I’m Obsessed With the Suspect - Chapter 8

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8

It was at that moment when Cheong-a was passing by Yushin’s side.

“Whoa?”

As if by coincidence. Cheong-a’s foot caught on Yushin’s toe that moved ever so slightly.

Instantly losing her center of gravity and balance, Cheong-a flew through the air while holding her food tray.

Her gaze, which had been focused on the food tray floating in mid-air, quickly darted in all directions.

Now, lower the center of gravity and rotate the body using the right foot as an axis.

Then bend the knees and roll once to avoid falling.

She could probably save that food tray floating in the air safely too.

Cheong-a instinctively knew this.

But what caught her eye at the last moment was Yushin’s face looking at her.

A mere janitor showing amazing footwork, doing a forward roll, and performing a circus act to save the food tray? That would be far too suspicious.

‘Ugh. Let’s just die.’

She squeezed her eyes shut tightly.

And chose to fall to the floor instead. Of course, she didn’t forget to step on Min Yoo-shin’s foot once while pretending it was unavoidable.

Clatter.

The food tray fell, the soup bowl flew, and a loud crash echoed.

From behind came Min Yoo-shin’s “Ugh!” sound after getting his foot stepped on.

“Oh my, Bokseon!”

“Oh dear, Bokseon!”

Cheong-a’s colleagues threw down their spoons and rushed over in a hurry to help her up.

“Bokseon, are you okay?”

“Oh my, Professor. We’re so sorry.”

Yushin slightly frowned as if his foot hurt and gave a light bow to the apologizing janitors.

At that moment, Cheong-a, who had been supporting herself on the floor and lifting her head, spoke loudly.

“No! Why are you sisters apologizing? The Professor stepped his foot-.”

Yushin’s shameless voice from behind her head cut off Cheong-a’s words.

“Got stepped on, right. While sitting still.”

“…!”

“Ah, should I be the one apologizing? What. For having long legs? That’s truly sorry.”

Yushin put down his utensils with a sharp sound.

Then he pulled out tissues and cleaned up the side dishes spilled on the table. The messy tissues were crumpled in his hands and thrown onto the food tray.

Yushin stood up from his seat and turned toward Cheong-a. Then he extended his hand with a very gentle smile.

However, there was no way Cheong-a could have missed the menacing expression that flashed across his face for an instant, as if saying ‘keep your eyes open when you walk.’

Cheong-a unconsciously swatted away Yushin’s hand with force.

Smack-!

“Ah….”

Yushin’s expression of deep regret swept around the surroundings once.

He shrugged his shoulders once, then brushed off the side dishes on Cheong-a’s shoulder.

And leaning toward Cheong-a, he added in a low voice that only she could hear.

“But why didn’t you use breakfall techniques today? Making people uncomfortable by putting on a show.”

“…!”

Having finished what he wanted to say, he immediately straightened up, then stepped over the fallen Cheong-a with his long legs and left.

Cheong-a couldn’t bring herself to grab Yushin or say anything. Only her hands supporting her on the floor tensed with strength.

Yushin’s mocking voice seemed to linger in her ears.

The warning that seemed to ask ‘what exactly are you?’ made the back of her neck feel cold.

She was suspected.

Right now, Min Yoo-shin was definitely suspicious of her.

If he really was the Total Responsible of a drug trafficking organization, this was a very dangerous situation. Even if he was a civilian, having her police identity discovered was never desirable.

She shouldn’t stand out like this.

Only then did she feel like she was coming to her senses.

Cheong-a took a deep breath.

“Oh my, I’m sorry. I was being clumsy.”

She smiled with a troubled expression and bowed repeatedly to the people around her. And she decided she should properly apologize to Min Yoo-shin too.

Clumsily avoiding him wouldn’t solve the problem.

The ‘Park Bokseon’ who was undercover here had to be someone who could easily say sorry and flinch and bow at a professor’s single word.

She needed to renew her image as someone clueless but kind and harmless.

She couldn’t become a target of vigilance or do anything more conspicuous.

‘Let’s apologize. As if it’s sincere. No, sincerely.’

Get it together, Kim Chung-a. You came here to work.

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“Ugh….”

A dull pain rushed through him as he unconsciously placed his hand against the restroom wall.

Yushin let out a hollow laugh and stared blankly at the restroom wall.

His back, which had been stabbed by the tanghulu skewer a few days ago, ached sickeningly. The reason he couldn’t avoid the sharp tanghulu skewer was simple.

The thick stab-proof vest he wore under his surgical gown to avoid unexpected situations. Because of that, he couldn’t keenly notice the sharpness of the skewer, and only realized it after the skewer had deeply penetrated the fiber layers of the stab-proof vest.

The result was a dark bruise that spread across his entire back.

Since Yushin was someone who cared for his body almost obsessively, he was even more irritated.

“…Damn it, really.”

In his head, the face of Park Bokseon, no, Kim Chung-a, who had stabbed the tanghulu skewer into his back and turned pale with wide eyes, kept floating up.

She had run away in panic saying she was sorry, but he couldn’t understand why that retreating figure kept scratching at his mind.

Normally, work-related matters wouldn’t bother him this much.

He would have just cursed once and let it go. He would have ignored it and moved on.

Not stepping forward unnecessarily and not revealing his presence.

That was Min Yoo-shin’s way.

However, today he had done something uncharacteristic.

It was easy enough to predict that Kim Chung-a would use the Byeolgwan Cafeteria to avoid him. Since the janitors’ meal times were set, it wasn’t difficult to meet again while pretending it was coincidence.

‘And I tripped her.’

The face that had turned pale and was falling to the floor kept flickering before his eyes.

The more he thought about it, the more pathetic it was.

“…Ah, why did I do that. What kind of behavior was that.”

No matter how much he thought about it, there was no reason for it.

He had done something stupid.

Yushin let out a hollow laugh at himself, finding it absurd.

That was the moment.

A loud sound echoed with a bang.

Cheong-a, no, Mrs. Park Bokseon, wearing rubber gloves and holding a toilet brush, peeked her head out from the cleaning supply closet and said.

“Right, Professor? I think so too. Why on earth did I do that?”

Yushin’s face, who had been standing in front of the toilet, turned pale.

He reflexively turned his body in the opposite direction from where Cheong-a was.

“What, what? Why? Why are you here?”

“Why, you ask? The 5th Floor is my cleaning area.”

Cheong-a approached Yushin while dangling the toilet brush in her hand. At the steps getting closer, Yushin waved his hands with a pale face.

“Don’t come closer!”

Cheong-a blinked and looked up at Yushin.

“Professor…. I’m really, really sorry.”

“….”

“Please accept my apology. I really didn’t mean to stab you. Ah, but stepping on your foot wasn’t on purpose either. You know? How could someone like me, just a janitor, avoid something like that.”

Yushin’s expression crumpled even more.

“What if rumors spread that I got on the Professor’s bad side and I get fired? Please forgive me.”

Cheong-a made a desperate expression and clasped her hands together. Between them, a somewhat damp-looking toilet brush dangled back and forth.

Yushin shouted loudly.

“Ack, don’t come any closer!”

Yushin quickly pulled his body away with a swoosh to avoid the toilet brush touching him. As he turned his body rapidly, the hem of his gown fluttered.

At that moment,

Sway.

From Yushin’s midsection, something far too large and vivid that hadn’t been properly tucked away flashed past in motion.

The restroom was left in momentary silence.

“…”

“Urk!”

“…Kyaaaah?”

Cheong-a’s scream, coming somewhat—no, quite late—echoed loudly throughout the restroom.

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