Side story 1
The season when leaves fall beautifully.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and it is no longer possible to wear short sleeves.
And the most important season for 19-year-old high school students has returned.
The entire nation is united to send messages of support.
The day when even airplanes are temporarily restricted from taking off.
The college entrance exam is just around the corner.
This serious atmosphere was not unfamiliar.
Since Seleste had many younger brothers, I couldn't help but feel nostalgic for last year.
"It's already almost time for Yoon-chul to become an adult.... Time really flies."
"That's right. Does it make sense that he'll be twenty in a few months?"
The members gathered in the living room were sitting in a circle with Ji Yoon-chul in the middle.
It was a strangely arranged interrogation session for Ji Yoon-chul, but the youngest seemed to secretly not dislike the one-sided attention from his brothers.
Kang Si-yoon stroked Ji Yoon-chul's head as if he was petting a real cat.
"When did he grow up so much?"
"Should I tell you a scary story, Si-yoon?"
"What is it?"
"Yoon-chul is turning twenty...."
Song Hyung-bin patted Kang Si-yoon's shoulder and continued.
"You're already twenty-four."
"Oh.......... Then you're already half-fifty? Hey, you've aged a lot too. You've aged."
"I can't believe it either. How am I already half-fifty? This isn't right. There's something wrong with this."
"Something is strange for us too."
Yoo Min-ha and Heo Yu-bin also nodded at Song Hyung-bin's words.
"It seems like only yesterday that we were having a drink at a company dinner to celebrate our becoming adults, but now Yoon-chul is an adult.........."
"I don't really want to think about that. Have you already forgotten what you did?"
"Hehehe, honestly, that was inevitable~."
"What's inevitable, you nemesis?"
Heo Yu-bin glared at Yoo Min-ha with a sullen expression.
Of course, there was a reason for that.
Yoo Min-ha, who had just turned twenty, had been drinking soju without fear, saying that he wanted to taste alcohol since long ago, but after drinking just one glass, he blacked out and fell asleep.
On the other hand, Heo Yu-bin shook his head at the bitter taste of soju, but he didn't look drunk at all.
"If you ask to drink again to celebrate Yoon-chul becoming an adult, I'll kill you. I really will."
"If I don't say it maybe Yoon-chul or the other hyungs will?"
"Even if we do drink, you absolutely must not drink."
"Why are you so harsh on me? My drinking capacity may have increased in the meantime."
"Don't talk nonsense, my friend. How can your drinking capacity increase naturally when you don't usually drink?"
"Oh, why! I want to drink too!"
While the two same-age friends were bickering, Chae Eun-gyu was slowly leaning like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
"Are you okay, hyung? Your complexion suddenly got worse."
"Uh, huh? No, it's nothing.........…."
It's nothing.
Anyone can see that he's completely exhausted and falling down.
Chae Eun-gyu hugged both of his knees and made a forlorn expression.
"It's just.........…. I can't believe that I'm going to be 29 soon."
"Pfft!"
Kang Si-yoon, who was quietly drinking water, almost sprayed a water cannon at Song Hyung-bin's face.
He barely managed to cover his mouth and coughed repeatedly before waving his hand.
"No, hyung. Didn't you say you wouldn't bring up your age?"
"That's true, but......…..."
"We didn't even mention hyung, so why are you blowing yourself up by yourself? I'm surprised."
"I just thought of it when you mentioned your age...."
The dorm atmosphere was reverent in many ways.
I tried to quickly change the subject from Chae Eun-gyu's age complex.
"Come to think of it, Yoon-chul, you are going to take the CSAT, right?"
"... Yes."
"Oh, I should have taken the test too. I feel a little sorry when Yoon-chul says he's going to take the test."
Neither Yoo Min-ha nor Heo Yu-bin took the CSAT.
When they became adults, Seleste was at their busiest.
At that time, the two of them thought that they didn't necessarily have to take the CSAT.
However, when Ji Yoon-chul said he was going to take the test, he seemed to feel regretful.
"Didn't Yoon-chul hardly go to school? He probably didn't have time to study."
"......... I want to put meaning into taking the CSAT."
"But that's true. If not now, then you won't be able to experience it."
Song Hyung-bin shook Ji Yoon-chul's shoulder and cheered him on.
"Then we can go cheer on Yoon-chul taking the CSAT? Oh, but if we go, it'll be too crowded."
"I think it might be a bit too much to go in person."
"It's too bad. I wanted to do this."
We looked at a few pictures that Song Hyung-bin showed us on his phone.
Most of them were news photos from the previous year's CSAT.
There were many pictures of juniors who came to cheer on the students taking the CSAT.
"Then holding a placard and cheering for Yoon-chul?"
"If not now, then when? We won't be taking the CSAT later."
"Hmm. At this point, wouldn't it be possible even if it wasn't in front of the test center?"
"How?"
I smiled at Song Hyung-bin's words.
"Wouldn't it be okay if we prepared a placard at the dorm and waited in front of the entrance?"
"Hahahaha! Instead of waiting in front of the CSAT test site, we're waiting for him at the dorm?"
"I think this is the best?"
"If we film it and upload it, I think the fans will really like it."
As Song Hyung-bin predicted, if all of C
Seleste went to the high school where Ji Yoon-chul was taking the CSAT, it would cause a huge amount of confusion.
We have to think about the test takers who are at their most important time in their lives.
We have to not disturb the atmosphere of the test site as much as possible.
That's why I came up with the idea of a small cheering march in front of the dorm, and fortunately, the other members agreed with my idea.
Kang Si-yoon twisted his wrist here and there, showing his determination.
"Isn't this also a battle of pride? It's going to be a battle to see who can come up with the best cheering slogan? I'll show you properly for four days."
