Bamboo Forest Manager - Chapter 72



72 – 72. Hunting On The Han River (2)

BAM!

“Don’t move! You little punk!”

Joo-hee sunbae’s roar burst out as she kicked open the door of the volunteer club.

The people in the club room were initially startled, but they couldn’t say anything as they were intimidated by Joo-hee sunbae’s uninvited presence.

Joo-hee sunbae quickly scanned the interior and asked the people inside in a gruff voice.

“Han-gang! Haven’t you seen Han-gang?!”

How many people could lie when asked by someone holding a cue in their hand with bloodshot eyes?

“Well… I think he went to a karaoke.”

“Karaoke?!”

“Yes, he said he was going to the Tae-yang Karaoke!”

Why is this guy telling people where he’s going?

Is it his confidence that I’ll cover for him somehow?

– Kim Woo-jin: Are you at Tae-yang Karaoke?

– Moron: No, PC room.

– Moron: I joked to the Dongbang kids that I was going to karaoke.

He’s right though.

Tae-yang Karaoke is almost the opposite of a PC room, so it wasn’t a bad place to bluff.

“Whew, excuse me.”

Joo-hee sunbae seemed to calm down a bit at the thought of having missed him, and she bowed her head in apology to the club and closed the door politely.

Then she started walking quickly, tapping her cell phone.

“Sunbae? Tae-yang Karaoke is in the opposite direction?”

When I asked, Joo-hee sunbae gritted her teeth and replied.

“I got a tip that the punk is at a PC room right now.”

I don’t know who gave her the tip, but…

– Kim Woo-jin: Emergency. Joo-hee sunbae is going to the PC room.

Han-gang still didn’t answer.

It seems like he’s running away.

We, who had an unexpected chase on Monday evening.

After the PC room, Kimbap Heaven, then the billiard hall, and finally the karaoke.

The moment we entered the karaoke room where only Han-gang’s traces remained, Joo-hee sunbae put down her cell phone.

“Sunbae, calm down for now and tomorrow…!”

BAM!

My jaw was instantly grabbed.

Pulled by Joo-hee sunbae’s strength, I was laid down on the karaoke table.

The sunbae climbed on top of me and glared at me with murderous eyes.

“You missed Dongbang, you missed the PC room, you missed Kimbap Heaven, and you missed karaoke?”

“……!?”

“There’s a traitor in here. That’s my conclusion…”

Joo-hee sunbae looked down at me with a smile, holding both sides of my face with one hand. Contrary to the nice scent, her smile was already creepy.

“There are only two of us here?”

BAM!

“Ugh!?”

Her strength was so strong that my lips protruded forward. Joo-hee sunbae’s rough breathing reached my lips.

“I’m not the traitor…”

“Ugh!?”

“Then aren’t you?”

The sunbae’s two legs were placed on my forearms.

Since she was sitting on my chest, the inside of her thighs was clearly visible, but it wasn’t a big problem because she was wearing jeans.

“Woo-jin, I’m not a gangster. I also save money and have insurance.”

“Sunbae!”

“I also have friendship. But if you trample on my friendship.”

“That’s not it!”

“I’ll become a gangster too.”

The sunbae slowly loosened her grip.

The sunbae was going to give me one last chance to speak.

“My, my studio! He said he was going to his studio!”

I immediately became an inside informant.

“Whew, take out your cell phone.”

When I took out my cell phone and showed her my chat with Han-gang, Joo-hee sunbae laughed in disbelief.

“Hamburger, chicken, pizza, bossam? Wow, Woo-jin. You got a good deal?”

Looking at the gift certificates I had extracted from Han-gang, Joo-hee sunbae tightened her grip again.

“Com, company dinner! I was going to have a company dinner! I was going to have a company dinner when the group project was over!”

“…….”The senior who slowly got off me put my phone deep into his pocket and said,

“This is confiscated until we meet at the Han River.”

“Oh, okay! Hyung!”

I, who immediately wagged my tail at senior Juhee, got up and said,

“Let’s take a taxi. I’ll pay for it!”

Even while taking a taxi, senior Juhee insisted on riding in the back seat with me.

