Chapter 71 – Episode 71: Everyday Life Collapsing – Baek Ye-Ji (2)
Yeji nervously began to memorize her her multiplication table her her her, standing between three women who were anxious because they couldn’t catch her.
“This is one. Two and twenty. Two and three.”
“Ding~”
Kwaang!
“Ugh!!”
This time, perhaps because I was expecting it, there were no obscene sounds like before. But the problem wasn’t that I wasn’t surprised, it was why I was hit.
“Why this time!”
Perhaps thanks to Eunseo’s warning her, he didn’t scream like before, but he expressed his dissatisfaction in a strong tone. Eunseo sighed softly and told me the reason.
“I told you to do it like singing the multiplication song, right? I’ll show you a demonstration. This is two, two, four, two, three, six. Exciting and lively.”
Eunseo demonstrated by singing to the beat of her pitch, as if a child learning the multiplication table for the first time was memorizing it. Eunseo’s humorous singing of children’s songs seemed childish at first glance, but she looked very excited thanks to the cheers of Hyehyun and Mijoo. On the other hand, if she did the same thing, her mood would change 180 degrees. It was clear that she would become a subject of ridicule or ridicule.
However, the real problem was not that he showed such childish behavior. It is not easy for her to sing unfamiliar numbers naturally.
“Now, did you see it? Start!”
Yeji started by memorizing the multiplication table song in accordance with Eunseo’s command her to start, but it was not easy for her to sing along with the misshapen multiplication table, which she could barely memorize.
“Eight!”
Kwaang!
“Wow, this is no joke!”
It was hard to tell how many penalties it had already been. After repeating it, I got used to it and now I can easily memorize it, but whenever I get even a little stuck, I hesitate or the original multiplication table pops out.
At such times, the signal that Eunseo had not passed the exam came out without fail, and Miju excitedly beat Yeji’s head with a tray from behind her, as if she had been waiting.
“Yeji, try harder. You’re so smart~ I’m about to feel sorry too.”
Contrary to what she said as if she was cheering for Yeji, Mijoo’s expression she was enjoying herself just like that of a child who does not want to miss out on a fun toy.
She performed a variety of punishments, first hitting the top of the head squarely, then diagonally from the side, and then hitting the back of the head.
“But I’m good now? I might do better if I get more excited. Right?”
“That’s right.”
Yeji knew that that conversation meant something that was being asked of her. The good news is that I got used to it to some extent after repeating it a few times.
Before she knew it, Yeji’s heart was filled with the will to flatten their noses by memorizing it without fail this time, and she had almost memorized it all a while ago.
“I’m ready.”
Now, Yeji gives a sign to start first.
Like Hye-hyeon said, I started memorizing it with a higher tension. As she concentrated on not making mistakes, her face became very serious, as if she was taking a scholarship quiz.
“Phew! Are you memorizing the multiplication table this seriously?”
“After all, it’s the top class in the whole school?”
“I guess I’m not embarrassed to sing and memorize the multiplication table after I’m over 20. Aren’t you stupid, really?”
I heard mocking sabotage from Eunseo, but I was not greatly shaken because I had already experienced it.
“…Two eight fifteen. Two nine thirty!!”
After Yeji’s voice barely shouted the last line, there was silence in the living room. Ye-ji, who had expected her to find another ridiculous fault, looked at Eun-seo, Hye-hyeon, and Mi-ju in turn with suspicious eyes at her unexpected reaction.
Clap clap clap
“Wow~ Congratulations Yeji.”
“I thought you would do well.”
Eunseo, Hyehyeon, and Miju smile brightly and congratulate them. Yeji was suspicious of their unpretentious appearance and remained on guard, but there was nothing particularly strange about their behavior as they finished the event.
“If you do well like this, you won’t have to get penalized and that’s great. Tomorrow is 3rd Dan, so memorize it hard!”
Hye-hyeon’s winking attitude made Ye-ji feel like it was encouragement among her friends. If her mood changes again, I don’t know how she will change, she thought, and Yeji, who was not relaxed, silently nodded her head and began to gather the clothes she wore at home among the broken clothes lying on the floor to be washed. .
Juseom Juseom Behind Yeji’s back as she was looking for her clothes, Eunseo tapped Yeji’s buttocks with her foot as if she had forgotten.
“Ah, tonight’s dinner is pizza tteokbokki and fried rice. I ordered it delivered, so you can eat it at the table. You know you can’t leave any leftovers, right? A-yeon said you like tteokbokki, so I prepared it specially~”
“Ugh…”
Yeji’s recent life pattern, unlike before, was full of things she was experiencing for the first time. At home she is not getting any exercise, her sleep has increased and her sleeping habits have changed. Other things were difficult for her, but the most uncomfortable thing was the increased amount of food.
