Chapter 18: Wakya Pyaheok Nongjjuk Ppang

I-I…… I’m not good at speaking the language of those American bastards…… O-of course, I can read, write, and listen…… but…….

A woman’s stuttering voice was heard on the phone.

Professor Ryu Hongdan.

A physicist from North Korea, her career is surprisingly Kim Il-sung University.

Perhaps because there were many twists and turns until she became a KAIST professor,

every time a story related to North Korea comes up, no, even if it’s just reminiscent, she has an anti-communist

seizure like PTSD.

She says she’s not a commie (communist), at first with such anger.

Of course, I was two tiers lower, a graduate student lower than a professor,

so I immediately ended it by saying, “I’m sorry, I didn’t think so at all.”

But a full professor of a higher tier than her who has not yet gotten tenure,

especially that kkaengjaengi (Whiny person) like Professor Jin Junggeon, if he deliberately scratches a little more,

she is an interesting person who sometimes reveals National Intelligence Service-like secrets that make you wonder

if it’s okay to say this.

Her 18th is that she was the reason why North Korea got nuclear weapons.

The truth is unknown.

It’s not that I particularly want to know, but if I pry, I feel like I’ll get a call from the National Intelligence Service that night.

……For now, her major is nuclear physics, and she is currently digging into nuclear fusion and plasma physics at KAIST.

Anyway,

……Th-then I’ll ask.

“Yes, feel free to speak~”

Professor Ryu Hongdan.

Her nickname among graduate students was Professor Hongdan, she,

Ah, uh…… I-it’s a little…… difficult to be comfortable…… Since the other person is…… that…… a child of a Jap…….

So-called eccentric.

“Yes♡ Change! Next was Professor Song Sua, right~?”

Ah, ah……! I-I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I’ll just speak comfortably, comfortably……!

……M-most of the parts have already been covered by other professors…… Just…… I’ll just broadly point out the parts that come to mind…….

“You better hurry up. It’s already been over 30 minutes since the call started.”

Ah, yes…….

“If you look next to you, I think Professor Jin Junggeon’s expression will be very angry.”

……H-hieek?! F-first, about ultra-fast quantum enhanced measurement……!

Therefore,

In the end, it’s just a different expression, what’s the difference between the experiment itself and the original

quantum squeezed pulsation using an optical cavity based on an ultra-fast optical parametric oscillator? In the end,

isn’t it just adding an application part to what already existed? The second weak measurement is also like that. It’s

called certification, but from the perspective of quantum cryptography, even if non-locality, which is the strongest

entanglement criterion, is guaranteed, it doesn’t satisfy device independence, which I know from a paper from the

University of Tokyo in your country? Not only that, the third is even worse……(omitted)…….

A kind called a genius.

……That’s what I’m saying.

Graduating from university before the age of twenty, developing nuclear weapons to make a living,

and so on,

even now that she has become a KAIST professor, she is still in her late 20s,

Professor Ryu Hongdan, who was the same age as me in my previous life, was truly a genius girl.

“……Gobongbap.”(TL Note: heaping bowl of rice, implying that she talked a lot)

? Are you hungry……?

Of course, she’s spoiled to be called a girl now.

……W-well, anyway, that’s it…… Can you answer……? Y-you don’t have to if you can’t…… I already finished thinking

while talking myself…….

But you should know this.

“No, it’s okay.”

Except for the professor level.

At that time, among the graduate students of the KAIST physics department.

The only person who could communicate with such a Professor Ryu Hongdan,

“Since it seems to be faster to explain with equations rather than words, I just roughly scribbled it on the pad and

sent it directly to Professor Jin Junggeon’s phone. Did you check it?”

was me in my previous life.

Ah…….

“How is it? Was that an answer? If you need an explanation…….”

I-it’s okay…… This is enough…… It’s almost the same as…… my thoughts……

Especially…… This logic of developing equations…… with that man…….

Of course.

Because the hardware was different only as a middle school girl, but the software was the same then and now.

“……Heeh, that man?”

T-there is…… No, there isn’t now, but there was…… There was a man who developed equations almost exactly like

this…… H-he looked like a skinny Kim Jong-un, no, a son of a bich…….

“Heeh~♥ Change!!”

H-higeek?!

And what was the same then and now was Professor Hongdan as well.

She was still scratching me in completely unexpected parts,

which I wouldn’t lose in keyboard battles or verbal fights.

At that time, I just laughed it off because I thought I would be sued for sexual harassment,

but now that I’m a middle school girl and free from skinship, it’s different.

If I get in, I’ll definitely impose physical sanctions openly~ I mean.

