Seoyeon from her past life was a person who couldn't properly perceive emotions.
Joy, sorrow, and various other complex emotions.
Needless to say, such elements also included the sexual aspect.
'Is this really rated 15+?'
Seoyeon was practically experiencing culture shock.
When it came to anything sexual, Seoyeon had been profoundly ignorant since her past life.
No, she knew what she needed to know.
But separately, she had never really seen it.
Even if she saw it, she just saw it; it wasn't like she could feel anything from it.
At first, she tried to take an interest in such sexual elements like the men around her, but that too ended in failure.
After that, she completely turned off her interest.
Even after being reborn, it was truly completely outside her interest.
'Miss Gyeongseong doesn't have scenes with this high of a level of intensity, but...'
Seoyeon swallowed dryly as she watched the movie where the feast of flesh had ended.
Instead of the movie's content, the script for
At least the character Seoyeon was playing, Kasugayama Yuina, rarely had such scenes.
One or two times at most?
She remembered even those weren't particularly remarkable scenes.
Just holding hands, brushing shoulders, or something like that...
'Huh?'
It was definitely viewable for all ages, but depending on the acting, couldn't it look quite suggestive?
Watching the movie, Seoyeon had that thought.
'I get why Jo Seo-hee suggested watching this movie.'
It was a movie where the emotion of love was revealed to the point of being explicit.
Even if Seoyeon didn't know that emotion, it was a movie where the acting made it so even an idiot could understand.
A little embarrassing, and a strangely ticklish feeling in her chest.
Her fingertips and toes fidgeted unnecessarily, unable to stay still.
But, amusingly, Seoyeon watched the movie with concentration.
Clearly from some point on.
***
"How was it?"
Jo Seo-hee, coming out of the movie theater, glanced at Seoyeon and said.
It felt like she spoke with a confident attitude, but in reality, she was observing quite carefully.
She had made such a mistake last time, and no matter how good a movie is, there's such a thing as taste, right?
According to Jo Seo-hee's observations of Seoyeon so far, the movies Seoyeon mainly watches are heavily skewed toward action.
The movies and dramas she actually appeared in were mostly of the emotional kind.
It could be called a truly ironic aspect.
"..."
Seoyeon was silent.
Throwing the remaining popcorn into the trash can.
Walking quietly beside Seo-hee.
'W-Was it not good?'
Jo Seo-hee's lips trembled slightly.
She thought it was the perfect movie since Seoyeon struggled with romance acting.
When she first saw it, she shed tears, dampening her handkerchief alone.
Today was the second time, but still, there was moisture around her eyes.
The feeling of watching the person you love get together with someone else.
No, the woman she rather had to help.
Could there be another movie as appropriate as this.
'I-In action movies, romance is just a side dish.'
It's not good for studying emotional lines.
She thought so, but...
'If she actually says she found it boring.'
Seo-hee glanced at the posters hanging in the theater as she came out.
Coincidentally, a Japanese anime movie was premiering; should she suggest watching that instead, right now?
Even the outfit was similar to the clothes Seoyeon wore in Japan.
Yeah, even now, let's hurry and...
"It was good."
"Huh?"
"T-The movie, it was good."
Seoyeon answered somewhat hesitantly.
As if saying it was good was somehow embarrassing.
'Huh, what's this, cute.'
Seo-hee thought.
Seoyeon mostly had a lot of cool and aloof aspects.
When filming variety shows, she becomes a somewhat playful puppy, but in daily life, she's a cool-headed beautiful girl whose expression rarely changes even once.
But, what to call Seoyeon right now.
A look revealing quite complex emotions.
'I wish she'd stop using honorifics if possible.'
She had that thought, but since Seoyeon said she enjoyed it, it was fine.
Jo Seo-hee straightened her hunched back and smiled confidently.
"Of course! Did you think I'd recommend a pointless movie?"
"But, honestly, there was a part I couldn't understand."
That she enjoyed the movie was not an empty statement.
Originally, Seoyeon tended to enjoy most movies.
In the past, she had even watched more boring movies as part of her emotional acting practice.
Even now, that wasn't much different, but the important thing was that the emotions she herself felt had increased.
'I should watch the movie again alone later.'
It's not that the sex scene particularly bothered me.
Really.
"I understand she liked the male lead, but I honestly don't understand why the protagonist made such a choice."
Continuing, Seoyeon began to talk about her thoughts on the movie.
Which part bothered her.
Which part was good.
Quite a standard movie review.
