Chapter 297 – 297. Just Dance
It is true that people are treacherous beings.
Clearly, until I came home yesterday, there was still an empty space for Sehee in a corner of my heart.
A woman who tormented me for five years, a fifth of my life.
In some ways, she was the woman I cared about the most after I grew up.
I thought I could easily forget her, but even on the way back from Cheongpyeong, I thought about her without realizing it.
Like a sick idiot.
Of course… However, I didn’t have any regrets.
I just felt an empty space.
Just like when she had her wisdom teeth removed, she kept putting her tongue into the empty space.
Someday, when new skin sprouts, it will probably disappear.
Then you can completely forget about it then. Maybe.
No one feels attached to or regrets their wisdom teeth.
In the living room of the bunker, Seunghee, Mina, Se-Ah, and Anna are playing a dance game on a game console in front of a large TV.
And I watch it.
“Ugh. This is so ridiculous! I’m no match for you!”
Seunghee, who is quite proud of this game, grumbles while looking at Mina.
Mina, a former girl group idol. When it comes to her dance game, there is no one who can beat her.
Mina leisurely imitates the dance shown on screen with a controller attached to her thigh and one in her hand.
Seunghee and SeAh, who are dancing along next to each other, almost create something new and look more relaxed compared to just copying the choreography.
Moreover, Mina is very pretty when she dances.
Even though I know almost nothing about dancing, I feel like I know it when I see them dancing.
I’ve seen people say that her dancing lines are pretty a few times on TV or in community posts, so I think you can probably just think of it as Mina’s.
A gesture that seems to mesmerize a person.
Perfect dancing skills and precise poses that make you look like a game avatar on TV. And a bright expression.
Her dancing had feeling and liveliness. It feels like there is something in her slight hand gestures or slight fluttering movements.
And what’s surprising is that Anna is also quite good at dancing.
A tall, thin woman with blond hair and white skin is dancing, and it must be an exciting sight.
Should I say it’s refreshing?
It doesn’t feel like dancing professionally. However, the beat is more accurate than expected. The same goes for movements.
Is Mina, who is with you, surprised?
Moreover, Anna has a weapon called her overwhelming appearance.
When she lowers her body once and then raises her head, it feels like she gets a ton of extra points just by the flowing blonde hair.
“Oh. It’s hard.”
Surprisingly, Se-Ah, who had the lowest score, grumbled and sat down on her sofa.
You must have good physical strength… Is it a little different from this kind of physical strength? I guess the muscles used are different, right?
“Haha. Haha. This is a bit difficult. But I think Mina is perfect at it.”
“Hehe… I have to do well. Still, this is the only thing I know how to do.”
Meanwhile, Mina smiles at me.
It’s cute, like a puppy wagging its tail asking for praise.
“Me? Me?”
Anna also comes up to me and passionately asks me how it was.
If Mina is just a puppy, what should Anna say… Beagle? No, I don’t know the exact type.
Anyway, it feels a bit bustling. Feeling like you want to receive excessive praise?
“Anna did a good job too.”
The way he smiles brightly at my praise.
When I didn’t speak well, I felt like a calm winter woman, but the more I spoke, the more my true personality came out.
“Tsk. What’s the use of being good at something like that…”
Even as she mutters that, Se-Ah seems to be feeling a bit resentful.
I patted Se-Ah on the head, and surprisingly, she didn’t avoid me this time.
“Oppa, don’t you want to try it?”
“Huh? Me?”
“Brother, try it too. Don’t just watch what we do behind the scenes all the time.”
At Seunghee’s words, all the women’s eyes are focused on me.
Se-Ah with an expression on her face that found something interesting, Mina with a curious look, and Anna looking at me with a confused look without even knowing what it meant.
“Uh… I think it’s better for everyone if I don’t do it, both for the well-being of your eyes.”
“We’ll take care of that, so just give it a try.”
Then, Se-Ah places her controller on her thigh and places it in her hand.
And Seunghee chooses a song to go along with it and starts playing it right away.
“Uh. Take On Me.”
“It’s not the time to be like that. Get up quickly.”
Then Mina held my hand and lifted me up, and I suddenly stood up.
Mina stands to my left and Anna stands to my right.
“What? Are we doing this together?”
“The man over there wearing sunglasses is my brother. Don’t get confused.”
Then the music started, and the avatars began to move bustlingly.
Exciting rhythm. A familiar song. But I don’t know why I dance like that to this song, but I tried my best to follow it anyway.
I have often seen him playing games ever since I brought the game console to Seunghee, so I don’t see him flustered or acting careless.
“Huh? What? Why are you so good?”
SeAh’s voice coming from behind.
“That’s right. I guess we practiced secretly!”
Seunghee also sounded a little surprised because it was her first time seeing me play.
“But the movements are correct… But is there something strange?”
“Really? Ugh. What is it? It feels like I’m forcing the movements?”
Mina is giggling at me while doing her own movements, and Anna is also giggling and moving her body.
“Oh…”
When the music ended and the score appeared, an unexpected result emerged.
Of course, first place is Mina, second place is me, and Anna is third place.
“Songcheol! What is it!”
Anna is disappointed because she got more points than she did.
“Do it again! Again. Again.”
“What? Why are you being serious about something like this?”
I had no choice but to nod my head at Anna’s passionate request, and this time Anna chose her song.
“I want to try it too!”
“Then I should get some rest.”
Seunghee intervened, and Mina sat on the sofa.
