< Ending Maker SS #10 To Earth (3) >
Ending Maker SS #10 To Earth (3)
Hero Chronicles 2 Korean server 1st and 2nd place.
With the final expansion pack for Heroes Chronicles 3 confirming the linkage with Part 2, the user data from Part 2 and Part 3 were combined, but these two people still held the 1st and 2nd place.
“I really just want to eat and play games.”
“I know.”
The two people who had been eating and playing games for over a month mumbled as if they were talking about someone else and then turned to look at each other.
It was Yuder who spoke first.
“But Cordelia, if you were the girl next door… doesn’t that mean you were a high school student until recently?”
“Yeah, yeah. But? Are you excited because I said I was dating a girl who wore a school uniform until last year? Or are you feeling hurt?”
“Excuse me, it’s been 19 years since you were reincarnated?”
“So you’re not nervous now?”
“It’s thumping thump thump.”
“Exciting.”
When Cordelia seemed satisfied and excited, Uther smiled involuntarily and continued speaking.
“Anyway, so that means the first time you got second place was when you were in the second year of high school.”
“Are you emphasizing the number 2 on purpose?”
“No way. Anyway, so you were always in second place during your second and third year of high school? In second place on the Korean server?”
“Why, maybe I can.”
Uther frowned as Cordelia grumbled in response.
“Um… Even though I haven’t experienced Korean high schools because I’m abroad… aren’t you usually busy studying during your second and third years of high school?”
“I’m busy. I thought I was going to die because I was busy with Hero Chronicles 2 and studying.”
Cordelia said, her face scrunched up as if it was painful to even think about it.
Oddly enough.
‘What the heck? Did you really study?’
Now that I think about it, I remember saying that I have quite a few certificates.
‘Was it a vocational or technical high school? No. The uniform you wore was the uniform of a nearby humanities school?’
After thinking for a moment, Yuder quickly sharpened his gaze.
He said, looking straight at Cordelia.
“Cordelia.”
“huh?”
“Let’s be honest. Okay?”
“What, what?”
It was suspicious that he was already flustered.
“You turned it over, didn’t you?”
There was no way I would leave important battles or PVP to someone else.
No one knew better than Uther himself about the genius Cordelia displayed at that time.
Perhaps the reason for turning to proxy is the repetitive, grinding play.
Cordelia was visibly embarrassed by Uther’s words and stumbled, and Uther pinched her cheek painfully.
“Ouch, oh my. It hurts.”
“Are you just pinching me because it hurts?”
Of course, the soft texture of the bolt-and-bolt was also nice.
Anyway, Cordelia, who had become sad, started making excuses while holding her cheek.
“No, high school sophomore and junior Jayru are busy at the moment······.”
As Yuder guessed, he had asked his cousin or Namman Cat to do the repetitive work part.
Hero Chronicles 2 had a daily play time limit – the so-called fatigue system – but even so, it was difficult for high school sophomores and juniors in South Korea to play the game while filling up their fatigue levels.
“Oh······ I see.”
“Wow······ Hey! If you think about it, what are you doing?!”
Are you doing that to try to win?
Who would tease you so harshly?
uh?
How much, how much, how much I’m going to try to beat you!
Tears welled up in Cordelia’s eyes as she felt a sudden surge of sorrow, and Uther quickly let go of her hand in embarrassment.
“No, well… if you only asked for repetitive tasks, then that could be possible. There are even people who use macros. Come to think of it, why didn’t you use macros and instead use a proxy?”
“Macros leave a record.”
If you are caught calculating rankings, your account may be suspended.
When Cordelia answered with her shoulders slumped, Uther’s face turned apologetic without him knowing it.
“Did you want to be number one that much?”
“Rather than that······.”
I just wanted to beat you once.
What should I say about this?
Should we say that it’s a situation where only one person needs to win, and that one person is the best in the world?
In fact, Yuder wasn’t much different.
All I had to do was be better than Cordelia, so I could just tease Cordelia, but to do that I had to be number one on the server. Cordelia was number two.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry for always being first.”
Uther said this while hugging Cordelia tightly, and Cordelia pinched Uther’s side in anger.
“Is this really teasing people!”
“Oh, you’re kidding me.”
“What the fuck?!”
Ah, as expected.
Cordelia had a taste for teasing.
Should I say that the reaction is sharp?
When Uther laughed again, Cordelia got so angry that she started hitting Uther’s chest with her fist, but as expected, there was no damage.
“Wow. I’m definitely making my next avatar a sickly pretty girl.”
“No, that’s a bit······.”
