71. Stress (1)

1.

When I woke up, I felt that my body was much more refreshed than usual.

When I lifted my eyelids with a freshness I hadn’t felt before, the first thing I noticed was the unfamiliar ceiling.

Come to think of it, I must have slept at Min Ah-rin’s house.

I couldn’t remember it at all because I was enjoying the refreshing feeling.

This blanket on the floor. It looked classy, but the performance was definitely good.

It seemed much better than the mattresses in my house.

Is this the bedding of a rich family?

I scratched my chest through the slack throat of my clothes.

I thought it was kind of awkward, but now that I think about it, these were also Min Ah-rin’s clothes.

Yesterday was a pretty fun day.

It was a little awkward for Min Ah-rin’s parents to take care of me to the point where it was burdensome, but since they pushed me like that, I was able to adapt to a certain extent.

Spending time with Min Ah-rin wasn’t bad either.

She always thought that if she was with her, it would be fun even if she didn’t do anything special, but it was a different and fun experience for her to play games with such a person until dawn.

Falling asleep from fatigue while playing games was an experience that I couldn’t normally do.

Washing your body in a warm bathroom, or having a harmonious meal with food you’ve never tasted before.

It was a day without a single bad memory.

Spent time at a like-minded friend’s house wouldn’t be very important in itself.

It must have been more important that it was not just a friend’s house, but Min Ah-rin’s house.

It’s not easy to see such good people.

After raising her upper body, she looked at the bed and saw Min Ah-rin staring into the air.

Min Ah-rin’s condition looked somewhat unusual.

A transcendent atmosphere that doesn’t seem to be interested in worldly things at all, an expression that seems appropriate to say that he has awakened to something, and a face that looks blank as if he’s lost his mind.

If you look at it for no reason, you have an angry expression.

Of course, I didn’t mean that I was really pissed off, it just meant that it was a strange feeling.

“Min Ah-rin?”

“Ah, Seunggi Han. Are you awake?”

“Uh…, but…, are you alright? Did you stay up all night last night? No…, did I see you sleeping?”

“I didn’t stay up all night…, But you saw me sleeping?”

“Uh. I came down to the floor on purpose after seeing you sleeping.”

“Huh…?!”

“Why?”

“Oh, no…, that…, um…. That… um. No…, no…”

Muttering incomprehensible words.

Now, I’m back with the usual Min Ah-rin.

Anyway, I caused too much trouble yesterday.

Even if they don’t think so, it’s true that they are indebted.

Today is also Sunday, so I thought it would be appropriate to quickly pack up and leave.

Of course I intend to give you a thank you note.

“Ah, Min Ah-rin. Your clothes must be dry, right?”

“No…, I heard you saw it…, Why is it on the floor…”

“Min Ah-rin?”

“Uh, uh, huh?!”

“Clothes. I wondered if they were dry.”

“Uh… maybe not? But are you going already?”

“Already something. It’s been around for a very long time. There really isn’t any more.”

“No, it’s not like that…”

“?”

“My dad told me to come out and eat with you when you wake up.”

“Oh.”

The two of you probably already had a meal, so it won’t be a family meal like yesterday…….

Is this correct?

“Dad just said that if he can’t feed you, he’ll regret it for the rest of his life?”

“No…”

Thank you, but I also wonder if this is okay.

I wonder if it’s okay to do this, but I think it’s more rude to refuse a favor when you say that.

But there was something else that made my mind more complicated.

A faint anticipation of breakfast.

It’s just a regression, I’ve already become an adult for a long time, and it’s true that I’m thinking that way because I was possessed by the food I tasted yesterday…….

Still, it was inevitable.

No matter what. You said that, but you can’t refuse, can you?

Of course, it didn’t take long before I felt regret for this inevitable choice.

I feel a bit extreme when I say regret. It wasn’t that great of a feeling.

Just.

What I want to say is…….

“Is this… Morning…?”

“Yes. I made it a little simpler on purpose to make it easier to eat.”

“I see a steak…”

“I didn’t have bacon. I substituted that! It’ll be delicious though.”

How can this be a simple breakfast?

Basically, it was a Western-style breakfast with scrambled eggs and meat. Except for the fact that there is rice.

By the way, how can a substitute for bacon be steak?

At a glance, it looks different from the cheap meat I usually eat.

Looking at my image of thinking that food like this is going to be delicious, I think it’s true that my mental age has definitely gotten younger.

