chapter 61
The bunny is obsessed with me.
A lot of time has passed since then.
I finished my second year of college and started my third year, so it was like several months had passed.
A lot has happened in the meantime.
Kyunghee finished the novel she was writing.
For half a year, three to four episodes without missing a day.
Since I had hundreds of books piled up, I earned so much money that I could call it a pension.
In addition, they said that they were thinking about making a webtoon, so there would be no shortage of money in the future.
So now it’s okay to take a little break, but Kyung-hee seemed to have a different idea.
After all, he used to wander around, saying he wanted to write a follow-up to a novel he had recently completed.
It was like the idea of earning money until I didn’t have to work at all, and then using that money to stay home with me all day.
Realistically, that wouldn’t be possible, but for now, he nodded.
My parents seemed to have let go of the hour.
He didn’t think about dating a girl, but he said he doesn’t have to worry anymore.
Seeing how he continued to be nice to Kyung-hee after that, it seemed like things would go smoothly.
As long as things don’t get very messy, you can practically call them a couple.
Agents Park Chan-ho and Park Tae-ho have returned to their original duties.
In my heart, I still want to stick with us more, but it was inevitable.
In the first place, the dispatch of NIS agents was also a request made by Kyung-hee.
Still, as both were assigned to mutation-related tasks, it was reassuring to hear that they would be able to meet again if something happened later.
As much as I caused trouble every time, I wanted to meet happily the next time we met, but…
I couldn’t help but laugh at Agent Park Chan-ho’s sincere, non-joke remark that there is nothing good about visiting NIS agents on official business.
Park Hyun-ah, Choi Il-hyun. Finally, Park Jin-soo.
The four of us who always stick together, our friendship has begun to crack before we know it.
It wasn’t really cracked, it was a joke.
It was because Park Hyun-ah and Choi Il-hyun started dating.
The trigger was something that happened during a group assignment.
Because Park Hyun-ah’s hands shouldn’t get hurt, it was said that Choi Il-hyun was cool while preparing the ingredients.
So Park Jin-soo had a depressed expression whenever he showed his face recently.
Everyone around him dated a girlfriend, became a CC, and fell in love, but why did he not have a girlfriend?
He could take care of it wholeheartedly like everyone else does, but he used to grumble at drinking parties, asking why he couldn’t do it.
Of course, others who knew why just laughed and fell silent.
Even if you only drink in moderation and go out to play in moderation, the woman will take care of yourself.
However, if you fix that licorice temperament, it will not be Park Jin-soo, so it will be a dilemma for Jin-soo.
Even if I say we’re dating anyway, I’m busy with my third year, so I won’t be able to date properly.
I went up a grade, that I was one year older.
Because of the professors who tried to tighten the students for all sorts of reasons, there were so many assignments and paper tests that it was incomparable to the second year.
It was to the point where there were students who postponed their military service and studied, saying that they did not have the confidence to follow this after going to the military.
It was natural for me to sit down and drink coffee in a class room, club room, or school cafe.
So far, it’s been a good change.
It means that you smile when you think back on the things that have happened.
But for half a year, we weren’t the only ones moving, the world was moving too.
A change that I couldn’t see too finely, occurred about three months ago.
It was the appearance of the mutants.
New people whose conditions are unknown, but for some reason, animal body parts appear.
We started calling them mutators.
savage, savage. Well, there were people who called it that name, but the name officially announced by the government was the mutant.
It’s like putting the name of a mutated animal in front.
Take Kyung Hee as an example, a rabbit mutant. Well, it’s like this.
Naturally, interest in mutants poured out.
Even in an unmutated state, mutagens retain animal body parts, such as ears and tails.
That alone seems like a mysterious existence in a creation.
When mutators mutate, the animal’s habits become stronger and their physical abilities become stronger.
If you mutate or cancel the mutation, the injured wound will recover rapidly.
As long as there is a slight high fever and hunger, there is virtually no harm in daily life.
In addition to that, there are many different characteristics, so I learned a new fact that even I, who was dating a mutant, did not know.
Well, among the mutants, there are examples of changing gender… and examples of rejuvenation.
So, naturally, there was no choice but to heat up the whole world.
either in a positive or negative direction.
