< Ending Maker SS #13 To Earth (6) >
Ending Maker SS #13 To Earth (6)
‘Yes, why are you here!’
The voice did not explode.
It was almost like a mental scream.
Hong Yu-hee and Kang Jin-ho looked at each other, let out a mental scream, and then immediately had the same thought – no, the same yet different thought.
‘Outboxer 009?’
‘Yellow Storm?’
Oh, oppa?!
Him?!
It was literally shocking and terrifying.
Not a single groan escaped their lips, but the bewildered expressions on their faces said it all.
[Why do you seem more surprised than when we were there?]
[Because they have different types of shocks.]
Uther also responded to Cordelia’s message with a message, as she was hiding behind the wall with only her head sticking out.
When we first met after awakening the memories of our past lives in Pleiades.
At that moment, the two people immediately raised their voices, and even immediately after that, they were able to think rationally.
But it wasn’t Hong Yu-hee and Kang Jin-ho.
As Uder said, the types of shock were different.
[We just met an unexpected person in an unfamiliar place, but the other side found out that the two people they had never thought of connecting were actually the same person. On top of that, both sides had quite a few illusions.]
[The ideal is collapsing? That makes it even more shocking?]
[That’s what it is.]
Things were different in Pleiades when Cordelia discovered that Uther was actually her older brother from next door.
At that time, Cordelia was already deeply in love with Uther.
The shock of finding out that the person you already like is the same person you once admired could be classified as a ‘pleasant surprise’ if you must.
But to Hong Yu-hee, Outboxer 009 – that is, Abok-i – was just an elementary school kid.
Of course, we grew close after playing together for 6 years, but I would say we were closer to being best friends.
But that uncle.
That damn elementary school kid.
Was it really the same person as the guy next door who I always imagined to be a really cool guy, my ideal type in my fantasies?
[You had fantasies about me too?]
[Well… I guess she was just a kind and pretty kid.]
[Oh, I know it’s pretty.]
As Cordelia got excited, Uther also snickered.
‘Anyway, I think both me and Kang Jin-ho will be shocked.’
The moment he found out that Yellow Storm was a girl – and a girl next door who was much younger than him – he must have felt an incredible sense of shame.
He has done all sorts of childish things to young girls who are much younger than him.
Anyway, amidst the excitement, Yuder and Cordelia looked at Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee again.
“That······ uh······ could it be a yellow······ storm?”
The one who finally came to his senses first was Kang Jin-ho.
Kang Jin-ho, who had forced his brain, which was not working well, to work and come to a conclusion, took a deep breath and looked at Hong Yu-hee. Hong Yu-hee was startled by Kang Jin-ho’s words and answered in a dazed manner.
“Oh, no?”
I denied it without realizing it.
It’s like when children who have done something wrong say something and then lie and say no.
“Oh, no?”
“No!” Yoo-der was quite surprised by the answer and asked back without realizing it. Hong Yu-hee hesitated again and hesitated, then covered her face with both hands and answered with tears in her eyes.
“Oh, that’s right. That’s right.”
Why do you tell such obvious lies!
Hong Yu-hee strangled herself, if only in her heart.
And I thought.
‘Wait a minute. So is this really Outboxer 009?’
The guy next door?
The guy next door is that damn elementary school kid?
really?
Really for real?
Is it real?
‘Oh, no.’
Even now, when I close my eyes, I remember Abok’s childish actions.
Aboki, who was making fun of himself by giggling like crazy.
Aboki, who gritted his teeth and kept teasing.
From the moment I first met him, Aboki kept whining about how bad he was at games.
There was a guy next door.
He was a cool older brother.
I was standing looking at the Han River at sunset.
Although smoking is bad for your health, the guy next door who looks at the Han River with sad eyes while exhaling cigarette smoke was so cool.
The older brother next door looked back at Hong Yu-hee. Then he chuckled and said.
“I’m number one again!”
“Fuck!”
I found myself cursing – no, exclamations – without realizing it.
Oh, no.
no.
Something precious is broken.
It’s broken.
But the imagination in my head continued.
The guy next door who dances and shakes his hips.
The older brother next door who brags about having a higher score than me.
The guy next door who cried and cried because his reinforcement broke.
The guy next door who steals dropped items and runs away.
The guy next door who blushes and feels embarrassed when you mention power sex.
‘Oh, this might be good… No. No. It’s not good!’
Abok is the older brother next door!
Abok!
Hong Yu-hee, who was staggering as if she would collapse at any moment in the midst of extreme confusion, spread her fingers apart and faced reality again, head on.
The guy next door standing there with a troubled expression.
‘Fuck, shit.’
Still handsome.
Even though I knew he was a bastard, he was still handsome and cool.
The guy next door said.
“That··· uh······.”
