The Divorced Man Has Returned

#17. …I hate it.

Did Jena in her previous life smoke?

I remember when she first met, she didn’t even smell when she was the owner of the cafe…

Am I mistaken?

I couldn’t.

After the divorce from Iwa Harin, I have become a nicotine body that can not live without her cigarettes, I could not mistake this smell.

I even asked Jena if she was the first to smoke, so I listened intently to Jena’s explanation.

“Come on. Look. I understand? The concept of this perspective, what is the small point?”

“Uh… roughly?”

“Try it once.”

Jenna brought me a picture of a monster for a sample to try to compose it.

Once I’ve learned what I’ve learned, I’ll try…

Well. It didn’t seem like the second life didn’t give him any talent he didn’t have.

Even if I looked at it, it looked quite different from the picture.

“Are you okay?”

Jena approached me and wrote her impression.

“…Hey Choi Inwook.”

“Yes…yes.”

In the end, it felt like an atmosphere of scolding.

“Haha… Doesn’t it look like this to you looking at it?”

“That… that’s a bit odd. Haha.”

“A little? Little?”

Jenna said to me with a puzzled expression.

“Come on. I’ll tell you again from the beginning. This time, pay attention and listen carefully.”

I’m still a beginner.

She gave me a retelling of her explanation a while ago, almost verbatim.

This time, I thought I listened with a little more attention, but the result…

“…That’s terrible.”

My true feelings without filtering came out of my mouth.

“I agree.”

Jena, who was watching me from behind, was also looking at my painting as if she had lost her words.

“Hmm…”

I tried to do something, but it didn’t work, so I was frustrated.

The moment I thought about giving up because I wanted to know what kind of painting it was.

“…Let’s try again.”

Jena looked at me with her determined eyes.

“…Huh?”

“Try it one more time. If that doesn’t work, then I’ll give up and learn from the manager later.”

I nodded when I saw her as if she had a desire to win.

“Yes. Sorry. Then I will ask you one more time.”

And the third attempt to explain and demonstrate.

I thought I had grasped the theory, but it was clear that there was something wrong with my hand.

Jena, who was looking at the picture of her perfectly misaligned axis, hit her forehead with her palm.

“…Oh my God.”

There was no other word that could describe the current situation as well as her one word.

Oh my God. Oh My God.

Taking a deep breath, Jena looked out of her window for a moment.

…Maybe he wanted to leave because of me.

“Ha… Choi In-wook. I’m going to go to the bathroom. Take a break and try again. It’s minor, but it’s still better than when I started.”

“Oh. Yes. Okay.”

Opening the broken door, Jena stepped out.

Has it been 5 seconds since she left? Jena’s cell phone on her desk started ringing.

I checked the screen and it said [Part-time boss].

I thought I should tell you in case you didn’t know, so I grabbed Jena’s cell phone and left.

I came out of the hallway and turned to the bathroom, but I didn’t see anyone, so I thought I had already entered.

So I turned my head to the other side, but for some reason Jena was heading to her stairwell.

“Yes…!”

I tried to call her name, but she had already disappeared from my sight.

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No. But why is the kid over there who said he was going to the bathroom?

I was curious and there was something I had to tell her, so I quickly followed her.

I quickly turned the corner and arrived at the stairs, but I heard footsteps from above.

Up here… Is it on the roof?

Are you going to the roof?

I heard the sound of the door closing with a bang.

I climbed the stairs and reached the roof, and I grabbed the doorknob.

As soon as I opened the door, what caught my eye was…

It was Jena who was exhaling her cigarette smoke.

Jena and I, who turned her head to see if she felt popular, crossed her eyes.

Jenna looked at me, stopped in shock, and missed the cigarette as if in embarrassment.

“Atteut. What. Why are you here?”

Jena looked stingy as if the cigarette ashes had touched her finger.

Of course, Jena seemed surprised that I followed, but this was the same.

Hayena… A cigarette…?

I was awakened by an image that was 180 degrees different from the previous life I remembered.

Did you quit smoking in your previous life?

You never told me…

Is this because the world line has changed?

It was Jena’s trembling words that woke me, who had been dazed because I couldn’t understand the situation properly.

“Hey. Inwook Choi. What did you come here for?”

“…This. I thought it was an urgent call.”

I held out her cell phone.

When she picked up her phone, she pushed her screen to unlock her.

“Boss. You got a call… Mr. I’m asking you to change your schedule again… Whoa…”

It was her self-talk that seemed to be dissatisfied with the part-time boss.

“Thank you. But it was okay if I left it alone.”

“As soon as you leave, you call me, so I thought I would be able to answer it.”

