Chapter 111 – Episode 111. What to Do in My Spare Time
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Wednesday passed, Thursday.
This week has been going pretty well.
On Monday, it was a bit difficult because of the exhaustion of physical strength after having sex with Bae Ji-ah on Sunday, but Tuesday and Wednesday were fine.
It wasn’t that I didn’t drink as much as I could on Monday, I had Chicken Cola, and it was only a little difficult because I only worked all night without alcohol.
Tuesday and Wednesday were very good academically.
Today, which is Thursday, I listened to additional lectures in addition to the problem-solving lecture.
According to Kwon Se-ah’s schedule, this week, a special lecture on management type study was held.
So, I took classes in the morning and afternoon, and Seah Kwon’s class in the evening.
By that time, it was already past 9pm.
“Today’s class ends here, everyone go in~! Bye~!”
“Thank you!”
“Thank you!”
After class, Kwon Se-ah did not call me out like last time, but instead said, “You are welcome~.” I was the first to leave the classroom.
I wanted to go home coolly for some reason, but Kwon Se-ah didn’t want to bump into Yoon-gyeong, so she went out first, so I received a text message saying [Teacher Lee, aren’t you lonely tonight too?].
After sending [ㅡㅡ] To Kwon Se-ah, I gave a rough answer saying, [A man is not lonely if he studies together], Then put his cell phone in his pocket.
Like Se-A, who notices Yoon-Kyung, Yoon-Kyung also doesn’t wait for me after class, as if she notices Se-A.
And on the way out of the study room after the managed study and past the counter, I met Yubona, a part-timer in the study room.
“Goodbye~.”
Bona greeted me without incident, and I bowed my head slightly to receive the greeting.
From the looks of it, it seemed like we were greeting each other normally, but Yubona and I exchanged playful glances with each other besides greetings, probably because we had taken off our clothes and hugged each other in her studio once before.
The feeling of putting my things in her place came to mind once again when I met her face.
The way out was so alone.
Sometimes it’s okay to be alone.
Especially when you have to focus on learning like now, if you get used to spending time with someone in private other than the time you gathered for learning, it might interfere with your studying again.
I came down to the first floor from the second floor of the study room by myself and stood there for a while.
When you come down from the study room, there is a regular supermarket competing with a discount mart, and a bookstore that sells exam books.
I stood in front of him for a while and thought.
‘Hmm…’
I thought about what to do for a while.
As was the case last time, the special lecture given by Kwon Se-ah separately through the managed study is quite helpful for me, and it is very good to listen to it, but the time left is a bit ambiguous.
Usually, if you study in the self-study room of an academy, you study until 10:30, but if you listen to the morning and afternoon lectures and listen to the management-type study special lecture, it will be over 9:00.
Looking at normal times, there is about an hour of study time left for self-study, but this remaining hour is not enough time to review what you have learned at the academy or to prepare for tomorrow’s lessons.
So the conclusion I came to last time was to take a little more rest as if it was over an hour early during the time for the management study.
‘Shall we go into the house?’
With that feeling, I decided to go home right away.
But suddenly, I thought again that it was a bit unfortunate to just go home.
It was because if I went home like this and went to sleep, tomorrow would unfold like this, where I had to study the same way.
If you are a middle school or high school student, you would go home and play games after school, and if you are an office worker, you would come home and watch TV, go to a restaurant, or have a drink. It was.
Even if you can do it to a certain extent, it is not easy if you pile up all the time.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, it’s already the 4th day.
It’s time to get a little stressed out.
So I wanted to relieve some stress today.
It ended early, and I thought I could go in after playing for a while.
‘I just go in and I feel so sorry for myself. Is there anything to relieve stress?’
I thought about going in after playing for a while and went into the alley.
It was to think more while smoking.
After entering the alleyway, I smoked a cigarette and thought about how I could spread rumors that I had a good time if I went in after playing a little today.
“Sueup… Whoa…”
A number of options came to mind.
1. PC room. Once you do this, you won’t be able to control it.
2. Eat chicken. I don’t really want to eat anything like that.
3. Go home and use the Internet. This is a bit like going home after class every day.
4. After going home, go to Song Ji-eun’s house. This…
Ah…
Hmm…
Shall we go to Song Ji-eun’s house?
Maybe it’s Song Ji-eun, who lives in the same building as the studio where I live, so I’m so close, I sometimes get tempted to sleep with her when I go in after her class.
Song Ji-eun also wants me, so she changed her topic to something else strange last time and I came out of her house, but if I went with her mind, I could sleep with her right away.
While thinking about that, I suddenly came up with another option.
“Arcade?”
It was a fairly sound choice.
And it seemed like it would be pretty good for temporarily relieving stress.
There is a arcade near here that is quite crowded.
If it was a PC room, you could play a role and then run until 6 am, but in an arcade room, there was no way that would happen.
Unlike games in PC rooms that develop characters for an extremely long time, arcades deal with games that can be played for a while by inserting coins.
With that thought in mind, I headed for the arcade.
The distance between the study room building I came down from the second floor and the arcade was not that far.
If you go down a little to the left, and go right at the intersection of the alley, the arcade is a little further away.
On the way, you will meet many people.
Also, this gosichon has a lot of floating population.
