Han Se-Yeon blinked her eyes. “Eh?”

Kang Jin-Ho urged her again. “Get on my back.”

“...No, it's fine. I'll just walk by myself.”

“Just do it, will you? You're wasting time.”

“No, wait...”

Kang Jin-Ho sighed. “Please don't make me repeat myself.”

"O-okay..." Surprisingly, Han Se-Yeon didn't play hard to get and climbed up on his back.

After securing her on his back, Kang Jin-Ho began heading toward Han Se-Yeon's home on foot. Catching a taxi was an option, but he wasn't a fan of riding in the back of a car driven by a stranger. Besides, carrying a passenger on his back wouldn't trouble him, anyway. But Han Se-Yeon's thoughts were quite the opposite of Kang Jin-Ho's.

She cautiously asked him. “Am I too heavy?”

“Not really...”

“Really? I'm not?”

“Yeah...”

Han Se-Yeon looked flustered before hurriedly muttering a reply, “R-right, you're crazy strong, aren't you?”

"That's right," Kang Jin-Ho replied to her rhetorical question and sighed under his breath. Rather than feeling apologetic, she should have behaved better earlier.

'I'm definitely not going to buy her a drink anymore.'

It seemed that today was the day of learning new life lessons.

Han Se-Yeon quietly buried her face on Kang Jin-Ho's broad back for a while, then whispered to him, "I'm going to start dating once we settle down in university."

“I see…”

“I'll find a good-looking and cool guy and... Have fun, you know?”

“Sure thing…”

Another bout of silence descended between the two. Kang Jin-Ho wondered if she had dozed off on...