6. Truce

In my mind, I wanted to spend a day relaxing with Kyung-hee.

It was because I was able to talk to Kyung-hee over a cup of hot tea or coffee and ask why she keeps thinking that way.

But I couldn’t. There wasn’t much time left before the exam, and it was necessary to stay away from Kyung-hee as the doctor in charge said.

So, I begged Kyunghee for his understanding. You have to study with concentration for several hours.

He said directly that he would not care about you unless there was an urgent matter.

Then, I did what was written on the paper.

Close and lock the door and play any song.

It didn’t matter which song.

It was written that I just had to feel that I had something to hide from Kyung-hee.

Kyung-hee is not sensitive to what happens outside of her field of vision.

So, it was like that when I drank at a bar.

You came here after drinking with Park Jin-soo. You came to drink with your seniors.

I thought so and passed on.

If I had said that I had been drinking with a female college student or female senior, I would have reacted sensitively.

So, I shouldn’t have given any hint of speculation.

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Just like today, even though he just shook hands with the doctor in charge, Kyung-hee went into a frenzy.

Like that, he said it was important to let people have minor misunderstandings at home and then resolve them.

If you make me think that I react too sensitively, it was written on a piece of paper that half of it was a success.

Then Kyung-hee will react less sensitively from next time, and it was written that it will gradually improve like that.

“……………………………”

The paper said to call me and report it, but I didn’t.

If I called the doctor now, something bad would happen.

Because the doorknob swayed slightly and made a sound.

Under the circumstances, it seemed that Kyung-hee could not overcome her anxiety and leaned against the door to eavesdrop.

So I slowly picked up classical music and started studying it.

I thought you were doing something secretly in my room, but you were really just studying?

Eh, did I react a little sensitively?

It was because I thought I could lighten this awareness today.

To be honest, I don’t know if I’ll get better without medication, but I couldn’t help it.

So I opened my major book and started studying.

At first, I didn’t study well because I thought of Kyung Hee, but when I saw the test range, I couldn’t help but feel desperate.

The professors were all kind and enthusiastic, but they shared one problem.

He liked to lump the scope of the test together.

A college student like me had no choice but to fall in front of the ignorant declaration that the area of study was the scope of the test.

Luckily, the final exam was good. If I did well in the midterm exam, I could eat half of it raw.

However, midterm exams could not be eaten raw.

Park Jin-soo pointed out the problems, but the only subjects the child pointed out were the main subjects.

The rest of the liberal arts subjects are all on my own.

So I frantically opened the textbook and started writing down the formulas on the exercise book.

The calm classical music soon turned into a video lecture.

Now, with a little over a week left for the exam, there were not many subjects that could be said to have been perfect.

It didn’t matter if average was the goal, but since the top rank was the goal, I had to study even more.

After studying like that, I suddenly looked up and looked at the time, and it was 7:00 PM.

Somehow, my throat was sharp and I was hungry, so there was a reason.

Even if I couldn’t do it, I just kept studying for three or four hours.

“……………………………”

At first, I tried to open the door and go out, but it got a little scary.

Even if it wasn’t directed at me, it was hard to bear seeing Kyunghee do it like she was about to kill a person.

So I quietly unlocked the lock and lay down on the bed.

Then, while I was checking the schedule by accessing the virtual university for a while, the door opened.

“What were you doing, Siwoo?”

“I studied and now I was resting.”

“Ah, yes?”

Kyunghee looked around the room quickly with anxious eyes.

Then, as if he hadn’t found anything particularly problematic, he smiled with a relieved look in his eyes.

Then he sat back on the bed and smiled, saying he was hungry.

The subject quickly changed to dinner.

I laughed at Kyung-hee’s answer, saying, “Since you studied hard today, you might need something delicious.”

Looking at the conversation alone, it seemed like an ordinary day, but Kyung-hee was now deaf.

Pretending not to know, I put my hand on her head and started stroking her, but her ears didn’t come up.

It was clear what this meant.

Kyung-hee was grasping the situation as to what I had done.

I couldn’t say it outright, but it was obvious that he already doubted me.

I got a little scared. If this tightrope walk fails, I couldn’t handle what the aftermath would be.

Especially since there is no guarantee that I will be able to properly stop Kyunghee in an abnormal state.

Now, Kyung-hee listens to me to some extent, and stops saying that she is in front of me.

But what if I’m in a situation where I’m deeply misunderstood?

When I thought about it, I was out of breath.

“…Siuya.”

“why?”

“Are you tired? It’s because you look tired.”

