Childhood Friend Who Sees the Future Utters Nonsense

26 – Who am I?

I think I woke up a bit after a cup of coffee. After all, there is no stimulant as effective as caffeine.

Let’s continue playing the phone game with a sharper eye, and it certainly feels much better than before. If you feel that the monster’s movement looks a bit slower, that would be an exaggeration.

“Huh? Oppa, isn’t that ‘The Last Tail’?”

“Oh, how do you know this?”

I was moving my hands diligently, concentrating on the screen, when Yujin Han, who was sitting opposite me, said the name of the game I was playing, so I pressed pause and gladly replied.

How does he know this? It’s a pretty minor game. To put it more bluntly, it’s a subculture type of game that nerds like me would like.

“Last…. What?”

“The Last Tail. Unnie, don’t you know that game?”

Meanwhile, Hanyuna tilted her head as if it was a first-time acquaintance. In response, Han Yu-jin asked again by giving her name, but she still looked confused. That’s also the case, Hanyu, because I’m a race that’s close to an outsider when it comes to her game.

“He doesn’t play games. But you don’t know much about games either, don’t you?”

As far as I can remember, Han Yu-jin is not as good as me, but she had no particular connection with games. She’s very much like she heard a story about what she used to play, but she might even remember it being 2 years old.

However, as if that wasn’t the case, she listened to me and shook her head, booing as if she didn’t know herself too much.

“Ah, I do little by little, right? Besides, that game, a streamer I watch recently got an ad.”

“Advertising? Oh, I think I’ve heard of it.”

Since I also serve as an internet broadcasting editor, I frequently come across news from people related to this area. Even personal stories like which game has been giving out a lot of advertisements lately, and who started what game.

Among them, mobile, especially subculture games, often use a marketing strategy aimed at attracting inflow by scattering advertisements to internet broadcasters in line with large events such as first anniversary events.

I don’t know who the broadcaster Han Yujin saw was, but she recently had a big event in the game, so maybe she saw it at that time.

“I was curious too, so I tried it, but the character was cute. But the game is a bit difficult.”

“The level of training is a bit tough. How long did you stop?”

“I couldn’t have been there for a week?”

“Tsk, a newbie died like this.”

From the point of view of the deceased, it was a word that naturally sighed.

But it was the first time I met someone who knew the game I was playing offline, so I was glad to continue the conversation. Han Yu-jin also said that her favorite broadcaster still plays the game, so she had quite a bit of knowledge, so she accepted my words in moderation.

“… Hey, Park Si-yoon. Show me the game too.”

“Game? Oh, the last tail?”

As they continued their friendly conversation, Hanyu, who was caught between them, reached out her hand with a hint of heartache. She belatedly figured out that that meant she had to put down the phone I was playing the game on, and handed it over.

But why is he in such a low mood? I was actually laughing until just now. Did you have bipolar disorder?

“So how do you play the game?”

“Just use the skill here to catch that monster. Well, there are a lot of contents, but this is the main one….”

I wondered why he suddenly showed interest in a game he wasn’t interested in, but it’s not difficult to teach him, so he taught me simple controls.

Still, compared to PC games that require the use of a keyboard and mouse, I thought that mobile games wouldn’t be too difficult since you only have to press with your fingers.

Within seconds, Han Yuna uses the characters’ skills in order according to my instructions.

However, since there was a difference between me and me in the basic way of rolling the deal cycle or the tactic, the characters were unavoidably slaughtered and the phrase ‘YOU LOSE’ appeared on the screen in a large size.

“What, what? Are they all dead?”

“Because it’s a high-difficulty dungeon, you have to use your skills quickly. Well, it’s only natural that you die the first time.”

“I see…. But is it okay to die?”

“Retweet is over anyway. The kids aren’t really dying.”

Han Yu-nara, who has little common sense in the game, seems to have thought that if characters die in a dungeon, they really die and disappear.

For some reason, it was fun to watch the relief on his face at my explanation. Is this the taste of raising a newbie?

“Is this a different game from the ones you play on the computer while chatting?”

“Yes. You can do that by yourself, but it’s fun to do it together and it’s for singles only.”

“Huh….”

As if she was interested in something, Hanyu, who was shaking her head alone, she pointed at me at once.

“Then tell me that too, when you get home.”

“I want you to teach me…. You mean Lega?”

Legend of Guardians. It is an abbreviation of the game that was talked about recently when Choi Min-sung was self-ranking.

“I don’t know the name. Anyway, there is a game you and Choi Min-seong talk about all the time, right?”

“Le is right, but you will do that?”

“Yes.”

I asked just in case, but I never thought it would be the game. I’m a bit bewildered.

That’s right, Rega is definitely the most popular game at the moment, which always ranks first in PC room share, but it’s very difficult and difficult for her to get out of Hanyu, who has hardly played the game.

At first it would just kill you and it wouldn’t be fun, so why bother learning it? Did you suddenly become interested in the game belatedly?

“Well, I can teach you when I get back. Come over to my house later.”

