Bamboo Forest Manager

153 – 148. Open For Business

Early the next morning.

I figured I had already taken the day off, so I decided to just have breakfast and leisurely head back to the dorms.

“Huh-huh, huh-hum.”

My little brother offered to drive me, so I was sitting next to him, holding onto the steering wheel.

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“What song is that?”

I asked my brother about the Japanese song playing from the speakers, and he looked at me in surprise.

“Hmm? Don’t you watch anime or anything? You don’t know this?”

“I do watch it, but I skip the openings. I can’t understand the lyrics anyway.”

“Watch the openings and endings. That’s how you really enjoy it.”

“Do you know what the lyrics mean?”

“No.”

He was humming something to himself. His words might have sounded strange in Japanese.

“But I thought you didn’t like anime songs? You didn’t seem interested in them before.”

If I remember correctly, he didn’t like anime very much.

“I didn’t. But my girlfriend likes them, so I naturally started to like them too.”

“…….”

“Woojin, I’m telling you, you should—”

“Stop. I don’t want to hear it. I can tell you’re about to say something really cheesy.”

“Like the word ‘love’?”

“I told you to stop.”

“Tsk, the moment you hear my philosophy on love, you’ll realize that I’m not as cool as you thought I was.”

“Can you drop me off? I’ll just take the bus.”

Only then did my little brother shut his mouth.

Anyway, he was so different from my older brother.

After driving for a while, my little brother couldn’t hold it in any longer and opened his mouth.

“But Woojin.”

“What now?”

I had resolved to tell him to drop me off if he started talking about love again, but this time it was something else.

“Is there anyone in your department who stands out? Someone who could be a streamer?”

“Streaming?”

“Yeah, it would be good if they were pretty. But these days, they can cover their faces or use virtual avatars, right? So they just need to be charming and witty.”

“Are you starting a business?”

“That’s right. I’ll manage and develop streamers. My girlfriend is a very popular streamer, so she’s been absorbing all the other streamers around her and growing her business rapidly.”

“Hmm.”

“Of course, we’re not going to accept just anyone. Yoonji and I will do some screening. If there’s even one scandal, it could ruin everything, so their past is important too.”

“I don’t really know much about that stuff.”

The only person I could think of was:

“There’s someone at our school called Ppopo. She’s a civil engineering goddess who streams.”

My brother chuckled and nodded.

“I know her. She’s famous at your school, right?”

“Civil engineering is basically just her fan club. They’re always painting her name on the bamboo forest.”

Come to think of it, I had heard that she hadn’t been streaming much lately.

“We were originally going to recruit Ppopo. She’s pretty and has a good way with words. But she eats a lot and is very gluttonous, so she’s very popular.”

“Hmm.”

I remembered that she had ordered 20 servings of bulgogi at the festival, saying she was going to feed the ghosts.

I almost told her to just show her true colors.”But they just declined, saying they’re with another agency. It’s a bit like that. But in the end, it’s their choice.”

“Is that person broadcasting these days? I think I heard they weren’t broadcasting.”

Didn’t the anonymous friends in the bamboo forest write that they were crying and asking them to come back soon?

Some weirdo even asked me to send them a list of posts that Popo had written.

“They’re not broadcasting. They’re a college student, so they took a break due to personal reasons and then came back. They’re doing well these days.”

“I see.”

It wasn’t anything serious after all.

Anyway, I should acknowledge the fuss the anonymous friends made.

‘I haven’t been on lately.’

The new semester has started, so the bamboo forest must be active, but I’ve been a bit neglectful lately because of my own circumstances.

I trusted Yu-arin, but in reality, it wasn’t much different from just saying I trusted her and leaving all the work to her.

‘I’m sorry.’

I’ll have to talk to her separately later and apologize, and then I’ll either take over the management for a while or graduate from being a manager altogether.

‘Now that I think about it, I should check it out now.’

Since it seemed like Little Brother didn’t have anything else to say, I turned on the bamboo forest.

“……Hmm?”

The latest post was from February 1st.

– Anonymous69: s*x!

Funnily enough, the last post was “s*x” written by Seo Ye-rin, but the important thing is that it’s mid-February now.

I was wondering what was going on, but then I saw a new notice above it.

– Anonymous59 (Manager 1): The manager is neglecting their duties, so I’m not going to manage it either.

“……”

And then they froze all the posts, making it impossible for anyone to write anything.

‘That’s why you’ve been so quiet.’

Come to think of it, Yu-arin wouldn’t just sit back and watch me not manage it.

It was only natural.

Last time, she asked me to give her more authority because she was Manager 1, so I did, and look what she did, Yu-arin.

Thud.

I immediately unblocked the bamboo forest and posted a notice.

– Manager: Our store is back in business.

I thought I’d wait a bit to see if the alarm would go off.

– Anonymous90: s*x!

– Anonymous69: s*x!

The s*x duo appeared simultaneously, signaling that the bamboo forest was back in operation.

I could clearly see Seo Ye-rin getting angry, pouting because she was late compared to Anonymous90.

