Chapter 102 – Episode 102. Low Probability Encounter
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“Wow. I feel like throwing up.”
I spit out the words as I finished my intense study at 10:30 at night in the spacious empty lecture room for self-study.
It would have been okay to do so.
Because I was the last one left.
It hadn’t rained until morning, but it had been raining since morning, and like when it rains, the restaurant is cut in half, and the study room is less crowded than usual.
The relatively small number of people went home about 20 to 30 minutes before the self-study room closed.
And I was left alone in a lecture hall that could accommodate hundreds of people.
-Charak, Chuck
I closed the book
It was time for the self-study room to close, and I wanted to go home now.
Usually around 10:30 a security guard comes to look around or a cleaning lady comes and cleans up.
In a case like today, it seems that I decided to go home a little earlier than they did.
I packed my bag, put on my outerwear, stood up, and grabbed my backpack.
-Kiik
Pushing the chair, I passed between the desks and chairs in the huge empty study room and headed for the door.
I walked a little and reached the door, and I went out.
When I came out the door, I felt a little bit of cool air from the moment I came to the hallway.
Come to think of it, it is winter from today.
I felt a sense of the season as I came out into the outside air from the air that was warm due to the influence of the heating in the academy study room.
Walk down the hallway for a bit and go down the stairs.
– Tak, Tak…
Walk down from the 4th floor to the 3rd floor and from the 3rd floor to the 2nd floor.
And while going down from the second floor to the first floor, I passed the bulletin board.
‘…’
Looking at the bulletin board, I suddenly thought of the beauties I had a relationship with.
I met Kwon Se-ah in front of this bulletin board, and I also met Kim Yun-gyeong.
When I met Yunkyung Kim, she called me after approaching me from behind while I was checking the information on this bulletin board.
And when I met Kwon Se-ah, she pretended to be looking at this bulletin board and waited for me in front of it while disturbing other people’s eyes.
While thinking about those things, I turned around for a moment and looked behind me when I passed the bulletin board on my way down the stairs.
‘Hmm…’
There were no people.
In fact, I think the probability of a chance meeting is pretty low.
When I talked to Yoon-kyung the other day, it seemed that not only me, but also Yun-kyung used a different study room, so there were many cases where she also studied late.
However, even if the gap in the time of leaving the academy is not so great, it is not so common that they run into each other.
For example, the academy’s self-study room closes at 10:30, but I can come out at 10:29 and Yoon-gyeong can come out at 10:25.
Or I could come out at 10:32 and Yoon-kyung came out at 10:28.
With a small time difference, people may or may not be able to meet.
Considering that, it seems that there may be people who have a little more connection, even if they don’t know that destiny really exists.
Especially when I was in college, there were many cases like that.
This is a common experience even for non-natives like me.
For example, there may be a person you meet strangely often.
No, fuck, there are always times when I pass by him and want to meet him again, meet him again, meet him again.
If it’s close to your house, you’d probably run into it while passing by, but it’s not like that.
That seems very strange to me.
It is such an encounter that can become a case that cannot be established with a really short difference.
Thinking of those things, I stood at the entrance of the academy.
-Tatatatak, tatatatak, tatata…
It was raining.
Fortunately, it wasn’t as heavy as the rain that had fallen in the afternoon.
Still, it wasn’t to the point where I almost didn’t come to the point where I ignored something.
The sound of the rain falling little by little was like the sound of a fire being lit.
It was a bit ambiguous.
I have an umbrella at home, so there is no need to buy another one.
In addition, the distance between the academy and my house is close, so I don’t think I’ll get rained on too much on the way back.
But to just walk home, you can go in and take a shower anyway, but your outerwear and pants are likely to get a little wet.
‘How will we do it.’
I stood at the entrance of the academy for a while and thought about what to do.
Right next to the academy, like most large academies, the academy I attend also has a convenience store.
You can buy an umbrella right away.
However, it may be meaningless to buy a disposable umbrella for short distance use.
But even if it’s a short distance, it’s a bit like going home in the rain.
Also, the rain, if not strong, has been coming all the way since the morning, so it doesn’t look like it will stop just by waiting a little bit.
‘Ah.’
I stood for a moment and thought of a good idea.
Come to think of it, I accomplished the mission I set up in the morning.
The mission is to study all day today, study until morning, afternoon, and night, and digest the schedule until 10:30 at night, then give yourself permission to fuck a beautiful woman without alcohol. .
There I had success.
So, I could call Beauty right now.
Then, since it was raining even now, I could have called Beauty and asked her to bring an umbrella on the way.
It was truly a win-win.
After coming up with such a good idea, I rummaged through my pockets to get my phone.
When I put my right hand into the right pocket of my coat, I immediately touched my cell phone.
However, right before I took out my cell phone, I met eyes with a woman passing by.
‘Uh?’
