Chapter 48 – 10. Secrets Between the Two of Us (4)
“Hi Jihoo! Have you had lunch?”
Ha Yul wore a light white shirt and jeans, giving off a plain but lively look.
The plastic rattles as if the bag in her hand contains the board game she said.
“Hello, Ha Yul. Uh… I’m really sorry, but did you see the news? I forgot for a second that you were coming because I got caught up in the incident yesterday…”
“So what?”
“So… Seol-ah came to my house because of the Demon Tribe incident, but I refused and forgot to promise you, so I’m in the house right now. I’m really sorry…!”
“Huh, it’s too much that I forgot the promise. But I apologized, so I’ll move on.”
Phew… I’m glad.
However, I was taken aback by Ha Yul’s passing words as she looked at me with her eyes narrowed.
“I was going to sleep tonight, but that won’t work… Have fun with Seol-ah at night~”
“Uh… Hayul-ah?”
“Never mind. It could be~ Wow… Senior, did you openly come here to seduce Jihoo? You look amazing.”
Hayul passed through the front door and entered the living room, when she suddenly stopped and exclaimed in surprise.
She seems to have found Seolah Yoo wearing something that cannot be called a maid uniform.
There’s no excuse for that.
He hypnotized us last time that we should get along well, so he won’t be serious in front of me, but Ha Yul’s expression doesn’t look very good.
I wonder if Seol-Ah Yoo, who came to see me before herself, doesn’t like her, even though she’s the first one, or if I don’t like Seol-Ah Yoo, who forgot her promise and invited Seol-Ah Yoo to her house…
I feel like I know a woman’s heart, but I don’t know.
Of course, it’s a simple thing that can be understood by hypnotizing me and telling me what I’m thinking, but if I use hypnosis even for such trivial things, I feel reluctant to use my abilities because I think I’ll become too insensitive.
And most of all, my heart beats more when we don’t know each other’s inner thoughts.
Just as games with cheats are fun at first but quickly get boring, I think the same is true for heroines.
“I’m not flirting… I decided to stay as a maid because I felt sorry for living at Jihoo’s house.”
“No, senpai, do you think that’s what a maid’s outfit is?”
“Yeah. What’s the matter…? I have everything I need. I cover my nipples, I have a skirt…”
“Haa… That’s okay. Jihoo, you say you have a few days?”
If I told you that I would be there for over a week, wouldn’t I turn around right away?
Of course, even in such an angry mood, if we run into each other on Monday, the anger will be relieved and we will cling to each other, but I thought it would be better for her to say something that would ease her mood.
“Once we’re done exterminating the demons… It’s a win, but considering the speed of the search, wouldn’t it be possible to find it within 3 days? It’s an extermination unit, not anywhere else.”
“Hmm… Okay. Of course, that’s fine. Senpai will be dangerous if he stays in the outskirts.”
“I can continue to live at Jihoo’s house…”
I’m not okay, I
It is very strange to walk around the house wearing a piece of cloth that is almost completely naked when the sun is shining brightly.
“Then, would you like to play a board game now? At first glance, it looked quite bulky. What did you bring?”
“I brought a monster chess, how about it? It’s not fun to just play instead, so drink a glass of wine every time you lose a round!”
Ha-yul seemed to feel a little relieved before she knew it, and she turned around the small bag she was carrying and said to me and Seol-ah Yoo.
Drinking in broad daylight…
I suddenly remembered my nightmare-like memories at MT when I was a newbie, and I felt depressed, but I forgot for a moment that I was also an Awakener.
Excluding the unusual case of Seo Joo-ha, most of the awakening people had high alcohol decomposition ability, so it was not too much of a worry because one or two bottles of alcohol would not make you feel like drinking.
Could it be that you’re going to stretch out while drinking and do weird things?
Ayy, Ha Yul can’t be like that.
“I brought something expensive to drink with Jihoo…! I only want to drink with Jihoo…”
“I like to drink too…”
Ha-yul glanced at Seol-ah Yoo, who answered her self-talk, and took out several bottles of luxurious wine from her bag and a square box with the words ‘Monster Chess’ written in large letters in Korean.
“Jihoo, have you ever drank this? It’s called Reynand’s 32 Year Old, but it’s not like alcohol and it’s super sweet. If you drink this, you’ll probably think that losing the game is better, right?”
