Chapter 18 – Episode 18 New School
It didn’t change much just because I finally got to know Nayoung.
I had memories before returning, so I was no different from an adult, but I didn’t know how to close the distance and continue the skinship because I had almost never had a relationship with a woman, let alone a dating experience.
Above all, me too, but since my lover, Nayoung, is mentally much younger than me, she was quite reluctant to engage in active skinship.
I don’t think Nayoung actively wants this.
So she seemed almost the same before and after dating.
Excluding Nayoung, who lives day by day with the feeling of flying.
Even while dating, I was still frantic about increasing my assets, and the days of trying to exercise as much as possible continued.
Time flies by so quickly, and as soon as I graduated from school, I entered a new school.
“Jihun-ah! Ji-hoon-ah! How about me? Do you look good together?!”
Still waking up early in the morning and putting on her uniform to go to a new school, Nayoung opened the door.
To me, the school uniform was unfashionable and plain, but when Nayoung wore it, it gave off an optical illusion that it looked sophisticated and pretty.
“It’s pretty. It suits you well.”
She was overjoyed at the compliments she always gave me saying that she was pretty and didn’t get tired of it, and hugged me.
“Hee…! Ji-hoon too…! Ji-hoon suits him very well too!”
They say that I look good in my school uniform… To be honest, that’s just how I looked at it.
I grew quite tall with steady exercise, and even though my body was built up, the most important thing is that my face is ordinary, but I don’t feel anything like that.
It’s just that I have a strong feeling that I’m a newbie who has taken off my childish clothes and done some exercise.
“Yeah…? Thanks for that.”
“Tch… It’s not an empty word!”
She didn’t feel much emotion, so when she answered softly, Nayoung pouted her lips.
Her own boyfriend, she exclaimed with her pouty face at the thought that the man she loved most in the world did not think so.
“Like a prince!”
“…”
No matter how good you look at it, that’s not it.
And how many bean pods do you have in your eyes to become a prince with a school uniform?
“Yes. Yes. He looks like a prince. Even to me.”
Without a soul, she agreed with Nayoung’s words.
“Hmm… You really look like a prince…”
No matter what you say, people will never see me as a prince.
She pushed Nayoung, who was slightly down, out of her arms, put on her school uniform properly, and left the room.
“Ohhhhh! Nayoung-ah! Very pretty! They look good!”
The overreaction of her mother, who took her camera in her hand as soon as it came out.
“Lol!”
Nayoung let out a laugh during the bash.
Against him
“Jihun-ah. You look good too.”
“Yes. Thank you very much for that.”
In a formal tone to me, I returned it in a formal tone.
Still, her mother captured Na-young’s appearance intact in the camera as if nothing was wrong.
When I first put on my school uniform, I was anxious to take a picture like that, so there was still something left to take.
By the way, I didn’t take a single picture of my son in school uniform.
Ehh… I will live with sadness.
“Are you going to take more?”
“It’s half over.”
“Is it half now?”
I tried to push away the absurdity that came over me and looked at the clock hanging on the wall.
“If I don’t go now, I’ll be late for the entrance ceremony.”
“It’s okay. Step on it hard and you’ll arrive on time.”
“What irresponsible words…”
It is an absurd way of thinking that just because you are late, you have to step on the accelerator more in time.
Thinking that this would not work, I forcibly took away the camera with the shutter constantly being pressed.
“Ahhh…!”
As her camera was taken away, her mom stared blankly at the camera in my hand with her world-lost expression.
“I’ll give it to you later, so let’s go. If we don’t go now, we’ll just take a taxi and go by ourselves.”
“Tsk. They said it’s no use raising a son… What are you saying to your mother?”
“I’m about to be late for the entrance ceremony, but what…!”
When she heard that, she got a little furious.
“I’m kidding~! Mom, I’ll get ready quickly and leave!”
Mom immediately ran away.
“Ha…”
Have you ever been so playful?
The mother she remembers before her return was not like that.
No, was it? Wasn’t it just that I didn’t know because I wasn’t interested in my mother?
Whatever it was, it was nice to see her mother playing pranks on her son, with a bright smile rather than a dark shadow on her face.
“Wow…! So many people!”
After many twists and turns, we arrived at the school.
When Na-yeong got out of the car, she was amazed at the school that was bigger than the one she had attended before and looked like it had something in it.
As if she wasn’t late, the area around the school was full of cars, children in school uniforms, and people who looked like their parents.
Perhaps that is why the school, which was quite large, now looks narrow.
“Nayoung-ah! Nayoung-ah! Would you like to stand here?”
“Yes!”
Did you find a good spot to take a picture? Mom urgently called Nayoung.
I obediently went to the place my mother said and took her pose, and the shutter burst right away.
It’s a bit embarrassing to understand that she got the daughter she wanted, and that she was so pretty that she became a fool for her daughter.
They have a lot of eyes, and seeing this once, thinking that they are not even talking to her, how should I face her in the future? I feel like my face is heating up.
“Jihoon-ah! Let’s take a picture together!”
Nayoung led me with her arms crossed.
Your mother showed a blatantly uncomfortable expression when I caught her camera lens.
What. I am your son.
Just by helping him win the lottery first prize, he is a filial son who is overflowing with all the duties he has to do as a son, but the reaction is too weak.
Click. Click. Click.
“It’s done. Jihoon-ah. Come out now.”
“…”
Hey. I don’t want to take pictures because it’s dirty.
