Chapter 8 – Episode 8. Nayoung Hannah
A lot of time has passed since the day Nayoung came to our house without saying anything.
Contrary to the state of not knowing when the hidden beauty of Nayoung will shine, FX margin trading is thanks to the immediate results, and because even before returning, he lived a desperate and difficult life without money. The whole time, he just traded like crazy.
At first, when the vacation started, I made time to meet and exercise with Nayoung, but the time gradually decreased and I was almost locked up in the house without any exercise with Nayoung before I knew it.
I quit my job because I had enough money along the way. Even though I was scolded by my mother for playing games too much, I couldn’t break my will.
By the time the vacation was over, the balance of my virtual wallet was stamped with an amount that was completely out of touch with reality.
A child of this age. No, even if you are an adult, you will be able to accumulate wealth that most people will never have.
I decided to go on a date with Na-young, whom I hadn’t seen in a while, in order to give my tired body a break from constant trading.
So, having come to the meeting place in advance, I looked around with a puzzled expression.
Nayoung obviously asked to meet her here, but I think she didn’t say the exact location.
That’s also true, the last time I took Nayoung out to the city, a lot of trauma was planted on her, and she came to rely on me more.
Nayoung still feels uncomfortable and hates people’s eyes, but the fact that the place she asked to meet today was in a crowded downtown area made me confused.
Just in case. No, I think I was mistaken with a very high probability. The moment I tried to call Na-young, I took out the thick smartphone from her pocket.
“Oh, have you been waiting long?”
A girl approached her gasping for breath with beads of sweat forming on her forehead.
“Nayoung?”
“Lol.”
It was none other than Nayoung, but something changed a lot.
The first thing that catches the eye is her clean face.
The last thing I remember of Nayoung’s face was that it had faded quite a bit, but she had a lot of things that were not much different from usual, so she could have been quite dirty, but now, unless you look closely, you can’t tell. Did not
In addition to that, I’m not talking empty words, maybe it’s because I’ve lost a lot of weight, whether it’s because I’ve been working hard alone.
I still have a chubby body, but how can a person change into such a pretty person? Even though I knew it, it was even more surprising to see it in person.
“I… Have I become much prettier?”
She smiled bashfully, her faintly blushing cheeks as I stared blankly at her own face.
“Yeah… You’ve become really pretty. Nayoung.”
“Hi-Hi.”
It was a face that gradually brightened.
I didn’t care about the gazes around me anymore.
Rather, I must say that it is a little burdensome.
Nayoung held my hand, trying to ignore the admiration that came from beside her and the whispers of her opinion that she would become incredibly prettier if she lost a little more weight.
“Jihoon-ah. I want to go to a PC room.”
“Internet cafe?”
“Huh!”
It’s a PC room out of the blue… It reminded me of an interview with future Nayoung saying that she wasn’t particularly interested in games.
It wouldn’t be much different even now. But suddenly, he is telling me that he wants to go to a PC cafe.
Maybe I liked games when I was young, but I decided to take an interest in games because of me.
To look good on me.
“Is that so?”
Since returning to the past, I haven’t touched a single game.
Since I have no particular desire to play games, it can be said that I have never run any of the games installed on my computer.
Even now, I don’t really want to do it, but I didn’t want to betray her efforts in deciding to play games because of me.
That’s how we came to the internet cafe where I used to hang out with my friends like eating when I was young.
As soon as we arrived at the PC room, acrid cigarette smoke greeted us.
Since there is no such law that compulsorily installs a cigarette booth and smokes only in that booth, it is simply divided into non-smoking and smoking areas.
Even the seats were just separated, and the cigarette smoke from the smoking seats flew into the non-smoking seats.
Still, the students who are banned from smoking are making a fuss, screaming deafeningly by occupying most of the seats in the non-smoking seats.
Not a small group of people had no seats to play games with their friends, so they even invaded non-smoking seats, raising the eyebrows of the men who quietly enjoyed the billing game alone.
“Wow, wow…”
Nayoung was displeased with the bad smell, but was impressed by the new space.
Unlike the bright outside, the dark inside of the PC room, various foods, and a large population compared to the area are bound to be amazing to first-timers.
“Two hours each.”
“…”
I couldn’t remember if I had a PC room ID, so I just went to the counter and put my two cards and a 1,000 won note on it.
