Bamboo Forest Manager

157 – 152. 2Nd Year

Not long after the start of the new semester.

I pretended to listen to the lecture and glanced at Choi Yiseo next to me.

She was wearing a beige knit sweater that matched the refreshing spring weather.

The sleeves were loose around her wrists, making her healthy body look even more petite, which was cute.

As I blankly stared at her, Choi Yiseo glanced at me, wrote something on her notebook, and handed it to me.

– Why?

It seemed like she noticed that I was bored.

– It’s nothing.

I said I was organizing my thoughts, but in reality, I hadn’t been doing anything lately.

I guess I just naturally went with the flow since everyone was busy at the start of the new semester.

I felt a bit foolish for worrying so much, and the time I spent at Gold One felt like a dream.

Weren’t we friends in the first place?

Seo Yerim, Choi Yiseo, and Yoo Arin.

They were all good friends, so it was a bit disappointing that I had to distance myself from them for this reason.

‘Is this also greed?’

I sighed and lifted my chin, feeling like there was no end to this if I kept going like this.

The lecture was boring, and Choi Yiseo continued to focus on her studies in silence.

“Let’s take a 10-minute break and continue.”

I wanted to go to the bathroom, and the professor happened to pause the lecture.

“I’m going to the bathroom.”

“Okay.”

I got up and went to the bathroom, but there were a few freshmen gathered around Choi Yiseo.

“So that senior-!”

“Hey!”

“Ahem, ahem! Hayoon-ah? Let’s go back to our seats.”

They seemed to be in the middle of a conversation, but the moment they saw me, they scattered like ants running away from a rock.

“What’s up?”

I asked what was going on as I sat down, and Choi Yiseo scratched her cheek with a bewildered expression.

“You really have a bad reputation.”

“They were gossiping about me.”

I had a feeling that would happen.

Choi Yiseo explained briefly, looking a bit embarrassed.

“They say you’ve fought with a lot of seniors, so you have a bad temper, and that you’ve dated a lot of girls.”

“That’s so unfair.”

“……”

Choi Yiseo glared at me, pinching her arm.

I tried to act shameless, but it didn’t work.

“There’s also a rumor that you confessed to three third-year girl seniors and got rejected by all of them?”

“That’s really unfair?!”

No, I’ve fought with seniors before, but I’ve never confessed to any of them.

No matter what, this one isn’t true!

“Sigh, college is like a small society after all. They say rumors spread like wildfire.”

Then, Choi Yiseo, who had been looking at me, made a suggestion.

“Should I tell them? That it’s all just rumors?”

“You?”

“Yeah, it’s not good for your image to be bad with the freshmen. The third-years will be graduating next year anyway. I was going to tell them anyway, but you came and the kids ran away.”

“It’s okay.”

I hesitated for a moment, but I didn’t want to ask Choi Yiseo to do that.

“It’s true that I have a bad temper and I’ve fought with seniors, and it’s also true that I’m not very good at- dating girls.”

It’s just that the rumor about me getting rejected by three third-year seniors is really unfair.

“Hmm, is that so?”

Choi Yiseo, who said she understood, crossed her arms.

“Why?”

I wondered why she was being so touchy-feely all of a sudden, but she smiled playfully.

“I’m telling the freshmen not to worry.”

“Hmm?”

“I’m holding onto the bad boy, so don’t worry.”

As she said that, she leaned in a bit closer, making my heart flutter.

“There’s something like that in dramas, right? Where I tame the bad boy?”

“……Have you been watching those?”

“I watched them with Minji.”

Choi Yiseo poked my shoulder with her chin, saying that she hadn’t seen anything strange.

Then, her cheeks turned a little red, and she whispered.

“I, I saw something strange while watching.”

“Something strange?””I don’t know, don’t ask.”

Why is she saying that after she said it herself?

“That’s right. Hey, remember when you and Seoyerin slept in my room?”

“S, speak softly! And you weren’t there, we slept alone.”

“Ah…”

Choi Iseul is embarrassed.

But she doesn’t let go of her arms.

“Anyway. What did you do then? What did you do that made Joohee sunbae tell me to discipline you?”

“……”

Choi Iseul, who seems to have guessed something, kept her mouth shut and turned her body away as if she didn’t hear it.