It seems that the number of people has decreased slightly compared to when I first came up to this gosichon, but when I basically went to other areas, I think that this place has a fairly large floating population in normal times.
When I arrived at the game room, small benches were lined up next to it, and I suddenly thought of kissing Yunkyung Kim again.
I opened the door to the game room and entered.
As soon as you enter the game room, there is a tremendous noise.
-Pupper pup pup pup pup pup pup pup pup pup pup!
– Took! Took! Took! Whoa! Took! Took! Took! Under! Hi! Whoa!
-Pop! Pop! Pyobyobyong! Byo Byo Byo! Boom! Pop! Pop! Boom!
-Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Tata Tang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Ta-ta-ta-ta-tata-tata-tang!
Since so many amusement machines emit sound at once, all the sounds of the stars are mixed together to create a tremendous sound.
Still, this noise was much better.
Because it was quite windy outside today.
There were also days that were a little chilly, but today, for some reason, it felt a little colder because the wind blew more than other times.
So even the loud noises of countless machines felt much better once I got a little warmer.
There were quite a few people in the game room.
Everyone took a seat and were playing hard, and there were many people watching.
Also, there were a lot of game machines in the arcade, and coin karaoke rooms were densely installed along the edge, but all but a couple of them seemed to be fully occupied, judging from the fact that the doors were all closed.
I first went to the bill changer to change coins.
And among the many arcade machines, the stake was quite large, so I went to the Tekken machine with several arcade machines.
‘I shouldn’t stick with people.’
Tekken is a fighting action game where the character you choose and the opponent character compete 1v1.
There is also a 2:2 ratio, but the latest version is 1:1.
Since I’m not good at games, I came here to relieve stress, so I thought it would be okay to beat the AI a little.
Fortunately, there was one empty machine.
So I sat down in front of the round red chair with no backrest, typical of arcades, and put in a coin.
And we played a little game.
I picked Paul Phoenix and used his skills to fight the AI.
The character I chose was still quite strong against the first game of the computer.
– Oh!
– Oh!
I don’t know the technique, but the technique of throwing a fist forward is Paul’s main technique, simple but quite powerful, so I was able to break a certain amount of AI with this.
Once an opponent’s attack comes in, you either stand or sit to block it, then use a one-two punch-like technique that just presses a button to get out.
In the meantime, if I saw a big gap, I was breaking the game by using Oa.
However, when I had just reached Stage 3, someone challenged me by inserting a coin from the arcade machine on the other side.
I instantly sensed my defeat.
‘Oh, fuck. It’s ruined.’
I picked Paul.
And the opponent chose Hwarang.
– Tack clap clap clap clap clap!
– Tack clap clap clap clap clap!
Unlike when I was playing against the AI, I played the game very hard, frantically pressing buttons.
However, it was very clear that the difference in skill with the opponent was too great.
The game went fairly one-sided.
If I’m guarding, the opponent makes a loud grab to neutralize the guard, and if the opponent floats me once, I put in a flashy air combo, then a wall combo, and then some kind of ground collapses and I fall down, and then some other combo goes in there …
Like an almost infinite combo, the opponent’s skills entered my pole endlessly.
Looking at the other person’s Hwarang character, it almost seemed like Taekwondo was the best martial art in the world.
Hwarang’s legs were attacked like whips of water from various directions.
-Click
As I was being beaten, a man wearing a hat who was watching my game before I knew it even put a coin on top of the game machine I was playing.
In the arcade, placing coins like this is an implicit rule that the waiting number is number one.
For some reason, I felt like I was going to lose, so I wanted to win the game so that the person who put the coin on my side would go somewhere else.
But even in the last round, it was difficult to hit one.
Whether he was a high school student or an international student studying in Tekken, he was really good at the game.
They might be doing it in their spare time like me, but it seemed like a considerable talent.
[PERFECT]
Overlaid on my fallen pole, the letter “Perfect” In golden color was printed.
“…”
I tilted my head and got up from my seat.
And the very next person sat in the same seat I had been sitting in.
‘Should I take a look?’
After a loss, I even watched the game my next person played with the person across from me.
However, both have made games that are truly gripping.
It seemed that I would not be able to beat them even if I spent all my time at the academy focusing on my studies.
‘And.’
I watched a few of their games.
Then, I thought about going to a coin karaoke room, so I walked slowly and looked around the coin karaoke machines on the edge.
However, even after looking around the arcade and looking inside the door, there was no room left.
There were only a couple of empty seats when I came in, but they seemed to be full in between.
So I wandered around the arcade some more, thinking about trying another game.
Then, I paused in front of a pump machine.
‘Oh…’
At the pump machine, a woman was pumping hard.
I watched her from behind as she played her game.
Arcades are originally meant to be fun to watch what other people are doing.
Pump is a game similar to the old DDR, in which you clear the game by matching the shapes that come up by stepping on the steps while running.
I’ve done that before, but not that much.
However, rather than just being good at the game, I focused more on the fact that the person who was good at the game was a woman with fairly white arms.
She seemed to have decided to put on pumps at all, but she had taken off her long black padding and sweater next to her, as if she had come in from the cold outside.
And this winter, I was enjoying pumps with short sleeves and shorts.
I guess I wasn’t the only one who thought it was sexy how she moved her body, grabbing her handle behind her red back and stomping on her steps with quite agility.
There were three or four more men around me watching her play.