In fact, it wasn’t just Hong Yu-hee who was shocked.
Who would have thought that the girl next door who I thought was kind, cute, and polite was actually a pervert with a dick in her mouth?
Who would have thought that the girl next door who used to collect Cordelia’s regular pictures and even porn pictures while making fun of her was the girl next door?
And shame.
Endless shame.
‘Ahhhh!’
Kang Jin-ho had been screaming mentally for some time.
I was embarrassed.
As Outboxer 009, every word and action I said to Yellow Storm was like a fierce bullet flying towards me.
‘Alexey! Alexey!’
Uh, what should I do?
What should I do?
Even when I was isolated behind enemy lines, I didn’t feel as helpless as I do now.
The next morning after having a dirty dream about Natasha, I didn’t feel this embarrassed when I confronted her head on.
Ouch.
Ugh.
Ugh.
But still, it was Kang Jin-ho.
It took superhuman endurance to keep all this suffering from showing on his face.
At least on the outside, it was clear that he would look relatively calm.
therefore.
therefore.
Let’s relax.
Let’s not show our embarrassment.
If you are caught being agitated, it will only benefit the enemy.
Let’s calm down.
Calm down, Kang Jin-ho.
[He’s taking a deep breath. He seems to be recovering from the panic to some extent.]
[oh.]
While Uder and Cordelia watched, giggling, Kang Jin-ho took several deep breaths.
And then I looked at the girl next door, Hong Yu-hee.
‘Let’s calm down.’
He had to calm down as he had aged a year – no, maybe almost ten years.
If Kang Jin-ho, who has been through a lot, was this flustered, how would the girl next door, who had just turned 20, feel?
‘Yeah, Nobok was mentally weak.’
So, here, Kang Jin-ho himself had to calm down.
Kang Jin-ho himself, as the eldest, had to take care of the situation.
“That… No-bok?”
“You, you hee-hee. Hong Yu-hee.”
As soon as Yuder mentioned Nick, Hong Yu-hee reflexively said his name.
If we called each other by our nicknames here, not only would it be embarrassing, but it would also make our heads even more confused.
[Oh, indeed. That quality of instinctively finding answers is still there.]
[Exciting.]
While Cordelia was showing off, Kang Jin-ho opened his mouth again.
“Yeah… yeah. Yoohee. Oh, Yoohee. I’m Kang Jinho.”
“Uh··· uh······ yes, oppa.”
Hong Yu-hee muttered in a very small voice.
His face was so red that it looked like it would burst if you touched it.
[Oh my goodness. He’s my brother, brother. Isn’t he so cute?]
[You’re cute, but you’re a Hong Yu-hee fan.]
Hong Yu-hee is a Cordelia fanboy.
Cordelia began to cheer at Uther’s nagging, then focused on the two of them again.
“Anyway, uh······ First. Uh, first. Do you want to eat something?”
Since we had decided to meet up and have lunch together.
Hong Yu-hee bit her lips and fidgeted uncontrollably at Kang Jin-ho’s suggestion, but eventually swallowed her dry saliva. She then raised her head and answered.
“Ugh! Oh, no. Yes······.”
A small and timid answer.
Between the two of them, endless chatter and vibration sounds could be heard, but neither of them looked at their phones.
No, I couldn’t see it.
“let’s go.”
Kang Jin-ho turned around first.
Hong Yu-hee, at a loss again, began to follow Kang Jin-ho while keeping her distance, and after walking about ten steps, Kang Jin-ho suddenly stopped. He turned around and looked at Hong Yu-hee, who had stopped following him, with a worried expression on his face.
“Euuum······.”
I guess calling with hand gestures is a bit weird.
But it’s not like I can just stand there and walk like I do now.
So in the end, Kang Jin-ho approached Hong Yu-hee again. Only after they were shoulder to shoulder did he speak again.
“let’s go.”
Side by side.
Because we were in a group.
Kang Jin-ho walked forward without looking back, and Hong Yu-hee, who only nodded instead of answering, stole a glance at Kang Jin-ho’s side profile.
And then again, two people are peeking at those two.
[Oh my, oh my. They’re both so cute I could die.]
As Cordelia jumped up and down in admiration, Uther smiled and thought.
‘Yeah, Cordelia is so cute.’
Kang Jin-ho, Hong Yu-hee, and Cordelia are the best.
While Yuder was thinking like that, Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee entered a nearby pizza place.
&
Hong Yu-hee liked pizza.
It was also Hong Yu-hee who insisted that lunch at today’s meeting had to be pizza.
It was also Hong Yu-hee who chose the store.
But at this moment, Hong Yu-hee couldn’t taste the pizza.
No, to begin with, it was to the point where I couldn’t even tell if the pizza was going into my mouth or my nose.
And the same was true for Kang Jin-ho.
Swish swish swish.