In terms of overall calories, it was a little more than the recommended daily intake, but Yeji, who had a habit of not eating enough to feel full, had a hard time adjusting.
The consolation was that as my stomach grew, the meals I was given became more and more edible. Of course, she had not yet noticed that her own body was changing little by little as a result.
“Crumple…”
It has become a habit for her to eat quickly so that Yeji can secure a little more sleep time.
“Mumbling… Three days are three. Three twenty… “
Now she had to save that time and memorize her twisted multiplication table. Suddenly, Yeji, who was memorizing her multiplication table while eating, stopped eating for a moment and remembered the situation that had happened earlier.
It was no different from before when Eunseo was coercive and made her do embarrassing things. But today something felt different.
‘What is it?’
For Yeji, it was her first time being with someone else for such a long time. She wasn’t the type to actively hang out with her friends to begin with. Until high school, she was led by Hye-hyeon to enjoy cultural life and participate in various gatherings, but she was not the type to take the initiative to meet people.
Nevertheless, Yeji was very popular with those around her, and Yeji’s calm attitude of accepting it as if she took it for granted earned her a lot of envy, whether she knew it or not. Of course, there was only one person who openly complained or started an argument, but even that ended with Yeji’s victory.
For Yeji, the current experience was a very different day. Their parents, Hansoo and Eunbi, were going on a long-term overseas business trip and were feeling lonely, knowingly or unknowingly. At first, it started out as uncomfortable, but as I got used to it, my loneliness was relieved without me even realizing it, and little by little, I felt like I was being treated well, and I was feeling strange emotions. Just like a friend.
Hye-hyeon and his friends had some intention, but Ye-ji’s situation and blocking individual contact with A-yeon and Sia had a big impact. Of course, she had no intention of treating the group of centipedes as true friends. It was just that they were emotionally drained by always pressing down too hard.
In this way, Yeji was gradually getting used to being at the bottom of the hierarchy.
The next day
As soon as Yeji finished practicing for her Yeomgwang volleyball team, she had to start taking her multiplication test right away again today.
“Huh?”
When she arrived home, there was one item she had not seen before. To be exact, it was a very familiar object, but it could be said to have been transformed from the shape we saw every day.
“What is this…?”
Ye-ji asked Hye-hyeon, who was holding her paper (presumably a multiplication table answer sheet with the same numbers she had given her). The object that Yeji saw was the sandbag support she used every morning when exercising. However, I couldn’t see where the hanging sandbag had gone, and instead, there was a sheep tray hanging on a string using the principle of a pulley.
“Ah, because I’m alone today. I think I’ll have to use a tool to give the penalty.”
With her answer, Hye-hyeon let go of the string she was holding and gave a demonstration. The string that was hanging tightly could not bear the weight of the tray, and the tray quickly fell down.
After seeing its use and demonstration, Yeji muttered quietly.
“You’re so diverse…”
Perhaps she did not hear what he said, or maybe she overlooked it, but Hye-hyeon did not react and played with her by repeatedly pulling and releasing the string connected to her tray.
“If you’re going to do it, let’s start quickly, right?”
“Oh. As expected, Baek Ye-ji, are you confident?”
Perhaps because she had experienced it once, she had been practicing steadily by making rough simulations in her head. In fact, even if it is a test, there are various formats, so if you simply memorized it at first, you could prepare based on yesterday’s experience.
“Okay then, let’s get started!”
Yeji began to memorize the 3rd part in accordance with Hyehyeon’s slogan. She sings like it was yesterday. Ironically, it was a great help to Yeji that she memorized the multiplication table song while singing it.
After Yeji memorized her 3rd Dan perfectly, she looked at Hyehyeon with a slightly proud expression and opened her mouth.
“What do you think?”
Looking at Yeji’s confident face at her, Hyehyeon let go of her hand that was holding her her strap her her.
Kwaang!
“Hundreds of millions!!!”
This time too, Yeji, who was hit by an unexpected blow, glared at her Hyehyeon and protested.
“Why!! I wasn’t wrong!”
Hye-hyeon, who heard Ye-ji’s defiance of her, responded by shrugging her shoulders with an apologetic expression.
“Ah, mistake. I lost my strength trying to keep holding on.”
Hye-hyeon stuck out her tongue in an obnoxious manner and moved to Ye-ji’s room her her her, which was now her her own her her her her, and added a kind word of her her own her of her her.
“Good job, Yeji. Just keep doing it like you are now, how good will it be? We’ll get along well, hehe.”
Yeji frowned at her reaction, which was definitely kinder (?) Than before, but she didn’t say anything in response. First of all, I thought there would be no difficulties with Hye-hyeon’s mission for her for the time being.
However, a few days later, she realizes that Yeji made a huge mistake.
