Chapter 108 – 108. Transfer Offer (2)

“Ex-girlfriend… ?”

Director Park Seong-pil had to take the word out of his mouth without realizing it.
And he steals a glance at director Hwangbo once again, wondering if he made a mistake.

Should I say I’m lucky? Director Hwangbo remained expressionless.

“Your ex-girlfriend? Are you talking to me?”

However, his voice was cold, and he naturally let go of his words.
Director Park Seong-pil watched the conversation between the two women without finding the time to intervene.

“Yes. Is it not?”
“…Not really? It never happened.”
“That’s nice. You seemed pretty close when you were a bot duo.”
“Bottom duo… I can’t even remember how many years ago. But did you even find the video at that time?”

Jihye Lee smiled softly.

“As a player who respects the coach, it is a very natural thing to do.”
“Okay? It seems to me…”

Hwangbo Ji-yeon follows her and smiles at her slightly.

“You seem to be jealous of me?”
“Ha, are you jealous?”

Lee Ji-hye frowned for the first time since she entered the room.
However, she soon returns to her laid-back expression of her.

“It’s not even my ex-girlfriend, so what’s there to be jealous of?”
“……”
“……”

Tingle…
The two women were beautiful and smiling, but the temperature in the room seemed to be dropping.

While director Park Seong-pil, who was in between, was restless, it was Hwang Ji-yeon who spoke first.

“So, how do you feel?”

She said Ji-Hye Lee had come to see her coach’s ex-girlfriend her, so she asked how he felt about him.

“I do not know.”

Lee Ji-hye, who rhymed with ambiguous words, continues her words her.

“You don’t like it?”
“…Huh.”
“It is. If you hadn’t paid the slightest attention to the coach, how funny would it have been for me to notice my ex-girlfriend and all. But you’ve been asking me to be jealous very seriously, haven’t you?”
“……”
“That’s why I said I didn’t like it. She said she wasn’t my ex, but she seems to have feelings for Coach.”

Although she was Lee Ji-hye, who said it casually, a huge ripple arose in Hwangbo Ji-yeon’s mind when she heard those words.

‘That I have feelings for Kim Jeong-soo?’

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t interested.
It was a bottom duo that she had been with for a while, and her coach-player relationship had been around for quite some time.

But it was never the realm of love.

Just a guy who cares a little bit.

“…It’s a little absurd to hear that.”

Hwangbo Jiyeon slowly opened her mouth.
Looking straight into Jihye’s eyes.

“As you said, I’m not Kim Jung-soo’s ex-girlfriend, and I won’t be like that in the future either. It’s as if I’m in love with Kim Jeong-soo, the way you talk makes people a little uncomfortable.”
“Is that so?”

And Ji-hye Lee, who doesn’t avoid those eyes.

“I will never have a deep relationship with coach Kim Jeong-soo. I heard you well.”
“…Okay.”

But it was Hwangbo Jiyeon who eventually nodded her head with her deceitful face.

‘I feel like I’ve lost something. Why did I promise to not like Kim Jeong-soo?’

Hwangbo Jiyeon couldn’t hide her embarrassed face of her and she sat there blankly.
Then Jihye Lee smiled with her satisfied face and jumped up from her seat.

Surprised by her, her director Park Seong-pil looked at her.

“Wizdom player? We are now going to talk about the transfer offer…”

It was none other than Hwang Ji-yeon who stopped such director Park Seong-pil.

“That’s Okay.”
“Uh? Director Hwangbo, what do you mean by that?”

The goose that lays golden eggs that will surely bring money to the gaming team if caught.
But you’re going to let it go with my own hands?

Director Park Seong-pil’s face seemed to say that.
However, Hwang Ji-yeon shook her head one after another.

“You heard about it earlier, too. That kid, I have no intention of leaving unless coach Kim Jeong-soo moves the team.”
“You know me well. The offer is greatly appreciated, but in my opinion there is no change.”
“Ah…”

Unlike director Park Seong-pil, who licked his lips in regret, Hwang Ji-yeon’s face did not show any regret.
Rather, there is a subtle anger.

“Then I’ll be gone.”

Lee Ji-hye nodded and headed for the door.
Seeing her back her, Hwangbo Jiyeon opened her mouth.

“But just in case.”
“…?”
“If the Battle Angels are destroyed, can the team not change coaches at that time as well? If that happens, coach Jeong-soo Kim, who has nowhere to go, can come to our team.”

Thanks to this, director Park Seong-pil’s expression changed subtly.

‘I’ve never heard of such a story before?’

