Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols - Chapter 48
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| Episode 48. A colleague’s sick leave (2)
The accommodation was quiet at 4 a.m.
It was a time when everyone was asleep except for me, who was living a bat-like life.
‘This is the perfect time to monitor.’
I turned on the air conditioner I brought from the living room earlier and turned the brightness down to the lowest setting.
Choi Je-ho and Lee Cheong-hyeon weren’t the type of people who would wake up to the light, but they still felt uncomfortable when someone was using their cell phone while they were sleeping.
If it weren’t for Jeong Seong-bin, I would have turned on the auxiliary lights in the living room and watched it comfortably.
If you were caught by Jeong Seong-bin while loitering around the living room at dawn, you would be under surveillance under the name of worry all day the next day.
Rather than end up like that, it’s better to rely on the bare minimum of light.
My only pride was that I could read all the labels on the soju in the restaurant refrigerator without glasses, but I feel like my eyesight is getting worse by the minute.
The only thing I had to do while lying in bed in the dark was to browse the comments on Jang Jun-hoo’s music videos.
The purpose is to see the reaction to Choi Je-ho. Unlike what I had originally planned, I was too busy and couldn’t go in and watch the music video for a long time after it was released.
As expected from a singer who is only moderately well-known in Korea, all the comments were in Korean. I hope he goes downhill quickly and has 0 comments.
I quickly skimmed through only the comments that mentioned Choi Je-ho.
≫ I liked the song so much that I turned up the screen brightness and watched it
≫ Who is the man in the music video?
≫ I’m working hard to look at the faces recommended by the algorithm.
This was almost all the comments referring to Choi Je-ho. Even then, since no one knew him, no one even replied.
Since there were few comments, it was difficult to see any meaningful response.
In times like this, I had to go to the community.
Thanks to what Manager Nam’s daughter told me, I knew quite a bit about famous communities and bulletin boards where celebrity information was posted.
Indeed, there were much more raw posts on this side.
≫ Who is the guy in the music video?
X you’re handsome haha have you learned it
≫ Who is ㅉㅎ
└ Jang Jun-hoo
└ Why would you do something like that to a guy who isn’t even a rock?
≫ Isn’t that a new male student? It’s the first time I’ve seen his face.
└ Wow, what the f*ck, is a young and handsome male actor finally coming out?
└ Jbjb;;;;; A handsome male actor with a thin face is fine as long as he’s not a bad actor
≫ Since the birth of UA
└ Singer?
└ No idol
└ Huh, there are no UA idols?
‘Everyone’s information is fast.’
UA has never released any profiles of its trainees, but the news that ‘UA has trainees’ is already coming out.
It was a timely comment considering the time left until debut.
By changing the keywords and searching for ‘UA’ and ‘UAE’ alternately, I was able to see articles with more specific information.
≫ I saw an idol with real ua
Confirmed number of members of the 6-member male idol group
It is scheduled to debut in the first half of next year and is a self-produced idol group.
It’s the same group that Jang Jun-hoo’s music video came from.
└ These days, all the entertainers are producing idols;;
└ It’s good to make moneyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ What kind of idol business is this when a company can’t even hold a single concert by its singers? Is the CEO crazy?
└ Is this official?
└ [Author] An acquaintance of mine told me
└ Why on earth do I have so many acquaintances on the community? I don’t have a single real person around me, but I think there are 500 acquaintances here. It’s a kill point because I can’t verify it.
There were some unknown abbreviations here and there, so it took quite a while to search.
Still, I was able to read all the articles that were uploaded. This was possible because the firepower generated by Jang Jun-hoo’s music video itself was not that great.
There was already someone who had compiled the video of the dance competition that Choi Je-ho had participated in and the list of awards he had received. I followed the link to that article and checked the video thoroughly.
I turned off my phone only after I checked that there was no possibility of a problem and cleared my search history.
And I went out to the living room to put the air conditioner back in its place.
But something was strange.
The bathroom lights were off and there was no sound of water, but I could faintly hear a person’s voice from somewhere.
‘Who’s awake?’
The sound became clearer as it approached Jeong Seong-bin’s room.
At the sound of someone groaning, I knocked softly on the door a few times and opened it.
I looked into the dark room with the cell phone I was holding, and there was one place where the blanket was rolled up into a ball.
I wasn’t sure where each person’s seat was, but I could tell who it was just by the voice.
“Park Joo-woo?”
I called Park Joo-woo’s name softly, but there was no answer.
I put my hand on the blanket, shook it gently, and called out its name, but Park Joo-woo still remained silent.
‘What? Where does it hurt?’
Just in case, I pushed the blanket away a bit and placed my hand on Park Joo-woo’s forehead.
Park Joo-woo’s forehead was extremely hot. It was even damp, as if he was sweating coldly.
I shook Park Joo-woo’s seething shoulders and called his name.
“Juuya, wake up for a moment.”
“Who… …. Brother Lee Wol?”
Luckily, Park Joo-woo woke up before I called him for the fourth time.
Park Joo-woo’s voice was hoarse, just like mine a few days ago.
“Yeah, it’s me. I woke you up because you had a really high fever. Are you feeling unwell? Do you want to go to the emergency room?”
“… … No, that’s not it… … .”
Contrary to what he said, Park Joo-woo couldn’t even open his eyes properly. I thought it was because he was dizzy.
It was fortunate that he was conscious, but it was not good for him to continue to have a high fever.
If you aren’t going to the hospital right away, it might be better to take some fever reducer.
‘I don’t think there was any first aid kit in this hotel.’
The pharmacy would have closed a long time ago.
I woke up Jeong Seong-bin in a hurry, remembering the location of the convenience store near the accommodation.
“Brother? What are you doing in our room… …?”
“I’m sorry for waking you up. But Joo-woo is sick right now.”
