Chapter 3 – Episode 3. Nayoung Hannah
“Heh, heh!”
“Cheer up, Nayoung. Just run a little more!”
“Hag… Hah… Hah… Hak, ugh…!”
My current physical strength is quite low and I was short when I was grown up, so I was running on the playground with Nayoung to lose weight.
However, as you can see by looking at Nayoung’s large physique, her stamina was no small feat.
Now, running a little over half a lap, I started to run out of breath slowly, while Nayoung seemed to have no problem whenever she collapsed.
Her slow, staggering steps, restless and swaying with every run, her flesh looked a little dirty, but she tried to ignore it.
“A little more…! You can do it, Nayoung!”
“Heh… Heh.”
It got to the point where I couldn’t even answer.
Her eyes slowly opened and her staggered steps made it look like she was about to fall.
“Little bit more!”
A wheel was right in front of me.
Na-young, who knew that, also screamed and ran, and in the end she succeeded in completing one lap.
“Phehe.”
As soon as she crossed her imaginary finish line, her exhausted Na-young immediately untied her strength in her legs and lay down.
Her chest rose high and then sank downward as she gasped wildly.
“Are you okay?”
Also no answer
She just isn’t okay with the look in her eyes, so she seems to be asking me not to talk to her for now.
“I know it’s hard. But even if it’s hard, you have to persevere.”
She shouldn’t give up just because it’s hard with exercise.
Even though she wasn’t prepared for anything, thinking about the time when she would be thrown out into society, this level would be considered insignificant.
Perhaps Nayoung didn’t know what I was saying, and already showed an expression she didn’t want to do.
“Can you run more?”
When she asked, he averted her gaze.
“Nayoung, I’ll be by your side, so don’t give up and run. Huh?”
“Beside me…?”
“Yes. By your side.”
“Continue?”
“Continue.”
Was it a heartbreaking statement? Nayoung showed tears.
He seems to cry in front of me often, but it’s nice to see him.
It was because I could see it as a sign that he was opening his heart to me.
“Why are you crying again? You’re ruining your pretty face.”
In order to show those tears only to me now, she carefully hugged Nayoung’s large body.
“Huh… Black…”
As she was held in her arms, she began to weep, and her classmates whispered when they saw her.
‘Hannah Hannah’s husband hugged Hannah!’, ‘The two of them look good together. I really want to get married!’ Etc. She constantly spits out sarcastic remarks, but it doesn’t do much harm.
Rather, it sounds like a compliment because what I want is to marry Nayoung.
On the other hand, I wonder if Nayoung is worried, no, her self-esteem is extremely low. She wonders if she is harming me.
Every time that happened, I smiled kindly and stroked her hair.
No matter what anyone said, it was the existence itself that became a strong wall.
A blush stained Nayoung’s cheeks, which could be seen faintly behind her bangs.
*
It’s the weekend.
Even though it was the weekend, Nayoung’s diet project continued without stopping.
“I’m here?”
“Uh, uh…”
Since she broke her cry on the playground, Nayoung couldn’t look me in the eyes.
She dropped her head to cover her face, not knowing when it had been dyed red, and her words stuttered incessantly.
The reaction wasn’t bad.
So.
“Shall we go for a run?”
“Bar, right…?”
As soon as she met her, she said let’s run, and Nayoung’s face contorted.
“I came to exercise, but what am I going to do without exercising?”
“…”
She hesitated to see if there was anything she wanted to do differently, and then she let out a short sigh.
“Give me the bag.”
As she was about to hand over her bag containing water and other items, Nayoung shook her head.
“Ah, now I’ll carry it…!”
“It’s okay, so give it to me.”
“Oh no…!”
I don’t know what this is denying.
Still, she took it hard.
I think I’m not at the level of carrying something and running, so it’s much better to just carry it and run comfortably.
“If you care, can I give you a hand?”
“…?!”
She kept her eyes on her own bag, which I had stolen, so she threw a light joke, which she didn’t take lightly at all.
She was startled, and it was strangely cute how she glanced at my hand with a face even redder than before.
“It’s okay… I’m fine… Ah…”
Even chewing her tongue, she ran out alone as if running away.
