Bamboo Forest Manager - Chapter 17



17 – 17. Snipe

“Haah.”

Choi Iseo sighed, making a complicated expression. It was clear that he came to exercise, but he didn’t understand why he was sitting in a soft PC room chair.

Originally, he was going to finish exercising and go to a restaurant where chicken breast, recommended by his PT teacher, was made into various menus.

But now, in front of him, there were keyboards, mice, and high-calorie PC room food spread out on the monitor.

“What are you going to eat?”

“Well, um, I…”

Looking at Kim Woojin next to her, Yerin and Choi Iseo hesitated. Angry for no reason, Choi Iseo smacked the chair with his palm.

“Why? Because I said I’ll treat you.”

“Is this a PC room?”

“Nowadays, PC rooms have a wide selection of menus. Don’t underestimate PC rooms.”

Seeing him confidently speaking, I couldn’t believe my eyes. He obviously thought that he would leave the PC room as soon as he arrived, but he was led to the seat by the two of us, like a swamp.

“Haah, well, it is diverse.”

He never imagined there would be eel rice bowls and sushi. But Choi Iseo wanted to eat those kinds of foods at a proper restaurant.

“Just order me a coffee.”

“Just that? I’ll order more since I’m treating you. Eat a lot.”

“It’s fine.”

Kim Woojin was the one living, but he didn’t feel like eating something at the PC room.

Choi Iseo was slightly anxious because it was his first time sitting and settling in a PC room like this.

He had only played board games with kids or card games like poker in the name of games.

He had tried puzzle games on his phone a few times, but inherently, games weren’t really for Choi Yiseo.

“Hmm.”

Kim Woojin, who had to calculate, filled his cup with an Americano and added a few more food items.

“I can order with a computer.”

Thinking it was like a newspaper article, Choi Yiseo was surprised as Kim Woojin and Seo Yerin, who had already finished ordering their food, started playing the game.

Since their plans had already fallen through, both of them were determined to enjoy themselves as much as possible.

While Choi Yiseo played the game without a headset because of her, their food arrived.

“Why did he order so much?”

Jjajang ramen, kimchi cheese fried rice, mandu, hot dogs, americano, and even powdered rice soup.

They had ordered a variety of dishes.

By the way, Seo Yerin had ordered bibim-myeon with slices of pork belly and tteokbokki with coffee.

“Hey, there’s no place to put it.”

Choi Yiseo initially took Kim Woojin’s food, but there was nowhere to put it.

Kim Woojin glanced at Choi Yiseo’s seat and gestured for her to make room.

“Can you make some space for it in your seat?”

“……..”

Letting out a sigh, Choi Yiseo eventually arranged the food on her own seat like a feast.

“The quality seems good.”

Starting with jjajang ramen topped with fried eggs, the savory smell stimulated her senses.

While sipping on her own iced americano that was placed in front of her.

Kim Woojin cheekily reached out and grabbed the fried rice, hot dogs, and powdered rice soup.

“Hey, I’m busy, so you can eat the rest.”

“What?”

What is this nonsense?

“If you can’t eat it now, it’ll go bad. Try eating it with the mandu.”

“……..”

Choi Yiseo pouted her lips, but she was already focusing on the game again.

To be honest, the rich aroma of the jjajang ramen did stimulate her senses. She also saw other people ordering jjajang ramen around her.

“Did I fall for it?”

Did he purposely order so much and plan to feed her?

Choi Iseo, feeling a strange consideration, ate jajangmyeon and wondered if he should watch something on the computer. But he decided to turn the chair around and watch Kim Woojin play games instead.

Pathetic.

“It’s delicious.”

Even though it’s delicious, it’s too delicious.

The part-timer at this house was clearly a master at cooking ramen.

Jajangmyeon that I haven’t eaten in a long time. The egg fry was perfectly cooked, slightly undercooked. And with the addition of mandu, it was indeed a splendid combination, just as Kim Woojin had said.

Jajangmyeon was like a tiger with wings called mandu.

“It’s a good restaurant.”

Thinking that way, Choi Iseo continued to make a contented sound while watching Kim Woojin play games.

I don’t know what he’s doing, but anyway, I know that Kim Woojin is not doing well.

Because the screen keeps turning gray, I eat fried rice.

“Why do you die so often?”

When I asked while putting mandu in my mouth, Kim Woojin sighed and answered.

“We’re fighting 4:5.”

“Why are you fighting 4:5?”

At that, Kim Woojin glanced at Choi Iseo. He seemed to want to say something, but he whispered so that Seo Ye-rin, who was sitting next to him, couldn’t hear.

“We have an incredible noob in our team.”

“…….”

“If he were in the military, he would be executed.”

Pathetic.

