Chapter 70 – Episode 70. A Glass of Soju With a Senior at a Makchang Restaurant
(Again from the main character’s point of view)
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As Hyojin noona said, when Hyojin noona’s boyfriend went to the army, she had a chance to meet me and Hyojin noona.
But I didn’t bother to do that.
Anyway, just breathing and walking around can attract women infinitely.
It is the same as before and now.
There was no reason for me to touch Hyojin noona, who has a boyfriend.
Well, if it’s about Hyojin noona, even if she has a boyfriend, there’s a chance that I’ve touched her.
Still, I didn’t do that.
It was because Hyojin noona’s boyfriend was nothing else but a soldier.
I think it’s a bit like taking a girlfriend from a boyfriend who was in the army.
I think I came to think about it a little earlier because I went to the army a little earlier than others.
I also served in the military, but I think soldiers under the current system are quite pitiful from my subjective point of view.
Simply put, your greatest happiness is when you sleep.
That seems to be enough of the whole explanation.
It’s kind of like taking your girlfriend away from someone like that.
Besides, for men outside, if you walk around on the street, half of them are women.
But a man in the army has only one girlfriend.
Even if it was such a poor military service, of course, the story was a little different for me.
In my case, when I was on leave from the military, I picked up some comfortable clothes and went out to the club without a hat, and the girls were all over me.
So even when I was in the military or on vacation, it was absolutely possible to find a woman with whom I would madly share my accumulated desires.
But usually not.
The current treatment of soldiers has improved compared to the past to the extent that the hourly wage of private soldiers has risen to 570 won, but still, our country’s soldiers are socially regrettable.
There is even a black humor saying that the 123rd place in the ranking of men that women like is the 1st place civilian, the 2nd place alien, and the 3rd place soldier.
Taking away girlfriends from such unfortunate people is too harsh.
If I put my mind to it, it’s easy to become a professional soldier girlfriend killer.
Shaking the heart of a woman waiting for her boyfriend from the military is a level of difficulty that, to me, is enough to steal the Chupa Cheeks from a child returning from daycare.
However, the reason I don’t do that can be seen as being a bit considerate of soldiers.
Maybe I would have been with Hyojin-senpai that day if Hyojin-senpai’s boyfriend was not a soldier but an ordinary college student.
I think that senior Hyojin of that day definitely had feelings for me.
At that time, Hyojin sunbaenim sent me a lot of text messages, almost like message bombs, and she got drunk and even broke into the studio where I live.
I was also burning with desire at that time.
At that time, even after beating Jeong Seo-yeon, the things in my lower body were still quite curvy, and the pillars of my angry lower body wanted more of the woman’s place.
In such a situation, following Jeong Seo-yeon, who was a junior art student, and a new beauty, and that is, if I had a second date with senior Na Hyo-jin, who can be said to be a queen recognized by all in our department…
Then, from my point of view, I might have been very satisfied.
However, it was a bit like losing my girlfriend, who was no different from my last hope, from a soldier who could barely be said to have had to shovel for hours to eat a piece of schnell chicken.
That’s the same, of course, there were too many girls who came up to me even if it wasn’t Hyojin sunbaenim, so I didn’t have much to do with it.
That day too, after seeing her senior Hyojin, I went back to her one-room studio where Jeong Seo-yeon was waiting for her, and spent time fucking her naked all day long with her.
Shortly after that incident, Hyojin sunbaenim went to study abroad.
She said that it was a little sudden that Hyojin sunbaenim went to her study abroad, and that’s why she knew the people she was close to a lot right before she went.
And there was one more rumor about senior Hyojin.
It was about that boyfriend in the military.
People say she broke up with her enlisted boyfriend pretty quickly.
Before she went to study abroad, Hyo-jin already broke up with her boyfriend.
After hearing that rumor, I also had some regrets.
If Hyojin-senpai had known that she would break up so easily with her boyfriend who had gone to the army, she also wondered if it would have been nice if she had sex with Hyojin-senpai that day.
I didn’t go in with Hyojin-senpai because I had a military boyfriend, but I also thought that if I knew that Hyojin-senpai and her boyfriend would break up anyway, I would have just met Hyojin-senpai for a while before he went to study abroad.
I talked to senior Hyojin while recalling the old days at the Makchang restaurant.
“Nuna, you went abroad to study at that time, right?”
“It did.”
Hyojin sunbaenim answered and raised her glass.
“Braided?”
“Yes. Tada.”
I clinked my glasses
Hyojin-senpai, whether in the past or now, does not break and drink, but inhales in one shot.
On the surface, it looks innocent.
Well, looking back now, out of the many women I met, it seems that there were a lot of women with innocent visuals who were somehow too drunk.
I also had more than enough to deal with them because I was more drunk than they were.
Hyojin sunbaenim drank a glass and spoke.
“I went all the way to study abroad, but I’m doing this here, isn’t it a little funny?”
Not really.
In this day and age, it is difficult for anyone to get a job unless they have high-ranking connections and solicitation.
So I thought that there was nothing funny about Hyojin-senpai just because she was living her life as a job seeker like me.
It was normal to fail, and I thought that those who passed did a good job.
With that in mind, I talked to senior Hyojin.
“Sister. Do you know Jinsa Daecheonmyeong?”
Senior Hyojin nodded her head.
“Know.”
“If you live with what you have to do, I don’t think there’s any need to think of yourself as funny. You can leave the rest to heaven. If I’ve done enough.”