“Are you going to Joo-woo?”
Jeong Seong-bin, who had been mumbling in his sleep, suddenly woke up.
“I’m going to the convenience store right now, so please look after Joo-woo until then.”
“Now? It’s so late… … .”
“I can’t tell the child to hold out until morning. A high fever is dangerous if left untreated. I’ll be back soon.”
I ran out of the dorm with only my wallet in hand.
Then I ran around like a madman. There was no way the convenience store would close, but I was anxious.
‘They take care of me and make a fuss just because I can’t even speak.’
Considering that Park Joo-woo, whose physical strength was lower than that of the other members, would lie on the floor during every break, this situation was somewhat expected.
Even if you didn’t expect it, you should have at least brought some medicine with you. That’s basic common sense.
Moreover, that was one of the things I did at Hanpyeong Industries.
‘You don’t think about others just because you’re comfortable? You’re getting old, you pathetic little b*tch.’
The swear words kept ringing in my head.
When I was so out of breath and out of breath, I saw a convenience store. My mouth was completely dry.
“Where is the fever reducer? It’s for children when they have a fever.”
“Oh, that’s over there… … .”
I swept up all the fever reducers in the corner I was guided to, by type.
I put the painkillers and digestive medicine that I didn’t need right away in the basket as soon as I could. I was so busy that my hands kept shaking.
I looked around and asked while the clerk scanned the barcode.
“Is there a large hospital around here? I haven’t been in this neighborhood for very long.”
“Yes, it takes 5 minutes by taxi.”
“……thank you.”
My tension eased for a moment when I heard that there was a hospital nearby.
I barely managed to hold back the fact that my legs were about to give out. I felt like my soul had left me.
The walk back to the accommodation felt longer than the walk to the convenience store.
When I hurriedly returned to my room carrying a bag containing all the medicines, all the lights in the living room were on. It seemed like Jeong Seong-bin had turned them on.
“brother!”
“There’s a fever reducer inside. Let’s give him that first.”
Jeong Seong-bin ran naked to the front door and took the envelope from me.
When I looked down to take off my shoes, I saw that I was wearing sneakers whose shoes I didn’t even know belonged to.
Jeong Seong-bin and I woke up Park Joo-woo, who had difficulty getting out of bed, gave him some medicine, and laid him back down.
And soon, Park Joo-woo fell asleep with a pale face.
You startled people and now you’re dreaming? It’s annoying, but I’ll let you off the hook because you’re a patient.
But as I had time to catch my breath, I gradually came to my senses.
At the same time, I remembered the sky that I had seen on my way from the convenience store, brightening dimly.
“for a moment.”
“Huh? Why, hyung?”
“What time is it now?”
“It’s 5 o’clock.”
“5 o’clock?”
I had a hunch, and morning really was coming.
I was okay with sleeping less for a day, but Jeong Seong-bin had to go to school in the morning.
I motioned for Jeong Seong-bin to lie down quickly.
“You go to sleep. I’ll watch over Joo-woo.”
“What about you, hyung? You should sleep too.”
“I’ll sleep well when I go to your school.”
I don’t know for sure, but I remember hearing that it can be dangerous if you have too much of a fever.
It wasn’t certain whether Park Joo-woo’s fever would go down, so I couldn’t just lie down and sleep.
I said good night to Jeong Seong-bin and then turned off all the lights in the living room.
And then, relying on the light from my cell phone, I returned to Park Joo-woo’s bedside.
Somehow I had a feeling I was going to stay up all night tonight.
* * *
Fortunately, Park Joo-woo showed signs of improvement as time passed.
I too was able to feel at ease only after I confirmed that my fever was going down every 30 minutes.
As soon as he saw my call, the manager came at dawn and took Park Joo-woo to the hospital early in the morning.
After sending Park Joo-woo to the hospital.
Since I had already eaten the wrong thing, I picked up the envelope that Jeong Seong-bin had left open in the living room, thinking I would organize the medicine I had bought.
There were all kinds of medicine in the envelope.
Including things that can’t be called medicine.
“… …Why on earth did you buy hangover cures?”
It looks like it was brought here because it looks similar to a digestive aid.
It’s fortunate that it didn’t break even though I was running with the bag containing it.
What came next was also quite impressive.
“Children’s fever reducer? Did you buy it without reading the fine print… … .”
I laughed at my own foolishness. It was a crazy morning.
“So the manager came by this morning?”
Choi Je-ho, who was left eating breakfast alone with Park Joo-woo, asked.
I nodded with a face as if my bones were swollen from not being able to even sigh.
“But you knew it anyway. You said it was dawn.”
“I stayed up late because I was watching something.”
My eyes were sore from not being able to close them for even 30 minutes last night.
Choi Je-ho said while rubbing his eyelids with his fingers.
“Hey, if you do that, you’ll really get screwed.”
“Didn’t I tell you to speak nicely?”
Whether I asked nicely or not, Choi Je-ho was busy looking at the medicines neatly packed in the empty lunch box.
Because I was cleaning up too hastily, the container that Jeong Seong-bin’s mother had used to store pickled turnips ended up being reduced to a medicine chest.
“It’s organized just like a map.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment.”
At my words, Choi Je-ho closed the lid of the side dish medicine bottle, telling me to do whatever I want.
Should I do some morning and evening roll call to check on the patients? I feel like I’m getting older day by day.
Perhaps aware of my fatigue, Jeong Seong-bin made a unique suggestion at the group meeting we returned to: “Let’s make sure to tell each other when we’re sick.”
It was such a great sight that I almost cried. It was a day that brought tears to my eyes.
It didn’t seem like my eyes were hot from emotion, but more like my nerves were on edge and my intraocular pressure was rising. So what? I just hope no one gets sick anymore.