Thanks to that, Seo-hee's mood improved.
Yeah, that's it.
Watching a movie and exchanging each other's thoughts is also a fun part.
"Knowing she wasn't chosen, I couldn't understand why Shi-young acted that way."
Shi-young is the heroine who has a crush on the protagonist in the work.
The woman who confessed to the protagonist first in the love triangle.
However, the protagonist rejects her because he already liked another woman at that point.
"Isn't it common sense to give up once you're rejected? Honestly, it felt like she was too foolishly clinging..."
"You shouldn't say that in front of Senior Yeo-hee. Got it?"
Reality is harsher than fiction.
The time Yoon Shi-young chased after the protagonist with a crush in the work is 4 years.
4 years was a level that everyone would think is very long.
'Senior Yeo-hee is 20 years.'
If Yeo-hee had seen it, she might have scoffed, thinking, "Making a fuss over just 4 years."
But, in Seo-hee's opinion, 4 years is enough, 20 years is going a bit too far.
Honestly, if she were the recipient of that crush, wouldn't she be a little scared?
"But, she must have really liked him that much. The role you're playing this time, Kasugayama Yuina, isn't much different."
"Yuina leaves, even though she could have stayed, right?"
"Her heart remains the same. Only her body left."
Kasugayama Yuina is a villain.
Naturally, she is the character who blocks the love between the protagonists Yeon Seon-ye and Amanabi Michiko.
At the same time, she is a rival in love.
In the ending, Yeon Seon-ye and Amanabi Michiko go to Japan and live together, and it ends.
Yuina also returns to the mainland, but she does not stay with them.
Even though Yeon Seon-ye reached out her hand at the very end.
"She must have her pride, too. She stepped back because she wanted Yeon Seon-ye's true happiness."
In a way, she is similar to Yeo-hee.
Yeo-hee also went up to Seoul as soon as she was rejected by Seoyeon's father, Young-bin.
She must have felt her heart burning and that it was a new beginning, but Yeo-hee still couldn't let go of her feelings from that time.
She has lived until now with her time stopped at her most brilliant youth.
'Probably, Yuina is the same.'
Recalling the drama and Yeo-hee's affairs, Seoyeon fell into thought.
Love seems to be more complicated than one thinks, and definitely not always a good thing.
Most people think of love as a beautiful thing that shines like a sparkling star.
But there are so many forms of love, and there is also love that is clingy and accompanied by deep pain.
Yuina must have been the latter.
'I feel like I kind of understand.'
Wouldn't she know if she asked Yeo-hee once more when they meet later?
Of course, whether she could do it well herself would have to be seen by actually trying.
She could roughly guess the emotional line, but actually pulling it off herself was another matter.
"Thank you for showing me the movie today. It helped a lot."
"Huh? W-What? Are we parting ways here?"
"Yes?"
"There's no way we just watch a movie and call it a day!"
Seoyeon stared blankly at Seo-hee.
Then what else would they do here?
"Hmph, didn't you say you wanted to go together when you saw me shopping with Lee Ji-yeon before?"
"I did say that, but..."
That was strictly about going with Lee Ji-yeon included, not just the two of them with Jo Seo-hee.
She was making a friend appeal.
No, Jo Seo-hee now felt like she had moved up a bit from that.
Honestly, she did consider her a friend, but when she actually tried to call her that, there was something inexplicably displeasing about it.
Of course, being the broad-minded Seoyeon, it was absolutely not because Jo Seo-hee called her a 'parachute' when she was young.
There were suspicious aspects as to whether her actions of subtly betraying her and picking on her were really intentional or not.
"I bought too many clothes in Japan."
"Ah."
Come to think of it, Seoyeon had recently returned from Japan.
She said she did a ton of shopping then.
If she bought that much, there definitely wouldn't be anything to buy right away.
"T-Then."
Seo-hee hastily turned her gaze.
Since it was a downtown area, there were plenty of places to go nearby.
'A cosmetics store... doesn't seem like it would have meaning. Same with clothes...'
The interests Seoyeon liked were mostly things that guys liked.
Lee Ji-yeon said that even if she took her to a cosmetics store, she seemed to not know what to buy.
'She takes that little care of it, but how can her skin be so good?'
The world couldn't be this unfair.
Appearance-wise, Jo Seo-hee was also extremely outstanding, but that was the result of desperate management!
But for Seoyeon, lotion and skin toner were the entirety of her skincare... or so it was said.
