Chapter 100 – Episode 100. Can I Borrow a Lighter for Once?
“Can I borrow your lighter for once?”
A woman approached me and asked me to borrow a lighter.
In her hand was a single white cigarette.
‘Hmm?’
Her appearance stimulated my sight more than her words stimulated my hearing.
She was quite beautiful
Unbalanced hair.
The hair, which seemed to have been deliberately lowered slightly on one side, slightly covered her right eye, and the style suited her quite well.
Clothes are easy to wear.
The top was wearing a warm-looking knitwear with blue and black colors arranged horizontally, and the bottom was wearing neat black pants.
Are you about 164 cm tall?
He was of average height.
She looked like she hadn’t been to her high school village for a while.
Of course, there are also people who pay attention to their hair in goshichon, but most of them, whether male or female, do not pay attention to their hair.
However, she had quite a few brown bridges in her hair, which was not very long, about her shoulders, and her hair looked quite good as if she was paying attention to her.
When she handed over her words, it seemed that the pillars of my lower body, which were already running wild, went into an uproar again.
In my mind, I told the object in my lower body to stay still, but before I knew it, my eyes, following my object’s command, glanced past her breasts and then averted my gaze.
And while I looked at her again, she gave her reply by showing her her e-cigarette.
“Because I have an e-cigarette.”
“Oh~.”
She checked my e-cigarette and hesitated a little.
Hmm…
She, for some reason, seemed to hang around me.
If she finds out that I don’t have a lighter because I smoke e-cigarettes, it’s natural for her to go back to borrow someone else’s lighter, or to get or buy one.
But she lingered beside me for a while, pretending to look around.
As a respectable man, I also have many experiences like this.
When I’m in a static position somewhere, there are many cases where a woman comes to me and tries to talk to me or tries to communicate without leaving my surroundings.
For some reason, I instantly thought that this beauty might have come to me for that purpose as well.
That way, it was time for her to be a little distracted, to see if she was thinking of something to say to me around me.
I was smoking an e-cigarette with my right hand, and I was putting my left hand in the left pocket of my coat when I suddenly touched the lighter in my pocket.
‘What is this.’
Come to think of it, there was a lighter.
I almost smoke e-cigarettes, but recently, when I brought them out to smoke e-cigarettes, I couldn’t smoke right away because the main body of the e-cigarette was not charged.
So I didn’t even bother waiting for the e-cigarette to recharge, so I went to a nearby convenience store and bought a pack of regular cigarettes and a small lighter.
I remember the pack of cigarettes I bought at that time as something left at home, but I had the lighter in my pocket and had it by chance.
I thought there was only a wallet in my left pocket, but there was a lighter, so I took it out and showed it to the woman who hesitated around me.
“Hey, did you have a lighter? Would you like to use this?”
“Ah, thank you.”
At my words, the woman smoked her tantrum and then looked in my direction again, and I decided to light her fire on her.
The woman took a cigarette, and I lit a small black lighter and brought it to her cigarette.
-Click
A yellow flame came from her lighter, and the white cigarette started to burn as she smoked her cigarette.
For some reason, I felt better.
I don’t know if it’s because I feel good about being close to a beauty because lighting a cigarette inevitably brings me closer, because I feel like I’ve done something good, or because smoking together means that I feel closer. I couldn’t tell.
That’s how she and I started smoking together, and her behavior remained the same.
She, who had not left my surroundings even before I started smoking, came a little closer to me as I smoked.
It seemed he never had the courage to talk to me.
I, so I decided to talk to her first.
“Do you live around here?”
“Uh, yes. Do you live around here too?”
She seemed to find it a little difficult to talk to me, but when I talked to her, she often asked me back.
I took a sip of my e-cigarette and pointed my finger at the one-room building where I live.
“Yes. I am here.”
“Really? I go over there to the back and live in a studio on the uphill side.”
She said in a slightly raised tone.
I thought I lived around here, but it was a little far away.
It’s a bit remote, but it takes less than 5 minutes on foot.
Having lived in this gosichon for a while, I thought I knew roughly where she was talking about.
I took her word for it.
“Ah~, it’s close. That’s right? There’s a construction site and a large gosiwon site, and a studio above that.”
“Oh! That’s right. You know very well, don’t you?”
I’m not very strong in geography, but after walking around for a bit, I learned that much.
I smoked her cigarette and had her conversation with her.
“Is the house okay over there?”
“Yes. One woman was always on the phone and talked to the person who manages the house, and after that it’s fine.”
The person who manages the house seemed to be referring to the landlord.
Originally, it’s okay to talk on the phone inside the house in a studio, but strangely, in a studio around here, when you talk on the phone from inside, it’s a bit strange that the sound leaks into the next room.
I talked about it.
“Ah, I think soundproofing is the biggest problem in this area. If it was a studio, it wouldn’t be like this.”
“That’s right. I’ve lived in other studios before coming here, but I couldn’t hear the next room at all even when the music was turned up loud.”
I tilted my head slightly.
“Is this Goshichon sparing the materials used for the walls? Or is it because the rooms are a little smaller and densely built than before, so the soundproofing is poor? I wonder why.”
“Hmm~, maybe it’s both? Build it small and save the materials.”
“Maybe?”
The conversation went very smoothly.
