Chapter 267 – The Protagonist Is Being Targeted (7)
“Um… so, can I transfer the money now?”
“Yes, once the transfer is complete, the landlord will confirm and sign.”
Following the real estate agent’s instructions, Eunju transferred the agreed amount. Now, all that was left was to sign a few documents, and the contract would be finalized.
In the quiet atmosphere, I sat next to Yewha, quietly observing Eunju and Harin signing the contract.
Hmm.
Honestly, I was a little surprised.
When Yewha said she was going to the real estate office, I had a hunch, but… I never imagined that the villa they were signing a contract for would be Yewha’s building. How could such a coincidence happen?
Is God pushing Harin and Eunju to have a childhood friend’s love triangle?
No, the God candidate is me, with the heroine app. Then, this must be fate.
The two of them arrived a few minutes after Yewha and I entered the real estate office. Harin looked surprised to see me in a place that wasn’t our meeting spot, and Eunju… she didn’t seem surprised, but how should I put it?
When she made eye contact with me, she flinched slightly and avoided my gaze. She seemed hesitant, like she had something to say.
“It’s all done.”
“Oh, great. You’ve done well. It’s all finished.”
“Ah, thank you.”
The contract was quickly completed. Jeong Eunju bowed her head to the real estate agent, who was smiling as he spoke.
After the documents were exchanged and the real estate agent said a few final words, the meeting concluded.
“Can we leave now?”
“Yes, yes, you’re all set.”
As the atmosphere shifted to departure, Yewha grabbed her handbag and looked at Eunju and Harin, saying,
“If anything comes up, please contact me. Room 403 is spacious, so you shouldn’t have any trouble living there.”
“Ah, yes. Thank you. Please get home safely.”
“Okay. Jinhyun, I’m going now, okay?”
Yewha said goodbye to Eunju and Harin, then smiled at me.
Yewha seemed quite surprised to learn that the people signing the contract today were people I knew, but she discreetly gave us some space.
I had introduced Yewha to Harin and Eunju as my friend.
We left the real estate office, and the three of us were left alone.
“……”
“……”
“……”
Harin, Eunju, and I stared at each other silently for a moment.
It was definitely not like this when we met before or in the group chat, but it felt a little awkward.
“Um. Should we go to a café first?”
“Ah, yeah. Let’s do that.”
“Okay.”
Still, after I broke the silence first, we started talking as we walked to the café, and the awkward atmosphere quickly dissipated.
“I saw it last time, but this café is really nice.”
Eunju said, looking around the first floor of the café.
I smiled happily and led them to the office on the second floor. The guest room was spacious and nice, but it had become almost like Dajeong’s personal manga studio.
“But why did you make the office so big?”
“Office?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, because I have to use it?”
While Eunju was speechless at my confident answer, Harin asked,
“So, while other people are working part-time, you just play here?”
“That’s right.”
“You don’t work at all?”
“Nope.”
“Aren’t you bored?”
“No way. Playing Legend League makes time fly.”
“You’re a total tyrant boss.”
Harin chuckled.
Still, I often give them snacks, and the hourly wage is pretty good.
I sometimes go downstairs to check on them or help with work.
“Why, are you going to work part-time here?”
“Huh? Ah, part-time? No?”
I asked Harin jokingly, but she suddenly stuttered.
“I was just joking, why are you so flustered?”
“Ah, what are you talking about? I’m not flustered.”
Anyway, after seating them on chairs, I brought some drinks and light snacks.
“Here.”
“Ah, thank you.”
“Thanks.”
We talked about how we had been doing and what we would be doing in the future.
We discussed Eunju’s studies abroad and Harin’s school life.
They were also curious about me, but there wasn’t much to talk about before I got the heroine app, and after I got it, I was just constantly targeting girls.
I just told them some stories about difficult customers I had encountered while working part-time in the past.
“Come to think of it, did you have lunch?”
“Not yet.”
“No, not yet.”
“Then let’s go out and eat something. I know a lot of good places.”
It wasn’t really enough to just eat the bread at the café for lunch.
I was looking through the list of restaurants I had saved on my phone when Eunju got up from her seat.
“Um… but I need a moment.”
“Huh? Why?”
“Um, where’s the bathroom?”
“Ah. There’s a room next to that one, right? There’s one inside the room. You can use that one.”
“Okay, thank you.”
We had coffee that Yewha bought at the real estate office, and we had drinks here too.
Eunju nodded and quickly headed towards the bathroom.
Harin, who had been quietly watching Eunju, pulled her chair a little closer to me after Eunju closed the door.
I wondered what was going on, but then she poked my side.
“Hey.”
“Yeah?”
“Did you do something wrong to Eunju?”
“Wrong?”
I tilted my head.
Did I do something wrong to Eunju?
I thought I had been very gentlemanly in the group chat lately… well, not really, but I thought I had been friendly and appropriately responsive as a childhood friend.
“No? Why?”
“It’s just… how should I put it when she looks at you? Ugh, her gaze is a bit strange.”
I had noticed it too.
It wasn’t something that had become strange in the middle, it was like that from the beginning. Especially at the real estate office, when I was with Yewha, her gaze was strangely intense.
