Bamboo Forest Manager - Chapter 48



48 – 48. Showdown

“Oh hey.”

(Seo Yerim)

“Hmm?”

Seo Yerim turned her head slightly when Kim Woojin called her name while hesitating.

They were currently taking a break from playing games and focusing on their own tasks.

“Just give me one more fishcake.”

“I ate them all.”

“I ate one, didn’t I?”

“You should have told me earlier.”

“Your teeth are so strong.”

While looking at Kim Woojin, who seemed disappointed, Seo Yerim glanced at the last fishcake remaining beside her.

She hadn’t planned on giving it separately, she just wanted to play a prank.

‘….’

Suddenly, she remembered how Choi Yiseo fed Kim Woojin a potato fry yesterday.

Even though they had been drinking, to see them naturally give and receive like that.

‘Well, they did say they’re not dating.’

If that’s the case, even if they’re just friends, it shouldn’t be a problem to do something like that.

Seo Yerim swallowed her saliva and forcefully put the fishcake into Kim Woojin’s mouth, who was still feeling shocked.

“Ugh!”

Kim Woojin immediately grabbed his throat and Seo Yerim, who was taken aback, patted his back.

“Does your throat hurt a lot?! Are you gonna, gonna vomit?”

“No, my back hurts!”

“Oh….”

Seo Yerin slowly removes her hand from Kim Woojin’s back. Wondering if her recent workouts have increased her strength, she subtly lowers her hand and looks at her own hand.

Chewing on the odaeng that Seo Yerin put in his mouth, Kim Woojin stares at her.

“Are you an assassin? Making me deep throat with odaeng.”

“Well, just shut up!”

“Either put it in gently.”

While watching Kim Woojin chew on the odaeng with a deliberate pace, Seo Yerin’s face turns bright red.

Seo Yerin had received appeals from many men before, but this was the first time someone had made such a blatant s*xual joke.

From the beginning, Seo Yerin’s atmosphere was completely incompatible with s*xual jokes. It gave off a pure and pitiful feeling.

But.

“De, deep throat.”

Honestly, that joke just now was quite Seo Yerin’s style.

Since Seo Yerin was hiding her inner s*xual desires, seeing Kim Woojin eat while hesitating with the odaeng made her feel strange.

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“Woojin is quite good.”

She wanted to make a similar joke, but Seo Yerin’s mouth didn’t move.

No matter what, there was a clear boundary between Seo Yerin and her s*xual desires.

“Damn it, a**hole.”

Kim Woojin chews on the odaeng while rolling down the mouse wheel.

I took a quick glance at what he was doing, and he was reading a webtoon.

It was a youth drama related to school, and Kim Woojin was getting annoyed, shaking his leg.

He couldn’t do anything while being surrounded by pretty girls.

“A guy can’t even do it properly when he’s surrounded by girls. If it were me, I’d take one and go to a hotel right away.”

“You, seriously…”

“Oh, why? It’s not wrong.”

“Did he used to say stuff like this often?”

I remember that Kim Woojin wasn’t this kind of person, so it was honestly amusing to hear him speak in such a vulgar way.

But if this was also Kim Woojin’s way of considering others, then it was consideration in its own way.

Since he already knew that Seo Yerin liked this kind of thing as the administrator, he was making these remarks for her, who couldn’t say such things first.

“Who would you choose if it were you?”

In response to Seo Yerin’s question to pick only one from the many girls, Kim Woojin swallowed the odaeng and replied.

“This one.”

The mouse pointer stopped on top, and there was a glamorous woman wearing glasses.

At first glance, she appeared innocent and pure.

“I think the blonde over there is better than her, don’t you?”

Although she seemed innocent and pure on the outside, Seo Yerin chose a different character.

She seemed strong but also seemed like she would treat her own people well.

Is this the feeling of a tsundere?

Personally, it was also Seo Yerin’s preference, but it was so beautiful that it felt like she put a lot of effort into the character.

“Tsk.”

But Kim Woojin’s reaction was extreme. He even shook his head and tongue.

“I’m not going to date a feisty woman. It’s obvious that it will be troublesome.”

“Really?”

“Well, just talking to a woman, she interrogates you like crazy, asking what you talked about. If you smile politely, she uses that against you. And you don’t know how scary she can be when she’s angry.”

“…….”

“Once, I was looking around here and there, thinking of joining a club, but it turned out to be the band club? There were only girls there?”

“…….”

“That night, I thought I was going to die. I just wore underwear and waited in my room…!”

For a moment, Kim Woojin’s mouth remained shut. When he glanced to the side, Seo Yerin had a somewhat ambiguous expression.

He wanted to continue listening because the story was interesting, but it made him feel uncomfortable knowing that it was Kim Woojin’s personal experience.

“Go on.”

Thump.

Seo Yerin pushed away Kim Woojin’s hand with her elbow and took the armrest.

Pressuring him to continue speaking while resting her chin on her hand, Kim Woojin awkwardly laughed.

“I’m receiving recommendations for webtoons with that kind of content.”

“…….”

Trying to avoid gazes, Kim Woojin scrolled down and Seo Yerin also watched the webtoon with a strange feeling for no reason.

“What the hell?!”

Suddenly, the characters in the webtoon started undressing and engaging in s*xual activities!

“This, this was an adult webtoon?!”

“I’m an adult though?”

