[Guild][Neda] Oh no, Banye-nim……
[Guild][Neda] Is the conversation just now something Banye-nim should have seen…
[Guild][Banyecredit] What?
[Guild][Neda] It seems that your spouse is maintaining an overly friendly relationship with another man……
[Guild][Banyecredit] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] What are you talking about lol
[Guild][Banyecredit] Of course Banye is the best for me
I ran to Banye to deny Neda’s words and habitually tried the [Hug] motion.
But Banye didn’t accept it.
[Guild][Aang] Why don’t you go hug Nanneomukeoeyeowo then
Banye usually didn’t play along with marriage-related jokes, but today for some reason he responded to my words in a tone full of jealousy.
There he goes again for no reason.
I got excited and tapped on the keyboard, used the shocked motion in the opposite way, and plopped down in place with a thud.
[Guild][Banyecredit] Honey… why would you say such a thing?
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ?
[Guild][Suckeot3] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ He’s seriously sulking
[Guild][Banyecredit] ㅠㅠ?
Unlike usual, I sneakily sent a whisper to Banye who was playing along with the pretend anger.
[Whisper][Banyecredit] Banye-ssi! You were AFK so I went to the Stone Tower with Nanneomukeoeyeowo-ssi! If I’d known you were done being AFK I would’ve begged you to go!
Then Banye asked an absurd counter-question.
[Whisper][Aang] Who said what?
I was dumbfounded.
“No, you just told me to go hug Nanneomukeoeyeowo…!”
But it was obvious that even if I pointed that out Banye wouldn’t listen, so I clung to him acting pitiful while writing [ㅠㅠ…].
[Whisper][Banyecredit] ㅠㅠ Why are you sulking……
[Whisper][Aang] Who’s sulking
[Whisper][Aang] I just said you two look good together lol
[Whisper][Banyecredit] !! I look best with you!
[Whisper][Aang] lol
[Whisper][Banyecredit] Hehe
[Whisper][Aang] Why are you giggling?
[Whisper][Banyecredit] ㅠㅠ
“Ha, he’s being especially mischievous today?”
Though his mischief is cute too…….
I kept typing [ㅠㅠ…] and kept hovering around Banye. And I acted cute using party invites and various motions.
Banye ignored me for over 3 minutes, then only accepted the party after I got really sulky and sent a party invite saying [You’re really not going to accept? ㅠㅠ].
But then, Nanneomukeoeyeowo brightly spoke to me.
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Aang-nim, let’s go to the Stone Tower together again later!
[Guild][Banyecredit] Sure lol If you’re okay with it
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Of course I’m okay lol Do you usually log in at this time?
[Guild][Banyecredit] Sometimes……
[Guild][Banyecredit] But if Banye is here I might not be able to go with you
[Guild][Banyecredit] I have to maintain the party ㄷㄷ
[Guild][Neda] Spousal support ㅎㄷㄷ
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] lol It’s okay
[‘Nanneomukeoeyeowo’ has sent you a friend request. Will you accept?]
[Yes] [No]
Then Nanneomukeoeyeowo sent me a friend request.
I felt a bit happy about Nanneomukeoeyeowo’s friend request. So I quickly pressed [Yes] and looked at the friend window, and Nanneomukeoeyeowo greeted me with [Hi hi]. I responded back with [Hi hi] too.
[Friend][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Then see you next time
And Nanneomukeoeyeowo logged out. I wanted to quickly say goodbye, but he logged out first before I could, so I couldn’t greet him.
And during that time, Banye was silently running the dungeon.
I belatedly entered Disco and made a big fuss while watching Banye hunt, but Banye didn’t talk much today. With hardly any scolding words, he just looked immersed in the game.
‘Is he in a bad mood?’
I tried talking through 1:1 Disco.
[Aang] Banye-jjang, are you tired?
[Aang] Shoulder massage massage
“Gonna smoke.”
[Aang] Okay!
Banye didn’t answer my chat for a while, then went out to smoke. And only after he came back from smoking and saw the chat I had sent, I heard what sounded like a slight scoff.
Then Banye clicked his tongue at me, tsk tsk, and said this.
“Aang-nim.”
[Aang: Yes?]
“You’re in a good mood, right?”
[Aang: Huh, me?]
Why would I be in a good mood?
Before my puzzlement could even fade, Banye suddenly said something out of the blue.
“You’re happy that Nanneomukeoeyeowo is playing with you.”
[Aang: Uh…]
Hit right on the mark, I asked Banye.
[Aang: Is it that obvious?]
“Everything Aang-nim does is transparent.”
“……”
[Aang: ……]
Wait, but…… I thought he was just pretending to be jealous as a joke until now, but was I mistaken?
I got confused by his voice that seemed to think I was pathetic, and also seemed to find me somehow offensive.
Because even though Banye seems to find me annoying, sometimes he corners me like this…… Doesn’t it seem like becoming close with Nanneomukeoeyeowo is like doing something wrong to Banye?
I couldn’t understand why I felt like I was being scolded, but I felt like I’d fall out of favor if I didn’t play along with Banye’s mood, so I prostrated myself saying [Yes, yes].
