Bamboo Forest Manager

148 – 143. Around Kim Woo-Jin

It was sudden, but Choi Yi-seo’s visit was reassuring.

It was like I had an extra hand, and Choi Yi-seo was physically fit.

But most of all, I was most grateful that Choi Yi-seo came to see me in person.

I felt so gloomy that I had distanced myself from Oh Yoon-ji for a while.

Choi Yi-seo helped me move my luggage with a refreshing smile.

“Still, it’s nice to have a room to myself.”

Choi Yi-seo entered the room with a box of clothes.

“Is that the last one?”

“Yeah, that’s the last one.”

I was organizing inside and received the last luggage that Choi Yi-seo brought me.

“Thank you so much. Thanks to you, it’s over much faster.”

The other rooms were still in the process of moving their luggage, but I was already finished.

“I don’t have much luggage, so that’s why. Especially clothes, I think I need to buy some?”

I shrugged as I hung the clothes from the box on the hanger.

“Where do I have the money to buy clothes? I came here because I didn’t have any money.”

“……It’s a worry that doesn’t even feel a little bit of a crisis.”

Choi Yi-seo, who knew about my family, seemed to hear it as a mere complaint.

“What do you want to eat for dinner? I’ll buy it for you since you helped me today.”

The closet organization was finished quickly.

I don’t know if it’s because of what Choi Yi-seo just said, but I also thought that the fact that I didn’t have many clothes made it easier to organize.

Now I started to unpack the inside.

“Hmm, can I decide the menu then?”

“We have to do rock-paper-scissors for that.”

“People don’t change.”

I remembered the time when we used to play rock-paper-scissors to decide the menu every time we ate together.

At that time, I never imagined that I would have this kind of relationship with Choi Yi-seo.

“I won’t be able to come and visit you often anymore. The dormitory is off-limits to outsiders.”

“What’s wrong with that? Just come and visit me. I heard from my brother that if you get caught, you just have to keep quiet.”

“I’ve only learned strange things since I entered the dormitory.”

Even though she said that, she was smiling slightly, so it seemed like she had plenty of thoughts about coming to visit me later.

“Is it taking a long time to organize? Should I help you?”

Choi Yi-seo approached me as I was taking out my luggage and organizing it, but I waved my hand and refused.

“Take a break. I’ll organize this quickly anyway.”

“Really? Then……”

Choi Yi-seo lay down on the bed I was going to use. The mattress was gone, but the blanket and pillow were the ones I used to use, so they seemed familiar.

“You can’t sleep.”

“Ugh.”

“Don’t bury your face in the pillow and talk.”

“I know, I won’t sleep.”

Choi Yi-seo lay down with her back to me. I left her alone and continued to organize the room.

“But Woo-jin.”

Choi Yi-seo, who had been so quiet that I was worried if she had fallen asleep, called my name softly.

“Why? Are you going to pay me?”

I said that earlier, but I was determined to buy Choi Yi-seo something expensive and delicious because she came voluntarily and worked hard.

“Where did the condoms I bought last time go?”

“……”

My body, which was opening the next box, froze.

My neck was tingling, so I glanced at her, and Choi Yi-seo was now looking at me with her face slightly turned.

I don’t know what kind of emotion was in her lowered eyes, but it felt like a kind of protest that excuses were unacceptable.

Gulp.

My Adam’s apple bobbed as I swallowed my saliva, as if it were expressing my feelings.

‘Definitely.’When Oh Yoon-ji came, I remember throwing it away just in case.

Because Choi Yi-seo went out and came right back in.

I don’t know if Choi Yi-seo saw Oh Yoon-ji, but I don’t think she would like to talk about Oh Yoon-ji.

She might misunderstand.

“That? I think I lost it somewhere.”

I shrugged my shoulders and answered as usual, and packed my things again.

‘That was so natural.’

It was such a great performance that Seo Ye-rin clapped her hands and said, “You have a talent for acting.”

“Where is it?”

Why?

How did Choi Yi-seo see through my lie?

She got out of bed, walked over to me, and crossed her arms, now staring at me openly.

“Kim Woo-jin lost a condom? I think condoms would have been a high priority when you were moving.”

“……”

It’s not wrong.

“Huh? There were so many sudden situations. So I think I would have packed it unconditionally?”

That’s not wrong either.

For example, if Choi Yi-seo suddenly told me she wanted to do it here, I had a condom that I could take out right away.

Yes, I was prepared.

But the important thing is that it’s a different brand from the condom Choi Yi-seo bought.

Choi Yi-seo is not stupid, so she would suspect me if I took out a different brand, wouldn’t she?

‘Let’s calm down.’

Choi Yi-seo stared at me.

As I slowly got up from packing my things, her gaze followed me up.

This was where I had to use the technique I had with my ex-girlfriend.

“Yi-seo, what should we have for dinner?”

“Are you going to look for it?”

“……”

It doesn’t work.

“Who did you use it with? Ye-rin? Or A-rin?”

She said it casually, but one thing was for sure. The moment I said someone’s name here, it would be a big deal.

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‘Let’s fish for it.’

I’ve experienced it a few times with Oh Yoon-ji.

She tells me to tell her because it’s okay, and when I do, she searches for it that day.

‘She doesn’t want to talk about Oh Yoon-ji.’

The atmosphere was good, and I didn’t want to talk about Oh Yoon-ji and bring the mood down again.

I was afraid that Choi Yi-seo would notice my feelings and try to distance herself again.

So.

I came up with another persuasive argument, put my hand on her shoulder, and answered seriously.

