Still, anyway.
[Banyecredit♡Aang]
We got married. Now we were a legally married couple in Card of Fantasy.
No matter how much Banye denies it, it’s already been over a week since we got married. Every time we both log in, a message saying [Your lovely partner has logged in] appears, and when we party together, a notification saying [Marriage special buff is stacking] appears.
And Banye, who’s crazy about specs, desperately tries to maintain a party with me to get the marriage buffs of +20% movement speed and 2% critical rate while partying with me. I really like that part of Banye.
[Your lovely partner has logged in.]
[Friend][Aang] What’s Aang doing, wanna party
[Friend][Banyecredit] Yes honey♡
[Friend][Aang] Hah…
[‘Aang’ has invited you to a party.]
[Marriage special buff is stacking.]
And honestly, I found it kind of funny how Banye was slightly disgusted whenever I acted cutesy or affectionately.
Should I say it’s cute how he seems to have no immunity to this kind of thing? Hehe…
“Banye, you young thing.”
Moreover, recently, I learned from the guild members that Banye is only twenty years old.
He’s 2 years younger than me…
After that, even when Banye treats me harshly, I somehow think of him as a kid. Should I say he’s transparent? Even his bluntness seems like he’s struggling(?) to look more mature.
“Banye, you’ve already been completely seen through?”
I muttered to myself and giggled.
Banye didn’t know my inner thoughts and triumphantly treated me harshly in the game, but now it had no impact at all.
Today too, I received the usual impactless harsh treatment from Banye.
[Friend][Banyecredit] Banye-ssi why aren’t you wearing the clothes I crafted for you
[Friend][Aang] I like black
[Friend][Banyecredit] ㅠㅠThe one I gave you this time is a couple look with me!
[Friend][Aang] You wear black
[Friend][Banyecredit] ! A reversal of thinking ㄷㄷ Is our honey a genius?
[Friend][Aang] Why do you keep picking fights?
[Friend][Banyecredit] ㅜㅜ? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
At first, Banye would ignore what I said and only answer once in a while, but now he responds faithfully… Plus, the quality of those responses has improved, so sometimes my heart swells. We’ve gotten this close now.
I was happily playing the game when Anaki posted a link on the guild Discord.
And he tagged me.
[Anajokiwojo] YouTube link
[Anajokiwojo] @Aang
[Anajokiwojo] Watch this and learn
I used the way of speaking I just learned.
[Aang] Why do you keep picking fights?
[Anajokiwojo] ㅋㅋIf you’re jealous just be strong
[Hwang Hyunjung] Why are you copying
[Aang] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
And I clicked on the link Anaki gave me…
“Today I’ll show you how to clear the 2-player Frost in Midsummer.”
“Huh?”
I heard a somehow familiar voice.
With a sinking feeling, I checked the channel name and clenched my fist.
[Sisi’s Easy Card of Fantasy Guide]
“Sisi… Kwon Dajeong, what the fuck is this bastard doing now?”
That shady bastard dares to do YouTube?
Grind.
My teeth gnashed on their own.
* * *
Sisi.
That is, Kwon Dajeong was the main culprit who made me transfer servers and was the guild master of the rank 1 guild on my previous server.
He acted super nice on the outside, and I fell for it completely… I was a sucker who gave him my heart and soul.
“Ah, this really pisses me off…”
I usually don’t care much even if I waste money on weird things, but the money I spent on that bastard Kwon Dajeong is so precious that even now I sometimes jump up from sleep.
Ugh, seriously. But that son of a bitch dares to do YouTube?
I looked at the subscriber count and screamed.
“…What? 15,000 subscribers? What kind of crazy bastards are 15,000 people sitting there watching this fucker!”
Every single video even had over 1000 [Likes] without fail, and about 100 comments.
Most of the comments were like [Sisi-nim’s explanations are easy to understand, I like them], [Sisi-nim seems like a control god ㄷㄷ], so I was fucking pissed off.
Seeing Kwon Dajeong, who treated me like shit, doing well made me nauseous. I played the video again that I had paused because of that disgusting voice, and honestly, far from being a control god, it was an explanation that made me yawn.
The editing was just roughly cut and pasted too! What’s so detailed about it? Is it enough to just slap subtitles on every sentence?
“Banye does way better, what the fuck are you talking about!”
I left [Dislikes] and comments, jealous of his blind subscribers and passionate fans.