He touched my cheek with one hand while putting his arm around my shoulder, barely holding back his anger.

I became the senior’s attachment doll and could only follow him quietly without being able to do anything.

Eventually, we arrived at the Han River’s studio apartment.

Knock, knock.

As I knocked on the door, Han River’s voice could be heard from inside.

“Ah, I wrote a request to leave it outside….”

He must have ordered delivery food in the meantime.

Yeah, that makes sense.

He must have been hungry since he only ate one line of kimbap at Kimbap Heaven earlier and ran away.

Creak.

Why does the sound of the front door opening feel so creepy?

“I left the food… Ugh!”

Bam!

Senior Juhee’s kick pushed Han River’s abdomen and went inside.

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“Woojin, get out of here. If you don’t want to get hurt.”

Thud!

The door closed, and Han River’s screams began to burst out of the door.

“Agh! aaagh! Juhee, just a minute! Ja, just a miiiiinute!”

“My bone, my bone is hit! Ugh! My bone is hit!”

“Please, just a moment! Noona! No, this isn’t real…! Agh! Kim Woojin! Kim Woojiiiiin!”

Thud!

The door shook as if he was trying to escape, but it didn’t open because I was leaning against it.

“You son of a b*tch! You sold me out!? You ate everything and sold me out!?”

“Excuse me?”

At that moment, a delivery man wearing a helmet spoke to me. He was holding a pizza, and it seemed that Han River had ordered it.

“Oh, you’re here to deliver? Here you go.”

“……Yes.”

He made a subtle expression as if he was creeped out, but the delivery man left the pizza and went away for another delivery.

“Kim Woojiiiiiiin!”

“Did you order a Hawaiian pizza?”

Thanks to the pizza, it didn’t seem like it would be boring to wait until the end.

* * *

“Delivery.”

“Yes!”

As I received another pizza and went inside, senior Juhee waited and changed his posture.

He said he didn’t like Hawaiian pizza, so I ordered another pepperoni pizza, which seemed to be to his liking.

“Woojin, I’ll eat well.”

“Eat a lot, senior.”

Han River, who was watching from the side, pouted his lips and muttered,

“I ordered it with the gift certificate I sent.”

However, of course, Han River’s grumbling didn’t reach us, and we ignored him and started eating the pizza diligently.

Fortunately, senior Juhee endured the urge to hit him with the billiard cue and used his fist instead. Otherwise, Han River wouldn’t be here now.

Maybe it helped that we were able to wander around and give senior Juhee some time to cool down?

“Hey, you’re not really going to enlist, are you?”

After eating a slice of pizza, senior Juhee went straight to the main topic. Han River seemed to be speechless for a moment and frowned.

“Take it easy, please. Is it right to run away to the military just because you got dumped by a girl?”

“No….”

“Why did you confess then? Anyway, I’ll talk to Yerim for you, so don’t act awkwardly.”

The senior who was trying to put Han River back in the group somehow. If Han River falls out here, the group project will really explode.

“That’s….”

“What else. Sigh, let’s change the roles and make Hyunho or Woojin the lead and you the supporting role so that you can avoid seeing Yerim as much as possible.”

“Huh?! Me?”

I wondered what this sudden talk was about, but senior Juhee glared at me sharply.

“Do you have anything to say?”

“No.”Traitors should keep their mouths shut.

Well, he’s probably just saying that to appease Han-gang right now, and since I’m going to edit it anyway, I don’t think the lead role will go to Ahn Hyun-ho.

“Ju-hee-ya.”

Han-gang cautiously opens his mouth. For some reason, he stealthily kneels down, and the atmosphere is tense.

“Actually, that’s not why I’m enlisting.”

“Oh, please.”

Senior Ju-hee, who is sitting next to me, suddenly clings to me and presses her forehead against my shoulder. She looks like she’s in pain, but for some reason, I feel like I’m the one in pain.

“Woo-jin-ah, block that bastard’s mouth! Please stop ruining my life.”

“Stop it! Senior Ju-hee, your life points are already zero!”

I shouted while wrapping my arms around Senior Ju-hee, but Han-gang opened his mouth, glancing at us slyly.

“Th, that is… I confessed to Ye-rin that time.”

