Bamboo Forest Manager

Seo Ye-rin’s Karma

Seo Ye-rin and Yoo Ah-rin sitting across from each other at the convenience store table.

Two cans of beer were placed between the two of them, and a single pack of shrimp-flavored snacks sat awkwardly as their only side dish.

“I’m proud!”

Seo Ye-rin, gulping down her beer, shouted as if throwing the first punch instead of expressing her admiration.

“U-Jini tempted me first! If you stand there all stiff like that, anyone would have done the same.”

“No, that’s—”

Yoo Ah-rin, who was about to retort, suddenly recalled the actions she had taken that morning.

“……”

Left with no words, she absentmindedly reached for the snacks.

While she felt a bit wronged, it was true that she had acted the same way as Seo Ye-rin.

“It’s not my problem.”

Perhaps because Yoo Ah-rin had tightly sealed her lips, Seo Ye-rin began to speak even more boldly.

“It’s U-Jini’s fault from the start, you know? Her being so full of energy is the problem. When you see that imposing blanket tent, you can’t just stay still as a female!”

“Hey, watch your words.”

Even so, they were in front of a convenience store.

With many other tables around, words like ‘blanket tent’ and ‘female’ were enough to draw strange looks from those nearby.

Seo Ye-rin quickly grabbed some snacks and popped them into her mouth.

“Anyway, it’s not my fault. It’s U-Jini’s fault for tempting me.”

“Hah.”

Yoo Ah-rin sighed, pressing her forehead as she pondered where to begin explaining the start of this misunderstanding to the shamelessly bold Seo Ye-rin.

“Excuse me, hello.”

One of the men from a nearby table approached cautiously.

“I usually don’t say things like this, but you’re really beautiful… if you don’t mind—”

“No! I have a boyfriend!”

It was quite a spectacle to see Seo Ye-rin, who would have been at a loss in the past, decisively reject the advance.

“But these days, people even hit on each other at convenience stores?!”

“Y-You’re just too attractive.”

“Thank you. But I have a boyfriend! A boyfriend! I have a boyfriend!”

“Yeah, I heard you.”

Did she drink?

I glanced at the beer can, and though she had drunk a bit, it wasn’t enough for her to be truly drunk.

From the start, Seo Ye-rin had a fairly high tolerance for alcohol.

With looks like hers, she always had to keep her wits about her at drinking gatherings.

“His name is Kim Woo-jin. You have no idea how—”

“Hey, hey! Stop it!”

Yoo Ah-rin urgently pulled Seo Ye-rin back, trying to stop her from bragging about her boyfriend to the guy who was hunting.

The hunting guy seemed flustered too, staring at Seo Ye-rin before cautiously asking Yoo Ah-rin.

“Do you perhaps have a boyfriend as well—”

“I do. His name is Kim Woo-jin.”

“……What?”

He seemed to think it was a joke, but Yoo Ah-rin wanted to say it for no particular reason.

She didn’t want Seo Ye-rin to feel like she was the only one monopolizing Kim Woo-jin’s name.

“I also have a boyfriend named Kim Woo-jin. So just go away.”

“Ah, okay.”

In the end, the hunting guy left in solitude.

The two continued their conversation without even glancing at each other.

“Hehe, I wonder what he’s thinking. Does he think we’re both dating someone with the same name?”

“More likely, he’ll just think we didn’t want to deal with hunting and threw out any name.”

Who would think that one guy was being dated by two people at the same time?

“Ah, suddenly interrupting like that broke our conversation. What were you going to say?”

“I was going to tell you about the misunderstanding you and Choi Yi-seo had because of you.”

“Misunderstanding?”

After that, Yoo Ah-rin explained what she and Choi Yi-seo had been thinking about Kim Woo-jin all this time.

ere*ctile dysfunction.

The moment she heard that somewhat humiliating detail for a man in his twenties.

“Puhaha!”

Seo Ye-rin burst into laughter.

Unable to hold it in, she slammed her forehead on the convenience store table, clutching her stomach and gasping for breath.

Yoo Ah-rin realized once again just how foolish their worries had been.

‘What a pitiful fate I am in.’

Seo Yerin, who had been cursed with such a fate, was laughing out loud, saying it was funny, but her expression was not as pleasant as it seemed.

“Ah, I’m laughing so hard my stomach hurts. Even if it’s true, it’s just because U-jin has ere*ctile dysfunction, isn’t it?”

“Hmm, I think it’s true… when I saw it, U-jin was still erect even after he died.”

“…?”

As she was holding a complex feeling in her heart, Seo Yerin poured herself a beer and handed one to the other person.

Their beer cans clinked together, and after taking a sip, Seo Yerin asked with a smile, “Are you saying that just now? You knew U-jin had ere*ctile dysfunction, didn’t you?”

“What, that too… …?”

Yu Ah-rin held a pastry and started explaining another reason.

“I gave Kim Woo-jin time to clear up the misunderstanding with Choi I-seo. You know how much Kim Woo-jin suffered because of Choi I-seo last time.”

“What’s wrong, you’re being too considerate?”

