Chapter 137 – Homophobia (5)

Homophobia (5)

Thump-thump-thump-!

“Lee Hye-ji!”

Suddenly, a harsh noise and shouting in the head.

“Lee Hyeji-! I know you’re here!”
“… Uh-“

Lee Hye-ji let out a light saliva and opened her eyes.

No—in fact, he wasn’t sure if he had opened her eyes or not.

Open your eyes, close your eyes…

It was the same that all I could see was black darkness.

She just held on to her hazy mind and touched her floor.

She curled up halfway up from her slumber and stared at the place where the door had been.

Awesome profit!

The door that had let out a violent knock slowly opened as if responding to his gaze.

As she opened the door, the beams of light that had pooled outside her door poured down on her in a straight line.

“What- were you still sleeping?”

A beam of artificial light bombarding her face with authenticity.

Lee Hye-ji looked at the woman holding the flashlight, her eyes frowning even more.

“Isn’t it a bit late from the first day you came back?”

Long, tall height with messy hair.

The sharp eyes and the tear point underneath them like a dot.

It was Hyojin Kim.

Lee In-ja, a female camp member who implicitly took over the role until Lee Hye-ji took over her supply, and Lee In-ja, who is supported by the female camp members next to Linnea.

She was also the only camp member she knew, except for her two friends.

It was because she was the female camp member that her president asked her to bring before she finished her report, and she was the one who secretly made unreasonable demands as soon as her president left.

“How many hours have passed since the sun rose, what if I am sleeping all over the place?”

There are some things in life that feel like intuition without any proof.

“Who is going to do the work? What- I did the supply yesterday, so should I just finish the supply today?”

A gut feeling that someone hates you.

A gut feeling that someone hates you so fervently that you don’t think you’ve done anything, or you can’t remember.

“I heard that he shouted that he would do another investigation… Truly, the seller is good.”

Lee Hye-ji’s ‘someone’ was sarcastic in a twisted tone.

Gentlely – the flickering flashlight moved away from Lee Hye-ji’s face and illuminated the entire room.

One short candle and snacks for the celebration.

And her two friends, Jeong Da-jung and Park Seul-ah.

Remembering the scenery of last night, Lee Hye-ji’s face turned white like a sheet of paper.

However, after recalling her memories, Lee Hye-ji’s face regained her true color.

Two friends who were overly frightened at the word that they just slept together and tore their heads.

The memory of crouching down after cleaning the room the two friends had left was clear.

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Kim Hyo-jin’s flashlight busily moved while Lee Hye-ji secretly let out a sigh of relief.

A ray of light that relentlessly searches every nook and cranny.

The purpose of finding something is so obvious that it makes me wonder—

“Under-“

Kim Hyo-jin’s mouth opened first.

A sour smile that could be seen so clearly even in the dim light of the flashlight.

“… Isn’t it good to have a good back, not a sales person?”

Lee Hye-ji’s eyebrows twitched at that pure mockery and ridicule.

No matter how you think about it, it wasn’t here.

It wasn’t the sarcasm and ridicule you had to hear just because you overslept.

Lee Hye-ji’s face hardened gradually.

Thud- thud-

However, this time, Kim Hyo-jin moved first.

Kim Hyo-jin, who strode towards her with her cool stride, looked down at her.

She didn’t open her mouth but made eye contact with Lee Hye-ji, who was looking up at her blankly, and spoke the following words.

“I gathered all the people.”
“… Yes?”
“Now, everyone except you and I are gathered together and waiting.”

On the spot yesterday.

The eyes looking down at the person itself with a low whisper.

“Hyeji-ssi, unlike her appearance, has a nasty side.”
“… Yes?”

Lee Hye-ji forgot what she was trying to say and she asked in a daze.

“No- it’s so different from the image Da-jeong and Seul-ah told me about.”
“…”

Long narrowed eyes and lips holding a mocking smile.

And two familiar names spilling from their lips.

“Still, you know me as an older sister, but you use me really frugally and well? Yesterday’s supply was ordered by the president, so even if you leave it out of the question, I slept in from the first day and woke you up― gathering the scattered children and leading them to one place― I’m doing most of the work.”

Among her two friends last night, Hyo-jin was the name that went up and down the most after Linnae.

Hyojin unnie, Hyojin unnie, Hyojin unnie—

That alone made it clear at once how much they trusted and depended on Kim Hyo-jin.

It was not so good to have a difficult relationship with Kim Hyo-jin.

