Chapter 287 – Episode 287 – Just Kidding~(1)
“Then, Sujeong, I’ll be off?”
“Okay, have a good day! Oh, wait a sec!”
“Why?”
“Um, *mwah*.”
Before heading to the cafe, Sujeong surprised me with a kiss goodbye.
“Hehe.”
Ooh yeah.
It’s a kiss we share every day, but it always makes me feel good. Her soft lips briefly touched mine, and then she smiled brightly at me, as always.
“I love you.”
“Me too.”
I replied to her love confession with a sweet voice, and Sujeong, looking satisfied, waved her hand at me with a ‘heehee’ laugh.
December 19th.
The day after I safely returned from my gourmet tour with Delia and Yewha.
Just yesterday, Sujeong was a little sulky because I had been away from home for the past four days…
But after taking a walk together in the evening and having a steamy night, it seemed like all those feelings had melted away.
I waved back at Sujeong and headed to the cafe for the first time in five days.
Click-
“Hello~.”
“Oh!”
Tap, tap, tap-!
“Boss! Did you have a good rest?”
As I entered the cafe through the back door, Shin-ah, the part-timer who was already there making coffee, greeted me with a bright expression.
Shin-ah’s face was blooming with smiles.
She’s really someone with high energy, no matter when I see her. How does she keep her energy up like this every single day?
She’s good at her job, and she’s also in charge of the atmosphere among the cafe part-timers, so Shin-ah was a great asset.
“Yeah, I had a good rest. How have you been, Shin-ah?”
“Hehe, I’ve been great. I spent all day yesterday resting and binge-watching dramas, so my condition is perfect!”
“That’s good to hear. Was everything okay at the cafe?”
“Yes! Hmm… If I had to say something, it’s that Yujeong kept saying ‘When is Jinhyun coming~’ and was lonely, that’s about it?”
Shin-ah giggled strangely and glanced at Yujeong, who was refilling straws and sugar containers.
“Was she?”
“Yes, yes. Oh! It’s a secret from Yujeong, okay?”
“Of course.”
As Shin-ah was cheerfully talking to me, Yujeong looked over at us and quickly approached.
“Hey, what are you talking about with Jinhyun again?”
“N-nothing! Well, I’ll go back to work!”
*Swish-*
Shin-ah disappeared, and Yujeong, who had been watching her go, leaned slightly against me.
“Jinhyun, let’s have lunch together later.”
“Sure, why not?”
“Yeah. Let’s go out, I found a good place. It’s not too far from here.”
Yujeong leaned a little more on me, guiding me to a spot where people couldn’t see us.
The staff lounge on the first floor.
After confirming that no one was inside, she gently touched my abs and leaned her chest against me.
I guess she was a little starved for affection too.
Well, it had been five days since we last saw each other, so it was understandable.
I had tormented her a few times in her dreams using Dream World while she was sleeping, but it seemed like dreams weren’t enough.
“Jinhyun-ah…”
Just as she was about to get closer to my face with her moist eyes,
“Excuse me, Jinhyun.”
“H-huh!”
A voice came from outside.
“Ah, Jiyun.”
Yujeong was startled and quickly moved away from me, her face flushed, while I greeted her with a calm expression.
Han Jiyun.
Currently, there were two managers at Delia, the cafe I was running.
One was, of course, Yujeong, and the other was a woman in her early 30s named Han Jiyun, whom I had hired at the beginning.
She had a lot of experience in the cafe business and was very good at her job, so she was in charge of managing the cafe on days when I wasn’t there or on weekends.
She asked me,
“Today is the day for the additional staff interviews, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Um, what time will they be coming…?”
“Ah, I told the interviewees to come between 2 and 3 today. After lunch, you can look at them with Yujeong in the guest room upstairs.”
“Ah, okay. I’ll do that.”
Her voice was soft.
When I first met her, she said it was okay for her to speak informally to me since there was a big age gap, but she continued to use formal language.
“Should we hire three people in total?”
“No. Reduce it to two.”
“Ah, then two it is. Is there anyone you particularly want?”
“Not really. Just pick whoever you like, Jiyun.”
I had originally planned to hire three additional staff members, but since Harin was also coming to work part-time.
Of course, I had to save a spot for Harin.
Mmm.
“Okay, I understand. Then I’ll go.”
*Bow-*
Jiyun bowed slightly to me and disappeared towards the bakery with a soft smile.
Good.
Her voice has a healing quality…
The atmosphere she creates is also comfortable.
If Shin-ah was in charge of the atmosphere among the cafe part-timers, Han Jiyun was in charge of healing.
As I was looking at her, I felt a sharp gaze from the side.
*Zing-*
“……”
Yujeong was staring at me with suspicious eyes.
No, what…
Why?
She’s like this whenever I look at another woman. It’s unfair.
“What is it?”
“You’re not by any chance eyeing Jiyun too…”
Yujeong said in a very suspicious tone and poked my abs with her finger.
I shook my head as if it were absurd.
“What are you talking about? There’s a big age difference.”
“Age difference? Then what about our mom?”
Uh…?
Hmm, that’s true.
I have no comeback for that.
But I can’t resist a sister-mother-daughter combo. It can’t be helped.
