3 Rounds by Myself

22 – Cheon Se-jeong, her… (2)

Cheon Se-jeong.

That name is hard to come by.

The name that makes her heart thump just thinking about it.

“……….”

Siwoon, standing silently in the Havana meadow where the sun was setting and getting darker, closed his eyes.

And then I remembered.

The day I met her yesterday.

***

“Whoa….”

Siwoon walked quickly toward the nearby subway station.

Her pace always speeds up when I meet her.

Tomorrow is the day we finally enter the other world and start our hunter life.

How will she react when she sees me now as a hunter?

What would you like to say to me first?

All sorts of thoughts run round and round in my mind.

Arriving by subway, Siwoon came out of Exit 1 of Samseong Station, where she met.

She raised her head and looked up at the sky.

At some point, the day has completely come to an end.

Into the dark sky, the shape of the cloud came into Siwoon’s eyes.

Because the movement and shape of the clouds, which would be invisible to ordinary people at night, as well as the detailed colors, are in the eye.

‘There are a few dark clouds…. It’s going to rain today.’

Around the time I was staring blankly at the sky, I turned around when I felt someone tap my shoulder.

“What are you doing? Where are you looking? Sky?”

It was washing.

“Yes. But it looks like it will rain today.”

“There was no such news from the Korea Meteorological Administration….”

“I see.”

Siwoon lowered her head and looked at Sejeong’s face.

But today, her face is emaciated.

Si-woon tries to examine Se-woon’s complexion with her eyes, but Se-woon pinches her face.

“You look exhausted. She wonders how hard she worked….”

“I struggled a little.”

“I was really surprised?”

She smiled brightly.

“Did you see me on TV?”

“Carrot, I see! … Actually I still can’t believe it. Aww, proud of you! Should I call you Hunter now?”

Sejeong patted Siwoon’s hair.

She really liked her touch.

‘…… Hmm?’

But today, Sejeong’s face looks thinner.

Is something going on?

“Se Jeong-ah….”

“Huh?”

“Your face looks like someone who starved for days.”

“Go on a diet. You idiot.”

Naturally look at body signals.

‘I’m full of worries?’

My pupils are open, my eyes are red, and my complexion is not good.

Seeing Sejeong’s pale face makes her worry.

“What’s wrong, Se Se-ah?”

“What is work…. Hey! Let’s go eat. The last time I was going to buy you dinner, now I’m buying it for you. You became a hunter, can’t your sister buy you something? What should we eat? Shall we go to a restaurant?”

She turns her words around hastily.

There must be a reason for worry.

Sejeong always listens to other people’s concerns as if they were her own, but can’t let go of her own business.

I decided to ask questions while eating, and then I started walking.

While walking along the road side by side with Sejeong, the streets of Samseong-dong come into her eyes.

Various expressions of people walking in the midst of busy cars. Restaurants lined up around it.

“You don’t have to go to a restaurant. To buy you something so good.”

“You need to gain some weight. My sister will buy you something delicious.”

Sejeong rubbed Siwoon’s hair with a reddish smile on her eyes.

I don’t like it when someone touches my hair because it makes me feel like a pet dog.

Toxic Sejeong’s touch is familiar and not bad.

Siwoon looks at Sejeong gently.

The feelings of the past are about to bloom again.

‘I fell for this caring and charming side rather than the perfect appearance.’

I arrived in front of a certain building.

“Here. Let’s go in.”

Sejeong gently pushed Siwoon on the shoulder.

A high-end French restaurant I visited with her.

We sat side by side in a window seat where the night view was widely reflected.

Sejeong is accustomed to ordering food from the waitress.

“Sejeong-ah. It’s okay if I just buy you pork belly and a glass of soju, but why do you come all the way to a place like this?”

“Even if I buy you something delicious…. It is the heart of the person who buys it.”

“Thank you, I will eat. Later, I will live in a more delicious and expensive place.”

“I bought it because I lost dinner. You don’t have to buy it next time.”

“I didn’t bet you to hope for something like this.”

“You can just eat it quietly, but Siun-ah noona still can’t believe it.”

“You can’t believe it?”

Sejeong vigorously shook her head.

