- Translator: mangoes
“I told you I was going to change my nickname!”
Shaking, I yelled, but Shin Heejae only made an annoyed expression.
“You don’t even have money, why are you trying to waste 20,000 won?
“You…….”
“Please save it and buy chicken for Heejae instead.“
Shin Heejae, who had cheekily replied, handed me my headset that was near me. I didn’t want to receive it, but Shin Heejae saw me staring and said casually.
“Anyways, even if you change your nickname everyone will recognize you.”
“That’s…….”
It was true. Old players would notice who was who, even if they changed servers. Because I also had sensed it several times, I had nothing to say.
Shin Heejae pulled my arm, which was trembling after being unable to refute what he said, and doing whatever he wanted he sat me down on the chair and requested a party. Looking back and forth at the screen and Shin Heejae, I asked him.
“Really……. You want me to do this again?”
“Yes. You finally got to max level, isn’t it a waste.”
“…….”
The one feeling like it is a waste would be you. But I felt that if I said that I would have another seizure, so I had no choice but to accept the party request.
It was the first time I was playing a game with someone since I went to a PC room with my friends during middle school, but I wasn’t excited at all.
Shin Heejae returned the equipment I had left behind as it was. One by one, as if I was a prisoner wearing handcuffs, I started wearing the equipment.
It was then.
Everyone // Party // Clan // Friend // Whisper
‘Yoona’ has logged in.
[Whisper] [Yoona: when did you arrive??]
[Whisper] [Yoona: lets discord]
Yoona, the veteran with a gold spoon that I had sold the staff to, had logged in. And as soon as Yoona connected, they told Shin Heejae to get on discord through a whisper.
I reflexively looked at Shin Heejae’s face, but even though he had seen Yoona sending a chat to him to get on discord with her he was only absorbed in putting up my items in the trading window with me.
“What are you spacing out for? Not receiving the items.”
“Huh? Oh…….”
In the end, I got every single accessory back.
While clicking and putting on the equipment one by one, bright lights started to sparkle near the [Heejae] character. It was the effect when someone was warping.
And the person who came out……. was [Yoona].
It had barely been a few seconds since they had sent the whispers but they couldn’t stand it in the meantime and had come to find Shin Heejae. As if Yoona was stunned to see me and the Heejae character sticking close together, she hesitated, then sent another whisper to Heejae.
Everyone // Party // Clan // Friend // Whisper
[Whisper] [Yoona: why is that fker here??]
[Whisper] [Yoona: you caught him?]
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Unintentionally seeing Yoona’s whispers I felt slightly bad, but I had already somewhat guessed that the two would have gotten friendly with the matter of the staff, so I tried to pretend I didn’t see the chat.
And even after hearing Yoona’s whisper alarm come, he now went to the auction house and was blankly scrolling down the [Staff] category.
‘Qts lr tf lucbglcu Tbbcj’r wfrrjufr?’
I watched his figure in confusion, then suddenly I was bothered to the auction house Shin Heejae was looking at, so I asked carefully.
“Lfs, sbe……. Cgf sbe qbrrlyis vblcu atja yfmjerf sbe’gf qijcclcu ab yes wf j rajoo?”
“Yes. This time I’ll give you 0 transactions. So you won’t be able to sell it again when you receive it.”
“…….”
Looking at the side profile of this uncool guy full of resentment, I gradually felt stranger. Especially even now, it was to the point I wondered what the relationship between the two was, seeing the whispers coming from Yoona.
Tbbcj, atlr qfgrbc……. vlvc’a atfs rjs atfs kfgf jc biv wjc klat ibar bo wbcfs?” Dea kts lr atflg kjs bo rqfjxlcu rb ilnfis……. Ufgtjqr, atlr vevf lr jirb ujs……? Rb, rtla! Qtja jw P atlcxlcu gluta cbk…….
Everyone // Party // Clan // Friend // Whisper
[Whisper] [Yoona: i told you to turn on discord shin heejae~~!!!]
[Whisper] [Yoona: ㅡㅡ i’m going to call you?]
In addition, It felt that somehow Yoona’s behavior of obsessing over Shin Heejae was a similar feeling to the past when Shin Heejae did the same towards me, so my mood was odd.
Also, as soon as the last whisper was sent, Shin Heejae’s phone began to quietly ring. Then the name [Yoona] appeared on the screen. Maybe because she was quick to act, she really did call straight away.
No, but…….
‘They were to the point of even exchanging numbers?’
With bated breath, I watched Shin Heejae frown and answer the phone.
“Why.”
Shin Heejae bluntly answered the phone.
“Why are you throwing a fit and ignoring my whispers, you crazy bastard!”
But the person over the phone spoke in a bright, high-pitched female voice.
I was shocked about Yoona being a woman, not a man, No, when trading with her the name of the depositor was also very male……, was it not? That said, she was also famous for being known as a rich man, so…….