– Anonymous209: Gasp! Gasp! I can breathe again!

– Anonymous367: Finally, the Great Forest! There’s so much I wanted to ask!

– Anonymous178: Damn it, manager, are you trying to kill us? I almost suffocated.

– Anonymous93: It’s all good, so don’t close it again. It’s a pain in the ass to educate freshmen without this.

↳ Anonymous228: Yeah, I just tell them to look at the organized posts I bookmarked in the Great Forest, but it’s a pain to explain when they can’t see them.

↳ Anonymous398: The freshmen were really frustrated too. They couldn’t ask any questions.

↳ Anonymous407: Yeah, yeah

↳ Anonymous84: Wow, there’s a 400 series now. It’s just a legend.

↳ Anonymous234: The 300 series was exclusive to the construction department, but it looks like that’s not the case anymore.

– Anonymous301: Construction department Popo is invincible and a god.

↳ Anonymous302: Construction department goddess Popo!↳ Anonymous303: Construction and Goddess Popo!

↳ Anonymous304: My favorite ice cream is also Polapo!

↳ Anonymous305: I only eat grapes when it comes to fruit!

↳ Anonymous11: Look at these retards getting excited.

– Anonymous11: Admin you f*cking bastard. Do it in moderation. Have some sense of responsibility.

↳ Anonymous198: Admin 1 is the problem. The admin should tie up Admin 1, light candles, and torture him with a dildo.

↳ Anonymous59 (Admin 1): f*ck, you’re getting sued you son of a b*tch.

↳ Anonymous198: I’m sorry. Please let me off just this once. I won’t do it again. I don’t have any money ㅠㅠ

– Anonymous44: Today’s creepy story. This story happened at Ga-hyeon University 5 years ago…

– Anonymous243: Thanks to not being able to use the bamboo forest, I’ve made a lot of friends. I’m really grateful.

↳ Anonymous263: ? Did the anime otaku make friends too?

↳ Anonymous243: Hime-chan, Sakura-chan, Hana-chan, Yuki-chan, Haruka-chan-

↳ Anonymous11: f*ck, friends are people you can talk to you f*cking retard. You’ve never had friends before so now you think the women on your monitor are your friends.

↳ Anonymous94: It’s not cool to call someone ‘the best’ or ‘awesome’ and pretend to be cute. It’s even more pathetic.

↳ Anonymous408: Mr. 11, you’re being too harsh; you can think of them as friends, why are you cursing so much?

↳ Anonymous11: f*ck off. So if you watch porn, does that mean the porn actress is your girlfriend? So you spend all day watching your girlfriend get f*cked? You’ll never be in a porn.

↳ Anonymous408: …….

– Anonymous7: Hello. I’m using the bamboo forest for the first time. This is a story about a friend I know, he has a girl junior that he’s close with. But it seems like she has a lot of guys around her…

↳ Anonymous117: Isn’t she just a slut?

↳ Anonymous185: Yeah. When you can’t sleep at night because of her, she’s in bed with another guy and can’t sleep.

↳ Anonymous426: Wow, from now on my dream is that girl junior.

↳ Anonymous64: But it’s number 7 and it’s the first time using the bamboo forest. Are you a professor?

Seeing the posts pouring in so quickly, I felt a bit touched and started blocking things that crossed the line or were pictures.

Woong!

My phone rang then.

It was Yu-arin calling.

“Hello.”

– Are you feeling better? You finally opened the door?

I sighed at her sarcastic tone.

“Hey, what if you just shut down the bamboo forest altogether?”

– I can’t help it. It’s the beginning of the semester so there’s a lot of weird posts coming up and I’m too busy to do it alone.

“Well, I guess so.”

I hadn’t managed the bamboo forest at the beginning of the semester either, so I didn’t really know how hard it would be.

– Are you in the dorms? I don’t think I’ve seen you at school.

“No, I’m outside. I’m on my way back now.”

– Did you have a free period today?

“I just had something to do at home so I went out for a bit.”

– You went home?

Yu-arin took a short breath and then raised her voice.

– Oh my god! Woo-jin! Arin is really, really hungry right now! I want some beef brisket!

“f*ck!”

I almost hung up the phone without thinking.

– ……You’re so mean.

Yu-arin’s voice got smaller, as if she was hurt.But I feel like I’m the victim here.

“You pay.”

– If the youngest daughter of a conglomerate visited your house, wouldn’t she give you at least 100,000 won? Let’s eat with that.

“I just had a ear terrorism because of you, so you pay.”

– What ear terrorism? It’s bursting with charm.

“I’m not kidding, I thought my phone was going to explode. I thought it was some kind of curse.”

– Give it to me, do you want to explode?

I was trying not to contact you for a while, but somehow I’m naturally grumbling.

I was about to hang up the phone.

“Woojin, are you a friend?”

My brother next to me was looking at me with his eyes sparkling.

“Crazy! Car in front! Look ahead when you’re driving, where are you looking!”

“Whoa?! I almost crashed!”

You’re going to drive like that, you bastard!

We opened the window and apologized to the man’s shouting.