Future Smartphone 2

Chapter 2 – Episode 2. Nayoung Hannah

“Lee Ji-hoon! Let’s go to the internet cafe!”

“Ah, I’m busy, so go by yourself.”

“Huh? What happened?”

“There is. That’s it.”

The classes that seemed so long were all over.

As soon as class was over, boys whose faces and names I couldn’t remember came up to me and left the class, refusing to go to the internet cafe.

She still couldn’t even say anything, let alone say she was sorry, but since Han Na-young had already quickly left the class, she had no choice but to become desperate.

She recklessly kicked off her ground and ran towards the school gate, but she was already out of breath.

Didn’t she play around with the kids when she was little?

Still, somehow I was able to catch up with Han Na-young, who was moving her steps alone from afar.

Not only me and my class, but her one grade, and even the other grade, were ignored and teased, and the kids around her were talking about her as a disease, and it seemed so pitiful that she tried hard to pretend not to know it.

I can’t remember exactly why I started bullying Hannah.

It could be because other kids were teasing you, or it could be that you instigated the kids first.

Both the former and the latter were nothing but rubbish, but that won’t be the case anymore.

Even if the kids who are now friends who have nothing to do with anything, even if they all fall away.

Only for my desires.

“Me, Nayoung!”

*

“Me, Nayoung!”

“…?”

It’s Nayoung. Has there ever been a child who was so friendly?

There were an increasing number of children who did not want to be called Hannah unconditionally, Nayoung Hannah, Nayoung Virus, Nayoung Bacterial, and finally, even their names, but this was the first time that a teacher or a peer called her Nayoung even though they were not her family.

It is also a mate who is toxic frantic to harass himself. Lee Ji-hoon came up to me while sweating profusely and called me that, so I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

“Nayoung… That… I’m sorry.”

This time, he was suddenly apologizing for what kind of joke he was trying to play again.

Is that really a sincere apology? I’m sure it’s not Nayoung, but I was confused when I saw his sincere expression.

What happened though? It must be part of the new bullying.

“I didn’t do it on purpose. I’m so sorry.”

But I just wonder why it doesn’t feel like a joke.

Why would he openly apologize in a place where there are so many kids around him? He wouldn’t be so clever that he would do something scandalous just to play a joke.

“From now on, I won’t bother you.”

Saying that, he reached out his hand.

At school, except for the teacher, no one terribly hated anything touching her body.

Not only parts of her body, but even things, she immediately freaked out and ran around all over her body, thinking that she would transfer them to someone else’s body.

Lee Ji-hoon’s hand quietly approached and readily grabbed Na-yeong’s hand without a hint of resistance.

That made Nayoung, not him, tremble her body.

“If there are kids who bully you, I’ll punish you. Nayoung-ah.”

“…”

“So let’s be friends.”

She was thrilled, as she had never been treated with favors like this before, even if it was part of a prank to tease her.

Since this was done in front of everyone, it created an optical illusion that Lee Ji-hoon’s ordinary-looking face looked more handsome than the handsome men on TV.

Emotions were recalled in her joy, and her heart pounded with unknown emotions.

Eventually, her eyes became moist and tears flowed.

It’s a lie, but tomorrow, not only Lee Ji-hoon, but the entire class will know about Na-yeong’s tears of joy while saying it was all a joke, but for now, I was more than happy.

“Do you like tteokbokki? I’ll buy it for you. Would you like to eat it together?”

She was telling me to go with her, saying that she would buy me tteokbokki without letting go of her hands that were holding her.

Normally, she would have refused because she had no reason to show herself favors for no reason. As if Nayoung was her own body but she was not his, Jihoon Lee’s hand led her into a snack bar nearby.

“If it’s not enough, you can order more.”

Shortly after we sat down, the tteokbokki Lee Ji-hoon ordered was placed on the table.

Is this really… Is it really right to buy it?

An uneasy future unfolded in Nayoung’s head.

She said she would buy it, so she ate as much as she wanted, and suddenly she said she was going to the bathroom and she ran away.

As you can see from her physique, she has a lot of appetite, so this is just a little… No, it should be lacking a lot. Nayoung secretly rummaged through her pockets.

Even if she could calculate what she ordered now, if she ordered it again later, she had so much money in her hands that she couldn’t count.

