Chapter 4
4. Semi-basement (1)
1.
I tend to eat a lot of lunch.
The reason is, of course, to save money on food.
Before returning, I have lived by filling my stomach at school and eating less at home.
Some might think it’s crappy, but that’s how you make money.
After completely emptying the plate, I got up to get another meal.
Looking at the situation, there are no delicious meat side dishes left.
It doesn’t really matter.
I’m not a person who eats food for taste. Just stop when you’re full.
So, after receiving kimchi, another side dish, rice, and soup, we went back to our seats and started eating.
However, I could feel the gaze as I was eating like that.
When I look up, I see Min Ah-rin sitting alone at a desk a little further away, looking at me.
What is it?
Since I keep making eye contact in an incomprehensible situation, Min Ah-rin slowly approaches me with a tray.
Then he sits down on the chair opposite me.
“Hello.”
She greets you with a smile on her face.
Well, I said it was a smirk, but honestly, it’s an expression of awkwardness.
I thought about why he was acting like this all of a sudden, and I came across something.
Her friends, who were eating with her earlier, have disappeared.
There isn’t much time left for lunch, but there are still some students left.
At first glance, Min Ah-rin is outgoing and seems to have always played with her friends.
“What about your friends?”
“Uh…. I asked to eat some more, but he left…”
“Did you come because you didn’t want to eat alone?”
“No, well, rather than that…. With the purpose of promoting friendship…”
She almost said why eating alone is such a difficult task, but she held back.
I’ve been eating alone for a long time, and I’m a busy person right now, so I’m insensitive to such things. To others, especially these high school kids, it’s a pretty noticeable thing.
“Well, let’s eat together then.”
After answering like that, Min Ah-rin’s face turned bright, and we started to eat while chatting.
Actually, having a meal with a friend is a feeling I haven’t felt in quite a while.
Before returning, I went to university and ate alone, but more importantly, after returning.
I fell into this world and couldn’t adapt, so I spent most of my 3rd year of middle school alone.
I think I would have lived alone even if I had adapted to the gender reversal.
The ones I hung out with in middle school in my previous life acted like women in my current life.
Anyway, the change of friends isn’t particularly important now.
Just what I want to say. It means that I have been eating alone for a long time, and it has been a long time since I have eaten lunch with my friends.
As I was thinking about that, I heard a voice.
“Why do you only have side dishes?”
“There was no meat left.”
“Would you like some of mine?”
“I won’t refuse if you give it to me. All of a sudden?”
“No, that’s…”
I wondered why he stopped talking again, but I waited for a while.
“I swept away all the leftover meat earlier…”
The meat container was completely empty. It seems that the culprit was that.
Hearing that answer made me smile.
Are you saying that’s such a big deal that you’re making such an apologetic face?
Anyway.
It’s a good thing for me.
It’s true that I don’t care too much about taste, but it’s not that I don’t like delicious things either.
“Yes? Would you like some?”
“Oh, take some! It’s like friend money! Friend money! hehehe.”
And wouldn’t it make things awkward if I just refused?
It seems that Min Ah-rin herself is also paying attention to the mountains of meat.
I slightly modified my evaluation of Min Ah-rin within myself.
A high school girl who is hungry in the middle of the day is sharing meat.
Mina I thought that even though Lin was fierce, her quiet personality was also okay, but I guess I’m not wrong.
2.
From the 5th period, there was nothing special.
A continuation of an ordinary class.
Did Min Ah-rin suffer from hunger, or was she just sleepy? She used Cheon Se-jun as a windshield, and she continued to doze off again.
It’s me, she took classes while taking notes.
Time passed like that, and the time for the funeral came, and I went on my way to school.
About 40 minutes walk to the house.
Of course, I don’t have an option like a bus for me, who lives on a whim.
It’s summer and winter, and I just walk around all the time.
But today, I feel that my steps are different from usual.
I usually walk slowly, without thinking, with weak steps, but now I see a gait full of energy.
Actually, I have a reason for doing this.
Today we have a special event…… , Because there may be days.
I forgot about it because of the overflowing irritation, but I suddenly remembered it while listening to the class earlier.
Today in a previous life. I met a new family.
Of course not.
It was a very accidental meeting, and it was a fateful meeting.
After that, we lived together for 6 years, but considering his lifespan, it can be said that it was quite a long time.
Looking at this, the word fate fits perfectly.