“Why, wouldn’t the combination of the cheerful and lively Cordelia and the sickly and pretty Yuder be a good one?”
Uther nodded unconsciously after thinking about Cordelia’s words for a moment, but soon turned around again.
That sickly pretty girl was supposed to be me.
“Oh, anyway!”
“Anyway? Are you changing the subject?”
“Oh, yeah. I’m going to turn it around. Anyway, you were planning on going to college, right?”
“Yeah, I got accepted at the last minute so I could just play games and have fun.”
“Where did you get it?”
“Why is that?”
“No, you’re saying that even after becoming a college student, all you did was play games.”
Cordelia tilted her head with a puzzled expression as Uther pointed to the monitor and spoke.
“Aren’t college freshmen supposed to just play games?”
“No way. I haven’t been to college, but I don’t think that’s possible.”
Actually, I wasn’t very confident.
As I said myself, I never went to college.
“No, but then you go to college and make new friends, and go out and have fun here and there… Hmm.”
Come to think of it, I probably had friends in high school too.
It was strange to think that a gamer who spent his second and third year of high school playing games suddenly became popular in college without playing games.
“It’s called the law of inertia.”
As Cordelia nodded in agreement, Uther unconsciously pinched Cordelia’s cheek again.
“Hey, but that’s not what I’m saying? And it’s not something I’m particularly proud of.”
“Why! Are you shy, you fox?”
At the remark that he was ashamed of the heroic story, Yuder frowned again.
“anyway.”
“It’s a mess again.”
“Yeah, I guess I’m just playing games. Anyway, it looks like you’re just playing games in college.”
“losing.”
Cordelia pushed away Uther’s hand, pressed her flushed cheek, and pouted her lips.
Although Yuder was concerned about the fact that Hong Yu-hee was in second place after entering university, Kang Jin-ho was still in first place.
“I thought the guy next door would be a really cool freelancer, but he’s actually a day laborer. A day laborer who just plays games at home.”
“No? I’m retired.”
“Then I guess I’m a freeloader. I mean, I’m retired and playing.”
Uther got angry at Cordelia’s remark, but that was it. He didn’t really have anything to say in defense.
‘It’s right to play.’
Still, there were some parts that felt a bit unfair.
From childhood until retirement.
I’ve never been to a proper school and have only lived in battlefields and conflict zones. Can’t I retire early and have some fun?
“Come to think of it, how on earth do you play around with money like that? Did you earn a lot of it before you retired?”
“That’s true, but… I inherited something.”
Alexei’s legacy.
In the first place, his retirement was triggered by the death of his teacher, Alexei.
As Uther’s expression darkened, this time it was Cordelia who panicked.
She watched Uder’s expression and after moving her lips several times, finally opened her mouth.
“He······ went back?”
“Oh, it’s already been more than 5 years.”
Considering the time of his reincarnation, it had been over 20 years, so it wasn’t heartbreaking to just think about it, but I couldn’t help but feel gloomy when I thought about Alexei’s death.
‘Father······ Should I say he’s the same person?’
Of course, it was completely different from the typical father figure.
Alexei cared for Yuder enough to leave him an inheritance, but it was closer to affection for a subordinate than affection for a child. If he had really thought of him as a child in the first place, he would not have taught him how to survive on the battlefield, but would have sent him to a safe country to emigrate.
“It’s okay now. I got revenge.”
“uh?”
See, revenge?
It wasn’t a story about PVP in the game or anything like that.
Real revenge.
It was clearly a so-called bloody revenge.
‘But isn’t that such a surprising thing…?’
Come to think of it, it was Uther and Cordelia themselves who had already overcome numerous battlefields in the Pleiades.
“Well, okay. Anyway, it’s good that you got it out.”
And since Yuder is a good person, Alexei must be a good person too, so the targets of his revenge must have been bad people.
Of course, reality couldn’t be that easy, but Cordelia decided to think that way for the sake of her own mental health.
“Anyway, both of you are still working hard on the game.”
“Oh, I guess so.”
Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee.
Uther and Cordelia reincarnated on Earth.
Even though we could be considered strangers now that our souls were separated, I couldn’t help but feel attached to him.
“Isn’t there a fateful encounter… yet?”
“maybe?”
“You didn’t even realize that the guy next door was your uncle?”
“You don’t even know that the girl next door is a pervert.”
Perhaps if they still met in the game, they would just growl at each other, one would tease, the other would get upset… and that would be the same thing over and over again.
“Ugh… The guy next door is an idiot.”
“Excuse me, the girl next door doesn’t notice either, right?”
