Chapter 245 – 245. Travel (15)
… Come to think of it, I had never heard of it.
Things like how he grew up in Japan.
He didn’t tell me anything other than the story of how he went out here and there by himself, and I never bothered to ask him any questions.
What I know about Hinami’s past is nothing, other than the fact that she occasionally talks on the phone with her mother.
Let alone my school days, I don’t know much about my family relationships.
So the story I just heard through the door was a little surprising.
The fact that there was a fight could not be accepted as a story about a fight between friends.
“The rice bowl was delicious, right? It just suits my taste.”
“It’s okay.”
“Hehe.”
After the meal, as soon as her older sister went to brush her teeth, she clung to Kang Joo-hyuk’s side.
Acting like I’m so excited and chatting away, and being obsessed with him to the point where I can’t understand.
I guess that maybe that was the cause of everything.
Why did a girl who was pretty and loved by many ends up clinging to a man just like Kang Joo-hyuk?
Even after mixing with him, I couldn’t quite understand it, but now I could vaguely see the shape.
“… Hey, you haven’t even come to clean it up yet.”
“Why? You probably know everything anyway. … “I can put my hands in my clothes.”
“…”
Even though the staff would definitely come to clean up the table soon, if my imagination was correct, I was able to explain to some extent how they put their hand into the man’s chest and stroked it.
Didn’t something similar happen in reverse when I was young?
I had a passionate fight with my friend, and he lost, so I deliberately met a guy who had a girlfriend…
｢… Ah. I’m sorry.”
Just as I was adding more imagination to my guess, an employee came into the room to clear the table.
And as soon as she saw the man and woman intertwined, she apologized in Japanese and tried to take her table away without making eye contact as much as possible.
｢Hello.｣
However, she rather confidently kissed Kang Joo-hyuk on the cheek and waved her hand in greeting to the waiter.
As if provoking.
Kang Joo-hyuk placed his hand on my hips, and when I saw him smiling and looking at the employee, I was frightened, so I ran away to a corner and took a step away from that cold atmosphere.
｢…｣
“It’s been a while. Do you want to talk?” I have a lot of things I want to say.”
｢… I don’t like it.”
When she did not give in to her provocation and kept her mouth shut and cleaned up her table, Hinami began to challenge her in an even more overbearing voice.
In the end, she also took off her mask as an employee and answered informally.
Kang Joo-hyuk was the only one here who couldn’t understand Japanese, but he remained silent, watching with his slightly nervous eyes.
“Why? You said you wanted to apologize first. I also intend to listen.”
“That… Because I didn’t know you would come out like that…｣
“Hmm, really? That’s it then. You don’t have to apologize. I also don’t want to be forced to apologize.”
｢… Sorry.”
“What are you sorry about?”
“Middle schooler… When, tormented. Sorry…｣
“Why did you bother me?”
Leaning reassuringly against Kang Joo-hyuk, who is so stiff.
Hinami spoke in a much more confident voice than when she complained to me, and fired her words at her shrunken self.
Even Kang Joo-hyuk, who can’t understand words well, can read the content using only air.
｢… At that time, you seduced my boyfriend…｣
“I’ve never seduced you. He fell in love alone. I hated her because she was ugly and skinny.”
｢… I think so too now.”
“Right-? I thought what happened to your eyes back then. “I was really curious why you were bothering me with a kid like that.”
Contrary to my guess.
He told such a childish story and suddenly sympathized with the perpetrator.
“Well, thanks to you, I’m living well. There’s nothing to be too sorry about.”
｢…｣
“Thanks to you, I became an idol and met this oppa next to me. … I also received an apology from you. If you hadn’t bothered me, I would have done an ordinary job like you and met an ordinary man, right? Rather, I should be grateful to you.”
｢… Sorry.”
“I told you there’s nothing to be sorry about. … I am truly grateful for you.”
Just like when he drove me to the edge of a cliff.
Hinami also pushed her to the cliff with just one of her tongue.
“Oh, do you want to join in? You’ve been glancing at my brother since a while ago. … Are you interested too?
｢… “I’ll keep my mouth shut for the rest of my life.”
“You understand quickly. … Then I’ll keep my mouth shut too.”
After tightly locking her mouth in front of her.
She slightly lifted the yukata she was wearing and placed Kang Joo-hyuk’s hand on her chest.
“Including all of this. Are you going to shut up?
｢… Yes.”
“Oh, spread out the blanket nicely. … I’m going to sleep right away.”
｢… Yes.”
After that, Hinami shooed away the extremely polite waitress, laid down on the blanket she had prepared, and sighed deeply.
… I think this is the first time I’ve ever felt scared of him.
After rubbing the rough skin on my skin, I approached Hinami and spoke to her carefully.
“Hinami.”
“Don’t talk to me, Jiya. “I’m tired.”
“What?”
“… Actually, I’m still scared of him.”
However, Hinami had a hard time covering herself with the blanket and breathing heavily.
… Was it all an act?
Or would it be more correct to call it a mask?
