Chapter 69 – Mesgaki and the Stream
“Let’s do that.”
“What is that?”
Choi Jae-hee, as if he had found a game that looked interesting first, pointed at the game console, held my hand, and moved to the game console.
The game Choi Jae-hee pointed out was by far the most calorie-consuming game among the arcade games, so it was said that you could lose weight with just this.
Pump.
A rhythm game that follows the form of a basic rhythm game, but presses buttons like a regular rhythm game, but you have to move your body and step on it with your feet, not your hands.
Since it was one of the popular rhythm games in arcades, the bosses stopped by several units despite the high price, so you can play right away without waiting in line.
As I approached, the women next to me were moving their feet with their arms behind them. As if he had experience in rhythm games to some extent, he moves his feet flamboyantly and strikes numerous notes appropriately as if he were b-boying.
“They are good.”
“I know.”
Due to the nature of the pump, if two people were to play, they could play the same song but set the difficulty individually, so it was seen that they played different difficulties.
One is very busy, sweat dripping from his brow, moving around, while the other hops leisurely and strikes one at a time.
Of course, the score would be higher for those with a higher level of difficulty, but in terms of stamina and practicality, it seemed that those who chose the easier ones were more advantageous.
“Then, shall we?”
“Can you do it with such a stiff body? What, am I going to win again?”
“Don’t you know how long and short it is?”
So we looked into each other’s eyes and exchanged glances. It felt like electricity was pulsating from Choi Jae-hee’s eyes as the surroundings were dark and sparkling.
“I will decide the first song.”
“Huh.”
As long as the word fight is added in front of it, I have been taught since I was little that momentum determines victory or defeat in anything.
So let’s start with something a little more difficult, shall we?
Basically, I believe in my reflexes trained in fighting games, so I think I’ll adapt to rhythm games I haven’t played much.
Looking for a song that seemed fast in tempo at first glance, I stopped at a familiar note.
[Beethoven Virus]
The original song is the 3rd movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathetique.
Listening to the sound, it seems that I did not remake everything, but only the first part of the melody.
You may ask how you know this, but if you go around Me Tube without doing anything all the time, you will find out even the facts you don’t want to know.
‘Oh, this looks difficult.’
“Gee, are you really going to do this?”
“Eh? Are you scared already? Hmm, if a woman is so scared, is it really so pathetic?”
While I say that, I choose the song as Beethoven Virus. It was the most familiar melody to me, so it was familiar yet the most noticeable.
When I selected a song, three types of difficulty appeared: EASY, NORMAL, and HARD.
Each difficulty also had a number written on how difficult it was, but neither of us bothered with that.
“You know that the difficulty is hard, right? Phuh~ Ah, even now I am a weeded female who can’t play rhythm games. If you say that, I’m willing to look at something else.”
“Just do it. Anyway, just looking at the estimate, I think I will win.”
“I will destroy that confidence in an instant.”
We both chose a difficulty level and waited patiently for the chart to appear. As before, throw your arms behind you, grab the red handle, and shift your center of gravity backwards.
The legs are raised slightly to the side from the middle, ready to hit the chaebo that will fly at any time.
[READY~ START!]
‘It begins.’
As expected from the beginning, the fast-tempo notes start to come out and the chaebo starts to rise like crazy. It’s not that it’s incredibly fast, but when you look at one and move, the vicious chaebo follows you, so somehow your body creaks and moves.
I couldn’t do it so I could feel the heat building up, and I could feel the sweat dripping from my forehead into my hair.
Water droplets form on the ends of your hair and it feels like it is getting heavier.
It’s hard, but as I move, the letters PERFECT or GOOD come out and it feels like they’re complimenting me, so I feel better.
Now, I am not Shin Jae-jun, a small boy, but Shin Jae-jun, an idol who is full of spotlights on stage.
[Cheek!]
Haha… Cool, Cool.. I need some water.”
“Me too…”
Proving that fun and physical strength are inversely proportional, we sweated all over our bodies and ran back and drank water without looking at the score to solve the dehydration phenomenon caused by sweat.
“Khaaa, cool.”
“Kihyaya! This is happiness.”
“It was like an old lady.”
“Okay?”
