Chapter 70 – Episode 70

Choi Do-hyung’s gaze was especially hot. Anyone who sees me will think that you love me.

Young. That kid must be so excited about this situation as much as he hates me. Even though I hated seeing that, I tried my best to answer as if I was okay.

“Well, well… “It’s a memory too strong to forget.”

A moment of silence follows.

“Over there.”

“I…”

The moment Ji Seon-hye and I opened our mouths at the same time, Oh Hana, who was sitting next to her and watching her like a puppy that wanted to poop, jumped up and screamed.

“Over there!”

Huh?

“The past is just the past. Just because her brother confessed to her in the past, it would be troubling to think that he would still do so now. Because now I have a decent girlfriend.”

… What is he talking about now?

“Oppa is also oppa. It’s already happened, so why are you being so obnoxious? Did you like that older sister that much in the past? “I have such a pretty girlfriend next to me right now.”

“Uh? Ah, no, that’s not it.”

Suddenly, I was so shocked that I couldn’t speak properly, as if someone had hit the back of my head with a hammer. Hey, did you really misunderstand that I had a crush on Seonhye Ji up until this point, or that she had confessed to me? So continue… Huh.

“Excuse me. “I think you’re misunderstanding something.”

“What a misunderstanding. There was no way she would have confessed to her brother, and her brother would have 100% confessed to her. That was back then. “He’s a very trustworthy person now, right?”

Along with the immense shame, soft joy surges into a corner of her heart. Although Ohana is stupid and clumsy. That’s why she had a pure heart to show.
Rather than simply giving me a boost today, I felt it so clearly that even a fool could tell that she truly thought of me well.
Ji Seon-hye clenched her fists at Ohana’s words.

“No! Even in the past… Huh.”

I’m surprised.

This was the first time I knew that person could shout like that. Well, I think we spent quite a bit of time together. Because it was the first time I saw something like that today.

Ohana probably didn’t know that Seon-hye could scream, so she flinched and closed her mouth.
Ji Seon-hye’s cheeks turn slightly red when she sees that.

“… It’s not like that. After. Even in the past, my junior was a very trustworthy person. That’s why I made a mistake. “I wanted to sincerely apologize today for overlooking that.”

What?

I am surprised in many ways today.

“That… Not really. Rather, I thought I should apologize for what happened at that time, so I just kept watching. “I just avoided it because it was inconvenient.”

I was a bit dumbfounded. Does Ji Seon-hye need to feel sorry for me? I thought I was wrong about what happened at that time.

“Uh, wait a minute. This atmosphere.”

Ohana belatedly blinked her eyes and looked at me and Ji Seon-hye alternately. Then she tapped her pretty forehead a few times with her index finger, then glared at me and asked.

“I need to hear this. “What on earth happened between you two?”

“Whoa.”

Even now, I don’t want to be honest, but I thought it would be unreasonable to keep quiet like this. I cautiously opened my mouth.

“So, it was raining. Now, I’ve been carrying out the assignments given by my professor and teaching assistant. And I am also the group leader. I was handling things related to that here and there. “It was something that was a bit too much for me, so I exploded hard once.”

Even thinking about it now, it was such an embarrassing memory. It wasn’t even my first year of college, it was my fourth year. I have to say that I can’t believe that an adult who served in the military would do something like that.

If I have to make an excuse, I’m a senior in college, and even if I look for a place where I can get a job, I can’t find it. There is no professor who can write a letter of introduction for me. In the meantime, the professor is nagging me.

The teaching assistant keeps asking for favors even though he is tired and having a hard time.

“No. That’s because I made an unreasonable request without considering my junior’s circumstances.”

“Wait. Assistant sister. First, I heard it from her brother’s mouth. No, so how did it explode on that rainy day?”

I will go around.

I’m going crazy trying to relive what happened back then.

“Therefore. That is. I just got a little angry and said I couldn’t do it anymore… I screamed and ran out of the classroom. Under…”

“No, it means I got angry in some way. Tell me exactly. Everything.”

“I threw my umbrella on the floor. “Kick the desk too.”

Ohana asked back with her dumbfounded face.

“What did I just hear? So you’re saying you got angry like that in front of the teaching assistant next to you? My brother? Become a man and talk to a woman?”

I barely nodded my motionless head up and down.

Then, Ohana, who seemed like she would take my side even if the Earth was destroyed just a moment ago, looks at me with a shocked expression.

“This… “Isn’t it complete trash?”

Then this time, Ji Seon-hye quickly grabbed Ohana’s arm and said,

“Now, wait a minute. It’s not like that. Really. In fact, I have asked my juniors a lot of unreasonable requests in one way or another.”

“No. Wait for a sec. Why is this person covering like this again? No. Am I the only one confused now? Okay. First, let’s listen to what you have to say. They say that on matters like this, you have to listen to both sides before making a decision.”

I don’t know how she and Ji Seon-hye ended up being interrogated by her Ohana, but Ji Seon-hye chewed her lips once and opened her mouth.

“At that time, I was also busy with tasks and schoolwork given to me. So, even things like group leaders, which would normally take time to select, are just passed on to juniors. They also put pressure on me to properly perform my role as the group leader.”

“Well, isn’t that possible?”

