55 – After party – 4
I took off the coat I was wearing and put it over Cordelia’s head. It became like a certain Joseon Dynasty gyusu going out. That way, you won’t catch a cold or lose your face.
Just because I took off my coat doesn’t mean I’m cold. Carrying the tall athletic woman on her back from the shopping district to the dormitory was harder than expected. When I arrived at the entrance of the dorm, I was already sweating profusely.
I grabbed a random maid and asked her to put me in the room. It is forbidden by school rules for male students to enter the female dormitory. Her maids took over and took over her naturally, as if she was quite familiar with this kind of work. I waved her hand at Cordelia, who was almost being dragged along.
On the way back to the store, the streets were overflowing with drunken people. I felt like I was watching a college town where the exams were over, so I felt so refreshed.
“Did you just come?”
Hestia collapsed completely stretched out on the table, and Seolah calmly picked up leftover alcohol and snacks next to her. Her sleeping Hestia cried so hard that her eyes were swollen. I wiped the tear marks left on her cheeks.
“Have you been sleeping?”
“Yeah, I kissed you and stretched out right away and I was sleeping until now.”
Hestia’s lips came to mind and made her face blush. She looked at me as if Seol-ah was gross.
“No, I’m not a 17-year-old high school girl.”
“Director Nam. Because before she met Hestia, she was an innocent person who only held her hand while she was 23 years old.”
“It’s a waste.”
“What is it?”
“To have that innocent person’s first kiss stolen.”
I instantly flung my body backwards. What is that person saying now? I get goosebumps every time Seol-ah says something like that. What do you lose It wasn’t even entrusted.
Seola glanced at me with a slightly hurt expression.
“No matter how much I am, such a reaction hurts me a little, right?”
“I’m sorry.”
“But was it really your first kiss?”
“Then there are also fake first kisses?”
Seol-ah said, “Hmm,” And touched her chin.
“No, you look fine. Why?”
Why does she ask if she has never been in a relationship until she was 23, even though she looks fine? First of all, that’s what I wanted to ask.
“Sir, Seol-ah is really pretty, so why didn’t she have a relationship until she was 25? She was 2 years older than me, and she didn’t go to the army.”
Seol-ah protested, blushing.
“I went to a girls’ middle school and a girl’s high school, and in college, there weren’t any men that caught my eye!”
“I am roughly the same. When I was a student, I rode something similar to Somem a few times, but all of them were gone… , After entering university, I had no particular interest in dating. Then, when I came back from the military, I didn’t even go to school because of the corona.”
At my words, Seol-ah put on an absurd expression.
“What? Corona?”
“Don’t you know?”
Could it be that the Earth she knows is different from the Earth I know?
“No, I know… , That already ended several years ago.”
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My eyes met Seol-ah and at the same time a question mark floated above her head. What ended 10 years ago? What the heck is that I definitely remember wearing a mask and going to the convenience store the day before I came over to this world.
“You, you, when exactly was the year you crossed over?”
“It’s 2021.”
“2021?!”
Seola screamed. She rolled her eyes here and there in disbelief. I asked her
“When is Seol-ah?”
“In 2029….”
“29 Years?!”
This time I screamed out loud. 2029? Are you saying that you came from the future rather than me? Wait for a sec. Doesn’t that mean I’m your brother? I thought she wasn’t quite productive enough to rant on her once she heard.
“No, how could it be that neither of you knew such a basic and important story until now?”
“Because we barely talked about each other on Earth.”
She clutched her temples and frowned as if her head was pounding.
“In this case, shouldn’t we first solve the question of whether we can return to the original Earth?”
“Yes. I came here before you, but you were first on Earth. I have no idea how it got twisted.”
I was concentrating on those nutritious thoughts of her even as she grappled with her goal and contemplated her. I will be 23 in 2021 and she will be 25 in 2029. Then she was born in 2004. Since I was born in 1999, after all, aren’t I my older brother? Are you 6 years younger? When I was taking the exam, she was in the 6th grade of elementary school. Wow, just thinking about it like this smells like a crime.
“Seol-ah. No, you have to stand.”
“Should I stand?”
“I’m your brother.”
She looked at me with a bewildered expression, perhaps taken aback by my sudden short talk. I explained to her step by step why I was her older brother than her.
“I was 23 years old in 2021, so I was born in 1999. Seol-ah, you will be 25 in 2029, then you were born in 2004. Because I am 6 years older than you?”
“No, that is nonsense. I’m 25, you’re 23! This is not going to change!”
“You were learning about improper fractions and mixed fractions when I was learning exponents and logarithms.”
“Mental age is important!”
“Wow, people are born in 2004 as well. The first digit of your social security number must be 4, right?”
Seol-ah stepped back, frowning at her moment.
“Why?”
“Wow, that just looked really, really old man. When I was a freshman, it reminds me of my returning brothers.”
Returning students. That’s not wrong. At first, I couldn’t understand why she didn’t like to treat me like her brother.
“No, and you really hated it when I treated you to old people. Isn’t that rather good? You can just call me brother.”
“That’s it. I’ll never admit it. I’m sure you wouldn’t call me sister, but you would never call me brother.”
Seola was quite stubborn. I gave up on persuading her and decided to move her to her dormitory as soon as possible from her Hestia. And what she just said was meant to tease her a bit, it wasn’t that she specifically wanted to be called her brother, because Seol-ah’s words were also valid.
