Chapter 76

“Ah.”

“Didn’t you not drink?”

“I didn’t, Yeonhoo.”

“Then why are you as red as I am?”

“No, no, I’m not. Your place is just warm, so I guess I’m hot. So? So what happened?”

Mo Yeonhoo thought back, wondering if the car had smelled like alcohol, then remembered that he had forgotten to turn off the heat before going out and looked back at the screen.

“From that day on, I gave him gifts, followed him around saying I liked him, and in the end......”

Watching 0momo0 still running across the empty wilderness, Mo Yeonhoo said calmly,

“I nearly got shot full of holes.”

When he added that it had been a passionate reunion, the faint flush on Kwon Mieon’s face drained away again.

The flow of the story should have been leading to how their relationship worked out. Instead, it turned into a story about almost dying, so Kwon Mieon seemed flustered and said nothing. Mo Yeonhoo suddenly felt wronged.

“But how could he do that? I picked out nice gifts for him, and I even slipped in tasty things too, okay? But he still treated me like a complete stalker and opened fire on me.”

“.......”

“Do you know what a heavy machine gun is? It seriously looks like three people put together. He installed that thing and shot it at me. Wow...! Seriously!”

“...It does sound like a situation that could’ve caused some misunderstanding. If a stranger keeps following you around, it could be scary.”

“Right! That’s why I originally tried to send everything by mail, but he had all of that blocked. So I was really careful when I sent them. I even wrote a love letter, and as soon as he read it, he started shooting! Just! I was hiding in the forest and he just started spraying. Just!”

“Th-that... maybe he just needed wood?”

“What?”

Mo Yeonhoo blinked and looked to the side. Kwon Mieon was gripping the chair he sat on, bending at the waist and staring hard at the screen. Mo Yeonhoo stopped short at how close his face was.

“Are you stupid?”

But what Kwon Mieon had said was so absurd that his flustered face did not even register.

“Anyone could tell he was trying to kill me.”

“Ah, right....”

At Mo Yeonhoo’s scolding, Kwon Mieon looked a little dejected and closed his mouth.

“Still, somehow or other, the misunderstanding got cleared up. He even let me join his alliance.”

“That’s good.”

“Yeah, in a lot of ways... it was good.”

“What?”

When Mo Yeonhoo said it with a bright smile, Kwon Mieon’s face brightened too as he asked.

“It was fucked....”

“......What?”

Did he know? Even things from the past that one had buried away came alive again once they started spilling them out to someone.

“I’d never farmed that much in my life. Do you know this? This place has all kinds of harvesters by grade. Rare, Heroic, and then there’s something called a combine, and a baler too... You think that’s all? Have you ever mined stone?”

Mo Yeonhoo even stopped running, spread his hand wide, and waved it around.

“Wow, there was a real quarry. It never ended. I didn’t have a skill, so I could only use a level 1 tool, okay? And he told me to mine all the way over there with that thing. No, was it just stone? I climbed trees and picked fruit too. Why were there so many snakes? I got bitten and.......”

“Yeonhoo, Yeonhoo. Still, wh-what about now? You’re getting along now, aren’t you?”

“Now?”

“Yes, not the past, now.... The present is what matters. You added each other as friends and got closer, didn’t you?”

“We get along now! The misunderstanding got cleared up, so we’re doing all kinds of things together.”

“Wow, then that’s really a relief. Still, seeing you play the game with him like this, I guess he must be a good person?”

“Yeah. Seriously, our baby? Older woman? Anyway, he’s so rabbit-like and good....”

“Yeonhoo, your nose is bleeding!”

“Nosebleed? Huh, why is this happening.... Wow, this is my first nosebleed!”

“Hold on, stay like that. Have you been overdoing it lately? First, I’ll get some tissues....”

“Overdoing it? Oh? Maybe it’s because I’ve been staying up almost every night lately!”

“You stay up all night?”

“Yeah, I’ve been staying up all night playing the game lately. I didn’t sleep a wink today! There was so much to do, I couldn’t sleep.”

“You had so much to do that you couldn’t even sleep?”

“It’s nothing big. It’s just, if I want to be friends with Miu, there’s a lot I have to do. Is this like a friendship fee? I’d rather pay it in money if I could.... I guess it was a little hard. But Kwon Mieon, what’s wrong with you?”

“.......”

“Are you crying?”

“Why would I cry....”

For a moment, his eyes had looked wet, but the shadow over his face must have made Mo Yeonhoo see wrong.

“I’m not crying.”

