Chapter 25
“Sunbae-nim.”
“Yes?”
“…so it is you.”
“Haha… That’s right. Can coincidences like this really happen? It’s amazing.”
When Beodeul laughed, Shin Wooseok’s expression seemed to soften a bit.
“Since we’re returning to school together, I look forward to working with you. I’m returning right after my military hiatus, so I guess there will be quite a few others returning from military service around the same time.”
“Not really.”
“Really? Hmm…”
While searching for something to say in response, his phone vibrated. There was a messenger notification saying he’d been invited to a new group chat.
‘Right. He said he’d invite me earlier.’
While waiting for his turn for counseling, Sein had mentioned that he was participating in the sophomore group chat for passing along announcements, and volunteered to invite him first.
Beodeul left a brief greeting in the chat and smiled.
“Sein said he’d invite me to the sophomore group chat, and he just did it. Wooseok-“
What should I call him? In that brief moment of contemplation, Shin Wooseok tilted his head as if to say it was fine and said:
“You can speak casually to me.”
“Ah.”
“We’ll see each other often once the semester starts anyway.”
Still, it feels sudden. Is it because the impression of him being the café owner’s son hasn’t completely disappeared? Or is it because of the natural atmosphere that Shin Wooseok gives off?
“Then I’ll speak casually when the semester starts. Did you get the group chat invite?”
Shin Wooseok checked his phone and shook his head.
“I didn’t get any mention of that.”
“Huh, really? He said he was distracted, maybe he forgot…”
Beodeul shrugged his shoulders and held out his phone to Shin Wooseok.
“Then can I have your number?”
“What? My number…?”
“Yes. I’ll invite you to the group chat.”
Shin Wooseok took the phone and returned it to Beodeul after a while. Beodeul tilted his head briefly when he saw that Shin Wooseok had even written his own contact name, but soon pressed the save button anyway.
“I’ve invited you. See you when the semester starts.”
“Yes, sunbae-nim.”
Beodeul, who turned away with a gentle smile, didn’t realize that Shin Wooseok’s gaze lingered on his back for a long time.
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[DECIMATION] Interpretation of Sinu’s Statement
(Link to Sinu’s statement)
I’ve interpreted Sinu’s statementㅋㅋ
I am Sinu from the Akendal server.
-That’s me.
Recently, I’ve had to write this statement because malicious rumors about me and my acquaintance have been spreading.
-I’ve come to deal with the bastard who wrote itㅋㅋ
First of all, Girmu-nim is someone I met while looking for a dungeon party before returning with my main character ‘Sinu’, and I’d like to clarify that the rumors speculating about the relationship between Girmu-nim and me and disparaging Girmu-nim are wrong from the premise.
-I’ve seen the fiction you wrote, thanksㅅㄱ
It is true that I filmed the ‘Ashen Palace (Normal) – Dragon Slayer Perspective’ video that I uploaded to my personal MiTube channel in hopes that it would help Girmu-nim when challenging the Ashen Palace.
I could have sent the video to him personally, but I made it public to share information with other users who might be experiencing the same difficulties as Girmu-nim.
For Ashen Palace, I understand that many people wonder why I uploaded a guide video now when many guides have already been uploaded. Even if the strategy is the same, individual play styles differ, so I judged that my play style could also serve as a reference for those trying the dungeon.
-Is my content on the same level as others?ㅋㅋ
It’s truly regrettable that the intention behind uploading the video has been speculated about and distorted. While I’m grateful that many people usually send me encouragement and support, I often find myself caught up in incidents regardless of my will due to people who assign great significance to and interpret my gameplay or personal activities.
-Don’t you have anything better to do, you delusional patients
This incident is also such a case, and if the damage had come solely to me, I might have passed over it without clarifying my position as before. But I didn’t think there was any reason for Girmu-nim, who has just found new joy in <SOG> and is starting to enjoy it, to receive excessive criticism just for being my acquaintance, so I decided to write this post directly.
-Leave the newbie alone even if you mess with me, you s1b
I’d like to take this opportunity to say that I’m just an ordinary user playing <SOG> like everyone else. Please refrain from making speculations like this about me or my acquaintances.
-If you pull my hair again, you’re D*ad
This concludes my statement.
-Think it’s over?
Below is content provided by anonymous users, consisting of materials that give a rough idea of why the original poster who distorted the reason for my guide video upload and speculated about the relationship between me and my acquaintance wrote such a post.
(Original screenshot from the end of the first post)
(Screenshot of Dalkeum guild members’ conversation captured by Sinu and SaltySalt)
(Capture of gossip about Sinu and Girmu from Dalkeum guild members’ chat room)
(Capture of conversations where some members of the male Dalkeum guild members’ chat room consistently showed awareness of Sinu)
-This is the main point
If this is also just my speculation, I invite the original poster to send me mail in-game to ‘Sinu.’ I won’t add any more personal opinions, and I’ll leave the judgment to you all.
