Army

“Haa……”

That dog-shit time is finally over.

I should have just confidently left as I pleased.

Even though I already had a bad reputation for deserting and then showing up to work the next day as I pleased, my biggest sin was silently enduring the abuse from those shrimp-like assholes who you’d commonly see on the beach, just because they thought they could get away with it.

So, even though I have a family powerful enough to quiet the entire military unit, those senior soldiers, thinking I’m an easy target, started picking on me one by one.

Calling me a retard, despite my size, and other insults.

“Shit. I want to fuck them up.”

The thought of spending about two years with those kinds of guys gave me the creeps.

The only good thing is that I’m not active duty, so I don’t have to see them in the evenings.

Still, shit. It’s hard to bear, so this is probably the first time I’m pissed off on my own, without Ji-young involved.

“Haa……”

I sighed deeply as I trudged along.

How did my girlfriend-nim manage to get me assigned to the local reserve unit? I was planning to be quiet and steadfast, even if I got cursed at, so I wouldn’t cause any trouble, but I don’t think that’s going to be possible like this.

Bbang bbang.

As I was walking along with a worried expression, a familiar car with a familiar color and shape honked in front of me.

“How is it? Is it manageable?”

“Yeah. It was okay.”

Of course, the person in the car was Ji-young.

She immediately asked me how today was with a bright smile, so I didn’t think I could bring myself to tell her that I had become the official outcast of the military in just one day, so I smiled back and nodded.

“Really? That’s a relief.”

My girlfriend-nim, who doesn’t know anything, said it was a relief and asked if I wanted to eat something delicious to celebrate my first day, asking what I wanted to eat.

“Let’s go home. I want to eat you.”

“Hehe… Really?”

I really didn’t feel like wandering around outside any more.

In high school, Ji-young would say something on my behalf, and even if she didn’t, I could avoid the guys who were picking on me by avoiding the teachers or just not running into them.

But in the military unit? Even as a local reserve soldier, there was almost nowhere to escape.

“Something’s wrong, isn’t it? It’s written all over your face. So tell me.”

Ji-young, who was driving, must have caught a glimpse of my not-so-good expression in the mirror.

“It’s nothing.”

“Nothing my ass. Tell me quickly.”

She immediately stopped the car in the middle of the road and pressed me.

Even though the cars behind us were already there, the car we’re in is way too expensive, so they suppressed their anger and either swerved around us or waited for us to move.

When we still didn’t move, they finally honked.

“Go already. You’re holding things up.”

“I’m not going if you don’t tell me.”

“Haa… Okay. I’ll tell you, so can we please go first?”

Finally, she stepped on the accelerator.

“What’s wrong?”

“Um… Ji-young. To be honest, it’s not that serious.”

“Is someone picking on you?”

“Uhh. They are picking on me, but I’m going to try to handle it myself. I can’t always rely on your help, can I?”

When I first started dating her, the thugs who were after her and the thugs who were rejected by her would bully and beat me up all the time as a way of venting their anger.

It was Ji-young who helped me every time.

Now that I’m strong, I won’t get beat up, but I can’t hit them, and it seems pretty tough to handle on my own.

That’s because there are senior soldiers who take it for granted that they can say whatever they want to me, and even the officers don’t seem to care.

Still, still, I’ve always been helped, so I should at least try to solve this much on my own.

“……”

This time, she stopped the car in a place where she could park and stared at me intently.

“Okay… I understand.”

After a long silence, she seemed to have made a decision, nodding and driving the car back home.

*

To relieve stress, I mercilessly fucked four women excluding Yerin Nuna, and the next day, I reluctantly set out for work.

There’s no way my girlfriend-nim can wake up early every morning and drive me to the military unit, so I left her sleeping and went out of the house alone and got on the subway.

Even though the military unit is in Seoul, it’s not in the center, so the subway was deserted.

“Haa…..”

Among the few people, I, in my military uniform, sat down with a deep sigh.

“I don’t want to go.”

In college or in society, people don’t usually pick on me because of my physique, but in the military, rank is everything, so it’s frustrating because there’s nothing I can do even if insignificant bastards pick on me.

How nice would it be if my military life passed by as quickly as the buildings passing by outside the window?

The more I thought about the daunting 500+ days left, the longer my sigh became.

So I arrived at the military unit and received all sorts of abuse and training, and lunchtime came.

“Kang Min-hoon.”

“Private. Kang. Min. Hoon.”

I was getting ready to go eat lunch in a bit. The platoon leader came to find me.

“Come out. You have a visitor.”

“……”

After leaving those short words, he went on his way, and I broke out in a cold sweat from the intense glares I felt from the sides, the back, and even the front.

