Chapter 91 – Group Tasks
As time passed, we gathered again for a group assignment.
As soon as we entered the cafe we had been to last time, as if it were natural, the people who had entered the cafe first, took a seat, drank coffee, and were laughing and chatting with our companions began to turn their eyes to us, or to be more precise, to Seo-ah.
By chance, her gaze was taken by Seo-ah, who had just entered the cafe, and she couldn’t hold back her curiosity at the sight of the group who had lost her gaze, so she couldn’t bring she gaze down and then look away again.
She paid no heed to the excessive reactions of people or the gathered gazes she was so used to by now, and looked around her to find the other group members who had said they would come and wait for her first.
That’s how I found vaguely familiar faces in the far corner.
Among them, one man particularly caught my eye. I wonder if he was the same. That man, Choi Myung-hoon, was looking at me with hostile eyes.
I burst into laughter as if I was dumbfounded by the look in his eyes that showed a great sense of jealousy that could not be expressed in words behind his burning eyes.
On the contrary, I should have been angry at the fact that he was targeting a woman who had no choice but to be with me, but Choi Myung-hoon was getting angry instead, which was absurd, but on the other hand, I could understand it… Huh. I think it worked?
Thanks to the group assignment with a woman as beautiful as Seo-ah, I became acquainted with her, and I had a chance to get to know her, so I tried to use that opportunity to become friends.
If possible, he expressed his overflowing desire to become friends and even develop into a relationship, and made a big decision to contact him personally.
As if he had judged my approach as flirtatious and was trying to push me away, he had waited and immediately hinted that he was dating me, so he changed the photo we took together, which looked like we were lovers to anyone who saw it, as his profile picture on the messenger app.
Next, he set the D-day as if he was remembering the days from the day they started dating to the present, so it could have been as if he had stolen her son from him.
Of course, if you think about it entirely from Choi Myung-hoon’s perspective, that’s true.
From my perspective, he was just a bully who suddenly came between me and Seo-ah and tried to take Seo-ah away from her.
Anyway, Seo-ah and I arrived at the place where the two of us were sitting.
Ignoring Choi Myung-hoon, who was still looking at me with jealous and hostile eyes, I looked at the table where the two were sitting.
Because the two of us were sitting facing each other, Seo-ah and I couldn’t sit together.
Choi Myung-hoon, who knows this well, blatantly wants Seo-ah to sit next to him.
It was so absurd that she did that even though I knew she was my girlfriend.
No, because I was that kind of person, I couldn’t save my group until the end, so I ended up in the same group as Seo-ah and I.
“Are you two dating?”
Other team members than Choi Myung-hoon. Park Dong-seong was looking up at us with eyes full of interest and asking.
He also seemed to have seen that Seo-ah’s profile status had changed, and that her profile status had changed.
“Well, that’s right.”
“Aha… !”
It’s funny that Seo-ah and I seem to have given up early on, either because he was a man and coveted the ridiculously beautiful Seo-ah, or because he accepted the reality that no matter what he did, he wouldn’t want a woman like Seo-ah to date him. I was doing it.
“Oh. Oh no. I can’t sit here. Um. No. Hmm… Come on, sit down. You two.”
Park Dong-seong, who seemed to be as tactless and selfish as Choi Myung-hoon, quickly got up from his seat and sat down next to Choi Myung-hoon, saying that they were a couple and should sit together, and that she couldn’t ‘t ‘t sit with another man even though she had a boyfriend.
Of course, Choi Myung-hoon’s face her her her, who had been waiting for Seo-ah to sit next to her, distorted, but Dong-seong Park didn’t care.
Because of his consideration, I was able to sit with Seo-ah.
I sat where Choi Dong-seong had been sitting just a moment ago, and Seo-ah sat next to him.
Choi Dong-seong, whose eyes were fully focused on that scene, seemed to have a lot of things he wanted to ask about us.
For example, how we met and became friends, when and under what circumstances, who confessed first and started dating, etc. I’m very interested in our love story, and my mouth is itching.
“Hehe. It’s nice to see you two. I have a lot of questions while looking at you, but I want to ask you, but shall we start with the assignment first?”
Before that, we decided to quickly deal with the common enemy, the group task.
Seo-ah and I, who had no particular reason to reject such a choice, nodded and looked forward to Choi Dong-seong’s words.
“How should we research the topic we decided on last time? What else should we research? Is there anyone who would like to offer an opinion?”
