Chapter 68

(CH03) Miu: That works out

(CH03) Miu: If you can’t do it, you can just leave the alliance

(CH03) Miu: Right?^^

Miu used a smile interaction. Yeonhoo could read the real meaning from it.

He’s telling me to get lost if I don’t like it!

It meant if he had no confidence in keeping those clauses, he should not even start. Mo Yeonhoo read the file with a troubled expression, then let out a soft sigh.

Thinking back to farming and gathering.......

Miyoung, who was extremely sharp and competent in real life, was even more so inside the game. Never less. Miu was very good at working people to the bone.

When Yeonhoo thought back to how thoroughly Miu had wrung the beginner farmer dry, he wondered how he had even endured it.

Is a friendly form of address really that hard? I could call you baby rabbit every day.

If he accepted, it seemed obvious his daily life would be ruined, so he could not recklessly say he would do it.

(CH03) Miu: Then we’ll pretend this never happened, right?

Miu pressed him for an answer.

(CH03) Miu: Can you give back the walkie-talkie?

(CH03) Miu: Ah, you can keep it if you want

(CH03) Miu: I’m going to throw it away anyway

His attitude made it clear he thought Mo Yeonhoo would, of course, refuse. It did seem as though the clauses had been written to shake him off in the first place.

Our connection ends?

In truth, Mo Yeonhoo knew Miu’s real body—Miyoung.

So even if their connection in the game ended, he could focus on Miyoung in reality instead... and he thought nothing that terrible would happen.

[(Global) Miu: Sincerity]

[(Global) Miu: I’m kind of curious about your sincerity lol]

But the image of Miu saving him—

[Miu has invited you to the <Sky Terror> dungeon party. Would you like to accept?]

[(Alliance) Miu: Accept the invite]

[(Alliance) Miu: I’m going to keep my promise]

The way Miu had accompanied him into a raid he had never been to before—

[(Alliance) Miu: Now we counterattack]

The way Miu had appeared during the Siege War and turned the mood around with a counterattack—

[(Alliance) Miu: Which bastards touched us?]

And even the scene of Miu’s cool entrance when he was being tormented by the WAVE would not leave his mind. As those memories came back to him, Mo Yeonhoo’s expression naturally turned gloomy.

I don’t want to cut ties....... It’s fun.

He was not good at the game, but playing with Miu was fun. From the raid to the Siege War, and then the zombie WAVE, he had been so happy by Miu’s side.

(CH03) 0momo0: I’ll do it

Mo Yeonhoo made his decision quickly.

(CH03) Miu: ???

(CH03) Miu: You’ll do it??

Miu asked again, as if he could not understand, but Mo Yeonhoo did not back down.

(CH03) 0momo0: Yes

(CH03) 0momo0: I’ll do all of that, so just tell me what I should start with

(CH03) Miu: Why would you do that?

When Yeonhoo acted firmly, as if he had properly made up his mind, Miu naturally seemed dumbfounded. Apparently, even though he had suggested it himself, he had never thought Yeonhoo would actually do it.

But Mo Yeonhoo’s mind was already set.

(CH03) Miu: You’re going to spend so much time it’ll be like throwing it on the ground

(CH03) Miu: And I told you I’m going to destroy your human rights, right?

(CH03) 0momo0: I’ll still do it

(CH03) Miu: Huh...?

(CH03) 0momo0: I said I’ll do everything on the list I have to keep

(CH03) 0momo0: No matter what you make me do, I can do it all

Of course it would be hard, but since his body had already been trained once through farming and gathering, maybe it would be less difficult.

The veiled (Necromancer), 0momo0, took a solemn step forward, eyes gleaming.

The two characters stood face-to-face in the ruined alliance territory. It was a situation that seemed ready for a line cool enough to come straight out of a movie, and Mo Yeonhoo thought for a moment.

He’s telling me not to suggest anything weird and just take the gem and end this, right?

Miu’s intentions were obvious. If Miu pushed that hard, he wanted Mo Yeonhoo to reluctantly take the gem and provide help in exchange.

