With the Sexy Noona During Exam Period
The second day of exams.
This time there were a lot of long-form questions, so it took quite a while to leave the lecture hall. Unlike the first day, it felt like the people who didn't know the material got out fast, and the ones who had actually studied were the ones coming out late.
Sure enough, I could hear the chatter of my classmates who had already gathered at the department lounge.
"Ah, I totally bombed it. Why was it so hard?"
"Tell me about it. There wasn't a single short-answer question either."
"I just scribbled what was basically a letter to the professor and left......."
On the other hand, Seongju-hyung and Ahn Seong-hyeon looked completely unfazed.
"The questions were pretty easy, weren't they? Took a while because there was a lot to write, though."
"Yeah, I didn't find them that hard either."
Areum and I felt the same way. Compared to how worried I'd been since we'd slept so much the day before, I solved the problems pretty smoothly. Pulling an all-nighter to study had been worth it.
Actually, the fact that the questions were easy was kind of a problem in itself. When the difficulty is low, it's easier to solve, but it makes it harder to separate the top students.
"Looks like the A+ in this course will come down to the final exam or the assignments."
"I agree with Kkangcheol on that."
"Well, judging by everyone's faces, a B+ seems pretty doable. It doesn't look like many people studied that hard."
"Definitely. Like Seongju-hyung said, the mid-range should be fine. Most of the people pulling all-nighters at school at dawn are third- and fourth-years anyway."
I only spotted maybe a handful of first-years from our department. Of course, pulling an all-nighter at school isn't the only way to study hard. Even Seongju-hyung and Ahn Seong-hyeon didn't stay up at school, but it looked like they'd each been hitting the books at home.
Ahn Seong-hyeon looked at Areum and me, then asked.
"You two pulling an all-nighter again today?"
"I was thinking about it......."
I answered sheepishly and glanced over at Areum.
Areum, who had been beaming about how well she thought she did on the exam, suddenly wore a teary expression.
"I can't stay up at school. I'm grounded......."
Areum had slept at my studio apartment without stopping by her place first. Turns out she hadn't called home even once.......
In the end, her thoroughly pissed-off parents had grounded her.
'Good grief, I told her to keep in touch.'
It looked like I'd be studying alone today.
*
Big trouble.
My appetite had exploded.
"This is insane. I'm supposed to be on a diet......."
The problem was that I'd followed up the tteok-twi-sun with Chinese food. The appetite I'd been holding back so well had finally broken free. My head knew I had to stick to my meal plan, but once my palate was awakened, it craved nothing but rich, stimulating food.
Suddenly, I started to feel skeptical about the whole diet thing.
There's so much delicious food in the world, why the hell should I have to eat chicken breast?
Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Western.
I'm not picky when it comes to good food; I eat it all. And above all else, I love carbs the most. How else do you think I once weighed over 130kg? Even when I wasn't hungry, I absolutely loved the act of eating delicious food itself.
'Should I just quit the diet?'
My willpower was about to cave in.
I looked in the mirror.
"This much is pretty average, isn't it......."
Sure, I still had some meat on me, but I wasn't fat. Actually, it'd been a long time since I'd left "fat" behind. It was just that my self-esteem was so rock-bottom that I saw myself as some blob of a pig — even Areum had said I was more like a bear than a pig.
Thanks to Areum and all the new friends I'd made, my self-esteem had gone up quite a bit. And on top of that, my desire to eat good food was weakening my diet resolve, so I just kept rationalizing.
'No, I should keep going with the diet.'
A man who draws his blade ought to at least cut a radish, shouldn't he? Even if I couldn't make it to a competition in the short term, I was going to hit my goal of 80kg no matter what.
It's just that maybe I could take it a little slower, with more leeway in the timeline. This definitely wasn't giving up. You know what they say — "more haste, less speed." If I pushed too brutally hard, I'd just yo-yo back to where I started.
Having finished rationalizing, I ultimately opened the delivery app. It had been a while, and I was craving some spicy braised kimchi. I'd go with pork belly as the topping.
*
I devoured the pork belly kimchi jjim, even adding an extra-large soft tofu topping. On top of that, I tore through five packs of instant rice — meaning I'd put away roughly 1kg of white rice alone.
"...Maybe I'm not a person, but actually a pig after all."
I was terrified to step on the scale.
- Seora noona: Kkangcheol, you're supposed to send me your meal photos today.
- Seora noona: I won't tell you to come to the gym since it's exam period, but you know you still have to stick to the diet, right? It'd be good if you could at least do some home training exercises.
I recycled an old meal photo and sent it to Seora noona on Kakao. I picked one from way back, so she won't notice, right?
'Sorry, noona. In exchange, I crushed a superset of push-ups, pull-ups, and squats as home training.'
After apologizing internally, I went into the bathroom to shower. I'd tacked on bicep and tricep work out of guilt, so my whole body was drenched in sweat.
"Ate, worked out, and now showered — I'm sleepy......."
Today, of all days, I'd planned to study during the day and sleep at night, but that wasn't happening. Workout aside, I'd been awake since dawn the day before, and my eyelids were heavy.
I lay down on the bed and opened my phone. Lately, checking Camta along with Trickster had become part of my daily routine. I still hadn't written a post myself, but watching was plenty entertaining.