“Yes, next professor who will test super☆genius♡Shizuko~”

So I lay down again, burying myself in the bed from my back, and floated my feet up and rolled them.

Unlike me in my previous life who was skinny but learned skinny martial arts at the time,

Shizuko’s body as a middle school girl had to periodically shake her legs like this cutely.

It was almost the end of that day, so it was getting okay,

but I felt like varicose veins because of lack of blood and low blood pressure, in my calf.

Anyway, while doing so,

with the professors, intellectually and politely,

and with Professor Jin Junggeon only, as always, the heated discussion turned into a verbal fight and personal attacks,

I had a conversation with them for the first time in a long time.

It was only a few weeks in terms of time, but it felt like I was talking to them in months.

Well, when I was working, I met them almost every day in the hallway, greeted them, asked if the research was going

well, fought, discussed, discussed, and then missed dinner time and had an impromptu dinner and lab exchange…….

KAIST was fun.

Especially the physics department.

No matter what kind of guy or girl they were, no matter what they looked like.

They were all geeks crazy about physics.

We stayed up all night just for that one thing.

“Yes~ Of course, feel free to use the recording, Super☆Genius doesn’t act like some glasses-wearing professor. Yes,

yes. Supplementary documents? Do I have to submit them? Ugh…… Yes, I understand. Then.”

―Click.

I pressed the red receiver button on the smartphone screen.

End of call.

[…….]

I just noticed that Jinzuko had been watching me with a complicated expression while I was on the phone.

Normally, I always keep track of the ghost partner’s movements with multitasking.

That’s how much I enjoyed the phone call from Korea this time.

To the point where I used all my concentration on one place.

No, they’re all experts. They’re geniuses and prodigies as much as I am or more than me.

I guess I couldn’t cope properly unless I fully exerted my concentration.

“Ah, sorry, sorry. Even though it was a sudden phone call, I was neglecting you too much, right?”

As a ghost, she must have been bored.

Because she couldn’t interfere with reality without going through me,

Because she couldn’t interfere with reality without going through me,

and because she must have thought it was an important call, she had no choice but to watch from the side.

[……Mister, you were really, really a smart person.]

“Huh? Hehe, that’s right. What~ Did you just realize that the dotae man who possessed your body wasn’t just a

skinny Kim Jong-un?”

(TL note: dotae means a loser or someone who is left behind)

I threw a light joke as I usually did, wondering if she had heard the contents of the call just now.

She probably didn’t understand any of the other technical details,

but she must have understood the wordplay.

Besides, if you keep teasing Jinzuko by calling her a middle schooler and a fool, even if she takes it as a joke at first,

she’ll get really angry if you keep it up, right?

So it was important to mix in some self-deprecation from time to time.

[Yes…… Not just a spicy mister…… You were a much greater person, mister…….]

“Huh?”

But it didn’t work at all.

And I realized.

The reason why Jinzuko seemed to be feeling down right now

wasn’t simply because she was neglected.

[Besides…… You had so much fun talking about difficult things with the professors…… I, it was the first time I saw

your face. You were so happy…….]

“Hmm, jealousy?”

[……It’s not like that! Ah, I’m sorry…… So, it’s not exactly jealousy…….]

That seemed really true.

There’s no way I’d have more fun talking about physics with those eccentric professors than talking to a physically

inexplicable phenomenon called a middle school girl ghost.

Of course, it’s the former. I can do the latter by myself.

If it’s not because of jealousy, why did Jinzuko suddenly feel down?

At this very point when that day was almost over.

It’s obvious.

―Smack!

[……Ouch?!]

“It’s not jealousy, no, I think there’s some after rethinking it?”

[So it’s not like that……!]

“Guilt.”

[……Ah.]

“Right?”

Jinzuko nodded her head silently and small.

While holding her ghost forehead, which must be a little sore.

That appearance seemed as if she was trying to avoid my gaze because she felt sorry for me.

Because it had to be guilt.

To her, who was only a middle school girl, that call just now,

because of her who killed and possessed me in my previous life,

must have seemed like the relationship and result that she had cut off.

In short,

‘Ah, if it weren’t for me…… the mister would still be happily with those professors…….’

Jinzuko was suffering alone while thinking something like this, just now and now.

“Jinzuko.”

[Yes…….]

So, I decided to tell her a very simple and obvious fact.

“Have you ever thought that I talked more interestingly because I’m in this body?”

[……Ah.]

“It’s not a lie. It’s not just something I said to make you feel better.”

I don’t know how much comfort that word was.

