Chapter 171 – Chapter 171
“It’s crappy.”
Words stuck in my ears. Do-kyun shuddered at him and raised his head.
Living room floor. Eunchae, who was sitting across from me, was saying that with one corner of her mouth pouting.
“It’s crappy. Crappy.”
A clear mocking remark. In addition, it was a statement that Do-gyun could not bear to refute.
Dokyun closed his eyes tightly and lowered his head.
‘Why are you so good at it!’
Why are you good at it why do you lose
To get to know him, Do-kyun recalled all the events from the moment he went out to buy a card.
He obviously wasn’t in a bad mood until he bought the card.
No, you could say it’s fine. How can it be bad He had the luxury of buying a box of cards for 500 won a pack. How could he feel bad? Isn’t that what a childhood dream came true?
So, it was definitely good until the moment when I bought a box of cards and opened the pack one by one to play.
After that, when I picked up the cards one by one and explained the rules, it was good until I beat Eunchae while playing a practice game.
It was when Eun-chae’s expression became rough after the practice game and the first two games that Do-kyun felt that something was wrong.
It must have been from then. Eunchae’s awakening.
Eun-chae, who had not been able to catch the sense of conduct and was beaten, began to hit more and more from the third edition, and from the point of the fifth edition, he began to tear himself to pieces mercilessly.
A total of 10 games excluding practice games like that.
Do-gyun was defeated by Eun-chae with a disastrous record of 3 wins and 7 losses.
“It’s crappy.”
Flinch. Do-gyun’s body trembled again.
Do-gyun made his eyes sulky and glared at Eun-chae, blaming himself for his self-righteous snout.
After winning the first three games, he said, “It’s a crap,” Because he was so excited.
“It’s crappy. Crap. Crappy.”
Kwak-. The teeth were badly bitten.
‘Vicious!’
This was obviously teabagging. It was an immoral act of dancing on top of a corpse. Do-gyun glared at Eun-chae, filled with rising sadness.
Of course, that didn’t change anything.
“Bee. Meat now.”
“… Yes.”
Poo-wook. Do-gyun sighed and stood up. A bet on a card game. Give the winner what he wants.
What Eun-chae wanted was to eat meat for dinner, so Do-gyun had to accept the favor of the winner like a loser.
“Wait a little, I’ll serve it right away.”
“Yes.”
Do-gyun let out a small laugh at Eun-chae nodding his head with his eyes shining, then turned around and headed for the kitchen.
‘I’m old.’
It’s bittersweet. Has Gangneung Duel Master Chae Do-kyun been crushed by the weight of time?
Could he have been pushed into the backwaters of the Yangtze River?
Feeling the futility of time, Do-gyun took the meat out of the refrigerator and started grilling it.
*
Eun-chae looked at Do-gyun’s back as he grilled the meat for a while, then moved his gaze again to look at the pile of cards he had been playing with until the day before yesterday.
Glorious traces that prove one’s victory.
At that, Eun-chae felt a sense of pride welling up inside her.
‘Competition. I won.’
In a world of ruthless competition, he himself was the winner. From now on, all that remains is to use the winner’s right to the fullest and eat the delicious meat prepared by the bee.
Eun-chae smiled again as she thought of him, then picked up her cards and started organizing them one by one.
It’s not meant to be tucked in. Eunchae was thinking of playing another card game after eating.
Can’t we just play this fun game once and then quit?
Eun-chae picked up the juseomjusom cards, covered them up, and built a deck.
‘Well…’
Eun-chae, who had been thinking for a while while building her deck, soon nodded her head up and down and loosened the deck again.
It was because he thought he hit the deck too hard.
Bees can’t play games. I had to make a crappy deck to match the level of the bee.
That way, Bee-nim will also enjoy playing the game, and he will be able to enjoy the game himself a little more.
Of course, although he himself would win this way.
Pout. A mean smile crept across Eunchae’s lips again.
Eun-chae, the winner, was a cruel person who gave hope to the opponent and trampled on him.
‘This, and this, and this.’
Like that, he was putting the deck together with a face that reminded him of it for a while.
‘Not that one, that one.’
Eun-chae felt that voice coming from inside his head.
It was another ‘we’.
Eun-chae was startled by the sudden protruding ‘we’ and moved his body, then tilted his head.
‘… I’ll lose if I do that.’
This is because the cards we pointed out were very bad cards.
When Eun-chae, who was preoccupied with matching the deck right now rather than us who suddenly jumped out, said that, we giggled and spit out the answer.
‘No, the matchmaker has to pay the penalty himself. That way victory is more thrilling.’
Words heard. Eun-chae tilted his head at him, then nodded. After convincing, we built the deck again according to our words.
A deck that can be lost with just a little twist.
Looking at the completed deck, Eun-chae swallowed dry saliva in a tense state.
We asked Eun-chae, who was nervous, with a tone full of recall.
‘What do you think? Isn’t it thrilling?’
‘Yeah, tingling.’
‘Okay, let’s win with this.’
‘Yes.’