“You’re not going to tell me?”

Choi Iseul blushed and nodded slightly, avoiding the conversation.

Yeah, if she doesn’t want to talk about it, I don’t feel like digging into it either.

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The professor came back into the classroom, and the lecture was about to start again.

“B, but Woojin-ah.”

Choi Iseul called me carefully.

“W, wouldn’t it be hard to do it with six people at once?”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

* * *

I thought about having lunch with Choi Iseul, but she said she had an appointment because of the 1st year mentor-mentee program.

I was just going to go to the dormitory and eat alone, but I had an appointment.

The place I was called to was a PC room.

The person who called me was Han Kang sunbae.

When I arrived at the PC room where we had many memories, our idiots were all gathered there.

Even Chanwoo, who works here.

‘I heard he got a girlfriend, so why is he here?’

I was sure he was happy because he started dating a 1st year junior.

Anyway, I approached them and patted the backs of the ones who were huddled over a computer.

“What are you doing, idiots.”

“You’re here, Denshin.”

“You’re late, trash.”

Look at them not missing a beat.

“What are you doing.”

I gathered around the seat where Han Kang was sitting and checked what they were looking at, and they were looking at some amusement park.

“Why an amusement park?”

When I asked, Jung Chanwoo, who had a dark expression, immediately begged me.

“Please talk them out of it. They want to go to the amusement park together!”

“……With this group?”

Are these kids crazy?

I couldn’t believe it, so I asked again, and Pyo Jinho and Han Kang immediately retorted.

“We’re enlisting in a week!”

“Shiiit! Are you saying that everyone is going to abandon me because I’m going to the army?”

Pyo Jinho is like that, but I thought Han Kang sunbae had a lot of girls.

‘That’s just it.’

He must have met her to have fun, and the other person must not have been any different.

I guess she didn’t have enough of a connection to wait for him, even though she knew he was going to the army.

“I haven’t even gone with my girlfriend yet, so why should I go with my hyungs!”

Jung Chanwoo resisted, saying it was unfair.

“We’re going! You’re not going to the army, you bastard?!”

“Why are you bringing up your girlfriend when we’re talking about the hyungs now?!”

This is not going to work.

These kids have gone crazy.

Ahn Hyunho, who has been keeping his mouth shut the whole time. He’s been texting someone on his cell phone, quite intently.

– Gyuah: Oppa, are you going to buy me a drink tonight? Promise!

– Ahn Hyunho: ㅋㅋㅋ Okay, I got it.

‘Oh, sh*t.’

This is just a zoo.

It’s only been a few days since this kid talked to me about Choi Iseul, and he’s already hooked up with a girl who looks like a junior.

That’s the problem with these guys.

They’re just good-looking, so people get fooled.

‘Gyuah? Was she the 1st year student I saw last time?’

Anyway.

I wished them well and planned to somehow stop them from going to the amusement park.

* * *

I failed.

‘Why are those guys so into amusement parks?’

They were talking about seeing some kind of bamboo-eating panda, and I barely managed to hold back the urge to beat them up.

It’s a shame that I’m not good at fighting, or I would have beaten them up right away.

In the end, since we were at a PC room, we decided to play a game together.

“If this is what you were going to do, why did you call me?”While the four of them were playing a survival game, I was sitting next to them, staring blankly at the monitor like a duck in the Nakdong River.

It was a waste of time.

“Who needs a first aid kit?”

“Me, me, me, me.”

“Does anyone have 5 bullets?”

“I’m going to shoot a real gun in a month, and my life is a legend even in the game.”

If they were going to talk to each other with their headsets on, why did they call me?

I didn’t play that game, but it was a game where four people formed a team, so I couldn’t join in the first place.

‘…… Should I go back to the dormitory?’

I was about to get up to go back since there was nothing to do here.

“Hey?”

A woman with a white hat sat down next to me and tapped my shoulder.

Seo Ye-rin, wearing jeans and a light hoodie, was looking at me and smiling.

“Hmm? Seo Ye-rin?”

“What are you doing? Did you come to play the game with us?”

“Uh… yeah.”

Without realizing it, I turned my head slightly and looked at Han Gang.

Even though he was at the far end and far away from me, he noticed me like a ghost and looked at me.

