The Monster Aspires to Be a Hero chapter 13

13 – School life! (4)

Perhaps it was because we had prepared quite early, it was still lunch time when we arrived and packed up.

“Then let’s begin.”

“Yes.”

We started preparing a light lunch with the food we took out.

I decided to cook something simple for lunch.

“Is there anyone who can’t eat bibim guksu?”

The newbies standing clumsily looking at each other nodded their heads.

Bibim guksu is a dish that can be prepared quickly because you only need to boil the noodles and roughly prepare the ingredients.

I started preparing right away.

“It’s a b*tch. You should start drinking when you come to MT~”

“The professor said he would come and talk for a while this afternoon. Either in moderation or not.”

“Ah~ Then it can’t be helped. Do you do ‘that’ first?”

“Yes.”

Junghyuk and Taeil handed out name tags to the newcomers who stood at a distance.

It was also a name tag large enough to cover the entire ship.

“Write it down so that you can see even 0.1 Eyesight.”

ㅡ Yes!

When you start drinking, a drinking game begins with various bullsh*t.

Your mouth becomes lighter, but you make mistakes more often than that.

For example, I can’t remember the name of the person next to me.

That’s why we prepare such a big name tag every year.

At that level, I am easily able to pass the ground.

While Tae-il and Joong-hyeok somehow started a conversation with the newcomers, Ji-eun, Si-woo and I hurriedly prepared the dishes.

Spicy noodles were made at such a rapid pace that everyone started eating.

ㅡ I will eat well!

The newbies, who used to awkwardly fidget with their smartphones, started to eat bibim guksu, which was quite tasty while hesitating.

After filling my stomach like that, Jung-hyeok took out a drink and said that we should just have a drink.

A glass becomes a bottle, and before long, a drinking party takes place.

Friends who like to drink quite a bit started running with wheat from the beginning, while weak friends started sipping beer.

Taeil had to drive, so he just looked at it with a bit of envy.

“I Am Ground, introduce yourself!”

Junghyeok seemed to be drunk already and began to lead the game excitedly.

At this point, the men were consumed by the energy unique to a drinking party and started talking excitedly.

The women are a bit passive, but somehow they seem to fit in with the atmosphere.

Originally… MT is like this.

As time passed, Taeil brought the professor and the rest of the students.

“Don’t think too much about MT, and don’t forget to clean up after yourself when you go back, okay?”

“Yes, Professor!”

Junghyuk and Taeil, who were rough on everything, were sincere at this time.

“Then everyone, have a good time.”

The professor passed away after saying good things, splitting the time he didn’t have.

After that, a drinking party broke out among the friends whose limits were lifted.

A spinning board for drinking games appeared, and various stories were exchanged.

For example, self-introduction or a penalty game revealing dark history were written.

“Oh, Kosam!”

And unfortunately I got caught.

“Yaya, try that, that.”

“… Also?”

“Oh, hurry up!”

“….”

Whoa.

“I am a superhero, formalin!”

The newbies looked blank, wondering what kind of bullsh*t this was, and only Junghyuk, Taeil, and Siu pressed their lips together and started laughing.

“That… Originally, I was an aspiring hero. Because of my ability, some people called me a preservative when I was in middle school….”

I was reluctant, but somehow I confided in what the incident was.

I still can’t forget the memory of running amok in a drunken daze, saying that I would definitely become a hero.

At that time, the superhero appeared formalin! While doing it, it seems that I took the attitude of superhero landing and did that.

Junghyuk and Taeil must still have that photo.

Even though I confessed some embarrassing stories, the atmosphere didn’t deteriorate, perhaps because of the strength of the drinking party.

“Ahahahaha! So, are you still aspiring to be a hero?”

A freshman woman who looked a little lively came up with such words.

“Yes. I am still aspiring to be a hero.”

“Ah, senior. We’re in first grade, so you can speak comfortably.”

“I’ll let you know when I get to know you better. Some people feel bad about this, don’t they?”

As soon as I said that, she started giggling at how funny it was.

So did the other girls who had just been sitting a little awkwardly.

The girls were sipping beer in moderation, so they weren’t drunk on the atmosphere.

It felt like everyone was just having a good time.

“Oh, sh*t~ Perfect self-introduction!”

If you are swallowed up by the atmosphere, you will drink more than usual.

As a result, the game progressed smoothly and I was caught in the penalty game again.

“Uh… Lee Jin-woo is 23 years old and is in his fourth year of business administration. It is a life at the opening of preparing for a hero while preparing for NCS to get a job at a public company not too long ago.”

I spat out a nonsensical sound, but a crackling sound resounded as if it was funny.

“Aside from that, do you have a more ordinary self-introduction?”

A different woman than before said that.

A normal self-introduction….

Still, when I ask you to say something like this, I don’t think much of it….

“You are very tall. How many centimeters?”

“I am 185cm.”

After saying that, everyone started laughing and chattering.

I’m not sure where to laugh about the part I just said.

“And the pepper is 3cm.”

Taeil’s one word was the act of pouring water on a drinking party that was laughing and chatting.

The girls who had been chattering until just now froze.

“… I mean, I’ve never seen it before.”

“I can’t forgive a guy like you unless he’s a little b*tch.”

Only then did the newbies, who had just realized that the story was a joke, started laughing awkwardly again.

I could feel the gaze glancing at something subtly.

Junghyeok, who was nearby, shouted an asshole shot, and Taeil took a drink with a confused expression.

ㅡ Don’t worry. You can increase it any way you want.

Since you said that there, I feel like I’ve become a real jerk, idiot.

ㅡ How do you look at it?

… I’m just average size.

The atmosphere was moderately ripe at the friendly MT, and it led straight to a barbecue party.