Just as he said, Kwon Mieon’s face was perfectly dry. Only his expression was a little strange. His complexion was so dark that Mo Yeonhoo had mistaken it for crying, and most of all, he would not meet Mo Yeonhoo’s eyes.

What’s with him?

There had been more than a few times when Mo Yeonhoo felt embarrassed because Kwon Mieon always stared at him so intently, but now he could not even lift his head properly. It was deeply odd.

“It stopped.”

When he moved the tissue away, the bleeding had fortunately stopped already, as if it had not been anything serious.

Mo Yeonhoo roughly wiped his nose with a wet wipe and raised his head.

“Kwon Mieon?”

He was standing far away.

When had he gotten so far?

“Yeonhoo, I... I’ll go first.”

“Suddenly? Aren’t you going to drink water?”

“It’s just...... I parked my car any which way, so I think I need to hurry back.”

“Huh?”

“And I think I’ve been getting calls since earlier.”

When he had followed Mo Yeonhoo into the elevator without warning, saying he wanted water, and now he looked frantic, as if he were trying to escape this apartment no matter what. Seeing him hesitate and step backward like he was about to leave right away, Mo Yeonhoo got up without thinking.

“Ah, should I go down with you?”

“No?!”

But his reaction.

“I’ll go by myself. It’s cold out, so you shouldn’t go outside. Besides, you had a nosebleed, and you’re still drunk. Stay in.”

“The nosebleed stopped, and I sober up fast, so I’m fine....”

“No. Your nose might bleed again, and you might get drunk again.”

Did that make any sense? He wanted to retort, how could he get drunk again when he was not drinking? But Kwon Mieon was so serious as he said it that Mo Yeonhoo could not say anything more. Besides, his face was pale enough that he looked like he might collapse any second.

“Then I’ll get going. Rest well.”

“Kwon Mieon?”

“I’ll see you next time, next time.”

“Hey??”

What was this? Was he seriously leaving like this?

Mo Yeonhoo belatedly chased after Kwon Mieon, who had left in an instant, but he had already vanished out the front door.

Beep-beep. Hearing the door lock, Mo Yeonhoo stood there, unable to hide his bewilderment.

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Are you okay??

Even if it was because of the car, he had left in too much of a rush, and Mo Yeonhoo could not stop thinking about his especially dark complexion.

After hesitating, he sent another message with his fingertips.

Is something wrong?

Mo Yeonhoo stared at the screen. The usual Kwon Mieon would have checked it by now and still had time left over.

When Mo Yeonhoo sent him a message, never mind five minutes, he usually answered in almost one. But right now.......

Is he busy moving his car?

No matter how long he waited, the quiet phone bothered him. So he stood in front of the entryway and, without realizing it, stared at his phone for a long time.

Ding. A notification sounded.

Mo Yeonhoo’s eyes lit up for an instant.

It’s not a DM.

But it was not a message from Kwon Mieon.

Zombie Village?

Since the brief notification said private message, it had to be Miu. But what was this feeling?

Why am I disappointed?

It was a message from Miyoung, the person he liked, so why was Kwon Mieon’s lack of response bothering him more?

Mo Yeonhoo faintly furrowed his brow with complicated feelings, then checked the message and quickly headed for the computer room.

(CH03) Miu: momo-nim are you there?

He did not know. First, he would handle this.

Mo Yeonhoo quickly sat down in front of the computer and checked Miu’s status.

The private walkie-talkie had an option that let them check each other’s online status. For the spy search, Miu and 0momo0 had activated that option.

He’s on mobile.

Miu was logged in on mobile.

Let’s type fast.

He was a little late in answering the rabbit more terrifying than a demon, but he needed to show that he was doing his best with the mission he had been given.

(CH03) 0momo0: already logged in lololol!

(CH03) 0momo0: im going super hard rn

As he diligently moved his character again, which had paused for a while because of Kwon Mieon, Mo Yeonhoo made a point of showing his situation.

(CH03) 0momo0: im here right now!!

(CH03) 0momo0: (coordinates)

(CH03) 0momo0: look im almost there

(CH03) 0momo0: ill bthere soon

(CH03) 0momo0: ill be there in 4 min fr

(CH03) 0momo0: my bike is fast

(CH03) 0momo0: seriously fast

(CH03) 0momo0: 3 min left now

(CH03) 0momo0: like...2 min 44 sec?

(CH03) [N O V E L I G H T] 0momo0: miu???

(CH03) 0momo0: baby???

(CH03) 0momo0: ........older woman?