Are You Jealous of Me?

At those words, I immediately remembered my friends as they’d been at twenty-one, the last time I saw them before I went off to the army.

"Hey, how come you guys haven’t aged at all?"

I let out a deep sigh and said to them.

"That’s because I take care of myself. Remember what I looked like back in elementary and middle school? I went through a complete transformation, like in some martial arts novel~"

She usually wore baggy clothes or hoodies, but after all this time... no, for the first time, she showed up in a crop top.

She said that with a bright smile, then gave her noticeably slimmer stomach a couple of pats.

"Damn, you’ve lost a ton of weight. What’d you do, get lipo?"

"Hey, do you wanna die? What do you mean, lipo? I lost it all through exercise. You shouldn’t rely on that kind of gimmick. Just look at my mom. I keep telling her to go get a Thai massage, but she won’t—she just sits in that massage chair going brrr, and it’s wrecking her body."

"You should’ve taken her yourself. Weakling."

"You little..."...