As general manager, I had no intention of bringing a new coach to the team.
However, Hwang Ji-yeon’s sharp eyes made the words slip into her.

Silence lasted for a while.
Hwang Ji-yeon was looking at Lee Ji-hye’s back with a face that seemed to be wondering what this was like.

‘No matter how I can get up to the 3rd division, it’s never an easy place from the 2nd division.’

However, when she turned her head, Lee Ji-hye’s expression her showed a bright smile.

“Even if we are relegated from the second division, the coach will not be fired.”
“… How can you be sure of that?”
“Hmm. Coach Hwangbo really doesn’t know a thing about our coach?”

Hwangbo Ji-yeon, who was angry at the moment, raised her voice without realizing it.

“I’ve been by his side more times than you!”

Afterwards, she realizes that she has acted so childishly that her face turns red.

‘My, why did I do that to my shame?’

Jihye Lee, who was looking at Hwangbo Jiyeon like that, somehow made a triumphant expression on her face, and she said in a relaxed tone.

“It’s a deep relationship, but time doesn’t matter. By the way, it seems like you keep doing something different from saying you’re not interested in the coach… Please keep what you said. Even if you don’t, there are many friends who have a love-hate relationship.”
“……”

This time, Hwang Bo Ji-hye had no choice but to send her leaving Ji-hye as it was.
She made a shocking discovery about her outburst of words.

‘Even if you don’t, there are many friends who are in a love-hate relationship?’

Director Park Seong-pil, who was a bit dull, looked blank as if he didn’t notice the meaning of the words, but Hwang Ji-yeon, who was fighting with Lee Ji-hye, could tell.
The meaning of ‘love-hate relationship’ is another word for ‘team member and love rival’.

‘I can’t…Is there?’

Hwangbo Jiyeon started to shake her legs in her nervousness for some reason.

A transfer offer? She had long since forgotten the same thing.

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As I waited outside her room where Lee Ji-hye entered her, looking at her cell phone her, she opened the door and came out after her interview was over.
I asked her, not knowing what was going on inside her.

“Did you meet the Mad Tiger Gaming people?”

Ryu Seo-yoon refused her transfer offer like an iron wall, so she didn’t have to worry, but Lee Ji-hye replied that she would meet her once, so she was spied on like this.

“Yes.”

She said with a smile on her lips.

She was rationally convinced that Lee Ji-hye would not leave our team.
But I can’t hide a bit of anxiety.

When she heard of her recruitment offer, she had the worst assumptions in the back of her head since she walked into the room.

She imagined what would happen to her if Lee Ji-hye, whom she had raised all along, left.

‘I can’t accept transfer offers from now on.’

From the start, it was something that would n’t happen if the gaming team did n’t accept her transfer offer her.
It doesn’t seem like it’s really possible to cut players from the game team line because they’re worried that players might transfer, but it’s better than being engulfed in anxiety.

“Did I accept the transfer offer? Could it be?”

At that time, Lee Ji-hye spoke in a playful tone.
Looking at her appearance of her, she seemed to know roughly the result.

Secretly letting out a sigh of relief, I punched her in the head.

“Oh…!”
“Why did you go in if you wouldn’t even accept the transfer offer?”

Lee Ji-hye responded with a smile brighter than ever.

“I have something to check. It’s over now.”
“Okay…?”

She wasn’t sure what that meant, but she agreed.

“By the way, why are you here, Coach? Perhaps… “

Lee Ji-hye, who blurted out her words, speaks with a face as if expecting something from her.

“Worry… Did you do it? I’m afraid I’ll leave.”

I was obviously worried.
But she somehow felt like she met the Mad Tiger Gaming people to make me worry, so she decided to be grumpy.

“Well. How was it?”
“Yes?”
“Think about it yourself.”

Then she narrowed her eyes and pretended to stare at her, but she did not mean to give her the answer she wanted.

More than that, it was my turn to resolve the purpose of my coming here.

“You were inside Director Hwangbo, right?”
“…Yes. There was.”
“Okay? I’m going to meet him, so go first.”

Lee Ji-hye’s expression of her, which she had been smiling a moment ago, hardened in an instant.
Soon she speaks in a pleading tone.

“Can’t you see it?”
“What, why?”
“… Just… If you really want to go, you can’t.”

I don’t even know if I know
I’m just going to see my old friend, so maybe I’m jealous?

I smiled and stroked her hair.

“Our Wisdom is kind, we’ll be back soon, so we’re waiting for you.”
“…Don’t treat me like a child.”

I left her grumbling and went inside her room her.

Inside, two men and women were sitting, looking as if a storm had passed.

… Jihye Lee. What have you been doing?