Chapter 189 – 34. Same Room (4)
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[Lee Ji-yoon]
– What does that mean?
– Speak clearly.
– Break my pride?
– Are you telling me to take off all my clothes and lie down in front of you and declare defeat?
[Seo Woo Jin]
– That wouldn’t be bad, but…
[Lee Ji-yoon]
– What?
[Seo Woo Jin]
– Give me a little bit. Just a little bit.
– Hayun’s older sister, just like until now… Don’t try to win too much.
[Lee Ji-yoon]
– So.
– Don’t you need to explain clearly that you should lose to that girl you mentioned, you idiot?
[Seo Woo Jin]
– Ah. It’s not that great.
– I think your mood will improve a lot by today at the earliest, or tomorrow or Sunday at the latest.
[Lee Ji-yoon]
-So. What.
[Seo Woo Jin]
– Around that time, I measured the timing appropriately…
– Sister, just glare at me.
– I’ll take care of the rest.
[Lee Ji-yoon]
– … Is that all?
– Try glaring at me?
[Seo Woo Jin]
-Uh.
– That’s all.
[Lee Ji-yoon]
– … I think something is missing.
– What are you going to do with just glaring at me?
[Seo Woo Jin]
– There is nothing I can do.
– You don’t have to worry.
– Because you and your sister…
– We look more alike than I thought.
189
… Anyway, to sum it up.
One.
Starting today Friday, Seo Woo Jin will be staying at our house for Saturday and Sunday.
Two.
In the meantime, you will pay more attention to your sister than to me.
Well, this is the way it has always been, so it doesn’t mean anything.
Three.
I watched for a while…
Stare at your sister?
Is this the end?
“… Hmm.”
Telling her to glare at her sister she is probably…, I guess it means that I have to somehow express that I feel bad.
Even if it’s not necessarily glaring, it’s like getting irritated…
Still, it won’t really matter.
I roughly understand the purpose.
The exact opposite of what it was so far.
This means that I will try to do the opposite this time, trying to make my sister jealous, who I used to help with the excuse of ‘for the sake of Seo Woo Jin’s pervert tastes’.
It’s not that I feel superior and her sister is jealous.
My sister feels superior, and I feel jealous.
“…”
Of course, my jealousy is just an act to attract her older sister.
I don’t like the picture a bit.
I just wanted to see my sister jealous.
Just because Seo Woo-jin was taken away from me, her girlfriend said that she was her, and her tears welled up …
Something like that.
Well, anyway, I roughly understood it up to this point.
Maybe it’s because he’s a guy too, but he seems normal on the outside and likes dirty things. Totally perverted. It just added to the impression.
But the last words Seo Woo Jin sent.
It was difficult to understand that much.
I can’t believe I look like my sister.
Where are you going?
Eyes?
Okay. The eyes are acknowledged.
My sister and I are both the same dark green here.
But I don’t know much about anything else.
Hair?
When I was young, I had the same black hair as my sister,
Except for a few gray-looking hairs, it has long since turned white.
The same goes for the face.
They are as different as black and white. I don’t know what other people think, but at least that’s how it was in my eyes.
In comparison, the height and body size seem to be somewhat similar,
No one would say that I resemble someone based solely on this.
What’s left… Personality? Habit? How do you speak?
Well, that’s right.
I don’t think there’s anything that resembles me except the eyes.
… Umm.
Does it seem a little different to men?
“What are you doing? It’s dangerous in front of the crosswalk.”
“… Ah.”
I spent a long time cursing at Seo Woo Jin, who answered ‘this and that’ to my question about what they resembled and moved on.
Even though the light is red, a familiar hand blocks my path as I walk absent-mindedly.
It is none other than the hand of my older sister who was leaving school with me.
I stopped at the end of her guidance, looked at my older sister blankly, and then took a step back.
“… Thank you.”
“…”
“Hmm… I guess it’s because I’m tired…”
“…”
The one hour with Seo Woo Jin yesterday was quite thrilling,
Or, implying that she was in contact with Seo Woo Jin without her sister’s knowledge her her all night long (I never did that.)
A fairly high level of provocation in my opinion.
But her sister didn’t respond and instead moved her gaze towards her driveway.
… Please tell me something.
I guess it’s because it’s my first time doing something like this.
Rather, I feel embarrassed.
“…”
“…”
If I had to pick the biggest change since the night before yesterday, it would be this.
I can point out that my sister’s speaking volume has decreased significantly.
Because I like the sound of rain when it rains.
Because I like the crunching sound under my feet when it snows.
When the weather was nice, there was no longer an older sister who would make loud comments just because the weather was nice.
The older sister among the friends I saw at the academy was still bright,
She is no longer as she was when she stood next to me.
… It’s not like I’m angry,
She just stares straight ahead with a relaxed expression on her face, as if she were taking a nap.
“…”
Something,
When I saw my sister with that expression.
As Seo Woo-jin said, me and my sister,
It looks a bit similar, doesn’t it?
“… Ah.”
I wonder what was asked,
For that reason, sometimes I think of my face when I look at it in the mirror.
Ding,
The traffic light turned green.
*****
“Follow me with the basket.”
“… Yes.”
Discount supermarket near my house.
The reason I headed here without changing clothes was nothing special.
This is why the refrigerator was emptied earlier than expected because a man was having dinner with us recently.
So, first of all, I am a porter…
Considering my sister’s power, didn’t she just bring me here because she wanted to treat me like a slave?
Feeling like timid revenge?
It was a funny imagination, but on the other hand, I couldn’t help but laugh because it seemed like she could really be like that if it were the older sister I knew.
Ugh. Be timid. I’m timid.
What if I were your older sister now?
Then I guess one side of my cheek was bright red?
