“……S-sorry!”
My voice got louder from being flustered. Banye looked suspiciously at me standing there awkwardly.
“Hyung.”
“……Y-yeah.”
“Did you touch it on purpose?”
“What?! N-no? There’s no way I would!”
I did have…… ulterior motives, but the contact just now was an accident because I didn’t know it was there!
However, despite my excuse, Banye said coldly.
“But why were you trying to touch it again?”
“I-it’s not like that!”
“Are you denying it?”
“That’s not it either!”
Since I really hadn’t intended it but had already touched it, I was at an absolute disadvantage.
In the end, I awkwardly backed away.
“It was really an accident. Sorry!”
I apologized almost shouting and fled to my room. I worried about what I’d do if he followed, but fortunately that didn’t happen.
I leaned against the door and took in the breath that had stopped from tension.
‘No, but that definitely wasn’t a position where it should have been?’
I had massaged pretty far down his thigh…… But that…… h-how did it reach that far……?
I thought about the general size, then felt it would be rude to imagine further and tried hard to drive that thought from my mind.
However, it still felt like Banye’s…… sensation remained strangely in one hand. What on earth is Banye……
I tried to recreate(?) the sensation from before by lightly squeezing the air, then immediately felt self-loathing.
‘Are you crazy, Ryu Hanyoung!’
Banye’s cold voice asking ‘Did you touch it on purpose?’ replayed in my head.
I felt deep guilt.
‘Can’t even do a massage properly……!’
Creating an embarrassing situation for both of us, this is…… from cooking to massage, everything was a minus.
That day, I fell asleep kicking the blanket with my feet.
* * *
Fortunately the next day, Banye didn’t bring up that topic. Naturally I was also silent so…… afterward the awkward atmosphere gradually cleared, and we could get by as if nothing had happened.
And while preparing for the guild war, a new video was also uploaded to Sisi’s NewTube channel. It was about our Gyeoksal guild declaring a guild war on Royal guild.
As the video started, Sisi’s unchangingly slimy voice was heard.
“Hello, this is Sisi. Um…… today I came out to talk about Gyeoksal guild declaring a guild war on our Royal guild. Gyeoksal guild……”
Sisi’s faint laughter mixed into the video.
“They’re famous. For bad manners.”
Sisi provoked in a clear voice.
“You all probably know the video of Banye-nim’s Alchemist winning 30 consecutive matches against Cavaliers. We got a lot of inquiries on my channel too. He’s been picking on me from before, I don’t know the reason but…… shouldn’t I accept a fight that’s been picked? You seem to not know well since you’re on a different server, but our Royal guild doesn’t just have me.”
Sisi’s voice was very confident.
“I’ll upload a discipline video.”
About ten times more annoying than usual.
Our guild members also saw that video, and naturally chaos erupted.
[Guild][Suckeot3] Discipline? Is this bastard crazy ㅋ
[Guild][Bokgak] Crazy af ㅋㅋ
[Guild][Haeyam] He chickened out and couldn’t show up but I don’t know where his confidence comes from-yam ㅋㅋ
[Guild][Jorangi] Should we make a snipe video too?!
While everyone was overflowing with enthusiasm, I became a bit anxious. Certainly Sisi was weak, but Royal guild had many rankers and everyone was that good at PvP.
Of course, it’s not that I didn’t trust our guild members. Our guild was also the server’s number one guild, and everyone was good.
The problem was me.
With the hole that was me existing, I wasn’t confident I could do well being involved in the guild war. Especially Royal guild’s Apo or Kim Sewu were crazy about PvP to the point of only doing PvP all the time…….
“Will it be okay?”
When I anxiously asked Banye sitting next to me, Banye answered crookedly.
“Do you think I’ll lose to Sisi?”
“No, I trust you! I’m talking about me, not you……”
“I told you, you just need to practice.”
But…… the PvP results we’d done in 2v2 matches with Banye so far were disastrous. Thanks to Banye the win rate was okay, but the matches we lost all burst because I couldn’t hold on.
“Still, aren’t you getting the hang of it now?”
“I’m getting the hang of it but……”
Even if I got the hang of it, the problem was the opponent was even better than that.
Sometimes as soon as the opponents realized I was worse than Banye, they persistently attacked only me to break me down, creating a 2v1 situation to make things hard for Banye. Of course Banye won even in 2v1 situations, but normally when pushed to 2v1 it was a certain loss.
“Ah…… Really. Why can’t I do this at once like you?”
