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“Really? Senior Yuri said that? Ask your senior to come to your house?”

Suyeon Choi asked as she displayed new convenience store items.

Her expression was full of surprise.

“Surprising? I thought you would just be quiet, but you were so bold as to invite a man into your room?”

“You surprisingly don’t say much, do you? What are you going to do, won’t you stop me?”

Soo-yeon Choi snorted, “Huh.”

“What am I doing? I can already be with my senior ♥ right next to me every day for 6 hours, 4 days a week? Would you say it’s a winner’s margin? Yuri, you’re so pitiful if you don’t even get this much of a penalty, right?”

“Aren’t you being too careless? He said he always packed a lunch box for me so I could eat my own breakfast. Like my wife.”

When I subtly mentioned Yu-ri Lee’s lunch box, a look of confusion appeared on Su-yeon Choi’s face.

“Do, lunch box…? Senior Yuri is bringing a lunch box? In the morning? Did you make that yourself?”

“That’s right. I ate it for breakfast today too.”

“Senior… Anyway, isn’t that too shameless? You should eat breakfast alone.”

“I want to do that too, but I can’t because I don’t have money. After hearing about my situation, Yuri said she would prepare me a packed lunch.”

“… You can’t eat breakfast because you don’t have money? What does that mean?”

Soo-yeon Choi came right in front of me and started interrogating me, and I told Su-yeon Choi the story I had told Yu-ri Lee.

Choi Su-yeon, who heard my story, turned on her cell phone and checked the date with a puzzled expression.

There are about two weeks left until payday.

“… Senior, do you have 10,000 won of happiness?”

“Would I want to live like this?”

“No, then why did you reject the tuition support system that senior Yuri mentioned?”

“I have some stuff I’ve already bought, so I’m sure I’ll pass the screening. It’s not going to happen anyway. I don’t want to become a certified bastard at the academy. And even if it happens miraculously, won’t there be rumors around the academy?”

“What’s wrong with that?”

“If there is a rumor that Han Seong-jin is receiving tuition assistance because he has no money, I will just call him an asshole.”

Choi Su-yeon sighed with an expression of bewilderment at those words.

“No, so… are you saying that Gao took control of the brain and rejected it? Are you trying to starve to death while taking care of Gao?! Of course, I think I will 100% fail the screening because of what my senior did!”

“You have a knack for killing people with your words.”

“No, wait a minute. Then, senior, is it possible that you said you would go to that meeting on the weekend and come back to a meat restaurant…”

The doubt on Choi Su-yeon’s face had already almost become certainty.

I answered while scratching my head.

“I know it’s trash money, but it was too much of a temptation to refuse.”

“……”

“No, but that wasn’t the main purpose, and I was really trying to say that I’m leaving now-”

“I’m going crazy! No, a person who doesn’t even have money to eat his own food is taking me around and spending money here and there? And then you go to that crazy party because of the free meat? Do you have a mind or not?”

Sooyeon Choi spoke informally at the end, went to the shelf, rummaged through something, and soon came back with several items.

It was 6 pieces of rib dumplings, 1+1 bundle of triangular kimbap, and banana milk.

“Eat this. Because I will live. After 12 o’clock, you can discard it and eat it for free, but we can’t do that because our time is until 10 o’clock.”

“Hey, why are you like this? It’s enough for me without anything like this-”

“It’s noisy and they eat.”

Suyeon Choi spoke in an unusually cold voice, and I ate the food she brought without any further refusal.

To be honest, I was a bit hungry.

“Have you not thought about how I would feel if I saw the man who told me he liked me, and the man I fell in love with, shivering because he couldn’t even eat?”

“I wasn’t nervous when I was in trouble.”

“I’m already in a bad situation because I always get a packed lunch from senior Yuri.”

“It leaves me speechless.”

While I was inhaling the dumplings and triangular gimbap, Suyeon Choi, who was sitting next to me and quietly watching me eat, burst into laughter.

“Why are you smiling?”

“Senior, try putting yourself in my shoes. Isn’t it funny?”

Soo-yeon Choi came closer to me and gently stroked my thighs with her hands as I was eating.

“Until last year, there were so many rumors that it was hard to know how much of it was true, but now he doesn’t have money to eat, so he gets boxed lunches and gets food from convenience stores from his juniors.”

“It’s embarrassing enough, so please stop.”

“There was a time when a friend of mine got beaten and got bruises on his face because he bothered a senior, but now, for some reason, I don’t think he’ll ever hit me if I act like this.”

Suyeon Choi put her head forward and made eye contact with me.

“When I saw him from afar, he was vaguely a very scary person and I thought I should not meet him, but now that we are making eye contact like this, I feel at ease.