Even now, although it has faded somewhat, interest in mutants has only increased as they have increased, but not less.
Moreover, the number of mutants is not so small, especially.
If you estimate the number of variables by country, it’s around 3% of the population.
3%.
The population of Korea is 50 million.
3% of 50 million, or 150,000 at least.
I wrote down the number 150,000 on a practice sheet and stared at the number for a while.
More if more, less if less. It was such an ambiguous number.
If you look at the numbers, there are many, but in my life, I haven’t seen so many mutants.
I was thinking about it all the time, when suddenly one of my hands was pushed away.
“What are you doing?”
“… Park Hyun-ah?”
“yes.”
Park Hyeon-ah, with wide eyes, tapped on my practice field.
I thought we were doing assignments together a little while ago, but what were you thinking?
So, after explaining the reason, I stood up and stretched.
There were more people besides us in the classroom.
Classmates and seniors studying with their eyes fixed on books or electronic devices.
Choi Il-hyeon, who was on good terms with Park Jin-soo, spat out abusive language while deciphering each other’s problems.
And even the freshmen doing something quietly in the corner watching us.
The words that time goes by so quickly came to mind.
I wanted to close my eyes for a while and reminisce, but I couldn’t.
I hurriedly turned my head to catch my spirit and took two sips of iced americano.
And again, I fixed my gaze on the paper Park Hyun-ah held out.
White is paper, black is writing.
It was a physics problem full of complex formulas and pictures that made me want to spit out such a sound.
What is mechanics and how is buoyancy?
It was written so much, but I couldn’t understand it at all even though I studied it.
In the end, I struggled with solving the problem with Park Hyun-ah for a while.
No, it wasn’t actually a solution.
It was close to deciphering, finding words that could be understood somehow and grasping the context.
Still, I was able to solve at least one problem because I put in my time.
“Shall I kill the professor?”
“Sounds crazy.”
“But, Siu. Siwoo Park. By sacrificing only me, I can save everyone’s grades.”
“Ilhyun-ah. I tasted your girlfriend.”
“No, Siwoo. I think Hyuna is right too.”
“Oh My God.”
Park Jin-soo’s expression goes back and forth between paradise and hell while solving problems in real time.
Park Hyeon-ah and Choi Il-hyeon plot to assassinate the professor in a corner of the practice field.
And the seniors who look at it as if they are used to it, and the freshmen who look at it with frightened eyes.
Really, it was completely different from the university I had imagined.
I thought it would be a more romantic, more playful place.
Well, complaining doesn’t change anything…
I had no choice but to calmly fix my eyes on the book and solve the problem again.
I was solving the problem for a while, but suddenly a coffee can was pushed in front of me.
Inadvertently holding the can with my hand, I saw a freshman smiling broadly.
She was a typical schoolgirl girl with braided hair and glasses.
“I, senior. Perhaps… Do you have time?”
“uh? uh.”
I nodded slowly, and the female student smiled broadly and nodded.
I could guess what was going on.
It wasn’t that there wasn’t a single female student who fell in love with me and tried to stab me.
In the past, I refused because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to date a girlfriend and do well.
But now that Kyunghee is there, it would be better to properly explain the situation and decline.
Apparently, he had a girlfriend at OT in the past, so he would have jokingly explained that he shouldn’t touch him.
The female student slowly led me to a dark place, not knowing if she knew what the future was going to be.
So, the moment I was about to cut it off, the female student jumped at me.
“Joe, I like you!”
“Sorry, but I… ”
“Senior Park Jin-soo… !”
“What?”
“That, so… I want to tell seniors to help me… ”
I was a little dazed.
If you’re going to confess to Park Jin-soo, why did you come and do this to me?
But I quickly understood.
Park Jin-soo’s image on campus was close to that of an unapproachable insider.
He hangs out with a lot of people like that, so he must have a girlfriend.
As a matter of course, Park Jin-soo had no female students to confess to.
So the moment I was about to tell you to confess directly next time.
I could tell by looking into the eyes of the female student who said Park Jin-soo’s name.
Set aside the vertical pupils a bit.
He was similar to Kyung Hee.