We each got a glass of water in a paper cup, and when we got back to where we were playing, there was still a window showing our scores, so we could gauge how well each other did.
“Let’s see… I got a B and Jaejun…”
“Hmm! I’m A~ After all, even if you do well, is B the end?”
“There are still three more left.”
In fact, the reason why pumps have good value for money is that you can play a total of 4 songs with just 1,000 won.
You sweated so much just once, three more times?
‘Fucked…!’
After that, until the second edition, I had a higher score, but after that, I desperately felt the limit of lack of stamina, and only F came out from the third edition.
“Poop, fuck rice♥”
“Please don’t copy my tone.”
“Haha, did you feel the power of Seoul’s bloodthirsty? Stop messing around now.”
“What a bloodthirsty, it’s just a baby mosquito…”
“What?”
“I didn’t say anything.”
After enjoying the pump properly, we were sweaty and heavy because we moved our bodies a lot, but we still had a lot of games to play, so we moved around more.
Walking around the arcade, I played an old fighting game in which people turned into animal beasts, and a dot game in which I rode a steel snail while defeating soldiers dressed in green.
And lastly, I enjoyed a game that looks like a car, but with a device that can fire a gun inside, as if experiencing a 4D video.
“Ha, that was fun.”
“I know.”
It was the first time the two of them had been out together, but it was unexpectedly because they had similar tastes in games.
It reminds me of those days when I would visit PC rooms and arcades every day with my friends in high school.
Even if the world changes, the fun and entertainment do not change.
“Then, now let’s eat and go pick you up.”
“Okay. But you know you have to buy rice, right?”
“Why?”
When she suddenly heard a voice telling her to buy food, her mind went blank.
“You lost last.”
“Eh… What kind of fucking logic is that?”
“It’s a joke.”
I wonder if it was really a joke, and the sound of the wind coming out of my mouth. Then, perhaps because he was really hungry, he put his hands behind his head and walked forward first.
I don’t know where he was going first, but he walked slowly beside Jaehee without saying anything.
I also ran a lot from a while ago and had a bit too much fun today, so I felt hungry right away.
“What do you want to eat? Pasta? Or what chicken feet?”
“Uh… How about Gamjatang, just good value for money?”
“Gamjatang? Really? It would be nice if I put a glass of soju over gamjatang.”
“Why, when everyone asks to eat Gamjatang, do they always react like that?”
No, what about Gamjatang?
How delicious is the tender meat cooked in more quantity and water than expected.
Seeing that they react like that, it seems that they are doing that because they have a prejudice that gamjatang and rice soup are the foods that women who are new to society eat a lot.
So we slowly visited the nearest Gamjatang restaurant by looking at an internet map. Maybe because technology has developed these days, I was able to find it quickly because I marked my location on the map like a navigation.
[Bone mish]
‘I think it’s something like a restaurant from the name?’
“Let’s go in quickly!”
“Great, yes.”
I went into the restaurant and ordered one of the gamjatang and decided to share it. At first, I thought it was too much, but Choi Jae-hee said that it is better to have more than not enough, so I decided to make it a medium size.
And since Jaehee said she would pay for it, it’s me.
As I was about to wait for the gamjatang to arrive, I saw a pair of men and women sitting in the seat next to me and ordering gamjatang.
The woman’s side had an impression of being mild, and the man’s side had a sharp impression like a snake, but now, what’s so uncomfortable about it, his face looks pouty.
“Haa, noona… We had a date today, so did we have to come to a place like this?”
“Huh? How is the Gamjatang restaurant?”
The man does not hide his displeasure, perhaps because he did not like the restaurant, and reprimands the woman while exhaling it.
“No, Gamjatang isn’t the problem… We are going to eat here on our 100th day?”
After that, the woman just stared out the window while drinking water without saying anything.
“Gamjatang came out. You can boil this a little more and eat it.”
“Thank you!”
I didn’t really want to know about the situation in the seat next to me anyway, so I started to stir the gamjatang slowly while laughing.
Stir carefully so the beef and meat don’t stick to the pot.
“Looks delicious…”
“I know.”
“And…”
I heard a voice close to exclamation next to her, so I turned around and saw that the woman who had been listening to the man’s complaint earlier was sitting still while looking at me.
