Nuna (Ha-eun) – Humiliating Masochistic Constitution

* Nuna (Ha-eun) – Humiliating Masochistic Constitution (1)

It was around the time I started to think, ‘Oh, it’s about that time for the university’s course correction period.’ The thought of having to mingle with strangers and professors after so long made me slightly unpleasant, but on the other hand, thinking about how much I enjoyed the club I briefly joined last time, I thought campus life wasn’t so bad. I was about to start thinking about which club to join this time.

I was about to.

It’s important, so I’ll say it one more time.

I. Was. About. To.

Was it a problem that I spent my days only caring about Yeo-won Omoni and Seo-u Nuna? I realized it around the time I was preparing for university. Ha-eun Nuna’s condition was slightly off. She was talking less than usual, as if she was sick, and her behavior was strange, so the whole family was worried. Nuna snapped that she was fine, but she clearly didn’t have any energy, so we couldn’t stop worrying.

Well, our family is tightly knit with affection. Whether it’s affection or semen, we’re a family that pours out a lot of thick stuff every night, aren’t we? Even if I feel guilty about it later, it’s true that I’m pouring affection (love) into my family, and that includes Ha-eun Nuna. More than that, unlike Yeo-won Omoni or Seo-u Nuna, this one is a real landmine, so I was more concerned than necessary.

“Nuna, are you really okay? Your eyes are all dark?”

“Don’t I have a fatal beauty right now…? When I uploaded a picture on the internet, it was super popular…”

“I understand because you look like you’re straight out of a manga. But, well, stop with those jokes and you really look like you’re going crazy? How about just taking a leave of absence this semester and holing up in the hospital?”

“Bullshit… I’ve been waiting for this day…”

“Is it because of the club?”

“I don’t like other places, but I like it there… I’m going to hole up in the club for a while and stick my cheeks to people who have the same hobbies…”

There’s an idiot here who focuses more on the club than on classes while attending university. If you think about it that way, I’m similar to Nuna, but it’s a word that makes me feel sorry for people who desperately attend school, so I don’t carelessly say it out loud. Is Seo-u Nuna similar? She’s the type who loves going to drinking parties with her university acquaintances and doesn’t really care about classes or grades. My stepmother didn’t have the opportunity to go to such places because of housework, so I honestly feel the most sorry for her…

“Anyway, if you don’t feel well, really tell me. I can skip class, so I’ll take Nuna to the hospital.”

“Am I a child…?”

“You’re worse than a child, what are you talking about?”

“I’ll take care of my own body, so mind your own business.”

“Tsk, I don’t know why she hates hospitals so much… She’s not really a kid…”

Ha-eun Nuna shook her head as if she hated hospitals to death. Leaving behind the words stubborn, we eventually parted ways in the open space in front of the university’s central library. It was obvious that she would hole up in the club right after class, so I also made plans to stop by that club to check on Nuna’s condition as soon as my major class was over, and I left to do my own thing.

Even though it’s the course correction period, it’s major class time. I don’t know if the class will be long or if we’ll just talk about the department merging. The department building I attend is noisy as if it’s under construction, and it’s been a while since I’ve been here, so I feel so unfamiliar that my body naturally shrinks.

I read the map through the app distributed by the school and entered the classroom according to the professor’s post, exchanging awkward faces and gazes with the people there, and took a seat. There was a man who touched my shoulder slightly and pretended to know me, while there was a woman who completely ignored me, and there was also someone who stuck to the kkal-kkal-i hyung who came first and talked loudly. Looking at the situation, it seems that it’s not a proper class and they just called us to notify us of a few things.

‘I think I can just check attendance and leave.’

In fact, the professor didn’t teach even after he came. He brought up the current construction status and the department merger story, distributed a few documents, checked our faces, and left. In this day and age, a sculpture department? Unless it’s a prestigious university in that field, there’s no need to keep it going, and it’s not unreasonable for the art departments to merge all at once.

‘I made a wasted trip. I should have just skipped it.’

Even if the departments merge, it’s not a story that’s related to me. It’s not like I’m good enough to transfer to another department, I’m just barely hanging on. More than that, I’m worried about Ha-eun Nuna. I was worried if she could really endure today in that condition, so my legs were restless.

As if representing my feelings, the professor left quickly and the students scattered. They complained that they gathered for a really trivial reason, and a university friend who was related to me asked if I had eaten and suggested what to eat for lunch. Anyway, I have to kill time until Nuna’s class is over, so we were talking about going to a cafe.