It is a debatable question whether a person’s age can really be counted purely based on physical age. Isn’t it a bit extreme to treat a 5-year-old baby as a 105-year-old just because he spent 100 years as a frozen human and opened his eyes 100 years later?
With Seola’s help, I carried Hestia on my back. He held her thighs with both of her hands. She was lighter than expected. It is a weight that is contradictory to the heavy feeling that is pressed down on the back. Seol-Ah’s eyes narrowed as if she felt my philtrum grow swollen.
“You’re not touching a strange place, are you?”
“How do you look at people?”
“A person who pretends not to be and is conniving at heart?”
“Don’t speak ill of me.”
“Honestly, if you wanted to avoid the kiss earlier, you could have avoided it. At that time, I did well while avoiding it.”
Um. I honestly have nothing to say on this point. It’s true that I was embarrassed, but when I ask if I really didn’t think of avoiding it, it’s not. When she saw my reaction, her eyes widened.
“Wow, you could have avoided it, but didn’t you? For me, avoid the atmosphere and put a complete barrier on it, and for Hestia, do you accept what I just threw when I was drunk?”
“No, that, what is it? As for Hestia, she’s my fiancé, and she’s the one I like….”
Unbeknownst to me, an excuse came out. When Seol-ah saw my flustered expression, she laughed.
“If you make fun of it even a little bit, you will crawl to the very bottom, and what kind of oppa is your brother. Are you okay. As I said before, I am a person who is much happier when I give love.”
“Are you really okay with that?”
“If it’s not okay, I’ll tell you in advance, but be kind to me out of sympathy and don’t do that. It is more miserable and makes me feel worse.”
I felt like I was hit. It would be a pretty terrible feeling to think that someone you like would do you a favor out of sympathy because they couldn’t like you. My petty consideration for her hurts her even more.
“And when are you worried about me?”
“What are you talking about?”
“The bet between you and me. Don’t you remember what you decided to do if your heart fluttered and fell for me?”
Don’t remember. Until I graduated, I had no feelings for her, and after graduation, I decided to live as a man without interfering with each other. But rather, it seems to have been more quiet since the bet.
“But after the bet, he’s been quieter.”
She smiled confidently with a look that said she couldn’t be fooled at all.
“Do you know the saying that the cheetah is smiling?”
“I know.”
Roughly, no matter how fast the racing dogs are, they are no match for the cheetah, and staying still is only saving their strength.
“Exactly. I am laughing now.”
She smiled as she lifted the corners of her mouth. But among the kids who said they were laughing because they were cheetahs, I’ve never seen a case where they were really cheetahs. I decided not to open my mouth and spoil her mood.
“I’m looking forward to it. I’ll make it so you can’t shake it.”
“Let’s go in quickly. Isn’t it still pretty late? No matter how much they don’t do roll calls during exam weeks, you have to apply for a sleepover after the date.”
I hurriedly turned around. In fact, I still don’t know how to treat her. This also applies to Cordelia. Could my indecisiveness be hurting them? It’s pretty confusing when I think about it. Seeing her rushing at her saying that even if she is a concubine, she honestly doesn’t think she’ll fall for hitting her like that.
I took off her coat and put it on top of Hestia.
“Lee Yeol, sweet man.”
“Right. I’m a bit sweet.”
“Because he speaks with his own mouth, he really wakes up.”
She giggled. Even though it was the second time, it definitely felt more comfortable than when carrying Cordelia. Because she has a companion by her side, and she has something lighter.
“What are you going to do tomorrow?”
“Okay. Originally, I was going to meet Hestia at lunch, but as you can see, it’s like this. Maybe it will be difficult?”
“Did you usually stick together every day and try to see it again tomorrow? Aren’t you tired?”
“Uh. Nice to see every day Exciting. New.”
“Jujeopeun.”
Hestia groaned from behind her back. The strong smell of beer wafted from her face as she leaned against her shoulder. If you look good like this, it seems to be really serious.
I left her in the care of her maids again. I wanted to put her on the bed and even brush her teeth, but it’s a forbidden zone, so there’s no choice.
It will be very difficult, so I wrote a note telling me to just rest well tomorrow. When I handed over Hestia and came out, Seol-ah was waiting for me. She said leaning against her wall.
“Don’t you think we should talk about our future business?”
“What’s next?”
Seola brought up a troubling story. It sounds like she needs a whole new story, as she says.
She flew to this world two years ago. That’s 2029. I flew into this world just 3 months ago, and it is 2021 on Earth. 8 Year gap. It’s award winning no matter who sees it. There’s nothing to say about being possessed from Earth to this world in the first place, but it doesn’t suit my temper at all to try to do it at all.
“First of all, I can’t help it because it’s too late today, but I think we need to have a deep talk tomorrow. It’s not such a huge secret, does it make sense that you now know such a simple fact?”
It’s true that I didn’t consciously talk about it on Earth when I was talking to her. Because she wants to go back to Earth, and I want to stay here. In the end, I knew that the ending would not be good, so I didn’t bother to say it.
I can’t seem to avoid thinking about why I don’t want to go back to Earth anymore. Even I don’t expect to be able to relieve all of her inexplicable feelings by talking to her, but at least I can’t avoid talking to her Seol-ah because of those feelings.
“See you tomorrow. A bit early He said he postponed his promise to Hestia anyway.”
I nodded.
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