Square, square.
Step by step.
Put the pizza on a plate, pour some sauce on it, cut it into small pieces and put it in your mouth.
Both of them did so instead of holding it in their hands and eating it, and so instead of conversation between the two, only sound effects continued.
A suffocating silence.
Heavy silence.
A painful silence.
In fact, the two of them had come out with some degree of preparation.
I imagined all kinds of situations, regardless of gender or age.
But among all those imaginations, there was nothing like this.
‘There was no such thing!’
Hong Yu-hee writhe in pain, while Kang Jin-ho diligently replayed Alexei’s teachings in his head.
And Cordelia said with a happy face.
“It’s delicious. I missed this taste.”
“I’ve made pizza for you a few times.”
“Yeah, that’s delicious too, but what about the location? There’s something like that too, right?”
“hmm.”
“Hey, don’t be so annoying. Okay?”
When Cordelia acted cute, Uther eventually smiled again and wiped the sauce off Cordelia’s mouth.
“Eat slowly.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
Unlike the couple in the back seat(?), these two people were so affectionate that everyone’s impression of them was distorted.
And about 30 minutes later.
Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee, who somehow managed to finish the pizza, left the store.
Originally, I was planning to go to a VR arcade next time.
It was supposed to be like that······.
“That… is it Yoohee?”
“Huh? Oh, yes.”
I saw Kang Jin-ho and Hong Yu-hee, and Hong Yu-hee saw Kang Jin-ho.
And Cordelia looked at the two with a tense face. Judo looked at Cordelia.
Just a few seconds like that.
Kang Jin-ho opened his mouth again.
“Since we’re here······would you like to go?”
VR game center.
Hong Yu-hee nodded without realizing it at Kang Jin-ho’s suggestion.
As if I was possessed.
“Yes, brother.”
An answer that was a bit timid, but mixed with a strange joy.
Cordelia clutched her chest in pain at that answer, and Kang Jin-ho also felt a stinging pain in his chest.
The reason was the same for both.
‘Ear, so cute!’
The first thing that came to mind was Cordelia, and Kang Jin-ho tried hard to erase the thoughts that came to his mind.
“Anyway… let’s go.”
This time, Kang Jin-ho turned around first, but it was a little different from before. Hong Yu-hee immediately followed Kang Jin-ho without waiting or turning back.
“Hehehe.”
Cordelia smiled sinisterly at the sight, and Uther smiled slightly bitterly.
After that, things went pretty smoothly.
We play games together, watch movies, and have dinner together again.
At first, Hong Yu-hee was very timid, but by the time she left the game room, a smile began to appear on her face.
‘It’s fun.’
It’s fun.
The game is fun and the movie is fun.
Dinner was delicious too.
Of course, this pleasure could continue because both people had an implicit agreement.
Don’t talk about heroic biographies.
Don’t even mention Noboki and Aboki’s names.
Strangely enough, once I decided to do that, I was able to focus on playing quite well.
And finally, Hong Yu-hee even began to think like this.
‘Isn’t this… a date?’
A man and a woman meet up and eat, play games, watch movies······.
‘Hey, come to your senses!’
Hong Yu-hee quickly took over
That’s understandable. What’s in front of you is Abok, isn’t it? Abok!
‘But, but······.’
Isn’t he the guy next door?
The handsome and cool guy next door, just like Cordelia said in her dream.
And he was kind and gentle.
‘Come to think of it, Abok too······.’
Because, as Cordelia said in her dream, the line was never crossed.
Because I used to feel embarrassed whenever I got sexually harassed.
‘Ohhh······.’
Hong Yu-hee could feel herself getting strangely excited as she recalled the image of the guy next door who was embarrassed by the sex joke.
Anyway, how much time passed like that again?
By the time we finished dinner, it had already become dark outside.
Now it was time to slowly turn back.
“Well, then······.”
Hello here.
Hong Yu-hee bowed her head to greet him, but Kang Jin-ho had no intention of doing so.
Should we split up here and each go home?
It was ridiculous.
That would be the case-
“I’ll take you home.”
“yes?!”
“No, it’s in the same direction.”
Where are we on the same level? It was just next door.
“Ah, uh, that, uh······.”
Hong Yu-hee muttered again, and Kang Jin-ho laughed without realizing it.
“let’s go.”
“Yes? Oh, yes.”
And then move again.
But Hong Yu-hee soon began to have doubts.
‘Where······are you going?’
The subway station isn’t in this direction.
It’s not even a bus······.
While Hong Yu-hee was wondering, Kang Jin-ho arrived at the Hongdae underground parking lot.
That’s right.
Underground parking lot.
The reason Hong Yu-hee and Kang Jin-ho came from different directions even though they lived next door to each other.
“here.”