Kim Woojin calmly retorted.

Surprised, Seo Yerin watches the screen with her mouth agape.

“Wow, wow.”

Though she covers her face with her hands, her fingers open to peek through and see only with her eyes.

Her mouth, wide open, seemed to be intoxicated by the alluring atmosphere of the webtoon.

“……”

When Kim Woojin’s mouse scroll doesn’t go down, she quickly looks at him.

“What, what are you doing? You only sighed, didn’t you finish reading it all? Scroll down quickly.”

“This one is paid.”

“……”

“Pay for it and watch it.”

When Kim Woojin coldly stares at Seo Yerin, who asks him if he thought he could watch paid content for free, she pouts her lips and cries out.

“Tell me the name. I’ll buy the previous episodes. But first, scroll down! I’m curious about what will happen next!”

“He’ll probably get involved and fight. Just pay and watch it yourself.”

“Scroll down!”

Seo Yerin immediately gets up from her chair and starts tussling with Kim Woojin. Even though they were too close for comfort, the two continued to grumble and fight.

“Hey.”

A low-pitched voice came from behind.

Even though his clothes were thrown on haphazardly, Jeong Chanwoo, who was handsome enough to make actors envious, warned us awkwardly.

“Don’t watch adult webtoons in a PC bang.”

“……”

“……”

In the end,

Both of them shut their mouths and sat back down, and Jeong Chanwoo sighed and walked away.

“What’s the title?”

Seo Yerin asked, sneaking a question.

“Have a good time.”

Kim Woojin replied sullenly, and Seo Yerin immediately searched for it on her phone.

Her slightly protruding lips showed her anticipation, but

“It doesn’t exist?”

Not finding a webtoon with that title, she looks back at Kim Woojin again.

“Hmm.”

Kim Woo-jin chuckled and shrugged his shoulders.

“No, go have a good time.”

“… “

As Kim Woo-jin looked at Seo Ye-rin with a blank expression, she nodded and declared.

“Let’s settle this, mano a mano.”

* * *

“So?”

Choi Yi-seo, who had been pondering over the actions she had taken with Kim Woo-jin after drinking beer yesterday, busily folded the blanket.

Min-ji, who was living together with her, was feeling bored while volunteering, and came out after receiving a message from Kim Woo-jin.

Surprisingly, Kim Woo-jin suggested meeting at the gym.

“What are the two of them going to do?”

Surprisingly, Seo Ye-rin was also there.

When Choi Yi-seo asked, looking at the two people waiting at the gym, Seo Ye-rin responded with a determined expression.

“Let’s settle it.”

“Settle it? So, they’re going to fight?”

“Ugh, Choi Yi-seo, just listen.”

Kim Woo-jin approached Choi Yi-seo and asked, saying that if she couldn’t understand, he was asking directly.

“How would you feel as a heavyweight champion if a little kid from the neighborhood challenges you to a fight? Pitiful, right?”

“… “

“I feel exactly the same way now. Like holding onto a grindstone handle. Ridiculous, right?”

“Bring it on, Kim Woo-jin.”

“You’ll regret it.”

“Scared?”

“Scared, scared?”

“Kim Woo-jin is scared.”

“Hmph.”

Brushing his bangs back, Kim Woo-jin smirked.

“Come in, you bi***. Thinking you’re all that just because you have a pretty face?”

Choi Yi-seo thought they were on the same level. In any case, she had said they were going to fight, but seeing them at the gym, she realized that they weren’t really going to physically fight.

“It seems like Jin is better in terms of physical strength, so it might be better to do cardio.”

Choi Iseo suggested a compromise.

Both of them stood on the treadmill.

“Let’s compete on who can run for a long time with a speed of 10.”

“I’m really good at this.”

“Do you think you can beat me, Choi Iseo, who trained as a human weapon?”

“The loser buys dinner tonight?”

“Dinner? Isn’t that all on kim CEO? Let’s even buy tomorrow’s school lunch.”

“If you’re scared, just say it.”

“…..Forget it, let’s just run.”

After a brief argument, they both started running. Since Choi Iseo was bored, he joined in the run as well.

“Heuk! Heuk!”

Even though they had only been running for about 10 minutes, Seo Yerin was panting heavily.

Even though she was doing PT, it hasn’t been long since Seo Yerin started exercising, so it must be difficult for her.

Endurance doesn’t increase significantly in a short period of time.

“Hak! Ha-euang!”

‘Well, that’s unexpected.’

Seeing Seo Yerin panting and almost whimpering while running, Choi Iseo felt embarrassed for no reason.

There were men passing by who glanced at them and some people who blatantly took nearby exercise equipment.

‘In comparison.’

Kim Woojin was running quite steadily. Maybe because his legs were longer than the two women, it felt like he was running like a giraffe.

‘It seems like he has worked hard.’

They ran for 10 minutes without resting at this speed, and Kim Woojin seemed perfectly fine. Seeing this, Choi Iseo felt proud for no reason.

“….”

Taaang!

Choi Iseo, who was attentively watching Kim Woojin run, immediately pressed the emergency button on the treadmill to stop him.

“What’s wrong? Why?”

Kim Woojin was wearing a facial expression that didn’t show any signs of fatigue. Choi Iseo stopped his treadmill and Seo Yerin’s treadmill as well before speaking.

“Seo Yerin wins.”

“What?! Why!”