episode_0290

“Haam.”

3 hours after takeoff.

I clearly remember being tired before boarding the plane, but at some point I suddenly felt sleepy.

I keep yawning but I don’t want to sleep. My body is tired but my mind wants to stay awake. That feeling.

Choi Yi-seo, sitting next to me, had already fallen asleep. It was still amazing to see her sleeping soundly, just like before, with her sleep mask on.

‘How do you sleep like that?’

I was lying down watching an anime on the cell phone I brought when I felt a presence.

Seo Ye-rin, who I thought was sleeping, was looking down at me with her chin resting on the seat cushion.

“Why?”

“I’m bored.”

“That’s why I told you to bring something to kill time since I’m bored. Get some sleep.”

“I can’t even sleep.”

“What about Yu Ah-rin?”

I remember earlier when Yu Ah-rin brought a foreign novel with her, saying she would read it on the plane.

“I’m sleeping with that on.”

Well then, that’s right.

I’ve never seen anyone read a book on a plane properly even though they said they would.

Was he at most like an older brother?

“There’s a monitor in front. Why don’t you watch a movie there?”

Isn’t AVOD equipped with a touchpad-type screen that each seat on the airplane can use?

“I’ve already seen one.”

But Seo Ye-rin grumbles and sticks out her lips.

“Then what should I do? What do you want me to do?”

He frowns and asks, remembering what Seo Ye-rin said before boarding the plane.

“I just came to see you because I was bored. Should I ask you to boil me some ramen?”

“You can drink alcohol too. I can’t drink much, but won’t you get a little sleepy if you drink it?”

“Hmm, I guess I shouldn’t lie down with you and stick to you, Woojina?”

“Are you kidding me?”

No matter how first class it is.

So, even though it’s first class and the seats are spacious, isn’t it a bit weird to lie down in one seat all pressed together?

The stewardesses also move around often.

“I just said that too.”

Why do you think that was sincere?

Seo Ye-rin slowly returned to her seat.

After continuing to watch the anime, I go to the bathroom for a moment and see other first class passengers.

‘Most of us.’

Since the first class seats originally had few seats, most of the faces were familiar.

The first one I saw was Choi Jin-ah.

I was watching the movie wearing my own, fairly expensive headphones, not the ones provided.

He looks like a child, holding a glass cup with both hands filled with a green liquid that appears to be melon juice and drinking it through a straw.

As I took off my headphones while passing by, Choi Jin-ah looked at me with a blank expression.

“What, what is it?”

“Just that.”

“… … Are you an elementary school student?”

“I think I’m enjoying it too much alone.”

“Go quickly.”

Choi Jin-ah put her headphones back on and started drinking melon juice. She took a quick look at the movie and it was an ordinary romance movie.

Next to Choi Jin-ah was Oh Yoon-ji. Yoon-ji was already asleep.

It was a little reassuring to see her sleeping soundly, having been working so hard until recently and so tired.

As we moved to the next seat, there was Senior Joohee. She was eating ramen she had ordered, and just as she was about to put it in her mouth, our eyes met.

“Enjoy it.”

“Ugh, ugh. Is there anything that feels uncomfortable?”

“Are you a stewardess?”

“… … .”

He approaches his senior with a smile.

It would be easy to talk to you when you see you enjoying yourself like that.

“Senior, it’s a trip. I won’t do anything dangerous. You won’t be involved either.”

“… … .”

“And I heard that your older brother asked you something strange? But I won’t cause any trouble, and I’ll just rest and go.”

He smiles while looking at his senior with his arms resting on the partition.

“Senior, please relax your shoulders. I feel like I have a falling out with my really close senior and I feel so uncomfortable.”

“Hoo.”

I wonder if my senior had similar thoughts.

He slowly put down his chopsticks and looked up at me.

“Then what should I do?”

“Please do it like in college. You are my senior and the captain of the English department.”

The senior let out a snicker.

But seeing that there is no answer, it seems that he is still deeply troubled inside.

I continued speaking, patting my senior on the shoulder.

“I’m your employer. Then you should follow my opinion. If you start talking to me as a bodyguard from now on, I’ll punish you-!”

I was about to say I would give it to you, but then suddenly…

My senior quietly stops talking after watching the fighting competition that he has put on the screen.

“-I won’t give it to you. Ahem, I don’t want to get beaten up for no reason. ”

Why are you looking at that even when you’re eating?

No, it’s not that it’s weird, but isn’t this woman practically born to fight?

Goddess Athena, isn’t there something like that?

My senior, who was watching me change my words out of fear, snickered and nodded.

“Okay, I got it. At least I’ll make it comfortable for the trip.”

“Yeah! Good!”

“Instead, I also received a request from the vice president, so I will definitely keep that part. Do you know what I’m saying?”

I guess that means preventing accidents.

“I know. Don’t worry.”

I gave a thumbs up and answered curiously. Feeling much more at ease, I started talking to my senior a little more.