But since the drooping corners of her mouth, like seaweed, rose like freshly sprinkled katsuobushi (  food ingredient), it seemed to have some effect.

This kind of thing will get worse and worse in the future.

Because going to Korea itself was like seeing the world after someone’s ending.

Nevertheless, the world will go on, without any problems.

But even if it was me in my previous life, I didn’t live in isolation, did I?

What was cut off was the relationship with the opposite s*x.

In particular, no matter how ugly a duckling is, shouldn’t there be a mother and father who gave birth to it?

……Of course, I don’t have the confidence to meet them yet.

Well, for now, let’s focus on the matter at hand.

The call from KAIST’s admissions office or the physics department just now was like an event that had intruded.

“Okay, it’s been about a week, let’s check it out. Spoofer performance.”

[……Yes!]

I sat in front of Jinzuko’s middle school girl laptop connected to the power outlet.

Because it was running in the background to run the spoofer since a week ago, I just touched the touchpad slightly

and the screen turned on immediately.

Famous large community sites in Korea visible from the TN panel’s poor viewing angle screen.

There, I could already find one keyword that was commonly the most talked about.

[DC Inside]

Blue Record Gallery – Concept Posts

I’m a Nongjjuk group that doesn’t even look at 3D, but I changed my mind after seeing the concept post;

The Japanese middle school girl who appeared in Shin-Okubo these days

I came to buy Japanese travel Ibiki goods, but I saw the concept post middle school girl dddd

If you look closely at the concept post middle school girl, doesn’t she look like our Gehinnom Chairman???

F*ck, talk about games, you pedo bastards

(*TL Note: Nongjjuk refers to liking younger girls, and is a term from the Blue Archive mobile game fandom)

[Aka Record]

Humor Channel – Recommended Posts

The silver-haired, blue-eyed middle school girl thread that’s all the rage on 5ch these days

(No promotion)(Link deleted)Isn’t this Shizuko-chan TV middle school girl-chan Mutube???

Fan art of the silver-haired, blue-eyed middle school girl who is all the rage these days

Current situation in Korean communities: All talking about middle school girls;;

(-Ver-sorry)The VTuber who lives in Japan that I watch said she actually met the middle school girl-chan

[FM Korea]

Poten Board – Hot Topic

The silver-haired, blue-eyed Japanese middle school girl who is causing a stir on Japanese DC

I took a video after seeing the Poten middle school girl, but isn’t this Korean???

DC Inside users are saying “child meal” again in ‘that’ gallery

Only the Korean part of the Poten middle school girl is clipped

Japanese foreign worker VTuber who said she actually met the Poten middle school girl.mp4

“Oh, it’s more of a hot topic than I thought?”

All of Korea was in an uproar over middle school girls.

It was as if Korea was a country full of pedophiles who were crazy about middle school girls.

Of course, it wasn’t in the news or anything like that, which is called the mainstream, but only in male-oriented internet communities.

Still, the so-called Korea’s three major traffic communities, “DC, FM, Aka”.

The fact that it is a hot topic in these three places at the same time meant that the spoofer was working successfully.

No, this is beyond success, it’s too much aggro?

Beyond the fact that the spoofer’s performance is excellent, are our Korean MZ male friends really crazy about middle school girls?

[W-what? Middle school girl? Silver-haired, blue-eyed……?]

Jinzuko, who now knows how to read, listen, and speak Korean to some extent.

She read the letters on the spoofer monitoring screen.

Slowly but surely.

As she read the titles of the concept posts, recommended posts, and Poten posts of the community, Jinzuko’s expression also,

[W-what……?]

slowly turned

pale.

[W-w-w-wait a minute……! I-is this possibly…….]

A week ago, when Jinzuko asked me what I was doing, I just answered “Spoofing♡” and didn’t explain it in detail.

It seems that she is slowly understanding what was happening during that week.

―Vibrate.

Jinzuko interfered with my arm and operated the mouse.

Perhaps it was the title that bothered her the most,

she clicked on the Blue Record Gallery concept post,

“The Japanese middle school girl who appeared in Shin-Okubo these days”.

[……Kya, kyaaaak?! W-what is this!]

[T-this is when we went to Shin-Okubo last time! When we ate super spicy tteokbokki……!!]

“Yeah, that’s right? Look at the comments as well as the content. It’s very well received.”

[Nong…… jjuk…… Noooong……? Wow,
……?]
(TL Note: as mentioned above, ‘Nongjjuk’ refers to liking younger girls)

Jinzuko was very embarrassed by the high-intelligence words that are not easy to understand even if you learn Korean.