“Yawn.”
The sauna was all good, but the problem was that my body felt oddly sluggish when it was ti to head ho.
Anyway, I felt good because I had rested well without any disturbance, and the freshness from sweating in the sauna still lingered.
As the warmth wafted up, I entered the house, my body soaked in the unique sulfur scent.
Thanks to a kind of warning ssage from senior Ju-hee, I was now filled with the desire to work on my assignnt. I hadn’t done anything for the past two days, but I figured I could catch up if I pulled an all-nighter.
Besides, considering my editing speed was fairly fast, it should be easy.
“I should just grab the materials and head to the PC café.”
The last ti I edited a video on my laptop at ho, the lag was too severe. After sending the video-related materials by email, I entered the house with thoughts of going to the PC café.
“You’re back?”
In the room, there was Yu Arin, lying on the mattress, humming while looking at her cellphone.
The mont I saw her still there, thinking that she should have gone ho, my expression soured.
“What are you doing here?”
When I asked why she hadn’t left yet, Yu Arin glanced at and then focused back on her cellphone.
“Just, too lazy to go ho. It’s a free Friday anyway, so I’m resting.”
“……”
“I cleaned up neatly. It’s damn clean.”
The house was definitely cleaner. I knew Yu Arin said that she would clean my ho, but I didn’t expect her to do it so diligently.
“And you, things like used tissues should be thrown away right after…”
“Got it! Don’t say it!”
“Hehe, you’re healthy, Woojin.”
“…Shit.”
If a man lives alone, there’s a certain aspect that’s inevitable, and when I forcibly stopped Yu Arin from broaching the topic, she laughed playfully. I don’t know how she can joke about sothing like that.
“Are you going to eat? I had the dried pollock soup.”
“No, I’m going to the PC café. Senior Ju-hee kind of half-threatened because of editing.”
Upon hearing my words, Yu Arin jumped up.
Seemingly bursting with interest, she hurriedly started fixing her clothes.
“Hurry up! Let’s go! I want to watch you edit and see it for myself!”
“…It’s faster if I do it alone.”
“Hey, I’ll help too. Okay? Okay?”
If she’s going to help, that changes things entirely. Even just adding subtitles by my side would definitely make things easier for .
“Of course, the master will buy food, right?”
Slyly swaying her hips, Yu Arin approached stealthily. I thought it was because she was drunk yesterday.
But seeing her today, it feels like she’s sohow gotten closer to .
“You seem to enjoy calling ‘master’ lately.”
It was just a joke between us as the manager and caretaker of the Bamboo Forest, but I feel like she’s been saying it more often lately.
At my words, Yu Arin imdiately changes her expression and shrugs nonchalantly.
“Doing this so you’ll ask to do less, right? You know you actually listen to when I call you ‘master’?”
“Is that so?”
“That must an you have a taste for that sort of thing?”
Laughing as if she’s discovered a weakness of mine, she tapped on my shoulder, and I couldn’t help but want to deny it.
“It’s just because you ended up being the sub-manager, so you’re doing it out of guilt. What taste about being called sothing?”
“So, it’s not your taste to be called ‘master’?”
“…Do we have to keep talking about this?”
Even though Yu Arin and I swear at each other all the ti, discussing this sort of thing felt a wee bit uncomfortable. Seeing my reaction, Yu Arin shrugged, indicating she had no intention of prying further.
Anyway.
Since we decided to go together, I transferred the files from my laptop to an email and then headed to the PC café with Yu Arin. It was the Zero PC Café where Chan-woo works part-ti, but he wasn’t there, either because it wasn’t his shift or he wasn’t working today.
“Too bad, we could have gotten so free service.”
Now that Yu Arin’s relationship with Chan-woo seems to be completely over, she actually seems to miss having him around. Seeing her like this complicated things a little, but it seed the two of them had reached so sort of conclusion and put an end to their relationship.
In the end, I wondered if I hadn’t been able to help Chan-woo at all, despite saying I would.
I head to a corner of the PC room and settle in. Before starting the editing, I hadn’t eaten properly yet, so I ordered so ran and dumplings for a quick al.
“Order so mixed grain powder milkshake.”
“Buy it yourself.”
“Masterrrr!”
“Stop that, it’s freaking creepy.”
“Masterrrr!!”
“Fuck, I really want to smack you right now.”
“Damn it master.”
After ordering and eating quickly, I started editing with Yu Arin.
“Just add subtitles to the file I gave you. It shouldn’t be too hard.”
“It’s not hard, but it’s annoying, huh?”
Exactly.
But Yu Arin, without complaining, started adding subtitles to the videos I passed to her.
“Wouldn’t it be better to use a different angle here?”
Surprisingly, she began to offer advice on various editing matters.
“I can’t help it. That’s the only angle we have.”
“Why? I rember we took a few shots from different angles too?”
“Because those shots were taken with my phone, and the quality difference is significant.”
“Ah.”
“Senior Ju-hee’s phone battery had died, so we had no choice.”
As we talked about this and that, ti began to pass, and before we knew it, it was evening.
Sigh…
But with Yu Arin’s help, we definitely made rapid progress.
The work progressed much faster than expected. Having just one more person to help with the tedious tasks significantly sped the workflow up, which was satisfying.