Instead of answering, Kim Woojin chuckled and looked at Choi Iseo while sliding his eyes. After swallowing his saliva, he said with a smile.

“Just one bite…”

“I finished eating.”

Choi Iseo showed the empty jajangmyeon container. He deliberately exaggeratedly murmured as he put the last remaining mandu in his mouth.

“Ah, spicy.”

After taking a pointless breath, Kim Woojin returned to the game. Actually, now Choi Iseo didn’t have a reason to stay here.

He thought about leaving gradually, but…

Woong! Woong! Woong!

The sound of a continuously ringing cellphone.

When I checked the message, it turned out to be from Minji, my roommate and high school friend.

Although I didn’t check the message, I secretly glanced at it with my eyes.

Thuck.

Covering my phone, I pretended not to see it and continued to watch Kim Woojin and Seo Yerin playing a game.

It wasn’t interesting.

I didn’t even know what they were doing.

But…

It was better than going back home.

* * *

“What’s up? Where did you go?”

As Choi Iseo returned home, she felt her previously joyful mood sink a little at the sound of her roommate Minji’s voice.

What should she say?

The life that had begun with the expectation of having fun with a close friend was now weighing her down.

“Just hanging out with some college friends.”

At Choi Iseo’s words, Minji made a snort and continued tapping on her laptop.

They attended different universities, and I knew Minji had a decent social life, but recently she had been holed up at home.

“You should go out and get some fresh air too.”

“Exercise like you? No thanks. How do you go out for exercise every day like that.”

Minji grumbled as she watched Choi Iseo, who went out to exercise three times a day.

‘Well…’

Unable to voice that it was difficult to be with her during the time they spent together, Choi Iseo began to tidy up the pile of dirty dishes.

“Iseo.”

“Yeah? Why?”

“They say there’s an An Hyunho in your department?”

My chest sank in an instant. Why was there suddenly talk about An Hyunho?

“He’s in a different department.”

Nonchalantly hiding her expression as she continued doing the dishes, a bright voice burst out from behind.

“Really? You’re in different departments! That’s great!”

“…What?”

As I tried to hide my anxiety, I turned my head and glanced at Minji. She was tapping her laptop, her shoulders trembling.

What is she doing over there?

“I know someone who’s close with him. They say he’s a real psycho. They say he would line up kids and hit them when he was in a bad mood.”

“Really?”

Was he really that dangerous?

It sent chills down my spine to think that someone like him had become so influential in college.

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“Can you give me his contact information? If outsiders spread rumors about me and the guys, it wouldn’t be a problem, but I need someone to handle things from the inside.”

“I’m here.”

Although Jang Hyunho seemed irreplaceable, Choi Iseo insisted that she could handle it.

“You can’t do this kind of thing, Iseo.”

With a smile.

“And I’m close with him. How can I trust you?”

A heavy blow was delivered.

“…What?”

Choi Iseo’s pupils trembled. Minji continued to tap her laptop, piercingly speaking.

“You recently changed the time you go to the gym, so I followed you like last time. But you were jogging with that bastard, right? And you even went out to eat afterwards.”

“Mi, Minji.”

“Iseo.”

Thump.

Minji closed her laptop and asked with a smirk.

“Do you like betraying your friends?”

“It’s not, it’s not betraying…”

“Our high school friend, Oh Yoonji, is not in contact with that asshole anymore. Don’t you remember how she cried and struggled because of him?”

“…”

“But you met that asshole so well.”

Minji, who laughed in vain, slowly approached Choi Iseo. Tapping her shoulder, her face revealed a strange madness.

“It’s okay. Sometimes females might fall for males. Although I don’t think that guy is anything special.”

“It’s not like that.”

I have never seen Kim Woojin as a romantic interest. I could only see him as someone who unjustly received hate and harm.

“I’m going to post a sniper comment about that incident in the karaoke room in your bamboo forest tomorrow. Remember when they said they were targeted? The timing is perfect.”

“But they were the victim in the karaoke incident!”

“So what? They deserve to suffer.”

“But…”

“It’s okay. You just need to stay quiet, Lee Seo. We’re still friends.”

After saying that, Minji approached Choi Iseo and quickly snatched her phone from her pocket.

“You…!”

“You might need to contact someone, right?”

Unable to respond to Minji’s words, Choi Iseo bit her lip. She had actually planned to contact Kim Woojin directly.

“Our friendship won’t change. You just need to stay like this.”

Choi Iseo couldn’t push away Minji’s hand that was hugging her tightly.

* * *

“Sigh.”

College students spend their weekends in various ways. Some play around while others study for their grades or work part-time jobs to pay for tuition.

Naturally, I belonged to the former group.

