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Lunch the next day.

Despite the commotion yesterday, perhaps because Jeong Eun-ji did not actually take off her clothes or anything, other people’s interest cooled down very quickly, and seemingly peaceful time passed as if nothing had happened.

However, if you take a closer look at this group of four, including me, Yu-ri Lee, Soo-yeon Choi, and Eun-ji Jeong, there have been quite a few changes…

“Water.”

While eating, I uttered only one word.

Yu-ri Lee and Su-yeon Choi both raised their heads and looked at me, not knowing what was happening.

Of course, my words were not addressed to those two.

“Hey.”

I pushed a glass of water in front of Eunji Jeong, who was eating, and called her out.

Jeong Eun-ji, who didn’t even know I was calling her, looked at me with a confused expression.

“Me?”

“Water.”

Eunji Jeong took one look at the glass of water in front of her and my face, and then got irritated.

“Ah, order something like that! To be honest, it doesn’t matter if you do that-”

“Water.”

“Pfft…”

“Don’t you? Then why not watch yesterday’s video.”

Jeong Eun-ji, who couldn’t possibly have known what the ‘video’ was, turned red in the face and grabbed the cup of water in front of her.

“I’ll give it to you! You can give it to me!”

Jeong Eun-ji made it clear that she was suppressing her anger and went to the water purifier with a cup of water.

Lee Yu-ri, who saw Jeong Eun-ji going to fetch water at my words, couldn’t hold back 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 to say this, but he… doesn’t like you very much. When I told you to fetch water earlier, I would have grabbed you by the collar and made a fuss.”

“It’s no big deal. Yesterday, in exchange for saving me from being embarrassed as a penalty for betting, I told you to follow my words unconditionally for a month.”

“…… Eunji said she would know that?”

“If you don’t know, what can I do? Really naked in front of all those kids? There is no choice.”

At my words, Choi Su-yeon grinned and looked at Jeong Eun-ji, who was pouring water, with an accusatory expression.

“Huh, you’re saying that after being so picky, you ended up becoming a slave, right? It’s amazing to see that senior with a dirty personality doing something like that.”

“Hey, that’s my friend. Don’t speak carelessly.”

“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.

“Now, water. Are you done?”

“Okay. 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 down. What is the attitude of your slave towards his master?”

“No, who is a slave? I just put up with it and listen to you for a month-”

“That is called slavery. But if a slave keeps talking and getting angry at his master, wouldn’t the master feel bad? Are you having trouble thinking about what the owner will do if he gets upset?”

“Ugh… Okay, I got it! And what’s with the way you talk! What kind of father can you be? I don’t want to hear it, so stop!”

“Attitude.”

“… Okay… I’ll refrain… ”

Jeong Eun-ji obeyed my words, trembling.

Choi Su-yeon, who was watching from the side, openly laughed.

“Senior Eunji, you can’t seem to straighten up? Have you found any weakness? If it were my usual temperament, I would have rushed at you 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! This has nothing to do with betting! Isn’t it my freedom no matter how I behave to this guy?”

“I care. Anyway, from now on, you don’t have to treat Sooyeon the same way you treat me, but at least treat her like you treated Yuri.”

“……”

“Should I answer?”

“Okay!!! Since everyone has finished eating, I can go now!? I’m going!”

Jeong Eun-ji turned around and tried to leave the restaurant first, as if she didn’t even 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 gym class is self-study.

Jeong Eun-ji, who was standing on the main stage, began to take out the hurdles from the gym to relieve stress.

As she was moving the large hurdles, one on each arm, onto the track, the face she least wanted to see appeared again.

“What are you doing?”

Seongjin Han.

Unbelievably, he was the culprit who beat him on a test and made him sign a one-month slave contract.

Of course, it was she who had caused the situation 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 inwardly and praying that the month would pass quickly.

“No matter how much it is self-study, will you at least leave me alone for class time? Because 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 he would argue further, instead remained silent.

Then, he went into the physical education warehouse and started coming out with obstacle running hurdles on both sides.

“How should I space this out?”

“… What are you doing?”