Siwoo and I decided to take turns grilling the meat.

Because Junghyuk and Taeil were behind the wheel.

As the meat was grilled for a while and brought to the table, everyone started laughing and chatting and enjoying themselves.

I don’t think I’ll have to worry about this for a while.

“Senpai, do it while eating some~!”

As I worked hard to deliver the meat, my juniors sat down and ate and drank together and talked about it.

“No, they got behind the wheel, so I have to bake.”

“Aren’t you too sincere?”

He snarls and laughs again.

I don’t know why these guys are clattering when they’re not having much fun.

If you want to play like that, it would be nice if someone grilled the meat for you, but no one offered to grill the meat.

Are you all talkative too?

“As expected, sweet potato senior.”

Siwoo, who was grilling the meat next to me, said that.

“What?”

“… Something like that.”

“Huh?”

“I’m glad my girlfriend is from another club.”

What do you mean?

The barbecue was over before I knew it as I picked up the moderately cooked meat and filled my stomach.

After that, another drinking party broke out.

The men who drank too much went into and out of the bathroom one after another, and their faces subtly turned white.

Looking at him sipping water, he seems to have vomited.

I got up moderately and opened a box of honey I bought.

From noble mtl dot com

Then I warmed up the water moderately and started drinking the honey water.

Then he held out a paper cup filled with honey water in front of the freshmen who had been sipping water since earlier.

“Everyone drinks.”

“Thank you, senior.”

The men took a sip of water from paper cups and then started drinking in gulps.

I refilled them with honey water again.

“Ah, senpai~ What is that~?”

“Honey water.”

“You should give it to us too!”

I only drank beer, but as if I was half-drunk, I also poured honey water for the female freshmen who were making sharp nasal sounds.

Then he sat down next to me and tugged at my arm to talk.

What can we do if we talk about it?

I started talking about school moderately.

Since I listened intently to my major from the first year and knew what kind of assignments each professor gave, there was a lot to talk about.

“Thank you, senior~”

Everyone listened to my story and nodded their heads.

Is it helpful?

Since we talked for such a long time, I felt strangely close.

I felt like I was getting drunk even after drinking beer.

As we were talking for such a long time, the author glanced at me and then went outside.

I felt like I had something to say.

I got out of my seat and found the author.

The author was not far away.

She must have had a fair amount of alcohol, and she smelled of heat and alcohol burning from her body.

“It’s still the same, senpai….”

“Huh?”

“… Fool.”

Her quiet accusation, uttered by the author, was quietly buried and disappeared in the night breeze that cooled her moderately heated skin.

“Would you like to go for a walk?”

“… Whatever.”

I started walking along the promenade of the pension with the author.

Anyway, it wasn’t a very long course because it was located within the pension.

“I can see the stars well here.”

The author blankly looked up at the night sky and muttered that.

“Yes.”

“A senior told me about that before….”

“What?”

“I heard that the stars in the night sky contain the past.”

“Oh, that one?”

The stars in the night sky are farther away than we think.

Because it takes a considerable amount of time for the light emitted by the star to reach the earth, the light of the star that rises in the night sky is always in the past tense.

Perhaps that star floating in the night sky has long since faded away and we are looking at its traces and thinking that it is pretty.

Remembering that story came to mind.

… It wasn’t something to talk about soberly.

I drank alcohol and it was such an atmosphere that I could talk about it.

It was definitely a story that the author brought up because her friends were blah blah and high school blah blah.

“I went to an all-girls high school and said I had no friends, so my senior brought up such a story.”

The star that illuminates the past does not rise in Seoul.

Why doesn’t it come to mind?

As a matter of course, the author gave an uninteresting answer saying that the night sky in Seoul is too bright.

I laughed and shook my head.

It’s because people in Seoul are so busy that they don’t have time to look back, she said.

You came up to Seoul and became a person living in Seoul.

People in Seoul are busy and don’t have time to look back on the past.

So I also remember telling you not to sigh while looking back at the past and to worry about the future.

The author looked at me and muttered that he got goosebumps.

I thought she was comforting, but she got angry at me for cursing.

When she sobered up later, the words came to her mind, and she swore she would never drink too much again.

… That too is a dark history.

“But you made some friends, right? Joonghyuk and Taeil, Siu and me. Even if you haven’t come to MT, there are guys I know two more.”

“… Friend.”

The author subtly lowered her head.

She then started kicking her floor with the tips of her toes.

The stone kicked by the author’s foot made a noise saying, “Why are you f*cking me?” And walked away.

“… Are you ignoring it knowingly or are you an asshole?”

The author said in a muffled voice, and she staggered slightly.

“Are you okay?”

“I… It’s hard being drunk.”

After saying that, the author leaned on my shoulder.

The smell of alcohol came from the body.

Looks like he drank a lot.

“… Whoa.”

I let out a short sigh and went back to the pension with the author on my back.

At the pension, only the drunkards were already drinking, and the drunk people went into their rooms and stretched out.

I carefully set the author down in the women’s room and left the room.

For some reason, I felt like I was getting drunk.

ㅡ It’s not drunkenness, it’s heat.

… No, this is a natural physiological phenomenon for men.

If you’re that big and heavy, you can’t help but be this way without having a strict mind?

ㅡ Now you know enough. Gossiping or whatever, she seems to like you….

I am not a double-headed man either.

This is enough for the author to notice that she is looking at me as a member of the opposite s*x.

Still, I can’t take that one step.

Because I’m a monster.

So… She seems to have no choice but to keep the same distance from her now.

She might feel sorry for me for not knowing her heart.

But she can’t go on an adventure that might leave a bigger scar.

ㅡ A hero who can’t accept even a single girl’s love.

Shut up.

The monster’s words pierced my heart to the extent of being strange.