Chapter 12: How to identify a person(4)

My heart is pounding for no reason.

I try to shake off my distracting thoughts by pushing Yu-ah away from me out of excitement.

My face is bright red as I do 3 sets of let-fall downs in a straight posture.

It’s nothing…

It’s nothing…

No-sang-bul-nyeom…

Namu-a-bita-bul…

What the heck…

I mutter something like a Buddhist chant to myself and focus only on the exercise itself.

The movement of the bar going up and down.

I push my back and feel my chest meet Yu-ah’s advice earlier.

“…Oh.”

I close my eyes, but I can hear a good response from the sound.

Yu-ha seems to be doing pretty well.

As I finish 3 sets with heavy breathing, Yu-ah, who had been watching me from afar, comes over to me.

“Huh… Huh…”

“You’re good at it? You’re talented. Your posture has improved a lot since I taught you a little bit.”

“…Really? Wow. This is so hard.”

“It’s completely different from before? It has to be this hard to be considered exercise.”

I tried hard to forget my worries, but it was really hard.

Yu-ah looked at me with a happy smile, like an old man who had seen a dirty newbie grow up.

I felt embarrassed about that, so I turned my head and said to her, “I’m thirsty.”

“Did you bring a towel and water?”

“…Do you have to bring those too?”

“You didn’t bring those…? It was so obvious that I didn’t even mention it.”

I brought only the things Yu-ah had told me to bring.

However, Yu-ah was so used to working out that I guess I forgot to tell her.

In fact, if I had thought about it a little more, she would have brought them on her own…

To be honest, working out wasn’t that fun.

So I might have unknowingly brought some things carelessly.

She took out the water bottle she had drank from and the pink towel she had used from her bag.

She handed them to me and said, “…I can’t help it. Use this.”

“Can I?”

“I have to use them. What can I do? You’re sweating and thirsty, so do you want to stay like that?”

I stared at the item she handed me for a moment and then finally accepted it.

Normally, I wouldn’t have noticed it at all.

We were close enough to tease each other about all sorts of s*x jokes and magic days, so we didn’t really care about this kind of thing.

But if there was something different than usual, it was that my condition was a little strange.

I kept being conscious of Yu-ah, and my heart would pound whenever I was around her.

In this situation, I was reluctant to use the item that had her scent on it as casually as I usually did.

“Instead! Oh, if you do something weird like that, I’ll kill you?”

“Just now?”

“Like staring at your chest…you know…that kind of thing.”

She timidly muttered to me, embarrassed.

She wanted to tease me for no reason, so she spoke roughly.

“What, do you think I’d stick my nose in your towel and smell it?”

“…I really think I’d lose interest in you if I did that.”

“We’ve already become too attached. Wouldn’t it be okay if we drifted apart?”

When I took her towel and pretended to hold it to my face, Yu-ah was shocked and grabbed my wrist tightly.

“Yoon Ji-Bin. You’re a human. You’re not an animal…”

“What’s the difference between a human and an animal? They’re similar. What?”

“Hey!”

It’s the usual WWE.

I really didn’t want to do that.

I just smiled at her funny reaction and dabbed my sweat with her towel.

In the midst of that, a strange sense of depravity came over me…

…..Is this a towel covered in Rikyuel’s sweat?

When I thought about it, it was.

If Yu-ah is Rikyuel, then this is a rare item close to official goods.

If you put it up for auction on the fan cafe, someone would probably buy it for millions of won.

Thinking about it for no reason made me tremble even more.

I ignored my heart that was pounding without putting it in my mouth and drank the water bottle.

I was already scared of kissing Yu-ah that night, but I was worried about the indirect kiss.

“Okay. You did a good job.”

And return the baby’s used items to her.

…I should get out of the way now.

I can’t sit on the machine forever, so the moment I was about to get up to make way for the next person,

“…Huh?”

A flustered voice escaped my lips without me realizing it.

My vision suddenly went pitch black and my head started spinning.

It was definitely my body, but I had lost control of it.

I felt my head slowly falling to the floor.

“…Yoon Ji-bin!”

Yu-ah Ah, who had been watching me from the side, throws something on the floor and runs towards me.

She quickly catches me before I can hit my head on the floor.

My legs are shaking so much that it’s impossible to support my body.

Yu-ah  pulls me towards her body to support my weight, and I naturally bury my face in her arms.

“Hey! What’s going on? Are you okay?”