A song I don’t know this time. Anna begins to hum from the moment the song begins, as if she is familiar with it.
“What? Is this a song that has an advantage for you this time? Why are you risking your life for something like this?”
It’s a somewhat slow song, but the movements are quite complex.
Moreover, instead of dancing in one place, there are movements in which the dancer continuously changes her position or faces each other.
Still, due to the nature of the game, several movements are a pattern that is repeated over and over again, so once you get the hang of it, it wasn’t that difficult.
At first, I was in 3rd place, but I kept going up, and eventually, by the time the music ended, my score was 1st.
“What!!! Oppa, didn’t you really practice alone at night!?”
“Songcheol! What a shame!”
Se-ah is laughing behind her as if it’s funny, and Mina’s face is also full of smiles as if she’s having fun.
I couldn’t resist the pressure from Seunghee and Anna, so I sang two more songs and I ended up taking first place.
“What? They were poor people, right?”
“Kaaaaa!!! Strange! This is strange! I’ve never seen you play this game before!? What is it? What is the reason!”
“Songcheol! It’s a foul. What a shame! It’s a foul!”
“No… What kind of game are you talking about? In the end, this game is about making the right moves. The goal is not to dance well.”
“That’s right. That’s for sure. I may not agree that the movements your brother is making are dancing, but if you think of it as a game, they are absolutely exemplary movements.”
Everyone looks at Mina with a puzzled look, as if they don’t understand what she’s saying.
I spoke to Seunghee, Anna, and SeAh, who had a curious look on their faces.
“So that’s it. As long as you do these movements correctly, you can get a high score. And as long as you connect these movements correctly, it becomes the dance they want. But people like me don’t feel the need to do that. Make it pretty with curves. If you move, it will start dancing on its own, but you just need to have proper visual acuity, reaction speed, and stamina to move.”
“No! If it’s a dancing game, you have to dance!”
“Do you still want to see me dance even after seeing what I look like?”
“Uh… No, that’s not true.”
Seunghee was surprisingly easily subdued. Se-Ah muttered behind her, saying, ‘Actually, I don’t want to see that,’ but she did her best to pretend not to notice.
“But it’s harder than I thought. This will be quite a workout.”
“This is more exercise than you think. It’s not one of the top three exercise games for nothing.”
“Anyway… Are you going to do more?”
Not everyone reacted so coolly to my question. It’s fun, but it’s not a game worth playing for a long time.
“Then, let’s clean it up… Let’s master the skills.”
“I want to play more games! Just wait!”
SeAh spoke hurriedly, but I turned off the TV and game console.
Se-ah becomes sullen.
“Hey. You seem to be learning superpowers and becoming more motivated, but why do you hate me again?”
“Motivation is motivation! You can’t help but feel tired after taking the potion…”
“Should I mix chocolate powder with the potion?”
“Kk! It’s not a child! A child! Yes! Just like that!”
There was a minor commotion where Se-Ah, who was trying to use her strength to break my spine, was blocked by invalidation, but that passed quickly.
We cleaned up the living room, sat together, sipped potions in silence, and started practicing our skills.
“Hmm. I can’t do anything because I have to keep mumbling.”
Seunghee, who was mumbling about flying, takes a sip of the potion and says.
“That’s right. If this was just simple repetition, I could do anything. I’m bothered by the muttering.”
Mina, whose body has repeatedly become transparent and revealed, also agrees with Seunghee’s words.
“Should we do something like Blue Marble?”
“If I do that, won’t you turn all the dice into dust?”
Se-Ah spoke and Seung-Hee chimed in. And Se-Ah nods her head as if what she is saying makes sense.
“That’s right. It’s not easy to control even in normal times, but if you get excited for no reason, you won’t be able to control your strength.”
What. Didn’t that guy use his strength the last time he had sex with me? So, did I have sex with a strong woman who couldn’t even control her strength?
The sex was more dizzying than I thought.
I almost got squeezed when I sent it to the peak.
As expected, Anna couldn’t participate in complex conversations and just smiled brightly and used the invisibility skill repeatedly.
When will Anna get used to Korean?
While listening to the stories of women practicing skills while having conversations, I quickly mastered storage without saying a word.
It’s so fast that I, who uses skill number 40, is similar to Se-Ah, who uses skill number 20.
“Wow… Oppa is really harsh.”
Seeing me like that, Se-Ah says something with an expression of disgust.
“Ugh… What?”
I pour the intermediate potion into her mouth like emptying a glass of soju and ask while looking at Se-ah.
“Are you okay? I feel like I’m an enemy of your skills.”
“Ah. This? This is how you learn skills quickly.”
“No, I have a lot of skills…”
“You all know that there are a lot of skills you want to learn. Moreover, the more skills you learn, the more good skills there are. There is no end to it.”
“Ugh. That’s true.”
Se-Ah agreed, and while we were talking, I kept opening and closing the storage compartment.
As long as you can endure this damn potion sickness, you can become as skilled as you want, so when you’re running, it’s best to eat until you run out.
Even now, I have already consumed nearly thirty potions and have used the skill over twelve hundred times.
44% savings now. What remains is 2,800 times.
I guess if I run like crazy today and tomorrow, I’ll be able to become a master at storage… Is it possible?
“Anyway, if you can, please come on up too. I want to go out with you guys when the weather gets warmer.”
Seunghee, Mina, and Se-Ah nod as if they understood what I said.
And Anna also nods as the three people nod.
Anyway, it’s funny. I live for this taste.
So we quietly concentrated on mastering our skills again.
