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[Guild] Yoo Chae: Hyung
[Guild] Yoo Chae: I think you’ve been too interested in me lately
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: ?
[Guild] Drink some water: ??
[Guild] Bright Clouds: Huh?
As soon as I came out of the raid dungeon with the guild members, I opened a cola can and frowned at the chat that Yoo Chae sent.
[Guild] Yoo Chae: You’re really too much
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: What’s the problem?
[Guild] Bright Clouds: What is this..
[Guild] Bright Clouds: Is it like a couple who have been married for 5 years?
[Guild] Seasoned Crab Sauce: Didn’t I ask you the other day
[Guild] Seasoned Crab Sauce: Why don’t both of you use partner chat?
[Guild] Mocha Bread: crazy u 2 r married
[Guild] Let’s do this: Please be considerate of everyone, you two——
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: Phew...
[Guild] Harn: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Yoo Chae ran to the entrance of the raid dungeon in a hurry while I’m wondering how he knew where I was.
[Guild] Yoo Chae: You went to a raid without me!
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: I heard you’re going to sleep for a while because something happened;
[Guild] Yoo Chae: It was 30 minutes...
[Guild] Yoo Chae: If Hyung had been occupied for 30 minutes, I would have waited...
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: ;;
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Even if I blow it up in the chat, you always read it and ignore..
[Guild] Drink some water: Oh, can u two do this privately?
[Guild] Harn: Somehow
[Guild] Harn: I haven’t been able to see you in the group chat lately
[Guild] Harn: There’s a reasonㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Crazy Hunting Friend: fr ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: no
[Guild] Mocha Bread: no, wasn’t he here tho?
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: u know my daily routine but how r u so busy
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: What else do u want me to do?
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: I don’t have anything to answer, so I’m just reading it— —;
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Hyung should tell me too
[Guild] Yoo Chae: What did you eat or what did you do today? ㅜㅡㅜ!
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: Ha...
[Guild] Drink some water: fk ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Monster Born of Capitalism: Holy Shem
[Guild] Bright Clouds: omg omg
[Guild] Harn: sht so funny ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Manaolingnam: Extreme Job
[Guild] Manaolingnam: Marriage
[Guild] TheHunter: The more I look at it, the more I am shocked..
[Guild] Let’s do this: Let’s go back in time
[Guild] Let’s do this: When you’re with Sleepy-nim, you have to be obsequious around him
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: Gilma-nim keeps obsessing over him
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: If Sleepy-nim cools down and leaves, what are you going to do?ㅠㅠ
[Guild] Yoo Chae: ㅋㅋ
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Don’t worry because hyung’s taste is like thisㄴ
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: why change my taste to your own, crazy bastard?
[Guild] Mocha Bread: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Bright Clouds: Really amazing in many ways
Anyway, he can’t really be serious. I hurriedly shook my head, feeling the need to change the subject.
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: Just need to finish what I wanted to do last time
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: What was it?
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: I was looking for 5 strange rings
[Guild] TheHunter: An elf ring?
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: oh I think that’s right
[Guild] Yoo Chae: You have to do a forsaken raid for that
[Guild] Yoo Chae: After reading and ignoring the chat
[Guild] Yoo Chae: He asked me to find a ring...
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Hyung, this rabbit-like wife is crying.
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: So you don’t want to be together?
[Guild] Yoo Chae: If you say you won’t just read the chat and ignore it in the future, I’ll find it..ㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild] TheHunter: That’s the location
[Guild] TheHunter: I know where it is
[Guild] TheHunter: Can I help you?ㅋㅋ
[Guild] Harn: ㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Harn: I know that ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Drink some water: me tooㅋ
[Guild] Mocha Bread: me tooㅋㅋ
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: haha tk
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Fuck
[Guild] Yoo Chae: Get lost, bastards
[Guild] I’m Sleepy: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] TheHunter: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
As if reading the messages was quite a blow, Yoo Chae’s plan to get a reply by using the quest as a hostage was blocked by the guild members.
Yoo Chae, who hastily created the party recruitment window, grabbed my character, and grimaced.
[All] Yoo Chae: come to the party soon Hyung
[All] Yoo Chae: Go do it with me
[All] I’m Sleepy: u said u won’t do it
[All] Yoo Chae: I was just kidding
[All] Yoo Chae: Oh, hurry up ㅡㅡ
He urged me desperately, not sure if he was worried that I would really go on a quest with someone else.
I was thinking of teasing him more because he was cute, but when I got really angry, I was the only one bothered, so I went into the party.
[Guild] TheHunter: Phew, in the end, the two of them are going together
[Guild] Harn: just to be abandoned like this again?..
