Chapter 245 - Chapter 243: Episode 243
"That Je Yeong-ha... seriously, is she having wet dreams all year round or something? Fuck, and that temper of hers..."
Kim Min-ji must have had a lot of pent-up frustration with Je Yeong-ha,
because even with me, an outsider she was meeting for the first time, she didn't hesitate to badmouth her at all.
I didn't really know what was going on, but...
still, it didn't look right for a public service worker to be badmouthing a Grade 9 civil servant, so I didn't join in and just stayed quiet.
Kim Min-ji gave me the door lock codes for the storage rooms,
and then headed inside to count the envelopes.
Even while working, she kept grumbling about not wanting to be there.
I treated it as my first official task, so I counted diligently, did the math, and jotted the numbers down in my phone's memo app so I wouldn't forget.
Still, the silence felt awkward,
and after how uncomfortable the commute with Section Chief Lee Hyun-seong had been, I decided to break the ice.
"My time working here is short, but
is there anything in particular I should be careful about while I'm working here...?"
"That Je Yeong-ha bitch. You just need to watch out for that Je Yeong-ha bitch.
She's fucking stupid, empty-headed, and has zero manners—she's total trash.
She's always bickering with the staff... she fights with petitioners and civil servants from other agencies a lot, too,
she creates work that doesn't need to be done, and she's fucking terrible at her job to boot...
You know, just looking at Je Yeong-ha shows you how much of an 'iron rice bowl' being a civil servant is, right?
It's because of people like her that the whole civil service organization gets a bad name.
Sigh... you'll see once you've been here a while.
I swear, just hearing the name 'Je' makes my teeth grind because of that Je Yeong-ha bitch.
You'll see... for real..."
"...Ah, yeah..."
"I'm not just saying this because I'm lazy, I'm telling you, Je Yeong-ha is a fucking piece of trash. For real...
And... I'm a woman, so I don't like talking behind people's backs, but wait—no, since Je Yeong-ha did it first, it's not backstabbing, it's front-stabbing.
Je Yeong-ha talked so much fucking shit behind your back before you got here, Do-jin-ssi. She told all the male staff to just ignore you completely...
but Section Chief Lee Su-yeon caught her and warned her not to... so that's the only reason she's even talking to you. You caught on, right?
That Je Yeong-ha hates your fucking guts... You can feel it, right? Honestly, you can feel that she fucking hates you, right?
She said that when you arrived, we should treat you like you don't exist and ostracize you for a week! A grown adult, seriously... how childish."
I nodded, putting on an expression that showed I understood what she was saying.
I didn't know if what she said was true or false,
but I definitely understood that Kim Min-ji fucking hates Je Yeong-ha.
- Beep, beep-beep-beep... -
Just as Kim Min-ji was catching her breath after trashing Je Yeong-ha,
the sound of the storage room door lock opening echoed, and Je Yeong-ha arrived.
"Were you working hard?"
"Yes, yes."
I answered Je Yeong-ha's question in a relatively bright voice.
"See. It's so good to see you working this hard. Isn't that right, Min-ji-ssi?"
"......."
Kim Min-ji didn't even answer Je Yeong-ha's question, keeping her expression sullen.
"First, count everything again from the beginning. I'll watch."
"...What? From the beginning again? There's so much of this. It took over 30 minutes to get this far...
I counted everything thoroughly two or three times. It's almost done. We just need to count this bundle."
I protested to Je Yeong-ha because I didn't want to do the work twice... but Je Yeong-ha was stubborn.
"Ah, I don't trust it. What if it's wrong? Count it again from the beginning in front of me."
Je Yeong-ha said that and then spilled the envelopes that Kim Min-ji and I had already organized, scattering them everywhere.
It was like ruining a domino setup that had been painstakingly built; it was a very unpleasant feeling, to say the least...
"......."
'...If you were going to do that, you should have just come down from the start and supervised...'
I had to start the inspection work, which was already almost finished, all over again.
The reason was that Je Yeong-ha didn't trust it. The work Kim Min-ji and I had done.
At this point, I started to reasonably suspect, 'Is she really an idiot like Kim Min-ji said, and the type to create work for herself...? Or is she doing this on purpose to harass me?'
Honestly, until now, I thought Kim Min-ji's trash-talking might have just come from her dislike of Je Yeong-ha making her work.
I thought it might have been maliciously exaggerated or distorted, but...
Watching Je Yeong-ha come down to the storage room and work,
I started to feel that Kim Min-ji's words might have actually been an understatement.
'...Why is her way of handling work so retarded? Seriously, she's the type to create work for herself, isn't she...?
I heard these are last year's election envelopes, so we could have just thrown them in the trash without counting them...
Why does she do work like this...? Is she doing it on purpose...? To harass me...? Does she have too much time on her hands?'
"...That Je Yeong-ha bitch. Wasting time on stuff like this... and then later she's the idiot who groans about having to work overtime because she has no time..."
Kim Min-ji whispered to me in a hushed voice as she passed by.
Until just a moment ago, I thought she was just a girl who talked too much shit behind people's backs...