“It’s like a dream. That you became a Hunter…. I was dumbfounded for days after hearing the news!”

She deserved it.

Because Sejeong knows better than anyone else about Siwoon, who used to struggle when it comes to studying.

‘But it’s not a good look.’

Siwoon stared at Sejeong.

She was showing body signals that her surprise was still unresolved.

However, I didn’t feel good in her body signal looking at Siwoon.

A hunter, a profession with a strong social reputation, above doctors, prosecutors, and judges. If you have a job called a hunter, it’s not uncommon for women to show a lumpy reaction.

However, there was no body signal that reacted to Sejeong.

‘I’m still just a friend to you.’

Food began to be set one by one on a table that had only napkins, forks, steak knives, and glasses filled with water.

From pasta tossed with delicious cream sauce, to steaks unique to this French restaurant.

Siwoon’s eyes light up!

I was hungry because I was hungry. But she cares more than her food.

Worried about the emaciated Sejeong, he looked into her eyes.

Sejeong is looking down at the food with unfocused eyes.

I can’t delay any longer.

Because I want to relieve Sejeong’s anxiety.

“You are worried. What?”

Siwoon asked seriously.

Sejeong bites her lip and shakes her face.

“You and I have been friends for years, don’t I know you? It’s all written on your face right now.”

“Whew….”

Sejeong let out a sigh, and she weakly picked up the fork on the napkin.

She slowly swung her fork at the pasta, then dropped the fork and buried her face in the palm of her hand.

She started crying, sniffing her nose enough to make her upper body shake, holding her breath as little as possible.

Shiwoon was also surprised by her reaction and put the knife in her hand down on the napkin.

“It must be funny to run away at this age… ?”

“What? Run away?”

Siwoon asked back.

“Yes….”

“Something is happening at home.”

Sniff.

Sejeong wiped her tears with her tissue and threw her gaze up in the air, fanning her face with her right hand.

It seems that she doesn’t want to see Siwoon shed tears.

“What is it? Talk Are we close friends?”

“Dad. He told me to quit everything I wanted to do and come into his company. She said that if she joined the company and worked for a few years, she would get a good position. If you don’t feel like that, pack your things and get ready to leave the house….”

Sejeong touched her forehead and still fanned her.

And then.

“Ah…. What is the point of leaving the food behind? I called you to buy some food. Are you hungry? How are you?”

“I’m fine. More than that, you’ve suffered a lot for a while because of it….”

Strangely, Siwoon’s heart was also bitter.

Is it that your heart is bitter when your friend sheds tears?

When she was admitted to the hospital, Sejeong’s tears broke her heart.

At that time, Sejeong shed grateful tears because she was worried about herself, but

Her heart ached even more because she couldn’t do what she wanted to do and shed tears in agony.

It feels like my job.

Sejeong wiped away her tears and called her waiter for a bottle of wine.

“I need a drink. Will you have a drink with me?”

“Of course not. Even though I was still hungry….”

While drinking a glass of wine, Shiwoon and Sejeong took a bite of pasta and steak before the food cooled down.

“It’s delicious~”

Si-woon speaks naturally, and Se-jeong grins.

“Siwoon, eat a lot, and sincerely congratulate you on becoming a Hunter.”

“Thank you.”

“Yes….”

They clink their wine glasses again, toast, and drink it all the way.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Sejeong’s face turned red.

“I want to continue modeling. Do I really feel like I am living the moment I do this job? I think so. But why doesn’t my father understand?”

“Your father must have his own position…. I want you to join my company, give me a good position, and help management….”

Sejeong’s face hardened.

Siwoon continues the story.

“Since you have good specs and are so good at anything, even if you quickly join your company in a high-level position, no employee will be able to dismiss you as a parachute.”

“Is that so… ? But I want to do what I want to do.”

Sejeong buried her head again.

Siwoon gently poured the wine into her glass.

“It is the wish of everyone in the world to do what they love…. But that’s it. How many of those who have that wish come true? A dream and a wish are distinctly different.”

Shi-woon may be speaking calmly.

Sejeong is now 23 years old.

But Siwoon has lived her life for a total of 35 years, after her many regressions, she is able to give her life advice.

Bitter advice rather than hopeful advice.

There are definitely times when you need it.