“Ah, Ye-rin… Hello. It’s been a long time.”

“Senior? Didn’t you go to the military?”

Seo Ye-rin asked in surprise.

“Ah, that’s…”

Han Gang tried to answer coolly.

“What are you doing, senior!”

“Ah, why are you just sitting there!”

“You bastard! I’m going to put down my gun and go say hello even in a war?!”

His mouth was shut tight by the three people’s rebukes.

“Go ahead.”

Seo Ye-rin responded with a kind smile. It was a commercial smile that reminded me of when she worked at the Gold One bakery.

“Ah, okay.”

In the end, Han Gang sat down again, half-pushed.

He started playing the game again, but it seemed like he still had some lingering regrets as he kept glancing at me.

“Woo-jin, let’s play the game together!”

Seo Ye-rin suggested with a bright smile, as if the brief greeting with Han Gang had never happened.

To be honest, I didn’t want to play with Bronze, so I deliberately changed the subject.

“Why are you here? Don’t you have class today?”

“Yeah, I have a free period on Monday. Let’s play the game.”

“Aha. But you used to hate coming to PC rooms.”

Even now, people’s eyes were naturally drawn to Bronze because of her Bronze appearance.

But Bronze responded coolly.

“I don’t really care anymore. Come on in.”

If the old Seo Ye-rin had seen this, she would have been really surprised.

You’ve grown a lot, Bronze.

“But didn’t you have a computer at home? Why did you come to the PC room?”

“I stayed out late last time and my mom took my computer away. Why aren’t you coming in yet?”

“Ugh.”

She was talking about when she slept in my room.

I heard that Joo-hee caught Choi Yi-seo and Bronze and made them both sleep in Joo-hee’s room.

“Come on in, Woo-jin.”

Bronze said with a smile, but her voice was filled with desolation.

Without realizing it, I swallowed my saliva and made a bold statement.

“I’m not playing with Bronze.”

“What’s a Silver saying?”

“Yeah, I’m a Silver, but I’m better than Bronze.”

“Are you really not going to do it?”

“Uh, no.”

I said that I was tired of playing with that loser and that I was full.

“BDE-578. It was a classic.”

“……?”

Bronze suddenly started making strange noises.

“Yuihara Yui? That person has a lot of work?”

This girl.

I wondered what she did in my room, but she looked at my laptop!

There was nothing to hide except for the porn, but she got caught with the porn.

I hurriedly grabbed Bronze’s shoulder and squeezed it.

“Do you know that’s an invasion of privacy? You’ve crossed the line.”

“Was there a line for us? We’ve already seen everything there is to see. The line was already drawn when you were inside.”

“Shhh!”

The guys who were playing a shooting game even though they were going to the military in a week could kill me if they heard me.

As I warned her, Seo Ye-rin whispered softly and continued speaking.”We were supposed to share everything from the beginning.”

“That, that’s…”

Right.

Because I recommended the product number when I was Anonymous69 and an administrator.

“You like cosplay, so why did you pretend to hate it? Was it DVQ-117?”

“Yerim-ssi!? Let’s play an adult game! Let’s do it right now!”

Seo Yerim nodded with a satisfied smile as she shouted to play the game urgently. Suddenly.

“But Woojin-ah.”

“……Why.”

“PSV-693. Isn’t this a bit too much?”

“What is that. I don’t memorize all the product numbers.”

“It’s 7P.”

“……Ah, that-.”

Just as I was about to answer that it would be nice to have one of those, too.

The conversation I had with Choi Iseul in the lecture hall earlier crossed my mind.

‘But, Woojin-ah.’

‘Ha, wouldn’t it be hard to do six at once?’

“Ah, aaah!”

I screamed, covering my face with my hands as shame washed over me.

‘I’ll definitely delete it! I’ll really format my laptop!’

I vowed to delete all the adult videos on my laptop when I got back today.

After playing a 30-minute game with Seo Yerim.

‘Hmm, there’s nothing wrong with adult videos.’

I decided to hold off on deleting them because it seemed a bit too much.

Let’s play another 30-minute game.

‘Wouldn’t it be okay to just download adult videos that I’m not ashamed of?’

I vowed to update my folder for the first time in a long time when I got home.