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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Simzy
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Exam Day 2.
This time, there were a lot of essay questions, so it took quite a while to leave the lecture hall. Unlike the first day, those who didn’t know the material left early, and those who studied properly left late.
Sure enough, I could hear my classmates who had gathered at the department lounge chatting.
“Ah, I totally bombed it. Why was it so hard?”
“Tell me about it. There wasn’t a single short-answer question.”
“I just wrote a letter to the professor and left….”
On the other hand, Sung-joo hyung and Sung-hyun looked quite relaxed.
“Wasn’t it easy? It took a long time because there was so much to write.”
“I didn’t find it that difficult either.”
A-reum and I felt the same way. Despite worrying about not getting enough sleep last night, we solved the problems easily. Pulling an all-nighter to study had paid off.
Actually, I think the easy questions are the problem. When the difficulty level is low, it’s easy to solve them, but it’s hard to distinguish the top students.
“I think the A+ for this course will be decided by the final exam or assignments.”
“I agree with Kang-Cheol.”
“Well, judging by everyone’s expressions, a B+ seems easy enough? It doesn’t look like many people studied hard.”
“Sung-joo hyung is right, the mid-range scores seem secure. Most of the people pulling all-nighters at school seemed to be 3rd or 4th years.”
I only saw a handful of 1st-year students in our department. Of course, studying hard doesn’t necessarily mean pulling all-nighters at school. Sung-joo hyung and Sung-hyun, for example, didn’t stay up all night at school, but it seemed they each studied hard at home.
Sung-hyun asked A-reum and me,
“Are you guys going to pull another all-nighter today?”
“I’m planning to…”
I answered awkwardly and looked back at A-reum.
A-reum, who had been beaming about doing well on the exam, suddenly had a sullen expression.
“I can’t stay up all night at school. I’m grounded…”
A-reum had slept at my place without stopping by her house. Turns out she hadn’t contacted her family at all…
In the end, her angry parents grounded her.
‘Ugh, I told you to keep in touch.’
It seemed I’d have to study alone today.
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This is bad.
I’ve broken my diet.
“This is crazy. I need to be on a diet…”
The problem was that I ate tteokbokki, twigim, and sundae, followed by Chinese food. My appetite, which I had been controlling well, had exploded. My head knew I should stick to my diet, but my mouth craved stimulating food.
Suddenly, I felt skeptical about dieting.
There’s so much delicious food in the world, why should I only eat chicken breast?
Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Western.
I enjoy all kinds of delicious food. Among them, I love carbohydrates the most. How else would I have weighed over 130kg at one point? I loved the act of eating delicious food, even when I wasn’t hungry.
‘Should I stop dieting?’
My will was weakening.
I looked in the mirror.
“Isn’t this average…?”
I’m a bit fleshy, but not fat. Actually, I’ve been far from fat for a while now. It’s just that my self-esteem is so low that I saw myself as a fat, pale pig. Even A-reum said I looked more like a bear than a pig.
Thanks to A-reum and the new friends I’ve made, my self-esteem has improved considerably. Combined with the desire to eat delicious food weakening my resolve to diet, I kept rationalizing.
‘No, I still have to keep dieting.’
If a man draws his sword, he must cut something, right? Even if I can’t compete in a short period, I will reach my goal of 80kg.
However, I wondered if I could take it a bit slower and give myself more time. This is by no means giving up. There’s a saying, “The more haste, the less speed,” right? If I push myself too hard, I might experience a yo-yo effect and go back to where I was before.
After rationalizing, I ended up opening a food delivery app. I wanted some spicy kimchi jjigae after a long time. I should add pork belly as a topping.
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I thoroughly enjoyed the pork belly kimchi jjigae with extra-large sundubu (soft tofu) topping. On top of that, I ate five servings of instant rice, so I consumed about 1kg of rice alone.
“…Maybe I’m not a person but a pig.”
I’m afraid to step on the scale.
Seora Noona: Kang-Cheol, you need to send me a picture of your meal today.
Seora Noona: I won’t tell you to come to the gym since it’s exam period, but you know you have to stick to your diet, right? It would be good if you could do some home training at home.
I sent Seora noona a recycled picture of a previous meal. She won’t find out if I sent an old one, right?
‘Sorry, noona. Instead, I did push-ups, pull-ups, and squats as a superset for my home workout.’
After apologizing internally, I went into the bathroom to take a shower. Driven by guilt, I also worked my biceps and triceps, leaving my whole body drenched in sweat.
“I’m sleepy after eating, exercising, and showering…”
I was planning to study during the day and sleep at night today, but it looks like that’s not going to happen. The exercise and being awake since early yesterday morning made my eyelids heavy.
I lay down on the bed and opened my phone. These days, checking Twitter and Camta had become part of my daily routine. I hadn’t posted anything yet, but I enjoyed browsing.