“Helps you. 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 that there must be something up his sleeve, heightened her guard even more and snatched one of the hurdles Han Seong-jin had on his side.

“You don’t have to help, so just go.”

“Isn’t it you who gives the orders? And even if it wasn’t something like that, did you think I would just say “I understand” and leave if you said it?”

Jeong Eun-ji chewed her lips and turned to Han Seong-jin.

He is about 1.5 heads taller than himself and has an overwhelming size.

Just by looking at his forearms, which were slightly exposed as he was holding the hurdle at his side, he looked sturdy.

Jeong Eun-ji, who briefly turned her gaze to Han Seong-jin’s solid body, quickly came to her senses and maintained her distance again.

“Yes, I guess so. you are good Will you help me? Then place it in the white mark next to the track.”

I don’t know what caused Han Seong-jin to suddenly come to help me, but since this has come to an end, I will take at least a small revenge.

With that in mind, Eun-ji Jeong pointed out the place to place the hurdle to Seong-jin Han and ordered him to do the work.

Once the hurdles were all in place, Eunji Jeong stood at the starting line on the track, tapping her shoes on the floor and getting ready to start practicing.

At that time, Han Seong-jin approached again.

“Would you like me to measure the time?”

“That’s it. I don’t care about records and just relax.”

“What is your highest record so far?”

“12.19 seconds.”

“100 meter hurdles is 12 seconds? It’s so fucking fast.”

“It’s slow.”

Eunji Jeong answered calmly.

Among Jinsu-gyo’s men, there are very few who can run 100 meters in under 14 seconds, but for her, who ran 12 seconds in the hurdles, even that was a slow record.

“I see. Well, I’m bored, so let’s just watch you run.”

“Get out. What kind of zoo monkey am I? If you’re bored, go over there and play soccer with the boys.”

“The kids will really like it if I join them.”

“That’s your situation. 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 a call! Surely you said that with your own mouth!? It’ll save you one day! It doesn’t matter if it’s sightseeing or anything else, do whatever you want! No, now I can see it even if I don’t want to!”

Jeong Eun-ji, who had been refusing to look at Han Seong-jin, took a bite again this time.

The good news is that this time it was pure rice cake with no needles inside.

Afterwards, during physical education classes, Han Seong-jin watched Jeong Eun-ji run and sometimes helped her with her training.

Of course, the only help I could offer was to stand at the goal line with a stopwatch, record the score, and help set up fallen hurdles, but I had no choice but to admit that there was much less to worry about than when I practiced 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.

‘But why is this kid suddenly acting like he’s fine? Have I really changed…me…?’

When the thought of acknowledging that Han Seong-jin had changed arose, Jeong Eun-ji shook her head vigorously.

‘No, no, you did that to me yesterday! Is that it? He threatened me by stripping me naked and filming me!’

With so many thoughts colliding with each other, there was no way I could properly concentrate on the obstacles in front of me.

Jeong Eun-ji’s leg got caught hard while crossing the mid-point hurdle, and her body’s balance was momentarily tilted significantly.

‘Oh, damn it…! Mind…’

Without even having time to curse herself and ask where she was concentrating, Jeong Eun-ji fell onto the track.

“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 the wound, and immediately Han Seong-jin, who was at the goal line, came running.

“Hey, are you okay? Your legs and arms are bleeding now.”

“Ugh… It’s okay. While practicing, I have suffered countless injuries worse than this.”

“It doesn’t look good. Hey, get on my back.”

Saying that, Han Seong-jin gave up his back.

“What? Poetry, I hate it! I just need to walk alone… ah…”

Jeong Eun-ji tried to get up on her own in disgust, but frowned because of the pain from her leg that was rubbed on the floor.

“It’s nonsense if you say it hurts just to move. Just do a piggyback ride.”

“Ah, that’s it…”

“Do you want to listen if I give you a command?”

As 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 non-stop whenever 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. Please massage my shoulder on the way. With the same hand.”

‘… As expected, this kid hasn’t changed at all!’

Jeong Eun-ji only got 2 points, but although she internally acknowledged that Han Seong-jin had changed because he had better grades than her and saved her from being naked in front of so many kids, she was not able to easily accept it.