Chapter 16 – Episode 16- Proposal (2)
On the way home from school after school.
I slung my bag loosely over my shoulder and walked down the street, next to me, a large body twitching its muscles.
Cha-Ryeok Kim, his only friend at school.
There was one advantage to going around with a guy with three cursed traits: bald, muscular, and presbyopia.
It was that no matter who the opponent was, it opened the way at once.
Even when elementary school students flocked to him, even when gangsters flocked to him, he cleared the way in front of him.
“Hanjun. Isn’t it okay to go out with a transfer student?”
While walking down the street, Kim Cha-ryeok asked me a question.
I blurted out and remembered what Miho said in the art room today.
‘Will you continue to be with me?’
Even Nara, who had never experienced dating before, knew that that question encompassed many meanings.
As I walked along without answering, Kim Cha-ryeok chuckled.
“As expected, it’s as I expected. The smell of a transfer student always wafts after lunchtime. There was something like that in the comic book I read yesterday. The transfer student having a tryst with the main character during lunchtime…”
I suddenly kicked the thigh of Kim Cha-ryeok, who was talking bullshit.
If it was like usual, my feet would tingle when I kicked those stone-like thighs, and I would have been fine with nothing.
Something was different this time.
“Well…?”
Kim Cha-ryeok’s legs are staggering.
The guy didn’t expect to fall, so he started to fall to the floor in a bizarre position.
“Uh…?!”
I, too, panicked because I didn’t expect that monstrous guy to fall, so I grabbed him by the back and bent down.
But before I could reach him, he tumbled and pushed the floor with his arm, then he stood up.
“Crazy…”
No matter how you look at it, it’s a monster-like physical ability.
Since I had seen his eccentricities from the side, I knew of worse things than that, but I couldn’t get used to it even when I looked at it.
Kim Cha-ryeok patted his hand, and he stared blankly at me.
“Hanjun.”
Kim Cha-ryeok suddenly looked at me with a sense of weight and calmed his eyes.
I hadn’t seen him serious in a while, so I was naturally scared.
“Why why?”
The moment I made up my mind to write at least the salary rate if I was in a hurry.
Kim Cha-ryeok told me in a stern voice.
“Did you exercise without my knowledge? In just a few days, your strength has increased remarkably.”
Also, Kim Cha-ryeok was Kim Cha-ryeok.
The guy who is so obsessed with metal and subculture that he goes beyond obsession to the point of madness, he kept asking me if he didn’t care that he almost fell.
“Hanjun, talk to me. What kind of exercise did you do?”
Kim Cha-ryeok knelt down on his knees, and my legs wiggled.
A female elementary school student passing by saw it, and she started to run madly in front of her, shaking her body.
I patted his shiny bald head and shouted.
“Let go, you crazy bastard. I didn’t do any exercise.”
“It can’t be. This muscle density, this muscle growth. You must have been exercising Hanjun. Muscle growth in a few days…”
In the end, it was only after I lied about working out that Kim Cha-ryeok let go of my leg.
Kim Cha-ryeok gave a hearty smile and muttered.
“Hmm, it’s worth training hard during vacation.”
“Shut up.”
While I was walking down the street bickering with him, Kim Cha-ryeok suddenly gave me something.
“Oh, that’s right. Hanjun, take this.”
A properly filled white envelope.
When asked what I was, Kim Cha-ryeok nodded his head as if to open it.
When I opened the white envelope, there were 10 50,000 won bills inside.
When he saw the guy who suddenly handed over a large sum of money, he couldn’t help but think what the hell this guy would do again.
When I opened my eyes and saw him, Cha-Ryeok Kim pulled out another white envelope and showed it to me.
The envelope contained the same amount of 500,000 won.
“This is the money your girlfriend gave me. Don’t worry, we divided it in half fairly.”
“… Miho?”
I thought of Miho who talked to me during the funeral service.
Miho seemed to want to be with me even after going to school, but today she said goodbye to me, saying that she had to prepare for her family’s work.
At the moment, I wonder why Miho gave Kim Cha-ryeok such a large sum of 1 million won.
Kim Cha-ryeok revealed his dry teeth and told me.
“Your friend realized that I was the only one, handed over 1 million won and asked for your information. That’s why I duly gave you half in exchange for selling you, Hanjun.”
“…?”
Seeing that I was lost, Kim Cha-ryeok laughed heartily.
“To find a transfer student who is both rich and pretty. This is all thanks to the gym he did with me during vacation, Hanjun.”
“… What the hell is that.”
I sighed as I stuffed the 500,000 won he gave me into my pocket.
Around the time I was thinking of adding this 500,000 won to my living expenses this month… I suddenly remembered one fact.
So I handed over 500,000 won to him.
“Hmm? Why is that, Hanjun?”
Kim Cha-ryeok expressed his doubts to me and pushed the money envelope as if telling me to take it.
“Take it.”
I handed over 500,000 won to Kim Cha-ryeok again.
No matter what, he was the guy who played with me well.
So, since I had moved on to the other side of the world and had no particular need for living expenses, I wanted to give this money to him as a final present.
“I suddenly decided to go study abroad next week. I don’t need Korean money anymore, so take it.”
At my words, Kim Cha-ryeok looked at me calmly.
“Is it true, Hanjun?”
“Yeah, I’m a little embarrassed too… Well, anyway, that’s how it turned out.”
“…Why didn’t you tell me until now.”
