Chapter 60 – Jeong Eun-Ji’s Humiliation (4)
Lunch the next day.
Despite the commotion yesterday, perhaps because Jeong Eun-ji did not actually take off her clothes, other people’s interest cooled down very quickly, and the time passed peacefully as if nothing had happened.
However, if you take a closer look at this group of four, including me, Yu-ri Lee, Su-yeon Choi, and Eun-ji Jeong, there have been quite a few changes…
“Water.”
While eating, I uttered only one word.
Lee Yu-ri and Choi Su-yeon both raised their heads and looked at me, not knowing what was happening.
Of course, what I said was not to those two.
“Hey.”
I called out to Eunji Jeong, who was eating, while pushing her glass of water in front of her.
Jeong Eun-ji, who didn’t even know she was calling me, looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Me?”
“Water.”
Eunji Jeong took one look at the glass of water in front of her, and took one look at my face, and she got irritated.
“Ah, order something like that! To be honest, it doesn’t matter if you do that-“
“Water.”
“Tsk…”
“Don’t you? Then why not watch yesterday’s video?”
Jeong Eun-ji, who had no idea what the ‘video’ was, blushed and snatched the cup of water in front of her.
“I’ll give it to you! You can give it to me!”
Jeong Eun-ji took her water cup and went to the water purifier, making it seem like she was suppressing her anger.
When Lee Yu-ri saw Jeong Eun-ji go to fetch water at my words, she couldn’t control her curiosity and asked me.
“Seongjin, what did you do yesterday?”
“Huh? Why?”
“No… Something happened so Eunji suddenly wanted to do as you asked. I’m sorry for saying this, but she… Doesn’t like you very much. When you told her to fetch water earlier, if it were normal, she would have grabbed me by the collar and made a fuss. I guess.”
“It’s no big deal. Yesterday, I saved you from being embarrassed as a penalty for betting, but I told you to follow my words unconditionally for a month.”
“… Eunji said you knew that?”
“If you don’t know, then what can I do? Get naked in front of so many kids? I have no choice.”
At my words, Choi Soo-yeon grinned and looked at Jeong Eun-ji, who was fetching water, with an accusatory expression.
“Hmph, you’re saying that after being so picky, you ended up becoming a slave? It’s amazing to see a senior with a dirty personality doing something like that.”
“Hey, my friend. Don’t talk nonsense.”
“But it’s true, right?”
Lee Yu-ri and Choi Soo-yeon were still feuding and keeping each other in check whenever they had the chance.
Meanwhile, Eunji Jeong took water and roughly dumped it in front of me.
“Okay, water. Are you done?”
“Yes. It would be great if your attitude was a little softer.”
“Fuck you.”
Jeong Eun-ji still did not give up her sharp attitude towards me.
Deciding that I needed more education, I tapped the table lightly.
“Eunji, come and sit here. What is the attitude of a slave towards his master?”
“No, who’s the slave? I’ll just put up with it and listen to you for a month-“
“That’s called slavery. But if a slave keeps snapping at his master and losing his temper, wouldn’t the master feel bad? Wouldn’t it be hard to think of what the master would do if he got upset?”
“Ugh… Okay, okay! And what kind of tone are you talking about? Are you some kind of father? I don’t want to hear it, so stop!”
“Attitude.”
“… Okay… I’ll restrain myself…”
Jeong Eun-ji obeyed my words, trembling.
Choi Su-yeon, who was watching from the side, openly laughed.
“Senior Eunji, you can’t really show off your strength? Do you think you’ve caught some kind of weakness? If it were your usual temperament, you would have rushed at me already.”
“Won’t you shut up? If you keep fussing, are you really going to be beaten?”
“Oh, by the way, don’t keep whining and scolding Suyeon.”
At those words, Jeong Eun-ji looked even more aggrieved.
“Why! He has nothing to do with the bet! Isn’t it my freedom to act towards him?”
“I care. Anyway, from now on, you don’t have to treat Sooyeon the same way you treat me. At least treat her the same way you treat Yuri.”
“…”
“I have to answer, right?”
“Okay!!! Everyone has eaten, so I can go now!? I’m going!”
Eunji Jeong turned around and tried to leave the restaurant first, as if she didn’t want to see me.
But I called her over right away.
“Stop.”
“Why again!”
“Throw away my plate and go.”
“…”
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Afternoon physical education class is self-study.
Now that she is on the main stage, Eunji Jeong begins to take out her huddle from her gym storage to relieve her stress.
As she was carrying the large hurdles, one on each arm, onto her track with a whimper, the face she least wanted to see appeared again.
“What are you doing?”
Seongjin Han.
Unbelievably, he was the culprit who beat her and made her sign a one-month slave contract.
Of course, it was she who caused things to get to that point, so Jeong Eun-ji couldn’t blame anyone and was in a position where she was in a position where she was sobbing and praying that the month would pass quickly.
“No matter how much it is self-study, at least leave me alone during class. I’m going to practice.”
“That’s too much. Do you think I came here to manipulate you into doing anything?”
“Uh.”
Jeong Eun-ji answered without even looking at Han Seong-jin.
However, Han Seong-jin, who thought she would argue further, instead remained silent.
Then she went into the gym and started to come out with hurdles on either side of her.
“How should I space this out?”
“… What are you doing?”
“It helps. You wouldn’t know it if you looked at it.”
“What?”
Jeong Eun-ji was momentarily shocked and embarrassed and asked back.
Are you helping me?
Why suddenly, for what reason?
Jeong Eun-ji, who thought there was definitely something up to her, heightened her guard even more and snatched one of the hurdles that Han Seong-jin was holding on her side.
