Euishin, sitting on the sofa reading a book, let Yunsu’s chattering go in one ear and out the other the whole time. Even so, you can’t go. Unless you’re going with me, don’t even bring it up.
Snorting and thinking such thoughts, Euishin’s spring night and Yunsu’s night full of admiration and yearning flowed peacefully.
He swore, even until then Euishin didn’t know things would get that big.
The trigger was brought by Song Taesu.
When they went to the club room dragging along Yunsu who was much more excited than usual, the soccer idiots had their heads together over a scrap of paper. Seeing that, Yunsu burrowed in like a shot before the guys even lifted their heads.
“What is it, what is it! Me too!”
It didn’t even take a second for the fiercely excited country bumpkin to join the idiot group.
“Look at this.”
“Should we try doing this?”
“Song Taesu had a productive idea for the first time in his life…!”
To confirm what fucking idea Taesu had come up with, Euishin also went closer.
“…….”
It was an ordinary booth recruitment flyer, not even shitty. The university festival was just around the corner. Poking at the flyer with the tip of his pen, Eunsub said.
“If we do this, it’ll definitely be motivating. It’d be good to set aside things like lodging and game tickets in the joint budget.”
“Do booths make that much money?”
“No, even if it’s a huge hit, covering all the budget is obviously impossible. But if we start with this, do short-term part-time jobs, squeeze out allowances….”
Are they going to run a pub with this number of people? Ridiculous. Even Ahn Shinwook, who was relatively less stupid, seemed to think the same.
“A pub? We have no membership fees and our numbers are pitiful. Will they even let us do something like this as a college club? It’d be better to look into excellent club support programs.”
I thought he was less stupid, but seeing him seriously say such things, he was the most stupid. Is this an academic club? What kind of support are they going to receive when all they do is geek out over soccer?
And finally, Kim Younghwan opened his mouth. Euishin became genuinely anxious.
“No, we─.”
Kim Younghwan was the most driven person among them, and
“Since we have no foundation, no money, and no people, we need to lay down capital with whatever requires the least investment and sells cheap.”
He was the person Yunsu was smitten with.
“What’s that?”
“Bodies.”
“Wow…!”
Feeling like things were going to get twisted, Euishin took a seat next to Yunsu. The air felt stale and the surroundings messy, and when he looked, Shin Jaewoo was on the opposite side.
“So what do you think would be good?”
With a face full of interest, Jaewoo asked Younghwan. When did that bastard become a hopeful participant too? While Euishin, finding everything disagreeable, was frowning, Younghwan declared in an intense tone.
“Water balloon throwing!”
Water balloon throwing. That thing where you stick your face in a hole in a wooden panel and get hit with balloons? They want to do that? Imagining Yunsu’s face getting squashed by a water balloon thrown by some fucking bastard, Euishin felt like he’d faint. However, just as he was about to throw out a word in exasperation, his mouth was blocked.
“Whoa, totally amazing!”
“So good, really!”
“Totally money-making!”
“I can already hear the money coming in!”
The one who barely put on the brakes was Lee Eunsub.
“But they say that hurts.”
“Sounds fun!!!”
“Something you can only do when you’re young, now’s perfect!”
“I’m confident, confident in getting hit!”
The brakes didn’t work. He wanted to firmly block the mouth of Yunsu who said he was confident in getting hit without anywhere to hit him. Then Shinwook took something out.
“Then we─.”
It was a piggy bank with the name of the biggest mart in front of the school written on it.
“From now on, let’s make people who lose bets donate to the public fund.”
Once again, a heated reaction swept through. When did they think of such a thing? Though he looked cool on the outside, his sensibility was quite girlish.
“Then we’re really going? I’m going to Europe?!”
“We need to book plane tickets, so save up some money within this month.”
“I’ll even sell an organ…!”
Shin Jaewoo held Yunsu’s hand and shook it lightly.
“Not that, don’t say scary things.”
In the midst of everyone getting excited and hitting and pushing each other, the only one who stared intently at that touch was Euishin.
“Even if we’re not just going to watch soccer, England and Spain are a must.”
“Hey, there’s no room for objection there.”
I’m right here.
“Then when should we go? July?”
“If we go in July, the Champions League only has preliminaries. We need to see the group stage.”
“Then let’s go in August, they’re doing playoffs.”
“I want to see the Premier League too. I want to see Man City. Man United too. Chelsea and Arsenal and Liverpool…!”
“Let’s leave Kwon Yunsu in England and we’ll go to Spain. I want to go to Camp Nou and steal a handful of grass.”
“When deciding countries and game schedules, let’s absolutely decide by vote so there’s no fighting.”
“Enough, let’s just save money. Who’s going to win the Champions League?”
“I say Real.”
Kim Younghwan raised his hand first, and after the rest shouted ‘me too, me too’ in turn, finally Ahn Shinwook raised his hand.
“I say Atlético.”
“Hey, Ahn Shinwook is donating 10,000 won. Applause!”
Everyone clapped. Euishin felt a headache coming on. He wanted to stab kitchen knives into the sofa where the soccer idiots were sitting and hack it to pieces. The most annoying thing was that no one asked him if he was going too. If they didn’t pay attention to him, he couldn’t even throw a fit, fuck.
“Don’t go.”
Yunsu, who had expected something like ‘I’m not going,’ looked at Euishin in bewilderment.
Actually, he had no choice but to look. They were sitting side by side on the sofa watching TV, when suddenly he grabbed his forearm and snarled so fiercely—his head had no choice but to turn. Why is he like this? Today he attended class well, took a walk, ate well, everything was fine. Where did his spitefulness erupt again?
After thinking for about a second, Yunsu answered.
“Let’s go together.”
It was obvious without looking that it was about the Europe trip that came up at the club room.
“I’m telling you not to go.”
“It would be fun if you came too.”
When he didn’t back down, he pursed his lips and the gaze staring coldly became persistent. Scary. Let’s try to appease him for now.
“Why, do you think it’ll be uncomfortable going with the guys? That kind of experience would be fun to have once….”
“Not me, you. I’m telling you not to go.”
“I’m obviously going, and you should come too….”
“I’m obviously not going, and you shouldn’t go either.”
“Why?!”
When he couldn’t hold back his temper and yelled, the grip on his forearm also intensified. Yunsu shook his arm vigorously and shook off the guy showing off his strength. Then Euishin abruptly brought his body closer. Lately Euishin’s spatial perception ability has deteriorated a bit. This made swallowing awkward and he hated it. It also made him look bigger.
“Because I don’t want you to.”
“What?”
“You going.”
“Why!”
“Can’t I dislike it?”
“…….”
“I said I don’t like you going. I don’t like it, so don’t go. Got it?”
Because he was so brazen, he actually wasn’t angry. Yunsu muttered in disbelief.
“Is this a threat….”
“It’s an order. Don’t go.”
After saying that, Euishin swiftly got up and went to his room. Is he a first grader…? He was truly dumbfounded.
Don’t go, why? To such a great place. When I’m saying I’ll save up my own money and go. Though I don’t have any money right now…. I’m going. Obviously going, right?