A moment when she saw the weak appearance of a friend she had not seen in a long time, and her body and head stiffened for a moment.
“Get out of the way.”
Kang Joo-hyuk, who was leaning against her wall, stood up from her, threw her wings away, crawled under her blanket, and hugged her tightly in front of her.
She then patted and patted Hinami’s back and comforted Hinami, who was breathing heavily, in an unusually gentle way.
… In a way I could never do.
“…”
As she quietly looked down at them shaking on the same pillow, her older sister, who had gone in to brush her teeth a while ago, trudged out.
Then he looked at me and them in turn, then made a strange expression and walked past us into the next room.
I also didn’t want to stay in this uncomfortable air any longer, so I carefully got up and followed her older sister.
“… “Why are you following me?”
“Just.”
My sister, who was lying on the blanket in the next room, staring at the ceiling, tried to chase me away with a grumbling voice without even looking at me.
But it doesn’t seem like they’re really trying to kick me out, so I sit down in the corner of the room, hug her knees and look at her sister,
I asked a question.
“What.”
“… “Why does she like a guy like that?”
Still.
A question I still don’t understand.
… She can understand a little bit now why Hinami likes him.
But she was still full of questions about why her sister liked him.
At least the older sister I know doesn’t have a dark past like Hinami.
If someone was bothered, they were bullied, and they weren’t the type of person to be bullied.
If I received love from someone, I received it, but I was never the type to spread love like I do now.
“… “I don’t know.”
“What?”
“If you ask me why, I can’t answer either. … “Why did I like a man like that?”
But her older sister glared at me with her cold eyes and avoided answering, saying she didn’t know.
… I think there must be an answer in those harsh eyes.
My sister, who couldn’t help but spit it out in front of me, looked at me and suddenly got up and started rummaging through her luggage.
“What are you doing?”
“Can you please stop acting like we’re friends now? … “Since when did you treat me like an older sister?”
“…”
Then he spoke in a very cold tone, picked up a few clothes, and immediately left the room, leaving me alone.
… I thought for a moment about whether I should follow in her footsteps or not.
I lay down on the blanket that my sister had been using just a moment ago and closed my eyes.
What happens in the next room anyway.
… In fact, it was something I shouldn’t have touched.
Because I finally realized it.
**
… Feeling cool, but with a slight discomfort remaining.
If she had accepted my offer, all this discomfort wouldn’t have gone away.
As I said, the grudges I harbored as a child have long since disappeared.
But that didn’t mean it was completely erased from my life.
Like a pencil mark left after being erased with an eraser.
“… It’s stuffy, oppa.”
“I’m sorry, should I let you go?”
“No. … Just a little weaker.”
As I exhale in the arms of my older brother who held me tightly, I recall the expression on his face when he stared intently at me earlier.
… Should I say it was really stupid, or should I say it looked stupid.
What is certain is that it does not look as confident as before.
It’s unfair that my life has been so twisted because of such crap, but at the same time, I feel fortunate that my twisted life has become so successful.
If something like that hadn’t happened, it might have been me, not her, who worked as an employee at a place like this.
If that were the case, she would have started a family with a man she couldn’t get along with and lived a happy life like her old boyfriend.
… Then, I probably cheated like my mom.
Since I would have had an affair with a man like my brother, I guess I would have ended up being abandoned at some point.
Since this is the first time, you own me.
“Come out.”
“I don’t like it.”
As I was thinking about various things in my arms, before I knew it, Madam Jeongsil was jumping out and nudging me with her foot.
Well, it was taken away right in front of my eyes, so it’s natural to be angry.
Still, she had been enjoying it a lot since morning, and her sister getting angry when she hugged her for a moment was both annoying and cute.
I felt with my whole body that I was so obsessed with my brother.
… The more I took away, the better I felt.
“Hey.”
“I don’t like it. Her sister did it in the morning and also before we got back. “Aren’t you trying to monopolize me too much?”
So she pretended to be angry at her older sister who kept hitting on her, and when she showed her frustration, her older sister looked down at me with a smile on her face and snickered.
Suddenly she thought her sister had gone crazy, so she stared at her with question marks in her eyes.
“… Come out and get dressed. Because you brought something to wear.”
“…”
My sister threw the clothes in both her hands at me, and while I was blindfolded, she stole my brother and dragged him towards her.
… Even though she thought her sister’s trick was really clever, she wasn’t that annoyed.
She got up from her previous position, picked up the spilled costume, and glared at her older sister, who was hanging on her shoulder.
She said this:
“Bring Jia too.”
“… Why him?”
“If you leave her alone, she’ll get upset… ?”
Because it’s been a while since I walked around with Jia as her friend.
Because for the first time in a long time, Jia tried to treat me like a friend.
I decided to take care of my friend just for today.
Although it would be a shame to have less time to focus on myself.
That much.
… Because my brother won’t get tired of me.
And.
In the end, my brother prefers me rather than him.
Because I will love you more.
Although I am a friend who cannot be defeated by singing even if I wake up dead…,
… I am superior in terms of teaching and teaching.
