Chapter 77 – Let Your Guard Down, Make a Secret Contract With FriendsⅠ①
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“Ugh…”
Seohyun slowly opened her eyes, feeling the feel of the soft mattress, and slowly woke up, half-asleep, in the bright sunlight coming through the window.
Seohyun, who blinked her eyes a few times and woke up, went out to the kitchen with her hair messy.
“Muul… Water…”
When she pours water into her water cup and drinks it, her dazed mind begins to come back little by little.
Seohyun woke up completely, feeling the cool water flowing down her esophagus, and went back into her room.
New liquid- New liquid-
Looking at her older sister who was still sleeping soundly, she carefully climbed onto her bed.
She immediately lay down on her bed, hummed, picked up her cell phone, and turned on her Kakao Talk.
Last night, the content of the KakaoTalk chat she had with Seol-ah before going to bed caught her eye.
└〉 Look forward to it. (11:28 PM)
The three letters, “Look forward to it,” Made my heart flutter and gave me chills.
All I could say was to look forward, but that was enough.
After looking at Seol-ah’s profile photo enlarged for a while, I turned off KakaoTalk and returned to reality.
“Ugh, I have to go back now.”
I got up and roughly changed my clothes to prepare to go back to my room.
Although my home is here, I have a comfortable hideout called my own room.
I feel like I’m going to have withdrawal symptoms from not playing games…
“Uhm… Are you going?”
“Uh. I have to go now.”
My sister, who was sleeping next to me, woke up to the sound of rustling while changing clothes.
“Why is there more?”
“Ugh, no. I don’t have my own room anymore. It’s a nuisance to keep staying in my sister’s room. Besides, I have my own room, so why stay here?”
“Yeah… I see…”
I said goodbye to my sister, who was still half asleep, as she had not yet fully woken up.
“Goodbye~”
“Are you coming again next time?”
“Well, I guess I’ll come back during Chuseok.”
“It’s been too long…”
“It was like that originally, sis~”
“Huh?”
I smiled and left the room, looking at my sister who seemed a little surprised by her words.
My older sister, who didn’t have to follow me but did, hugged me tightly as I left for the last time.
“Oh, you don’t have to come out.”
“It’s because I want to do it.”
“Anyway, I’m really going now~”
“Yes. Bye bye~”
We waved to each other, said our last goodbyes, and I opened the front door and went outside.
I took the elevator down to the first floor and went through the door that opened automatically.
“Haha. Weather Joota.”
Seohyun, who was looking up at the blue sky without a single cloud, immediately started walking.
As I walked down the familiar street and looked at the people around me busily moving around, I felt like I was the only one who was unemployed.
It seems like everyone is going to work, but there was one thing that came to mind when I saw those people.
Return to school.
It came to mind when I saw people who went well until their second year, then suddenly took a leave of absence and went to do something to do during the break.
If everything went as planned, I was planning to return to school in the first semester of next year…
“Returning to school like this…?”
Seohyun stopped walking for a moment and looked down at herself.
A curvaceous body that is hard to see as a man, long straight hair, and lastly… Breasts that move with every movement and make me anxious.
Because I’m wearing this(?), I can’t even run properly.
If I return to college like this, I will definitely be asked countless times when I went and had sex reassignment surgery.
Especially men.
“Huh. I should go and play a game… I have time before I meet Seol-ah…”
I moved on from where I had stopped with the thought that I would take care of returning to school and other matters later.
Before I met Seol-ah, I thought it would be more comfortable to stay in my room and play games to my heart’s content.
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As I walked without stopping, I soon reached the place where my room was.
Entering a familiar building, I naturally grabbed the elevator and pressed the 6th floor.
I live in a single room on the top floor of a 6-story building in Seoul. It’s a two-room apartment, so it’s spacious and soundproof, so it’s a nice place.
“Of course, my dad did it…”
I didn’t pay a penny.
My father’s company paid for my tuition at the university where I took a leave of absence, so I was actually attending university for free…
Tiririk-
I got off the elevator, walked over, and pressed the front door code.
I grabbed the handle of the unlocked front door, making a cheerful sound, and went inside.
“Ah, a familiar smell.”
When she sniffed and smelled the familiar smell of home, she took off her shoes and ran over to her, jumping onto the mattress.
“Haha… This is it…”
The mattress I was sleeping on wasn’t as good as a mattress from a 7-star hotel.
Anyway, as I was rolling around on the mattress, a thought suddenly crossed my mind and I jumped up.