“Hey, does that matter right now? Huh? I could be stolen by Geum Taeyang.”
Here I am talking about Hong Yu-hee.
But there was one word I couldn’t understand.
“Golden sun?”
“Blonde tanned punk. Don’t you know? Besides that, there are also college seniors, college classmates, etc…”
“No, wait. Miss Cordelia. Calm down and look at this.”
“What? What’s wrong with our rankings?”
As Cordelia pouted her lips, Uther explained in a gentle tone.
“You’re still in second place. You’re just playing games for a living.”
So there’s no way I’d ever date or anything like that, right?
But Cordelia said, muttering:
“Hey, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I, Hong Yu-hee, is, what is it? The ideal of gamers? Something like that? A pretty girl who’s good at games and has a foul mouth. I like all of them.”
What is this now?
Yuder was speechless for a moment, but soon nodded.
Actually, what Cordelia said was somewhat true.
“But what can we do? We can’t force anything.”
It was clear that Yuder himself was Kang Jin-ho, and Cordelia was Hong Yu-hee.
But now that their souls were separated, the four of them were complete strangers.
“Ugh… This won’t work. Let’s talk about that later and just go see how she’s doing. She might already be seeing someone.”
“No way.”
There’s no way a college girl who’s dating someone would be ranked 2nd on the server in Heroes Chronicles.
Uther spoke bluntly, but Cordelia remained steadfast.
“Anyway, let’s go see it quickly. Okay?”
In fact, it wasn’t just Hong Yu-hee.
I missed my parents, and I also wanted to see my dog, Tori, who would now be five years old.
But Cordelia never said anything like this.
‘Because there is no Yuder.’
Hong Yu-hee had a family.
But Kang Jin-ho was alone. Although he never spoke properly, it was easy to guess that Kang Jin-ho was an orphan just from the stories he had heard.
So Cordelia never said she wanted to see her family.
But it was none other than Yuder.
As for Cordelia’s heart, he quickly figured it out, as if he knew her better than Cordelia herself at times.
“Okay, let’s go see it.”
How is Hong Yu-hee doing?
How are those families living now?
“I wonder how the kids in the chat room are doing.”
At Cordelia’s words, Uder also thought of the members of the chat room who had been laughing and chatting with him, but soon shook his head.
“But if I log in to the main account, Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee will notice? If I log in with a newly created account, there’s no way I’ll be able to have a proper conversation.”
“Ugh······.”
Unfortunately, it was true.
So instead of wasting her time on foolish thoughts, Cordelia jumped up from her seat.
“Okay, anyway, let’s go see me.”
Actually, I was a little embarrassed.
Observing yourself like no one else but Yuder.
But conversely, it was possible because it was Yuder.
Because I could show anything only to Yuder.
“Okay, let’s go.”
To see Hong Yu-hee.
And two days later in the evening.
Cordelia exploded with anger.
“What is this! What is this!”
I knew that the guy next door didn’t realize that he was actually Outboxer 009.
It was also possible to guess that none other than Hong Yu-hee would have built a wall when it came to love.
But I graduated from high school and went to college!
“Nothing has changed!”
Home, school, home, school.
In between, it’s just games, games, games!
The clothes he wore were always a hoodie and jeans.
At least when I was going to school I wore my uniform nicely!
“Well, it really is a good answer.”
“You’re the problem too, you too! Hong Yu-hee, at least go to school. You just play games at home!”
The only times you go out are to go out for a smoke or to buy groceries at the supermarket?
“Hey, do you exercise too?”
“You only do that at home!”
Although not as good as the current Yuder, Kang Jin-ho was also in very good health.
But then what can we do?
I’m always at home.
‘No, in some ways this is a blessing?’
Because I couldn’t let Kang Jin-ho be taken away by someone else.
While Cordelia was thinking for a moment, Yuder looked back at the apartment where Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee lived and spoke.
“Anyway, it seems like they’re all doing well. Why don’t we just leave them alone?”
It wasn’t exactly a wrong statement.
They were all living happily, that is.
But Cordelia was not satisfied.
“No, we can’t go on like this. Of course, if we keep going like this, we might have a fateful meeting and start dating, but I can’t wait. It has to be now.”
“why?”
“You’re going to be thirty now!”
To be exact, it’s not Yuder, it’s Kang Jin-ho.
“Hong Yu-hee is now twenty-one! But Kang Jin-ho is soon to turn thirty! No, we should start dating quickly while he’s still a year younger.”
Were you concerned about that?
“No, that···what should I say. But the two of you have to date······.”
That was it.
Cordelia looked up at Uther with scary eyes, and Uther smiled awkwardly and immediately changed his words.
