Bamboo Forest Manager

94 – 94. Apartment

“Haah.”

The bathhouse was great, but the problem was that my body felt strangely heavy when it was time to go home.

Anyway, I felt good because I had a good rest, and I still felt refreshed after sweating in the sauna.

As the heat rose, I entered the house with the characteristic sulfur smell on my body.

Thanks to the warning message I received from Joohee sunbae, I am now full of motivation to do my homework.

I haven’t been able to do anything for two days, but if I stay up all night, I’ll be able to catch up.

Besides, I think it will be easier considering how fast I was able to edit.

‘I should just gather the materials and go to the PC room.’

The last time I edited a video at home on my laptop, it lagged so much.

I went home with the intention of sending the video-related materials to my email and then going to the PC room, but.

“You’re back?”

In the room, Yuarin was lying on the mattress, humming and looking at her cell phone.

I thought she had gone home, but the moment I saw her still here, my impression changed.

“What are you doing here?”

Yuarin glanced at me as I asked why she wasn’t home yet, then turned her eyes back to her cell phone.

“Well, I was too lazy to go home. I’m taking a break anyway since Friday is a holiday.”

“…….”

“I cleaned up the house. It’s super clean.”

The house was definitely cleaner. Yuarin said she would clean up, but I didn’t know she would do it so diligently.

“And you, used tissues like this…….”

“I know! Don’t say it!”

“Heh, you’re healthy, Woojin-ssi.”

“……Damn.”

I forcibly stopped Yuarin from teasing me about something that any man living alone would have to deal with, and she laughed playfully.

I don’t know how she can say something like this as a joke.

“Are you going to eat? I had buckwheat noodles.”

“No, I’m going to the PC room. Joohee sunbae half-threatened me about editing.”

Yuarin jumped up at my words.

She seemed very interested and started picking out clothes in a hurry.

“Let’s go, master! I want to watch you edit and see it for myself!”

“……It’ll be faster if I do it alone.”

“Aw, I’ll help you. Okay? Okay?”

If she helps, it’s a different story. It would be a lot easier if she just put subtitles on the side.

“Of course, if the master buys me dinner.”

Yuarin approached me, shaking her hips. I thought she was just drunk yesterday.

But when I saw her today, she seemed strangely close to me.

“You’ve been enjoying calling me master lately.”

It was just a joke as a manager and caretaker of the bamboo forest, but I feel like I’ve been saying it a lot lately.

At my words, Yuarin immediately changed her expression and shrugged her shoulders.

“This way, you’ll be less mean. You know that you listen to me surprisingly well when I call you master?”

Is that so?

“Does that mean you have a thing for that?”

She laughed as if she had found a weakness and patted my shoulder, but I felt like denying it for no reason.

“I’m just sorry because I became a caretaker. What do you mean, a thing?”

“So you don’t have a thing for masters?”

“……Do we have to keep talking about this?”No matter how much Yuarin and I insult each other, it’s a bit uncomfortable to talk about this.

Yuarin shrugged her shoulders at my reaction and didn’t seem to want to ask any more questions.

Anyway.

Since we decided to go together, I transferred the data on my laptop to my email and headed to the PC room with Yuarin.

It was Zero PC Room where Chanwoo worked part-time, but Chanwoo wasn’t there because it wasn’t time or because he wasn’t working today.

“Hey, let’s get some service.”

Yuarin, who is now regretting whether her relationship with Chanwoo has been completely resolved or not.

When I see this, it was complicated in many ways, but anyway, the two of them reached their own conclusions and put an end to their relationship.

In the end, I wondered if I hadn’t helped Chanwoo and just left him alone.

I go into the corner of the PC room and take a seat. Before I started editing, I ordered ramen and dumplings because I hadn’t eaten properly yet.

“I’ll order some rice powder.”

“You buy it and eat it.”

“Master!”

“Don’t do that. It’s creepy.”

“Master!”

“Damn, I really want to slap you.”

“You’re a jerk.”

Anyway, after ordering something simple to eat, I started editing with Yuarin.

“You just add subtitles to the file I gave you. It won’t be difficult.”

“It’s not difficult, but it’s a hassle?”

That’s right.

However, Yuarin silently adds subtitles to the videos I handed over.

“Wouldn’t it be better to use a different angle here?”

Surprisingly, she started giving me advice on editing.

“I can’t help it. That’s the only angle there is.”

“Why? I remember taking it a few times in a different direction?”

“Because the other angle I took at that time was on my cell phone, and there was a big difference in picture quality.”

“Oh.”

“Joohee’s cell phone battery was dead at the time, so I couldn’t help it.”

As we talked about this and that, time began to pass, and before we knew it, it was evening.

‘Well, thanks to Yuarin’s help, it was definitely done in no time.’

The progress was much faster than I expected. I’m satisfied that the work speed has increased significantly with just one more person helping me with the annoying tasks like manual labor.