“But, senior, have you ever been on an airplane?”

“Me? No, it’s my first time. I’ve never even been to Jeju Island. I never imagined that I would suddenly go on a business trip to Hawaii.”

“Then how did you pack your luggage? Did you buy clothes and carriers separately?”

“The vice president gave it to me. He was surprisingly considerate. Since it was a business trip, he prepared everything so that I wouldn’t have to spend money on it.”

“Are you good at swimming? I think you’ll go and swim a lot.”

“I know how to do it. I’m pretty good at it. If you fall, I can save you right away.”

As expected from the commander.

He is just a strong person in and of himself.

“But I don’t think you’ll go swimming unless you fall in.”

“Hey, I don’t know about that.”

At the swimming pool, there isn’t anything like seniority or juniority, right?

I imagined the scene where the kids tricked Senior Joo-hee into falling into the pool, but Senior noticed and laughed at me.

“Can you do it?”

“… … .”

It seems impossible.

The moment I run towards my senior, all I can see is a future where I am flying away.

“Did you bring your swimsuit?”

“Black rash guards. You sent me a few, but I only brought them.”

“Anyway, these days rash guards are so good that everyone wears them.”

“Then what? Should I wear a bikini? Me?”

“… … That’s not it.”

Actually, it doesn’t really matter what kind of swimsuit you wear, senior. I was just saying things without any particular reason.

“Ah, the ramen is all gone.”

“I’ll order a new one. I’m flying first class, so what’s the big deal?”

Senior Joohee, with a dissatisfied expression on her face as she looked at the swollen noodles about to spill out of the cup, hands it to me.

“It’s your fault, so you eat it.”

“Ahem, Min Joo-hee’s bodyguard?”

“Shut up, junior.”

“Yep.”

You’re really back to your old ways.

I quickly accepted the ramen and was about to return to my seat when my eyes met with Choi Jin-ah’s, who was standing there watching us.

She stands up and drinks melon juice with a straw in her mouth.

He was clearly watching a movie until a moment ago, but now he’s focused on us.

“Why? What’s the problem?”

“No, yuck. It looks more fun here than in the movies. Yuck.”

It really annoys me when people drink beverages while slurping.

“Want to eat some ramen?”

“Ssss.”

“… … .”

“Ssss.”

“Ramen, are you going to eat it?”

“I don’t like it.”

She quickly sits back down in her seat.

I was annoyed that he intentionally took the time to reply, so I thought about hitting him on the back of the head, but I decided to just hold it in.

As I was returning to my seat, I saw Yu Ah-rin sleeping on the book I had brought.

The sight of her sleeping with only the sound of her breathing left me unable to take my eyes off her.

Arin throws the cup ramen away on the table and reaches for her head.

“If you sleep with a book on your head, your neck will hurt. Sleep properly with a pillow on your head.”

I support her head, take out the book, and put her pillow in. My eyes keep going to her peaceful sleeping figure.

As I was staring intently, Yu Ah-rin’s tongue suddenly stuck out.

“What the heck.”

“Weren’t you sleeping?”

When I asked her what was wrong, Yu Ah-rin answered with a smirk while still keeping her eyes closed.

“Just woke up.”

“Eat some ramen. I brought it because I thought you might be hungry.”

“Oh? Really?”

Yoo Ah-rin opened her eyes and sat up with a start.

I just ran away.

Finally, I pass by Choi Yi-seo, who is sitting next to me.

Choi Yi-seo, still asleep with her sword in her hand.

I wonder how he sleeps like that, but then I suddenly get curious and pull his arm to the side.

“Hmm.”

Then, Choi Yi-seo’s arm returns to its original position.

“That’s amazing.”

This time I pulled his leg to make his knee bend, but it went back to normal again.

Is this some kind of grasshopper doll?

I’m going to try to do a little more while giggling.

“Didn’t you get hit earlier?”

Choi Yi-seo’s warning, still wearing the sleep mask.

I thought she woke up because of me, so I just grabbed Choi Yi-seo’s chest and went back to my seat.

“Whoa?!”

Choi Yi-seo is so surprised that she covers her chest with both hands and gasps in surprise.

As we sat down, giggling, it was Yoo Ah-rin who came to my seat before Choi Yi-seo.

“Do you want to fall behind?”

Yoo Ah-rin hands me the ramen that has blown up and is too hard to eat.

You brought this back to me.

“You’d better eat it before I shove it in your mouth.”

“Ramen tastes better when you blow on it.”

As I was eating lukewarm ramen, I heard Choi Yi-seo’s voice next to me.

“Arin! Hit him once!”

“Why. What did this kid do again?”

“Ah, that’s… Haa, just hit me!”

Because Yu Ah-rin’s gaze came towards me and pressured me to answer what I did.

“Tits.”

I just answered honestly.

“Um, let’s put the ramen down. It’s spilling.”

As I watched Yua Rin unclench her fists, I started eating my ramen a little more slowly.