Bamboo Forest Manager - Chapter 356



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‘She’s actually coming in.’

What really shocked me was that Choi Jina had come into the room.

It wasn’t unusual for her to come in for a late-night snack, but I never thought she’d walk in on us at this time, knowing what we were doing.

“Haa… haa…”

I’d covered Seo Yerin with the blanket for now.

But she was still breathing heavily, exhausted, lying on the bed.

Her chest was rising and falling, and I couldn’t help but feel a slight hardening in my lower body.

“Smell…”

Choi Jina casually opened the window.

It seemed like she was too used to being in my room now.

She even brought a towel when she saw Seo Yerin struggling, and then she eyed the chicken we’d ordered earlier.

“Can I, uh, eat this?”

“Yeah, sure… we didn’t even touch it.”

We were too engrossed to find time to eat.

“How can you leave chicken like this?”

She looked dumbfounded, grabbed a drumstick, and took a bite. It must have been cold because she immediately put it down.

“This dorm is great, but it’s a shame there isn’t an air fryer.”

“……”

“Maybe I should donate one? I think that would be a good idea.”

“Hey, Jina.”

“Yes?”

“Are you, like, being s*x-appeal-y right now?”

“Huh?!”

Choi Jina shrieked in surprise. She quickly covered her mouth and glanced at the wall.

Worried about waking up the neighbors, but it seems they’re thankfully okay.

“D-did you just s*xually harass me?”

“No, wouldn’t it be weirder not to think this way in this situation?”

Right now I’m barely wearing shorts, and Seo Yerim is completely naked.

“Logically, coming into the room here is kind of like an appeal, isn’t it? But, I’m sorry. I’ve never seen you that way, Jina-ssi.”

“I’ve never thought of it that way either, but it’s strangely upsetting.”

“Then what is it? Why’d you come into the room?”

“We, we were going to eat takoyaki. I already ordered it!”

She’s rubbing the lid of the instant ramen container she brought, looking embarrassed.

“You already ordered it?”

“I ordered it when I came out of the room. We were going to eat it anyway, so it’s better to eat a bit earlier, right?”

“No, you didn’t even ask, just ordered.”

“I ordered fried oysters and menchi-katsu too. Once I started ordering, it ended up being a lot, so Yerim-ssi can eat with us.”

“Haa… haa…”

“……She’s not dead, is she?”

“Can’t you hear her breathing?”

I had to say something, it was so absurd. Choi Jina twitched, went closer, and gave Seo Yerim a ‘poke’.

“Sh, she’s alive.”

“Jina-ssi, you weren’t this resilient in this area back in the day, right?”

“Ahem, if you’re with Woojin-ssi, any woman would become like this.”

Why am I being made out to be the bad guy?

I just made love with Seo Yerim.

“Ah, the delivery is here. I’ll go get it, so could you boil some water in the kettle?”

Look at her, opening the door without a sound, walking out.

She’s gotten some weird skills.

‘Thought she was a ninja.’

I roughly tidy up, put on some clothes, and check if Seo Yerim is okay.

“Yerim-ah, are you alright?”

“hhh, hhh… I’m so tired.”

“That’s what happens when you provoke someone.”

“Woojini is so strooong.”

“Okay, snap out of it. Put some clothes on.”

I hand over my baggy clothes, and Seo Yerin, still lying on the bed, squirms and puts them on.

Because they’re so oversized, the t-shirt alone covers her down to there, but that had its own alluring aspect.

I’m boiling water when I sense someone behind me.

“I’m here.”

“Are you a real ninja?”

I didn’t even notice her coming in or the door closing.

Choi Jina, proudly carrying a delivery bag, starts skillfully setting out the late-night snack in the center of the room.

“Heung, heuheuheung.”

Choi Jina looks gleeful.

“Why is Jina-ssi here?”

And now, as if finally coming to her senses, Seo Yerin belatedly asks.

“Ask the takoyaki lady.”

“Lady?! I just came to have a late-night snack. I’ll eat and leave right away, so you can do what you were doing.”

“Why does she feel like she’s become strange?”

She was definitely a very elegant and well-mannered woman when we first met.

“Yerin-ssi, try this menchi-katsu. The reviews for this were amazing.”

Choi Jina awkwardly changes the subject.

She pokes one with a toothpick and hands it to Seo Yerin, whose expression darkens as she takes it.

I wonder if it’s because she doesn’t like Choi Jina being here in my room.

But then she suddenly covers her mouth with her hand and starts gagging.

“Yerin-ah?!”

“Yerin-ssi?”

I know Seo Yerin hasn’t had anything else to eat since dinner.

That’s why we ordered chicken too, but instead of eating it, we just kept having s*x, right?

There’s no reason for her to be gagging-.

“Could it be…?”

I know that before morning sickness, people usually gag when they’re pregnant.

Half-wondering, I look at Seo Yerin, who is pointing to the cola with a pale face.

“Here, drink this quickly.”

Seo Yerin soothes her stomach with the cola.

In the meantime, Choi Jin-ah glanced at me, seemingly sharing my thoughts, and showed her concern.

“Yerin-ah, what’s wrong? Are you feeling really unwell?”

