Chapter 146 – Strike
Meanwhile, at that time, the underground parking lot of a broadcasting station far away.
Baek Yena, who drove another car instead of a van, greeted Park Min-ji, who came down after her variety show recording.
“Haaa…”
Park Min-ji sighs right after getting in the car.
The sigh was quite deep, enough to cause concern in the listener.
“Did you have a hard time recording today?”
So Baek Yena implicitly asked her Park Min-ji.
“…It was just like that.”
Park Min-ji gave a rough answer and passed it over.
She had a very strong feeling that she didn’t want to answer.
Baek Yena worried about Park Min-ji and asked her questions one after another.
“You seem to have had a hard time. Shall we take a little break? Or maybe something to drink?”
“Okay, let’s just go…”
Park Min-ji shakes her head.
Baek Yena started her car as Minji Park said.
“You seem to be worried about something?”
“…”
“Umm, did you come alone and were bored?”
Hot.
Park Min-ji reacts very little.
“I guess you wanted to move with the older sisters?”
This time there is no response.
“…Or with Manager Lee?”
Hot again
At the mention of Lee Se-jin, Park Min-ji shuddered slightly.
Baek Yena, who had seen it there, quickly noticed.
‘I was feeling lonely because I didn’t have this manager.’
If so, can I help you a little?
“Next time, I will tell this manager. How about I take charge of Shin So-ye and Lim Ha-eun’s recording, and Manager Lee works with Park Min-ji…”
“It’s okay, it’s okay…! You should go with her sisters…”
“Why?”
“That’s right… The unnies… Are more important than me…”
Lee Se-jin might want to care more about her two older sisters who are good at acting and singing, rather than herself who has no desire to be an idol.
So, to make sure her brother is her own, she’ll need something other than an idol job.
Yes, if you do…
“Mr. Park Min-ji?”
“Huh, yes, yes…?”
“You’re suddenly dazed, and you’re really okay, right? Any symptoms of anemia?”
“No… Mo, I’m fine… There’s no pain anywhere…”
“Then you must be very tired. Decreased concentration is evidence that the brain is tired, so why don’t you take a break? Buy a snack or something at the cafe over there.”
It’s not a good thing to encourage idols to eat, but since it’s winter, there’s no need to go on a strict diet.
So, once in a while would be fine.
Besides, Lee Se-jin had already told Baek Yena.
If Park Min-ji looks too tired or tired, she can buy her a snack at least once a day.
“…I see.”
Park Min-ji nodded her head and Baek Y-na immediately drove to her cafe.
With my daughter
“Welcome.”
The two entered the cafe while listening to the employee’s greetings.
“What do you want to eat?”
In response to Yena Baek’s question, Minji Park looked at the menu board hanging on her wall.
As she looked at her menu without saying a word, she thought of Baek Yena.
Does this make me feel like I don’t even have much of an appetite?
I should recommend it in moderation, when Baek Yena thought…
“I… Dutella waffles… Hot chocolate… Oh, toppings… With the addition of brown cheese…”
Park Min-ji chose only the most appetizing food and ordered it.
‘What is it, wasn’t it melancholy?’
It sounds like you’ve been stressed out trying to drink sugar-dissolved water over a sugar-covered dessert, but your appetite is perfectly alive…?
She was a hundred yena with questions, but she did not express her mind and ordered her waiter.
“Yes, then… I’ll have a hot Americano here, and a Doutella waffle and a cup of hot chocolate, please.”
After completing her order with her company card, Yena Baek and Minji Park went to a corner of the cafe, a seat that was not easily seen.
Took.
Park Min-ji puts her big breasts on the table.
Baek Yena stopped for a moment at the sight, then she regained her senses and looked around her.
Fortunately, the seat Park Min-ji is sitting on now is a place that is not easily seen by her surroundings.
Still, thinking she didn’t know, she sat across from Minji Park and tried to hide her Minji Park with her body.
Of course, it was almost impossible to cover her Park Min-ji with the body of Baek Yena, who was smaller than her Park Min-ji, but there was no one to point it out at this place.
“Bon appetite.”
Baek Ye-na puts a dessert plate in front of Park Min-ji to more completely cover her magnificent sight.
“I will enjoy this food…”
Whether or not Park Min-ji knew that consideration, she just ate the dessert deliciously.
Omnyomnyom.
Park Min-ji is still eating a waffle topped with chocolate jam and fragrant cheese with a dark and not very bright expression.
The sweet dessert and hot chocolate seemed to have relieved her mood. When she ate and drank halfway through, Park Min-ji’s expression returned to normal.
“…Would you like to try some…?”
Even though it’s now, I feel a little relieved when I see what you’re recommending.
“No, I want to avoid sugar crashes.”
“Sugar Crash…? Is this a new mobile game…? Why are you talking about a game all of a sudden…”
Baek Yena looked at her with her pitiful eyes at Park Min-ji’s answer.
Of course, it was short enough that Park Min-ji did not notice, about half a second, and then she returned to her usual sullen expression.
“It refers to the phenomenon of feeling exhausted and tired after suddenly eating a lot of sugar. In the process of rapidly absorbing glucose, blood sugar suddenly drops and you become incapacitated.”
“…Do you get lethargic from eating sweets…?”
“You don’t feel it at the moment you eat, but don’t you feel that way some time after eating? Or sleepy.”
“I heard it… I think it’s like that…”
Park Min-ji nodded her head slightly.