So she shook her head and put her cooling tteokbokki into her mouth.

It’s chewy.

As she eagerly chewed the red rice cake, she looked at Lee Ji-hoon, who was sitting in front of her.

She didn’t fully expect that she could eat this one all by herself.

On the contrary, I eat it with a feeling of desperation, thinking that it will be taken away of course, but I don’t understand why I don’t eat it.

Plus, even though the kids sitting at the other tables around us are watching us and whispering, they don’t seem to mind at all.

“Why? Doesn’t it taste good?”

It was embarrassing to see her chin resting on her chin and kindly asking questions.

Dory dory.

Nayoung shook her head.

She bought it from outside and ate it at home, but it was almost the first time she ate it in such a hot condition, so it was really delicious.

“Delicious…”

She says that she is a very ugly daughter, and even her parents cook for her. She didn’t treat her like a proper daughter.

So it’s been a long time since I’ve had a meal with someone like this.

Today, it seems that you can’t hear any voices around you.

“So… Delicious…”

The sobbing that had calmed down rose again.

I was sobbing and crying, but I didn’t even think I had to wipe it.

Since he was sniffling like this, he even cried with an ugly face, so perhaps he wasn’t even offended by his ugliness, Lee Ji-hoon pulled out a tissue and wiped his eyes instead.

“Ew. I’m going to ruin all my pretty faces.”

I stopped moving at Lee Ji-hoon’s words to the point that I forgot to even cry.

He could see by himself how ugly he was. She doesn’t even hear empty words.

“That… False… Hi… Hi…”

Don’t believe

Can not believe it.

“It’s a lie.”

“Lies… I mean… Hig… I… Not pretty… Hig… Ah.”

“Why do you think so?”

“I can see… Hey… He’s ugly… All the other kids… Hey… He’s ugly.”

Not only myself, but others also say that I am ugly, but how can I think that I am pretty?

Lee Ji-hoon, as before, rested his chin on his chin and smiled as if he had given up on wiping away the tears that could not be wiped no matter how much he wiped them.

“Can I be honest?”

I can guess what the words will come out of that honesty, but I don’t know why, but I hope those words don’t come out of my mouth right now.

“Right. You’re ugly. You’re Nayoung.”

I know, but hearing it myself made his heart ache without knowing why.

I thought it was nothing because he said it often.

“Because I’m fat, I have a lot of fat on my face. Is it acne? Pimples? Anyway, there are too many of them, so it’s ugly.”

I knew it. The complex part was precisely pinched.

“It’s still there, Nayoung.”

Stretched out his hand

Before he knew it, Lee Ji-hoon’s hand was approaching Na-young’s face and slowly brushing the bangs that covered her face behind her ears.

“Why do I think you look pretty?”

“…?!”

What nonsense.

Full of contradictions

When you say you’re ugly and pick up on the ugly, you suddenly look pretty. Empty words… Yes. It must be an empty word. Thinking of Nayoung’s feelings, she said something that wasn’t even in her heart…

Why? Why on earth do you think about the feelings of the kid you’re trying to bully and say something nice to hear?

“No. It’s definitely pretty. But the problem is that that beauty is hidden now.”

“…”

“Can’t you believe it?”

It was natural.

“Doesn’t that sound silly?”

Of course.

“Then would you like to bet with me?”

“Bet…?”

Crying that suddenly stopped.

“Yeah. I bet. I’m betting that you’re actually pretty, so why don’t you bet that you’re ugly?”

Even if you didn’t bother to look at the outcome of the bet, the answer was there.

“Plastic surgery…?”

“Do you have the money for that? And you won’t give the kids plastic surgery?”

“Is it…?”

“Actually, I don’t know.”

If you listen to me, I don’t think it’s plastic surgery.

“Nayoung. If you win, what will you wish for?”

To be honest, I didn’t really have any wishes.

Even if he did, he just asked me not to bully him anymore, but even if only one Lee Ji-hoon stopped bullying me, it wouldn’t be any different.

“If you don’t remember it now, you can say it later, or you can say it when you wish… But the latter won’t happen. I’ll win.”

“Puff…”

I don’t know on what basis you are so sure that you will win.

So I let out an involuntary laugh, but then, conscious of her surroundings, I covered her mouth and dropped her head.