On a darker night because of the rain, a woman passing by the space in front of the academy illuminated by the streetlights and the signboards of the eating alley that runs near the academy was definitely a familiar face to me.
I was a little surprised and stood still, but the other side was also surprised to see me.
“Uh?”
Her other eye, slightly covering one side with her hair, widened.
She looked at me and deliberately brushed one side of her hair down a little while opening her eyes wide and looking at me.
In one hand, she was holding a rainbow-colored long umbrella, and although people don’t use long umbrellas well, it could be said that it was a common and well-designed umbrella for those who do.
The woman I bumped into was none other than the woman who had asked me to borrow cigarettes this morning.
I declined when she asked to have her breakfast with me, and when she asked for her phone number, she refused.
But this is how we met again.
While passing by the academy bulletin board, thinking about the meeting between Kwon Se-ah and Kim Yoon-gyeong, I thought for some reason that meeting was a very low probability when I thought, but somehow it happened, and this seemed to be the case for some reason.
After a moment of surprise, she took a few steps toward me.
And, just looked at me.
“…”
“…”
Me and her looked at each other silently for a while.
Maybe it’s not a big deal.
The probability of meeting each other after passing by is not high.
However, because I am a handsome man, many beauties think of their destiny while looking at me.
Even a small coincidence makes her see me as the man of her destiny.
-Widely-.
As she looked at me, she lost her mind and lost her umbrella.
“Oh!”
It wasn’t until after picking up the fallen umbrella that she seemed to come to her senses a little.
Picking up the open umbrella again, she folded it back and stood next to me.
She came over to me and started talking to me.
“See you again, I don’t think this is easy.”
I also took her word for it.
“I’m sure. I don’t think it’s easy to do this. Well, since you’re carrying a bag at this time, you must have come out from self-study.”
Then she answered.
“Yes. I was going to buy a pizza after finishing my study.”
“Ah. Over there?”
I raised my hand and pointed to a pizza place a little way down this side alley.
Then she answered.
“Yes.”
If she was going to eat a branded pizza, she could just have it delivered, but if she dared to go and buy it like this, it was likely a local pizza maker.
If it’s a thrift-saving style like Hochang, you can pack the pizza yourself instead of delivering it from the maker to save on packaging costs.
After she gave her answer, she talked to me.
“Hey.”
“Yes.”
“It seems like we have a little bit of a relationship. You refused breakfast, but if I asked you to have a drink right now, would you decline that too?”
I answered without hesitation.
“Um. Yes. I refuse.”
The woman bit her lip slightly and seemed to exhale.
I added a word of her to her like that.
“I’m not going to refuse alcohol, but I think it’d be nice to have a decent late-night snack?”
At my words, the woman’s expression suddenly brightened.
“Really?”
I smiled and nodded.
It was she who let out a laugh that seemed to be several times more excited than mine at my actions.
“Oops~!”
I excitedly told her to open her umbrella again.
“Would you like to go into the alley on the right and smoke a cigarette together and go out for a late-night snack? I haven’t smoked a single cigarette since I finished my self-study.”
“Oh, good.”
As I said that, she took her handle of her umbrella back to her side and walked with her.
Then, she and I received the same umbrella and headed toward the alley I mentioned.
The alley is the alley next to the snack bar.
This is a place that can be seen as a smoking area in this neighborhood.
There are countless non-smoking areas, but smoking areas are hard to find.
If you are smoking in front of the bank near the academy, a man will come and say that you must not smoke here, and if you are smoking in front of a meat restaurant a short distance from the intersection, an old woman will come out and tell you not to smoke here.
Such cases happened to be not something I personally experienced, but an indirect experience by seeing others go through.
But I’ve never seen anyone say anything about smoking in this alley.
Maybe it’s because there’s nothing to do much damage, and it’s a little far away from shops and houses.
It seems that the alley is a remote place on the side rather than the front of the snack shop, and since the photo studio has to go a little deeper into the interior, there is no one to be harmed.
I smoked a cigarette in that alley with her.
And then we talked a little bit.
“How old are you?”
“How old do you think you are?”
I looked at her and gave her answer whatever came to her mind.
“One, twenty-four?”
It didn’t feel like an office worker, and she looked young enough to have just taken off her college student tee.
So I talked like that.
Since I tend to guess the girl’s age quite well, I thought it would be similar to what I sang.
She answered.
“Uh, that’s right. You’re right. What about you?”
“I’ll be twenty-seven the day after tomorrow.”
“Ah, you’re my brother~.”
For the second time in the morning, she and I smoked cigarettes together while doing a simple survey, and then she gave her voice.
Her name was Bajia.
Is twenty-four.
Bajia said she graduated from university and she took the civil service exam for the first time this year and she fell by a fairly large score difference, so she said she came here because she thought she would have to go to an academy.