It was a kind of hazy look, and Harin seemed to have noticed it too.
“It’s probably nothing.”
I shrugged.
“Right? If you did something wrong, apologize.”
“Nah, I didn’t do anything.”
“Really?”
“Real fact.”
“Pff.”
Harin chuckled at my words.
“You did that before and made Eunju cry.”
“What? When did I?”
“Don’t you remember?”
Harin’s eyes widened.
I didn’t remember at all.
Rather, I was about to say that you were the one who cried when we first met, but I stopped myself because I thought I might get pinched in the side.
“Hey, you…”
Harin started explaining when I had made Eunju cry, like she was a history teacher.
“……”
And Eunju, who had come out of the bathroom, made her gaze even stranger when she saw Harin and me like that.
* * *
Regardless of Eunju’s strange gaze, the three of us had a fun time talking and parted ways.
[Me: Did you get home safely?]
[Joo Harin: Yeah, just got in.]
[Jeong Eunju: I’m home too~~.]
We had a hearty meal at a delicious restaurant, enjoyed dessert at an ice cream shop, sang songs at a karaoke, and then took a light walk before parting ways.
It was a very enjoyable day.
After seeing them off at the bus stop, I went to see Yewha in the evening.
“Oh, Jinhyun?”
“Here, I brought you a salad.”
Yewha’s eyes widened as if she hadn’t expected me, but she smiled happily and opened the door for me.
Actually, Yewha had told me her house password, but I pressed the doorbell instead of just opening the door and going in.
She probably expected to hang out with me after our chance encounter today.
Originally, today was the day I had promised to meet Harin and Eunju, but after parting with them, I spent the night having a good time with Yewha so she wouldn’t feel left out.
“Haa, that was fun.”
“Yeah, it was a masterpiece.”
We watched a movie together.
“Ugh, do I have to do it from the back too?”
“Wasn’t that what you were asking for when you wiggled your butt?”
“That’s, hmmm…!”
We also did some naughty things.
Whenever I have naughty time with Yewha, I always make sure to do it with her butt.
She always pretends to resist a little, but when I do it forcefully, she loves it like crazy.
And the next day.
After waking up in the morning and lightly cuddling with Yewha, I went home and finished my daily training with Delia, then had breakfast with Sujeong.
“Is it a horror game again today?”
“Uung. Today it’s a survival horror game… ugh. They want me to survive against zombies.”
Her expression wasn’t good, so I asked, and as expected, it was a horror game.
Sujeong’s broadcasts were getting better every day. When she reduced her Legend League time and focused on general games, Sujeong’s reactions became much more diverse.
She still didn’t turn on her camera, but surprisingly, Dajeong was the key.
Sujeong, who was captivated by Dajeong’s clean and beautiful drawing style, first asked her to draw her character, and Dajeong readily nodded.
For reference, the cost was not money, but 10 dates with me.
Hmm.
Dajeong drew a very cute and expressive character for Sujeong’s broadcasts, and Sujeong was using it effectively on her broadcasts and on MeTube.
When she played horror games, her voice would become high-pitched and she would scream, which was very popular with MeTube viewers, so there were a lot of requests for horror games recently.
I also watched the live broadcasts sometimes and made sure to watch all the MeTube videos, and it was definitely the most fun and had the most views when she played horror games.
After breakfast, I picked up the sulking Sujeong in a princess carry and placed her in her broadcast room, then headed to the PC café that was about to open.
I didn’t go alone, I went with Delia.
“Ah, do I have to install all of this?”
“Yeah. It’s a lot, right?”
Hundreds of computers were piled up in the PC café.
The computers had arrived one after another last night after I parted ways with Harin and Eunju, and I had received them all before going to Yewha.
“This much…”
Delia had a strangely confident expression.
She said she would do it all by herself and told me to rest, but I tilted my head and sat down on a chair.
“Um… if I finish quickly, can I spend the whole day with Jinhyun today?”
Delia asked shyly.
From the beginning, I was prepared to spend the whole day installing them. I nodded, and Delia smiled happily and started installing the computers with magic.
“Oh…”
The scene of her opening dozens of boxes at once and connecting the parts and wires in the air was truly spectacular.
I stared blankly at the scene, and then, feeling like I couldn’t just do nothing, I quickly wrote a job posting for part-time workers.
[Crystal PC is looking for part-time workers to join us.]
Actually, when I was recruiting part-time workers for Café Delia, I only hired women because Yujeong was going to work there too, but this time, there was no particular need for that.
However.
‘Still, it’s nice to have a flower garden.’
Since the enchantment effect stickers would create various positive effects, there would be almost no difficult customers, and unlike a café, a PC café is a place where pretty female part-time workers are very popular.
Besides, even if something happened, the PC café was right next to the café.
If there were any unruly elementary or middle school students, I could step in myself.
I decided to make the PC café a flower garden as well, just like the café, and finished the job posting.
The hourly wage was 11,500 won.
