28.
After being silent for a while, Yoo Chae answered my question immediately.
[All] Yoo Chae: Wow
[All] Yoo Chae: Hyung.. I was touched
[All] I’m Sleepy: ?
What nonsense is this again?
As I looked at the screen with my cold eyes, Yoo Chae expressed his emotions with blushing cheeks.
[All] Yoo Chae: You thought about me that far
[All] Yoo Chae: I wished we had a deep relationship.. Is that the case now??
[All] Yoo Chae: That’s just what I want ㅎㅡㅎ♥
“……”
With a cold face, I slowly moved the mouse and offered a PVP request to him. It was a personal farm, not a field, so I had to apply separately to attack.
[All] Yoo Chae: ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[All] Yoo Chae: Just joking
Yoo Chae, who rejected the PVP request, continued chatting.
[All] Yoo Chae: Even if this is the first time we met
[All] Yoo Chae: I want to get to know you
[All] I’m Sleepy: You just want to be friends
[All] I’m Sleepy: And you send items like this to your friends?
[All] Yoo Chae: Right
Is that really the reason? Wanna get to know you? What do you know about me that you want to get close to me?
‘This is kinda… embarrassing.’
[All] I’m Sleepy: one last question
[All] I’m Sleepy: We never met in real life, right?
[All] Yoo Chae: That’s right
I asked again because of my doubts, but the answer was still the same.
‘Since it’s not true, I can’t argue with him anymore…….’
I sighed and rubbed my neck.
It’s okay. Even if I met Yoo Chae in the past, what does that mean now?
[All] I’m Sleepy: ok I see
[All] I’m Sleepy: But from now on
[All] I’m Sleepy: Don’t give me expensive items
[All] Yoo Chae: ㅜㅡㅜ?
[All] I’m Sleepy: Because I know you didn’t do it with bad intentions
[All] I’m Sleepy: I’m telling you to do it in moderation
[All] Yoo Chae: In moderation
[All] Yoo Chae: How much would that be?
[All] I’m Sleepy: Just don’t give me expensive items
[All] I’m Sleepy: Don’t talk nonsense
[All] I’m Sleepy: Don’t embarrass me
[All] Yoo Chae: If I do that
[All] Yoo Chae: Will you like me?
Will I like him? I’m not sure what that’s supposed to mean since he said he wants to be friends, but I think it would be good in many ways to say yeah for now.
[All] I’m Sleepy: yeah
[All] Yoo Chae: Alright
[All] Yoo Chae: I’ll do my best!
Such an effort... wouldn’t it be hard to keep up with him?...………
But I’ll still cheer you on.
[All] I’m Sleepy: fighting
[All] Yoo Chae: Fighting! ^▽^
***
Time flew by quickly and it has been a week since I returned to Early Evening. In the meantime, thanks to the guild members and going on raid dungeons without missing a day, I was able to reach level 240.
Yoo Chae has also improved a lot compared to before, after some serious conversations that took place on the personal farm.
Of course, there were still a lot of emoticons and Aegyo and wagging tail which only I saw, but at least secretly offering expensive items has disappeared.
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Hyung, can I get you a black cloak?
[Guild] Yoo Chae: And, this is called a fairy’s four-leaf clover.
[Guild] Yoo Chae: you will be lucky if you get it >ㅡ<!
[Guild] Yoo Chae: 6,000 in total!
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: tk tk
[Guild] I’m getting lazy: Really?
[Guild] I’m getting lazy: Gilma-nim, you’re selling that to Sleepy-nim for 6,000?
[Guild] Harn: No
[Guild] Harn: It means he’ll give an item worth of 6,000
[Guild] I’m getting lazy: Eh
[Guild] I’m getting lazy: Why are you talking about the price?
[Guild] Harn: I heard that he gave a Lux 2 staff
[Guild] Mocha Bread: Ah, did he really gave that?? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Seasoned crab sauce: it’s been hidden longer than I thought ㅋㅋ
[Guild] Crazy hunting friend: Like receiving a payment from some boss;;
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: ㅋㅋ
The fact that Yoo Chae gave me a staff doesn’t matter if it spreads. It’s something the guild members know anyway.
[Guild] Drink some water: Guys
[Guild] Drink some water: The selection has been announced
After a brief absence, Drink some water posted a link in the guild chat window. When I clicked it, the Guardian Guild Selection Development Event page on the Zenoris homepage appeared.
The selection, which opens after this week, will be held for three hours a day for a week. Every night at 7 pm, when a message announcing the start of the selection is displayed, a flag is generated for each city and town. Guilds participating in the selection must protect the flag or take it.
[Guild] Bright Clouds: Wow, it feels like yesterday when I started playing last year.
[Guild] Bright Clouds: Time goes really fast omg
[Guild] Harn: fr
[Guild] Park Seung-jin99: Are we going to defend again?
[Guild] Drink some water: okay
[Guild] Drink some water: Let’s go with basic defense
[Guild] Drink some water: If it gets a little easy
[Guild] Drink some water: Let’s go and attack another city
[Guild] Manaolingnam: That’s nice
[Guild] I’ll take care of you: We’re just gonna protect this time
[Guild] I’ll take care of you: Hopefully nothing goes wrongㅋㅋㅋ
During the selection, the guild can go to attack once a day by designating a city or town. With Early Evening protecting Veritas, there’ll be no empty days and guests will come, so defense alone will be sufficient.
After taking a closer look at the event page and coming back, Yoo Chae sent a whisper.
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: When the selection starts
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: Maybe on the 2nd or 3rd day, Fever Guild will come
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: If you don’t want to go alone
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: We can split up and go
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: okay but
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: It’ll be a bit difficult if we split the team
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: it’ll be okay ㅎ.ㅎ
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: To be honest
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: There’s no need to worry about anything other than Redemption
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: Redemption
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: You are talking about the No. 2 guild?