[han: ㅋㅋㅋIs this even skill ㅋㅋ Banye does way better]
I pressed [Dislike] on the next video too, then fiercely criticized someone in a reply to a comment they left. Because the content was too absurd.
[db: Wow I want to get carried by Sisi-nim ㅠㅠ I’m the one person who can’t get in because all the spots fill up in 1 second every time ㅠㅠ
└han: Are you kidding, there are tons of people better than Sisi, what do you mean spots fill up in 1 second, at dawn he keeps whining to guild members to use megaphones because people don’t come ㅋㅋㅋ Stop sucking up]
This was something I could say because I actually experienced it. Sisi’s carry parties weren’t that popular.
Actually, when I was there, Sisi was the guild master of the rank 1 guild, but he wasn’t a ranker. He was in the top 100 rankings, and there were many guild members within the guild who had stronger DPS and did better than Sisi.
So Sisi’s party was definitely not a carry party popular enough to fill up in 1 second like the comment said.
Moreover, Sisi would treat guild members stronger than him well while occasionally talking shit about those guild members to me.
At the time, I thought those guild members really had bad personalities and were bullying nice Sisi, so I was upset together with him… But it turned out Sisi, this bastard, was just a shit-talking doll to everyone.
Just looking at what he did to me, who was the most devoted and good to him, this bastard should quit gaming and die with his nose buried in toilet water.
After venting my anger to some degree in the YouTube channel comments, my arrow turned in another direction. Specifically, toward Anaki who watched videos of someone like Sisi and told me to learn from it.
[Aang] Is Anaki a scrub?
[Anajokiwojo] ? Suddenly picking a fight?
[Aang] Why are you watching such scrub videos?
[Anajokiwojo] This is a scrub?
[Anajokiwojo] Coming from Aang?
Anaki’s words, full of the meaning ‘How dare you?’, made me even more pissed off.
However, even if I tried to fight back, it was true that my control was worse than Sisi’s… so I had nothing to say.
[Hwang Hyunjung] You’re already bad, what are you going to do if you get worse by watching this stuff
Then, unexpectedly, Banye provided supporting fire.
Of course, Anaki was dumbfounded.
[Anajokiwojo] ?
I excitedly joined in immediately.
[Aang] I don’t buy such scrub videos
[Aang] Ptooey
[Aang] Banye does way better
[Anajokiwojo] Well yeah
[Anajokiwojo] But since he’s moderately bad, isn’t it easier to follow from a scrub’s perspective?
[Anajokiwojo] How can you follow Banye
“Ugh…”
Everything he said was right, so it hurt.
In the end, I gave up on rational persuasion.
[Aang] Are you a male fan of Sisi?
[Anajokiwojo] ? Suddenly?
[Aang] If you like him just say you like him
[Aang] Love isn’t something to be ashamed of
[Aang] Right, Banye-ssi?
[Hwang Hyunjung] Gross
[Anajokiwojo] ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Fortunately, Anaki wasn’t a male fan of Sisi, so he just made a serious face once and moved on… But thinking that Sisi was being promoted and reproduced somewhere in Card of Fantasy like this made my teeth chatter.
Then, a private message came from Banye.
[Hwang Hyunjung] You know Sisi, right
[Aang] What?
[Aang] What are you talking about?
[Hwang Hyunjung] You knew him before you transferred servers, right?
I typed [No I didn’t] about three times and deleted it.
I don’t know how he knew I knew Sisi, but just the fact that Banye knew of Sisi’s existence made cold sweat run down my back.
Moreover, Banye even figured out the hate comments I left.
[Hwang Hyunjung] The han who just left replies on every Sisi video is you
[Aang] No
[Aang] It’s not me
[Hwang Hyunjung] Why are you lying
[Hwang Hyunjung] kdj0313
[Hwang Hyunjung] This person is Sisi, right?
I got goosebumps that Banye knew Sisi’s ID.
While I was frozen unable to speak, Banye continued typing.
[Hwang Hyunjung] Notes kept coming
[Aang] What? Notes from where?
[Hwang Hyunjung] If you check the official website note inbox, there are notes asking you why you blocked him
[Hwang Hyunjung] They’re less frequent these days
Only then could I understand why Banye knew Sisi’s ID. He saw the notes Sisi sent me.
It was the first time I regretted entrusting my sub-main to Banye.