For a handsome man like me, there is absolutely nothing to worry about what to say in a conversation.
It’s because the conversation doesn’t stop even if you just say anything.
Right now, it’s just a one-room studio, so it’s soundproof, so I’m talking about anything.
And the other beauty not only listens to my words well, but also talks to me about her curiosity.
“Where were you going?”
As expected, at the timing when she thought she might tell me something curious about me, she talked to me without question.
Perhaps she came to ask after seeing me carrying her bag, and I answered her.
“Yes. I was on my way to the study room at the academy.”
“Are you going to study?”
Maybe it’s a reasonable question.
Carrying a bag and going to the study room at an academy is to study, but she asks again because she wants to talk with me more.
I lived up to her expectations and continued the conversation.
“Yes. For me, the self-study room at the academy is fine. They provide a seat and the air conditioning and heating are good.”
“Ah, I like the academy self-study room, too. Where is the academy?”
We ended up continuing the story together like that.
For a handsome man like me, meeting a beauty can be seen as a frequent occurrence, like drinking oxygen after passing by.
Anything in life leads to a relationship.
As I talked to her, I realized that she also goes to an academy.
The academy she attended was a different academy from mine.
I get out of my studio and go down the food alley to go to an academy located at a three-way intersection, and she goes up one block from there and goes to an academy across the street from the main road.
Something, it felt a bit like that.
If meeting a girl who goes to the same academy feels like a campus couple, meeting a girl who goes to a different academy feels like meeting a female student from another university.
Her house is like that, and her academy is like that, and although it’s different from mine, the goshichon is narrow.
It can be seen that the distance is close.
We talked a little more with the consensus that it was an academy.
There was also a case where the teacher who taught me in her old days became a scout to the cram school where she was.
“Did the teacher go that way?”
“Hoho, yes. Ah~, you must have been very famous~.”
“Again, that teacher, you’re very handsome, the silver-rimmed glasses really suit you.”
“That’s right, that’s right. Among the instructors, he’s the most handsome.”
After talking about a teacher we knew together, she came to talk to me again.
“For me, lectures are also lectures, but I think I have to keep up with studying alone. I was going to go to the study room in the afternoon, too.”
Even if I just go to the self-study room in the afternoon, I think it’s okay.
Usually, on weekends, the self-study room is much more empty than on weekdays.
As much as that, it could be seen that just going to study to some extent on the weekend was a good way to study.
Even if you don’t study at the academy, there are of course many people who work hard in the reading room or at home, so I don’t have to be vigilant that I’m one of them when I study in the academy’s self-study room.
I had never been to the academy she attended, so she asked me more about her academy.
“Does the empty lecture room open to self-study rooms go well?”
“We usually have something like a reading room made a little bigger at the academy, but we mainly study there.”
There is a separate reading room, but is there a self-study room?
“Uh, is that so? I didn’t know because I didn’t go to that academy.”
“Yes. It’s in the basement. Very big.”
It was like that too.
There are quite a few large academies around here, but the academy she attends is also large, so it was only natural that she had such facilities.
I nodded and said.
“Well, it’s not far from the academy itself, so it should be fine.”
“That’s right. Originally, I went to school. It’s been a while since I lived on my own.”
“Um~. Well, going back and forth every day to have classes is also a chore.”
“Yes. If you’re a little late in the morning and you’re late for academy lectures, it’s really embarrassing to go in while everyone is taking classes.”
When I went to school, I saw such a case once.
However, I think that even if being habitual can be a problem, if you live, you might be late.
“Ah~, that much is fine.”
“Still, after living on my own like this, it’s definitely more comfortable than when I was at home, so it’s really nice.”
“That’s right. Commuting to school takes time, but it’s a lot of energy.”
“Oh, did you go to school there too?”
“It’s not like that, but I’ve been to a lot by public transportation. Isn’t it a hell of a bus when the school starts or ends?”
Haha! That’s right!”
As expected, in the case of a handsome man like me, just saying anything makes the beauties burst into laughter.
I don’t know if this is really so hard to find exceptions like this.
That’s good for me.
It would have been far better to pass the time talking to someone than to be stared at with contempt.
Me and her had a conversation while smoking cigarettes.
It’s not a big deal, but it was a fun enough story to share.
And by the time she and I both finished smoking, I decided to go to the academy as I had originally thought.
I took the cigarette butt out of the e-cigarette and threw it into a large tin can that seemed to have been placed by the landlord, and decided to leave.
“Then I’m just…”
I tried to pass her by, gently bowing her head.
But she moved slightly and called me.
“Hey, are you there?”
“Yes?”
She was a bit shy and told me.
“Have you had breakfast?”
After hearing her words, I finally remembered the morning.
Come to think of it, I didn’t eat breakfast.
Normally, I would at least think about whether to eat breakfast or not, but on days when I’m not crazy, I don’t.
In the case of today, it was a Sunday and there were no study sessions or lectures at academy, so I could spend my time autonomously.
The reason could be that I went to Song Ji-eun’s room yesterday and had a drink and endured Song Ji-eun’s temptation.
I won’t even tell you why, but I gave an answer about whether or not to eat breakfast.
“No, I didn’t eat breakfast.”
When I answered, she spoke to me, avoiding me and her gaze slightly.
“Ah~, I was on my way to have breakfast.
