Love Games
Translator: She.Wee
[T/N: PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU CONTINUE!!!
Okay now that I have your attention I want to say that there have been some changes in names. For example instead of ParkHwiBelRe I’ll be using ParkRoach from now on and for Cheon Noeul…sigh, well the thing is his in-game and real life name both are Cheon Noeul. But the people in game think that it’s just a nickname and so does Kyungsoo. That is why from now on I’ll be using ThousandSunset (his name’s translation) whenever he speaks or is mentioned in the game and whenever he is mentioned in real life I’ll just use Cheon Noeul. That is it. Happy reading~]
“Damn game…”
There was everything except for an item to change his nickname. He was more than willing to buy it, whether it cost five thousand won or ten thousand won…
But it looks like this game had no intention of making money. Didn’t they think there might be more people like him?
Kyung-soo didn’t want to live with a nickname like “Meow…something” anymore. The horrifying moment when Cheon Noeul softly called out “Meow” flashed through his mind again, making Kyung-soo ruffle his hair wildly.
[Guild] Ji9star : Meowie-nim
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: Don’t call me Meowie.
[Guild] Ji9star : ??
[Guild] Ji9star : ??????????
Ji9star was sending a series of question marks and asked again.
[Guild] Ji9star : Where is Sunset?
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: In front of the Rethe Tower, I’ll be there soon.
The gauge was filling up. In a short while, they would be transported to the party dungeon. A few seconds later, an illustration filled the screen, and a loading screen for the map transition appeared.
[Guild] Ji9star : Ah… do you want to be called ThousandSunsetGG instead of Meowie…?
“…Ah.”
That wasn’t what he meant.
[Guild] neutaaaa: I’ll record this lol
[Guild] Ji9star : Breaking news lol Poseidon official couple (real) No. 1 is born!
[Guild] neutaaaa: lolololol
The phone screen lit up. A photo had been uploaded to the guild chat room. The chat room’s notice had changed to a photo. Kyung-soo had now reached a state of enlightenment. He didn’t care what others called him as long as it wasn’t Meow.
[T/N: Lol not Kyugsoo going into a stupified mode and just accepting everything]
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[Whisper] ThousandSunset: Meowie, you’re hiding really well today, aren’t you? So cute ㅇㅅㅇ
“What the fuck…”
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: You’re already in the party? ㅇㅅㅇ
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: But why did you pretend not to see me earlier? ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ
Kyung-soo glared at the screen and deliberately didn’t respond. Cheon Noeul might have sent mail too, as the mailbox icon in the upper right corner was blinking. It meant he should check the mailbox in a nearby village.
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: Meowie?
‘Meowie, Meowie, Meowie, MeowieMeowMeow, MeowieMeowMeow…’
Remembering Cheon Noeul smiling slyly with narrow eyes, Kyung-soo shuddered briefly from where he was sitting.
“Ah, damn it, this is creepy…”
Kyung-soo shivered and scratched his goosebumps-covered arms. It felt like he could still hear that voice in his ears.
Kyung-soo tried to ignore Cheon Noeul’s messages and pulled yetis in front of him with a hook before blowing them up with a bazooka. Ji9star ’s sub-character was busy picking up and checking items that dropped from the yetis.
[Server] ThousandSunset: MeowieMeowMeow <<< Anyone who reports his location will get 300 million today ㅇㅅㅇ Immediate delivery via mail!
“…”
It was a time attack dungeon, so clearing it quickly was crucial. However, all the guild members in the dungeon stopped moving. Only the yetis and seal monsters continued to walk back and forth on their predetermined paths.
[Party] Ji9star : I was really shaken just now… You know how to do business;
[Party] ParkRoach: Me too. I clicked the nickname and then came to my senses.
[Party] Ji9star : We wouldn’t have to go through this trouble if we took the 300 million… Can’t we just sell Meowie’s name once???
He remembered a guild member who had sold him out before. That person had eventually succeeded in enhancing their weapon to level 9 with the money they got from selling Kyung-soo.
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: Are you crazy?
[Party] Ji9star : Just one more day! Deal?
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: Are you really crazy?
