Future Smartphone 4

Chapter 4 – Episode 4. Nayoung Hannah

“It’s cheating!”

When the next test paper was marked with 100 points, one child eventually got up from his seat and shouted, unable to stand it.

No matter how young children are, it seems that there are not only children who play unconditionally.

Most of them play, but only one in half. No, out of hundreds of students in one grade, a handful of them used to pay attention to their grades early on.

I don’t know if it’s because I grew up early or if I’m risking my grades because of the pressure from my parents, but first of all, there are kids like that.

So, she couldn’t give up first place to a kid who was just playing around and had bad grades, so when I received the score that she was all-back, which she had never been able to do before, her enthusiasm exploded.

“Cheating? What do you mean by cheating?”

The teacher opened her mouth with a slightly puzzled face.

“On the last test, I got an average of 30 points, but all of a sudden it’s 100 points. That doesn’t make sense!”

That’s a valid opinion.

That’s true, but I feel a bit bad because I don’t know why and it seems like they’re ignoring me.

Isn’t it

Even if I can’t study, I graduated from a local university in the outskirts of Seoul in 3 moves, so I can’t even solve this problem.

And.

“That’s right. The teacher was also a little skeptical, but there was an essay question that couldn’t be cheated on in the test this time, right?”

As you said, there was an essay problem in mathematics.

Even in English, there was a subjective answer to these questions written in English, as if asking the children to guess.

“There was an answer written on that question that would impress both the teacher and the other teachers.”

Even if the questions with fixed answers were easily solved, essay writing was so difficult. I suffered quite a bit there.

“Could it be called cheating in a place like this?”

“Uh, uh…”

Fortunately, I nodded as if I was resentful of the teacher’s words, and glared at me.

He glared at me so sharply that I almost cut him.

“Wow… Jihoon is really amazing.”

Even though she lost quite a bit of weight compared to the first time and the things that were full of her face had disappeared a little hard to notice, Nayoung, who still doesn’t have a pretty face, admired her exam papers, which had been raining down so far, and mine.

“It’s nothing.”

It’s not a big deal so far, but if you get a little older, it’s clear that you won’t be able to keep the top rank with this hair unless you study like crazy.

“But… But it’s really great.”

Do you really want to praise me?

“Thank you.”

She smiled at the feeling that was not worse than she thought, and gently brushed her front hair to the side.

Now, as if she was washing well at home, her hair, which was barely greasy, was pulled to the side, and I could see her pretty eyes.

“Oooh.”

When her eyes met, she turned her head away, blushing as if embarrassed.

As Nayoung’s emotional expressions and words increased, her mood improved as well.

If you keep going like this, you won’t have any problems. Then all that remains is the appearance.

“I’ll teach you when you need to study, so let’s just focus on losing weight and getting pretty. Huh?”

To be honest, grades don’t really matter right now.

First of all, I need to be pretty first for my eyes, so taking care of my appearance comes first.

“Huh…!”

Exercising is hard and painful, so I really hate it, but Nayoung, who is good to be with me, answered with a bright smile.

Seeing that innocent smile made my heart ache as if an awl had stabbed it.

That would also be the case today, because I was thinking of making Nayoung’s face shed tears.

For all my desires.

‘Sorry. Nayoung.’

With her words of apology in her mouth, she massaged her cheeks, one of her favorite acts, and waited for the time to pass quickly.

As time passed and the school day was all over, Nayoung naturally came to my house.

She first put down her bag, changed into her gym clothes, and came out.

I plan to work hard to lose weight, but today I decided to try a different course than usual.

“Ji, Jihoon.”

Na-young, who had been chasing after me, wondering what she was so good at, suddenly became more and more anxious as people around her increased one by one.

The kids in my class got used to it, but I started to cringe at the many stares from people I saw for the first time, and it was incomparable to what I saw at school.

“Wow. Really ugly.”

“I’m ugly, but I’ve gained a lot of weight.”

“It’s like giving up on life.”

Most of them looked at Nayoung’s appearance for a long time and then passed by silently, but some young bullies openly criticized her as if they wanted everyone to listen.

