66.
Chae Yoo-jung, who followed me with his eyes looking expectantly, was very disappointed when he saw the sign that said PC room.
I went down to the basement and opened the glass door of the PC room, taking Chae Yoo-jung, who was moody, under the thunder’s roar. Even though it was a weekday, it was full of people at 9:00 PM.
‘Wait, but can I just bring him to a PC room?’
It was so insignificant that I forgot about it for a while, but Chae Yoo-jung was still a well-known professional player.
I belatedly worried that he might cause a commotion by bringing him to a PC room full of guys playing games, but fortunately, everyone was busy playing games, so they didn’t recognize Chae Yoo-jung.
“Is it okay for you to come here?”
“I am not a celebrity. Of course it’s fine.”
“You used to do commercials. That level is the same as that of a celebrity.”
Maybe it was last year. When there was a short break after the spring competition, the entire LVS team filmed a famous brand training suit advertisement.
Chae Yoo-jung was the center of the topic even then. It was a natural result because his face is as amazing as his gaming skills.
“Um, I’ve been taking a break for almost a year now… Originally, the fandom only shows interest in what the players are currently doing.”
I mean, sure… who would have predicted that Gamgack would appear in a local PC room?
But just in case, I’ll go to the most remote corner. However, no matter how many times I looked inside, there were no empty seats except for a couple seats.
“Where’s the empty seat?”
“No. 39, No. 40.”
I asked the counter part-timer for a vacant seat with the feeling of holding a rope, but the answer that came back was 1, as expected, only couple seats.
Although the couple seats are in a corner, there’s no screen dividing the two monitors, and the chairs are placed horizontally, making it a place for lovers who are on good terms.
To think that you and a man should sit in a place like that. It would be horrible, but even if I moved to another PC room now, the situation would be the same, so there was no other option.
Unlike me, who sat close to the edge of the chair with a puzzled look on my face, Chae Yoo-jung sat next to me without hesitation. Rather, he seemed to like the couple seats more than the regular seats.
“By the way, Hyung.”
Yoo-jung smiled shyly while pressing the computer power button instead of me.
“Are you talking informally to me now?”
“Ah.”
I was so annoyed that I unknowingly talked informally. I can’t even use honorific words again after I’ve talked down to my heart’s content.
I didn’t have anything to say, so I just stared at the monitor, and Chae Yoo-jung sighed with his loose face.
“I don’t like it.”
“You don’t like it? Just turn on the game already.”
“Yes.”
It had been a very long time since I logged into Hero with this account. As soon as I logged in, I checked the information window, and the tiers were as expected due to the dormant demotion system.
Diamond 4 level. Leave it alone and I’ll go down to platinum. I haven’t played it for almost 7 months, so it’s a natural result.
Anyway, the tier wasn’t important right now. When I turned on the block list, I saw a Gamgack’s username that was raised alone.
“Hyung, could it be that I was the only one who you blocked?”
Blocking was annoying, so I didn’t do it well, so it seemed like there would be no one but Chae Yoo-jung. I just found out that this guy was the only one.
“Wow… Hyung, it’s really too much.”
“……”
Chae Yoo-jung muttered in a voice without playfulness, as if he hadn’t expected it to be this much.
Feeling as if my conscience had been pricked with a needle, I hurriedly moved the mouse cursor and pressed Unblock. An information message [LVS gamgack has been unblocked] appears in the center of the screen.
“Hey, look. Unblocked. okay?”
“It’s annoying.”
“Talking informally again?”
“I am annoyed.”
“I’ll let it slide. Let’s see what we have to do now.”
After trying to soothe him with a sorry heart, Chae Yoo-jung sighed openly at me. Ugh, this kid.
“Anyway, now that I have unblocked you, explain what you asked earlier.”
“Here?”
At that question, I looked back for a moment.
It was not a place to have a calm conversation because of various game sound effects and loud conversations.
“Let’s get out.”
“It’s been less than 10 minutes since I came in, and you want to leave right away? You charged for two hours.”
“Two hours is the minimum payment amount.”
“Hyung, don’t do that.”
Chae Yoo-jung grabbed my arm as I was about to raise myself up and met my gaze. Under the lights of the PC room, the pale eyes were stuck in my head.
“Let’s play a little game together.”
“A game all of a sudden?”
“We came to the PC room but it’s unfortunate that we won’t play games.”
I’m sorry about everything.
The guy who quickly realized that I was about to refuse made a pitiful face and begged me again.