[Aang: But when Banye-ssi isn’t here it’s so boring]
[Aang: So I was going to play together only when you’re not here……]
Still, I tried to explain from my perspective to at least give some justification, but after listening to me, Banye said one absurd thing.
“You should be bored when I’m not here.”
[Aang: What?]
“Why are you always trying to be happy and have fun.”
[Aang: ……I guess;;]
“Yes. Be careful.”
[Aang: Sorry]
I apologized for now with a puzzled feeling.
Well, Banye’s mood is always up and down anyway. Because if I say I’m sorry, apologize, he gets over it quickly.
As expected, today was the same.
With my one word of sorry, Banye abandoned his continuously mischievous attitude and treated me quite warmly. And I quickly got excited and clung to Banye arrogantly.
However, I didn’t delete Nanneomukeoeyeowo from my friend list. Banye didn’t particularly seem to touch on that part either.
* * *
However, after that day of running the Stone Tower once, I ended up going to the Black Stone Tower with Nanneomukeoeyeowo every day.
There was also the reason that Banye’s game login days became a bit erratic after that. After that day, Banye stopped logging into the game frequently.
I wanted to know the reason, but I couldn’t get in touch at all…….
Today too, I left the message [Sending telepathy to come quickly…] in the 1:1 Disco message that had no reply, and endlessly waited for Banye in the game before ending up running dungeons with Nanneomukeoeyeowo.
‘At first I was trying to level up to get close with Banye……’
As the situation turned out like this, lately I’ve been getting closer and closer to Nanneomukeoeyeowo faster. Anyway, this proved the fact that running dungeons together is effective in getting close to someone.
Separate from my various desires, Nanneomukeoeyeowo, with whom I’d rapidly become close, was quite a good person.
[Guild][Banyecredit] Nanneomukeoeyeowo-ssi, Nanneomukeoeyeowo-ssi
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Yes?
[Guild][Banyecredit] You said you’re raising an Alchemist as an alt
[Guild][Banyecredit] Did you max out Potion Throw?
Banyecredit’s class is [Alchemist], which fights by making special potions. Rather than engaging in full-frontal combat, it’s a class with many support skills, and [Potion Throw] was one of the few attack skills among them.
Even looking at class guides for [Potion Throw], opinions were divided on whether to only invest up to level 3 or max it out to level 10.
So I wanted to hear advice from Nanneomukeoeyeowo who was raising an Alchemist as an alt.
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] If you’re not doing close combat, 3 is enough
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] If you max it out the casting delay reduces a bit but it’s not a huge difference
[Guild][Bokgak] 10
[Guild][Banyecredit] Then I’ll just invest 3 haha
[Guild][Bokgak] Alchemist noob fuck off
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] lol
Moreover, he casually accepted and answered even questions that would be quite annoying.
Each time I tried to give small gifts, but he gave them back equally…… So when we met I expressed my thanks with motions like [Hug].
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Ah but I can’t log in from Friday to Sunday
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Suddenly got plans lol
[Guild][Banyecredit] Why?
[Guild][Suckeot3] Riding again?
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] lol Yeah
Seeing him say “again,” he must go often. I think I heard about it in passing last time…… But back then I wasn’t very interested so I just let it pass.
This time I gathered courage and joined the conversation.
[Guild][Banyecredit] You’re going for 2 nights 3 days?
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] We’re taking a pretty long route
I casually checked the place names Nanneomukeoeyeowo mentioned on a map app. Going by bicycle a distance that would be considerable even by car—just imagining it was sickening.
[Guild][Banyecredit] You’re going that far by bicycle?
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] Yeah lol
[Guild][Banyecredit] ㄷㄷ You’re amazing, Nanneomukeoeyeowo-ssi
For someone like me who lives shut up at home, even just going out for 2 nights 3 days would be tiring. But riding a bicycle for 2 nights 3 days—it was completely crazy. Nanneomukeoeyeowo was a much healthier person than I thought.
[Guild][Banyecredit] I thought all guild members were shut-ins
[Guild][Anajokiwojo] Self-introduction?
[Guild][Banyecredit] Or otaku
[Guild][Yeongmyeong] Are you picking a fight…?
Gyeoksal is the #1 guild, you know. Being #1 carries weight whether in a good way or bad. It means you have to pour in a corresponding amount of time.
Look at Banye too—as soon as he started running the Aang character, he was absorbed in the game for a while doing scenario quests, collection books, and whatnot. So it could be surprising that a member of such a guild has an active hobby…….
“Ah, I’m thinking of Banye again.”
What is Banye even doing…….
But then. Suddenly Nanneomukeoeyeowo threw a question at me.
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] lol Want to go riding together sometime?
[Guild][Banyecredit] I can’t ride a bicycle though;;
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] You can learn lol
[Guild][Nanneomukeoeyeowo] We’ll go on a route good for beginners
I was flustered, not knowing whether Nanneomukeoeyeowo’s sudden proposal was sincere or just something he was saying.
