Bamboo Forest Manager

175 – 170. Only She Can Do It

We finally arrived at the pension.

Yoo Ah-rin, who had been shivering on my back, burst out in admiration as if she were moved.

“We’re finally back!”

The way back was even darker, so Yoo Ah-rin’s legs gave out.

Thanks to that, I had no choice but to carry her, and I ended up sweating on my forehead from the unexpected exercise in the middle of the night.

“Get off now, I’m going to kill you.”

As I groaned and complained, Yoo Ah-rin put her hands around my neck and shouted.

“Just take me to the pension. I want to show it to the kids.”

“Get off before I throw you away!”

“Oh, come on! You know that when a woman shows her weak side, you’re supposed to protect her! I’m giving in to you right now!”

I don’t think giving in at night meant this.

“My legs are shaking!”

Even though I let go of her hands, she wrapped her legs around my waist and wouldn’t let go.

“Just a little bit! I’m going to show it to the kids! I’m going to show it off!”

“What are you going to show off? You should be ashamed of yourself, at your age, you still like fishing!”

“You’re so mean to me, and I’m just carrying you on my back!”

“……”

Why do you have to say that again?

“No? Huh? Even when I beg you not to do that, you just go ahead and do it!”

“Oh, I got it! Let’s go! How far are we going?”

“Full speed ahead!”

In front of the tent where the kids were eating.

We decided to go only as far as Ahn Hyun-ho, who was grilling meat in front of the grill, and ran quickly.

Ahn Hyun-ho’s expression was distorted when he saw us, but Yoo Ah-rin smiled with satisfaction.

“Wow, that was fun. Is that why you get on top of me like this?”

“……I really want to scold you.”

“Hey! I bought this for you, kids!”

Yoo Ah-rin ignored my grumbling and went into the tent.

She unpacked the items she had bought as punishment and started playing with the kids again.

‘Come to think of it, I haven’t eaten.’

Thanks to the chaotic situation, I only grilled the meat and didn’t eat it separately.

When I realized I was hungry, my stomach was growling, so I went inside.

The corner table was empty, so I sat down and brought in some rice and meat.

‘What, is Ahn Hyun-ho a part-timer at a meat restaurant? It’s well-cooked.’

As I ate my meal in silence, my gaze naturally turned to the surroundings.

‘I thought he would only drink hard liquor.’

Surprisingly, only a few bottles of fruit soju were out, and it didn’t feel like a drinking party.

The kids who had finished eating had also left, so there weren’t many people around.

I guess they had a separate event after dinner, and they would start drinking in earnest after that.

Just then.

“Why are you eating here alone?”

Choi Yi-seo came over with a grilled sausage. She smiled as she put the sausage on my plate.

It’s a bit awkward right now.

“Hey, there’s an empty seat on our side.”

Yoo Ah-rin, who had just entered, sat down on the opposite side.

In an instant, both sides were filled.

Since both of them were awkward, I just kept my mouth shut and ate my meal, but Yoo Ah-rin rested her chin on her hand and asked.

“Did you tell him to stop too?”

“Keek! Cough!”

I almost spit out the rice I was eating.

I stared at Yoo Ah-rin in shock, but Choi Yi-seo’s answer came from behind my head.

“Yeah, I told him to stop.”

“But why are you laughing?”

“Because I told him to stop?”

“What are you talking about?”

I don’t know either.

So don’t ask me.

“Did you tell him to stop too?”

Choi Yi-seo asked slyly, and Yoo Ah-rin nodded.

“I told him to f*ck off.”

“I’m sorry, but can you all just leave? I can’t digest my food.”

My head is still not clear, and it’s a bit uncomfortable to have them come up to me like this.

I clearly told them to break up, so I don’t know why this situation is being created.

“I’ll tell Ye-rin too, since I can see her size.”

She’s quick to notice.

My heart ached, so I clenched my teeth and held the spoon tightly.

“Chew slowly. You’re just making yourself sick.”

“I think I’m going to get sick because of you guys.”

“You’re full. Can you pat me so I can digest my food?”

“It hurts, so don’t.”

They kept chattering on both sides, and it was getting annoying.

“And hold on to my arm properly. It’s hard to eat.”

“Feed me?”Choi Yiseo asked seriously, holding a spoon. Was she always like this?

“Are you being too much today?”

Yoo Arin, who was sitting opposite her, also narrowed her eyes and asked, so Choi Yiseo hesitated for a moment.

“There are days like that.”