But I realized that wasn't the case; she was telling the truth.
And I also understood why she hated her so much.
Anyway, after various twists and turns,
we finished cleaning up the storage room and returned to the office,
where Section Chief Lee Su-yeon asked where I had been, saying she was looking for me.
"Did you go up to the roof to get some air? But it took so long... I waited for you a lot... But why are you sweating so much?"
"Ah, about that... Section Chief Je Yeong-ha told me not to rest and to organize the storage room...
Actually, we could have finished early, but Section Chief Je Yeong-ha said she didn't trust it,
so she came down and made me count it all over again in front of her..."
"......."
Section Chief Lee Su-yeon's expression momentarily decayed very slightly, but it quickly returned to her original expression.
Wow... a master of facial expression control?! She really manages her expressions so well without leaving a trace...
"Haha... is that so? Our Yeong-ha-ssi is really...
I told you earlier to wait while playing games on your phone in front of me...
I guess she didn't hear me correctly... Hmm... You should have told me, Do-jin-ssi. That I told you to wait."
"...I, um... I did say that! That the Section Chief told me to wait...
Usually, even in the military, they wouldn't touch you if you said that...
But the general civil servant group is definitely different from the military...
Even when a higher-ranking person gives an order, the lower-ranking person feels free-spirited without regard for hierarchy..."
"......."
Section Chief Lee Su-yeon's expression faltered again for a very brief moment... but she returned to normal and smiled as she spoke.
Wow... Perhaps Section Chief Lee Su-yeon... I have a reasonable suspicion that even that bright, fresh, and lively smile is a fake, manufactured smile.
"Hahaha... maybe it's because Je Yeong-ha-ssi is a man... There's no way she would know that kind of military culture...
That's too bad... I told you to wait... Yeong-ha-ssi made you work... Hmm...
Well, was the storage work manageable? Since it is part of the original job, think of it as a good experience."
"...Ah, yes... It was manageable. Min-ji-ssi helped me a lot...
If Section Chief Je Yeong-ha hadn't come down midway and spilled everything, telling us to do it all over again from the beginning, we would have finished a long time ago...
And those envelopes were from last year, so we could have just thrown them away... Even I, who worked today, knew that! Why did she make us count them..."
"......."
Section Chief Lee Su-yeon bowed her head slightly for a moment.
Maybe she realized she couldn't control her expression and bowed her head to try and fix it?
Section Chief Lee Su-yeon bowed her head slightly, then lifted it again,
and with a brighter, albeit more exaggerated and awkward smile than before, she laughed and told me I worked hard.
Wow... as expected... that was a fake, bright smile.
That is the ultimate version of a working professional's true... business smile...
The brightest, freshest, and most lively version of a business smile I've ever seen was Section Chief Lee Su-yeon's smile.
After that, Section Chief Lee Su-yeon pulled her office chair over to my seat and sat right next to me,
and while subtly touching me, she taught me various things I needed to know or learn.
Things like the Election Commission's rules or tips for work life.
Content or manuals that a Hunter needs to know for cooperative support duty, and so on...
'...She smells good... the scent of shampoo and perfume is subtly nice...'
"Ah♡ Do-jin-ssi♡ Could you take out that tape measure over there? ...Ah♡ No♡ I'll take it out♡ Just stay like that for a moment?"
Section Chief Lee Su-yeon, who was pressed tightly against my shoulder and rubbing her plump breasts against me, leaned in even closer under the pretext of taking out the tape measure, crossing over the front of my body.
It became a posture similar to when a man in the driver's seat in a past life would fasten the seatbelt for a woman in the passenger seat.
Since Lee Su-yeon's posture was unstable, she used one hand to stroke my stomach, thighs, and crotch area as if looking for a place to use as support.
In the process, she naturally touched my big cock several times as if brushing against it...
and although we both must have felt it, neither of us brought it up.
"...Hmm♡ It was somewhere around here...♡ Where is it...♡ Haa...♡ I can't see it well...♡"
"Ugh♥ Se, Section Chief♥ Hngh♥ I, isn't this it...? Ugh♥ It's right in front of you...♥"
"Do-jin-ssi...♡ Do-jin-ssi is really oblivious too...♡ Do you think I'm doing this because I can't find this thing right in front of me...♡
Do you want to hear that you're oblivious from me too...? If I tell Je Yeong-ha to harass you a bit, Do-jin-ssi...♡
Je Yeong-ha would love that and bully you relentlessly for a week, wouldn't she...? Is that the kind of week you want...?
Or...♡ are you going to quietly cooperate with me not finding the tape measure...♡ Hmm...? You sex slave♡ What are you going to do...?"
'I don't want to be bullied....'
"......, Hngh♥ ...Lo, looking closely♥ Ugh♥ I don't think it's the tape measure...♥ Ugh♥ ...I, I must have seen it wrong...♥"
"Fufu...♡ Right...♡ That's it, isn't it...? You're more observant than Woo Gyeong-ha...♡ Hngh♡ Can you spread your legs a little? That's good♡"
"Hngh♥ Ugh♥ Ha-ah♥"