I wear a mask even to my friends, but in front of my seniors, I don’t even care about that.”

Then, she crossed her arms around my left arm and gently rubbed her proud chest against my forearm.

“Even though we weren’t dating or even kissed, he just massaged my breasts… I didn’t even feel like I hated it that much.”

Choi Su-yeon blushed shyly and smiled.

“No matter what happens with Senior Yuri, I even think that it would be great as long as I could be next to him. Isn’t this funny?”

“… Suyeon.”

Meanwhile, I finished eating, and as soon as I did that, Suyeon Choi put a straw in the banana milk and gave it to me.

I took it, took a sip, and continued talking.

“As you know, I am a person who has lived such a life that even the word human trash is a waste.”

“I heard roughly.”

“And as I said before, I’m really greedy for women. Shameless.”

“I know.”

“You heard rumors about Lee Yuri and me, so you know something, right? That’s not a rumor at all. I even confessed to Yu-ri Lee that I liked her.”

“I know.”

“I don’t know how it will sound… No, I know it will sound like an asshole, but I like you too. However, I may not be able to devote all my time to you. I decided to go to Lee Yu-ri’s house this weekend.”

“That’s a bit annoying, but… I know.”

“Instead.”

I placed my hand on Suyeon Choi’s hand that was placed on my thigh.

Suyeon Choi’s cheeks turned redder and she shyly raised her head, and we made eye contact for a moment in the air.

“I will promise you one thing for sure.”

“… What is it?”

“That I will never play with your heart and make you cry.”

At those words, Suyeon Choi swallowed her saliva and, fanning her hands as if she had a fever, put her mouth to the straw of the banana milk I was drinking and sucked on it.

“Ahaha… That’s what I need the most.”

Then I realized that she still had her hand on my thigh and tried to slowly remove her hand.

But I put a little pressure on the hand I placed on her to prevent it from escaping.

“Seon…ship?”

Suyeon Choi swallowed her saliva once again.

Her wandering hand found the banana milk once again, but it was already empty.

Suyeon Choi looked at me with trembling eyes.

The distance between us is only a few spans.

It was in the afternoon, but after the gangsters who came to smoke cigarettes stopped coming, the place became quite quiet until office workers left work.

There were no customers around.

There is no room for interrupters in these situations, who often appear in romantic comedies, to appear now.

There are only two people in this convenience store right now, me and Choi Su-yeon.

The only thing that could be heard in the quiet convenience store was the two of us breathing.

Little by little, we got closer to each other, no matter who was first.

The distance of a few spans narrowed to three spans, then to two spans, and soon we were looking into each other’s eyes, so close that our noses were touching.

I slowly lifted the hand I had placed on Choi Su-yeon’s hand and gently stroked her cheek.

Sooyeon Choi lifted the hand that was on my thigh and placed it on my cheek.

Her eyes closed very slowly, and I took that as a cue to narrow the distance to zero span.

“Huh…”

Sooyeon Choi took a short breath, and at that moment our lips touched.

Choi Soo-yeon’s lips were very soft, but felt slightly sticky due to the lip balm.

I could feel Choi Soo-yeon’s left hand, which was resting on my cheek, putting a lot of strength into it, probably because she was very nervous.

In an effort to relieve tension, I slowly stroked Sooyeon Choi’s cheek and held her right hand with my left hand.

Suyeon Choi’s right hand groped for my hand as if grasping for a straw, and soon we hugged each other affectionately.

“Huh…”

The moment their lips touched, Choi Soo-yeon, who had been holding her breath due to tension, let out her breath very slowly.

The breath of the nose tickled my philtrum, and I wrapped my hands around her slim waist and pulled her closer to me.

Suyeon Choi seemed to have relieved some of the tension and slowly stretched her arms forward and wrapped them around the back of my neck.

We continued kissing, with my hands wrapped around Choi Su-yeon’s waist and Choi Soo-yeon wrapped around my neck.

When I gently sucked Sooyeon Choi’s upper lip, she also sucked my lower lip.

In doing so, Choi Soo-yeon’s mouth was slightly opened, and I penetrated my tongue into her mouth.

“Whoop?!”

Suyeon Choi, who was startled, instantly tightened her grip around my neck.

But when I gently stroked her back, she slowly relaxed and accepted my tongue.

Sooyeon Choi’s tongue was motionless, but she didn’t try to avoid my tongue, and I slowly rolled my tongue around, feeling the wet feel of her tongue.

After an eternity of kissing that I didn’t even know if 10 seconds or 10 minutes had passed, I slowly pulled my tongue out of her mouth and parted my lips.

“Puhaa…♥”

Suyeon Choi was breathing hard and looking up at me blankly with half-opened eyes.

Our first kiss tasted like the banana milk we just drank.