She smiled coolly, as if it couldn’t be helped.

“Days when you find a child strangely cute? I think today is like that. To be exact, since Ujin said he would stop.”

“Does he have an NTR tendency? Why do you like it when he says he’ll stop?”

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

Choi Yiseo was ignorant in this area.

Let me explain it simply. Choi Yiseo got annoyed right away.

“No way.”

“Crow, if you have that tendency, I can fulfill the role of taking it away.”

Yoo Arin said so and secretly put her hand inside my thigh.

I didn’t say anything.

I just decided to eat.

“Oh, what.”

“……I thought the same thing.”

Because Choi Yiseo’s hand and Yoo Arin’s hand met in the center.

“You two are close.”

I just listened to the two of them grumbling. I was too mentally exhausted to get involved and say something.

“Hey, Yiseo?”

In fact, it was a second-year girl student who approached Choi Yiseo, not me, who was talking to Yoo Arin.

She came to Choi Yiseo as soon as she came in from outside, but her expression was dark.

She looked at us and whispered carefully.

“Outside, the 1st, 3rd graders and Yerim fought.”

Who fought with whom?

Choi Yiseo also looked bewildered and made a blank expression for a moment.

“You fought? Why?”

First of all, I asked for more details to understand the situation.

“I don’t know. In fact, rather than fighting, Yerim just got angry unilaterally… So the atmosphere in the room is not good.”

“I should go and see.”

Choi Yiseo got up from her seat.

As she got up, she put her hand on my shoulder and got up as if she was leaning on it.

Choi Yiseo went out like that.

Yoo Arin, who heard the story next to her, showed an ambiguous reaction.

“Yerim is not the type of person who would fight with anyone.”

That’s right.

No, not only fighting, but she was not the type of person who would scold or do anything to anyone in the first place.

Yoo Arin’s gaze was fixed on me.

“Are you going?”

“……”

“Are you going to take care of Yerim here? After you just heard my confession?”

“……”

“It’s night now? It’s your turn to win, but you’re going to leave me and go?”

“Ha, I have to go. She’s not just an angry kid.”

That’s what she said to her juniors.

As I got up from my chair, Yoo Arin, who had been propping her chin up and looking up at me, nodded with a smirk.

“Ha, you little brat. You’re a jerk, but you’re s*xy.”

“……What are you talking about.”

“I’m telling you to hurry up, you little bastard.”

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Yoo Arin patted my butt once and gestured for me to hurry up.

I cleaned up what I had eaten and went outside, but there were a few kids walking around outside, but the atmosphere was not particularly noisy.

Fortunately.

It seems that she didn’t get angry in front of many people.

First of all, I was going to look around the pension to find Seo Yerim, but Choi Yiseo was standing in front of the room where the first-year girls were staying, sighing.

“What’s going on?”

Rather than looking bad, it felt like she was involved in something annoying.

Judging from the atmosphere, it didn’t seem like a big deal enough to make a fuss.

“So…”

Choi Yiseo, who was about to explain, closed her mouth again and glanced at the room next door.

It was a second-year girls’ room.

“Ha, some first and third year girls were talking behind your back, and Yerim overheard it.”

“My back story? Is that a day or two?”

My image has been chewed up by the third graders for a long time.

It would be natural for the third-year girls to talk about me while hanging out with the first-year girls.

Isn’t chewing on other people the easiest way to get close?

Choi Yiseo’s expression contorted at my indifferent reaction.

“You’d be mad if someone you liked was insulted. I’m a little mad right now.”

Choi Yiseo crossed her arms and wondered what to do with them.

“Hey, don’t make a big deal out of nothing. If the overlord picks a fight, it’ll be a real mess.”

“Would you just sit still if I was insulted?”

“……”

I’d probably say something.Choi Yiseo wouldn’t go around doing things that would get her cursed at.

“At least she fought in the girls’ room, so the story didn’t get out.”

“Hmm.”

“I’m going to go talk to the first and third years, so you go to Yerim.”

Choi Yiseo grumbles and goes back into the first-year room.

“Hey, don’t make a big deal out of it. Try to be as neutral as possible… Do you know what I mean?”

“No.”

They say that when a usually quiet person gets angry, they’re even scarier.

Choi Yiseo had already sharpened her language like a weapon and was ready to stab with it.

I wonder if anyone’s crying.

“Ugh.”

For now, I went into the second-year girls’ room as Choi Yiseo had said.

Seo Yerim, who was alone in the living room looking at her cell phone, suddenly stood up when she saw me come in.