Truth was, there was someone who'd been subtly on my mind.
"Hm. Nothing posted today, huh."
There was no sign of a post from the person presumed to be Bback-sa. Maybe they'd already uploaded and deleted it, but if that were the case, there would've been related chatter in other posts.
'They were uploading just yesterday too. Have they finally calmed down?'
Even when I'd been studying at school at dawn yesterday, a post with the "yakhu" — the so-called "look behind you" — header had gone up. It was Bback-sa's nude photos.
The fact that Bback-sa was an exhibitionist wasn't surprising at all. They'd already been a pervert posting nude photos on an alt account even before they were my client.
The problem was the background of the photos uploaded to Camta. I wasn't certain, but it looked like they were taken inside the school.
'I'm telling you, it looked like the women's bathroom.'
Two days ago, I'd ended up going into the women's bathroom against my will because of Areum. So I'd gotten familiar with the interior layout. That was why I could guess that Bback-sa's photos were taken in a women's bathroom.
"Yeah, don't do anything stupid. Just stay quiet......."
I sincerely hoped so.
I was getting worried because I was starting to figure out who Bback-sa might be.
*
How long had I slept?
I'd fallen pretty deeply asleep and woke up late. Still, unlike yesterday, I hadn't woken up at dawn, so fortunately I had a fair amount of time to spare.
Instead of going to school, I sat at my desk and opened my major textbook.
I studied like that for about an hour.
"Hm... why can't I focus at all?"
I usually prided myself on having pretty good concentration. When I was drawing or working on virtual characters, I'd get so immersed I'd lose track of time, and even in other situations I showed above-average focus.
But today, of all days, I just couldn't concentrate.
Was it because I'd gotten used to studying at school? Or was it because I'd eaten way too much during the day?
After a long stretch of pointless rote memorization.
"...This isn't working."
I got up from my seat.
At this rate, I felt like I was going to bomb tomorrow's exam. If I'd already blown the earlier ones, maybe it wouldn't matter, but it felt like I could even aim for an A+. Letting my grade drop because I messed up the exams still ahead would be such a waste.
I threw on some clothes and headed to school.
"Why is it so cold."
Maybe because I was alone, the path up the back gate hill felt a little lonely, unlike yesterday.
*
I arrived at school and found an empty lecture hall.
'Seems like there are a lot of people out today.'
There were more people using the lecture halls than the previous two days. Maybe because it was the third day of exams, they were feeling the pressure — the intensity of the studying was downright fierce.
An interesting fact was that there were almost no first-years. Of course, I couldn't actually know everyone's year, but that was the feeling. And in reality, even just looking at our own department, there were hardly any first-years, and the upperclassmen were by far the majority.
'Oh, Soyeon noona is here too.'
Maybe she felt my gaze, because Soyeon noona looked my way.
Her eyes widened slightly.
When I gave a small wave, she waved back. We weren't sleeping together anymore, but we still maintained a close sunbae-hoobae relationship.
I sat down in an empty seat and opened my major textbook.
Had it become a habit over the last two days?
The letters that hadn't come into focus at all when I was at home began to etch themselves into my head as if being engraved.
How long had I been focused?
'Yaaawn~.'
I checked the time, and nearly two hours had already passed. I'd had my head down for so long that when I stretched, a series of cracking sounds rang out.
'Should I check out Camta?'
What kind of shitposts would be up today? Because it was exam period, Camta was flooded with troll posts and shitposting.
I was alternating between studying and lurking on Camta like that.
Suddenly, the post refresh rate on Campus Time screeched to a halt.
And then the view count on one particular post started skyrocketing terrifyingly fast.
[H B J I) Dropping 3 Pics - Author: Anonymous58826974]
'This bastard went and uploaded again after all.'
I quickly tapped the post.
The first photo was, as usual, one emphasizing the waistline and rear view. A cinched waist and firm, plump ass — as always.
The second photo had a more provocative composition than usual.
They must have propped up their phone, because the angle was from behind, emphasizing the ass in a bent-over pose. The focal point was the hand slipped between the legs, covering the pussy with fingers forming a V-shape.
'...I got hard.'
My cock sprang straight up. As expected of someone from an alt account where public nudity was as routine as eating meals, the composition was art.
The long-awaited third photo.
This time it was a familiar, mainstream composition.
Sitting on the toilet, legs lifted in an M-shape, covering the pussy with three fingers.
In my opinion, the focal point of the third photo was the pubic hair that was completely hidden by just three fingers. Or wait — was there no pubic hair at all? A full wax?
'And even in this position, there's barely any belly roll.'
It was a pose where they were practically half-lying down, so some belly folding was unavoidable. Even a fairly skinny girl would end up with rolls in that position, but Bback-sa didn't have that.
'Are they nothing but bones? Looking at the ass, doesn't seem like it though.'
If this was an on-the-spot photo without any editing, they were truly a blessedly gifted slender type. Curves in all the right places, lean where it counted — it didn't make sense. Any other woman who saw this would be lamenting God's unfairness.
'Hm. Maybe the small chest makes it even?'
That was when it happened.
Someone tapped my shoulder.
'Hurk!'
I was looking at lewd pictures, so I jolted in shock and whipped my head around.