“Hey, hey, Lee Jun-seo. You’re Lee Jun-seo, right?”

Suddenly, the opposite shoulder that my friend was holding was grabbed, and when I turned my head, a brown-skinned young man was looking down at me.

‘What was his name.’

That person I saw on the street last time. The kkal-kkal-i hyung whose name I don’t even remember. Slightly tanned brown skin and a two-block haircut. He was wearing shorts and a fancy short-sleeved shirt, the opposite of our Ha-eun Nuna, who was wearing a coat because it was hot, and he was looking down at me, but his eyes were strangely unpleasant. My theory is that people who smile brightly at strangers are usually not good people, and this person fits that perfectly.

“Ah, Hyung.”

However, he’s still a hyung.

I couldn’t openly say I didn’t know his name, so the words came out in a mumble.

“What’s up?”

“What do you mean, what’s up? I’m going to ask you something. Do you have time? It won’t take a few seconds because I’m going to ask you right away.”

“Yes. What is it?”

I was flustered and my words came out short, but he didn’t seem to have any intention of picking a fight with that, and he was still smiling as he fidgeted with his hand on my shoulder. It was slightly unpleasant that he put his weight on my shoulder as if pushing it down, trying to stop me from sitting down and getting ready to leave, but I endured it because I thought this hyung’s friendly attitude towards his younger brother must be like this.

“Do you remember that time when you and I, we saw each other for a moment? Near the arcade street intersection.”

As I recalled 「a frequent pattern」 at those awkward words, I immediately made a preemptive strike. The only point of contact between the kkal-kkal-i hyung and me was that, and if he even mentioned it directly, it was almost confirmed. There was no need to waste my time by making him speak in a probing tone.

“Are you talking about the woman who was with me?”

“Oh, this guy is super quick-witted… How did you know…?”

“I get asked that a lot.”

This isn’t the first time I’ve been asked about my nunas. Especially around high school, I often went downtown with my nunas, and every time I ran into male acquaintances, I would get asked who they were, so I was quick-witted in this area.

“The person who was with you then came to university today, is it this?”

As expected, he raised his pinky finger.

There’s no way Ha-eun Nuna and I are in that kind of relationship.

“No, she’s my nuna.”

“Really?”

“Doesn’t it look like that?”

“She came to university… I thought she was probably the same age as you…”

I knew that Yeo-won Omoni was twenty-five, Seo-u Nuna was twenty-four, Ha-eun Nuna was twenty-three, and the hyung in front of me was around twenty-two this year, so I immediately told him that she was older. At those words, he blinked his eyes again and asked if it was true, so I nodded.

“When I saw her downtown then, I didn’t get a good look, so it ended with me thinking she was pretty? But I happened to see her again today and I was really hooked. So I’m taking a big risk and asking you now… But, why are you so calm? Have you heard this story often? I feel like I’m the only one who’s embarrassed?”

“I have two nunas, and they don’t look like me, so they’re all goddesses. I’ve seen people like hyung so many times that I don’t care.”

“Wow, then… You know what I’m talking about now…?”

“It’s okay to give you her number, but Nuna’s in really bad shape right now. Can you send me a KakaoTalk? If she gets better later, I’ll give you her number right away.”

“I really never imagined that you’d be such an understanding guy! I thought you were always stuck in the corner of the classroom, so I wondered if we’d be able to talk! Why was I the only one embarrassed? You son of a bitch~!”

‘Not my problem.’

He’s been treating me like a loser just because he didn’t have a connection with me because of his rowdy appearance. I didn’t bother to say out loud that I finally knew his name after seeing the name that popped up when we exchanged phones, and I received his thanks. From Hyung’s point of view, he took a big risk and asked me, but he got the information he wanted in less than a few seconds, as he said, so he must be feeling good.

“Doesn’t your nuna have a boyfriend? She’s so pretty.”

“One of them already has a boyfriend. The nuna hyung asked about is an otaku, so she’s not interested in dating.”

“Otaku? Oh, really? She didn’t look like one.”

“A fucking otaku. And she has an anime profile picture. She’s a prime example of how you can’t judge a book by its cover.”