-Keep barking among yourselves againㅋㅋ
Thank you for reading.
-I’m out
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Comments(99+)
rhcnqktktkr: How is this an interpretation?ㄷㅔㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ You just copied the original
└ Grape Party: For realㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋbut then added your own comments
└ True User: When reading the statement, didn’t everyone read it with 50% opacity like this?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Rolling Around: But am I the only one still not understanding??? Why is the original poster someone from the same guild as the newbie??
└ Putin: Look at the first screenshot, only Dalkeum guild members are there where the newbie is dead. And someone posted that they edited the background to remove guild chat bubblesㅇㅇ
└ White Dog Iron Dog: Ahㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋso what Sinu uploaded is the unedited original??? Wow, if it’s the original, then someone from Dalkeum gave it to him, which means internal division?
└ Chocho: In-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋter-ㅋㅋㅋdivi-ㅋㅋㅋㅋsionㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ We agreed to call this cutting ties
East Sky: The guild chat content is so creepy;;;;;;;;;;; They said they were a small friendship guild but they were a toxic friendship guild. And looking at how much they talk about Sinuㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋit seems like they’re the ones having an online romance; sad one-sided love
└ Pope Patora: For real, is it necessary to criticize someone that much just because they’re not in your guild chat?ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ This is why I always avoid friendship guilds, 100% garbage, they always turn toxic
└ Ppyu Ppyu: So this is how they grab the hair of other peaceful friendship guilds??????
└ Kob: Don’t try to change the subject
Random Match: Sinu-nim, you’ve suffered a lot because of some mindless peopleㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
Playing with Fire: So to summarize, it’s a collaboration between a toxic friendship guild that sucked the newbie’s bone marrow and subtly excluded them + people who were raging at Sinu?????????
└ Wind Gale: Yeah, once the newbie they were exploiting became acquainted with the famous ‘Sinu-nim,’ they freaked out and raged~
Gongkam: Wow, finally the comments section is normalㅋㅋㅋ The previous post had such a strange comment atmosphere that I wondered if I was the weird one
└ xhekr: ygrlq They were nitpicking at Sinu over nonsense and acting like crazy dogs;;;;
└ Chocho: For real… they were the ones who flocked like dogs when Sinu uploaded the guide videoㅋㅋㅋㅋ It’s like Sinu was eating bread on the street, someone passed by, saw the bread looked delicious, bought it themselves, then slapped Sinu saying “this bread tastes terrible, why are you eating it so deliciously and making a fuss?”
└ Gongkam: That analogyㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋis so accurate though
└ Chelemba: Evidence of comment manipulation on that post has emergedㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ(Free board post link)
└ Chocho: Oh my god, what kind of idiot uses the same ID from that trash collection site without even washing it and uses it everywhere? Ahㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Just changing the numbers at the end is the height of laziness
Pig King: But isn’t Grace also a toxic friendship guild???
└ Secretly: Let’s distinguish between friendship and toxic friendship;
Katrina: Dalkeum’s guild master has made a statementㅇㅇ Says they’re disbanding the guildㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
└ Masang: That’s crazy… but I’d probably disband it too if I were them. The problematic members from that community formed cliques, then poked at Sinu and his acquaintance, and self-destructedㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Bald Forest: The annoying jerks who were foaming at the mouth and rushing in back then are so quiet on posts like thisㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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As soon as Beodeul logged into <SOG>, he received inexplicable supportive mails and whispers. Lately, he had often been receiving mails containing insults and criticism, so he usually checked his mailbox just to report them first, but not today.
‘Why are they telling me to stay strong?’
Most of the senders were usernames he didn’t recognize. Not only that, but occasionally users would place flowers at Girmu’s feet before walking away.
[Friend] SaltySalt: Hi Girmu-nim~ㅇㅅㅇ
[Friend] Youngglory: You’re online^^
[Friend] Tangerine: Hello~!0
[Friend] Girmu: Helloㅎㅎ
Since he had cleaned up his friends list when leaving the guild, Girmu’s friends list currently only had a few Grace guild members. It was also surprising that all those few members were online.
[Friend] Sinu: Girmu-nim today
[Friend] Sinu: You’re going to the dungeon, right?
[Friend] Girmu: Yes!
[Friend] Sinu: ok ok I’ll come after I finish this
Sinu’s location was inside some dungeon. While waiting for Sinu, Beodeul was wondering what to do when he saw the equipment of a passing veteran player and moved as if possessed.
A while later, when Sinu came out of the dungeon and sent a party request, Beodeul accepted it reflexively. Sinu immediately moved to the map where Girmu was, stood in front of him, and displayed a speech bubble.
[Party] Sinu: ?
[Party] Girmu: You’re here?
[Party] Sinu: What
[Party] Sinu: What have you done
Beodeul opened his equipment window in response to Sinu’s question. The equipment he had enhanced to +15 while waiting for Sinu was gleaming brilliantly.
Author: Hyacinthus B
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