I Became the Academy's Kibitz Villain [part 1]

Chapter 110: The Academy's Spring Day (4)

He loved the food tteokbokki so much that he always ate it whenever he met the heroine. Whenever they gathered as a group, they always had tteokbokki.

Normally, men tended to go for safe choices like pasta or sushi when they were fairly friendly with a woman or, if their wallet allowed, a steakhouse.

But the protagonist stubbornly insists on eating tteokbokki from the beginning.

I thought it might have been his strategy to survive in Korea as a foreigner from behind the blonde wall, but now I think it was probably just because the author liked tteokbokki.

'The description of tteokbokki was unnecessarily detailed.'

I was confused whether I was reading a Korean light novel or a gourmet critic's essay on tteokbokki, as it was so specific and verbose.

The description of tteokbokki in one episode was more than the back-and-forth with the heroine, so it was only natural for readers to say they had spread rice cake on the post every time a tteokbokki story came up or that speed bumps were strewn with rice cakes.

Of course, I didn't read those parts.

However, there were a few times when I seriously considered unsubscribing when I realized that the post that came out once a day was nothing but praise for tteokbokki, and there was no serial number.

Still, there were a few times when I thought, 'They've written this much. Maybe I'll read it once', and eventually, while reading, I learned about the protagonist's taste for tteokbokki.

The protagonist was the author's alter ego.

The author was crazy about tteokbokki.

Therefore, it was only natural that Yumir liked tteokbokki.

But.

"What did you just say?"

"I said, the first time, it's tteokbokki."

Yumir lifted a thick rice cake with her chopsticks and placed it on the plate in front of her.

Then she stretched it out long and started to chew the end of the rice cake.

"Right, the first time is tteokbokki. I'm more into fried food, though."

I picked up a squid ring with my chopsticks.

The fried squid ring was slightly larger than if I made a ring with my fingers, and I poured a bit of tteokbokki sauce on it on the plate.

"......Hmm."

Yumir seemed somewhat displeased, but I swirled the chopsticks around the inside of the squid ring.

"......!!"

Yumir's eyes began to shake. She was just about to munch on the rice cake, but she stopped and put the plate down as if something had come up.

"Gulp. What are you doing now?"

"Dipping in the sauce."

I swirled the inside of the ring with the chopsticks. The tteokbokki sauce started dripping from the end of the chopsticks, and I lightly grabbed the squid ring from both sides.

"......Teacher?"

"Yes."

"What are you doing now?"

"Eating. With you."

I picked up the oval-shaped fried squid with chopsticks and popped a large piece into my mouth. Thanks to the delivery, it had cooled down nicely, so there was no risk of burning my mouth, and I casually winked at Yumir while chewing on the fried food.