“Regarding that, I have said several times that even if my junior does this, the members of the same group do not listen. Take care of yourself… A 4th grader is not a child. In the meantime, he also asked me to help him with things that I had to handle on my own. Then, I decided to go together and set up a bank account for the project where the support fee comes from… It exploded on the spot.”

After that, Ji Seon-hye spoke out about the things she had done to me.

This time, Ohana looked at Ji Seon-hye with a puzzled expression.

“No, what kind of slave are you? What made him do so much? “In the future, I will ask you to clean my poop for me.”

Ji Seon-hye’s head was lowered.

“… He seemed particularly kind and sincere, and in fact, if I asked him to do something or did it with me, he would work hard even if it meant returning home late. At some point, without realizing it, I came to take it for granted.”

“Aren’t you saying it looked easy? “A feeling like you’ve caught one good guy?”

“It’s not like that. Really. It didn’t feel that way. Just…”

Just, what is it?

Meanwhile, Ohana’s eyes widen as she listens to Ji Seon-hye’s regretful mutterings. What is it?

“Oh my god. “What is this?”

Ohana slumped down in her seat, muttering in her dumbfounded voice. Furthermore, the expressions on the faces of the people watching next to her also become mysterious. In particular, Choi Do-hyung was making the most absurd expression in the world. As if this wasn’t what he expected.
What is it really? Fuck. Am I the only one who doesn’t know? While I was preoccupied with the shame of my past, did everyone but me notice something?

“Anyway, I’m really sorry about what happened back then. Shouldn’t she leave everything from start to finish to her junior? When I think about it now, it’s so embarrassing. My heart sank when my junior said he was going to quit school because of me. So I was scared and couldn’t even apologize first.”

“No. I am… No matter how angry I was, I should have just said something. “It was a case of misbehavior.”

Even if I look back a hundred times, I’m still embarrassed. I’m not some 4-year-old kid. Have you been so stubborn? If I could turn back time, I would visit the person I was back then and beat them up just like that.

But there were also some things that were a little unfair.

“But the assistant at that time was a bit harsh. Even when you go to the library to look for books, don’t you always ask me to go with you? He asked me to have lunch with him too. Let’s study together. Because you’re asking for so many things. Professor Geerko asked me to open a bank account as well… I was at home at that time and ran in with an umbrella…”

As I speak, I feel a strange sense of discomfort.

There were definitely tasks that made people feel stressed in one way or another, but inside of them, it seemed like a woman who was interested in me was secretly trying to spend time with me…

“… Iknow, right. When I think about that time, I also have quite a bit of regret. “I guess I was too cowardly.”

Coward… Wait, no way. Isn’t it?

Could it be that some of the requests I made back then were actually… It’s not what I think it is, is it? Now, as if in passing, a memory comes to mind.

[Assistant Teacher Ji Seon-hye: Student Kim Hyun-woo. I’m trying to find a book in the Daeim Campus Central Library. Could you please come with me?]

[Hyunwoo Kim: Yes? Have you already taken that shuttle to Jinseong Campus?]

[Assistant Teacher Ji Seon-hye: Then there is nothing we can do. Let’s go together next time.]

What was I thinking then? I thought it was absurd that I asked for help because I was a teaching assistant and couldn’t find a single book. I need to quickly go back to my room and play some games.

“…”

OMG. You crazy otaku bastard.

In another sense, it feels like black history is being renewed into a bigger black history. Damn it. My blanket will be tattered today. With my kicks.

While I was in confusion, Ji Seon-hye spoke with a smile filled with many emotions.

“Actually, I came today as a representative of the research institute because I wanted to say this. You don’t want to feel uncomfortable, right? But when I looked at my junior’s expression. I really think it was a good idea to come.”

I was the opposite. I should have just attached the congratulatory money to the account.

“And this is a story I heard by chance earlier. “He’s currently working part-time at a convenience store in a studio apartment.”

For a moment, Choi Do-hyung flinched.

“Yes.”

“What’s wrong with that? It will work out in the end. As I said before, he is a very trustworthy person. Even if it is difficult for a while, you will succeed in the end.”

With Ji Seon-hye’s confident assurance, numerous emotions swirl like a whirlpool. Are you embarrassed? It’s such a mess that I can’t tell if I’m feeling good or not.

What is certain is that I am a real idiot.

Meanwhile, Ohana, who was pressing the top of the sushi with her chopsticks, smiled while looking at Choi Do-hyung sitting in front of her.

“Did you hear what the teaching assistant said?”

“What…”

“My brother. I’m doing well now. It’ll be fine. So, you don’t have to show me any unnecessary consideration or rudeness.”

The moment when Choi Do-hyung was so upset by the informal language that came out at the end that he was about to jump up.

“Ah. “Isn’t Sanmaina not very persuasive because it is said by a woman?”

Choi Do-hyung flinched and stopped like a broken robot.

His pupils fluttered as he faced Ohana, and then he turned his head and stood up roughly, leaving his plate of food unfinished.

“Fuck.”

At the same time, the bride and groom in hanbok, who heard the sound of a chair falling, approached.

“What. What happened?”

I answered that question calmly.

“No. “Nothing happened.”

The plate Choi Do-hyung left behind was later quietly taken away by an employee.