“A visitor? Wow. Shit. A visitor? For a local reserve soldier? And it’s only been three days, no, two days, and he gets a visitor? Wow, wow, me. Hakahkahkahkahkah.”

“Amazing? This bastard?”

The senior soldiers burst out laughing as if they were dumbfounded and slapped the back of my head.

Anyway. A visitor. Who could be coming? The possibility that it’s my parents, who didn’t come when I entered the training camp, became infinitely high.

But. When I actually went,

“Why are you here?”

Not only the soldiers, but also the lovers or families who came to see the soldiers, couldn’t take their eyes off Ji-young, who was sitting alone.

“Why am I here? I’m here because I came to visit. Sit down first.”

She said nonchalantly and started to unpack the lunch box she had brought.

“I heard the military food isn’t good. I put a lot of thought into packing this, so eat up.”

As she said, the food was shockingly bad.

The school lunches from elementary, middle, and high school were actually rated as delicious compared to this.

“I told you I’d take care of it myself.”

The reason she came to visit must be because of what happened yesterday.

She must have come to find out what was going on because something was definitely wrong and was planning to solve it for me instead.

“What are you talking about? I just came to see if Hoonie is doing well in his military life.”

My head started to throb at the words that couldn’t possibly be true.

I’m already a local reserve soldier, the official outcast, and I’ve only been here for a few days, and she’s already come to visit, so I’m sure I’ll get ripped apart when I go back.

It’s a situation that makes me want to curse just thinking about it. But I can’t take it out on my girlfriend-nim and ask her why she came, if she was thinking, so I grabbed the chopsticks and put the food she packed into my mouth.

“Hmm. It’s delicious?”

“Hehe. Who made it? Of course it’s delicious.”

“That’s right. Who made it so delicious?”

Eating Ji-young’s face, who I love more than my family, and the food she made, my gloomy mood was lifted and I stopped thinking about what would happen later.

“If Yerin Unnie made it and it wasn’t delicious, that would be even stranger.”

Ah… You didn’t pack it? I’m correcting my words.

Eating Ji-young’s face, who I love more than my family, and the food Yerin Nuna packed, my gloomy mood was lifted and I stopped thinking about what would happen later.

For the record, the food Ji-young makes is also delicious, but Yerin Nuna is on another level.

Somehow. It’s more delicious than I imagined.

“Just a moment.”

“Huh?”

Suddenly, she grabbed one of the lunch boxes and stood up from her seat.

“Excuse me.”

“Ser, Sergeant. Shin, Il, Han!”

She approached a man with four stripes, who was sitting with his mother, and carefully spoke to him, and he started to state his rank and name like a private who had just been transferred.

“I think I packed too much, would you like some?”

“O-of course!”

Ooh yeah. His voice is quite loud.

Well, he’s not a local reserve soldier, and he’s been rotting here for about two years, so it’s understandable that he’s reacting like that to ‘my’ Ji-young, who is very beautiful, talking to him.

“And please take good care of my Hoonie.”

“H-Hoonie, you say?”

The sergeant’s expression started to turn sour rapidly.

If it were her older sister or younger sister, she wouldn’t use the word ‘my’, so he can tell that they’re in a relationship.

And that sergeant is active duty, so he has almost no contact with me, so asking him to take care of me is meaningless.

It’s a futile effort.

“It’s no use.”

Ji-young, who had handed over the lunch box, returned to her seat.

“Hehe? Is that so?”

Uuung. Uuung.

As soon as she sat down, she got a phone call at just the right time.

She gave a suspicious smile and answered the phone.

“Yeah. I came. He seems to be doing well. The people seem nice too. Yeah? Really?”

Her lips stretched even further as she continued to speak.

“Wow. You like soldiers. You have a unique taste.”

“…..!”

“…..!”

All the soldiers here flinched and reacted.

“So you’re asking if there are any good guys here? As long as they’re soldiers, you don’t care much about looks? Yeah. Yeah. Just a moment.”

Ji-young started to look around, and the soldiers hurriedly started to fix their appearances in order to win the favor of a woman whose face, or even existence, was unclear.

At that sight, she let out a chuckle and opened her mouth.

“I don’t know, there are so many good people here? I think it would be better if you came and saw for yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Really, it’s okay……”

She was talking well, but she stopped and continued after a short pause.

“You got hit on again? Amazing.”

The word ‘again’ means that she gets hit on often.

That means she’s that pretty.

“Okay. I’ll tell Hoonie to find you a good guy. Yeah. Bye.”

Click.

“Okay. Hoon-ah. Let’s eat?”