“Observation?” She asked, taking a sip of her barley tea.

“We have to make a one-man play using the characteristics of the person next to us. It’s a bit harder than I thought,” Maru mentioned, thinking of what happened yesterday.

He was a little surprised by the word that Miso used. What did she mean, “observation”? But as soon as he carried out the task she gave him, he understood what she was trying to do. As a matter of fact, it was exactly in line with what Ganghwan often liked to say: “there’s no better training than observation.” Carefully observing his target alone was giving him a very different impression of that person than what he normally felt.

“Hm, observation.”

She thought for a second with a slight frown before turning to stare at Maru intently. Maru returned her gaze, mostly because he found her eyes adorable. She avoided his gaze first with a little cough. A little word bubble appeared above her head, probably because their eyes met. Maru chose to ignore it. He didn’t want to learn about what she was thinking using such underhanded tactics.

“Don’t you ever get embarrassed about anything?”

“Embarrassed about what?”

“No, well… whatever. It always feels like I’m losing...