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“I can’t recall the word at the moment, but it’s that—that thing where you clap your hands together!”
“A high five?”
“Yes! A high five! Let’s high five!”
Eunhae gazed at Jung Seunghee, who was beyond her outstretched hand, her expression resolute.
Jung Seunghee chuckled, a pleasant sound, and then took hold of Eunhae’s hand.
“—!”
She instinctively tried to withdraw her hand, but Jung Seunghee’s firm grip proved difficult to escape.
“P-please, let go of my hand…”
“Eunhae sunbae, your hand is truly tiny.”
“My hand, my hand…!”
Eunhae’s face flushed a fiery red, as if it might burst. The hand he held felt incredibly hot.
‘How long had it been since she’d felt another person’s body heat so intensely?’
Jung Seunghee slowly loosened his grip. Eunhae’s hand slipped away, descending sluggishly. Her slender fingers traced down his palm before finally detaching.
She quickly hid her released hand beneath the table. It still tingled, burning as if his warmth lingered.
“Y-you startled me, grabbing my hand all of a sudden!”
“Because your hand is so adorable, Sunbae.”
“It’s not adorable!”
Eunhae huffed, glancing around the room.
Indeed, after he had held her hand, her fate was no longer visible.
“So, what was it you wanted to talk about, Eunhae sunbae? You didn’t come here just for me to grab your hand, did you?”
That was precisely her intention, and Eunhae winced internally.
“I wanted to confirm if we were really doing Journey to the West… And, would you mind being the group leader? I’m just too scared to stand in front of others, so I’d appreciate it if you could do the presentation too… In return, I’ll take full responsibility for the research!”
“If I handle the presentation as well, I’ll get all the bonus points. Are you sure that’s okay? The professor said the presenter gets extra points, didn’t they?”
“Yes, it’s fine.”
“In that case, I’ll be the presenter. Since I’ll be taking the bonus points, you don’t need to do all the research, Sunbae. We have to divide it among five people anyway.”
“I don’t think the other sunbaes will do their part…”
“Even so, we should divide it for now. Even if we end up doing more later.”
“Okay.”
Eunhae nodded.
Working in the same group as Jung Seunghee didn’t feel as bad as she had expected.
‘Would it be funny if I asked him to high-five me one more time before he goes to soccer practice?’
“J-Jung Seunghee.”
“Yes?”
“Would you… shake my hand?”
“Shake your hand? Suddenly?”
“No, it’s just… for the future, like… ‘please take care of me’ kind of meaning…”
“Alright. Please take care of me too, Eunhae sunbae.”
“Yes! You too, please take care of me!”
“J-Jung Seunghee. Thank you for the pen earlier.”
“Oh, it was nothing.”
“I’ll return the pen you lent me.”
“Eunhae sunbae, don’t you have more classes remaining?”
“I do, don’t I…?”
“Then please return it tomorrow, not today. You said you didn’t bring your pencil case. What will you do for your next class?”
“I-it’s fine. I’ll just buy a pen at the convenience store.”
“You don’t have to return it, you know.”
“No, no. Really, thank you. Truly! Here, I’ll return the pen. Thank you!”
“Sunbae, did you ask to borrow my pen because you wanted to hold my hand?”
“U-um, what?”
“Because you made sure to grab my hand.”
“N-no, it’s not that. I was afraid the pen would fall… I’m sorry for grabbing your hand.”
“There’s nothing to be sorry about.”
“Jung Seunghee, your hands are incredibly big.”
“I guess because I’m tall, my hands are big too.”
“My hands are on the smaller side…”
“Perhaps because you’re short?”
“I am not. My height and my hands have nothing to do with each other.”
“It’s fine. I like that you’re tiny, Sunbae.”
“…? Can I touch your hand once?”
“My hand? Here.”
“Wow, it’s really big.”
“Is just touching it once enough?”
“U-um. Yes, touching it once was enough. It’s fine.”
“Sunbae, your hand is really small. Like a baby’s hand.”
“It’s not *that* small… B-but, could you let go of my hand?”
“I fiddled with it too much, didn’t I?”
“U-um… a little.”
“Eunhae sunbae, aren’t you going to touch my hand today?”
“Huh? W-what are you talking about?”
“You’ve been touching my hand every time we meet lately.”
A chill ran down Eunhae’s spine.
Jung Seunghee’s smiling face, so bright and cheerful, suddenly resembled a grim reaper risen from hell.
“D-did I do that? Haha…”
“So, I was a little excited, thinking Sunbae was interested in me.”
