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Tap. Tap. Tap.
Harona’s slender fingers tapped nervously against the polished wooden desk, one leg bouncing relentlessly underneath. Her face was tightly scrunched, while her lower lip was being chewed to shreds. Anyone could see that she was a bundle of nerves.
On any other day, her quick-witted subordinate would have stepped in to calm her down. However, today, even he had lost his usual composure.
He must have chosen by now. He must have. He has to have chosen, she thought.
“He would have chosen,” Seung replied.
“You think so too, right?” she pressed.
“… Probably,” he muttered. Instead of reassuring her, Seung only paced around the office, just as restless as she was.
“But he must be curious about how his hometown has changed,” she said.
“Do you think he’s the sentimental type?” Seung asked, skeptical.
“Ugh, probably not. But maybe he picked somewhere familiar, just to lower the risk,” she said.
“Well… That does sound plausible.”
Harona was a wreck. Usually, she would have snorted and said something like, “Whatever. He’s just a rookie. Whether he comes or doesn’t, who cares.”
“Would sending him a message sound too desperate?” she asked, genuinely considering sending Eun-Ho a direct notice to pick her department.
“A message? From you? Personally?” Seung asked, eyebrows shooting up. He looked utterly dumbfounded. For an administrator to contact a trainee waiting to choose their assignment wasn’t just undignified. “You know that’s against regulations, don’t you?”
“I know,” she grumbled.
“You know and you’re still—” He tried to let out a long sigh but barely swallowed it down, choosing...
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