Chapter 77 – Return to School
When I was looking at Ji-woo, who had decided to drink as a nopakko, with dumbfounded eyes.
Sujeongie wearing a light yellow dress that gives off a spring vibe
Lee Hyun-yi, wearing a black tennis skirt and stockings and a see-through black tee with a slight sheer top, approached and said hello.
“Hello brothers!”
“Hello.”
After receiving their greetings, we raised our hands and accepted them.
“Long time no see.”
As Hanul and Sujeong were asking each other how they were doing, I approached Lee Hyeoni, who had been staring at me from earlier.
“Yes, brother, how are you?”
“Me, he’s been fine. You?”
“I was having a bit of a hard time. I thought I had everything sorted out, but it was harder than I thought, maybe because it was the first person I dated.”
“If the first person you met is like that, that’s enough. We are going to drink today, so how about going with him to erase your thoughts?”
“Yes, I like it. But who is…?”
After agreeing to go out for a drink together, Lee Hyun raised his hand and pointed at Jiwoo behind me.
I completely forgot that I had introduced Ji-woo while greeting Park Yi-hyeon, whom I hadn’t seen in a long time. Only then did I introduce him.
“This is Jiwoo and Han Jiwoo, who are in the same class as Hanul and I.”
“Hello. My name is Han Ji-woo.”
“Hello. My name is Park Yi-hyeon from the class of 19.”
Ji-woo seemed a little offended when we talked to each other ignoring him, but since he’s a boy, I decided to ignore that much.
‘Where did you introduce me to?’
Afterwards, after talking with Hanul, Sujeongi approached us.
“It’s been a while, brother Jinseok!”
“Long time no see.”
“By the way, who is that person?”
When Sujeongi introduced Jiwoo, they greeted each other.
“Do you want to go out for a drink too?”
“Me too? Is it okay if I go too?”
“Yeah, it doesn’t matter.”
“Good! Ah… How is Lee Hyun?”
Sujeongi, who was excitedly trying to answer, looked at Lee Hyuni and spoke, and she nodded her head to express her intentions.
“Like!”
Then, as if she had waited, Sujeongi accepted.
Since today is OT, we have classes tomorrow, so instead of binge drinking, we just went to a pub we often went to in 1st grade.
“Uncle! We are here!”
“This isn’t Hanul, Jinseok and Jiwoo! Did everyone finally get together?”
“Yes, Jinseok finally came back.”
“It’s been a while, Jinseok.”
“It’s been a while, Uncle.”
When I was in 1st grade, I drank here whenever something happened, so I became quite close with the owner of this place.
“Didn’t you say you went to the army and came back?”
“Yes, I was discharged in February.”
“Good night! Jin-seok came too, so I’ll buy you a snack today. Drink whatever you want!”
“Thank you! Uncle!”
Thanking for the unexpected snack service, we sat down.
“Have you guys been here a lot?”
“I came a lot during my first year.”
“Even in the second year, we came together quite a bit.”
Hanul and Jiwoo answered Sujeongi’s question.
While the two of them were having a conversation with Sujeongi, I had a conversation with Lee Hyuni who was sitting across from me.
“Come to think of it, it was so sad at that time.
“No, oppa, if you get hit by such rubbish, oppa will lose.”
“Still, if you go to the detention center and the Ministry of National Defense stops time, there is nothing more terrifying than that. If I get even one shot, it’s at least full.”
“How many days are you full?”
“On the 15th, if that happened to you, would you go crazy? Obviously, time passes, but the discharge day does not decrease.”
Park Yi-hyeon’s eyes widened a bit, as if he was quite surprised to hear that the period of full regeneration was 15 days.
“Have you ever been to a brothel?”
“What kind of horrible questions are you asking? Yes, I don’t.”
When I asked if I had been to the barracks all of a sudden, I frowned and said, and Park Yi-hyeon smiled slightly.
As we were spending time talking to each other, my uncle came over and laid snacks and beer on our table.