“Please! Shut up! I don’t want to hear it! Just say you’re doing your homework! It’s not like I’m asking you to do something difficult, you crazy bastard!”

“Ugh! S, Senior, it hurts!”

Senior Ju-hee is hugging me tightly like a schoolgirl watching a horror movie. The only difference is that she’s so strong that I feel like I’m going to be crushed to death.

“So…”

“You’re really taking your time! You’re already in hell! Just tell me, you bastard!”

“Yeah, tell me quickly! I’m going to die if this keeps up!”

I feel like my back is going to break!

“I, I slept with another girl.”

…….

………….

……………….

“What?”

“What the hell?”

Senior Ju-hee and I look at Han-gang at the same time. Did we hear that right?

“I was so lonely and I felt so sorry for myself. So I brought a girl I knew home and slept with her.”

Han-gang suddenly starts talking faster. Is this his last-ditch effort to confess everything before the volcano erupts?

“But my parents came to my studio the next morning and caught me! They checked my phone and saw all my relationships with girls, and they told me to drop out of school and enlist in the military right away!”

Wow.

“My father is a soldier, so he’s very strict about these things! I don’t know how it came to this, but I’m sorry, Ju-hee-yaaa!”

With that, Han-gang gets up and runs to another room. It seems that he knelt down earlier to gain momentum to get up.

The strength in Senior Ju-hee’s hand, which had been holding me tightly, suddenly loosened. I saw her fumbling around on the floor, looking for something, and I pointed the direction with my chin.

“It’s over there.”

Senior Ju-hee grabs the cue that was lying on the floor in the living room.

“Thanks.”

And then she runs to the room where Han-gang is.

“I’m going to kill him!”

Yeah.

You should just die.

“Come out! Come out now! I’m going to break the door down if you don’t come out!”

Bang, bang, bang, bang!

The sound of the door being pounded on was so loud that it seemed like it was going to break, but now I just wanted to give Han-gang a beating too.

‘Is that guy even human?’

The day he told me he wanted to compete with me in a friendly way, he shamelessly confessed his love to her first and then insulted me.

He confessed to Seo Ye-rin that he really liked her, but when she rejected him, he slept with another girl to comfort himself.

And then, because his relationships with women were so complicated, he got caught by his parents and immediately enlisted in the military.

He’s a great senior in many ways.

I think he’s almost as dark as the university.

I was hoping that Senior Ju-hee would beat him up all day long, but I was about to finish the rest of the pizza.

Buzz!

My pocket vibrated.

I quickly checked my phone.

– Seo Ye-rin –

Seo Ye-rin was calling.

“Hello?”

– Th, Woo-jin-ah…

“Yes, hello, Seo Ye-rin. Thanks for the compliment. I guess you were really satisfied with the s*x?”

– …….

“You should just brag about it in the group chat. Like, Woo-jin is a legendary s*x king.”

– I’m sorry…

“Or you could introduce him as a living dildo. That sounds cooler.”- I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

“Shut up! You’re a living mannequin! You’re good for nothing except having a pretty face! You should be filial to your parents! Be grateful that they gave birth to you!”

– B, but I’ve already blocked the kids’ contacts!

“Of course you should! You…!”

While yelling at Seo Yerim, Sunbae Joohee finally opened the door and went inside. She watched as Sunbae Joohee grabbed Kang Han, who was hiding under the covers, and started hitting him.

“….Hey, leave a message like this to the person who posted the video on SNS earlier.”

The moment Seo Yerim heard my witty realization, her voice became noticeably lighter.

– I’ll do it right now! Woojin, you’re a genius!

The moment I hung up the phone, praising myself for coming up with a way to turn the situation around in an instant.

The phone rang again right away.

Woo-woong!

– Yoo Ah-rin –

– Hello… !

Click.

I hung up right away, signaling that I didn’t want to talk, and was about to go beat up Kang Han with Sunbae Joohee.

Woo-woong!

The phone rang again.

“Ah, come on.”

I tried to hang up again, but.

– Choi Yi-seo –

I took a deep breath at the other name that appeared on the screen and answered the phone very carefully.

“Hello?”