“Really? If it’s fake, I know how to go find it and smash the computer.”

“… There is no such thing as a bully.”

How expensive is that computer and you’re going to smash it for not telling me about a single game? This is a threat, a request.

Anyway, if I share the same hobbies as my childhood friend, there’s nothing wrong with me, so I decided to let you know as soon as I get home. Only then did Hwa-saek return her phone to me with a money face.

Around the time I was in the middle of tapping the recovered phone again and heating up the record-breaking heat, I felt a strong gaze from the side.

“… And why?”

I thought it was Bonama or Hanyuna, so I asked while keeping my eyes fixed on the phone, and I felt something excited. Were you even surprised to find out?

“Didn’t you say that touching your phone while riding in the car makes you sick before? I can’t sleep for some reason today….”

“Oh, that one?”

Well, even Han Yuna knows that I am very weak against car sickness. But for some reason, I was wondering if I, who even focused on my phone after getting into the car, couldn’t stretch out early and be able to hold on like this.

One hundred words are worth seeing, so rather than trying to explain in words, I turned my head and pointed behind my right ear. There was something like a car sickness prevention sticker, commonly called a motion sickness patch, pasted on it.

“I put it on before going to bed yesterday. They said I had to put it on at least four hours in advance, so I purposely worked until three o’clock and then put it on before going to bed.”

Thanks to that, there is a feeling that my sleep is a bit lacking, but even so, it is better than suffering from car sickness. If you are really tired and drowsy, then you can go to sleep.

Even Han Yuna in the world could not hold back her admiration for my thorough preparation. . Aww!

Peruk. Pug.

“Hey, hey! Why are you hitting me all of a sudden!?”

She suddenly hit me with a blunt weapon in her hand, and she had no choice but to be beaten.

No matter how soft the blanket is as the main weapon, her destructive power was not to be underestimated when even that was added with Han Yuna’s spicy touch. My bones are all cold, really!

“Be quiet, you fool! I, how much I prepared my heart… !”

“What kind of mental preparation… ! Aww! No, it really hurts! I was wrong, please stop… !”

I don’t know what it has to do with my motion sickness, but she decided to pray for me with Hanyu, who seemed quite unfair. It’s because I know better than anyone that negotiations, objections, and things don’t work for a guy with such a blind eye.

Eventually, I got tired of her self-control, swinging around her blanket, and soon after, Hanyu fell asleep.

“… ….”

Seeing her sleeping with her little brother cutting her thighs and drooling over her drool, I felt a sense of sadness for some reason.

It seems that it was simply my misunderstanding that I thought I had matured.

***

Fortunately, thanks to the car running without any traffic jams, we were able to arrive at Hanyu Nane’s grandmother’s house within the expected time.

It may not be the first time you come here, but it felt very unfamiliar because it was a memory from the past. But what is truly amazing is that even in the midst of unfamiliarity, I felt a strange sense of affection.

This was a small town that really fit the description of countryside. On one side, there was a stream that was cool to look at, and on the other side, an endless unpaved road ran.

What was really strange was that there is a convenience store in this small town, but unlike convenience stores in cities that are generally open 24 hours a day, they say they close at 1 am. Han Yuna said that even that used to close at 11:00, but it’s rather spacious.

“Come on, let’s get off.”

“Yes.”

When I got out of the car at the man’s words, dust rose from the sandy floor. Nowadays, it is difficult to see sand in playgrounds or school grounds, so stepping on sandy ground feels somehow fresh.

While looking at the houses in the village, which were so few that I thought I could count them with the naked eye, there was one place that caught my attention. It was a house with a rather dark red roof.

“… Is that where your grandmother lives?”

“Oh, do you manage to remember? That’s right, that red roof is my grandmother’s house.”

Feeling unfamiliar yet familiar, Hanyu asked me, and as expected, she knew it was the same house she had seen in her childhood.

Then by now her grandmother is waiting for us inside…. Uh?

“Oh, everyone had a hard time coming this far.”

As I stared at the house, an old woman approached us from afar and greeted us warmly.

Her face was almost the same, with only a little more wrinkles than what I remember when I was young, and I could quickly recognize that the other person was her grandmother.

“Grandma! I’m here!”

“Me too! You’ve gotten prettier since you haven’t seen my grandmother, right?”

“What is it about getting older and getting prettier? It’s good if you don’t wrinkle or increase.”

The man who approached her grandmother, who greeted Sister Han warmly, smiled bitterly and said in one voice.

“Mom, what did you come all the way here for?”

“I heard the sound of a car coming, so I came out just in case. Oh, and….”

“…… ?”

Grandmother suddenly opened her head to me. It’s a little awkward timing, but it was the moment when I was about to bow her back thinking that I should say hello now.

“My granddaughter-in-law is coming, so how can you sit still and wait? You should come out barefoot.”

She warmly hugged me with a half of her head, and then suddenly exploded a bombshell, leaving me and Hanyuna with a look of embarrassment.

Grandma? I am the granddaughter’s…. I beg your pardon?