“Ruler! This is the chicken gangjeong I made specially for you guys today.”
“Uncle, don’t you make original sauce?”
“It’s been a while since you guys got together, so I made it with care.”
“Thank you!”
The sauce is said to take a lot of work, and it was amazing to see that the red sauce was smeared on the chicken gangjeong, which was always served as a fried chicken.
“Then enjoy it, and tell me if it’s lacking.”
“Yes, I will eat well. Uncle”
Starting with my uncle and my best friend, Hanul, we all thanked each other and drank beer.
“Okay then everyone, I wish you all the best in your school life and toasts!”
“””Toast!”””
After Hanul’s toast, we spent time drinking and eating snacks.
When he got drunk to a certain extent, Hanul, who was running hard while eating wheat by himself, suggested that we play a drinking game.
“Let’s play a drinking game!”
“I decided to have a simple drink today, but what kind of drinking game is this?”
“No! On a day like today, we have to play a drinking game!”
When I, who originally likes to drink quietly, tried to refuse, Hanul, who was already drunk, pushed me recklessly and ended up playing a drinking game.
“Ruler! Then start with 3, 6, 9!”
“3,6,9 3,6,9 3,6,9 days!”
How long had it been since he started riding the atmosphere with recklessness? Hanul, who was already somewhat drunk, suffered a losing streak in the game and drank a lot of punishment.
“Ah, I finally sent it.”
I kept attacking only Hanul persistently in order to send him away quickly, but when he finally stretched out, I said with a tired expression on my face.
“No, it’s because I drink well for no reason.”
Already drunk, Hanul passed out after drinking wheat mixed in a 1:1 ratio in a small beer glass eight times.
“Han-ul oppa passed out, do we keep drinking?”
As Hanul stretched out, Sujeongi, who was sitting in front of him, asked.
“It looks like you’ve had enough to drink, but let’s break up now. What do you think?”
“Well…”
“Why, do you want to drink more?”
“Yeah! In the middle, Hanul oppa drank all the alcohol by himself, so I want to drink more.”
“How is Lee Hyun?”
“I am still fine.”
“Yes? Then let’s take him home and go for the second time.”
Reflecting the opinions of the two, we decided to go for the second round after taking Hanul, who was already drunk.
“Excuse me? Why don’t you ask for my opinion?”
When I went to the second car without asking for my opinion, Ji-woo tapped me and asked.
“So you’re not going?”
“No, I just wanted to say this to draw attention to myself.”
“What would a boy do if he received something like that? Help me get out.”
I took my wallet out of Hanul’s pants as he was sleeping and handed the card to my uncle.
“Please count with this.”
“Are you still doing that?”
“Hanul seems to have forgotten after a long time, but I still remember him.”
It was around the 2nd semester of the 1st year, or maybe it was because I had just become an adult.
I still remembered the decision to pay with the card of the first person to pass out at a drinking party.
‘Because I suffered the most.’
At that time, I was not good at drinking, so I got hit every time I played a game, but now my drunkenness, which had risen a little, is gone, as if my evolved body increased my drinking.
“I’ll come back next time.”
“Okay, go inside!”
When my uncle said that he would exclude the money I had so far, I told him to swipe everything that wasn’t my card anyway.
When we went outside, my uncle smiled and escorted us to the first floor.
“Where are you going to eat after Hanul takes you?”
“Since I’ve filled my stomach for the first time, I’m thinking of eating something simple… Do you guys have anything you want to eat?”
The two juniors who were worried about each other at my words soon said what they wanted to eat.
“I want to drink a cocktail!”
“I want to go to an izakaya once.”
When the two of them disagreed, I looked at Ji-woo and said.
“What do you want to eat?”
“I can eat just about anything.”
“Are you crazy? Tell me what you want to eat.”
“What? I don’t want to eat anything.”
Since Ji-woo cast an invalid vote, I looked at Lee Hyun-i and Su-jeong for a moment and said let’s go to an izakaya using the excuse that there was no cocktail shop nearby.