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: Yes
Redemption... I opened the guild window and checked the ranking.
[2. Redemption | Guild Level: Grand | Number of people: 82 | Guild Leader: Gumhee]
Even though there are significantly fewer people than the No. 3 Fever, they’re still in second place. Which brings up the fact that the guild is quite competent since Yoo Chae said so.
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: That Gilma is a Ripper
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: Her skills are fairly good
Ripper was a dagger-wielding assassin. It was one of the jobs that had a short skill cooldown and a special buff that increased movement speed by 3%, so it depended a lot on skills since they have a weak constitution.
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: so
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: Everything else is okay, right?
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: How about Fever?
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: ㅋㅋㅋ Fever
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: You really don’t have to worry much
Anyway, they are the 3rd place on the server. So can I just relax like this?
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: Hyung, they already have pk[1] you
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: You’ve dealt with him
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: All the other guild members are similar
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: Hmm, then ok
[Whisper] I’m Sleepy: I understand
[Whisper] Yoo Chae: haha
Yoo Chae knows better than I do, so I have no choice but to trust him.
‘And to be honest, I think Yoo Chae will win if the guild masters fight each other.’
I don’t know Fever Gilma well, but somehow I felt that way. This guy, Yoo Chae, didn’t look a bit bothered to go against them willy-nilly.
[Guild] Drink some water: Redemption may come again this year
[Guild] Drink some water: That seems to be the most important as of now
[Guild] TheHunter: Oh I’m a fan of Gumhee-nim
[Guild] TheHunter: I wonder if we will meet during the start of the selection like the last time
[Guild] Bright Clouds: ?
[Guild] Bright Clouds: Didn’t you see him last year?
[Guild] TheHunter: I saw her
[Guild] TheHunter: I sent her a friend request fk ㅠㅠ
[Guild] Bright Clouds: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Monster born from capitalism: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Monster born from capitalism: That person’s scary tho omg
[Guild] Monster born from capitalism: We met by chance in the arena
[Guild] Monster born from capitalism: As soon as I took out my weapon, I found myself dead;
[Guild] Harn: She’s really good
[Guild] Park Seung-jin99: She is...
[Guild] Park Seung-jin99: Assassin?
[Guild] Drink some water: I don’t know anything else
[Guild] Drink some water: I have seen a video in which Fever Gilma was terribly beaten by Gumhee ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Manaolingnam: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Ah Reasonable
[Guild] Manaolingnam: Why are you getting beaten all the time~
[Guild] Manaolingnam: My heart hurts ㅋㅋ
[Guild] Mocha Bread: frㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Drink some water: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
While watching the guild chat and wearing the items handed over to Yoo Chae, the cell phone that was thrown in the corner of the desk vibrated.
Seeing the familiar name on the phone screen, I answered the call.
“Uh, Hyung.”
- Uh, Ji-han-ah. Are you busy?
“No, I’m completely free.”
The caller was Seo Tae-young. At the unexpected contact, I leaned back on the chair and smiled softly.
- Are you fine?
“Of course, I’m. What about you?”
- I’m fine too. It’s hard to see your face since last time? You didn’t even come to Hero either. Are you still playing that RPG?
Then I remembered the chat I had with Seo Tae-young at HOL the other day.
“I am, but I have a lot of work to do.”
When I answered shyly, Seo Tae-young laughed coolly.
- RPG takes up a lot of time. Why don’t you come and play on the Hero. Ah, you quit Hero?
“I have no intention of doing it right now. It’s been a few months since I quit, so if I do it again, I don’t think I will still be good.”
- If you aren’t good at it, then you aren’t bad at it either. Still, the tier must have dropped a lot.
“I think I probably went down to Diamond.”
HOL will automatically drop its tier if you do not change the rank once every two weeks. It’s a system called dormant relegation, but even if I couldn’t, I would have fallen tremendously since I didn’t do it for 5 months.
- Anyway, I called to ask you something.
“What is it?”
- Do you remember going to an offline competition a long time ago?
“If it’s an offline competition… Maybe with Se-hun Hyung?”
It was quite a long time ago. After his retirement, a first-generation HOL professional gamer named Kim Se-hun was sponsored and held a large offline tournament.
‘The prize money was pretty good.’
While thinking of the amount of the prize money received at that time and smiling happily, Seo Tae-young continued to ask.
- Se-hun is in solidarity with the tournament again. So I’m asking if you can participate.
“Well… I think that’s going to be difficult.”
Even if I’m not a professional player, there will be plenty of people who are better than me, so I didn’t want to take the time to participate. It’s been a while since I quit, so even if I came back, I’d have to spend quite a bit of time practicing.
Seo Tae-young agreed without saying a word whether he understood my situation.
- Probably not? Then I’ll tell him that you declined. It seems like you haven’t contacted Se-hun for a while.
“Yes… I would appreciate it if you could do that for me.”
- Cough, and there’s something more to tell you...…
Perhaps it was a very difficult topic, Seo Tae-young was hesitating for a while. What’s going on?
- I told you that my wedding is in the second week of October, right?
“Unn.”
- At that time, I can’t tell you for certain whether or not he would come.
“Who do you mean?”
- That gamgack guy.
I was a little perplexed when I heard an unexpected name.
Gamgack? LVS’ team jungler guy?
- He said he would come to the wedding too. You will be a little... I think it would be uncomfortable for you. Are you okay with it?
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Note:
1. PK: Player Killing. An unmanned act of attacking other players without their consent in an online game.
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