As Kang Jin-ho said that, he opened the passenger door, and Hong Yu-hee opened her eyes wide again. She had no choice.
‘There are only two chairs?’
That’s right.
Kang Jin-ho’s car was a two-seater sports car.
Hong Yu-hee didn’t know much about cars, but she really liked the white and pretty one.
‘This was the car of the guy next door.’
Hong Yu-hee, who remembered seeing it a few times near her house, hesitated and got into the passenger seat, and Kang Jin-ho, who closed the door, sat back in the driver’s seat.
“Fasten your seat belt.”
“yes.”
And click.
Start the engine, wait for a moment, then drive off.
Hong Yu-hee, who was momentarily taken aback by the much lower visibility than an ordinary car, swallowed dry saliva and glanced at the seat next to her.
Kang Jin-ho was seen driving, looking straight ahead.
A serious face.
Driving scene.
‘You’re a real adult.’
A real adult.
Not a kid pretending to be an adult, but the real deal.
Hong Yu-hee, whose cheeks turned red without her knowing, quickly turned her head. She looked straight ahead, pressing her chest as if to calm her heart that was starting to pound wildly.
And then another twenty minutes or so passed.
Since Hongdae was not that far away, it didn’t take too long to get back home.
Apartment underground parking lot.
This time, Yuder, who got out first, naturally opened the passenger door.
Hong Yu-hee hesitated for a moment and then carefully got out of the car.
“Um… should we go?”
Because we had to take the elevator together.
Hong Yu-hee nodded again, and the two slowly walked towards the elevator.
But it was at that very moment.
pop!
Suddenly, with a loud noise, water started pouring out like crazy from the sprinklers attached to the ceiling.
“Huh?!”
As Hong Yu-hee screamed, Kang Jin-ho moved reflexively, and as a result, the two were able to quickly escape from under the sprinkler, but after being doused with water.
“Huh?”
“Hey, are you okay?”
Hong Yu-hee couldn’t even answer Kang Jin-ho’s question.
This is because the water bucket completely poured over me, so not only did my head get wet, but my underwear got completely soaked as well.
‘Fuck!’
It felt good!
Hong Yu-hee, who was inwardly amazed, let out a long sigh instead of losing her temper and spoke.
“Hey, let’s go in first.”
The only silver lining was that home was just a short elevator ride away.
It’s annoying to be wet, but I can just go in, shower, and change clothes.
“okay.”
Kang Jin-ho looked back at the sprinkler that had suddenly gone off and nodded.
And then a few minutes later.
The two people who got off the elevator looked at each other again with awkward faces.
“Well, uh······ then.”
“Uh, uh, yeah.”
“Okay, are you going well?”
“Oh, you too, oppa?”
First of all, greetings.
But if I went back and accessed Hero Chronicles 2, it was clear that we would be together.
So what should I say now?
Should I say let’s meet in Hero Chronicles 2?
But the two eventually turned around with an awkward greeting and stood in front of their respective doors.
But here again a problem arose.
“uh?”
Hong Yu-hee’s house door did not open.
No matter how many times I entered the correct number, it didn’t work, as if the electronic door was broken.
“Oh, oh, oh.”
Hong Yu-hee, panicked, quickly rang the doorbell, but there was no answer from inside.
And in fact, this was only natural.
Because my parents went on a trip with a hot springs trip voucher they suddenly won last night.
There’s no one at home and the door doesn’t open.
I thought I could call the locksmith, but would he come this late at night? And if he did, would he come right away?
Moreover, Hong Yu-hee herself was now soaking wet.
What should I do?
What should I do?
“excuse me?”
Hong Yu-hee reflexively turned around at the voice she heard just then.
Kang Jin-ho standing in front of the door and looking this way.
He had good observation skills.
I was able to figure out Hong Yu-hee’s situation right away.
That’s why,
That’s why,
Kang Jin-ho was worried.
Because I didn’t know that I might be being too nosy.
Because it might have caused a huge misunderstanding.
‘don’t do it.’
Reason has stopped me.
But at the same time, another Kang Jin-ho spoke in his heart.
‘Are you just going to leave me like that? You have neighborly feelings for me? And you’re not just any neighbor, you’re a thief?’
Something slightly alien, almost as if it were someone else’s.
But it made sense.
It was consistent with Kang Jin-ho’s own inner feelings.
“that······.”
Kang Jin-ho trailed off, and Hong Yu-hee blinked as she looked at him.
And finally, Kang Jin-ho said.
“Do you want to take a break?”
I regretted it right after I said it.
No, what do you mean you want to take a break even if I say so?
There are many other things to say!
And that is the moment when Kang Jin-ho continues to reproach himself with anxiety and tension.
Hong Yu-hee swallowed dry saliva. She nodded while looking at Kang Jin-ho and the door of his house behind him.
The answer was given.
to be continued
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