episode_0018
by fnovelpia“Hey, Han Yu-chan. Aren’t you really going to get kidnapped from graduate school if you keep doing this?”
“Ah, what are you saying? Why are you suddenly in graduate school?”
“The professor this time gave it a really difficult exam. Among them, you are the only one with a perfect score.”
Just before going to class, Hojin started making strange noises in the morning.
As soon as assignments are given, they are handled immediately. They are making strange claims that I am the only one who got a perfect score in the interim results and that I am kidnapped from graduate school.
Looking at this alone, the angle of the professor’s kidnapping is clearly established, but my attitude while taking the class destroys that angle.
My attitude in class is not good.
Because I know everything, there are times when I just listen to the class and sleep.
No matter how good the grades are, what kind of professor would try to kidnap a student with a bad attitude?
After attending all the classes with that thought in mind, I decided to go to the convenience store while still having time left until the next class.
“Han Yu-chan? Student Han Yu-chan, where are you?”
I heard the professor’s voice calling the three letters of my name.
No matter how good the student’s attitude was in class, the professor didn’t memorize his name, so hearing my name out of his mouth gave me goosebumps.
“Yes, Professor. Here it is.”
“Wait, I’d like you to come to my lab.”
“Ah, yes. I’ll just pack my bags and go right away.”
“Okay, see you later.”
The professor left the lecture room without saying those words.
Could this be a real kidnapping?
“Sigh!! Hey, I’m going to be kidnapped to graduate school.”
“No, why are you trying to kidnap me?”
“Your grades are good.”
“Your grades are good, but your attitude toward class is not good?”
“Well, I guess the professor doesn’t care about attitude.”
I took a deep sigh and knocked on the professor’s lab door.
-Knock knock!!
“Professor, this is Han Yu-chan.”
“Yes, come in.”
When I opened the lab door and entered, the professor I was sitting with got up from his seat and welcomed me with a happy expression.
Even while asking for a handshake.
“Yoo-chan.”
“Yes, Professor.”
“Do you ever want to come under me?”
“… yes?! That means… ”
“I wanted to ask you if you would like to enter graduate school.”
Wait a minute, was this really a kidnapping? No, there are a lot of kids with similar sexual characteristics as me and a lot of kids with good class attitudes.
Why me?!
“His skills are outstanding, and if there is an error, Yuchan is the first to tell me.”
Perhaps it was because of my habit of immediately correcting or reporting any errors at work, but that habit continued even after I entered college.
I guess these things were covering up my bad attitude.
In fact, if I just give consent, I can easily enter graduate school, and if graduate school life suits me, I can even pursue a doctoral degree.
If I do my best, everything is ready, so it’s not an offer I can refuse.
No matter how you think about it, slaves are a bit like that.
“Professor, can I take a moment to think about it?”
“Any amount. I really want Yuchan to come under me.”
Man, I just said I was worried. What happens to me if I say that there?
“First of all, thank you so much for the suggestion, Professor. I will tell you after thinking about it.”
“Yes. If you need anything, please tell me anytime.”
“Yes, Professor. Take care.”
As I closed the lab door and came out, I let out a deep sigh.
Compared to 14 years ago, this is something I have never experienced before.
I seem to realize that the time I am living in now is not the past, but the present.
Hojin said he would meet Yerim and spend time first, so he wandered outside alone and headed to the convenience store.
At that time, I saw Shin Yu-jin standing on the side of the road and I was about to quietly approach him and play a joke.
“Wow!!”
“Ah, Mr.!! Surprised. What, how did you know?”
“I heard someone sneakily walking behind me? I knew it was Han Yu-chan just by looking at it.”
Originally, my plan was to surprise Shin Yu-jin, who was completely unaware, by playing a real prank on her.
On the contrary, he was attacked by Shin Yu-jin, who noticed him.
Maybe it was because he was trying to play a prank but ended up getting hurt, but he was quite upset.
“Wow, how did I notice this?”
“You idiot. Who would come to me like that?”
“Sseu-eup… I need to change my prank pattern a bit. I can’t make fun of you anymore like this.”
“Hey, is there no option to not make fun of me?”
“Such options don’t exist in my head.”
“Crazy guy.”
Next time, I’ll have to come up with a more detailed plan and give Shin Yu-jin a hard hit.