[Party] neutaaaa: That’s neither casual nor polite…
[Party] Ji9star : It’s a bad example of semi-formal language lol
[Party] Ji9star : If I get 300 million, I’ll give Meowie 100 million ㅇㅅㅇ Deal?
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: I’ll give you 1 billion if you take Cheon Noeul away.
[Party] Ji9star : That’s a bit…
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: ?
[Party] Ji9star : I’m not the type to covet others’ stuff… right, honey?
[Party] neutaaaa: Yeah, my honey isn’t greedy.
[Party] Ji9star : Because I’m a Buddhist lmao
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: Since when???
[Party] Ji9star : Since today lol
[Party] Ji9star : Do you know about non-possession?
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: …..
[T/N: Ah I fucking love Ji9star ‘s character lol]
So annoying. Responding earnestly to their nonsense, Kyung-soo used his job skill to gather all the yetis in the map and blew them up at once. A bunch of item bundles dropped.
[Party] ParkRoach: Berserker tch.
[Party] ParkRoach: Should I try Berserker later?
[Party] MeowieMeowMeow: When will you do it? ㅎㅎ
[Party] Ji9star: You must be fucking crazy
[Party] ParkRoach: Why?
[Party] neutaaaa: Have you ever seen a Berserker in the field?
[Party] ParkRoach: No
[Party] neutaaaa: Look at how only MeowieMeowMeow is doing it. Isn’t it obvious? Just focus on being a healer.
[Party] ParkRoach: Okay okay
Kyung-soo’s lips twitched upwards. They’re praising me again today, right? No matter how many times he heard it, compliments always felt good.
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: Meowie!!
It was Cheon Noeul. The smile that had just formed quickly faded.
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: ಥ‿ಥ I broke my leg because you kicked me earlier….
“…?”
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: They say it’ll take 18 weeks to heal, what should I do? ಥ‿ಥ
Kyung-soo, who had been feeling proud, was speechless after reading Cheon Noeul’s message. It seemed he was trying to pin the blame on him. Although he had punched him in the face, he never touched his leg.
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: I’m being taken to the emergency room now ಥ‿ಥ
[Whisper] MeowieMeowMeow: What??
[Whisper] Cheon Noeul: Should I get a medical certificate for you? See you in 18 weeks. *Sobs*
Kyung-soo’s eyes widened. He quickly lost his rationality and crossed the line he shouldn’t have crossed.
[Whisper] MeowieMeowMeow: Don’t lie; I didn’t kick you. Why is your leg broken if you were hit in the face?
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: Ah, right, haha
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: That’s true.
[T/N: Smooth Noeul-ah~]
The image of Cheon Noeul smiling with narrowed eyes flashed in his mind. Even though he had only seen his face briefly, it seemed deeply imprinted in his memory.
[Whisper] ThousandSunset: Meowie, why did you leave earlier?
“…”
His heart sank. He felt like he had dug his own grave and was at a loss for words. Kyung-soo hesitated for a moment, then turned off the power strip with his toe.
[Ji9star : Oh my, did you disconnect?]
Surprised by Kyung-soo’s sudden departure from the game, a guild member sent a message. Kyung-soo replied, saying there was a power outage in his apartment, and then slumped to the floor. Cheon Noeul’s school uniform was from a nearby school, just a few minutes’ walk away. It was only a matter of time before he came looking for him. Kyung-soo was wearing his school uniform at that time too.
“Damn it, what do I do…”
Cheon Noeul would probably come to his school upon seeing his uniform. It was something that guy would do.
*
“Kim Kyung-soo. Why do you keep looking outside? Is there something out there?”
“Do you think there is? I just want to go home.”
“Bullshit, it’s still lunchtime…”
“I wanted to go home since zero period.”
“Ah… I know that feeling.”
…No way, he wouldn’t actually come looking for me, right? Even if he is a weird guy. With that thought, Kyung-soo spent the whole day glancing out the window towards the school gate.
“By the way, how did that real-life confrontation go?”
“……”
I shouldn’t have told this guy.
“Idiot. Did you lose to an elementary kid?”
Tae-yeol raised his eyebrows mockingly at Kyung-soo. Kyung-soo let out a small sigh. I thought he was an elementary kid too, but he wasn’t…
“…Of course, I won, idiot.”
“You won?”
Tae-yeol squinted his eyes and asked.