“Woojin! Where did you go? Did you eat?”

Look at her acting like nothing’s wrong.

“I heard the whole story.”

I went straight to the main point, and Seo Yerim let out a short exclamation and then laughed bashfully.

“Did you find out? I didn’t want to get caught, but it would have been cooler if I did!”

“You’re not the type to get mad at people.”

“But you’re getting cursed at. They’re saying things like they don’t know anything and spreading rumors that you’re a weirdo.”

“Is that something new? I don’t need to deal with those kinds of things.”

When I sighed and replied, Seo Yerim looked at me intently and retorted.

“You did it.”

“Huh?”

“When I was getting cursed at, when I was in trouble. You helped me. So why can’t I help you?”

I was speechless.

Lately, Seo Yerim had been handling things well on her own, so there hadn’t been any need for that.

In the past, Seo Yerim, who was always aware of her surroundings, had often helped me.

“That’s selfish. You can do it, but I can’t?”

“No, that’s…”

I had nothing to say.

Seo Yerim smiled brightly at me.

“Don’t worry, Woojin. I’ll be fine even if I get a bad reputation, just like you said.”

Why? I had the words on the tip of my tongue, but the answer came before I could even ask.

“Because I’m pretty!”

“…What?”

“Even if it’s the same behavior, when a pretty girl does it, it’s not a nuisance, it’s called true education.”

“Well, that’s true.”

Is that how she felt?

She knew she was pretty, but she didn’t use it to her advantage like this.

Seo Yerim stood tall and looked at me.

“This is as far as I’ll go, Woojin.”

She said in a slightly lower voice, seriously.

“I’m not just listening anymore. I can protect myself.”

Even at Gold One.

I remembered how she had protected herself even when I wasn’t there to help her.

Going one step further.

“And now, I can protect you too.”

She said she would protect me.

“I don’t care if I don’t get a second chance. I’ll use everything I can. Just like you did.”

Just like I did.

My past words and actions had held me back.

“Seo Yerim.”

My throat was dry with bitterness.

I was grateful that she said she would protect me, but I had to break up with her.

‘I think something similar is going to happen.’

But I’m also someone who learns.

After going through Choi Yiseo and Yoo Arin, I needed to try a different approach this time.

“Yerim, do you know why you’re so obsessed with me?”

“Because I like you?”

I hesitated for a moment at her confident words, but then continued.

“That… usually, for the first person you have s*x with-“

“Oh, there it is again. The first person you have s*x with, blah blah blah. Intense experience, blah blah blah. I’m starting to want to beat you up, Kim Woojin.”

She’s so blunt.

“This kind of relationship isn’t normal. I told Yiseo and Arin the same thing. Let’s stop now.”

“Oh? Are you finally changing from public property Kim Woojin to exclusive Kim Woojin?”

“I’m saying the same thing to you, idiot.”

Seo Yerim giggled at my harsh words.

“Do you know that you’re kind of s*xy when you curse?”

“Are you really crazy about s*x?”

I didn’t mean to say that.

“How sad your mother would be if she saw you like this. You’re obsessed with s*x and you’re throwing yourself at men.””You’re a pervert!”

“I didn’t curse at you, I cursed myself.”

Seo Yerim, who had been grumbling, sighed and shook her head.

“No matter how much you say you like me, you’ll end up pushing me away. I think you’re taking my feelings too lightly.”

“……”

“What did the other girls say? Just looking at you, they would have told you to get lost or said no.”

That’s right.

My lips dried up and I gritted my teeth. I was losing the flow of the conversation.

“How on earth do I have to say it for you to realize my determination? I’m even accepting the fact that I’m competing with other girls, so how far do I have to go?”

It wasn’t a question of accusation, but a question of a scholar searching for the correct answer.

Seo Yerim’s black eyes stared at me intently.

I could see a great determination that would not back down.

“I’ve found my own way. A way to convey the size of my feelings and my determination to you.”

To be honest, I had expected it.

I thought she would come running at me again, shouting s*x, so I took a step back and prepared to push her away.

“I don’t care if we don’t have s*x.”

On the contrary.

Seo Yerim made the opposite declaration.

“Yeah, I don’t need that. It’s okay if we don’t. I can give up the bamboo forest and the s*x seat.”

Seo Yerim smiled brightly, but she didn’t come any closer to me.

And that’s it.

“That’s how much I love you, Woojin.”

It was the greatest expression of love that only she could give.