30 Minutes With You

For as long as she can remember, Seong-Eun's days at Galaxy Academy have ended the same way: the quiet, solitary walk home, taken entirely on her own. It is a rhythm she has grown used to, familiar and unchanging—until the day Gu-Bong steps into her life and turns that ordinary routine on its head. Now, once a week, her usual journey is no longer hers alone. For exactly thirty minutes, the two of them walk side by side, and those brief half-hours quickly become something Seong-Eun looks forward to more than she would ever admit. What starts as a simple weekly arrangement transforms into the most exciting part of her week, turning an everyday route into time worth savoring with every step. But as the weeks pass, their easy companionship begins to shift into something neither of them quite expected. The conversations stretch a little longer, the parting at the end of the walk feels a little harder, and the friendship they have carefully built starts to tremble on the edge of something more. Could these thirty minutes be quietly blossoming into a first, tender romance?