“You don’t have to help, so just go.”
“I’m the one giving orders, not you? And even if it wasn’t like that, I thought you’d just say, ‘I’ll understand if you tell me~’ and just leave?”
Jeong Eun-ji chewed her lip and turned to Han Seong-jin.
He was about 1.5 heads taller than her and had an overwhelming size.
Just looking at her slightly exposed forearms as she held the hurdle at her side looked sturdy.
Jeong Eun-ji, who briefly turned her gaze to Han Seong-jin’s strong body, quickly came to her senses and maintained her distance again.
“Yes, I guess so. You’re great. Will you help me? Then place it in the white mark next to the track over there.”
I don’t know why Han Seong-jin suddenly came to help me, but since it’s like this, I’ll take at least a little revenge.
With that in mind, Eun-Ji Jeong pointed out the place to place her hurdles and told Seong-Jin Han to do the work.
Once her hurdles were all in place, Eunji Jeong stood at the starting line on the track, tapping her shoes on the floor, ready to start practicing.
At that time, Han Seong-jin approached again.
“Shall I measure the time?”
“It’s okay. I’m just going to warm up without worrying about the record.”
“What is the highest record so far?”
“12.19 seconds.”
“100 meter hurdles in 12 seconds? That’s so fucking fast.”
“It’s slow.”
Eunji Jeong answered calmly.
Among Jin Su-gyo’s men, there are very few people who can run 14 seconds for the 100-meter sprint, but even that was a slow record for her, who ran 12 seconds in the hurdles.
“I see. Then, I’m bored. Let’s just watch you run.”
“Get out of here. What kind of zoo monkey am I? If I’m bored, I go over there and play soccer with the boys.”
“The kids will really like it if I join them.”
“That’s your problem. Anyway, go somewhere else. I don’t care if other people, not even members or coaches, are watching.”
“What if you give me one day as a slave instead of letting me watch you train?”
“Call! It’s call! You must have said that right now!? They’re giving you one day less! It doesn’t matter if it’s sightseeing or anything else, so do whatever you want! No, now you can watch even if you don’t want to!”
Jeong Eun-ji, who had been refusing to look at Han Seong-jin, a bit down on her once again.
The good news is that this time it was pure rice cake with no needles inside.
Afterward, during her physical education class, Han Seong-jin watched Jeong Eun-ji run and sometimes helped her with her training.
Of course, the help I offered was just standing at the goal line with a stopwatch, recording the score, and setting up fallen hurdles, but I had no choice but to admit that there was much less to worry about compared to practicing alone.
‘It’s comfortable.’
Normally, the track and field coach would do this for me, but when I was practicing alone like now, I was worried about running with a stopwatch and wasting a lot of time setting up all the fallen hurdles myself, but now I was able to focus entirely on practice. Br〉
‘But why is this kid suddenly acting like he’s fine? Have I really changed… Have I…?’
When her thoughts of acknowledging that Han Seong-jin had changed rose, Jeong Eun-ji shook her head vigorously.
‘No, no, you did that to me yesterday! Is that it? He threatened me by stripping her of her feet and filming her!
With so many thoughts colliding with each other, there was no way she could properly concentrate on the obstacle in front of her.
Eunji Jeong was crossing the mid-point hurdle when her leg got caught hard, and her body lost balance in an instant.
‘Oh, damn it…! Mind…’
Jeong Eun-ji fell onto the track without even having time to curse herself and ask where she was concentrating.
“Ahh!”
As she had experienced this many times during practice, Eunji Jeong instinctively turned her body when she fell and prevented herself from getting seriously injured, but she could not stop the bleeding from the skin that was rubbed on the track.
“Ah, sir…”
Jeong Eun-ji swore softly because of the bitter sensation felt from her wound, and immediately Han Seong-jin, who was at her goal, came running.
“Hey, are you okay? Your legs and arms are bleeding right now.”
“Ugh… It’s okay. I’ve suffered worse injuries than this while practicing.”
“You don’t look okay. Hey, get on your back.”
While saying that, Han Seong-jin gave up his back.
“What? I don’t like it! I can just walk alone… Ah…”
Jeong Eun-ji was trying to get up on her own and frowned because of the pain from her leg rubbing against the floor.
“It’s bullshit if you say it hurts just to move. Just give it a piggyback ride.”
“Ah, that’s it…”
“Do you want me to listen if I give you an order?”
When Han Seong-jin presented the slave contract, Jeong Eun-ji bit her lip and approached his back.
“Really, everything is an order, it’s annoying…”
However, when I actually carried him on my back, I couldn’t deny that his back was much bigger, firmer, and warmer than I thought.
“Teacher, Eunji Jeong is injured, so I’m going to take her to the nurse’s office.”
After receiving permission from the physical education teacher, Han Seong-jin carried Jeong Eun-ji and headed to the nurse’s office.
Jeong Eun-ji, who usually made a fuss and cursed constantly when she was alone with Han Seong-jin, was very quiet this time all the way to the nurse’s office.
“Oh, hey.”
While walking down the hallway, Han Seong-jin called Jeong Eun-ji.
“Why?”
And Jeong Eun-ji’s voice as she answered was quite calm, unlike usual.
“My shoulder hurts. On the way out, massage my shoulder. Use the hand that hurts.”
‘… As expected, this kid hasn’t changed at all!’
Jeong Eun-ji only got 2 points, but she admits that Han Seong-jin has changed because he got better grades than her and saved her from getting naked in front of so many kids, but she can’t accept it easily.