She was Na-young, who had only thought that even if her children bullied her at school, she would no longer cry.

But that was a huge misunderstanding.

“Ji, Jihoon… Uhhh… Jihoon ah…”

Nayoung, who wept and pulled my collar, did not blame me for bringing her here.

She just wanted to get out of here.

“Nayoung, don’t cry.”

Nayoung has no reason to be embarrassed by me.

It means that even if she regains her beauty thanks to me, she may forget her grace and go away to a handsome man.

So, is there a way to completely rule this out? The conclusion came after much thought.

This is often referred to as gaslighting.

No matter how handsome and wonderful a man is, it makes me feel less inspired and makes me rely only on myself.

However, the effect is amazing because the mind is still immature.

Even more so because they are isolated and even bullied.

So, she was already the one who depended only on me, but she needed to firmly ground her just in case, even if she didn’t have to.

“Hey, here… Poetry, I hate it…!”

She was shedding tears and was held in my arms.

As Nayoung, who could easily double my body size, was held in her arms, her bullies laughed at her tears.

In a way, it’s a fantastic collaboration between Anchovy Nam and Pig Girl, so I think it’s a bit funny.

“Huh… Black. Huh.”

She was crying bitterly and struggling to ignore the words around her.

“It’s okay. Don’t worry about it. No matter what those people say, Nayoung, you’re not weird at all.”

It’s just a lot of fat and a dirty face.

“Didn’t I say I’ll make you pretty? At that time, it might be more difficult than now, so what are you going to do?”

I didn’t want to show her face, so I pulled out the face I had buried in her chest.

He ran his thumb over her moist eyes, then opened her mouth in a protective manner.

“Hyungs. I apologize to Nayoung.”

Haha. Buy, an apology…? Haha.”

“Ahhhhh. Sorry. I’m sorry. Ahhhhh.”

“We’re really sorry. Nayoung-ah. Haha!”

She asked me to apologize, so I say it as if I was forced to apologize, so I feel like I just didn’t get an apology.

Even though it was what I wanted, I was just trying to make you feel bad.

“Hey. You guys.”

A man who looked at these guys badly as well as me came forward.

It is a prize that should never be touched with a rugged face that is heavily muscled.

“What are you doing after making a child who is infinitely younger than you cry?

I was about to curse at the moment, but I was worried about the young us and swallowed my cough.

Contrary to his appearance, he seems to be a caring and caring man.

“Anyway, apologize properly. Huh?”

“…”

The strong and weak archers finally apologized with apologetic faces, but even that did not contain their sincerity.

“Tsk.”

He clicked his tongue because he didn’t like the man, but thinking of Na-young, who was still crying, it wasn’t desirable to keep holding her.

“Go away.”

The arches ran away as if they had waited.

“Never mind.”

He took a candy out of his pocket and placed it on Nayoung’s hand, smiling.

It’s a bad effect

Laughing with a threatening look only made me look even more frightened, but what about Nayoung?

As she started to cry louder, she relied on me even more.

She hurriedly took her back to her house.

“Are you okay?”

“Hee-hee… Hee-beep…”

She cried and shook her head.

“I’m sorry. I thought I’d get bored if I stayed the same way, so I changed my course, but I didn’t expect that to happen.”

Dory dory.

“It’s not my fault,” She said, shaking her head.

“From tomorrow, let’s go to the place we always go without changing the course.”

Nod.

Even if I say this, I will often go to places where there are a lot of people and make a nail cut without relying on me.

“Now. Shall we apply then?”

“Right…”

It’s time to apply the cream.

As for Nayoung, she really hates to put on, but it can’t be helped.

Seeing that she doesn’t like to apply it, she probably didn’t even open the tinfoil of the cream she gave me to apply at home.

So I felt like I had to apply it once a day.

I carefully applied it to her face, which boasts a large area, and applied more to areas that I thought were especially severe.

“Now. Let’s wash up.”

“Huh!”

As if she had just waited to be washed, she ran to the bathroom with a wide smile on her face that was stained with pure white.