That was why he had set conditions far too unreasonable to accept in return for something as small as one form of address.

(CH03) 0momo0: So Miu, you keep yours too

(CH03) 0momo0: Speaking casually looks hard for you, so I won’t force you

(CH03) 0momo0: Instead

But watching Miu, who could not accept help unless something was given and received in return...

(CH03) 0momo0: Call me Yeonhoo

Mo Yeonhoo’s stubbornness flared too.

(CH03) 0momo0: Or I’ll call you my older girl, and you can call me baby

He wanted to show Miu that he could gladly help for something as simple as that kind of address, not money.

Whoooooosh, wind blew through the alliance territory. Soon the wind and leaves whipped through the air, and the garbage inside the alliance territory gathered together and flew about. In that strange, unrealistic scenery, Miu finally burst out laughing.

(CH03) Miu: lololololololol

(CH03) Miu: lolololololololololololololololololololololololololol

(CH03) Miu: This is fun

It was a laugh of disbelief, but what could be done?

(CH03) 0momo0: Hurry

Mo Yeonhoo was serious.

Miu typed strings of laughter for a long while before stopping.

(CH03) Miu: Fine lololol

(CH03) Miu: Then I’ll start giving you things to do today, okay?

It was as though they could see each other’s stubborn faces through their monitors.

(CH03) Miu: Yeonhoo lol?

Either way, this ship had set sail.

(CH03) 0momo0: Yeah, let’s go, baby

(CH03) Miu: Ah♥♥

Though it did seem to have set sail while heavily tilted.

*****

“Wow, you’re alive and didn’t die? Why are you two coming in together?”

“Haha! Long time no see~~”

“We met out front. Hi.”

It was a red space under dim lighting. Sitting at a table away from the bartender, a well-dressed man greeted the two people who had just come in.

“Park Taekyun, Mo Yeonhoo! What’s with your clothes?”

“Ah~ I came from playing tennis!”

“Ugh, you smell like sweat.”

“Haha!”

“What about Mo Yeonhoo? What’s with the hat?”

“I was a little busy....”

Kim Seongjae made a fed-up face. Unlike him, in his neat coat, Park Taekyun was wearing workout clothes, and even Mo Yeonhoo, who usually dressed well, was in comfortable clothes and a hat.

But what did that matter? They were friends meeting again after a long time, and soon, conversation flowed along with refreshing bursts of laughter.

“I ordered a platter and a few bottles for now. Want anything else?”

“Not really....”

“I’m good. Thanks for getting together because of me, seriously.”

“Wow! But what’s up with Park Taekyun? Why are you so dark now?”

“Hey, do you know how much this cost?”

“You’re saying that tan is artificial?”

“No, actually, I didn’t go to a shop.”

What the hell, so he just got tanned while running around. At the pointless talk, the three of them giggled as if they were elementary school kids meeting for the first time again. It was a gathering for Park Taekyun, who had been abroad for a long time and had finally come back to Korea.

“You must have been running around like crazy. Mo Yeonhoo, show us your face. But even from here, you look like you’ve gotten paler?”

“Right.”

Unlike Park Taekyun, who had clearly spent a lot of time out and about and had grown darker, Mo Yeonhoo had become even paler, and the two of them marveled at it.

“Being this pale is kind of impressive, honestly.”

“But what has Mo Yeonhoo been doing all this time?”

“He’s been so unreachable lately I almost filed a missing person report.”

“Agreed.”

When the two of them grumbled, Mo Yeonhoo smiled awkwardly.

“What would I be doing....... Just hanging around.”

“Then why don’t you show up anywhere if you’re hanging around? I heard you don’t even come to bars much anymore, and you don’t go where the guys are hanging out either.”

“Me?”

“Rumor’s spread everywhere.”

“I even heard about it overseas. People kept asking what Yeonhoo’s been doing.”

Since their circles of friends overlapped, it seemed they had all heard the rumors about how Mo Yeonhoo had been staying shut in lately.

“But why does his voice sound like that too? You sound totally drained.”

Yeonhoo was about to say he had really just been resting at home, but Kim Seongjae spoke in puzzlement.