The part-timer returned the 800 won with a sullen face, as if he was not very happy with it.
“Ehh. Kids these days come to internet cafes with their girlfriends, what am I doing?”
As I left to find a place to play with my card charged for two hours, I heard a voice of lamentation from behind.
“Hey, girlfriend…!”
Nayoung drew a smile on her lips in response to her words that she was her girlfriend.
She didn’t have to react, pretending she didn’t hear.
If there are no seats in the non-smoking seats, you have to go to the relatively spacious smoking seats. She doesn’t want Na-young to smell her cigarette smoke almost directly, so she just thinks of finding another internet cafe or even going to a karaoke room.
I’m in the same PC room anyway, so there won’t be any difference.
Anyway, I somehow managed to find a spot for the two.
She turned on the computer, entered her card number, and it unlocked.
“Wow…”
When the lock was unlocked, the large monitor was lined with countless games.
Like an leadern who found a piece of newspaper, Nayoung grabbed her mouse and started clicking everything.
“What game do you want to play?”
“Uh, uh… That’s… So…”
“Do you know any games?”
To be honest, she didn’t have to ask.
There is no game you want to play, let alone a game you know.
He must have just thought of copying the game I play.
Maybe it was a little too much to say such a fact, but Nayoung’s pupils trembled non-stop.
A game name that came to my mind after rolling my head as much as I could with my cute lips twitching.
“Buy Attack…?”
It was a game that was popular enough to secretly create IDs through parents’ resident registration numbers, and at that time, more than 70% of PC room users were playing this game.
And it was a game that I also enjoyed.
Even now, the roar of gunshots pierced my ears incessantly.
“Buy Attack…? Do you have an ID?
“Do I need an ID?”
“Sure. Without it, I can’t play the game at all.”
“Uh… What should I do? I don’t have an ID.”
It was restless, as if I hadn’t thought of it at all.
“It’s okay. I have two IDs.”
Even before the regression, it was a game I played once when I had nothing to do, so I remembered my ID and password.
Even I was not satisfied with one ID, so I made two more.
In the past, my general game record was so important that I didn’t lend my ID to someone, and I risked my life to play normal games, but now it doesn’t matter anyway…
“Wow… I really couldn’t do it at this time?”
When I entered the game and checked the information, I doubted my eyes for a moment at the miserable average record.
“Can not…?”
“No. Nothing.”
I started playing the game with Nayoung, who had questions about her self-talk.
As expected, it was her first time playing it, so Nayoung only watched other people play as she was constantly dying.
Her expression was full of boredom, unlike me, who had been revisiting her old-fashioned game for the first time in a long time.
“Not very interesting. Shall we go somewhere else?”
“Uh, uh…? Isn’t it fun? If it’s not fun, let’s go somewhere else…!”
As if waiting for these words, Nayoung vigorously nodded her head.
Actually, it was really fun.
She wanted to play other games besides Buy or Attack, but decided to go home later and got up.
There was still close to an hour left.
The computer was turned off at the end of the usage time, and the two children, who were expressing their regret that they would have liked to do more if they had money, approached us with sparkling eyes, as if they had overheard our conversation.
“You’re not going to do it?! You have an hour left?!”
The kid has no manners. Even if I wanted to return the card, I couldn’t bear it because of the bright eyes.
“You can do it if you want.”
“Wow! Thank you so much!”
In the end, I gave up my seat to them and left the internet cafe.
“Do you want to go?”
“Karaoke?”
“Do you want to go to karaoke?”
“Yes…”
It’s a reaction I’ve never had before.
I guess so. Her parents, she told me, only cook for her. I didn’t even take care of it, let alone pocket money.
In addition, she has been bullied and bullied at school, but will karaoke catch her eye?
By the way. I know that coin karaoke didn’t exist yet at that time.
Even if there were, there were quite a lot of people in the arcade.
But that’s not what I know.
Money is rotten and overflowing, and sooner or later there is a means to earn a few times more money, but can’t we just go to room karaoke?
Of course, it’s not a karaoke room for girls to hang out with, but a karaoke room where young children can go and sing and play.
“Okay. Let’s go.”
“Huh…!”
She readily nodded her head and held out her hand, and Nayoung smiled brightly with her flushed face and took her hand.