“Yeah.”
“What a brag.”
“……”
“So you actually fought an elementary kid? What kind of loser picks a fight with a kid who’s only lived half your life? Guys, Kyung-soo got into a fight with an elementary school kid!”
“An elementary kid?”
“You piece of trash… So, did you win?”
“Why do you even exist?”
“Damn it, no! He wasn’t that young!”
“Act your age.”
Tae-yeol clicked his tongue in disapproval and flopped down on his desk. Then, he Ji9star ted fiddling with his phone and chuckling to himself. Kyung-soo felt incredibly wronged. Chun No-eul wasn’t an elementary kid, and if you really think about it, I did win. Although it was by sheer luck, I was the one who punched Chun Noeul and ran away.
Luckily, by the end of the school day, Cheon Noeul had not shown up in front of the school. Kyung-soo, worried that wearing his uniform might get him caught easily, decided to head home in his gym clothes, only to get caught by the disciplinary committee and receive demerits. He had thought Noeul would definitely be waiting, but with no one there, he felt a bit deflated. Kyung-soo crumpled the demerit card in his pocket and trudged home.
Aside from eating and dozing off during class, he spent almost the entire day thinking about Cheon Noeul.
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[Guild] Ji9star : Breaking news!
[Guild] ParkRoach: What’s up?
[Guild] Ji9star : [Breaking] LOL! Doom and Fail have teamed up!
[Guild] Neutaaaa: Fail?
[Guild] ParkRoach: Yeah, there’s a guild called Fail.
[Guild] Neutaaaa: Never heard of them. I thought they were new.
Though they talked like that, the guild “Failure is the Mother of Success” was actually ranked within the top 30.
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: Doom and Fail teaming up? LOL. What are they gonna do together?
[Guild] Ji9star : The name combo is hilarious. LOL. Birds of a feather flock together.
[Guild] Aloha: So disgusting… They’re just going to go around being jerks.
[Guild] Ji9star : They’ll probably claim they took Isis again. LOL.
[Guild] Neutaaaa: But we actually took Isis….
Kyung-soo’s guild, Poseidon, did not get along well with the Doom guild. Whenever a Poseidon member was alone and Doom guild members surrounded them, tensions rose. The Doom members would openly mock and taunt them in the public chat. If a lone Poseidon member moved to another area, they would get targeted via server-wide announcements.
[Server] King: 3rd channel Isis is taken by <<Doom>>.
[Server] InvisibleMan: ◆Doom◆ is recruiting! Requirements: Not from 凸Poseidon凸. We even accept level 1s.
[Guild] Aloha: How often do they change members? They’re always recruiting. They wouldn’t even notice if someone created an alternate character to join.
Kyung-soo laughed at the fools throwing punches at thin air and laid out automatic hook seeds all over the map. It was a great skill for setting traps and then going AFK for a bit.
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: I’m going to eat now.
[Guild] Ji9star : Okay.
After saying goodbye to his guildmates, Kyung-soo went to cook some ramen. As the water boiled, he checked his messages and then added the soup base when a new message popped up in the guild chat.
Ji9star : MeowieMeowMeow, something big happened. Come quickly!
Kyung-soo, impressed by the urgency conveyed without a single space in the message, slowly got up from his chair.
In the middle of a blue hunting ground, Kyung-soo’s character stood stupidly surrounded by guild members covered in flashy dark effects. Opposite them, the Doom and Fail guilds stood with “LOL” floating above their heads. Scrolling through the chat, Kyung-soo quickly understood the situation.
Doom, with their hobby of shadowboxing, had started trouble upon seeing Kyung-soo and called their guildmates to badmouth him and disrupt his item farming with debuffs. He had six debuffs stacked on him.
Had Kyung-soo not checked, screenshots of him getting one-sidedly beaten would have likely been maliciously posted on the homepage with titles like “Truth About the Berserker Ranker’s Damage Output.” The one who reported this to him was none other than…
[Global] ThousandSunset: Ah, damn lag.
Cheon Noeul had slipped in quietly among the Poseidon guild members, without any of the flashy effects. It was no wonder the game lagged with so many users in one place.
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: ?? LOL, what…
[Guild] ParkRoach: Why did you come so late?