The basic hourly wage for part-time workers at Café Delia was 11,000 won, so this meant that the part-time workers at the PC café would be getting a higher wage, but I planned to raise the overall hourly wage for the café part-time workers to 12,000 won next month when the year changed, so for now, I set it slightly higher than the café.
The managers, baristas, and bakery staff would get even more than that.
I had plenty of money anyway. I could also use the Fortune Tracker to only hire people who would work hard, so I didn’t feel any pressure to give them a high wage.
“It’s all done, Jinhyun!”
“Already?”
Delia had completed the installation of all the PCs in less than an hour.
As promised, I decided to spend the day with her. She smiled brightly and took me home, seating me in the passenger seat of the car in the garage.
“Huh? Where are we going?”
“Hehe, it’s a secret.”
Delia smiled mischievously and started driving the car that I had given her as a gift.
Delia had easily obtained her driver’s license a while ago.
Her driving skills were excellent, and although Sujeong hadn’t gotten hers yet… she would be able to get it soon if she learned from Delia.
Both Yewha and Delia.
It felt really good to ride in the passenger seat of a car driven by a beautiful woman.
I ate the drinks and snacks I had gotten from Café Delia while leaving the PC café, and I kept looking at the scenery outside and then at Delia.
Delia smiled shyly every time I looked at her, but she didn’t lose her concentration while driving.
“We’re here.”
“Huh? A department store?”
Delia had driven for about 30 minutes. She parked the car in the parking lot and said, and a large building stretched out above us.
“Yes. There’s a large clothing market next to this department store.”
Delia’s face flushed slightly.
“There are a lot of cosplay shops there too…”
“Ah.”
Looking at Delia’s expression and tone, I understood what she meant.
I often enjoyed cosplay with Sujeong and Delia.
It was good to buy things online, but it also seemed good to go and try on the costumes or see how they looked on our bodies before deciding.
I could also feel the materials.
Nice, nice.
“Shall we go then?”
“Yes…”
I took Delia’s hand and headed to our destination.
* * *
Rolling around-
“Gasp, it’s already this late…!”
Jeong Eunju, who had been spacing out and rolling around on her bed, suddenly came to her senses when she looked at the clock.
There was no time for this.
Even if she was a music MeTuber, she had to prepare.
Jeong Eunju quickly finished her makeup, got dressed, grabbed her handbag, and left her room, putting on her shoes at the entrance.
“Huh? Where are you going? Are you meeting Harin and Jinhyun again today?”
“Nope~.”
“Then?”
“I’m just going shopping by myself. Hee.”
Yoo Jisuk, Jeong Eunju’s mother, chuckled at her daughter’s happy appearance.
“Okay, be careful.”
As she was about to leave the entrance, Jeong Huil poked his head out.
“Should I go with you, Dad?”
“What do you mean go with me? I’ll be back!”
Jeong Eunju pushed away her father’s face, which had suddenly popped out, and left the front door.
When she went shopping abroad, she mostly went with Jina or Yesul, so she wasn’t used to shopping alone, but she had no choice in Korea.
She couldn’t call Harin or Jinhyun, whom she had just met yesterday, again today, and more than anything, she was a little embarrassed to show her shopping list to her childhood friends.
‘I need to get some of the latest trendy clothes… and also order some custom-made costumes. And I need to find a studio with a grand piano… ugh, I’m so busy.’
Jeong Eunju was a MeTuber who covered music while wearing cosplay and a mask.
She had some cosplay costumes that she had brought from abroad, but she needed to wear new costumes for the new songs she was going to cover.
Besides, Jeong Eunju didn’t have a piano.
The piano she used for practice was a piano worth less than 2 million won in her Boston dorm, so she had sold it as used when she came back. She had been filming her MeTube videos by borrowing the grand piano room at the music school when no one was there.
She had brought her flutes and violins, which were very expensive, worth several thousand dollars, but she had to find a practice piano and a studio to film her MeTube videos from now on.
‘But first, I need to get the costumes today.’
Jeong Eunju took the subway. The place she was going today was a large clothing market with the most famous cosplay shops in Korea.
It was her first time going to a cosplay shop in Korea, but she had been to many with Jina and Yesul abroad, so she didn’t think it would be awkward.
“Hoo, it’s huge.”
After getting off the subway and walking a little, she saw a large department store. There was a cosplay shop in the building right next to it.
Jeong Eunju quickly moved her feet and entered the building.
She arrived at the floors with the cosplay shops and started looking around a bit.
“Ah.”
There was a lot of stuff. The scale was definitely smaller than in the US, but Eunju was happy that she thought she could find some pretty good costumes.
She looked around here and there, filled with anticipation. As she was looking around several sections.
Thud-
“Ouch…”
Jeong Eunju was distracted and bumped into someone while turning a corner, causing her to fall.
She landed on her butt.
‘Ouch, that hurts.’
Eunju rubbed her forehead lightly, wiped away the tears that had welled up, and looked up.
The person was offering her a hand with an apologetic expression.
“Ah, I’m sorry. Are you okay… huh?”
“Yes, I’m okay… huh?”
And Jeong Eunju looked at the person who had offered her a hand and the blonde woman next to them with a slightly dumbfounded expression.