“Haha…”
She *was* interested. Only in his hand.
Eunhae avoided Jung Seunghee’s gaze and opened her tablet.
“This is the research I did on the author of Journey to the West.”
“You worked hard.”
The two immersed themselves in preparing for their group presentation for thirty minutes.
As they were nearing the end of their organization, Eunhae once again eyed Jung Seunghee’s hand.
The excuse she had brought today was palmistry.
“Jung Seunghee, have you ever had your palm read?”
“Palmistry? You don’t mean just looking at it like this, do you? Do you mean if I’ve had it done at a fortune teller’s or something?”
“Yes.”
“No. I don’t believe in that kind of thing.”
His answer was unexpectedly firm.
However, Eunhae didn’t believe in palmistry either, so she wasn’t affected by his response.
“It’s just for fun. Should I read yours once? I saw something interesting on the internet yesterday.”
“…Alright.”
Jung Seunghee offered his right hand with a strange smile.
Eunhae quickly took his hand and pretended to examine his palm lines.
“Your fate line is very deep. It breaks once at the top, but it runs really long. You’ll live a long life.”
“What about my health? How’s my health?”
“Oh, oh. Your health line is also very good.”
“And my love life?”
“Oh my, that’s incredibly good too. Wow, you have it all, you have it all.”
Having achieved her objective, Eunhae answered vaguely and then released Jung Seunghee’s hand.
‘Three more hours. I can’t waste even a second, so let’s leave right away.’
Eunhae immediately prepared to exit the study room.
“Eunhae sunbae, do you like me?”
Jung Seunghee dropped a bombshell.
Eunhae’s body stiffened. Her round eyes darted around beneath her hat.
“N-no? W-why would I? Why would I like you?”
“Does there always have to be a reason to like someone?”
“N-no. That’s not it, but anyway, I don’t.”
“Then why do you keep grabbing my hand?”
“…”
Jung Seunghee had noticed, after all.
Indeed, she had tried every trick in the book to grab his hand every time they met, so it was actually surprising he was only noticing now.
Eunhae herself didn’t realize it, but she had been quite blatant. It was almost as if he had noticed long ago and was only pretending not to.
“O-oh, no, that’s…”
“If it’s not me, then is it my hand you like?”
“Well, what happened was…”
She couldn’t honestly tell him that her fate disappeared when she held his hand.
If she did, she would also have to explain that she could see fate, and why she disliked this ‘visible fate’.
Besides, he probably wouldn’t believe in fate or anything like that anyway.
Caught between a rock and a hard place, Eunhae nervously bit her lip.
“You like my hand that much?”
“Y-yes…”
“In all my life, this is the first time I’ve been jealous of my own hand.”
“…?”
‘Why would he be jealous of his hand?’
Jung Seunghee, who had been staring down at his own hand, lifted his gaze. His eyes on Eunhae were intense.
“You really don’t like me?”
Eunhae’s mind spun.
If she said she didn’t like him now, her ‘hand supply’ might become difficult in the future. But if she said she did, wouldn’t he let her touch his hand more easily?
Eunhae nodded dramatically.
“Actually… I think I do like you…”
Jung Seunghee’s smile deepened.
“Who? Me?”
“U-um, yes.”
“Then, Sunbae, you’ve just confessed to me?”
“I-is that so?”
“Yes. Eunhae sunbae confessed that you like me.”
“That’s right… I did confess…”
“I like you too, Sunbae.”
“What?”
Still reeling from the fact that she had confessed, Jung Seunghee suddenly confessed to her. Eunhae blinked, feeling bewildered.
“You like me?”
“Yes. I like Eunhae sunbae.”
“Why?”
“You don’t always need a reason to like someone, do you? If I had to pick one… perhaps because you’re like a rabbit?”
“A rabbit?”
She couldn’t comprehend Jung Seunghee’s peculiar sensibilities.
“But I don’t like you.”
“You just said you liked me.”
“…Ah! That’s right.”
Jung Seunghee looked utterly amused.
“Eunhae sunbae likes me, and I like Sunbae, so shall we date?”
“Huh? Um… do we have to date? Isn’t it enough that we like each other?”
“Isn’t it natural for people who like each other to date?”
“It seems that way, but…”
“If we date, you can hold my hand every single day.”
“—!”
That’s right! It was natural for couples to hold hands!
Eunhae, with a look of unexpected fortune, grabbed Jung Seunghee’s hand.
“Yes! Let’s date!”
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