“There are few people who do it like me.”
Banye said as if it was obvious, and I thought that Banye (even though I like him) was a bit annoying, but since it was true I nodded.
“But you at least know which Royal guild kids are good at PvP.”
“Huh? That’s…… true.”
“Then if you just avoid those guys, you’ll go halfway.”
“Is that so……?”
Listening to Banye’s words and thinking about it, I thought about telling the guild members the information I knew, so when sub-guild master Haeyam was around, I spilled everything about the Royal kids.
[Guild][Banyecredit] Haeyam-ssi
[Guild][Haeyam] Why-yam ㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild][Banyecredit] I have something to say about the Royal guild kids
[Guild][Haeyam] ㅇㅅㅇ?
[Guild][Banyecredit] apostrophe this kid is called Apo
[Guild][Banyecredit] His skill is almost right below Banye…?
[Guild][Banyecredit] Sisi always curses him saying he’s b1astard with no soc1al skills
[Guild][Haeyam] He’s on the PvP ranking too-yam
[Guild][Banyecredit] Right! And it’s true he has no soc1al skills
[Guild][Banyecredit] He barely responds
[Guild][Banyecredit] He only does PvP all the time, has pride in it
[Guild][Banyecredit] But before I left he was dating someone called Apochild but I don’t know about now……
[Guild][Haeyam] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You know everything-yam
[Guild][Banyecredit] No I’m just saying everything I know;;
At Haeyam’s reaction I wondered if I spoke for nothing, but it seemed Haeyam wasn’t picking on me. When I stopped talking, he asked if there was more.
[Guild][Haeyam] And-yam?
[Guild][Banyecredit] Um and Kim Sewu
[Guild][Banyecredit] This kid is also a PvP person
[Guild][Banyecredit] This kid is a bit of a brown-noser style……? He brown-noses Apo so much
[Guild][Banyecredit] Sisi curses him out so much calling him bat-like
[Guild][Banyecredit] But Kim Sewu himself is also kinda good at PvP;
[Guild][Banyecredit] And this kid also acted big saying he was a streamer? but I don’t know what he’s doing now…
[Guild][Haeyam] Didn’t he promote his channel when he was a streamer-yam?
[Guild][Banyecredit] Was it Sewujabiebae…? It was a weird name I think
[Guild][Haeyam] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋlol-yam ㅋㅋㅋ
Before long, Haeyam found Kim Sewu’s abandoned NewTube channel and posted it in the Discord chat room.
[Haeyam] (link)
[Haeyam] It’s Captain Sewu-yam? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
[Haeyam] What’s Sewujabiebae-yam ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ?
[Aang] Roughly similar;;
Seeing that the last video was from two months ago, when the popularity fizzled, he definitely just abandoned the NewTube channel without operating it further.
I watched Kim Sewu’s videos that had meager views and responses compared to Banye, then just turned it off.
Kim Sewu was unlikable because his voice tone was too exaggerated and he kept making smacking sounds when talking. The videos were also filmed too self-centered so they weren’t interesting.
You have to film while highlighting others too, but other people don’t appear at all and he just cuts and pastes only himself using skills so you don’t even know what he’s doing, and he’s too busy showing off so it’s not worth watching?
‘As expected, not just anyone can be a streamer.’
I suddenly thought of Banye and felt proud again. As expected, among guys who fail like that, Banye was bound to stand out.
Even though Banye’s skills are that good, he doesn’t show off at all and shows the overall view, where he’s looking, what skills he’s preparing in sequence through editing, so viewers learn how Banye plays the game and what amazing physicality he has.
Without begging for admiration like Kim Sewu, people naturally admire and think he’s cool? And even the talent to edit and upload this alone without ever learning it…….
“Banye is really born with likeability……”
I muttered in admiration.
Then, Haeyam asked me.
[Haeyam] Anyone we should be careful of-yam?
At those words, I finally thought of Miin-nim.
‘Miin-nim is……’
An all-around player who’s good at both PvP and dungeons, and the person Sisi was most jealous of and hated. However, to me, he was someone who evoked complicated emotions.
‘Still, when I left the guild, he was the one person who didn’t talk behind my back until the end……’
And he had been good to me in various ways. Sisi told me to delete Miin-nim from my friends list out of jealousy so I deleted him, but if I hadn’t deleted him, I wondered if we wouldn’t have gotten along well until now.
I hesitated then finished typing the chat.
[Aang] There’s Miin-nim….. This person is nice but he’s also really fucking good at PvP.