Today, after waking up in the afternoon and idling around, I checked the Bamboo Forest online community.

– Anonymous11: To be honest, isn’t the water at Gahyeon Beach not that dirty?

– Anonymous168: I’ll recite a verse from today’s poem. The autumn sky…

– Anonymous69: I want to have s*x!

– Anonymous111: Hurry up! We have a gathering at 9 pm! Please invite a lot of broadcasters!

– Anonymous92: Who’s the crazy bastard who didn’t flush the toilet in the men’s restroom on the second floor of the library in the third stall? If you do this at home, doesn’t your mother scold you?

“It’s peaceful.”

Of course, the Bamboo Forest community becomes quiet on weekends. It’s because students have their own personal time.

“I have nothing to do.”

There’s nothing to do.

After playing games with Seo Yerin for almost four hours yesterday, I didn’t feel like playing games for a while.

Seo Yerin even said she could go without playing games for a week.

Neither me nor Seo Yerin were heavy gamers.

“Ah, I’m so bored.”

I don’t want to play games, and I don’t want to study either. I thought about going to watch a movie, but there doesn’t seem to be any good movies to watch.

Just a lazy moment lying down like this.

At a moment when you think no one would notice even if you died like this.

Mmm.

A vibration came.

Since I was bored, I checked my phone and there was something written there.

– Anonymous287: A shameless man who’s not even human. Now targeting Yoon Ji, a student who used to date the same English major student who took a leave of absence.

A sudden attack.

And it targeted me.

“hehehehe.”

It seems like it was Yoon Ji’s high school friends that Choi Iseo mentioned who started the attack.

“Is Ahn Hyunho involved too?”

If it’s Anonymous287, it’s Ahn Hyunho.

Well, anyway.

With just one view, I immediately deleted the post.

“Wow, they wrote such a ridiculously long post.”

Even after scrolling down the phone screen several times, it never ended.

I was too lazy to read it, so I skipped it, but it seems like they noticed that I deleted it and immediately posted it again.

– Anonymous287: A shameless man who’s not even human. Now targeting Yoon Ji, a student who used to date the same English major student who took a leave of absence.

Deleted again.

– Anonymous287: A shameless man who’s not even human. Now targeting Yoon Ji, a student who used to date the same English major student who took a leave of absence.

Deleted once more.

After repeating this three times, I finally received a 1:1 inquiry.

– Anonymous287: Why are you deleting the post? As an administrator, can you act so arbitrarily?

– Administrator: Didn’t I tell you not to write attack posts about the English department on Friday, and yet you’re attacking again on Sunday? Are there only attackers in the English department?

– Anonymous287: There’s a victim, you know. The perpetrator is shamelessly walking around school with his head held high. Is this right?

– Administrator: From my perspective, you’re the perpetrator. Don’t dirty the bulletin board and don’t spam either.

– Anonymous287: Damn it, this is a joke. A girl was raped by a guy! You crazy bastard. Shouldn’t it be made public? Aren’t you a modern student too? Do you like going to school with a s*x offender?

– Administrator: Oh.

– Administrator: Post it again.

After saying that, I immediately deleted the reposted content.

– Anonymous287: You said you would upload it. Why did you delete it again?

– Administrator: Reporting it to the police.

“This is unbelievable….”

You’re turning someone into a s*x offender.

Yoon Ji asked me if I held hands with her, and it took a week for me to answer.

– Anonymous287: If you report it to the police, the incident will become bigger. Do you want to smear the name of the school you attend?

– Administrator: Judging by your acceptance, it seems like you’re like a trash can.

– Anonymous287: You son of a b*tch.

– Administrator: Are you perhaps Batman? Why are you catching the criminals?

– Anonymous287: Stop f*cking around and don’t delete the post.

– Administrator: Hmm, is that an order?

– Anonymous287: Are you even human, you bastard? A child is dying. Isn’t the administrator a psycho?

– Administrator: Oops.

– Anonymous287: Give me a proper response. Don’t delete the post.

– Administrator: Sigh.

– Administrator: Are you sure? Are you really a s*x offender?

– Anonymous287: Yes.

– Administrator: Okay, I got it. I won’t delete it, I’ll upload it.

As soon as those words were said, the post was immediately uploaded.

And it was promptly deleted.

– Anonymous287: You bastard!

– Administrator: Eungㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well.

– Anonymous287: Where do you live? I’m going to find you, you f*cking bastard!

– Administrator: Eungㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s so scary! Please upload it again.

– Anonymous287: You keep talking about deleting it again!

– Administrator: I really won’t.

Anyway, what else can that guy do? He’s just going to upload the post again.

– Administrator: Buuuㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

– Anonymous287: You f*cking….!

With a wide smile, the administrator repeated the process of deleting it again.