I’m the only one who loses if my appetite goes up, but I shouldn’t try to enjoy the taste like this.

I can’t believe Han Seung-gi, an adult man who lived well on his own, became like this.

…… I wonder if this is right

2.

I finally turned down my father’s offer to take me home and returned home.

I already told Min Ah-rin about my situation, but it wasn’t something I wanted to tell even to her parents.

I think it would be a cause for concern, but it was unclear whether they would accept the fact that a guy like me and their precious children get along well.

Anyway, after walking for more than 30 minutes, you can see our neighborhood.

It was so gloomy even though it was morning.

There was no liveliness here, and I couldn’t feel any vitality.

Still, I felt that I had returned to where I belonged.

I felt a sense of distance because I experienced the life of Min Ah-rin for a day yesterday, but the place I had to live was not like that.

What can I do?

I just have to work hard and climb up.

And when you become an adult and go to college, you will be comfortable in many areas.

But. Even though I ate that way, it seemed that luck was not following me today.

After walking for a while, I stepped on dog poop in the middle of the road, and it seemed that there were more rat corpses than usual.

It wasn’t very nice to see a pigeon eating someone’s vomit.

Um. If you think about it, it’s our usual neighborhood. Why am I getting more annoyed today?

I was suddenly annoyed that I had to regress and live in a place like this for several more years, and seeing a rich family that I wondered if I could become similar to even if I worked hard for the rest of my life was creating useless stress.

I shouldn’t be like this.

Did I get used to that upscale neighborhood in one day?

Not a very good thing.

It is only when I was a student that I can comfortably play with people like Min Ah-rin, but her life will be completely different from mine anyway.

When you become an adult, the gap will gradually widen.

I am the only one who loses if I adapt to an area that I cannot grasp.

It was a gloomy thought, but it was the reality. It was also a thought that came out of my life experience.

I reached home with so many thoughts, but I still couldn’t see anything good.

There was a woman I had never seen before hanging around near the villa, and her appearance was haggard and scruffy, which was very suspicious.

“……!”

The woman continued to hang out in front of the villa, and she looked startled when she saw me.

You were anxious.

It’s not that I’m anxious because I’m afraid of strange people, it’s because I look like something useless will happen.

It’s because he’s not even from our villa.

I also didn’t like the fact that the woman was standing near our window.

It’s annoying when a cat walks around in front of a window, but it’s only natural that people get annoyed even more.

I looked at the person for a moment and then met her eyes with her.

Most people would avoid their eyes in moderation, but seeing me staring at me until the end, it seemed like a strange person for sure.

Still.

Are there one or two strange people in my neighborhood?

It was a town where fights were frequent in the previous world, and I’ve had the experience of fighting a few times.

Obviously, I’m not talking about a fight, I’m talking about a fist fight.

I just ignored him and went into the house.

I have been living in this neighborhood for over 10 years.

I’m almost an expert, so I’d say this kind of thing is normal.

For some reason, seeing things like that made me feel more stressed today.

Looking at it objectively, it wasn’t particularly unusual.

3.

I had a normal daily life today, and after dinner, I thought it was time to empty the food waste.

I went out wearing the same shorts and white short-sleeved T-shirt that I was wearing at home.

It was getting hotter, so it was a bit like wearing something. It was also annoying.

Going out like that made me think that our neighborhood seemed more dingy than usual.

One of the lampposts, where flying insects were flying all the time, was completely gone, and even the cats, which were normally seen so often, were nowhere to be seen.

Still, it didn’t matter. There was nothing to be afraid of.

The impression was that it was just unique.

I had a lot of stress because I saw the big gap between yesterday and today, and this kind of situation in my neighborhood added to that stress. Stress didn’t increase fear.

Well, I guess I should.

I used to be full of irritation inside of me.

This irritation was chronic and never fully resolved.

It means that the stress that accumulates a lot today is just normal.

If you think about it, actually, not only today, but this week as a whole didn’t happen.

However, attitude is not related to real events.

Apart from accepting this annoyance as normal, I had to stress myself out once again.

“Hey…, Hey…!”

“…?”

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“That, that…, The person who lives here in the villa, the villa, right?! That, uh…, The semi-basement…! The person who lives in the semi-basement!”

The person I saw earlier appeared in front of me.

I couldn’t see his face properly because the surroundings were dark, but somehow I got the feeling that he was familiar.

