, boom, boom like a wave in the completely unlit underground space.

As soon as we reached here, there was a loud thump thump thump thump thump and it gradually became to the point that I couldn’t even hear the voice of my younger brother right next to me. He still didn’t seem to know what I wanted, so he tapped my ear with his finger and placed his palm vertically over my mouth… I told you that I wanted to whisper in your ear.

We weren’t on the stage yet, so we didn’t have to shout to be heard, but it was so loud that it seemed like only our mouths were moving unless we whispered.
And then, into the ear of the younger brother who bowed his head toward me, I spoke a little louder than usual.

“There is a lot of smoke here because we smoke a lot of hookahs. Wanna go for a cocktail? It’s a little quieter there.”

My younger brother was startled as if he couldn’t hear me well, then I raised my palms to his ears, and I laughed at the gesture as if he couldn’t hear me well.

“Here, we smoke a lot of hookahs! Cocktail, let’s go see it!”

My sister, who barely understood what I was saying, looked down at me and nodded her head, and I dragged my much taller sister around by the sleeve of my dress and went to make cocktails by the wall and sat down in an empty seat.

And I just looked at the price… It’s the first time I’ve tried ordering a cocktail at a club, but my eyes widen at the high price… No matter how much it is, I thought that this price was ridiculous and unreasonable, so I looked at my younger brother for a little while and said it in his ear.

“Hey, later… Will my sister make me a cocktail at home? I’m not good at it, but I’m confident in Mojito…”
“Uh… Why?”
“Eh, money… It’s a pity…”

As I showed the menu to my younger sister, her younger sister’s eyes widened as well, and her face became dumbfounded.
Really… Since a lot of Korean students came here, the price was a bit higher than the price that was not suitable for the local area.

My brother nodded as if he agreed with the ridiculous price, and I ordered the cheapest Coke, thinking that I couldn’t afford it.
Then, a large glass of Coke came out with a really thick layer of ice… My brother and I took a sip from each other, and the coke disappeared. I looked at my brother and smiled awkwardly, feeling absurd that a glass of this cost more than 6,000 won in Korean money.

“What is the price like?”
“Wow, I’ve heard that this place is like this, but… I don’t know It was such an expensive place…”
“I think I can buy it rather than expensive, but the money is a waste…”
“Yes… It’s okay if I make you a cocktail at home later… ? Sorry.”
“… Rather, I like it better.”
“Ah, don’t expect too much… I have all the ingredients left at home, but it might be strange because I make it completely on my own.”

Coincidentally, the lime cheong I made a while ago was still enough to make and drink, and I had a little conversation with my younger brother while thinking that I should go home and try it… I was kicked out.

“I think it’s a bit strange that you can only sit for 10 minutes even if you order one for each table.”
“… That’s how it works. Rather, it seems that no one was sitting for a while, so they let me sit down, right?”

The club was an incredible way of doing business beyond my imagination… Buying this, eating it and playing with it…
For some reason, the more I got to know the club, the more I realized that the club was worse than I thought it would be, but seeing all the people there, I figured it must be something I just didn’t like.

My brother and I stood on the side of the wall and looked around the club, and my brother, who was still waving his hand in the air, asked me from the wall on the quiet side to see if the smoke was bothering me.

“Did you say hookah? Why do you smoke so much?”
“Um… Slightly muscle relaxant? It’s because we have the same thing, and it feels like we’re melting. Oh, you can’t smoke or something like that… ?”

I haven’t heard that it’s bad for the body, and I haven’t heard that it’s addictive… It was one of those things I didn’t really like.
Hookah smoking is not illegal in China, so even in clubs, there is a unique sweet smell of smoke, and if you go to a bar too late, there are places that are filled with smoke like this… Personally, I didn’t like it.