The Welcome Party and an Unexpected Guest
After class ended, the girls from my major approached me and invited me to have lunch together. I declined, saying I was still a bit burdened. I was worried that if they didn't take no for an answer and clung to me, but surprisingly, they withdrew smoothly. The freshman welcome party was coming up next, and they said to drink together then.
Honestly, that place was a bit burdensome too...
If I went, besides drinking alone, there wasn't anything special about it... Ah, I'm in a gender-reversed world now?
Moreover, since the gender ratio in my major is completely reversed, rather than now, women are approaching me and talking to me?
Honestly, that's burdensome in its own way. Enjoying a situation where all the attention of others is focused on me would require becoming a stalker level, but I don't want that much attention.
But thinking about it, since we'll be together all semester, maybe I should attend at least to some extent.
So, after saying I'd share the schedule when it's set, Minho and Hyeji went out for lunch.
"Will you be going to the freshman welcome party, senior?"
"Frankly... I don't really want to go to a place like that. There'll definitely be a lot of people. But I feel like I should at least show my face a bit, so I'll go and if it's over after the first round, I'll head straight home."
"I-I see. Then... I'll go to the freshman welcome party too!"
Hyeji declared that she would go with me since I was going. Muttering in a small voice that she had to protect me, but protect from what? From other women?
Well... In the original world, there are cases where bad men force women to drink and get them drunk, then commit crimes, so maybe it's not an exception here either. But imagining myself in that position made it really awkward.
When will I get used to this gender-reversed world?
The freshman welcome party, we'll contact Hyeji when the schedule is set, and the topic moved to having dinner at Hyeji's store that evening.
It was a sudden proposal from Hyeji, but since there wasn't anything special to do in the evening, and opportunities to eat meat are rare, I gladly accepted the offer.
Since I'm not the type to go out and hang out with people often, going to a meat restaurant was really a first time in a long while.
According to Hyeji, they specialize in pork belly and other meat parts.
"But... is it okay to just eat for free?"
"Huh? Of course... right?"
At first, I thought we would pay at Hyeji's store, but according to Hyeji, she was treating me to it for free.
"No, no matter how, eating for free without shame is a bit... I don't have no money, I'll pay for the food."
Thanks to the money from Seoyeon appearing on a broadcast a while ago, my wallet was full and I had some leeway.
"No! Minho senior, you just need to enjoy the meat from our store deliciously. I invited you, so it's not right to ask you to pay."
"That doesn't seem right... I have my pride too. Going to a junior's house store and eating for free is a bit..."
"Ah! Senior, then how about this."
Huh? Hyeji, who had been listening to me, widened her eyes as if she had realized something and looked at me.
"There was something that happened this morning, right? The conversation in the back. You said you'd do something in return for keeping it a secret, right?"
"Huh, huh? That's right?"
"Then... come to our house store today and eat the delicious food for free!"
Is the conversation weird? Normally, when asking for payment, you present something beneficial to yourself.
But right now, what Hyeji is saying is that I get the better direction?
"Is that... possible? Asking me to come to the store and eat for free as payment..."
"Of course. I really hope you do that, senior."
"Haa... okay, if that's what you want..."
Since I reluctantly agreed, Hyeji smiled brightly as if in a good mood and started eating the leftover food.
The time for the promised dinner arrived, and I followed Hyeji towards the store. Surprisingly, Hyeji's store wasn't far from the school.
"Do you live near here too?"
"Ah, no. My house is a bit farther away, but the store is here. Come in, quickly."
Hyeji's store was one of the franchise branches specializing in pork belly, and the inside was incredibly spacious. Also, since it was already evening, there were many customers besides us.
"Wow... your store is doing well. Your mom's cooking must be great, right?"
"Well, since I've been eating it every day, I don't feel it much... but according to returning customers, they say mom's rice and side dishes are really delicious."
"Rice and side dishes? It's a meat restaurant?"
"Exactly. If meat is the default dish, they say the leftover side dishes eaten first are perfect as an appetizer, and then rolling them in the doenjang jjigae that comes with rice at the end is clean."