If the relationship between herself and Kim Hyo-jin becomes uncomfortable, of course the relationship with her friends will also become uncomfortable.

Also, even if they weren’t her friends, Hyeji Lee knew exactly what her subjects were.

There was nothing good about the stone that rolled in again, losing to Lee In-ja, who boasted a great influence on the female camp members.

To be honest, I wanted to maintain an amicable relationship.

Besides, considering what Kim Hyo-jin was saying now, she was hardly wrong.

Perhaps she herself was not hated for no reason, but hated for a reason.

“…”

That thought made Lee Hye-ji lower her head even further.

“Sorry, sorry…”
“No. She didn’t mean to apologize.”

But it didn’t change anything.

Whether she was aware of the situation or not, Kim Hyo-jin’s eyes were so sharp, and the words she spit out were thorny.

No matter how I thought about it, it was too sharp.

“And take this too.”

A piece of paper caught Lee Hye-ji’s eyes as she raised her head at the words that followed.

Kim Hyo-jin was holding out the familiar paper fluttering at her.

A sheet of A4 paper, half crumpled and in a mess.

“… Ah-“

It was a report I had forgotten after submitting it to the president.

The other side of the camp members’ demands are mercilessly drawn through.

“Yesterday, the president asked me to deliver it.”

Kim Hyo-jin said, looking at the few circles in her report.

Countless circles next to only one name.

Teouk-!

“Go, thank you.”

Lee Hye-ji hurriedly handed her a piece of paper and turned her face down.

Kim Hyo-jin, who had been watching the scene quietly, smiled again with a bitter smile.

“No.”

… I was going to deliver it sooner, but I don’t think it’s the right time.

“… Yes? I beg your pardon?”

An inaudible whisper in Lee Hye-ji’s ear while hiding the gift the president gave to the others.

No, it was a whisper so low that she couldn’t hear it, even if she didn’t have to.

Kim Hyo-jin did not answer Lee Ji-hye’s question.

She gave a strange smile and just shrugged her shoulders.

“How long are you going to sit like that? Do I have to do the same to raise him up?”
“… Ah—ah, no!”

Hyeji Lee stood up and brushed her butt as if she had been burned.

Kim Hyo-jin confirmed that Lee Hye-ji got up from her seat, and then she turned around without saying a word.

It was as if her appearance was like pressure to follow her and stop acting nonsense. Lee Hye-ji hurriedly held out her hand.

“Hey, over there—!”
“…”

Kim Hyo-jin, who only turns her head to check on her at Lee Hye-ji’s urgent call.

Lee Hye-ji forced a smile on her lips at her pointy eyes that didn’t get better.

“I-as far as I know, Mr. Hyo-jin is her older sister–just be comfortable with it, sister.”
“That’s Okay. I’m not good at things like that because I’m shy.”
“… Ah yes.”

There was no use in deliberately spitting out a sullen voice.

Kim Hyo-jin was leaving her room at a faster pace than before.

“That—Hyo, Hyojin unnie—!”
“…”

Still, Lee Hye-ji stopped Kim Hyo-jin once more.

If you don’t make a tough relationship, you don’t make it—

Work was work.

There was something more important to Lee Hye-ji than receiving that sharp hatred from Kim Hyo-jin.

Hyeji Lee smiled again as she gripped the paper she was holding tighter.

“Is it okay if I ask Hyojin unnie’s request here? I think it would be better and save more time…”
“Here?”
“Yes.”

Hyojin Kim.

She was the one that female campers trusted and relied on, and at the same time, she was the one who requested the most supplies yesterday.

A demanding camp member who continually demanded supplies from all of her female camp members rather than her own.

That’s why it wasn’t bad for her to accept Kim Hyo-jin’s requirements here and now.

No, getting it right now was an advantage in the future supply investigation.

With Kim Hyo-jin’s requirements as a guide, you can adjust the requirements of others.

Because I can finish re-examining supplies without blushing as much as possible.

That was the way Jihye Lee lived and eventually all the female camp members could live.

‘I’ll give you one last chance.’

Last chance.

No one knows what the president will look like after this last chance is over.

He’s obviously treating himself with a softer attitude than during the quarantine period, but-

Rather, it scared the president even more.

The president, who decides his fate like flipping his palm, was terribly frightening.

“… Why me?”

That’s why Lee Hye-ji couldn’t understand.

Kim Hyo-jin, smiling with a mocking smile on her face-

Her last words, as if she had been waiting for them.

“You don’t like it?”