“I sent a message to make you guys even angrier too.”

“Ah, that’s that.”

Seo Yerin nodded her head while eating the pastry.

“So, I guess I’m getting hit back.”

“…right?”

“I should go comfort him! Then my popularity with U-jin will skyrocket again.”

“You’re kidding.”

It was impressive in many ways.

Looking at how she didn’t let go of the opportunity, I wondered if she was weak or if her love for Kim Woo-jin was excessive.

“There are three of us, after all. I need to show off my skills and also need to suppress the other person.”

Seo Yerin was speaking as if she was teaching, but it was not good that her target was Yu Ah-rin.

“Did you say that in front of me?”

But Seo Yerin didn’t stop talking.

It seemed that she had gained confidence in herself after this incident.

“This time too, I monopolized the situation, and you guys made a weird mistake. Haha, I now know how things will go.”

She was feeling a sense of satisfaction towards herself, looking at the strange situation.

Strangely, Yu Ah-rin was trying hard to suppress her increasingly annoying feelings.

After that, they shared various stories.

Most of them were about praising Seo Ye-rin for her actions or discussing Kim Woo-jin.

Just a moment ago, she had felt dislike for Kim Woo-jin, who had spent time with Seo Ye-rin in a place she didn’t know.

Yet, the more she listened to the stories, the more Seo Ye-rin became infuriating.

“An hour has passed.”

In reality, only about 40 minutes had gone by, but Yu Ah-rin, who didn’t want to hear any more of Seo Ye-rin’s bragging, stood up abruptly.

“Huh, already?”

In contrast to Yu Ah-rin, Seo Ye-rin, feeling a bit regretful, quickly ran over to Kim Woo-jin, humming to herself that she needed to comfort him.

‘……I’ll go first.’

Perhaps it would be better if she went over and tried it herself.

Earlier, she had told Kim Woo-jin that once Choi Yi-seo was done, she would see him separately.

Instead of just hitting him then, she could comfort him by saying it was okay.

‘It seems like I need to approach this in a different way.’

Just blindly hitting him as usual would only maintain the status quo, wouldn’t it?

But if she were to ask how she should do it—.

“Ugh, I don’t know.”

For now, it seemed like she should just go home.

She needed to see how much Choi Yi-seo had beaten up Kim Woo-jin before anything else would come to mind.

Ding ding!

She opened the door and stepped inside.

“Woo-jin!”

Thinking he would be in the inner room, Seo Ye-rin dashed off.

Just as Yu Ah-rin was about to follow her toward the inner room.

“Ugh!”

A woman’s voice, unable to suppress intense pleasure, echoed from Yu Ah-rin’s room.

“……No way.”

Without realizing it, Yu Ah-rin glanced at her own closed door.

From beyond the firmly shut door came more sounds.

“Haah! Hahh!”

The sound of a woman’s moan.

To be precise, it was Choi I-seo’s moans that were spilling through the cracks.

“Where are U-jin and I-seo?”

Seo Ye-rin, who had entered the inner room, came out, puzzled.

The moment she saw that, Yoo Ah-rin had already placed her hand on the doorknob.

Clunk.

The door was not locked.

It turned smoothly, as if it had been oiled.

Creeeak.

“Ugh!”

As she stepped inside, the heat generated by the sweat of the two people filled the room.

Was it because Kim Woo-jin was roughly moving his waist while pulling Choi I-seo’s hands?

Or was it because Choi I-seo was wearing rabbit ears and a bunny girl outfit?

For some reason, the passionate scene between the two felt almost like the mating of beasts.

“Gasp!”

Seo Ye-rin couldn’t close her mouth at the unexpected sight and inhaled sharply.

Kim Woo-jin, whom she had thought would be getting beaten up by Choi I-seo, was instead moving his waist as if he were hitting her.

“Hey, stop it! You see this!”

Choi I-seo, with a completely disheveled expression that one would never see on a normal day, said something, but Kim Woo-jin did not stop.

Rather, it looked as if he was scolding her.

Did he really think that a person like him could suffer from ere*ctile dysfunction?

In a scene that seemed to ask how she thought about that, Choi I-seo could only whimper, unable to resist and becoming prey.

It was beyond absurd; it was bewildering.

She thought, now he was just going at it recklessly without even being aware of it.

“Ye-rin.”

Yoo Ah-rin decided to take this opportunity.

Tap.

Yoo Ah-rin pushed Seo Ye-rin.

“You’ve done it enough.”

Then, as she entered the room, she swallowed hard.

“Just hearing it from outside, huh?”

Bang.

Clank.

The sound of the door being locked.

“Hmm?”

Seo-ryen, who had been outside, let out a surprised exclamation unintentionally, but Yura pretended not to hear and approached Kim Woon-jin.

“Phew.”

Choi-Iser’s face flushed.

“What kind of situation is this?”

Startled by Yura’s sudden entrance and closed door, Kim Woon-jin was taken aback.

Yura spoke in a matter-of-fact manner, undressing as if it were the most natural thing.

“It’s only slightly more amusing than you. That’s it.”