“Go with me! Nayoung!”
It wasn’t long before she followed closely behind her. It was me running side by side with Nayoung, who was on the verge of collapsing as she gasped for breath.
“Huh…! Heh… Heh…! Heh…!”
“It’s hard? Shall we take a break and go?”
“Joe, you can run a little more…!”
It was Nayoung who, just a few days ago, would have been nodding her head vigorously as if she had waited for these words and fell face down.
I think I can run a little more, so it was nice to see the change in trying to run a little more.
“Okay. Then let’s run a little longer.”
Roughly like this, I ran for a bit, rested, ran and then rested, and it was about two hours later. I brought Nayoung to my house.
“What’s this?”
“It’s a magic medicine that will restore Nayoung’s pretty face.”
“The magic pill…? You put it on her face right?”
She was blown away by the container and noticed that it was marked as her foot cream and asked with a questioning look on her face.
“Of course. Of course not.”
Although it was designed to be applied to the feet like a foot cream, no one applied it to the feet in the future.
It was a cream that was several times more expensive than it is now and harder to find worldwide, as news that applying it to the face could have a good effect without side effects rather than applying it to the feet.
It was only natural that this one would catch all of the pimples, blackheads, and acne on my face.
But now, the efficacy is not well known, so no one buys it.
“Let’s go to sleep. Let’s put it on.”
“Uh, uh… Ooh, I hate it…!”
It’s the cream that advertised saying thank you because you couldn’t put it on later, right?
“Nayoung, do you believe me?”
“Ji-Jihoon…?”
“Yes. Do you believe me?
“…”
It came out like this, but Nayoung seemed to have a hard time refusing it here.
“It’s brand new, so there’s nothing wrong with it.”
I don’t know if it was someone who applied it to my feet, but it was a new product that hadn’t even been properly packaged.
I opened the lid, removed her tinfoil, and squeezed it all over her hand.
Then he brought it straight to her face.
“Let’s go to bed. Nayoung.”
Her face was full of expressions that she didn’t want to put on, but she closed her eyes as if she couldn’t help it.
“Right.”
Her hair, which covered her front, was pulled back behind her.
No matter how you look at it, her bare face, which cannot be seen as pretty, was revealed.
It’s been a while since she started exercising, and she still has a face full of flesh.
In addition to that, it’s full of things that make it hard to know exactly what it is, so it looks ugly.
However, if you look closely, there are a lot of pretty parts that you couldn’t hide.
Big eyes and a sharp nose. And to the lips. I want to see you lose weight quickly.
“Oooh. Uh… Uhh.”
She groaned in displeasure as she gently rubbed the cream over her face.
Her hands and feet were restless and wriggling.
“It’s tickling… It feels like it’s stinging…”
Unlike the face, it is intended to be used on feet with thick skin, so strong ingredients may cause itching or stinging.
However, if you think that all of this mercilessly kills the wastes on your face, it would be a sense that there would be no discomfort at all.
Nayoung, who did not yet know this fact, expressed her displeasure face to face.
“Wow, it’s pretty. It’s much prettier after applying this.”
“Me, really?”
The anticipation was high.
I felt a little sorry because it was true and not true.
To be honest, her face was white now, and there were several small islands sparsely popping up, so it couldn’t be called pretty.
Rather, it looked like a ghost, but it felt much better than before.
“Ugh… Of course.”
It’s nice to see you happy when you give a definite answer.
“Let’s stay like this for a while and then wash your face. Wash your hair while you wash.”
“Is that okay?”
“It’s okay, so let’s wash it clean. Huh?”
I couldn’t keep stroking her oily hair forever.
Should I wash my hair after taking a shower?
“Let’s run one more time after washing it all off.”
“Again…?!”
As she applies the cream, she watches her face closely, and she is eager to get rid of all of her flesh as soon as possible.
So when I tried to run more, they blatantly hated it.
“No?”
“It’s hard.”
“I know. I can see that Nayoung is having a hard time. But you have to persevere and persevere. Huh?”
“Oooh.”
I tend to overdo it a bit, but what can I do? To be pretty, you have to put in a lot of effort.
“You’ve been running until just now. Can’t you stop running today?”