“I also made a sudden decision yesterday… It’s kind of like that. Actually, my parents must have been abroad, so the people involved there recommended me to come abroad.”
“……”
Without saying a word, Kim Cha-ryeok took the money envelope I handed over and told me.
“Hanjun. Is there any free time after this?”
“I don’t have anything else to do.”
It seemed that he was trying to invite me to exercise today.
Since it was the last time, I thought to match the rhythm, but contrary to my expectations, Kim Cha-ryeok gave me a different proposal.
“Okay, then Hanjun. We should have a drink together at your house.”
“Alcohol…?”
Kim Charyeok nodded his head seriously.
“Men’s parting must be hot and intense, Hanjun. I’ll buy you a drink, so wait.”
Kim Cha-ryeok moved to a convenience store near my house.
I asked if he was crazy and grabbed him.
“Hey, you bastard. Look at your outfit.”
“Well?”
No matter how much he had bald heads and a sunken face, the clothes he was wearing were school uniforms.
In this day and age, there is no part-time job that sells alcohol to guys in school uniforms.
When I pointed out that fact, Kim Cha-ryeok nodded his head and suddenly took off his top and stuffed it into my bag.
“…?”
It’s so absurd that I’m messing around.
Kim Cha-ryeok smiled revealing his unique dry teeth.
“This is fine. If I go wearing muscles, they won’t guess my age.”
Kim Cha-ryeok said that and rushed to the convenience store.
When I looked at the convenience store through the window, I saw Kim Cha-ryeok sweeping up alcohol in the Yangju corner.
The part-time worker opened his eyes wide and picked up his cell phone tremblingly, assuming that he was a robber.
Kim Cha-reuk handed out cash at the cashier while holding a drink.
The boy’s muscles twitched incessantly.
The part-time worker, perhaps surprised by his vicious muscles, finished his calculations at breakneck speed and put his alcohol in an envelope.
Charyeok Kim finished his calculations and approached me with his alcohol in his bag.
“Let’s go and drink. Hanjun.”
No matter how I thought about it, this guy was crazy.
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I had never drank alcohol, but today I decided to drink as he pleased.
First day of transfer.
He was the kind of guy who clung to me tenaciously, just pushing everyone away.
Although it was a bit like that because the purpose was to iron together, he was not alone at all thanks to him.
Now that I hate him, I can definitely say that he is a friend, so I made up my mind to enjoy a hot breakup with him at the end.
“Hanjun, I’m going to drink it to the end today.”
In front of the front door.
Kim Cha-ryeok reveals his dry teeth and tells me.
I boldly confronted the guy.
“Okay, let’s see who dies.”
I unlocked the front door and entered the house.
Kim Cha-ryeok took off his shoes while taking a bag of alcohol from his bag, as if he wanted to drink quickly.
Then he sniffed his nose as if he sensed something strange.
“Hanjun, does this smoke? Why does the house smell like cigarettes?”
“What kind of cigarette am I smoking?”
What am I talking about, let’s ask him back.
The guy sniffed his nose more, and told me.
“No, it smells like cigarettes. Apparently someone just smoked here.”
As soon as the words were finished, to my surprise, a man smoking a cigarette walked out of the living room, just as he had said.
“Yes, I opened it.”
A beautiful woman with long dark circles in a black suit.
Kim Ji-hye, the general shaman of the Seoul branch with a cigarette in her mouth.
Leaning against the wall, she glanced at the bag of wine Kim was holding and clicked her tongue.
“These days, the bastards… Are getting lost…”
“Are you secretly dating a girl?”
Kim Cha-ryeok looks at me and is shocked.
After explaining that I was not in a hurry, she told Kim Ji-hye.
“What are you doing here?”
Kim Ji-hye flicked her hand, making her cigarette disappear, and she sighed.
“What is it, what is it?
“Ha… Hanjun! Is that woman a magician…?!”
Kim Cha-ryeok flicked her hand and watched Kim Ji-hye, her eyes wide open, as if Ji-hye Kim had made her cigarette disappear.
As I was perplexed over whether it was okay for me to use ‘spells’ in front of this guy, Kim Ji-hye said calmly, as if she had read my thoughts.
“Don’t worry, your friend won’t remember me today.”
Jihye Kim snapped her fingers.
Then, Kim Ji-hye’s appearance in her disappeared in an instant, and she appeared in front of Kim Cha-ryeok’s eyes.
Kim Ji-hye, who appeared in the blink of an eye, stretched out her hand to Kim Cha-ryeok’s forehead.
And…
Kim Cha-ryeok turned her head faster than that, avoiding Kim Ji-hye’s fingers.
“…?”
Kim Ji-hye must have been taken aback, as she held out her hand and blinked at her blankly.
Kim Cha-ryeok was also taken aback when he saw Kim Ji-hye suddenly appearing in front of him.
“Ha…”
Kim Ji-hye let out a sigh of annoyance, then she snapped her fingers again.
Before I knew it, Kim Ji-hye was reaching out her hand from behind Kim Cha-ryeok.
But surprisingly, Kim Cha-ryeok rolled forward and avoided Kim Ji-hye’s fingertips.
Again Kim Ji-hye and Kim Cha-ryeok looked at each other and widened their eyes.
“What is that bastard?”
“Ha… Hanjun! That woman is superpowered!”
Kim Ji-hye and Kim Cha-ryeok shouted at me at the same time.
In this sudden and complicated situation, I just stared blankly at the two.