I opened my mouth again.
“Besides, Jiyun has a boyfriend.”
I had seen her once outside, and she had firmly rejected someone who was trying to get her number, saying she had a boyfriend she was preparing to marry.
“Does having a boyfriend mean you can’t get into her pants?”
Yujeong retorted to my words.
‘……’
It seems that my heroines have become very wary of new women since there are already six of them.
But what should I do… there will soon be eight.
I shrugged my shoulders.
“Come on, do you think I would hit on a woman with a boyfriend?”
So, as a last resort, I said something that couldn’t be refuted.
“……”
What?
Why isn’t she answering?
Huh!?
I looked at Yujeong with a dumbfounded expression.
“No, Yujeong. What do you think of me?”
Yujeong tilted her head, rested her chin on her hand, and began to list all the bad things about me.
“Hmm… a pervert?”
“……”
“Or a bad beast?”
“……”
Unbelievable.
My image has fallen this low…!
But why is my trust level still up?
Anyway, I needed to punish her.
“Then, are you dating a bad perverted beast right now?”
“U-uh… that, that’s right…?”
*Tap-*
I suddenly put my hand on the wall and leaned my face towards her, and she answered with slightly trembling eyes.
“Then I guess I should really act like one. Huh? Yujeong.”
“U-uh, um…! J-Jinhyun, wait, not now, *hngh*…!”
*Tingle-*
I switched to informal language and quickly put my hand inside her skirt and panties, touching her pussy, and she let out a cute moan.
Just a moment ago, she was acting like a big sister and poking me, but now she was trembling and holding back her moans. It was so cute that I couldn’t resist.
*Poke, poke, poke-*
“U-uh, *hngh*, J-Jinhyun, I’m gonna, *hic*, *hngh*…!”
“It’s okay. You can moan as much as you want.”
I had already put up a silence field.
*Click-*
*Poke-*
“*Hngh*…!?”
After locking the lounge door, I pounced on Yujeong.
* * *
“What’s your name and age?”
“Umm… my name is Kim Jeong-ah. My, my age is twenty-three.”
There are a lot of applicants because the hourly wage is so high.
2:30 PM.
I was supposed to be in the office playing with money, but I was curious about how Jiyun and Yujeong would conduct the interviews, so I was just doing some work on my computer in the guest room.
Click, click-
Ah, but this guy is such a troll.
Is he really going in there? What is he doing?
“Have you ever worked part-time or worked at a cafe before?”
“Ah… um, no.”
“There’s nothing written in the experience section of your resume. Have you done any other part-time jobs, even if not at a cafe?”
“No, just… nothing.”
The part-time applicant named Kim Jeong-ah shook her head. Jiyun nodded.
“Ah… I see.”
“Um, it’s just that I’ve never worked part-time before…”
“Then, are you interested in coffee? Have you ever made coffee other than instant coffee?”
Yujeong quickly asked the next question, but.
“Ah, that’s… n-never…”
She shook her head again.
“Um, but if you hire me, I’ll, I’ll learn hard…!”
“Ah, I see… If you get hired, how long do you plan to work?”
“Um, about… three months?”
“Ah…”
And at the applicant’s answer to the last question, even the smile of our healing goddess, Han Jiyun, began to crack.
By the way, the interviewees are really diverse.
Since we were offering 12,000 won per hour for weekday part-time work, 48 people applied. Among them, I used my Luck Tracker to find 19 resumes that were glowing gold and asked them to come for an interview.
Since I was using the Luck Tracker instead of the content of the resumes, there were some part-timers who were really well-prepared, and others who made me wonder if they really wanted to get hired.
“Thank you for your time. We’ll send you a text message with the results today.”
“Ah, okay… Is it over now?”
“Yes, if there’s anyone waiting outside, please tell them to come in.”
“Ah, I understand…”
After the part-timer left, Jiyun sighed faintly.
“Kim Jeong-ah is a no-go.”
“I agree.”
The two of them were roughly categorizing the applicants into those who were definitely not suitable and those who were okay.
And while they were doing that, the next applicant came in.
*Creak-*
“Um, hello…?”
A clear voice, a pure tone.
Huh…?
I heard a very familiar voice, so I looked at the door, and Harin was walking into the room.
No way.
Huh?
“Ah, yes. Nice to meet you. Please have a seat.”
“Yes.”
“What’s your name and age?”
“I’m Joo Harin. I’m twenty-two years old…”
Harin sat down and looked at Jiyun and Yujeong, and then she glanced at me and blushed as if she was embarrassed.
Wait a minute.
Did she really come for an interview?
That was a joke…?
Actually, my cafe is a friend-pass, connections-first cafe.
“Have you ever worked part-time at a cafe before?”
“Um, I haven’t worked part-time before, but I know how to use all the basic machines.”
“Ah, is that so?”
Moreover, she was almost wearing a suit, and she was answering the questions very diligently.
“……”
I don’t know.
If I suddenly got up and said, ‘It was a joke~ haha,’ it would feel… it would feel like something would burn.
So, I just sat still and continued playing League of Legends.
Ah, but the balance is so messed up these days.
Are the items and new champions for real?