After a conversation, Eun-chae, who finally raised her curiosity about us after a moment of silence, closed her eyes tightly and spoke to us.
‘What do you want to do?’
‘Compete!’
We said that in a lively tone, and then added back.
‘It’s a great fight. After observing each other, overcoming our inner fears, and winning such a tense match, we shake hands with the opponent who did a great match. And I say it with a smile It was a fun match.’
Giggle Eun-chae tilted her head again. It was a story that Eunchae did not understand well.
‘Competition. It’s cold.’
Mr. Bee said that the world of competition is ruthless, but how can you talk with a loser with a smile?
When Eun-chae said that to a question she couldn’t quite understand, we giggled and answered Eun-chae.
‘That’s right. The fight is not cold. But after the match, everyone becomes friends.’
‘Friend?’
‘Yes, friend. We will compete in a great match and become friends who will remember him together.’
Eun-chae, who had been salivating with an ‘uh-um’ at the answer she heard, nodded her head as she felt his heart flutter at the word ‘memories’ we said.
‘Memory.’
‘Yes, do you know what memories are?’
‘Yeah, something that helps me get through really tough moments.’
Since it was a story the bee told, Eunchae remembered it clearly.
It gives me strength and makes me smile when I think of it when I’m really having a hard time or when I want to be comforted.
Those were the memories Eunchae knew.
Eun-chae chewed the word ‘memories’ and finally understood the meaning of our words and answered us with a bright expression.
‘I have to make memories.’
‘Yes, yes. I’m going to have a great match and leave it as a memory.’
Energetic, we responded with laughter to Eunchae’s words and fell back to sleep.
Eun-chae sensed that we were getting farther away and she savored the sensation for a moment before she woke up to the smell of meat that filled her house.
Far away in the kitchen, Mr. Bee was grilling all the meat before he knew it and putting it on a plate.
Bee’s eyes turned to him.
“Eunchae, it’s done, so let’s eat now.”
“Yeah.”
Eun-chae got up and went to her table.
Meat on the table. Eun-chae, feeling her heart beating, picked up her fork, ‘cocked’ him, and pushed him into her mouth.
I chewed on it and tossed it through, and a happy feeling filled my stomach.
Eun-chae felt her expression loosen up, and she spat out her words toward the bee-sama, who was smiling at her.
“Bee. We eat and play again.”
“Yes… ?”
“A serious fight.”
Do-gyun narrowed his eyes at Eun-chae, who said that with a firm expression, then smiled and nodded his head.
“Okay, let’s do it again when we’re done. But don’t eat in haste.”
“Yes.”
Eun-chae nodded her head as she felt the joy fill her heart at the sight of Do-gyun readily agreeing to her win.
Then, when she dipped the meat into her mouth and put it in her mouth, she remembered that meat was delicious.
*
After the meal, the duel resumed.
Do-gyun had to suffer a similarly devastating defeat this time.
A crushing defeat. This time, he seemed to be showing signs of winning, but at the end he was defeated by merciless bombardment that he couldn’t help.
“I won.”
Silver horse. Do-gyun raised his head at him and smiled weakly when he saw Eun-chae happy with her victory, dyeing his cheeks red.
“Yes, you won again.”
Well, Eun-chae likes it so much, so maybe that was enough.
When Do-gyun came up with that idea and giggled, Eun-chae raised her head and stretched out her hand looking at Do-gyun.
“I won, so shake hands.”
“Yes?”
“Handshake.”
Do-gyun looked at the hand that was handed to him along with his words, and asked a question while placing his hand on top of it.
“Like this?”
“Yes.”
Eun-chae waved her hands up and down, handing over the line that ‘we’ said to Do-gyun.
“It was a fun fight.”
Words that will remain as memories.
When we handed over the words we explained so much, at the end of Eunchae’s gaze, Mr. Bee replied with a giggle.
“Yeah, it was a good fight.”
“It’s a memory now.”
“Yes?”
“They said that if we do this, the match will become a memory.”
Us. It must be referring to the personalities Eunchae ate.
Do-kyun thought for a moment at the word ‘we’ that suddenly jumped out, then spat out his words.
“I guess we wanted to have memories.”
“Yes, precious memories with friends.”
Do-gyun’s gaze swayed up and down and headed for the hand that continued the handshake.
“… Right.”
What we wanted this time was a friend.
Do-gyun, who realized him, laughed at another puzzle he unintentionally solved, and soon asked Eun-chae a question.
“So, are we all right now?”
Eun-chae closed her eyes to Do-gyun’s question and felt us.
We, who had been asleep inside of us, were slowly disappearing.
We left those words with laughter and disappeared.
‘Go for it.’
Giggle Eun-chae tilted her head. I don’t know what our words mean. That’s how it happened.
However, in the midst of that, there were certain things to know.
“Yes, we are happy.”
As we disappeared little by little, even Eunchae looked very happy.
Do-gyun shut his mouth and thought over the words that were handed to him, then continued with a bright smile.
“I’m glad.”
It is very fortunate that the lingering lingering feelings of Eun-ah from her childhood have been resolved.
That’s what I said with that thought in mind.