“Only one round, please. It shouldn’t take 30 minutes. It was my wish to play on the same team as Hyung.”
“No, what kind of wish is that… You saw me fall off the tier. We can’t play together.”
“I have a sub account. And besides being ranked [1] in the game, there is also normal game [2], right?”
“Let’s stop talking nonsense and leave, huh?”
“I-I don’t like it. I want to play games with Hyung. I won’t talk to you if you don’t want to play games with me.”
“......”
As he changed the conditions at will, swear words came up to the end of my throat at Yoo-jung’s actions.
The opponent is a famous professional player. Even punching that guy doesn’t end with just being sued.
Swallowing my anger with difficulty, I gritted my teeth and said.
“Only one round.”
“Yes!”
When the permission was granted, Chae Yoo-jung smiled broadly and accessed his sub account hurriedly. I also turned on the sub account that I usually use when playing games with my classmates.
“Hyung, go with me as a bottom duo. I’ll be a supporter.”
“Do whatever you want.”
Chae Yoo-jung couldn’t hide his pleasant expression despite my plaintive reply. When I glanced at the figure, I frowned.
I couldn’t understand what was so good about playing in the same team. Even if you win, it’s a normal game with no rewards.
……Is it really true that you admire me? That professional player Gamgack?
The first time I heard him at the cafe, the words felt like lies because it seemed like nonsense, but reality began to touch me little by little.
***
“Fuck.”
After coming out of the PC room and checking the time on my cell phone that it was well past 11pm, I spat out the swear words I had been enduring ever since.
When Chae Yoo-jung asked me to play one more game, I fell into it, so I ended up using up the entire hour of charging. In addition, the guy ordered food on his own in the middle, so my stomach was filled.
He said that he could afford it because he was a supporter, and he touched his forehead as he recalled Chae Yoo-jung’s act of putting fried dumplings in my mouth while I beat the minion. I’m also a crazy person who ate it while focusing on the game. Fuck.
“Hyung, today was so much fun.”
After leaving the PC room, Chae Yoo-jung clung to me with a smile on his lips. Seeing him like this gave me even more headache.
“Next time, let’s go see a movie, yes?”
“Be quiet..”
The quick-witted guy did this on purpose, so I was even more annoyed.
I’m about to go crazy. I didn’t meet him for this. Hero, which I played after a long time of being offline, is much more fun than I thought, so stop...
“When is the next time for you?”
“What?”
“......”
It wouldn’t matter if tomorrow was the weekend, but the lecture was scheduled early in the morning, so I had to go back.
It would have been better if we met again next time and had a calm conversation.
“Would you like to watch a movie together?”
“Stop with the bullshit.”
“I don’t mind anytime.”
Looking at the schedule on my cell phone, I raised my head at those words.
“Aren’t you busy?”
“I’m unemployed, so of course I’m free. I will match with my Hyung’s schedule.”
“I thought you were practicing even though you weren’t playing much.”
“I will be busy next year. There aren’t many free things left, so we should play to our heart’s content at times like this.”
Chae Yoo-jung looked down at me and smiled pleasantly.
His hair and skin glistened like stars in the light of the streetlamp. The gaze that stared right at me contained a deep liking that could not be ignored.
“Then see you on Sunday. At that time, please answer the question I asked you today.”
“Yes. I’ll take care of the movie reservations.”
“Don’t look, you idiot.”
I made an appointment for Sunday and thought of Yoo Chae.
On Saturday, I will connect to Zenoris and meet Yoo Chae. As I was swept away by Chae Yoo-jung today and couldn’t get any useful information, I thought to find out a little bit about the two of them while playing games with Yoo Chae on Saturday.
“Still, I think their personalities are a bit similar.”
It is very similar to Yoo Chae in that he flirts and does everything he wants.
If the two aren’t the same person... Am I being caught by similar guys and suffering twice as much? I really am a beggar.
If I’m sure they’re the same person or not, it might be good for my mental health to separate one side. In terms of nuisance, Chae Yoo-jung’s worse than Yoo Chae, so it would be better to push this side out.
Note
[1] Ranked game (ranked match): A method of matching gamers with similar skills in online games. It is a game mode in which grades are divided and promotion and relegation are made according to the results of the game.
[2] Normal Game (Normal): The most basic, no stakes.
Support on KoFi Chapter 69, 70, 71, 72
Chapter 67,68
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Credits:
Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor: Meimei
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