Astronomy // Duty After School

Chapter Sixty-One.

"Why did we come into the third-year's classroom?" So-yun wondered. "Whose idea was it?"

"Oh, really?" Sun-yi asked, glancing around the room. "Now that I look around, everyone is sitting in their usual seats.

"Oh, yes," Tae-man nodded. "It didn't occur to me, but I guess I found my seat without realizing."

"In-hye used to sit beside me," Na-ra said, looking at the empty seat which only had towels on it.

"Doesn't it feel like she just went home early?" Yeon-ju asked. "And that Ms. Park's going to come in and greet us early in the morning? And that we'll look out the windows and see Min-kyu walking (Y/n) to class... It feels like they didn't die and we would see them again at school later."

"Yes, sitting here like this, I feel like we're back at school," So-yun smiled. "I want to return to those days."

"I want to return to that time," Jun-hi said.

"Me, too," Tae-man agreed.

"Then... I'll try to invent a time machine!" Deok-jung declared, making some people laugh.

"Oh, my gosh..."

"What is he talking about?"

"What are you even saying?"

"I guess I'll need to go to KAIST university, first," Deok-jung said. "Or Seoul National University? I guess that would be better." The others grinned and shook their heads.

"Fighting!" So-yun encouraged.

"Fighting!" Jun-hi repeated, also holding her fist up. Deok-jung nodded and held his fist up.

"Then, take the time machine to the past and make sure we don't sign the consent forms," Sun-yi said.

"Me, too. I would never do it," Jun-hi said.

"Would you rip it up?"

"I would never sign it," Tae-man stated.

"Definitely not!" Hui-rak agreed.

"And you'd have to tell someone to take (Y/n) with us," Sun-yi said, looking back at said girl. "Otherwise, she'd..."

"I'd take her," Yu-jeong assured.

"No, no. I would go with Ms. Park," (Y/n) stated.

"Then I'll tell that to you and Ms. Park," Deok-jung promised as though it was actually possible to build a time machine.

"What do you all want to do when you get home?" Yeong-shin asked.

"I'm going to take a hot bath first and scrub every inch of my body," Bo-ra said. "It will feel so good."

"Then you'll clog the drainage from all that dead skin," Deok-jung said, snickering to himself.

"You'll have way more," Bo-ra retorted. "Enough to make an eraser out of it." The others laughed and Deok-jung quickly smelled himself.

"When I go home, I'm going to do nothing and sleep first," Jun-hi said.

"I'm going to be good to my parents without complaining," Yeon-ju promised herself.

"Me, too," Ha-na agreed. "They always scolded me for being on my phone, but I realized I can live without a phone. When I go home, I'm going to talk a lot with my parents."

"That's nice," So-yun smiled.

"I miss my mom," Jun-hi murmured.

"What will happen when we return?" Ae-seol asked.