What was shining on the screen was the weapon of Sisi’s class [Cavalier], the [+13 Enhanced Dragon Slayer’s Halberd].
Of course, since I was well aware of this weapon, my teeth automatically ground together.
However, regardless of my teeth grinding away, Sisi was busy bragging about his weapon in a fresh voice.
“Actually…… As far as I know, this is the first +13 enhanced weapon on the entire server.”
[Baekseol] Wow, insane;
[Nemal] Planet destruction level hahahahaha
[kim.kj] I’m jealous Sisi-nim ㅠ
[Kkumang] Back then the community boards went crazy hahahahaha
[Minyak] First on the entire server? Wasn’t it Luna-nim shudder shudder
[Haega] Crazy
[Deran-nim] The options are broken
I felt nauseous again at the reactions praising Sisi as amazing without knowing anything. It was truly horrible.
Sisi in the video went “Mm……” and dragged out time greasily, then spoke with an embarrassed laugh.
“Actually, I didn’t enhance this…… My friend enhanced it for me.”
[Nochi] Shudder
[zlak] At that level, isn’t that a lover, not a friend?
[Forreal] If it’s +13, you gotta date them
“Back then, my friend logged in for me once. They were a really lucky friend. You know Royal? They were good at enhancing Royal too, so I asked them.”
……I remember.
At that time, Sisi was sensitive from continued +13 enhancement failures, and especially after hearing that a ranker from his guild who Sisi was jealous of had enhanced to +12, he was anxious.
I remember Sisi fuming for a while after hearing that guild member was going to attempt +13. So Sisi almost begged me to try +13 for him.
Of course, I refused. But Sisi kept saying things like the goddess of fortune seems attached to you, I can’t do it, if it breaks this time I’ll quit the game…….
Sisi pestered me for two whole days with all kinds of bullshit and sweet talk. So in the end, I logged into Sisi’s account.
Sisi’s voice, which had stopped for a moment, flowed out through the speakers again.
“My friend felt burdened too…… But somehow that day I had a certainty and pushed them saying I wanted you to do it for me. So my friend, trembling, closed their eyes tight, pressed enhance, and immediately logged out, and when I logged back in, it was exactly at +13.”
After that, Sisi only said thank you to me and didn’t give me anything. At the time, I wasn’t upset about it, but thinking about it now, he was really a shameless bastard.
At that time, the market price for a +12 weapon was 7 million won in cash. For +13, you could name your price. There was a perception that it was worth about a mid-sized car, and after eating up something that good, he didn’t do anything for me…….
No, rather than that, the fact that I did such a thing for that guy for free made me so furious now that I felt like I was going crazy and could jump up and down.
“I really want to kill him……”
At the same time I muttered that, Sisi recited in the video while pretending to be regretful.
“It’s a friend I can’t contact well now…… If they see this, I hope they’ll contact me.”
Naturally, my face turned seriously rotten. The cushion I was holding also naturally received force, making a crunching sound.
“Don’t tell me you enhanced that for him?”
“Ack!”
I jumped up from the sofa, startled by the voice that suddenly came from beside me.
Right now, I was watching Sisi’s NewTube on the television. Thanks to that, Banye, who had been sitting on the sofa touching his smartphone, could also see Sisi’s video.
I nodded my head vigorously in anger.
“Yeah. I enhanced it but…… He’s bragging about it and making a fuss.”
I was so pissed off my teeth were grinding, when Banye stared intently at my hand.
“Including when you got Gold Fox in one try before, hyung, you’re actually a luck character, aren’t you?”
“What luck character! The +13 only appeared once. Normally I fail even at +12……”
It was the +13 weapon that appeared like a miracle that was now in Sisi’s hands.
Thinking about it again makes me angry. What made me angriest was that bastard Kwon Dajeong acting like a good person in there saying ‘my friend enhanced it for me’ as if he was something special.
He ignored my contact, and what? If you see the video, contact me?
What is he going to do if I contact him, why does he keep acting so pathetically? Of course, he’d be disappointed since a good sucker left……
At that moment, Banye’s face suddenly popped out in front of me as I was thinking about the past. My breath stopped for a moment at his handsome face that I couldn’t get used to no matter how many times I saw it.
“……Wh-what?”