[Guild] Crazy Hunting Friend: This is why couples shouldn’t be on the side
[Guild] Mocha Bread: I agree
[Guild] I’m getting lazy: Wasn’t Hunter taking charge?
[Guild] TheHunter: ?
[Guild] Manaolingnam: crazy Staric-nim, they’re having a fling
[Guild] TheHunter: ?
[Guild] TheHunter: Sue them
[Guild] Bright Clouds: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Let’s do this: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild] Drink some water: Suing all of a sudden ㅋㅋㅋ
Yoo Chae used the movement scroll, and the surrounding scenery changed quickly. I watched the entire thing before asking him.
[Party] I’m Sleepy: Do you want to do a discord call?
[Party] Yoo Chae: Gasp
[Party] Yoo Chae: Yeah
[Party] Yoo Chae: I want to
[Party] I’m Sleepy: let’s go
The voice call came right away. Putting on the headset and pressing the call accept button, I heard a familiar voice.
“Hello, hello.”
“Yeah.”
Yoo Chae’s voice made me feel happy because I asked him to do a discord call first.
However, when I started the call because I had a different ulterior motive, it felt rather uncomfortable to me.
“Are you starting the quest right away? Did you get the quest?”
“I got it last time. You can go collect them.”
“Yes.”
After answering simply, I compared the voices of Chae Yoo-jung and Yoo Chae. Even though they definitely sound alike... It wasn’t exactly on the same level.
Depending on the condition or sound quality of the microphone used while playing the game, there is a possibility that it will differ from the actual voice. Or maybe the two are really different people.
‘I’d like to call Chae Yoo-jung right now, but...…………..’
Even that doesn’t provide clear evidence. If Yoo-chae and Chae Yoo-jung turned out not to be the same person, there’s a possibility that I wouldn’t be able to accept it. After that, when the game is over and a reasonable amount of time has passed, I will then excuse myself and reason that I’ll be busy.
Thinking that far ahead, I swallowed a sigh that rose to the bottom of my lungs. What am I doing right now against the kid who excitedly ran to help me?
If Yoo-chae and Chae Yoo-jung are different people, and if I could just be misunderstanding... Isn’t it very rude to think this way right now? If someone else confuses me with someone else and raises these suspicions, I think I’ll feel upset.
“Then let’s start from the Northern region. I think I’ll just have to go around it in a clockwise direction.”
“I don’t care.”
“Ah, that’s right, Hyung! Look at this.”
With a ‘Pop’ and ‘Swish,’ Yoo Chae summoned a pet I hadn’t seen before.
It was a large, round and concave-eyed bird called ‘Popoko,’ and it was one of the few pets that could carry two people for a ride at once.
“Isn’t it cute? I bought a new one to use so that Hyung and I can use it during the quests.”
Yoo Chae went to the side of the pet and jumped up and down. Thanks to that, my conscience hurt even more intensely.
“Good job.......”
“Let’s ride this!”
“Yeah……”
I replied in a withered voice and started to circumnavigate the continent on the Popoko with Yoo Chae.
Like a popular pet, Popoko let out a cute cry and flew up at high speed.
“...K-kim Yoo-chae.”
“What?”
After staring at the monitor and thinking for a long time, I finally opened my mouth.
“Are you playing any other games?”
“Another game?”
“What, like Hero? What games did you play before Zenoris?”
“Just this and that.”
There was no significant change in Yoo Chae’s voice when answering the question. Not getting the response I wanted, I asked again.
“You don’t want to play Hero?”
“Well. I’m not playing right now. It’s fun playing Zenoris with Hyung.”
“Have you ever tried it?”
“I played it for a brief time in the past, but I gave up quickly because I liked the nurturing game better. Is Hyung good? I think I asked that last time.”
This time, too, I couldn’t find the slightest wave of emotion in Yoo Chae.
His reply, which came naturally and softly, without hesitation, made me question myself like, ‘What the hell are you doing?.’ The thought floated around and seemed to be laughing at my expense.
“No, me too… I stopped playing it after quitting it.”
“Is it so? It’s better to play Zenoris with me, right? Ah, we have arrived. Go talk to the NPC standing alone over there and he will give you a ring.”
“Ugh.”
Moving the mouse mechanically, I placed my other hand on my forehead. As I lowered my head, a moan of lamentation came out.
‘Fuck, I’m going to die of embarrassment.’
At this point, I was confused as to whether I was alone in a strange delusion. Kim Dae-seok, who knew the situation because I asked for advice, also said that the two could not be the same person, so in the end it was only me who was the problem.
At the same time, I felt guilty that I couldn’t bear to admit it to Yoo Chae, and a slight heat rose on my face.
“I have to meet Chae Yoo-jung one more time tomorrow.”
What do I do? I’m doomed.
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Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor: Meimei
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