“Nayoung…”
I’m sorry, but shouldn’t I pretend to be pitiful with that face? She gets a little scared
“Then do you have a wish or something?”
“Wish? Suddenly why?”
“If you exercise after washing, I’ll give you a wish ticket.”
“Really? Are you listening to anything?”
“If I can listen.”
“Yeah! Okay! Exercise! Let’s exercise!”
It’s completely different from betting with a wish ticket at a tteokbokki restaurant.
At that time, I didn’t really have any wishes, so it was a dry reaction.
“Ah…! If I win the bet, I’ll give you another wish ticket, right…?”
I’m sure I’ll win the bet on whether Nayoung is actually pretty or not, but I don’t have to say it.
Even if I told you, I wouldn’t believe it.
“Then.”
She affirmed without hesitation and stroked her crumbly, greasy hair.
“I will listen to everything if I can listen to you in the same way.”
Hehe…”
She let out an idiotic laugh as to what kind of hope circuit was running in her head.
“This should be enough, so let’s wash up quickly.”
“Huh!”
I pushed Nayoung into her bathroom.
Na-young, who was drenched in sweat and even washed her face, ran through the streets again.
*
As always, unfortunately, the next day came.
“Ahhhhh! It was the virus of my husband’s stuff!”
“Kyaa~! Go away!”
“Don’t come! Don’t carry it to me!”
A boy passing by brushed against my bag.
Immediately, with a bizarre scream, he shouted more than he had Wuhan pneumonia, as if he had become a zombie. He ran to the other kids.
“Ji, Jihoon-ah…”
“Yes why.”
“Oh, no.”
She started to suffer the same way as she had suffered from the bullying she had suffered herself, so Nayoung, who had done nothing wrong, suffered from her guilt.
If you’ve been through it yourself, you know best how difficult and painful this can be.
But mentally, it was nothing to me as an adult.
On the contrary, when I have suffered worse things in my social life, I have never been harmed, but I have never been harmed, so the kids look cute.
“Nayoung, straighten your back.”
“Ugh, ugh!”
From the very rapid growth period, if the posture is bent, the body will also grow in a bent state.
If you try to correct your posture later, it is probably too late.
No matter how comfortable my bad posture was, I had to change it so that I could have a comfortable posture from now on.
“Let’s stretch it out a little more.”
She put her hand on her waist and pressed it, startling at the sudden touch of her body, her slightly arched back bristling.
“Okay. Keep it like this, okay?”
“Ugh, uhh. Okay.”
It’s good to see that you’re listening.
How great it would be if I grew up to be a pretty child who only listens to my words.
“Let’s go. Kids. Quiet. The teacher is here. Let’s stop running and sit down!”
A moment after the class bell rang. The teacher entered the classroom.
“Today, I’m handing out the test papers I took the other day, so those who call my name should quickly come out and take it.”
Called by name by number.
Then, one by one, they got up from their seats and went out to get their test papers.
There were some children who received test papers and were disappointed with lower-than-expected scores, some who liked higher-than-expected scores, and some who just liked the scores no matter what.
“Lee Ji-hoon… Oh…! Ji-hoon-ah, did you study hard?”
When it was my turn, the teacher opened her eyes in admiration.
“Thank you.”
The score is, of course, 100 points.
“I’ve improved a lot. Let’s keep going like this.”
“Yes.”
What do you do with this level of difficulty?
It was understandable, but I shrugged.
“Wow… 100 points.”
“Would you like to see?”
“Yep!”
I handed her exam paper to Nayoung who couldn’t take her eyes off my exam paper with her eyes shining brightly.
I couldn’t stop admiring it as if I was seeing a test paper with only circles and no sticks falling like rain for the first time.
“Hannah”
“Four!”
After receiving her test paper, Nayoung’s expression was not very good.
When I see the test papers that rain quite a bit, it seems that I am not able to study.
Well, it’s not like you can’t understand that you can’t study.
I couldn’t concentrate properly in class because I didn’t go to an academy and was bullied at school.
“Will you teach me your studies later?”
“Really?!”
“If you want.”
“Yes! Teach me!”
She nodded her head with a much brighter face than before.
It was good to see him smiling well at school now.