“Why did you only enhance +13 for Sisi?”
“I didn’t want to enhance it either!”
“That’s already in the past so there’s nothing we can do, but if you enhanced it for Sisi, you should give Aang a +13 weapon too.”
“That’s……”
It was nonsense.
A +13 weapon, nice. It’s nice but…… Now +13 weapons aren’t unique like back then, but they were still rare.
Even the +12 weapon Aang is currently holding, I barely bought it after ripping open tons of [Royal Kits]. I became completely broke after buying that.
“There’s no +13 for sale either……”
“Why are you thinking of buying it?”
“Huh?”
At my question, Banye instead frowned as if he was more puzzled.
“If you enhanced it once, you should enhance it again.”
“You think it appears just because you enhance it?”
“So you’re not even going to try?”
“No, it’s not something that works just because you try?”
“If you did it once, the second time is easier.”
Banye lifted me up from watching Sisi’s video. In the time it took to say “huh,” Banye logged into my account.
And he pulled out a chair and made me sit in front of it on his own.
“Wait……”
I resisted for a moment but it was useless. Banye held the mouse from behind me and went to the enhancement NPC on his own.
He put the mouse in my hand as if to enhance the weapon right now, but I put it down in horror as if the mouse were the button of a bomb.
But Banye forcibly put the mouse in my hand and gripped my hand tightly so I couldn’t let go.
Cold sweat came from the hand caught by Banye.
“I-I won’t do it!”
“Try it.”
“It’ll break……”
“Why do you think it’ll break? You enhanced Sisi’s weapon.”
“No, that was a miracle……”
Thinking rationally…… No, I didn’t even need to go that far—Banye, who was more of a game addict than me, would know enhancement probability better.
A fire was lit in the wrong place and he was being stubborn. I used my other hand to forcibly remove Banye’s hand.
When I turned around, Banye had an indifferent face. And he looked back and forth once between Sisi’s NewTube still on in the living room and my face, then whispered crookedly.
“What miracle.”
“There’s no way I could enhance +13 twice. Back then……”
“You enhanced it with the power of love?”
“No!”
It was an insulting remark. I was so pissed I shrieked. I, who almost enhanced Aang’s weapon inadvertently, barely held onto my senses.
“No, why should I lose an innocent weapon because of Sisi?”
“You said you wanted to beat Sisi.”
“Even if I enhance this, I can’t win……”
……I hesitated, about to say it was impossible. Because a rather tempting thought came to mind.
“If I enhance it, will you be a streamer?”
“No thanks.”
He hated it last time too, and Banye backed away this time as well with disgust.
Since it turned out this way, now I was the one clinging.
“You don’t even need to talk! Just record your play, like last time. That much isn’t burdensome, right?”
Banye pondered, then reluctantly nodded.
“Well, do whatever.”
Of course, it was a more indifferent attitude than when he was pressuring me to enhance quickly just before.
Now I was the excited one. With Banye’s skills, beating a scrub like Kwon Dajeong wasn’t difficult. Just showing his face would get him a silver button right away.
My heart beat like crazy. It was a pounding that held a little anticipation and mostly anxiety that I would fail.
And.
[‘Aang’-nim has succeeded in enhancing the +13 Rose Vine Whip!]
“Cra…… Crazy, it appeared!”
It really appeared!!
I was so excited I raised both arms and hugged Banye. But when Banye slowly backed away, my reason returned.
Banye was staring quietly at the +13 whip. Then he grabbed my hand again and placed it on the mouse.
“Try one more time.”
“Are you crazy?”
“I think it’ll work.”
……Will it really work?
Maybe today is the day. I pressed [Enhance] as if possessed by Banye’s words.
And…….
[Caw, caw, caw……]
It failed.
“……”
“……”
Fortunately, the weapon didn’t become unusable. Although the durability was reduced and it returned to +12……
“I did…… enhance +13 though, right?”
“Give it here.”
“W-wait. Calm down.”
“Let me try just one more time.”
This was exactly the path to ruin. People get excited like this and lose their weapons.
“Please, let’s stop here……”
I pleaded desperately and calmed Banye down. That’s how we ended up back at +12 in the end.
But the experience of having enhanced +13 once somehow made my hands itch.
‘Just…… should I try one more time?’