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: I haven’t even eaten yet. ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
[Guild] Ji9star : Is food more important or the guild?
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: Food.
‘MeowieMeowMeow has been demoted to regular guild member.’
Surprised, Kyung-soo checked the guild window and saw that the vice guild master had logged in.
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: Of course the guild is more important…^^
[Guild] Halloween: Be careful. You almost gave me a heart attack.^^
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: Haha, yeah…^^
‘MeowieMeowMeow has been promoted to elite guild member.’
He had only been away for about five minutes. The sound of bubbling water came from the pot. Kyung-soo quickly threw in the broken ramen noodles and rushed back to the computer, placing his hands on the keyboard.
[Global] MeowieMeowMeow: What do you want?
With so many people around, the chance of getting a Galaxy Sword, if it dropped, was high. He didn’t want to lose another Galaxy Sword to Cheon Noeul.
[Global] Iove: You talk like a noob, LOL.
“Who is this guy…?”
[Global] Iove: Your damage output is pathetic. How are you a ranker?
[Global] ParkRoach: Why? Because they’re stronger than you, obviously. Shut up, fake Love.
[Global] Iove: Shut up, fake cockroach.
[Global] Ji9star : LOL, fake cockroach is told to shut up.
[Global] Ji9star : Fake cockroach, shut up.
[Global] ParkRoach: ?? Why are you siding with this jerk?
[Global] Ji9star : Fake cockroach is funny, LOL.
[Global] Iove: Hehe.
[Global] Ji9star : I didn’t say it to make you feel good. Why are you so pleased? LOL.
[Global] ParkRoach: Whose side are you on, anyway…?
The user picking a fight over damage output was someone Kyung-soo had never seen before. Above the user’s head was the guild name “Failure is the Mother of Success.” They must have been excited about their guild’s new alliance and Ji9star ted trouble after seeing the guild name above Kyung-soo’s head.
[Global] ThousandSunset: Stop acting like a kid and leave.
[Global] Iove: No way, moron. ~ㅇㅅㅇ~ Dance dance ㅗ~^ㅅ^~ㅗ
[Global] Ji9star : So childish….
[Global] ParkRoach: Based on how they talk, they’re probably a kid.
[Global] Iove: Morons, I’m not a kid.
[Global] Aloha: LOL, are you an anime fan?
Then, Cheon Noeul, who had been quiet for a while due to lag, spoke up.
[Global] ThousandSunset: Picking a fight with someone minding their own business is more moronic.ㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild] Ji9star : LOL, what he said is true, but it’s funny coming from him.
Cheon Noeul’s comment led the Fail and Doom members to start insulting Cheon Noeul.
[Global] InvisibleMan: If I were you, I’d kill myself.
[Global] ThousandSunset: Then go ahead.(ㅇㅅㅇ) LOL.
[Global] InvisibleMan: I said, if I were you!
Cheon Noeul, who had no proper equipment or weapons, was an easy target. Though silent when mocked, Cheon Noeul quickly began spewing out every curse imaginable when told, “You follow that noob Meow around.”
[Guild] Ji9star : Sunset is amazing….
[Guild] Neutaaaa: Are you watching, Meowie?
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: What are they saying?
[Guild] ParkRoach: LOL.
[Guild] MeowieMeowMeow: Fake cockroach, shut up.
[Guild] ParkRoach: Ugh.
[Guild] Neutaaaa: LOL.
But was this really something to get so angry about? Kyung-soo awkwardly watched Cheon Noeul’s chat, getting visibly angry as if it were their own problem, and eventually brought the pot of ramen over to his computer desk.
[Global] Iove: Shut up, jerk. This is a guild battle. Why are you even here? Know when to butt out.
Calling this a guild battle when it’s more like playing schoolyard bully online, it seemed like the Doom guild’s age was definitely on the younger side. Kyung-soo laughed as he looked at the monitor.
[Global]
ThousandSunset: How is this a guild battle?????
[Global] ThousandSunset: Meowie was getting beaten alone.ㅇㅅㅇ
[Global] Iove: Ugh, guild noob, don’t butt in, LOL.
[Global] Halloween: Just wait.
As soon as the vice guild master said to wait, a bold red announcement window popped up.
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