“Yi-seo, I’m not dating anyone else yet.”

“……Really?”

Choi Yi-seo nodded with a trembling expression as I suddenly became serious.

The flow came to me.

Choi Yi-seo is a very rational and logical person, so I can win her over with logic here.

“It’s not right to have s*x with someone who isn’t your girlfriend.”

“What the hell did you do, you bastard?”

Choi Yi-seo grabbed me by the collar and knocked me over.

I don’t know where she learned the technique, but it was very clean.

“I won with a logical and common sense argument?!”

I cried out in protest, but Choi Yi-seo sighed in disbelief.

“That’s because a contradictory being is talking logically.”

“Tsk, Seo Ye-rin would have been fooled.”

“You’re so rude.”

Choi Yi-seo let go of my collar and climbed on top of me. Then she looked down at me with a pouty expression.

“Tell me quickly. Who did you use it with?”

Do I have to tell her after all?

“I didn’t use it with anyone. I just threw it out the window.”

“You threw it away?”

“That’s why-.”

At that moment, the voices of three people could be heard from outside.”Senior! Are you there!”

“Senior! It’s Chulsoo, the guy you met at the drinking party last time!”

“Oh, man.”

It was Chulsoo, Younghee, and senior Joohee from the English literature department that I had seen at the dormitory gathering.

For some reason, senior Joohee opened the door nervously and came in.

“……”

“……”

It was an awkward situation.

Chulsoo and Younghee saw Choi Eseo on top of me, and they looked dazed.

“I’m, I’m sorry!”

“We’re so sorry!”

They ran out in embarrassment, and senior Joohee stood there with her mouth open.

“I, I, I, I’m sorry.”

She blushed and closed the door while stepping back.

“What am I going to do?”

The situation had suddenly changed.

When I looked up at Choi Eseo, he was also embarrassed and stiff, but he didn’t react.

“Well, it’s better this way?!”

I don’t know what he meant by that, but I was shocked.

* * *

“Wasn’t that senior dating senior Yerim?”

“That’s why. Wow… Isn’t she a sophomore?”

Chulsoo and Younghee were talking in the lounge on the first floor of the dormitory building.

The two had been going to the same school since elementary school, and they had known each other for 15 years and had been dating for 5 years.

They were now a happily married couple, and they were whispering about the shocking scene they had just witnessed.

“I heard that senior Woojin has a really bad reputation.”

“Isn’t it because he has a complicated relationship with women? That’s why he fought with the seniors?”

“……”

Min Joohee sat on the sofa, staring blankly at the ground, not paying attention to the two kids chattering next to her.

‘I had a feeling.’

She knew that Choi Eseo had come.

Originally, she was going to help Kim Woojin, but she stepped back when she saw Choi Eseo helping him.

But Min Joohee became strangely anxious when she saw that they weren’t coming out of the room, so she deliberately told Chulsoo and Younghee to greet Kim Woojin.

‘No way, Eseo too!’

This was the result.

Not only was he having fun with Seo Yerim and Yoo Arin, but he was even in that kind of mood with Choi Eseo.

Moreover, the soundproofing in the dormitory wasn’t very good, so the word ‘condom’ could be heard clearly from outside.

Min Joohee became anxious about it and opened the door roughly without realizing it.

‘Whew.’

Min Joohee let out a long sigh and bit her lip.

‘It’s so unlike me.’

Yes, she had been acting unlike herself lately.

Who was Min Joohee?

She was a woman who had lived through high school with her fists and extensions, and in college, she had devoted herself to her studies for the scholarship.

‘I was possessed by something strange.’

Min Joohee took a deep breath and calmly closed her eyes.

Her face, which had been flushed with embarrassment until just now, calmed down, and her sharp gaze turned to the kids chattering next to her.

“You guys, don’t spread any strange rumors.”

She gave a blunt warning to Chulsoo and Younghee, who were already spreading gossip.

“Yes, ma’am!”

“Yes, senior!”

The two of them were so scared that they answered quickly and got out of their seats.

Other dormitory students had seen Choi Eseo moving his luggage, so there was no way there wouldn’t be any rumors.

‘That’s his karma.’

Whew, that’s it.

I’m not going to worry about Kim Woojin anymore.

He was a good junior, and he still is a good junior.Although he has a bit of a playboy personality, it seems like the women know about it.

‘Let’s not worry about it.’

Promising herself to just forget about what happened that night, Min Joo-hee puts her hands deep into her jacket pockets.

I should go see a movie tomorrow to change my mood.

* * *

“…….”

The next day.

Min Joo-hee, who came to the movie theater in the city to watch a movie, looks at the two people waiting for the same movie with a nervous expression.

It seemed like they hadn’t noticed her yet, so she pulled her hat down a little more.

“Hey, why do you have such bad taste? You have to get the caramel popcorn.”

Kim Woo-jin grumbles.

“Nonsense. The salt flavor is the truth.”

Her gaze kept going to Yoo Ah-rin, who was feeding him popcorn while getting annoyed.

“No, what do you mean popcorn has a salt flavor? If that’s the case, why isn’t there a pepper flavor?”

“Don’t eat it all just because it’s delicious.”

“It must be really delicious. Ah, don’t force-feed me- Uum? It’s delicious!”

“hehehe, this is crazy s*xy!”

“Wow, is it really delicious?”

“Don’t bury your face in the popcorn! Just open your mouth and I’ll feed you!”

Listening to her juniors’ conversation.

Min Joo-hee’s head was pounding.