".........Hyungs, you don't have to be so pushy. Please make it comfortable."
"No. It's our youngest's college entrance exam, and 'moderate' isn't in my dictionary."
"It's in my dictionary, so please don't push yourself too hard."
As expected, Ji Yoon-chul was successfully restraining Kang Si-yoon today.
"I suddenly wondered, what are the college entrance exam questions like these days? Will they be the same as the ones we learned in school?"
".........I was solving a few of those workbooks, should I bring them out and try them out?"
"Oh, good, good! It'll be fun to have a mini college entrance exam quiz just for us."
Ji Yoon-chul went into his room for a moment after hearing Kang Si-yoon's words and came out.
In his hands were orange college entrance exam special lecture workbooks that we hadn't seen in a long, long time.
'How long has it been since I last saw them?'
Since I was in high school, I haven't even touched a workbook.........….
If you add up all the time I spent in the game, it seems like it's been almost 20 years since I last saw them.
I opened the English problem book for the special lecture on the college entrance exam, feeling a different kind of emotion.
In the past, I didn't understand what the to-infinitive was, what the active voice was, and what the passive voice was.
I'm embarrassed to say this, but I wasn't the type to study very hard.
However, now, thanks to the legacy the system left me, I possessed a fraudulent language ability.
"Hey, hyung. Let's not look at the English problems as humans. You'll get them all right, hyung."
"I see. I'm not that confident either."
"Oh. You shouldn't say that in front of the weak. Look at this, hyung."
Yoo Min-ha snatched the English problem book from my hand and gave me a non-literature problem book.
"Hey, instead of that, you should give Karis a math problem book. He's better at Korean than us."
"Oh. I completely forgot at that moment. He was on a Korean quiz show, right?"
"I told you to just say he's Korean."
"Karis, while we're on the subject, would you like to solve a non-fiction problem? The difficult ones are really difficult."
"Please show me."
I carefully examined the non-fiction problems that Chae Eun-gyu had personally selected.
When I think back to the times when I studied hard, non-fiction was so full of strange and rigid content that I didn't even want to read properly.
As expected, the problems that Chae Eun-gyu had selected were also full of strange scientific stories related to the sun.
"What on earth is this?"
"Is it in Korean?"
"I sincerely respect you, test takers."
The members who were reading the problems next to me were shocked by the difficulty level.
However, I calmly read the scientific text explaining the radiant heat of the sun and tried to grasp the gist of the problem.
If this had been the CSAT, I would have gotten it wrong.
I didn't have any major problems reading and understanding it, but since I'm not someone who is trained in problem solving, I couldn't solve it quickly.
They say that if you get stuck on a problem like this for too long, you will often fail the actual CSAT.
But I still wanted to get this problem right.
After such a long time of suffering, I told Yoo Min-ha, who was holding the answer sheet, the answer.
"Is the answer number 4, Min-ha?"
"Oh, you got it right! Wow, hyung, you got this right."
"You're really amazing. It took a while, but you got it right. It's amazing."
While I was solving the non-fiction problem, Kang Si-yoon, who was solving the science inquiry problem out of curiosity, looked at me with eyes that showed respect.
I tried hard not to see the red Xs pouring down on the problems he solved.
"But he kept on hanging on until the end, so it's worth solving."
"If it were me, I would have just read the first sentence and thought, 'What the hell is this?' and moved on."
"Hey, Si-yoon hyung! Do you want to try that?"
Yoo Min-ha smiled and took out Ji Yoon-chul's second foreign language workbook.
"Let's solve 30 second foreign language problems and see who gets more correct. I'll speak Arabic, you speak Vietnamese."
"Oh."
Kang Si-yoon furrowed his eyebrows in interest.
"In short, are you saying that we should see who is better at guessing?"
"When I was in school, I was known as a guesser."
"Hey, I guessed once too. Have you ever guessed a math subjective question in your life?"
"Those are the difficult ones -1, 0, or 1. I guessed it once."
"Oh, that's a beginner's guess, but a real expert guesses other subjective questions."
I don't know what kind of method they use to guess a math subjective question.
I wonder if the guesser really gets it for a moment.
That's how Yoo Min-ha and Kang Si-yoon's guessing competition suddenly came to fruition.
After a fierce 5-minute guessing match, Yoo Min-ha's Arabic won.
"Me! Me, I'm the guesser of this area!"
"Hey, I can't admit it! Hey, this time, you try to explain it in Vietnamese! Isn't Arabic much easier?"
"Hyung, there's no such thing as easier or less easy for humans."
"No. I told you I wouldn't lose to you. Seriously?"
When Kang Si-yoon denied reality and demanded a rematch, we all jeered at him.
"Ugh, so ugly!"
"Kang Si-yoon is really ugly! Ugh."
"If you lose once, that's the end, Si-yoon."
"No, why is there no one on my side?"
There were enemies everywhere.
Kang Si-yoon, who was in a desperate situation, looked at me with eyes begging for help, as if he was grabbing at his last straw.
"Karis, this is a humane rematch, right?"
"... Hmm."
"Hey, please say yes just once!"
"I'm sorry, Si-yoon, but I have something to do, so I'm going to my room for a bit."
"Hey! Hey, where are you going! Hey!"
I remained neutral until the end and leisurely headed to my room with the Korean language workbook.
It was a little fun after solving it once.
And while I was in the room, there was something I had to do.
'I should order rice cakes in advance.'
I searched on my phone.
It's a tradition to give rice cakes when taking the CSAT.
I thought for a moment that it would be better to make them myself..........
I remembered the nightmare of the cakes and other dishes from the past, so I decided to just ignore it.
I couldn't give my youngest a rice cake monster on the day of the CSAT.
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