I don’t think I can guarantee that much.
Because I feel keenly that the history of the reverse world is a little different from the history I know.
That doesn’t mean things are going completely differently than before, but sometimes things I knew don’t happen.
A typical example of this is that Bitcoin is out of fashion.
Still.
I hope today is a little different.
I don’t want to give up on meeting this friend.
And.
It was a good day when I met good-natured guys like Min Ah-rin and Cheon Se-jun, but could something bad happen now?
3.
In conclusion, the meeting was successful!
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It was our first meeting when he entered the house through an open window because it was hot.
That first meeting happened the same way in this life.
Since I came to the reverse world, there hasn’t been a day without stress, but today I think I can just enjoy it without thinking.
Yes. It’s a life full of irritation, but you have to have at least some luck.
Looking at the guy playing on top of my hand made me laugh.
A small and cute body probably because he is still young.
Skinny and long legs.
Two cute hairs on her head.
… ….
An antenna.
This guy’s name is ‘Lina’.
Not so much.
That’s right, it’s also called a money beetle.
Someone might say that it’s not gross, but honestly, if you live with him, you’ll feel that it’s fine.
I catch and eat spiders, I catch moths, I don’t like it, but I also catch cockroaches when I’m hungry.
Aside from that, they catch and eat other pests as well.
Our Lina wandering around here and there may be a little dirty, but that much can be taken into account.
Besides, our Rina is kind and doesn’t bite people.
This is enough. You can say that they are better friends than dogs or cats.
She was so sad when he died, but to see her again like this.
I think today is the first time I feel fortunate to have returned to the reverse world.
He seems to be in a good mood when he strokes his torso with his pinky finger and moves his legs wildly.
Ah.
Crazy, so cute.
It makes me want to bite her lightly, but if she bites even lightly, Lina will die. Grima is weak in her durability.
Anyway. No matter how old I am, I need a party on a day like today. And how to drink at a party.
I may be legally a minor, but at heart I am not an adult. Even though she’s legally 17, she’s regressed so she’s 26.
When I open the door of the refrigerator with Lina in her hand, I am greeted by the simple interior.
No, I bought some soju the other day.
Did you finish it already?
To me, alcohol and cigarettes are luxury goods, but it seems that I ate them without thinking too much during the school transfer process.
I wonder if it would be better to save a little money.
Still……. The day I met an old friend.
And anyway, there is no bread that Lina likes at home anyway.
After thinking for a while, I immediately put on a thin hoodie zip-up.
What I’m wearing right now is a white tank top and short shorts that come down to just above my knees.
No matter how strong I am against the cold, it’s still chilly, so this alone isn’t enough.
Then, as seen on YouTube, after roughly parting her hair with a hair dryer, she took off her glasses and put them in her pocket.
It may feel like not much has changed, but it’s a pretty effective disguise.
When someone who looks like a bully goes to buy alcohol, it is essential to have a ID test, but people who look like me are often not bothered to do the test.
Honestly, it’s because I look good.
There is a case where I thought that such a person could not lie about his age.
But if you do it normally, you might be seen as a ‘good student’ rather than a ‘good person’.
It can be said that a minimum redecoration is essential.
Anyway.
“Lina, Daddy, I’m going out for a while!”
I immediately set off to a convenience store near the neighborhood.
When you enter the convenience store, what you see is the same female part-timer as usual.
He is someone I am familiar with.
“Hello.”
“Welcome… Ah, Seunggi! Long time no see!”
“I see. I’ve been a bit busy.”
I wasn’t too busy.
I don’t even pay attention to convenience stores unless I’m buying alcohol and cigarettes.
The goods are generally expensive.
I chatted with her briefly, grabbed her soju and one of her vitamin drinks for the part-time job, and came to her checkout.
Why did you bother to buy a vitamin drink? I’m sorry.
Because I know at least that it’s not a good thing. It’s just a very minimal apology.
“You look good today?”
“Yes, today’s pet…”
“A pet?”
“Yes. I have a pet.”
Grimma…… Because it is an arthropod phylum in the animal kingdom.
A pet ‘animal’ is correct.
… ….
Perhaps.
“Really? I’d like to see it… Do you have any pictures?”
“Yes, I haven’t filmed it yet.”
“Then show me next time.”
“I will.”
I continued the conversation with a smile.
But would you like it if I showed you our Lina?