“Bora!”
Bora rushed to the familiar voice, but it wasn’t Hana’s usual voice—it was a grown woman’s voice coming from Hana’s room. When she opened the door, she saw a grown woman sitting on the bed, wearing a dinosaur pajama that looked like it was about to burst.
“Who are you?”
“Sniff… Bora…”
But Bora quickly realized it was Hana by the familiar hair color, eyes, and way of speaking. Though at first glance, she was a bit unsure.
She had no idea what happened last night, but this woman was definitely Hana.
Bora was sure it was Hana, but Hana herself seemed flustered, not used to her transformed body.
“Bora, I think something’s wrong with my body…”
“Yeah… it kinda seems like it…”
Hana’s appearance was utterly devastating. Even as a kid, Hana had shown great potential for beauty, but now her looks had bloomed to a radiant level.
Her face was so delicate and pretty that most celebrities wouldn’t even dare to hand her their business cards.
And her body—Bora, who had always been somewhat proud of her own figure, felt like a squid in front of Hana’s transformed body.
“Bora, what do I do?”
Hana’s face and voice were now mature and captivating, but her tone was still childlike. Bora felt a strange imbalance listening to her.
“Hana, calm down. I’ll help you.”
Hana kept fidgeting, clearly not used to her new body, with tears hanging in her eyes.
Seeing this, Bora understood why men’s hearts would ache at the sight of a beautiful woman crying. Even as a fellow woman, Hana’s appearance was mesmerizing.
Bora quickly called to report the news. If something happened to Hana, her superior had to be informed first. Hana might not know it, but if something happened to her, tens of thousands of people would lose their livelihoods.
And aside from that, Bora didn’t like the idea of something being wrong with Hana’s body. Seeing Hana in pain would tear Bora’s heart apart. To Bora, Hana was like her own child.
Just then, Haru entered the room. Seeing Hana, Haru gasped and covered her mouth.
‘What… I know kids these days grow fast from eating and sleeping well, but…’
This was just too strange. Even growing 1-2 cm a day would be incredibly fast, but Hana looked like she had grown 30-40 cm overnight. It was an unbelievable growth rate.
Just yesterday, when she left work, Hana looked like a mischievous third-grader, but now she was a fresh-faced college girl with overflowing charm.
“What… what on earth happened?”
Haru, dumbfounded, had no choice but to ask Bora. Bora was the only one who had been with Hana last night.
“I don’t know either. Just yesterday, when I patted her back, Hana was perfectly fine…”
Who would believe that a kid could turn into a grown woman overnight? People would probably scold them for saying something so absurd. But seeing the reality before her eyes, Haru could only laugh in disbelief.
“This makes no sense.”
—
It’s natural for people to grow over time. Unless it’s some rare genetic condition, children grow taller and mature as time passes.
From Bora and Haru’s perspective, watching Hana grow day by day was more than just heartwarming—it was a joy. Seeing a child grow into an adult with their own eyes was a special experience.
But growing up all at once? That was a big problem. Growing this fast wasn’t something they wished for. If Hana grew up this suddenly, they wouldn’t even know what to say as her caretakers.
Right now, she didn’t even have clothes to wear. It was lucky that Haru kept spare clothes in her car, or else Hana would be naked. The tattered dinosaur pajama was already lying on the floor.
And all of Hana’s original clothes were too small—forcing her into them would be child abuse.
Most importantly, all their plans were ruined. An elementary school student with this body? If Hana were to enroll in elementary school like this, the world would probably lose its mind.
Bora and Haru were deeply worried about Hana. Right now, she…
Just thinking about it makes me worry so much, but Hana, who suddenly grew bigger, must be completely confused. Right now, she’s pulling at her clothes here and there, complaining about how uncomfortable her body has become.
There’s a saying about someone whose head has grown but nothing else, right? Normally, as people grow older, their minds mature accordingly. As the body grows, so does the mind.
Even the most clueless person tends to gain some sense as they age. That saying exists for a reason.
But Hana, unprepared in every way, has suddenly become an adult. Her mental age is still stuck in elementary school.
The only saving grace is that she hasn’t started school yet. If Hana were to walk around the streets, the wolf-like men wouldn’t leave her alone. If she were still a child, it wouldn’t be a concern, but now she has the body of a full-grown adult woman.
“Hana.”
“Yeah, Bora.”
“Don’t leave my side today, okay?”
“Okay!”
Even though many people at the research institute know Hana, there’s no telling what might happen if she were to slip away. So Bora held Hana’s hand tightly as they got up. They needed to check if there was anything wrong with Hana’s body.
Hana was determined not to let go of Bora’s hand. Her hand used to be smaller, but now, feeling the size of Hana’s grown hand, Bora couldn’t help but sigh. Hana was always a troublemaker, after all.
—
Manager Kim Jaeman, after hearing from his subordinate, was driving his car as if he were in a race.
“Hana has grown bigger!”
“What do you mean Hana has grown bigger?”
“Ah, geez… no! Something’s wrong with Hana’s body!”
“I’ll be right there!”
He was driving much faster than his usual commute time. As he was about to leave the city center and head to the research institute, Kim Jaeman noticed something strange about the road.
“Huh?”
There were vines growing on the asphalt road. No, not just growing—they were breaking through the asphalt! It didn’t make sense, but the impossible was happening right before his eyes.
And the vines were growing so fast that he could see them lengthening before his eyes. Seeing this, Kim Jaeman sped up even more toward the research institute. It wasn’t just Hana—something strange might be happening elsewhere too.
Come to think of it, the trees on the street were also weird. When he left home, they were just bare branches, but as he got closer to the research institute, trees with leaves started to appear.
Wait, leaves on trees in the middle of winter? Shouldn’t they have shed all their leaves in the fall? Something strange was definitely going on with the plants around the research institute.
—
“Boss!”
“Yes?”
Kim Sehee had just arrived at work early in the morning when she heard some good news.
“No way… what is this!”
When she saw the photo taken by an executive on their phone, she couldn’t help but be amazed. Unable to believe it, Kim Sehee drove to the site herself.
“Wow!”
After the construction was finished, they started growing cherry tomatoes in the plastic greenhouse. But just a few days later, the cherry tomatoes they had planted were already bearing fruit. So much fruit that the branches were bending under the weight.
“Didn’t they say it would take at least two weeks?”
“Yes, Boss. That’s what the research institute said when they grew them directly.”
“This is unbelievable…”
Even though it hadn’t even been a week, seeing so many fruits hanging, Kim Sehee couldn’t help but be moved.
When she entered the greenhouse, she couldn’t take her eyes off the perfectly ripe, bright red cherry tomatoes.
“Just at a glance, these are top-quality.”
Kim Sehee could tell just by looking that these were of the highest quality.