“Oh, that’s right. I have to turn on Moonshine.”
Escape Place.
EP for short.
A god-game where if you get shot, your leg will be broken, and in severe cases, it will be in a state that cannot be repaired except through surgery called blackout.
It is a Russian game made by a place called Battle Star.
It’s a game that’s so hardcore that newbies come to get a taste of it and end up screaming and screaming, but it’s a game I’ve been playing for a long time because it suits my taste.
Such an EFP has a function called a hideout, and as you raise the level of this hideout, the things you can make become more diverse.
Among the things that can be made, there is an item called ‘Moonshine’, which is an expensive item costing 300,000 rubles each.
Weiying-
I grabbed a drink from the refrigerator, sat down in front of the computer desk, stretched out my legs, and turned on the console with my toes.
You can hear the sound of the main body’s cooling fan running, and the motherboard manufacturer’s logo appears on the monitor, and then the background screen on the monitor that you see every day appears.
I don’t like the background screen to be messy, so it was clean with nothing on it, but I actually liked the clean screen because there was a program that allowed me to move the background screen.
A wallpaper overlooking the night view of the city through the window of an airplane flying above clouds in a dark sky.
“I want to see it with my own eyes someday.”
What does it feel like to sit by the window of an airplane and look down at the night view of the city lit up?
Click, click.
While thinking about that, I moved the mouse and turned on Discode, an essential voice chat program for gamers, and then turned on EFP.
A black screen appeared, loaded, and soon the main screen of the game appeared.
I went into my familiar hideout, moved the mouse, quickly received the pre-made moonshine, and pressed the create button.
“Phew, I almost lost the door.”
Originally, I played the game as my main character, went around picking up various things, escaped, and sold them at a user store called a flea market to save money.
However, as I said before, what if you raise your hideout level to the point where you can create this item called Moonshine yourself?
“You earn 300,000 every 3 hours.”
I grinned and looked at the 20 moonshine that I had made so far.
300,000 x 20.
A whopping 6,000,000.
A huge amount of capital of 6 million is gathered.
Moonshine is such a great guy!
“Hehe, when will I sell it~”
I still had 4 million rubles in my inventory, so I didn’t really have to worry about money, but the more money I had, the better.
When I was looking at the moonshine that was made so happily.
Tiring! Tiring! Tiring! Tiring!
Numerous notification sounds were heard at short intervals.
Hearing the loud noise, I quickly pressed alt-tab to go to the Discode screen, and I could see dozens of @SeoHyeon posts popping up on the screen.
“These bastards…”
He doesn’t die without me, and every time I go online, he calls me and invites me to play games with him.
They keep asking me to play games with them, and it may be because of them that I became unemployed.
But, I didn’t have anyone to play this game with other than them.
Because they were the only people around me who played this hardcore game.
There was a separate discord room where only EFP players gathered, but I was a bit shy, so it was a bit difficult to play games with people I didn’t know.
In that case, it would have been better to play games with the same friends and swear at this guy and that guy.
“Okay, you bastards, let’s go.”
Even as I was saying this, my nickname was posted dozens of times, and I was so noisy that I clicked on the chat room where my friends were gathered to join.
– Oh, it’s here.
– It’s too late.
– Get invited quickly, dude!
Crazy friends who started cursing as if they had been waiting for them as soon as they entered.
Hehe.
I laughed and countered, as if I knew that would happen.
“You bastards, it was so fucking loud that my eardrums almost went out.”
My sister and family think I don’t swear that much, but actually, I swear a little too.
No matter how much I became a woman, the swearing I did while living as a man did not disappear overnight.
Seeing as I swear like this is nothing, I guess I’m a man! I’m a man, but I only have the body of a woman!
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But why don’t these bastards say anything?
Suddenly, all the friends became quiet, as if they had all joined together.
I was embarrassed and went back to Discord on Alt and looked at the screen.
“What is it? Is it bugged? It’s not… I’m fine… Ah.”
For a moment, I thought it was a bug and was confused. I was puzzled and then shocked when I realized my mistake.
‘······Ah! I’m a girl now…?!’
It was the same situation as usual, so I forgot that I was a woman and let my guard down.
From the friends’ point of view, it was a natural reaction for them to be embarrassed when they heard a female voice coming from a friend they had known all their life as a male.
‘Joe, you’re guilty.’
In this way, the Discode call room was filled with deathly silence.