Despite Nayoung’s dissuade, she left the spot.
Mom says she was joking, but then as she puts her lens to Nayoung and sees her finger pressing her shutter, she thinks it might not be true.
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“Eh… You guys are now… Er… As students of our school… Er…”
The freshmen gathered in the auditorium, including me and Nayoung, were listening to the wrinkled principal’s boring long lecture.
It’s a shame they gave me a chair. If it hadn’t been given, there would have been a flood of complaints.
The problem is that there are a lot of kids who use Hunhwa as a lullaby after giving them a chair.
Nodding… Nodding…
Nayoung was no different.
Nayoung tried hard to resist her eyelids closing on their own, but she was futile.
Her head nodded as her drowsiness pushed her gently closed eyes behind her.
“Just sleep. It seems like they don’t say anything even if they sleep openly.”
She’s also a freshman, so there’s no way she’d be filmed in the first place unless it’s a dire situation.
Even if it’s not, Nayoung’s appearance should be pretty. Even if she doesn’t do anything, she can’t help but get the attention of the teachers as well as the kids at once.
Then troublesome things will follow.
Even if she tries to live a normal school life anyway, she won’t be able to become normal, so shouldn’t she be at least a little comfortable.
“Yes…”
Nayoung placed her head on her shoulder.
She smiled broadly and rested her head comfortably on her shoulder, as if she felt happy with this trivial consideration.
A murmur of voices followed.
The girls made a fuss about seeing their lover for the first time, and the boys were jealous of me.
What. Whatever. If you flirt with me, you guys will come back and flirt with pretty girls.
I was shameless.
Despite receiving fraudulent benefits such as future memories and future smartphones, everyone was conceited and laughed at me, just like the achievements achieved through my own efforts.
But that doesn’t mean it’s a problem, so I’m just happy to constantly receive jealousy from kids who might be better than me.
“Eh… Thank you…”
The long and tedious training was finally over.
Strangely, even the teachers seemed to be happy and clapped their hands hard, but it must be because of my mood.
“Nayoung-ah, Nayoung-ah. We have to go now.”
“Uhhhhh”
I woke up Nayoung, who had been sleeping on her shoulder, and reunited with her mother, who was watching us from the second floor of her auditorium.
Leaving behind Nayoung, who completely entrusted her body to me while she was dreaming, she talked about her with her mother, and then she broke up.
I went to see Na-young, who is still sleepy, so there is nothing strange about falling down at any time, and her class schedule.
These many freshmen were divided into a total of 10 classes.
In those.
“We’re in the same class.”
Me and Nayoung were assigned to the same class.
Without thinking, Nayoung, who had followed her staggeringly while leaning on her body, opened her eyes.
Do my words feel like lies? She quickly looked up her name and looked for my name nearby.
Eventually, she realized that being in the same class as me was true.
“Jihun! We’re in the same class!”
I loved it more than ever and held it in my arms.
Running around while being held, it became a nuisance to the children who came to see the class assignment table late.
“I know. Okay, calm down.”
I calmed down the excited Nayoung and headed to our class.
“Similar but slightly different…!”
Nayoung, who entered a new school and a new class, looked around her with her eyes shining brightly.
I guess so. How different would it be if the schools were different from place to place?
I was not very impressed, so I headed to the very back seat by the window.
Since they were still young, the place was empty, as if there were no bullies who seemed particularly good at hitting people.
Naturally, Nayoung, who followed me, sat right next to me.
“Hey! Hey! What are you two doing?!”
As soon as she sat down, the girls who had followed her into her class immediately clung to her.
The girls she became close with at school before Na-young ignored and stood by while Na-yeong was being bullied, so she fell in love with the fact that she strangely drew a line, not knowing if it was guilt or not.
The girls here didn’t know that at all, so they actively pushed for Nayoung.
Nayoung is a little taken aback by the unfamiliar and active appearance.
“You two. Are you dating?”
“Me, me and Jihoon…? Hehe. Yes! Dating! We dating!”
“Oh! It suits you well!”
Anyone can see that the difference between me and Nayoung is so great that we don’t look good together.
So that word means empty words.
You can ask if my confidence is too low, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t help it because it’s so hard to keep up with her overwhelming good looks.
“Lol!”
Nayoung, unaware of that fact, smiled innocently.
“Uh, uh…”
“Wow… I’m not kidding…”
“I’ve never seen anything this pretty on TV…!”
Nayoung’s bright smile has already fascinated her girls.
I couldn’t rub against Nayoung even with professional makeup and correction.
It’s so unbelievably beautiful.
Because of this, even if you try to have her confidence, it’s hard to have her original self.
“Where did you two meet?”
“Uh, we…?”
“Who confessed first?”
“Go, confession…!”
“What do you like about dating!”
“Dah!”
Ask a skewer question.
It’s not annoying at all.
Na-yeong avoids things that she doesn’t want to answer or is difficult, but she shouts at the last question that she’s done without thinking about it.
“Let’s go to sleep. Everyone sit down.”
There are people I already knew or people I quickly became close to, so I was in a class where familiarity and awkwardness coexisted at the same time. A female teacher who appeared to be our class teacher came inside.
Her teacher immediately finished her brief self-introduction by writing her name and phone number on the blackboard.
“Now that we’ve been in the same class for a year, shall we take the time to introduce ourselves?”
The time has come for her self-introduction, which she is sure to do when she enters a new school.