“Ugh, shibal…”

At those words, Hyung’s expression became ambiguous for a moment, but he didn’t seem to have any intention of canceling his words, and he immediately said, 「But she’s still okay?」. My friend who was listening to the series of stories next to me was curious about what Ha-eun Nuna looked like, so I took out my phone and immediately showed him a picture. A picture of Ha-eun Nuna covering her whole body even in this heat. It was a picture of me standing next to her, but it was a scene where Nuna was getting angry, telling me not to take pictures.

“She takes pictures reaaaaally well… Huh, but she still doesn’t have a boyfriend…?”

He was definitely smiling brightly, but only his eyes weren’t smiling. It’s obvious that this kkal-kkal-i hyung is the type of guy who hangs out with women often no matter how you look at it. He probably thought that Ha-eun Nuna would be easy to bang because she’s an otaku, but unfortunately, she’s not as simple as this hyung thinks.

“But why do you have a picture of Nuna?”

“Of course it’s for bragging.”

“Because she’s pretty?”

“Isn’t that obvious? She’s an angel who came down to the mortal realm.”

Regardless of the suspicious way Hyung was acting, my friend’s eyes changed suspiciously at my words. It’s probably because it’s not a word that would normally come out of a younger brother’s mouth. However, when I added another hit, saying 「If it’s this much, it’s worth bragging about even if she’s family」 with other pictures, he showed an attitude of understanding, as if it wasn’t something he couldn’t understand at all.

Look, my secret weapon picture!

It’s a picture of Ha-eun Nuna wearing a bear pajama and taking a cute pose!

As a bonus, there’s also a picture of Seo-u Nuna taking a somewhat sexy pose!

Both of them were taken as a price for losing in a board game, but they’ve been put to good use like this. Our nunas are pretty, so there will be days when we can use these pictures like this. Of course, because of that beauty, she was caught by the trash of our house and ended up in that state, but they’re worth it.

‘Did I show off too much?’

I was worried if this bragging looked unpleasant, so I looked at the two people’s faces, but fortunately, neither Hyung nor my school friend looked at me strangely. They browsed through a few pictures on their phones and then immediately returned the phones, saying something unexpected, and my friend was shoulder to shoulder with the kkal-kkal-i hyung, who was talking to me for the first time, and was smiling brightly, as if Seo-u Nuna was his type.

“This one definitely has a boyfriend. I don’t know who he is, but he’s blessed. If she didn’t have an owner, I would have nominated myself like hyung, but it’s a pity.”

“Yeah, he’s so blessed.”

“Is it bad manners to get a number from someone who has an owner?”

“Unlike the person I introduced to hyung, this nuna won’t like it. I saw her sticking to her boyfriend very closely just yesterday.”

“Shibal… It’s a pity…”

‘In the first place, he’s not a guy with a strong enough heart to send a text or KakaoTalk even if I told him. That’s why he’s hanging out with me.’

The school friend doesn’t know my family situation, unlike the friends in my KakaoTalk room, and I didn’t intend to tell him. He’s purely envying an unknown boyfriend, so it’s a bit embarrassing.

‘Ha-eun Nuna is someone who I’ve gotten permission to give out her number to at any time. Seo-u Nuna is someone who I’ve hated since a long time ago, so there’s no pressure…’

I also recently found out why Seo-u Nuna hated giving out her number to men. Well, she must have hated it because she had me in her heart from the beginning. How dumbfounded would she be if the boy she secretly liked came to introduce her to another man? On the other hand, Ha-eun Nuna surprisingly meets men often and I don’t feel uncomfortable introducing her. Even if she meets them, she’s an outsider, so she gets tired of them quickly and holes up in her room, so I guess it’ll be like that this time too.

‘I’m sorry for assuming that she’ll reject him, but no matter how I think about it, this hyung has no chance of winning. It doesn’t seem like they have matching hobbies, and he’s just hooked because of her face. This time too, Ha-eun Nuna’s takedown mark (number of men she’s rejected) will increase and it’ll end.’

However, what is it? This queasiness.

‘I know that Nuna wouldn’t like this kind of rowdy type, but…’

I forced a smile as if to shake off the strange premonition that was blowing coldly, and got up from my seat. The kkal-kkal-i hyung was unexpectedly happy to hear a good answer, so he saw me off to the end. My school friend and I went outside as we were and headed to a cafe to kill time with trivial stories until Ha-eun Nuna’s class was over.

However, the queasiness that didn’t go away all day.

Isn’t it a reality that only these things are so accurate?

It didn’t take long for the fucking news to reach my ears.