“It’s better because you laugh.”

“No…”

More ugly It doesn’t get any better…

“Well. You think so now, and later you’ll say that I’m right.”

She is still full of confidence.

“Ah. It’s all cold. Let’s eat.”

“Huh…”

She met the cold air of tteokbokki and took away all her warmth, but Na-yeong’s heart, which had been cold, warmed up a little.

*

The day has passed.

It wasn’t a dream, as if I wasn’t wrong in my conviction, even the next day, I was still young and stuck in the past.

“Oh yeah…! Haa… The atmosphere was good, but I don’t know if I’m doing well.”

The atmosphere was quite good until we parted after eating tteokbokki together yesterday.

There will be no problems if we keep going like this, but I didn’t intend to drag it on, so it’s time to move on to the next step.

Even if I don’t want to go over, I’ll go over half-forced.

“It’s not a big deal to bully kids.”

If she suddenly sees Nayoung, who was the target of her bullying, and me hanging around her, of course she and Nayoung will try to harass me. Aren’t all the little ones there?

And I’m mentally an adult.

An absurd thing like this, where my mentality is torn apart by the bullying of the little kids, will never happen.

“It would be nice if I could become pretty soon.”

Considering Nayoung as an adult, she might not be pretty enough even when she was young, so she might be a goddess herself.

If you think of it as a gemstone, it’s not like you can’t see Nayoung right now, but she’s much better if she’s pretty and cute.

“Jihoon-ah! Wake up! Should I eat… Ji…?”

“Good morning?”

“Huh huh?”

The mother, who had barely woken up on time, had not woken up on time and was ready to go to school.

“Thank you for this food.”

I came out to the kitchen and put the breakfast that was more shabby than yesterday.

Dad’s company situation is going down day by day, so he must have reduced the amount he ate.

Her mother, who was trying to explain the reason for the shabby dining table, she didn’t ask anything, and she moistened her eyes as she watched me start eating.

‘I can’t go on like this.’

She hadn’t slept well and had barely put anything in her mouth, so seeing her thin, tired-looking mother, she felt like she’d have to do something.

Even if it was in the past, it was rich, so even if it looks like a maggot to me now, it takes time to mine bitcoin little by little with a computer covered in the latest musk.

If I knew it would be like this, I would have memorized at least lottery numbers.

I left my regret behind and headed to school.

“Hey… Jihoon-ah. Did you really go eat tteokbokki with that?”

It was awkward to call her by her first name, so she called Nayoung that.

“Is that a lie? It’s a lie that you didn’t play with us and ate the virus and tteokbokki, right?”

“Yes?”

I don’t know who it was, but boys approached me and started talking to me with shocked faces.

Seeing as I can’t remember their faces, it must be that they’re the ones who will lose contact after breaking up later.

“That’s right. I ate tteokbokki with Nayoung. Why?”

“…”

My name is Nayoung. When I called it friendly, the kids were dumbfounded.

I left the side of the girls who didn’t say anything anymore and sat next to Nayoung who was glancing at me.

“Nayoung. How are you? Did you go home well yesterday?”

“…!”

Nayoung even flinched at her, startling her.

I thought it was a joke or something, but it might be natural for me to be surprised to talk to the kids who were teasing me.

“Nayoung, you didn’t forget yesterday’s bet, right?”

“Uh, uh…”

“But in order for the bet to work, you have to make an effort to be pretty yourself. So can you come with me?”

She nodded her head as if she couldn’t but didn’t expect much.

A few people who overheard my words burst into laughter and gossip, but I’m the age who doesn’t care.

He just smiled and patted Nayoung, who was trembling with her anxiety, by stroking her frizzy hair.

Um… I made fun of it for being dirty, but I didn’t expect it to be really dirty.

Her hair felt greasy and a strange foreign substance caught in her palms.

Well, this is something I need to fix too.

“Nayoung, it can be a bit difficult.”

Why. Is there such a thing?

As long as I go back to the past, I am willing to live harder than I really am in this life.

Me too.

I’m still young, so I’m going to put aside my studies and start exercising to change my short stature and small physique in the future.

In order to help Nayoung go on a diet.

“We can do it, right?”

“Uh, uh…”

She was Na-young, who still reluctantly affirmed.