There was no need to finish everything right away, but just in case, I planned to dedicate the entire day to the assignnt.
“Hey, you should slowly…”
I was thinking of sending Yu Arin ho, so I looked beside , only to find her already asleep.
“She must have been tired.”
When I thought about it, she drank yesterday, woke up to cure her hangover, cleaned, and has been helping since then. Feeling sorry, I scratched the back of my head and pondered for a mont.
I thought about telling her to go ho and sleep for the day, but waking her up now wouldn’t make a difference since I wouldn’t be taking her ho anyway.
I’ll just finish what I was doing and then go.
And so I decided to work for another hour before taking Yu Arin ho and then returning to the PC café.
“Yawn.”
Yu Arin yawned while staring intently at her phone. Just a while ago, she was half-asleep, leaning on as we walked, but now she seed to be doing better, busily looking at sothing on her phone.
“Hey, do you know about the fight that broke out in the Bamboo Forest?”
“You were looking at the Bamboo Forest?”
I couldn’t tell if this person has fallen into the trap of online communities or if she is just highly responsible.
I guess it might be a bit of both.
“Anonymous11 and Anonymous288. Are these two fighting?”
“Yeah, I saw it earlier. They’re not really trashing the board or anything. Since it’s Friday and not many people are on, so I just let them be. Watching that kind of thing can be entertaining at tis.”
“…You seem to manage things pretty loosely, don’t you?”
I wonder if she wanted to block the two who were fighting right away as Yu Arin tapped away on her phone with dissatisfaction.
It seed like she was about to send a warning ssage telling them not to fight.
“After all, it’s a university community. As long as they don’t dirty the board too much, I prefer to leave them be with a laissez-faire approach.”
I don’t really intervene much unless it’s sothing dirty like certain images or spreading pornography like soone happens to do.
“Are you sure that’s really okay?”
“It’s fine.”
“…You’re getting cursed out a lot though?”
“What?”
As soon as I entered the Bamboo Forest to check, there were already several posts cursing .
It’s Friday night, they’re the ones fighting, but they complain to for not stopping them, and it gradually turns into cursing without reason.
Seeing that, I let out a hollow laugh and put my phone away again.
“Well, that’s good then. Since it ends with them just cursing .”
Would they even rember what they were fighting about by now?
This is exactly the mindset a manager should have.
“Ha, if soone curses , I’ll confront them right away.”
“I know. That’s why I thought about blocking you but then just endured it.”
“…”
I was going to tell her because she would always stand up and respond if soone cursed the Admin.
“Just ignore it. It’s easier if you think of it as a dog barking at you from across the street.”
It was an anonymous comnt anyway, and since badmouthing the Admins was usually for no significant reason, it was easier to ignore than to confront.
In the midst of exchanging various stories about the Bamboo Forest, we arrived at Yu Arin’s house. I’d thought she lived alone, but she lives in an apartnt with her family.
Standing in front of the apartnt building, intending to see off, there was Yu Arin, staring straight at . Wondering what was going on, I looked at her, and she beca gloomy, checking her surroundings.
“How should I explain that I spent the night outside yesterday?”
“…You haven’t told them yet?”
“My dad and mom told to explain when I co back.”
“And you were still able to stay at the PC café with ?”
“If I go ho, I’m dead anyway, so I just stayed there.”
“If it were , I would have gone straight ho. Better to die early if I’m going to die anyway.”
Yu Arin, who doesn’t even hear my words and falls into her own worries. She crosses her arms and taps the floor impatiently, looking quite desperate.
“Let’s put our heads together and think. How can we phrase it to get in the least trouble?”
“What’s there to phrase. Just be honest. Say we drank with so female friends and blacked out. So, we slept at a friend’s house, sorry. It won’t happen again.”
“You should co in with to explain.”
That’s funny.
“Sure, they’d love it if a male friend ca in to explain.”
Maybe since it was one of the girls. Taking was a much worse move than going in alone.
But Yu Arin, perhaps getting anxious, bit her nails and then took a deep breath and said,
“Let’s go in together. There’s a way.”
“Hold on. You’re not going to pretend I’m your boyfriend like last ti, are you?”
“Do you think I would ask you to do what I did to Pyo Jinho? It’s nothing. Just co in for a mont.”
“…I don’t feel comfortable doing this.”
“You were honestly super comfortable today because I added the subtitles for you. It was much faster than usual, right?”
“That’s…”
It was true.
Subtitles weren’t hard to add, but they were a botherso task.
Eventually, unable to resist, I cautiously followed Yu Arin into the house.
“Excuse .”
“Co in.”
The interior was just an ordinary ho.
What caught my eye was a photo of a young Yu Arin wearing a Taekwondo uniform and performing a kick. Her hair was blonde even back then, but she looked quite cute, different from now.
I thought the house was too quiet since I was expecting the appearance of soone very angry after hearing our greeting.
“What’s this?”
How should I put it?
Should I say it feels like there’s no sign of anyone around?
Staring intently at the bedroom door, Yu Arin burst into laughter and sprawled out on the living room sofa, saying,
“Heeheehee! Mom and Dad went on a trip. To Japan for five days and four nights. Scared?”
“……”
“Go boil so ran.”
This wench, is she for real?
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