We put our regrets aside and naturally started walking together. Judging by the fact that he was standing still, Shin Yujin seems to be a public lecturer like me.
“Where is Yerim going and being alone?”
“Where could it have gone? I went to see Hojin oppa.”
“It seems like there are a lot of days these days when I get abandoned by Yerim.”
“You’re always alone these days because you’re always abandoned by Hojin oppa.”
“This is why we can’t be a couple. You throw away all your friends and play among yourself.”
“Hey, do you have anything to do now?”
“Nothing. Why?”
“Let’s go to a cafe.”
“Are you going to buy it for me?”
“Oh, that bastard. I will buy it for you.”
Actually, even if I say it like that, I have nothing to say because I didn’t bring my wallet today.
If it were 2023, Cocoa Pay would have been used, but in 2009, such a payment method does not exist.
Fortunately, I was able to come to the cafe thanks to Shin Yu-jin’s willingness to buy it for me.
Shin Yujin ordered the cappuccino he always drinks, and I ordered an iced Americano.
“Question.”
“What question is this?”
“What does cappuccino taste like?”
“Do you want to drink it?”
“I’ve always been curious because this is the only thing you drank for 14 years.”
I took a quick sip of the cappuccino that Shin Yujin handed me.
Unlike the Americano I often drink, it was a little softer and had a slightly lighter coffee flavor.
Although this is delicious, Americano is the best because it has a strong coffee flavor and full of caffeine.
“Ah, that’s right. I have a great story today.”
“What story? If it’s not huge, you pay for the coffee.”
“It’s about the same price as real coffee. Listen.”
I told Shin Yujin everything that happened after class today.
The professor called me aside and asked me to work under him in his lab.
When I heard that suggestion, I was taken aback and said I would think about everything.
Shin Yu-jin heard the whole story.
“Sigh… Phew!!”
“Just smile.”
“Puhahaha!! Ah, that dog is funny. I was just saying that, but was I really kidnapped?”
“ It seemed like the professor told me after looking at my grades. I am the only one who got perfect scores in all subjects this midterm.”
“How can a university find someone who got perfect scores in all subjects? The professor must like it a lot.”
“You were trying to get me to work under you somehow.”
The professor spoke as if asking me to think about it, but the expression on his face when he said those words was quite scary.
I could clearly feel his will to get me to come under him at all costs.
“So, what do our prospective graduate student, Han Yu-chan, think?”
“What does it really look like? If I refuse, I think that professor will criticize me for the rest of this semester, right?”
“It’s expensive. Then I have to go in.”
“Hey. Aren’t you saying too lightly that it’s not your business?”
“There is something to be said in times like this. Alphano.”
It’s all good, so I hope you don’t say things like that with the face of a 20-year-old who doesn’t know anything.
It’s been two months since I returned, but I still can’t get used to seeing Shin Yujin’s familiar tone of voice with that innocent face!!
“Hey, think positively. Our university’s graduate school in the science and engineering department is not bad.”
“That’s right. It’s famous and well recognized.”
“If you accept that offer and continue your school life like now, you will be on an easy path.”
“Can you say that being a graduate student is an easy path?”
“What… That will be different for each person.”
There is a reason why I have such aversion to graduate school life.
One of my classmates went to graduate school, and I saw that it worked regardless of weekdays or weekends.
In severe cases, there were times when I would go out at night.
For your information, I haven’t met that motive yet. I remember meeting probably in the second semester of my third year.
“Think carefully. I don’t think it’s bad.”
“What do you think you would have done if you had been offered a graduate student position?”
“Me? If it were me, I would refuse. Are you crazy enough to go there?”
“But why are you telling me to think about it carefully?!”
“Because it’s not my job.”
If you hadn’t bought me real coffee, I would have stuck a sugarcane into that head and cut it in two.
How can people be so obnoxious? He went so far in making fun of me.
“Are you going to become an English teacher again?”
“Yes, I will.”
“You were very stressed. He said he would beat me up someday.”
“Still, it was fun. And what I feel while tutoring these days is that teaching is right for me.”
“I will walk a different path and you will walk the same path.”
“If I continue to live like this, won’t I experience different things or experience the same things?”
I don’t know which ones will be different and which ones will be the same.
I think I know one thing for sure.
Our reconnection will never be the same.
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