Chapter 85 – The Army
“Are you really there?”
I couldn’t believe it and asked in a low voice.
My girlfriend seemed to have put an iron plate on her face. She calmly put the pickled quail egg in her mouth and nodded her head.
“Lie.”
I could tell at once that it was a lie.
Yes, that’s because Jiyoung doesn’t have many friends like me, and even if she did have friends, if she were a pretty girl, she would seduce me and tell me to fuck her first.
There was Eunjung as an example.
So, Ji-young, who is pretty enough to be hunted often, is a fictional character.
Just lying for my military life.
“Don’t you have any friends?”
She wasn’t very close with Dahye, and aside from Eunjung, she had no one to call her friends.
“Huh. Do you think I’m Hoon?”
“Isn’t it worse than me?”
“…”
I couldn’t deny it.
Because I was giving up from the beginning because Ji-Young is the type that doesn’t make friends with Ji-Young. She has made more than enough friends to last a lifetime without her.
Maybe…
But does Ji-young need to make a friend of hers without adding a single bit of exaggeration? She does, and she thinks for herself, so she can’t make a person who can be called a friend.
“Still, did it work out?”
She was not a lie, but the perception that if she had a real friend, maybe she would be Eun-jung, even if she was not as good as Ji-young, or she would be a beauty of a level below her, naturally came into being.
Because of that, ‘I’ll ask Hoon to find a good person for once.’ Because of that, the soldiers here were looking at me rather than at Jiyoung.
It was burdensome as if the eyes were already my old friend, as if they were lifesavers.
“What are you going to do later?”
“Why? I told you to look for it. Didn’t I tell you to find it and bring it to me? Didn’t I tell you to find it and bring it to me? If I dragged it out for a while, wouldn’t half a year be enough? Well, if it doesn’t work, I’ll bring Eunjung and try again.”
“No.”
“Huh. Because Eunjung is your girl?”
“Uh.”
I answered firmly.
“Then…”
She took out her phone and looked through her phone book.
“You can use someone who is not Hoon’s lover.”
After finding out the phone number thinking that there might be times when I want to see her fucking again, these were the phone numbers of the women who ate it.
How do you know? First of all, there were more than 50 people on the list, even though there were only family and my family saved on her phone.
As expected, all of them were below the standard, so they were women who ate once and never contacted again.
Saying that he has a bad face, saying that he has small breasts, saying that he has small hips, height, weight, etc. It is full of phone numbers of poor women who may still be waiting anxiously for Ji-young’s call because they couldn’t exceed her own strict standards.
“Anyway, there are many ways. So go comfortably. Second Byeol?”
At this level, even second place won’t end, but this. Well, spilled water already. I hurriedly put the lunch box that Yerin’s sister had prepared for her, as if telling her what to do.
*
“Annit! Hun-a! I’ll take your place!”
A sergeant, whose name and face I don’t know, came up to me as I was diligently digging a shovel, as if he had heard the news, took the shovel away, and started digging himself.
“Hun-ah. You worked hard. How about taking a break?”
Another sergeant said kindly, wiping the beads of sweat on his forehead with a towel.
It wouldn’t have been any better if it had been one of my sweethearts. The man with the swarthy hair smiled benevolently, and it made me feel sick.
However, since it was impossible to say that it was unnecessary, he smiled awkwardly and opened his mouth.
“No… I did 5 minutes now?”
Only 5 minutes. I don’t even know the reason to sell the land, but it’s been only 5 minutes since I’ve been digging the land.
“Five minutes?! Five minutes?! Did you do that much? You can take a break! You deserve a break!”
“…”
My full-time seniors were digging the ground diligently, regardless of rank, except for the sergeant, but only I was overreacting and was anxious to let them rest.
“Let’s go to bed. Rest. You can rest. Oh, in case someone will pick you up?”
Like a sergeant who has been through life for a while, he knew at once what would happen to me later.
“It’s okay. It’s okay, man. My brother will block everything.”
He thumped his chest with his fist and told me to believe only in himself, but he did not believe it because the campaign was not far away.
“Th-before that, soldiers… Do you say you like real soldiers?”
“Yes…?”
“That, your girlfriend’s friend.”
“Ah, well… Uh, wouldn’t it?”
“Heh, hehe.”
