Ch.92Rest at the Sea (3)

I really might sound ridiculous, but I fainted while playing a horror game.

But it’s because the game was excessively scary. From the beginning, except for three people, everyone else couldn’t even look at the screen because it was so frightening. So this is a perfectly understandable situation.

While I was continuing to rationalize this to myself, Leo pointed at Parthia and said:

“But aren’t you guys more scared than her?”

“That wasn’t scary at all. It was actually fun!”

“So you’re saying you adults are more scared than this kid?”

“Don’t tease us too much. Everyone has something they’re afraid of.”

…I’m a coward who’s more scared than the person with a child’s mental age standing in front of me.

Anyway, it’s Friday morning. Since we have to return to the dorm tomorrow, we should enjoy ourselves as much as possible today no matter what.

“So what are we doing now?”

“I’m going fishing with Yong-in.”

It seems Leo and Yong-in will spend today fishing. They somehow match well together.

“So there’s no set plan for today either?”

“Not really. So just do whatever you want, like playing at the beach all day.”

Leo answered while organizing his fishing gear. Should I just go fishing too?

But it seems a bit wasteful to come all the way to the sea and not do anything. I should at least get in the water once.

Alright, today let’s head straight to the beach right after breakfast. For lunch, we can eat at a restaurant outside.

Originally, restaurants by the beach really capture that unique seaside atmosphere.

Let’s just eat breakfast and head out. Though “heading out” just means walking out the door.

***

The present exists because of the past. In other words, if something is going wrong now, it’s all because of my mistakes in the past.

Why on earth did I buy a swimsuit that exposes so much bare skin? Was I crazy back then?

Whatever the case, I don’t have any other swimsuit. Should I go out now and buy a new one?

But I did look really pretty when I wore this…

Ah, let’s just close our eyes once and wear it. I’ll think of it as creating one last memory before returning to being a man.

No, let me calm down and think again. Is this really the right choice?

Well, this can’t be the right choice. Let me just explain the situation and buy another swimsuit with less exposure.

So I went outside wearing the swimsuit.

…I was definitely planning to buy a swimsuit, so why am I wearing this one out?

The water has already been spilled anyway. So let’s just have fun. Don’t think about strange things.

By the way, does this suit me? It looked fine to me, but that’s just my subjective opinion.

What if Ju-an says it doesn’t suit me…?

No. I should change and come back out…

Somehow our eyes met with Ju-an’s. And I instinctively raised both arms to cover my body.

My face felt like it was burning up. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have bought this kind of swimsuit…

As I kept my head down, staring at the ground, Ju-an spoke in an embarrassed voice.

“Um… you look pretty…”

When I looked up, Ju-an’s face was truly bright red. At least I know he’s not lying. So does this really suit me well?

“…Really?”

“…Yeah.”

Thankfully, it seems I chose the swimsuit well. But still, something feels incredibly embarrassing.

Exposing bare skin was definitely a bad move. Next time, I’ll never buy something like this again.

As we stood there awkwardly, unable to do anything, I noticed Agath filming us with what looked like an expensive camera.

“What are you doing now?”

“I’m filming footage for ‘Female Lite Collection Volume 51.'”

“What are you really doing?”

“Do you think I’m lying?”

It must be a lie. She’s probably just trying to tease me again.

Anyway, we finally headed to the sea.

***

Strangely, there was no one at the beach. There wasn’t even a trace of people in the distance.

Thanks to that, I didn’t have to feel the shame of exposing my bare skin to strangers.

“Lite’s precious thing that she’s been hiding so carefully is now fully exposed in front of others!”

If only Agath wasn’t here, it would have been perfect.

“Can you please stop? It’s really embarrassing…”

I pleaded to Agath in a shrinking voice. So there was a reason she recommended this swimsuit to me.

“So when are you getting in the water? I really want to see you all wet too.”

“For fuck’s sake, please just shut up…”

“But he probably thinks the same thing, right? So hurry up and show your lewd appearance willingly.”

Agath said, pointing at Ju-an who was trying his best to avoid looking at my body.

“By the way, your body has really improved.”