'Ever since filming the Eclat Etoile advertisement, she's consistently used only those cosmetics.'
Since she didn't know what to buy, she just kept using the Eclat Etoile cosmetics she got by chance.
Thanks to that, Eclat Etoile's sales were skyrocketing every day.
Seoyeon, who had no intention of looking for other cosmetics, always used Eclat Etoile.
She was practically a walking billboard exclusively for Eclat Etoile.
Compared to the amount invested, it was truly an absolute steal.
So, other advertisers couldn't help but be tempted.
"D-Do you want to play games? There's an arcade near here."
"Arcade?"
It was visible that Seoyeon was tempted.
At the same time, she realized Seo-hee was being considerate of her.
'Does she think I don't like shopping?'
If it were in the past, that fact would have been true.
Ju Seo-yeon of the storm and gale, makeup? Why should she do that?
What's fun about shopping?
She'd rather exercise more during that time.
It was roughly that kind of feeling.
So, even though Lee Ji-yeon knows it's different now, she doesn't particularly call Seoyeon when shopping.
"Seoyeon, you're good at games, right? I've been playing various games lately too. Games are surprisingly very helpful."
Thinking like that, Jo Seo-hee smiled softly and said so.
Whether she was good at games...
Actually, there was no need to ask that.
"Yes, I'm good."
Because Seoyeon had great pride in her gaming skills.
To what extent? Seoyeon didn't doubt that she would win no matter what she played.
Since Jo Seo-hee clearly looked like she had no experience coming to places like an arcade.
"Fighting games are perfect for playing together."
"I guess so. But I've never played this before, is that okay?"
"It's okay, I'll teach you well."
Seoyeon thumped her chest quite confidently.
'Of course, fighting games are learned by getting beaten.'
Seoyeon sat across from Seo-hee and inserted a coin.
But there was one thing Seoyeon had forgotten.
That the virtual YouTuber 'Elise' played by Seo-hee was an all-around game streamer.
And recently, she was famous as a skilled gamer at that.
"S-Seoyeon."
"..."
"Should we go somewhere else?"
"No, the match isn't over yet."
If it's about the match, it was over a long time ago...
Jo Seo-hee couldn't bring herself to say that.
Ju Seo-yeon, who confidently said she would teach her, was beaten like a dog by Jo Seo-hee in just five rounds.
'What is this unfairness.'
Clearly, the first and second rounds were in Seoyeon's favor.
But from the third round, the situation changed.
For reference, it was true that Seoyeon was quite good at fighting games.
With Seoyeon's dynamic visual acuity, she could react after seeing the opponent's attack.
However.
The one always getting beaten up was Seoyeon.
"It's not just about seeing and reacting to this; you have to memorize the frames."
"?"
"Didn't you know? Well, you don't have to know, but..."
For someone who didn't, her reactions were too fast.
Seeing Seoyeon's reaction speed, Seo-hee naturally thought she had memorized the frames.
The basics of a fighting game are checking the startup motion of a skill, recognizing the opponent's attack.
Calculating the frames of that attack and countering it.
But Seoyeon was somewhat different.
Should I say it felt like she was seeing and hitting?
'I doubt that could be the case, but...'
Somehow, it felt like it would be possible if it were Seoyeon.
Honestly, just that alone was threatening, so Seoyeon saying she was good at games was by no means a lie.
'I should have just said let's go shopping.'
Jo Seo-hee was on the verge of crying.
Because after that, Seoyeon lost two more times in a row.
'Something's wrong with the controls here.'
For a moment, Seoyeon almost ripped the joystick out of her hand.
'I'd rather go in and fight myself.'
To the point where she had such a thought.
"One more round."
"W-Will you? But haven't you been saying that since ten rounds ago?"
"For real this time."
She meant it.
Now she was slowly getting used to what Seo-hee was using.
Of course, she still didn't know the frames.
'It can't be helped. Let's just throw light punches.'
The fastest attack.
No matter what attack the opponent uses, a light punch, so to speak, cannot be faster than a jab.
It was a technique she deliberately hadn't used because she thought it would look lame until now.
But she couldn't bring herself to lose here.
The moment she concluded she would beat her up with cheap jabs.
"Oh, what's this. Isn't that Jo Seo-hee?"
Somehow, a familiar male voice was heard.
Wondering what was going on, Seoyeon peeked her head out from the side of the arcade cabinet.
'The medicine-taking idol?'
The leader of JustX, Row.
He was waving his hand at Jo Seo-hee with a welcoming face.