“Yes, you two should date. Of course. You absolutely have to do that.”
No matter what anyone says, these two were destined to be together.
In fact, even Yuder himself couldn’t stand the thought of Hong Yu-hee – that is, Cordelia – dating someone other than him.
“But what are you going to do?”
The two people who have been playing the same game and teasing each other every day for 6 years are actually the cool older brother and the lovely girl who live next door.
How do I get these two to date?
Should I make a love potion and give it to her?
In response to Uther’s question, Cordelia crossed her arms and hesitated for a moment, then spoke with a stern face.
“We have to meet each other first.”
“Not in a game, but in real life?”
“Oh, let’s meet each other. Let’s get to know each other. That’s what we need to do. Then it’ll work out.”
“No, is that really all?”
“Oh, it will work.”
“How can you be so sure?”
“Huh? That, that······.”
Cordelia, whose words had been trailing off, suddenly moved her lips. Then, her face turned bright red and she spoke.
“Joe, if you like it.”
“uh?”
“Joe, I like you!”
Hong Yu-hee and the older brother next door.
Of course, it wasn’t a real, passionate crush, but it was like, a school senior that I admired? Something like that?
Uther blinked at Cordelia’s confession that wasn’t a confession, then smiled wickedly. No, he tried to smile, but he couldn’t.
“If you laugh, I will kill you.”
Cordelia’s blushing face and trembling appearance was more adorable than threatening, but either way, it was enough to move Uther’s heart.
“That’s right. There’s no way I’d laugh.”
Uder tried hard to hold it in, but he had to experience a twitching at the corners of his mouth.
Cordelia looked at Yuder with a discontented face and said.
“But you?”
“huh?”
“How were you?”
Hong Yu-hee secretly admired and liked the guy next door.
What about Kang Jin-ho?
What were you thinking about the girl next door?
“that······.”
“that?”
“The pretty, cute, and lovely girl who lives next door?”
First of all, I like the modifiers.
But that doesn’t mean I was satisfied.
“What, is that all?”
“Excuse me. The girl next door was a high school student, right?”
When I first saw him, he was a middle school student.
If you had special feelings for him, it would be even stranger.
“Chichichi. She’s all grown up now. She’s a college student.”
“No, well… that’s true.”
First of all, when Yuder himself was Kang Jin-ho, he was a high school student.
And honestly, I don’t think my mind has changed that much even now.
“But still······ um. Since it’s you and me. I don’t know what will happen once we meet.”
As Cordelia said, they were both adults now.
“Right? What do you think will happen?”
As Cordelia shrugged her shoulders in excitement, Uther agreed for the time being and then said,
“So how do you plan on meeting us?”
Should I pretend it was a coincidence and expose the fact that my neighbor’s brother is Outboxer 009?
But then we wouldn’t be able to have a normal meeting.
Cordelia said, crossing her arms again.
“We should get together. We’ve been playing games together for six years, so isn’t it time we got together?”
“With everyone in the chat room?”
“No, that’s not it. We should just let the two of you meet.”
“how?”
“Hey, it’s your job to think of things like this. Try coming up with some sinister scheme like you did to me!”
Cordelia now knew everything about the long-term ‘fait accompli operation’ that Uder had been carrying out.
Why do you always make me say weird things?
And make them write letters too.
Anyway, Uther scratched his chin at Cordelia’s criticism and soon came up with a plan.
“Let’s use our dreams.”
“dream?”
“Oh, a dream. Let’s induce it from a dream.”
So that two people have the heart to meet each other once.
At Uther’s words, Cordelia blinked, then soon began to laugh and clap her hands loudly.
“Oh, as expected of our family’s swindler. That’s a good idea. If Cordelia talks in my dreams, I’ll definitely be very nervous.”
Because Hong Yu-hee was a self-proclaimed Cordelia fanatic.
Honestly, I don’t think Kang Jin-ho would really care what Yoo-der said, but in reality, I think he would be able to make Hong Yu-hee accept it if she actively pushed for it.
“Okay, let’s do it right now.”
“Excuse me, it’s daytime now.”
“Then let’s play until night. Call?”
“call.”
Uther and Cordelia sat down in front of the computer again and had a happy time until night.
And deep into the night.
Lying side by side on the bed, Uther and Cordelia looked at each other one last time before closing their eyes.
“Good job.”
“You do well too.”
The two people who had spoken up to that point habitually clasped their hands and closed their eyes.
And a few minutes later.
Cordelia opened her eyes in Hong Yu-hee’s dream.
to be continued
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