Yu-ah asks me in a really serious voice.

My dizzy head finally clears up after hearing that voice.

Has my blood pressure returned to normal?

It’s called orthostatic hypotension.

Sometimes, when I wake up after lying in bed for a long time, this happens.

I guess it’s because I do vigorous exercise that I don’t usually do.

“…..”

My vision, which had been dark, becomes clear again and what I see before my eyes is a magnificent sight.

There’s a bra top under the unbuttoned jersey, and on top of that, her plum-like breasts.

My face is right there.

As a result, I can naturally smell her sweat and body odor mixed together.

I can even see the deep valley of Yu-ah’s chest that I can’t usually see.

And even though I don’t want to see it, something catches my eye.

A small dot visible inside her chest.

It’s in a place that you wouldn’t normally see even if you were wearing a bra.

It’s like the moment when artists realize their inspiration.

At that moment, a conversation flashed through my head.

One of Rikyuel’s countless chats from some time ago.

[When I talk about dots, a story that you might like came to mind.]

Rikyuel suddenly laughed and said first.

He started talking.

[Oh, but if I say this, the chat window will be in chaos again… Hehe. Oh. It seems like it’ll be filled with this kind of thing.]

He stopped talking and the chat window started cursing at him for being a new herbivore.

Then Rikyuel nodded as if he had no choice.

[Okay. I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you. Uh…uh…I’m embarrassed to say this.]

[Okay, I’ll tell you! Don’t spam. I’ll tell you.]

[Actually, there’s a mole on the inside of my chest. Where should I say it? Should I say inside? The part inside my sternum?… Oh, the chat window popped up. I said it for nothing… Haa…]

After saying that with her own mouth, she hid under the screen again in embarrassment.

They said that there are two ways to identify a person in the world.

One is material characteristics.

Identifying that person through the things that they cherish or use.

The other is physical characteristics.

Like appearance.

Identifying that person through their unique physical characteristics.

Even though Yu-ah and I were childhood friends,

We didn’t really take baths together like in some cartoon.

That’s because it’s a story that makes us seem too harmonious.

In other words, I had no way of knowing that she had a mole on the inside of her chest.

Normally.

So what’s the conclusion?

What the heck……..

Na yu-ah.

This is definitely Rikyuel.

Now, even the slightest doubt in my head has disappeared.

It was in a way I hadn’t even thought of.

“…Are you sure you’re okay?”

“Oh. Ask me a few times. I said you’re okay.”

In the end, my first gym experience ended like that.

I felt sorry for my physical strength, which was like falling down after working out a little.

‘…Should I really work out?’

I’m serious.

To be honest, I felt a more serious need for exercise because of this than the gym experience.

Still, I wasn’t stupid enough to brag about working out more, so we washed up and left the gym.

Yu-ah had been worried about my physical condition since a while ago.

‘…If someone saw me, they’d think I was her child.’

“Tch. What’s wrong with worrying? Just worry from now on.”

Yu-ah stuck out her lips and acted pouty.

In fact, her worrying wasn’t that annoying.

It’s just that the more she worried, the more I remembered that I collapsed, so I got angry for no reason.

Yu-ah, who held me up and waited for me to get up.

Honestly, there was no way she wouldn’t be grateful.

I felt bad for no reason, so I tried to change her mood.

“So what are you going to eat?”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“What are you going to eat? I lost the bet earlier. I should buy you food.”

Now that the exercise was over, the results of the bet had to be settled.

I may be a manly man, but I’m not a manly man who breaks promises.

“Are you really going to buy me that?”

“Are you just kidding me? Tell me quickly. My legs hurt.”

“….Hmm.”

After thinking for a moment, Yu-ah said to me, “Then let’s eat pasta!

The pasta place I went to with my friend last time was nearby, and it was delicious.”

“…Pasta? Oh. Okay. Let’s go.”

How could she push such a baseless food?

But even though it was baseless, I had to give in this time.

Because losers shouldn’t say anything.

“What kind of pasta are you going to eat?”

“Cream pasta. That cream pasta is really good.”

At that moment, one question occurred to me.

I stare at her and bring up the question.

“….If I eat that, won’t all the exercise I did today go away?”

Then, Yu-ah, who was walking ahead, stops in her tracks.

She turns her head with a mad look that reminds me of the Joker and says to me,

“Shut up. Don’t open your mouth anymore. Okay?”

All that came to mind was someone named Van.