I was afraid that if I told a lie now, even the sick people who were not interested in me might take pictures of me, so I unknowingly affirmed it.
Then the sergeant ran a hand through his short hair.
“Because I’m thinking of becoming a sergeant?”
“A noncommissioned officer?”
“Oh, of course I’m not saying that your girlfriend’s friend likes soldiers, it’s just that my childhood dream was to become a great soldier and protect the country.”
Unbecoming a sergeant, he straightened his clothes and looked at me with burdensome eyes.
“Well, that’s right. And I’m good friends with the executives here, so there’s nothing to worry about!”
He patted his back and burst into laughter.
I felt like this was quite a big wave, so I broke out in sweat.
I thought that I had put the life of a sick sergeant in the army because I was not interested in it, but rather wanted to get out quickly.
Haha.”
*
“Oh my.”
I was on my way home, tired of my military life, which seemed to be even more difficult than when I was being bullied without knowing why.
“It’s crazy. Even the executives.”
Before I knew it, news spread among the officers that my girlfriend’s good looks, that her friend liked soldiers, and that they asked me to find a decent man in this military unit, creating an even more difficult situation.
She begged me to look at the picture of my girlfriend stored on my phone, and her beauty in the virtual world, which she doesn’t even exist, is no different from that of a goddess, on the same level as Jiyoung. It’s more than a cup. Settings that did not exist in the first place began to emerge gradually.
So there was nothing strange about the executives clinging to me.
In other words, in a way, it means that he became a jerk trying to connect with a fictional character.
“Ha…”
Inside the subway, she lowered her head and let out a deep sigh.
“Ah…”
Then then
A thin voice presumed to be that of a woman looked at me and sighed.
“Uh… Park… Baak… Jieun?”
She was pretty, but she was also cute, so she still looked like a girl.
What is it. While she was playing molester with Ji-young on the subway, she came to save Ji-young, but she is the same girl who insulted me by giving me a ticket for her virginity.
“That… How are you?”
“…”
Without Jiyoung, she was just so awkward.
She still didn’t want to take her eyes off me, so she smiled awkwardly and asked how she was doing, but she didn’t answer.
Tens of seconds to do so.
“What about Jiyoung…?”
“Jiyoung? Ah.”
“Did she break up?”
A voice full of hope.
“No?”
“…”
She pursed her lips in disappointment at the thoughtless reply.
“Give me your number.”
“Why the number all of a sudden?”
“It’s not you, but Ji-young’s number…”
She held out her own phone with her blushing face as if she had fallen for my girlfriend.
It’s amazing every time like this.
In a way, because of her Jiyoung, she gave me her virginity ticket, which she did not want, and even had sex with her, but I was still eager for her.
“You give me.”
No matter how much it is, I can’t just give my girlfriend’s number to just anyone.
The author’s expression rotted away.
“Okay. But if I don’t hear from you by tonight, I’ll report it.”
“What?”
“These days, the world revolves around women, so even if you report falsely, it will be you, a man, who suffers.”
What a threat! I really didn’t do anything!”
“Okay. Okay, so call me.”
I was thinking of just taking the number and ignoring it, but now that it happened, I had to make a call and ask him to block me.
“Please call me. And I’m sorry.”
I belatedly lowered my head, as if I knew how rude I was, and got down as soon as the door opened.
“Ha ha really.”
It feels like something keeps twisting. This.
With trudging steps, I got off the subway and walked home.
“I’m here?”
“Ah… Older sister. You came quickly?”
“Yeah. Eunjung told me to go home early from now on. He said there might be a problem with Pureum.”
“Good idea.”
With Yerin noona who greets me as soon as I return home. Seeing the boat slowly start to load, a smile almost automatically appeared.
I immediately threw off my boots and buried my face in my sister’s stomach.
“Pureum, how have you been?”
A child who could be my daughter or son. Taemyeong Pureum.
Even if you can’t touch it directly, just rubbing her face against her sister’s stomach feels like you’re connected to Pureum.
By the way, if it’s a son, it’s Kang Ye-hun. If it were my daughter, I would name it Kang Ha-rin.
I made it by mixing my name and my sister’s name properly.
“And Hoon-a. I don’t think you can stand it. Do you want to do it?”
My sister grabbed the end of her skirt and lifted it up with a bewitching expression.
“No.”
But I had no intention of doing it and immediately declined.