“Do you want to go to the hospital right away?”

“No, it’s not that.”

Seo Yerin, wiping the cola off her lips, muttered while patting her stomach.

“My stomach is just too full.”

“Hmm?”

“What?”

“I’m too full. That’s why I felt bloated and nauseous with the food in front of me.”

“But you didn’t eat anything.”

“That’s right. You didn’t even touch the chicken.”

Did she eat something before coming here?

But if she moved so vigorously, she should have digested it all by now.

Seo Yerin glared at me sharply.

“I told you to just spit it out inside, you fool.”

“……”

“……”

“Why do you insist on spitting it out in your mouth? You know you get full after swallowing a few times because you have a huge amount, right?”

“……”

“……”

“It’s not even tasty. Ugh, Woojin, you’re so annoying.”

Ahem.

After an awkward cough, I quietly returned to my seat.

“This place’s takoyaki is really delicious.”

“Oh, yes. Ahem, right?”

Choi Jin-ah’s face turned bright red.

It seemed that such a conversation was hard for her to accept.

With her mouth tightly shut, Choi Jin-ah ate the takoyaki.

Yet, she kept glancing at me, gauging my reaction.

After pouring water into the cup noodles.

Choi Jina quietly gathered her share and stood up.

“I, I, I’m going to go.”

“Why don’t you stay and eat?”

“I’ll take it and eat it.”

“Just eat here. Why make it awkward?”

If I just run away from here, wouldn’t I really become a weirdo?

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Seo Yerin is still leaning against the bed, just rubbing her belly and grumbling.

“I, I just want to eat takoyaki, nothing else.”

I wanted to argue about what else there was to eat here.

The moment I saw Choi Jina’s gaze on my lower body, I had no choice but to let her go.

“Take care.”

“Y-Yes!”

Choi Jina quickly placed the takoyaki package on top of the cup noodles and ran away.

Watching her, I sighed and went back inside.

Seo Yerin, who was staring blankly at the remaining takoyaki, muttered a word.

“Ujina, takoyaki looks like a d*ck.”

“……”

“So I don’t want to eat it. I sucked on yours too much earlier.”

“Do you know what kind of image I have because of you now?”

“A human gas station, next-generation food source, self-sufficient man, a guy who feeds sperm as a late-night snack, a man who fills you up in many ways?”

He took Yerin’s hand and pulled her up.

Pulling her close, he shoved his hand under her clothes, grabbing her breast.

“Uhh?”

“Why’re you the only one full? Let me have a taste too.”

“Bu-but then-! If you eat that-!”

“No, you can fill me up too, can’t you?”

“Ah.”

He said, glancing down at her chest, and Yerin, flustered, replied,

“This is for our baby to eat.”

Look at her, already worrying, and it’s not even here yet.

* * *

While Yerin was in her dorm, trying her damnedest to hold back her moans.

“……”

“……”

Back in the room, Jinah was kneeling, head bowed.

The ramen was swollen and the takoyaki was going cold.

And in front of her, like a demon, Minjoohee was staring down at her.

If she’d known, she should have just gone full brazen and eaten there.

Jinah internally cursed her mistake.

“Jinah.”

“Yes, unnie!”

“How long are you going to stay here?”

“……”

It was just like her mother’s nagging, pushing her about when she’d get a job.

Of course, the issue wasn’t about money.

Jinah was in the top 0.1% in terms of assets compared to her peers, after all.

“You said you’d overcome your father. That you’d stay here for a while to stop being pushed around.”

“……”

“I heard the people watching you are all gone already, though?”

“……”

“Hoo, I understand that you have some kind of trauma. Yeah, there’s nothing I can do about that.”

“Unnie.”

Moved to tears by Min Joo-hee who accepted her as she was.

“But are you trying to beat your father in martial arts?”

The fact that flew in was so heavy that it took her breath away.

“Why are you bulking up here?”

“Bu, bulking up?”

“Are you really asking because you don’t know?”

“Uh, unnie. I’m still managing myself.”

It’s not like she’s just eating recklessly.

She said that, but Min Joo-hee shook her head.

“Woo-jin has gained some weight too, but not compared to you.”

“Hey, compared to Woo-jin, I’m still-.”

She agreed that Kim Woo-jin had gained some weight, but it was hard to accept that she was at that level.

“Still…”

But what came to mind was the situation just now.

Looking at her sweating profusely just a moment ago in the early morning, it seemed impossible to gain weight even if she wanted to.

In the end, Choi Jin-ah kept her mouth shut.

Min Joo-hee pointed to the violin case, saying there was a simple way to refute Choi Jin-ah.

“Get into position.”

“What? Suddenly?”

“Hurry.”

Since she wasn’t being asked to play the violin in the early morning, she got into position as told.

Squish.

A thickness she had never felt before.

As she tilted her head to play the violin, the double chin she had never known in her life asserted its presence.

“…”

Choi Jin-ah now sensed the crisis and her face turned pale.

“Uh, uh, unnie.”

“Hoo, from today, you’re working out with me. Stay in the room until you lose all the weight.”

“Sis?”

“And no late-night snacks.”

“Siiis!”