Regardless of my confusion, the conversation between the two continued.
“When are you coming? How many times did I tell you get onto discord?”
“I can’t right now.”
“Why? Even if you turn off your mic, just listen.”
“Don’t want to.”
“Are you going to keep leaving me annoyed? I even jumped servers because of you…….”
“I never told you to come.”
“If you coaxed me, take responsibility~.”
“…….”
“You said you’d be good to me if I joined the clan!”
Shin Heejae’s speech, expression, and even tone were very dry, but Yoona’s voice over the phone basically contained a smile regardless of what Heejae said. She spoke sharply, but for some reason she seemed very interested in Shin Heejae.
And listening to this on the side with bated breath……. My mood slowly became strange. It had only been 2 weeks since I had gone into hiding, what the hell had this bastard been doing all that time.
“…….”
Feeling awkward and strange, I uselessly put my hands on the keyboard and slowly pressed the arrow keys.
At first it was just to the point of going round and round near the Heejae character, but as the call got longer I gradually got further from him. Even though Shin Heejae seemed annoyed, he didn’t do anything like stop talking to Yoona.
Like that, with the background sound of a conversation I didn’t really want to hear, before I knew it while clicking the arrow keys I had walked to the edge of the entrance of the village.
It seemed that only then did Shin Heejae notice I had fallen far from him, and the small noise of the mouse wheel flipping through the auction house categories abruptly stopped.
And regardless of whatever Yoona was talking about, after putting his phone over behind his neck he completely turned and looked at me.
“What are you doing?”
“……Huh?”
“Hm? Did you say something?”
After he asked, I saw the expression of Shin Heejae who kept looking at me, and although I had done nothing wrong I felt like I had done something ‘against his will’. So while uselessly being wary of my surroundings I whispered in a low voice.
“I didn’t do anything, though…….”
“What is it? Is there someone beside you?”
“We’re choosing noona’s stuff so why are you uninterested.”
“…….”
“Don’t go anywhere else and come and see.”
I was annoyed by Shin Heejae’s unreasonableness, but eventually I slowly moved the character and went to his side. Anyways it was just whether I was at his side or not, for now I didn’t understand why he was acting out.
Then, something more absurd happened.
“Hey, today I’m……. if it’s not now, I can’t go to Behemoth. Are you going or not?”
No wonder Yoona had been speaking in a colder voice since before, and Shin Heejae responded in an uninterested way.
“Get another party and go.”
“……Why can’t you go?”
“I need to discipline Kim Seyoung a little.”
I raised my voice in bewilderment at my name which had popped out of nowhere.
“What? Hey, you……!”
“That netkama? Huh? Is he perhaps next to you?”
“…….”
With a bright voice, Yoona asked my name back.
“Hey! But why did you put him back into the clan? Right now all the clan members are cursing him, though.”
At my bewildered mood and by Yoona’s words, the presumed atmosphere in the clan, my heart pounded.
‘They clan members……. Shit, so they all know…….’
It was clear that Shin Heejae had indeed told me to play the game again in order to disgrace me. I blushed in shame.
However, without caring, the two carelessly continued to talk about me. Shin Heejae in particular, this crazy bastard was calm as ever even while his eyes grumpily stared at me.
While he tapped my chair with his legs he was in a weird argument, one-sidedly informing Yoona.
“For the time being just get another party and go.”
“What? Hey, Shin Heejae!”
“I’m busy so I’ll end the call first.”
After saying that, Shin Heejae turned his phone upside down and left it on the side, then pulled my chair to his side. He then showed me the staff he had chosen.
[Behemoth’s Black Demon Staff]
I wanted to ask about the call a little while ago, but I just closed my mouth. And I just looked at the screen.
It was an item where basic specs were better than I thought, but not one caught my eye. It was because the staff that Yoona was using right now was a much better item. Now even what I was being given had switched to being cost-effective.
“It’s good. I’ll use it well.”
While thinking that, I replied half-heartedly. Shin Heejae stared at me being like that and suddenly opened his mouth.
“But noona. The timing of you selling the staff was crazy good.”
“Huh?”
“The moment noona quit, a new dungeon came out. Weapons drop from there.”
It wasn’t a sarcastic tone, so I listened and asked.
“Is this item from the new dungeon?”
“Yes.”
‘Then……. Are there no enchanted ones for sale because it hasn’t been long since it came out?’
I searched up the item on the auction house with my character. And I found the staff I had just received from Shin Heejae, and even though it wasn’t enchanted it was 40 billion.
I was surprised at the price so I looked at Shin Heejae. But he didn’t care about my reaction and explained.
“Starting from Behemoth’s 4th enchant, it ends up better than Atilica +9.”
“Ah…….”
“So, shall we now make a new +9?“
“Huh?”
“Let’s do ten runs of this dungeon daily with each of our characters. Make another max level, too.”
T/N
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