A meat restaurant with good rice and side dishes... It's a bit fresh.
But this also means that Hyeji's mom's cooking skills are good. Meat is probably processed from what they get, so the cooking skill has less influence, but for doenjang jjigae, the taste is 100% determined by the cook's skill.
Hearing this, I felt a bit anticipation?
"Then senior, come this way."
I followed Hyeji to the place she guided me to. I thought we'd eat at a regular table, but Hyeji was entering the room.
"Are we eating here? Not over there?"
"Since I called you, it's better to eat in a room where other people's voices are less heard."
Screeech!
When we sat down, the door opened immediately and someone came into the room.
"Hyeji-ya, you're already here. I'll bring the meat right away, so wait a little. And... are you perhaps Hyeji-senpai?"
"Minho-senpai. This is our mom."
"Ah! Nice to meet you! I'm Lee Minho."
I stood up from my seat and bowed to Hyeji's mother.
"Yep, nice to meet you too. Thank you so much for taking care of our Hyeji."
"Ah~ Mom! Don't say weird things and hurry up!"
Because of being with family, Hyeji's tension felt a bit higher than usual.
By the way...
Wow...
Ahem...
Up until now, I've felt that Hyeji's chest was really big, but I didn't know there was someone even bigger than that. If Hyeji's chest is watermelon-sized, then Hyeji's mother... what to compare it to?
It should be an upgraded version one step higher than Hyeji's chest?
There really are people with such big chests... Is Hyeji's chest also influenced by her mother's genes?
"Um... senior, then can you wait in the room for a moment? I'll go get some things to help mom eat."
I tried to stand up and help too, but the two of them told me to sit and wait quietly.
While waiting, I had no choice but to check my phone.
"Is that guy the senior from the major I mentioned before?"
Hyeji's mom, smiling brightly, talked to me who was holding the food.
"Is that so? I told you in KakaoTalk beforehand too."
"Even though it's like that, I'm saying it because I can't believe my daughter brought a guy, so I have to say it. Is it not a girl who looks like a boy?"
"No!!"
What kind of things is mom saying? Minho-senpai being a girl? That's impossible.
"Then, I have to catch that guy for sure."
"I was going to do that even without mom's words."
Mom, really, saying obvious things. Minho-senpai is probably the first and last marriage target that won't come again in my life.
"As your mom, I can tell you more surely. When I came into the room earlier, I saw the reaction of that guy named Minho, and it was as strange as you said?"
"Huh? What about the senior?"
"Usually, men who see their mom for the first time are startled by this chest. That guy was startled too. But... the reaction was different? If normal men feel surprised when seeing something disgusting, then he seemed to feel surprised when seeing something purely amazing."
I roughly understood what Hyeji's mom's words about Minho-senpai's reaction meant.
It seemed similar to the feeling I had when I first met the senior and he saw my chest.
"Such guys really don't exist anywhere. My husband wasn't like that either. Even when sleeping in the same bed at night, he doesn't touch my chest... If I were you, I wouldn't have held back any means to catch that guy right away."
Although I thought it was a fact I already knew, hearing mom's confident words made my determination even stronger.
To progress the relationship with Minho-senpai, I have to stick with him every day. Since our school classes are almost the same, now is the chance where I have to stick together more than half the weekdays anyway?
First, I placed the bowl with the leftover side dishes on a tray and moved to the room where the senior was waiting. Since charcoal and meat are brought by mom, I can have the senior eat the side dishes first since he's hungry?
I was walking to the room imagining the senior eating deliciously.
But as I got closer to the room where the senior was, a female voice that shouldn't come from the room started coming out.
"Wow... you're spending the whole day with unnie?"
This voice... Park Minjeong?
No, why is Minjeong, the younger sister, in the room with the senior?
I don't know when she came in, but it seems like she's alone with the senior in the room now. I told her in the family chat that I was coming with the senior, so did this girl come because she saw it?
I was about to enter the room and chase Minjeong out,
"Let's ask directly. Oppa, what thoughts come to mind when you see unnie's chest?"
Huh, huh?
What kind of things is this girl saying to the senior!!