“Maybe in the morning…”

“Yes, that’s right! In the morning…! I even said hello…!”

I don’t remember doing anything like that.

At first glance, it seemed strange. It seemed that a really crazy person had come.

One hand was turned behind her back, as if she was hiding something.

Really. There is nothing to be done, so this year is also twisted.

Life is wonderful.

No, the amazing thing could be at the level of our neighborhood.

In my previous life, I’ve been involved with such strange people.

Anyway, apart from that.

I was quite familiar with that silhouette.

As I slowly think about it, I see a silhouette that I have seen quite a lot, morning and night, as I come and go from town to town.

… ….

The word stalking comes to mind.

No way.

“Didn’t you see… on Friday night?”

“Hey, you remember! I knew it!”

“?”

“Uh, and… Also when you go to the convenience store on Monday… Ah! It’s like when you go out to smoke on Wednesday evening…!”

I’ll turn around.

This seems to have been misplaced.

It is rare to suddenly s*xually harass or s*xually harass a man walking around just because it is a reversed world.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t crazy people, though.

If you look at it objectively, I think I’m pretty good-looking. A man like that wandered around without thinking in the world before, in this town, in the same outfit as in the previous world.

Considering the percentage of crazy people in my neighborhood, I think it could have happened.

Anyway, that woman continued to recount the moments she encountered with me, and as she tried to listen to it while holding back a yawn, a new repertoire came out this time.

“You, you like me too…! Remember all of that…! The reason why you wear slutty clothes all the time is because you asked me to look at you…!”

“What’s erotic.”

It’s quite unfair to say that I’ve become a naughty person.

I feel like I’ve become a man from around the world who intentionally increases my exposure.

You could say it was an insult to my gender identity.

She gave me the reasons why I like her and soon confessed to me.

It’s a sudden rash that can’t be understood by common sense, but few people with common sense live in my neighborhood.

I’m such a nonsensical person too.

“Oh, from today! It’s the 1st, the 1st! That, uh, my house. Go to my house… I’ll make you something delicious…”

“I don’t like it.”

“Huh…?”

“f*cking the stars again. The repertoire is fresh though.”

I wanted to call the police on my cell phone, but I gave up.

The police in my neighborhood weren’t very righteous people, and it was obvious that calling them now would be useless.

And look at that wiggling.

I know because I’ve dealt with people like that a lot.

Originally, they are the kind of people who make a sudden leap even if they make a slight mistake.

The woman suddenly started muttering to herself. She

She said she couldn’t be, she obviously likes her, so why is she lying.

Of course I swear.

It’s not like f*ck or f*ck. The kind of swear words I’ve accumulated over the course of my 26 years of life.

When even bullies hear this, they get hurt and cry.

As expected, there was nothing special about her.

No, if there’s anything special, it’s that she took out the weapon she had hidden behind her back while crying.

“Me, to me… Why, why are you doing this to me…!”

Then why are you doing this to me?

With her short cleaver in her hand, she slowly came towards me, then started screaming and running at her.

Bang-!

“Uh…, Uh…?”

My hand was hit by the food waste bin I swung and I lost the knife.

I swung with full power. The plastic container had broken and the food was all over her body.

She peeked at her hand and could see that it was seriously injured.

“The barrel broke and sat down at will. It’s all money.”

My neighborhood is literally the last romance of this era.

In other words, a town still living in the age of barbarism.

A space where you can’t survive without being crazy.

I wasn’t one to be called a real madman either.

I wasn’t the kind of person who would fall under such fake madness.

It was a person who had already been out of normal thinking for a long time.

I approached her as she sat on her ground holding her leaky barrel of food.

A structure in which only I suffer loss if I send it.

Follow-up measures had to be made clear.

Well, whether or not I beat her doesn’t feel too good.

The other kids in my class should be getting ready to sleep comfortably, but I was more curious about what I was doing here.

Today seems to be a really bad day.

Stress began to pile up exponentially as I was subjected to useless work.

Somehow, I thought that I had been creating a spirit of transcendence.

Right now, I felt like everything about me was the source of a sense of shame.

Yes. It was really good until yesterday.

Yes what.

This is my life.

If you don’t have strength, you live with crazy people.

In the end, it seems that I am destined to be barbaric.

I thought I was changing a lot while working with Min Ah-rin for a while, but in the end, the fundamentals couldn’t be changed.

As expected. Today is a very stressful day.

I’m running out of cigarettes.

Life is real.

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