“Are you really not around here?”
“Yeah, as far as I know it’s not around here and you have to take the subway to get there.”
“Then, since you drank, let’s go somewhere nearby!”
When the second destination was decided, Jiwoo and I threw Hanul on the bed and headed to the izakaya.
“Hey, did Hanul take the card?”
“No?”
“Why didn’t you bring it? He has to pay for drinks all day today.”
“Since it’s the first day since I came, I should just watch it once. Let’s play fair.”
When Jiwoo asked if I had brought my card, I said no, and I led the kids to the izakaya.
“Welcome.”
We were greeted by the staff and guided to our seats, and we immediately ordered sake and tempura as snacks.
“If you have any snacks you want to eat separately, order them and we’ll buy them today.”
At my words, the two looked at the menu for a while and ordered fish cake soup and sashimi.
“Are you not ordering?”
“Would you like to eat the tempura?”
“Okay then.”
Afterwards, when all the snacks came out and I drank some alcohol and got drunk, Sujeongi started talking to me.
“Brother!”
“Yes?”
“Did you know that Lee Hyun broke up with her boyfriend?”
At the sudden incoming question, I sent her notice to Lee Hyun-yi to see if she had told her Sujeong-yi about me.
Then Lee Hyun-yi, who met her eyes with mine, turned her head to the side, understood her meaning, and made eye contact with Su-jeong again and talked.
“No, is this your first time hearing it?”
“It’s been really frustrating, but they finally broke up last week!”
In order to pretend not to know about Lee Hyun-yi’s boyfriend, he listened to Sujeong-i’s story and worried about Lee Hyun-yi.
“It’s okay?”
“I still remember a bit, but it’s okay…”
At that, Jiwoo, who was listening to the story with her, lifted a glass and brought it to the middle of the table.
“The best way to forget your ex-boyfriend is to drink a can of it. Cheers!
“Toast!”
Time passed, and when the alcohol bottles piled up by about 8 bottles without rest, Ji-woo, who was completely drunk, said to me.
“Hey… Let’s stop eating now…”
Looking like he couldn’t drink any more, I turned my head to check the condition of the two sitting in front of me.
Soo-jeong was drunk, her face flushed red, and her focus was slightly off.
Lee Hyun-yi seemed to be quite normal, whether it was because she had a surprisingly strong drink or because she was expressionless and her face didn’t show any signs.
“Are you two okay?”
“Me?! Yeah! You can still drink more!”
“I can drink more.”
Sujeongi answered my question with high tension and let her know that she was drunk.
Lee Hyun-yi, who was sitting next to her, calmly looked me in the eyes as if she wasn’t drunk at all and replied.
“It looks like you two are drunk, so let’s stop drinking.”
Since Ji-woo gave up voluntarily, I decided to scrape the money first and then ask him to pay for it.
When I finished my calculations and went outside, the sky where the sun had risen was now slowly going down.
‘Ah…I decided to drink it simply.’
I sighed as I recalled going home after seeing mornings always light up whenever I had a drink with my friends at university.
“Can I take a taxi?”
“I wasn’t that drunk.”
“Enter carefully.”
After sending Ji-woo, who is struggling the most, into a taxi, he told Hyun-i Lee, who was supporting Su-jeong.
“It looks like Sujeong is very drunk. Will you go with me?”
“No, Sujeong contacted my father when he came out earlier, so he will be back soon.”
As time passed, Soo-jung’s father arrived and put her in her car.
“Lee Hyun, what are you going to do?”
“Is your brother going home?”
At first glance, I responded to the tone of wanting to drink more.
“Me? I don’t mind if I drink more.”
“I think I’m still lacking a bit, how about the 3rd?”
“Okay then let’s go to the third round. Anything you want to eat this time?”
“A little walk before that. Us”
“Okay.”
The time when the sun has set and darkness covers the land.
With the feeling of an indescribable strange air flow, we walked side by side on the street where people passed by.