Hearing my words, Hyojin sunbaenim smiled calmly.
“You still energize others?”
I’d appreciate it if you looked at it like that, but for me, I just talked about what came to my mind.
There is no need to lower your self-esteem.
There are so many fields in this world, and people think that they can succeed by taking on any number of challenges in one of those many fields.
With that thought in mind, I received Hyojin sunbaenim’s words.
“Still? Did I ever cheer you up in the past?”
“Uh.”
Hyojin sunbaenim answered my words briefly and seriously.
Then, momentarily losing her seriousness, she peeked out and spoke to me with a smile.
“Hoho! Hey. Isn’t that obvious? Jinhyeok just sees your face and gives me strength!”
I also laughed along with senior Hyojin.
Laughing, I filled Hyojin-senpai’s empty glass with soju and poured soju into mine as well.
“Ahaha, I think that’s the same for me too, sister?”
“Really?”
Hyojin noona smiled and said to me.
“Jinhyuk, do you think my style is okay?”
I raised my glass at Hyojin noona’s words.
“Shall we have a drink?”
“Hoho, are you talking?”
Once the glasses are clinked, I take a full gulp.
“Big~.”
It’s good.
Alcohol is basically delicious.
And, depending on who is sitting in front of me, sometimes it tastes even better like now.
Hyojin sunbaenim drank her soju and then ate the broth of young radish noodles with a spoon as if to change the taste of the soju that touched her tongue.
I picked up a piece of makchang with chopsticks and ate it.
The unique chewy and savory taste of makchang was addictive.
I ate the makchang and answered Hyojin’s question about me.
“Your sister’s style, who wouldn’t like it?”
Haha, he is.”
Hyojin sunbaenim put down the spoon he was eating with the young radish noodle soup and she laughed.
I talked to senior Hyojin.
“Is that true? In the department, noona was the most popular. Whenever I was eating with my sister, the older brothers just asked me to join them.”
“Yes? Who?”
“A lot of them did.”
There was no need for me to elaborate on the fact that senior Hyojin was a major star in the department at the time.
No one knew that senior Hyojin was the greatest beauty in our department, and her new students realized that within a month after orientation.
Because her overall atmosphere was like that, the person in question, senior Hyojin herself, couldn’t help but be unaware of the envy of those people.
“Um~.”
When I brought up the story, Hyojin sunbaenim seemed happy for some reason.
You look great.
The bright expression that the beauty shows has the effect of making me feel better.
Hyojin sunbaenim asked me with her face that made even the viewer feel good.
“How were you?”
“I thought you were really good, too.”
“Ah~, not as a senior or junior, I wonder what you thought of me rationally at that time.”
Well, about that… Is there anything I can do other than say something?
All men would have thought the same thing.
Reasonably, everyone would have wanted to do it with senior Hyojin.
I said it verbatim.
“Rationally, I thought of you as a good senior. I think we could have met at that time?”
“Really?”
“Yes. But it’s not easy right now~ I have to pass the exam first, but I can’t study and date at the same time.”
In the old days, I could just say I liked seniors, but now I just told Hyojin sunbaenim that it was difficult to be in a relationship.
“Oh~, is it? Same as me?”
It was a bit of an unexpected reaction.
I thought Hyojin sunbaenim would show a bit of disappointment when I told her that it’s a bit like we’re dating now, but instead, she sympathized with me.
That was fine for me as it is.
Seriously, lately I’ve been refraining from meeting women as much as possible and putting a lot of emphasis on learning, and it was good for me that senior Hyojin worked hard with the same thoughts as me.
I understood what Hyojin-senpai was saying, but I also played around with it a bit.
“I think it’s something. Would you have met at that time? Or would it be difficult to meet now?”
“Hohoho! Both~.”
“Ah~, is that so? I can’t help it because passing the exam comes first, but for some reason it’s kind of a pity~, even if you say something, you’ll still be able to meet me. Ah~”
“Hey~, you first told me that I couldn’t meet you right now~”
“Even so, my sister just wore that car too~.”
“Are you first?”
“How are you?”
As we exchanged these words, senior Hyojin and I said, “Pour and drink soju together.”
Most conversations at drinking parties are like that.
It is usually categorized into one to three.
A joke to enjoy the uplifting atmosphere unique to a drinking party.
A serious story that is difficult to tell elsewhere.
And, a story about male-female relationships.
These 3 things don’t get out of hand very well.
And in fact, I don’t care at all if I just say something without thinking.
No matter what you say, most girls enjoy spending time with me, and tend to enjoy it more when it’s a drinking party.
In such a situation, I just have to enjoy this place appropriately.
Judging from the places I’ve been through where a lot of men and women met in a 3:3 ratio, there are quite a few kids who are really having a hard time.
A man trying to stand out somehow, or a man trying to flatter a woman, or a man trying to seduce a woman by overdoing it.
They often look tough.
Even if you don’t, everyone has their own things to do in life, and it would be nice if we could have some fun at a drinking party after doing all of them.
I also feel some pity for them.
In my case it is not necessary.
Even if I don’t attract aggro, I don’t have to flatter, I don’t have to overdo it and I don’t have to use energy, I just show myself and act naturally, and the beauty is infinitely twisted.
This is my life
After talking casually like that, Hyojin sunbaenim served another shot of soju, and after that, she scooped up the young radish noodle soup with a spoon and ate it.
“Are you, at that time, still meeting him?”