Actually, there was someone I was subtly interested in.
“Hmm. She didn’t post today.”
I couldn’t find any posts from the person suspected to be Backsa. Maybe she already posted and deleted it, but if that were the case, there would have been some mention of it in other posts.
‘She posted yesterday too. Has she finally calmed down?’
Yesterday morning, while studying at school, a post with the preface “Slightly NSFW,” aka a warning for potentially explicit content, had appeared. It was a nude photo of Backsa.
The fact that Backsa is an exhibitionist isn’t surprising. She was a pervert who posted nude photos on her alt account even before she became my client.
However, the background of the photo posted on Camta was the problem. I wasn’t sure, but it looked like it was taken inside the school.
‘I think it was the women’s restroom.’
Two days ago, I unintentionally entered the women’s restroom because of A-reum. So, I knew the layout. That’s why I suspected Backsa’s photo was taken in the women’s restroom.
“Yeah, don’t do anything stupid and just stay put…”
I hope so.
I’m starting to get a sense of who Backsa is, and it’s worrying me.
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How long did I sleep?
I fell asleep deeply and woke up late. Fortunately, I didn’t wake up in the early morning like yesterday, so I had some time to spare.
Instead of going to school, I sat at my desk and opened my textbook.
After studying for about an hour,
“Hmm… why can’t I focus?”
I consider myself to have good concentration. When drawing or working on virtual characters, I get so absorbed that I lose track of time, and I generally have above-average concentration in other situations as well.
But today, I couldn’t focus.
Is it because I’m used to studying at school? Or is it because I ate too much at lunchtime?
After a while of pointless rote memorization,
“…This won’t do.”
I got up from my seat.
At this rate, I’ll fail tomorrow’s exam. I might have a shot at an A+, so it would be a shame to mess up the later exams and lower my grade.
I quickly got dressed and headed to school.
“Why is it so cold?”
Walking alone, the climb up the hill to the back gate felt a little lonely, unlike yesterday.
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Arriving at school, I looked for an empty classroom.
‘There seem to be a lot of people today.’
More people were using the classrooms than in the past two days. Perhaps feeling the pressure of the third day of exams, everyone seemed to be studying with a fierce intensity.
The interesting thing was that there were hardly any first-year students. Of course, I couldn’t know everyone’s year, but that was the feeling I got. Just looking at the people from our department, there were hardly any first-years and mostly upperclassmen.
‘Oh, Soyeon noona is here too.’
As if sensing my gaze, Soyeon noona looked over at me.
Her eyes widened slightly.
When I waved slightly, she waved back. We’re not hooking up anymore, but we still maintain a friendly senior-junior relationship.
I sat down in an empty seat and opened my textbook.
Maybe it had become a habit over the past two days.
The words that wouldn’t go into my head at home began to imprint themselves on my brain.
How long had I been concentrating?
‘Yawwn~.’
Checking the time, almost two hours had passed. I’d been hunched over for so long that my joints cracked when I stretched.
‘Should I take a look at Camta?’
What nonsense posts would there be today? Because of the exam period, Camta was overflowing with all sorts of jokes and memes.
I was alternating between studying and browsing Camta.
Suddenly, the posting rate on Camper’s Time came to a halt.
And the view count of a particular post started to climb rapidly.
[NSFW) 3 pics dropped – Author: Anonymous58826974]
‘This girl posted again.’
I quickly clicked on the post.
The first picture, as usual, emphasized her waistline and back. Her slender waist and firm buttocks were a sight to behold.
The second photo was more provocative than usual.
She must have propped up her phone, because the angle was from behind, emphasizing her buttocks as she bent over. The point was her hand between her legs, covering her vagina, fingers forming a V.
‘…Hot.’
My penis sprang to attention. As expected from someone who posted nudes like it was nothing on her alt account, the composition was artistic.
And the grand finale, the third photo.
This time, it was a familiar and popular pose.
Sitting on a toilet seat with her legs spread in an M-shape, covering her vagina with three fingers.
I thought the point of the third picture was the pubic hair that was barely covered by three fingers. Or wait, maybe she doesn’t have any pubic hair at all? A bald pussy?
‘Even in this position, there are almost no folds in her belly.’
It’s a pose where the belly is bound to fold because she’s practically lying down. Even a relatively thin woman would have belly rolls in that position, but not Backsa.
‘Is she all bones? Her butt doesn’t look like it, though.’
If this was a picture taken on the spot without editing, she was a blessedly slender person. Curves where there should be curves, and flat where it should be flat. It didn’t make sense. Many women would cry out about God’s unfairness if they saw this.
‘Hmm. Maybe it’s fair because her breasts are small?’
That’s when it happened.
Someone tapped me on the shoulder.
‘Gasp!’
Startled while looking at the NSFW picture, I turned around.
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