By the time the bathroom door slammed shut and I was left alone to clean up.

The sound of the door lock password being pressed rang in my ears.

My dad is struggling to save the company that is currently collapsing, so it must be my mother because he doesn’t come home well.

“Have you been?”

As expected, she was a mother.

“Who’s here?”

He must have seen a small pair of shoes that he had never seen before at the entrance.

“Yes.”

“Friend?”

“Yes. By the way, did you come early today?”

“Manager bird… No, the manager went first because he had work, so we just came quickly. Oh, Ji-hoon, don’t you know what you mean?”

Roughly understandable.

I don’t have anything to do, but I can’t go home, so I’m just sitting there and bruising.

“Jihoon-ah! I washed everything… Ah, hello…!”

“…”

Nayoung came out of the bathroom with her hair full of water, and when she found her mother, she immediately lowered her head.

“Are you a girl?”

“Yes.”

It’s obvious that he looks a little flustered.

“I thought she was a boy because Jihoon had shoes that were bigger than her shoes, but she was a girl…?”

He mumbled with a low voice, but I could hear everything.

“Mom, can Nayoung eat at my house?”

“Rice…?”

“Yes.”

“Well… It doesn’t matter.”

I didn’t like it, but I readily agreed.

“Jihun-ah. Come here for a moment.”

He carefully called me and came to the kitchen.

“Jihoon-ah… That… Isn’t that your girlfriend?”

“Are you Nayoung?”

“Yeah. It’s Nayoung. I don’t really care about her friend. If we like each other, it can’t be helped, but in my mother’s eyes, um… She’s like a girlfriend. A little bit like that.”

If you think about it from her mother’s point of view, it would be nice if her daughter-in-law was pretty.

Even if she wasn’t necessarily pretty, she would have been able to take good care of her as long as they loved each other, but now Nayoung’s appearance was quite like that.

She couldn’t accept her as her son’s girlfriend, even if she didn’t know if he was a friend.

“Not yet.”

“Not yet…?”

“Yes.”

“You mean you have a heart?”

“Yes.”

“Jihoon-ah. Is Nayoung the last girl you’re close with?”

“Yes.”

“Oh my…”

Her mother touched her forehead to see if her head hurt.

“Why are you like that?”

Even though I know full well that she is not pretty, it is because of her fat body, which weighs twice or even three times more than me, aside from her, and her dirty, ugly face. Chuckled at

“Jihoon-ah. You’re still young, so it’s not time to make a girlfriend or something. So stay with Nayoung as friends.”

“Only as friends?”

“Only as friends. Later on, when they grow up, they’ll take care of themselves.”

Even though she was only her friend now, the moment Nayoung became pretty, she had no intention of being just a friend.

Whether I confess first or Nayoung gains confidence and confesses to me, she is one of the two.

“Mom, I’m sorry.”

“Huh?”

“I like Nayoung too much to be friends.”

“…!”

I’m already obsessed with future Na-young and can’t get out of it, so how can I just be her friend?

“That’s why I can’t listen to what my mother says to her.”

It breaks her heart to feel like driving a nail into her mom’s chest, but this was also her mom’s fault.

No matter how ugly and fat she is, even her mother shouldn’t have said that.

Above all, it is clear that everything we are saying must be heard by Na-young, but right now I cannot take her mother’s side.

“Sorry.”

Since vacation is coming soon, during the vacation, which feels short if it is short and long if it is long, I decided to improve Nayoung’s appearance to the extent that her mother would be satisfied.

Even if she doesn’t understand now, maybe by then her mother will realize that Nayoung is Wonseok and understand.

Why did I make this choice

I went to Nayoung, leaving behind her mother, who was looking at me with her dumbfounded face.

Even though I came, Na-yeong, who had a depressed yet strangely happy face, greeted me with a calm expression.

But I couldn’t hide the moistness around her eyes from me.

“You can cry if you want to cry. Nayoung.”

In the end, the tears that I had been holding back spilled out.

I hugged her gently and waited for her to stop crying.