“Oh… That’s the first time I’ve heard of it.”
To be honest, I wasn’t very interested in the wine because most of the wines were just astringent to my taste, even if they were sweet, but I nodded appropriately to her words and prepared the game setting.
Monster chess.
It is a board game in which the game is so different that one does not know why it was called chess, and the game is decided very quickly one by one.
The rules are also very simple compared to chess.
You start the game holding four types of cards, including monsters, humans, monsters, and demons, three attribute cards of darkness, light, and void, and 10 tokens.
The race cards become stronger in order from monsters to demons, and attribute cards belong to a rock-paper-scissors relationship that leads to darkness 〈 light 〈 void 〈 darkness.
In each round, players play one race card and one attribute card at the same time, and the player with the strongest hand takes one token from the other players, and at the end of 10 rounds, the player with the most tokens wins. .
The tribe card that was played immediately before was not played for the next two rounds, and the attribute card was not played for the next round, and since the attribute card took precedence over the tribe card in terms of strength, a high level of psychology was required, such as making good use of the rock-paper-scissors relationship.
A person who read the original made and distributed it as a mobile phone application, so to be honest, it was a relatively familiar kind of game for me.
That means the odds of me winning and not drinking are very high.
“Then let’s start? I’ll set the timer to 10 seconds.”
“Okay. Are you ready, too?”
“Huh…”
When Hayul presses the button on the app, the number that was 10.00 starts to decrease rapidly.
First of all, since it’s the first round, you should just go through it.
– Beep beep! Beep beep beep!
When the 10-second alarm went off, we played our cards at the same time.
I’m easygoing strangeness and light, Ha-yul’s strangeness and emptiness, and Seol-ah senior’s human and void… Huh?
“Hee hee, I can see everyone’s level.”
“The first round is originally luck.”
Well, this is the first round, so it’s okay.
I gave a token to Hayul and drank the wine at once until the small glass was filled.
“Huh… Oh, this is delicious.”
“Right! I’m obsessed with it these days and drink it every night~”
I felt a little hot in my throat as the alcohol was quite high, but soon the unpleasant feeling disappeared and only the fragrant fruit aroma and sweet and clean taste lingered in my mouth.
With this level of alcohol, I thought it wouldn’t be okay to lose on purpose, but as soon as a little alcohol was added, the gamer’s desire to compete, which all Koreans have in their heart, began to burn little by little.
“I’ll do it properly from now on. Don’t look at me.”
He was even called a monster chess figure.
In other words, if I lose here, the people in the real world who lost to me will also lose.
All real people, give me strength…!
– Beep beep!
My cards are Human and Void.
On the other hand, Ha-yul played humans and light, and Seol-ah senior played demons and darkness.
If all three players have different attributes, it is treated as a draw and the next round proceeds with an additional token bet.
And in the next round…
I lost again like a lie.
“No, this is how it works? Are you two playing together?”
“Jihoo, it’s a little ugly.”
“Sorry… I’ll drink.”
Weird. Surely it worked well in real life…?
Is there any additional correction attached to the game ability for the original heroine?
Still, there were still 7 more left, so I hid my absurd mind and returned to the game.
But again.
“No no!”
Again.
“Aww!”
Continue.
“Oh? Oh, no…”
He lost 8 times in a row.
Before I knew it, the wine I drank was over two bottles, and it felt like the fruity scent spread to my head every time I breathed in.
“Uh… This is a bit strong, but did I make you drink too much…? Jihoo, are you okay?”
“I don’t know if I’m okay either… Let’s play the next game quickly.”
Thinking that it couldn’t end with a total loss of 10 matches, I urged the girls to play the game, but I felt like my vision was suddenly spinning and I slammed my face into the table.
It’s true that I usually don’t drink a bottle or two…
Maybe I overlooked the high level of alcohol too much, or maybe I kept drinking it for too short a time.
“Let’s move to…”
“Can I…? When I wake up…”
“It’s okay. I…”
I fell asleep on the table, thinking that maybe I should add myself to the list of exceptions where alcohol is weak, besides Seo Ju-ha.
When I opened my eyes again, I was lying on a soft bed.
And two people were staring at me like that.
For some reason, I felt like I had fallen into a trap.