My figure was already good before. The only flaw was having a little bit of fat, but now there’s nothing to criticize.

Even my hands and feet were full of calluses. You really lived diligently. Yet Ju-an spoke while putting himself down:

“It’s all thanks to the special ability I got from reincarnating.”

“There are plenty of people in the world who don’t make an effort even with such abilities. So have some pride.”

“But I’m not the one who worked the hardest.”

“At least in my eyes, you seem to be working the hardest.”

At least among the people around me, he works the hardest. That’s because most people around me hardly take action.

Of course, there are some who do take action. But they don’t dedicate most of their day to it. So practically speaking, Ju-an can be considered the one who works the hardest.

I feel strangely proud on Ju-an’s behalf, even though I haven’t done anything.

“By the way, can I touch your body?”

“Why suddenly my body?”

“I’m curious about how it would feel to touch it.”

I used to have muscles like that on my body too, but maybe because it was my own body, I didn’t feel anything special when I touched it.

But kids would always come and feel those muscles once before leaving. Thanks to that, I’ve been curious about how it feels to touch someone else’s muscles.

“I don’t really mind.”

“Thanks, then excuse me.”

Finally, it’s time to solve the question I’ve been curious about for a long time. What does someone else’s muscle feel like?

“It’s hard.”

It’s just hard, the same as when I touch my own muscles. Honestly, I don’t see much difference.

As I continued to feel Ju-an’s muscles to find some difference, I sensed that Ju-an was having a hard time.

“What’s wrong? Is something uncomfortable?”

“No… nothing’s wrong…”

Ju-an answered while desperately avoiding my gaze. Is there a problem with his hero mark?

If that’s the case, there’s nothing I can do about it. I’ll just continue examining these muscles.

After feeling the muscles for a few minutes, I still don’t understand why people touch them. They just feel hard and nothing special.

Anyway, I took my hands off Ju-an’s body and started preparing to enter the seawater.

First, I dipped my feet in a little and immediately felt how cold it was.

“It’s really cold, maybe because the day is unusually hot and humid?”

“Well, I’m not sure.”

“Really?”

I filled both hands with seawater and splashed it on Ju-an’s face. But that cold seawater froze in mid-air.

“Did you stop time just for this… Whoa!”

The cold seawater somehow flew to my face. What goes around comes around, I guess.

“But isn’t this a bit unfair?”

“Who started it first?”

“At least I didn’t use supernatural powers?”

“Then you should use your powers too.”

If you provoke someone, you should expect retaliation. This time I’ll really pour seawater on that face.

But the seawater stopped in mid-air again.

“…This is really unfair.”

As we played around with water at the beach, people started gathering one by one.

By the way, Rebecca is still wearing her nun’s habit even though she came all the way here. Isn’t she hot in that?

“Do you really have to wear that even though you came all the way here?”

“It’s fine because this outfit has waterproof functionality.”

As if to prove her point, Rebecca dipped part of her nun’s habit in the seawater and pulled it out. Then the wet part of the habit became visible.

“…I brought the wrong one. I’ll go back and change.”

So Rebecca returned to the villa. What if she brings the wrong one again?

While I was thinking about that, Ha-eun approached me and asked:

“Senior, you’re wearing a bikini?”

“Well… someone forced me to wear this…”

“I didn’t do anything though?”

Agath, who was still filming all of this, said with a playful smile.

“It just happened somehow… Ack!”

This time Ha-eun splashed seawater on me. No wonder she was approaching me.

But since Ha-eun doesn’t have supernatural powers like Ju-an, I can easily get revenge. With that thought, I splashed seawater toward Ha-eun.

But a gust of wind blew in my direction, and I ended up getting splashed with seawater instead. To make matters worse, this wind pushed me and I fell straight into the sea.

“…You guys honestly have something against me, right?”

“No.”

“I like you, senior!”

“Then why are you doing this to me?”

“Your reactions are fun.”

“It’s fun to tease you.”

Somehow lately I feel like I’m being seen as too easy to pick on. But I really am easy to pick on.

Anyway, we played like that until lunchtime… or rather, I was one-sidedly getting pranked with water.