It’s about the time when we start to fall into deep trouble together to put our heads together to take down the great enemy of the group task. With a small exclamation, Park Dong-seong readily stepped forward and asked us a question, as if he were the leader of our group.
However, no one was able to come forward and express their opinion.
Last time we met for the first time, we didn’t have much time and we each had work to do, so we simply decided on a topic and role and parted ways.
That’s why we have to think about digging deeper into the topic we’re going to present as an assignment.
When all three of us, including Seo-ah, Seo-ah, and Choi Myung-hoon, remained silent as if no good idea had come to mind, Dong-seong spoke with a slightly disappointed look on his face, as if he knew something was going to happen.
“There’s nothing else, right? Hmm. There’s one thing I’ve been thinking of…”
Dongsung immediately presented his thoughts to us.
As I listened to his opinion, I was slightly impressed.
Than you think… No, I couldn’t think of a better way other than this, so I thought it would be okay to just proceed with the assignment according to his opinion.
Likewise, Seo-ah had a similar face to mine, and Choi Myung-hoon was… Tasks didn’t seem particularly important to him.
Anyway, once the method of proceeding with the group task was appropriately decided, we immediately began the meeting with heated discussions.
When the meeting is ripe.
“How about going there in person?”
Choi Myung-hoon made a ridiculous opinion.
The question was, why not go far away to do the assignment in person?
It seemed like he was just saying that he wasn’t doing the investigation, so it was an opinion that I, who was assigned the role of the investigator, did not like.
No, even if I am not in an investigative role, I cannot agree with Choi Myung-hoon’s opinion.
To that extent, Choi Myung-hoon’s opinion was beyond absurd.
The group assignment included the grades of the group members, including myself, but seeing them working on the group assignment focused only on their emotions made it difficult to hold back my anger.
“Wouldn’t the professor like it if I had a photo I took myself? I heard that the professor likes things like that. What do you think? I think I’ll get a higher grade.”
He asked for the opinions of other group members, saying that if he continued like this without stopping, he would definitely get high scores.
I think it was an ulterior motive to lure them with high scores, but they weren’t stupid, and they weren’t selfish people like him.
“That’s… A bit… “
Park Dong-seong laughed awkwardly and shook his head at Choi Myung-hoon’s ridiculous opinion.
Seo-ah, who took on the role of investigator like me, also lost her expressionless face, but her face suddenly contorted and she glared at Myung-hoon Choi.
No matter how important the group assignment was, it made absolutely no sense to give up the entire weekend for the assignment.
Even so, the time spent on just one task was inefficient.
Of course, I don’t know if you’re someone who’s crazy about grades, but for those of us who aren’t, we absolutely couldn’t accept it.
So, just as I was about to say something.
“Do you think that makes sense?”
Unable to bear it any longer, Seo-ah let out a sigh and speak in a sharp voice.
“Uh, huh… ?”
Because she entered school at the top of her class, Choi Myung-hoon was taken aback when Seo-ah, who seemed likely to take his side if he told her about her her score her, took his side her her her.
No, it was a natural reaction, but the reaction was so funny.
“Well, of course Seo-ah, you’re not going. Seo-ah has to do research on the internet…”
Internet research was inevitable while doing assignments.
Are you telling me to leave that to Seo-ah and go on my own to travel a long distance over the weekend to conduct field research?
It’s so selfish.
Is this something called Yeomisae?
But even Yeomisae should do something to a woman he doesn’t own, but he’s doing that to a woman he owns, so it’s disgusting.
“Do you really need to go for something that can be done online? On-site research? That’s good. But if you want that, you go. Why are you making us do it?”
“Seo, Seo, it’s not you, it’s Han Jaewon…”
“Why are you ordering Jaewon? You said you should go?”
I’m starting to get a little sick of Choi Myung-hoon’s emotional treatment of me until the end.
“Seoya. Stop. If you have to go, we can go together.”
“Let’s go together… ?”
Seo-ah was tempted to go with him.
“Well, if you think you’re going on a trip while you’re dating, you can go.”
Even if you do research, take a few photos and you’ll be done.
So, you can go on a trip together and then do the homework as a bonus.
As she said this, her eyes widened and her face blushed shyly.
“Oh, no… We have to do our homework. What’s the point of traveling… ?”
Choi Myung-hoon shouted urgently, but Park Dong-seong nodded with a look that said it wouldn’t be a bad idea if we were okay.
“Me and Myung-hoon can do the internet research. I’ll ask you a favor.”
After Park Dong-seong’s request that seemed to push us, we decided to go on a field investigation.