“I wasn’t tired, but the exam schedule made me tired.”

“aha.”

“I’m hungry, let’s eat. Before that, drink something.”

“Yes. Wait.”

As if confirming that her suspicions were wrong, Kyung-hee went outside with her ears raised.

Then he poured cider into a glass and brought it.

It was filled with ice, so it was really cool.

It seems that he remembered that he said that he often drank soda because he liked the texture of soda.

So after drinking the cider all at once, I saw Kyunghee smiling brightly.

“Siwoo, do you have any food you want to eat?”

“why?”

“I want to do all the cooking today.”

“Ingredients… what do you have?”

“I’m sure there will be one at a time? I remember the ingredients you buy often.”

“yes…….?”

For dinner, rice was the best.

And I wanted to eat something spicy. Something like stew so you can drink the soup.

Then there was only one dish left.

“Let’s eat budae jjigae.”

“……Budae stew?”

“You don’t know how to do it?”

Kyung Hee nodded grimly.

It didn’t seem like I was expecting to eat Budaejjigae.

The food we ate together seemed to know how to make it.

Still, Kyung-hee didn’t give up on what she was trying to make, so she took out her phone and started searching for recipes.

Then, as if he had found a recipe that he could do himself, he could see his ears go up.

I was on social media for a while in the living room and asked Kyung-hee pretending not to know.

“It’s Kyunghee.”

“yes?”

“Did you have something to say to me? I went in to study and the door rattled a little.”

“Ah, I was thinking of asking how you plan to solve your lunch.”

Kyunghee calmly lied.

It was obvious that he was suspicious of what I was doing inside and tried to eavesdrop.

If he was going to ask how he was going to settle for lunch in the first place, he would have knocked and called me.

So when I open the door, how are you going to solve your lunch? Are you going to eat together or not?

I would have asked something like that.

Of course, I was going to ask if you would like to have lunch.

But he probably didn’t ask because he might have been caught when he brought himself to the door earlier.

I already saw everything I looked around in the room. Even lying didn’t work.

However, now was the time to move on.

If they had been accused of lying, it could have been misunderstood for real.

So from now on, I just knocked and asked to ask, then waited.

Kyunghee was cooking like a housewife.

Put on an apron, tie your hair back, and concentrate.

Seeing her ears prick up from time to time, it seemed that the cooking was going just as well as she thought.

No, now that I think about it, it seems that I have been using poisonous sausage for a long time, so I approached and asked, pretending not to know.

“What do you think?”

“Bee, it’s a secret.”

“ah.”

“Don’t laugh, it’s a real secret.”

“It’s cute. You said you cut sausages into animal shapes?”

“I was going to mix it into the stew later and show it to you at that time to surprise you.”

Kyunghee grumbled and rolled her eyes.

But when I saw that my ears were up, I seemed to be in a good mood because I responded positively.

I felt good too. Because now Kyung-hee won’t try to feed me parts of her body.

It was fortunate that it ended with blood.

With Kyung-hee’s regenerative power, even if I put some flesh in it, I wouldn’t be able to notice it.

No, it was a simple imagination, but he was afraid that even his own stomach would be cut without hesitation.

It means that rabbit liver has some kind of effect.

When I thought about it, I got goosebumps.

Of course, that’s not going to happen, but anyway.

According to the results of the medical examination I had with Kyunghee the other day, it took some time to heal fatal injuries.

In addition, even if the regenerative power increases while changing the body, it was easy to notice because it said that heat and calories were produced in the process.

If organs or flesh had been cut off, there was no way I would have noticed.

You’ll have to eat more than you cut out, and you’ll have to groan over high heat for a few hours.

Kyung-hee hesitated as she looked at the ingredients she had cut up, wondering what she was thinking.

Then, as he put the ingredients on the cutting board one by one, he pricked his ears to see if he had a good idea.

After adding the ingredients one by one to the already boiling broth and decorating, Kyunghee put her hands on her waist.

Then, with a gurgling sound from his mouth, he showed the budae-jjigae bubbling in the pot.

“How about it! It’s shaped like a rabbit!”

“Can I laugh a bit? I wanted to do something with enoki mushrooms and tofu…”

“You can laugh as much as you like this time. Because it’s a masterpiece!”

Kyunghee smiled as if she was proud of her.

Then he put the lid on, closed his eyes, and stuck his head out to me.

I knew what it meant.

As he slowly stroked his hair, a rough breath came out of Kyunghee’s mouth.

……….I stroked Kyunghee’s hair like that for a while, thinking that I should avoid drinking with her for the time being.