I don’t need to make everything right away, but I thought I’d spend the whole day on the assignment today in case of any unforeseen circumstances.

“Hey, you’re slowly…”

When I looked next to me, thinking of sending Yuarin home, she was already asleep.

“I guess she must be tired.”

Come to think of it, she drank alcohol, woke up the next day, got over her hangover, cleaned up, and helped me.

I felt sorry, so I scratched the back of my head and thought for a moment.

I thought about telling her to go home and sleep, but even if she woke up now, I wouldn’t be able to take her anyway.

“I guess I’ll just finish what I’m doing and go.”

It seemed like I had to finish the next hour and send Yuarin home and then come back to the PC room.

* * *

“Haam.”

Yuarin yawned and stared at her cell phone. Just a moment ago, she was half asleep and leaning on me as she walked, but now she seems to be feeling a little better and is looking at something on her cell phone.

“Hey, did you know there was a fight in the bamboo forest?”

“Were you watching the bamboo forest?”

I don’t know if she’s into community service now or if she’s just very responsible.I think it’s about half and half.

“Anonymous11 and Anonymous288. Are they fighting?”

“Oh, I saw it earlier. They’re not really making the bulletin board too dirty. It’s Friday night, so there aren’t many people doing it, so I just left it. It’s fun to watch that kind of thing.”

“……You’re a little rough on management when you see it?”

Yoo Ah-rin pressed her cell phone hard, as if she wanted to block the two who were fighting right away.

It seemed that she was sending out a warning message telling them not to fight.

“It’s a university community anyway. If it’s not too dirty, I’d rather leave it alone.”

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I didn’t touch it much unless it was a dirty picture or something like distributing pornography.

“But is it really okay?”

“It’s okay.”

“……You swear a lot?”

“What?”

I went straight into the bamboo forest to check, and there were a few posts cursing at me.

They were grumbling at me for not stopping them from fighting on Friday night, and it gradually turned into cursing at me.

I laughed in vain when I saw it and put my cell phone back in.

“Well, that’s good. Anyway, they’ll just end up cursing at me.”

I don’t even remember why the two of them fought anymore.

This is the mindset of a manager.

“Huh, I just hit it right away when I curse.”

“I know. That’s why I thought about blocking you, but I just endured it.”

“……”

I tried to tell her because she used to come out and talk back to me right away when I cursed at the manager.

“Just ignore it. It’s easier if you think of it as a dog barking.”

Anyway, it was an anonymous comment, and it was easier to ignore because the reason for cursing at the manager was usually not very good.

Yoo Ah-rin’s house arrived while we were talking about this and that about the bamboo forest.

I thought she was living alone, but she was living in an apartment with her family.

I was about to see her off in front of the apartment building, but Yoo Ah-rin was staring at me.

I looked at her wondering what it was, and her face darkened as she looked at the house.

“What did you say when you explained that you slept outside yesterday?”

“……Haven’t you told me yet?”

“My dad and mom came and told me to explain.”

“You were with me at the PC room while you were doing that?”

“I was just there because they were going to search the house when I got home.”

“I would have gone right away. It’s better to die early anyway.”

Yoo Ah-rin, who didn’t even listen to my words, was lost in her own thoughts. She crossed her arms and tapped the floor anxiously, looking quite urgent.

“Let’s put our heads together and think about it. How can I say it so that I get a little less scolded?”

“What do you mean how do you say it? Just tell me honestly. I drank with my girl friends and I blacked out. So I slept at a friend’s house. I’m sorry. I won’t do it again.”

“You come in with me and explain it.”

It’s funny.

“I’m sure you’d love it if a boy friend came in and told you.”

I might as well call one of the girls. Taking me with you was much worse than going in alone.

However, Yoo Ah-rin became impatient and bit her nails before taking a deep breath and saying.

“Let’s go in together. I have a way.”

“Wait a minute. You’re not going to pretend to be my boyfriend like last time, are you?”

“Do you know how you treated Pyo Jin-ho? Would I ask you to do that? It’s nothing. Just come in for a minute.”

“……Something’s unsettling.””I was really comfortable today because I put on the subtitles. It was much faster than the original speed, right?”

“That’s…”

It was true.

The subtitles weren’t difficult, but they were annoying.

In the end, I couldn’t resist and followed Yuarin into the house cautiously.

“Excuse me.”

“Come in.”

The interior was just like an ordinary house.

The only thing that caught my eye was a picture of Yuarin kicking in a taekwondo uniform when she was a child.

Her hair was blonde even then, but she was quite cute, unlike now.

Even though I greeted her, the house was quiet, so I wondered if she was angry.

“What?”

What should I say?

Should I say that I don’t feel any presence?

As I looked through the bedroom door, Yuarin lay down on the living room sofa and said with a giggle.

“hahahahaha! My dad went on a trip. To Japan for 4 nights and 5 days. Are you scared?”

“….”

“Go and boil some ramen.”

What the hell?