“…That’s right.”

She stared at the cigarette that she had dropped on the floor for a moment without speaking, then she pulled out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket and put her new cigarette into her mouth.

…Isn’t that a pin pose for a day or two?

She asserts that she was by no means a novice who had just started to bloom.

As I stared blankly as I watched her light her cigarette, she held out a cigarette to me.

“…Would you like to smoke one too?”

“…Ah. Yes. Thank you for giving.”

Jenna lit a fire for me after taking a cigarette.

I naturally covered the fire with my hands and lit a cigarette.

Chatting with her ex-wife la…

This moment, which she could not have imagined in her last life, felt a new sense of incongruity.

Should I wash it once?

I took a deep breath and coughed, unable to hold back the itchy feeling that suddenly crawled up my throat.

Kolokkolok.

Ah. Right. My body now has zero nicotine content.

Like a kid who smoked a cigarette for the first time, he couldn’t stop coughing.

Jenna seemed to be very upset at the sight of me in pain.

“Hey. What. Inwook Choi. Didn’t you smoke?”

In a previous life, it was a rare bottom line.

I was able to answer Jena only after breathing returned a little.

“No. This is the first time.”

It was Jena’s expression as if she had received a serious shock.

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No. But can’t a 20-year-old not smoke?

Or is it that I’m likely to smoke that much?

I never thought of it like that.

“Oh. I’m really sorry. Don’t talk It looks like you made me smoke for nothing. If so.”

Jenna’s tone seemed to feel genuinely guilty.

“No, no. She was curious anyway. Haha… But it’s my first time, so it’s a bit spicy.”

I took another sip, but I couldn’t stand the coughing up again.

“No, it blooms very naturally. I thought you were a smoker.”

She snatched a cigarette she had not smoked from my hand.

“You don’t smoke like this. There’s no point in starting something that’s not good for your body.”

“Oh, why. You are also bleeding I mean, I was curious too.”

Anyway, even if you say that, I am the body you will end up smoking.

“Arthur. Your pair will hate you if you do this.”

I don’t know why Harin is suddenly talking about it.

I felt sorry for the cigarette that she had confiscated.

“It’s really good…”

“No.”

Has the time passed like this all of a sudden?

The sun was setting.

The clock was also heading towards 6 o’clock.

I was going to play for a while, but it felt like time flew by due to the subsequent art classes.

However, I felt it was good to be able to talk a lot with Jena today.

Is this the part where I should thank the manager who messed up the group assignment?

Jena, who enjoyed burning her last sip, rubbed the remaining fire in the ashtray and put it out.

With her back to the sunset and rubbing her cigarette out as if indifferent, it gave off a rather quaint atmosphere, like something out of noir water.

“Let’s go.”

“Yes.”

I looked at her blankly and followed her without a word.

“I have to go. How about you?”

Jena, who had taken her luggage from her infirmary, asked me.

“Oh. I was just about to get organized and go.”

I had a plan to go back and train anyway.

“Yes? Then go well.”

I caught her trying to open her door first and leave.

“It’s Jena.”

…Because we teach art and smoke cigarettes together. I wanted to show courage.

“Huh?”

She grabbed her door and turned her head towards me.

“Would you like to have dinner with me?”

I was actually thinking of going to eat before going to training.

Because I thought we got to know each other a little…

Jena made a subtle expression for a moment and then opened her mouth.

“…I hate it.”

…I guess I was the only one who thought the distance had narrowed.

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“It. What. Choi In-wook.”

For some reason, In-wook in this life felt lukewarm in response, unlike his previous life.

Last life, Inwook always felt like he was leading the conversation, but in this life, it felt like I was talking to him.

[Inwook-ah. What are you doing?]

[Inwook-ah. We are looking forward to next week’s fair activity. Hehe.]

[Inwook-ah. This dress and this dress. Which one do you think suits me better?]

I was making an active appeal like this, but his reaction wasn’t cold… But I didn’t feel like something was coming over me.

Even though they responded diligently, they didn’t respond as much as I wanted.

This feeling that something is still lacking by 2%.

Am I not cute…?

But reflected in the mirror. A 20-year-old girl, Ha-rin Youn, was confident that she would not kneel anywhere with her looks.

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Nara was the ‘flower of the academy’!

Burre.

Uh! It seemed to be Inwook’s reply.

[Hmm… Do you think this one would suit you a little better?]

…In such a case, I have been hard at work training you to answer that both suits you well.

Whew…

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No. You can do it again

Harin Yoon. Calm down.

After all, Inwook is destined to be with me.

Let’s not be impatient.