“Cheon Se-jeong. Think a lot and think again…. But if you really don’t change your mind and you have the confidence that you won’t regret it, do what you want to do.”

As Siwoon’s words finished, Sejeong’s dead eyes shone for an instant.

“Thank you.”

“Thank you…. You take care of me every day, listen to my worries every day, and that’s you.”

“Is our Siwoon all grown up now?”

“When will I be all grown up…. Stupid.”

Siwoon was happy inside.

In her previous life or in the previous life, she could never say anything beneficial to Sejeong, and she only loved her.

I will pay attention to Sejeong and do well in this life.

‘Because I’ve acquired the ability to do that.’

A feeling of satiety came before I knew it.

She feels full when food, which is difficult to eat in Siwoon’s daily life, goes into her stomach.

“I’ll pay close attention to what you just said.”

After Sejeong said, she lifted her wine glass, tilted it, and sipped it.

“You will do well. You’re a kid who can do anything.”

What time is it by now?

Curious about the time, Siwoon took out her cell phone and picked it up.

[PM 11:14]

Sejeong saw Siwoon looking at his cell phone and asked.

“Are you busy?”

“No…. I looked to see what time it was.”

“Wouldn’t it be hard to study for the Hunter exam?”

“Ha, I almost died~”

Siwoon lamented.

Actually, I studied more comfortably and easily than others through speed reading.

I wanted to complain a little.

“It’s amazing, our Shiwoon. Passing that test with a perfect score, really, really! Surprised. It’s great, I really saw it again.”

“Heh, well, I just worked hard.”

Her shoulders tightened.

Her compliments feel so sweet.

I wanted to be recognized more than anyone else.

To this woman in front of me.

Jureuk-.

Sejeong poured wine into an empty glass and she poured it back into her mouth.

“You are weak. Aren’t you drinking too much today?”

“It’s okay. You suck.”

She finished her meal and left the restaurant.

Chilled air.

Sejeong is rubbing her skin to see if it’s chilly today, wearing her thin clothes.

Shall we go see a movie?

When she felt that she wanted to be with Sejeong a little longer, Siwoon shook her head.

‘It’s late. Anyway, let’s not think strangely.’

Seeing Sejeong stagger as she walked, Siwoon held her by the shoulder.

“It’s okay. I wasn’t drunk….”

“Just walk like this. I can see you staggering She recognized her earlier when she drank wine so quickly.”

“Ha… Me too, I’m not drunk at all, Hunter Nuiim!”

Her tongue twists and her pronunciation leaks out.

As she walks down the street holding Sejeong by the shoulder, she keeps getting her signal from her heart.

Kungkung!

Heart beats.

When the body touched, she suddenly tried to have a strange thought.

‘No. If you feel strange….’

Does Sejeong know what Siwoon is thinking right now?

With Siwoon’s support, she barely managed to walk, but her gait twisted and she almost fell.

“Ouch!”

She let out her cute moan.

Siwoon works hard to get her up.

I hugged her around her waist, not her shoulders, and supported her a bit more balanced.

“You’re very drunk….”

“I’m not drunk.”

“If you ask drunk people if they are drunk, they always say they are not.”

Sejeong stumbles again after walking sloppily due to her pupils dilated.

Around her, the eyes of men passing by her on the street were focused on Sejeong.

Siwoon instinctively read the body signals of men who alternated between Sejeong and herself.

Men’s body signals mixed with desire and envy.

‘Those bastards, drunken Sejeong and me, are thinking strange thoughts. I take Se-jeong to the motel and say that I’m going to f*ck him…. You don’t have to be jealous, kids. Because that won’t happen.’

Si-woon grabs Se-jeong’s waist, who keeps staggering, and she holds her back, opens the zipper of her bag, and takes out her cell phone.

“Sejeong-ah. Wait for a sec. I’ll call your house driver….”

By the way.

Sejeong suddenly opened her arms and hugged Siwoon by the nape of her neck.

‘!!’

For a moment, it seemed as if the world had stopped.

Intense feeling. And the feeling of being short of breath.

As her breasts pressed against her own breasts, her watery body could feel her nakedness to the touch.

As her thighs touched her lower body, a masculine response came from her lower body.