… If it were me, definitely
Fuck you.
How dare you do this to my boyfriend.
Until they say something was wrong.
Inevitably, I hold on to the other cheek.
Sigh.
Sigh.
Because I’m sure he hit me.
Well, unlike me, my sister, who has a kind heart, just chewed her lip and turned away, muttering that she was a crazy bitch.
… If she really did that, she should have gone straight to Seo Woo Jin for treatment…
And then again…
She must have gotten home a few hours late.
Also, she may have been hit by her older sister.
Is there?
“… I just need one? A basket?”
“Just one for now.”
Hmm.
It must be imagination.
I glanced at the inside of her cheek with the tip of her tongue, then walked towards my sister with a brisk walk along with the pitch-black basket.
“What are you going to buy?”
“First, I’ll buy some vegetables and look through them… I think I’ll stop by the butcher for a bit. The meat here is of poor quality.”
“Meat? Maybe it’s because I haven’t been to the hospital lately, I have a lot of money…”
“I’m not living because of Woojin.”
“… “I haven’t talked to Woojin yet.”
“I tried to do it.”
“… That’s right.”
“Haa… Meat was also included in kimchi stew and soybean paste stew. I guess I’ll buy a bit more today than then… But.”
“… Wait… What if I just threw the vegetables like that?”
“You threw it so it was easy to catch, right?”
“… “I missed it.”
“… Ha…”
Onion. Carrot. Green onion. Pepper. Plus tofu.
I follow along, picking up the vegetables handed to me by the older woman walking ahead.
I usually only go to convenience stores, but it’s been a while since I’ve been to a discount mart like this so I have no idea where anything is.
I followed her sister for a while, staring at her ponytail.
“…”
As she looked at the grass her sister was putting in her basket, she began to see a strange similarity between them.
Chives.
Cabbage.
Asparagus.
Walnut.
There, oysters.
… In this place, the only thing missing is the representative menu item, eel, and that’s it.
Energy… Good food.
“…It’ll be one basket. Let’s go.”
“Oh, yes.”
What is it?
Could it be that I have a Mac?
Lee Ji-yoon Does this mean that no matter how hard you try to scratch me, I’m destined to end up doing something stupid like this?
… Hmm. Well, that’s right.
She’s so stupid and naive, I don’t think she would think of something like this.
I guess this picture came about just because I was preparing food for Seo Woo Jin.
How can it be that her obvious-looking sister does such a shady thing?
No, no.
Wouldn’t it be better if it were me?
I don’t get along with my sister.
My sister just…
What should I do, what should I do? After I stamped my feet and got taken away,
… It suits you to grow next to me.
“… You said you were coming. Why are you doing that there?”
“… I’ll go.”
When I look up from looking at the basket, all I see is my sister’s back, looking back at me and walking cutely as usual.
After looking at it and the inside of the basket, I sighed and headed to the checkout counter.
*****
I thought it was quite a long way until the rainy season arrived.
Mid-April, when all the scent of winter has disappeared.
My sister and I walked along in the drizzle of powdery rain.
In one hand, a white plastic bag with a protruding green onion as its identity.
In one hand, she was holding a pitch-black plastic bag containing meat, perhaps 2 geun or 3 geun.
“Let’s go quickly. It might rain.”
“…”
Then, wouldn’t it be okay for my sister to pick up any of the things in my hand for me?
Until now, it was just a suspicion, but now that we’ve come this far, I think it’s my sister’s own way of timid revenge…
After holding back what I wanted to say, I held the plastic bag in one hand and smoothed my fingers.
Maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I’ve been there, but my fingers, crushed by the plastic bag, were bright white.
… If you think about it, even if you add it all up, it wouldn’t even be 5kg.
I guess it’s because I’ve been living my life thinking that having the power to move the mouse is enough.
Half of the people had umbrellas.
I join the other half and step on the damp sidewalk blocks.
If you weren’t careful, your shoes could have gotten wet from the rainwater that had accumulated in the crevices,
It doesn’t matter.
That’s what I was aiming for in the first place.
My sister is also timidly taking revenge like that, but there’s nothing she can’t do to me, right?
Of course, if you ask who was at fault first, you’ll run out of things to say.
If you were going to consider those things one by one,
I wouldn’t even touch her older sister’s boyfriend in the first place. Yes.
The rainwater that had been soaking my clothes was becoming more and more unpleasant.
“Sister.”
“… Uh, Woojin?”
“…”
At the entrance of the alley leading to my house.
The reason why Seo Woo Jin appeared wearing an umbrella.
“Why are you here? I told you to go first in a chat earlier.”
“I also left later than expected, and it was raining. I guess I didn’t bring an umbrella.”
Would it be better to call it Mr. Umbrella?
Wearing a black, heavy, and large umbrella, he approached his sister and smiled kindly.
Anyway, he has great acting skills.
According to the elders, it looks like a snake.
If I wasn’t a healing transcendentalist, I could have been an actor.
In her mind, all she wants to do is eat me and her sister together, but when she stands in front of her sister, who is her prey, she becomes so cruel.
… Anyway, I wish I could give her an umbrella like her older sister.
With that thought in mind, I walk closer to her, and for a moment, my eyes collide with the person who was talking to her older sister.
“… Hello.”
“… Yes.”
But of course there is no conversation.
Even a brief greeting could have been considered conversation, but that was it anyway.
After sharing her gaze for about a second, he put her umbrella over her older sister and gave me the remaining seat of her.
Even the head and shoulders are covered,
The other shoulder is,
A place completely soaked in rainwater.
“…”
… Caring more about her sister than me.
As I said this morning, just let go of your pride for a few days.
I know it in my head.
I know very well that this is right.
As expected,
I didn’t feel very good.