“Of course, right after eating, sugar comes in, so my brain works well and I have a bit of energy.”
“Wow…You’re smart…”
“Well, that’s common sense.”
After saying that, Baek Yena changed her topic with her simple voice.
“More than that, Minji Park, what are you worrying about these days? Regarding this manager?”
“…”
Park Min-ji couldn’t say anything to Baek Yena, who brought her main topic right away.
She wasn’t offended by Baek Yena’s meddling too much.
Her plain, blunt voice didn’t give the impression of being intrusive, and since she had recently become friends with them, she couldn’t be offended.
It’s just that it wasn’t something to worry about in front of others, even to someone who didn’t know the relationship between The Queens and Lee Se-jin.
“I don’t mean to ask about this or that. I just want to be of some help with my troubles.”
“…”
Still, if it’s about a hundred yena, wouldn’t she be so different?
She played a lot of games together, and while she was promoting as The Queens, she was also a colleague to hang out with… Then would it be okay for her to talk a little bit?
“That’s… Actually…”
Park Min-ji slowly poured out her heart.
These days, it seems like Lee Se-jin takes care of her older sisters better and leaves herself alone, so she feels sad and regretful about that.
She didn’t say a word about the relationship between the four of them, of course, or what she was doing.
“…I also wish oppa would… Take care of him more…”
Baek Ye-na listened to Park Min-ji’s story until the end.
She thought her talk was over, so she was just when Baek Yena was about to open her mouth.
“That, that… Uh, please don’t… Tell my older sisters or older brother…?”
“Why?”
“That’s it… If you hear me like this… I’m going to care… I don’t want to worry about you…”
“That is the problem.”
“Yeah?”
Baek Yena makes a simple diagnosis and Park Min-ji tilts her head.
“Mr. Park Min-ji, didn’t you say that manager Lee was disappointed because he took care of Min-ji Park less?”
“Yes.”
“But he said he didn’t express his feelings because he didn’t want to bother Manager Lee.”
“Yes… That’s right… Of course…”
“That is the problem. Even when you have to complain, if you don’t speak up considering the other person, the other person won’t notice your complaint.”
“Is that so…? If you’re an older brother, you’re smart, so…”
“No, not at all. Once upon a time, during a psychological experiment, there was an experiment to guess the other person’s mind. It was about having a conversation with the other person, examining their facial expressions, and then trying to infer the other person’s mind. Do you know what the outcome was?”
“I do not know…?”
“Less than 20% correct answer rate. Not everyone can fit.”
Park Min-ji’s expression darkened.
That meant that his brother wouldn’t even know what he was thinking right now.
“Yeah, but… If it’s my brother… My heart is…”
“Statistics is science, and eManager is no exception, right? Has Manager Lee ever misread Park Min-ji’s mind?”
“I never had that…”
At that moment, Park Min-ji remembered the previous experience.
The thing I was jealous of because I misunderstood Park Min-ji, who came out on air with a harmless man.
Of course, I was very happy that my brother thought of me as his own, but to be honest, didn’t he misread Park Min-ji’s mind?
“…It doesn’t…”
“Right?”
Park Min-ji made a lonely expression in an instant.
“So I think it will be better if I express myself a little.”
On the other hand, Yena Baek declares plainly enough to make you feel cool.
“Expression…”
Park Min-ji is lost in thought.
“It’s okay to say that you’re sorry, but I’m saying, ‘Please take care of me more’ and appeal. You can go on strike to treat me with respect.”
“Pa-strike? Suddenly then…”
“That’s what they say, it’s not a call to strike. Anyway, I need an action that can highlight and confirm that I am a precious being.”
Is there something stuck in the word strike?
“…”
Park Min-ji chewed on the word for a long time without saying anything.
***
After returning to the office with the children, I realized that Yena Baek and Minji had not returned yet.
Originally, Minji should have returned before us, but she wondered why she hadn’t come yet.
Is there anything going on?
“I’ll come down in a minute.”
I left So-ye and Ha-eun to take a rest and finish up, and I went down to the underground parking lot by myself.
If it was like usual, he would have sent a message to come quickly, but today, isn’t it after he decided to pay more attention to Minji?
Minji will be happy if you go downstairs and greet him.
“Five?”
With that in mind, it was when Minji bought a can of hot chocolate that she liked and went down to the underground parking lot.
We found that our van had already arrived at the designated parking spot.
Did you get lost while buying hot chocolate for a second?
That was when she hurriedly tried to climb up again.
“Umm… This is a little… Isn’t it…”
Minji’s voice came from the car.
I guess it was down now.
I quietly approached the car with the intention of slightly surprising Minji.
“Um…”
Minji left the back door of her car open, sitting on the chin of her car as a chair, engrossed in something about her.
Curious what she was doing, she moved a little closer.
It was only then that Minji used her sheet as a desk and realized that she was scribbling something there.
‘What are you writing?’
Are you writing a letter?
But why the sudden letter?
“No… This is a little too…”
Guggets!
Minji, who has been writing a letter for a while, crumples her paper and throws it back with a swish.
The crumpled paper rolled and rolled right up to my feet.
‘What is it?’
I reflexively picked up the paper and unfolded it.
〈 brother〉
〈 I’m probably not there when you’re reading this letter. I think you’ll be worried because he suddenly disappeared. I’m just trying to run away for a day. I’m sure you’re wondering why this is, but a〉
