Chapter 327

#327

327. Epilogue0. Pick Me Up! (End)

An unnamed cafe in an alley.

It was a small shop selling coffee and bread that didn’t have a signboard properly.

At the counter, a young hostess was washing coffee cups. Classical music flowed from the speakers, and high school girls chatted quietly to the melody of the music.

“So, you know...”

“Oh, really?”

Bright smiles bloomed on the faces of the still young girls.

There are not many regular customers in this place. Not only is it small, but most of the petit bourgeois prefer famous chain stores. If you say people who come every day, there are at most one or two people. Of course, she was among the regulars.

“sister.”

“huh?”

“Are you listening to me?”

Silently, she looked ahead.

Outside the table sat a young man who hadn’t taken off his boy’s shirt.

It was Jinho, her cousin. After graduating from high school, he entered a prestigious university with excellent grades.

“What did you mean?”

“I’m crazy. I had another idea.”

Jinho sighed and opened his mouth.

“My aunt told me to go on a blind date, blind date.”

“blind date?”

“Why did you turn down the last guy who asked if he was a plastic surgeon or something? Because he didn’t like his face?”

“It’s not like that...”

“Last time, even the judge refused. Office workers at large companies, lawyers, athletes. They just rejected me one after another. Only wrinkles appeared on my aunt’s face.”

“...”

“Sister, don’t you want to get married?”

she didn’t say anything

“I have no idea yet, if you don’t like it, say no.”

“It’s not that I’m not thinking.”

“Do you have any opponents on your mind?”

“Not really.”

“I have an idea, but if I don’t have a person in my heart, do I need a prince from a conglomerate family?”

“Not even that.”

Jinho narrowed his eyebrows.

A low voice followed.

“Are you still clinging to that game?”

“....”

“I went bankrupt a year ago? In a year, 100 new games come out?”

Even if there are 100 or 1000 new games, there is no such game.

she muttered in her heart.

“This is crazy.”

“sorry.”

“Do whatever you want. I can’t force you to do something you don’t like.”

“Sorry.”

“I’m going to work part-time.”

Jinho left the cafe.

It was because he was busy doing part-time tutoring.

She was left alone again.

‘It’s a good time.’

She looked at the high school girls who were talking lively.

There were times when he was like that too. It seemed that the whole world was their own stage. Although that fantasy collapsed as soon as she became an adult and realized the reality.

‘A childlike fantasy.’

she thought to herself.

How can I explain what she went through in the game a year ago?

A year had passed since the game ‘Pick Me Up’ had already been forgotten. Four seasons have changed, she has been promoted at the company, and her mother’s gray hair has grown more.

“....”

An Israt.

The man was a character in the game.

If she hadn’t made a mistake, the man would have been caught up in the synthesis and died in vain. However, due to her mistake, the man did not die and continued the fight in his own way.

When things weren’t going well, she would think about the games she played.

Some say it’s a ruined game, others say it’s a trash game, but it was an experience that was more valuable to her than any other trip.

They seemed alive.

He fought against enemies to survive, grieved over the death of his comrades, and tried to move forward even in the midst of trials.

But it was a story no one believed. It was. Who will believe that the characters in the game are alive and moving? I’d be glad if I wasn’t treated like a crazy person.

She opened the album on her smartphone.

Photos of Han’s activities were neatly arranged.

As long as he was hanging from a huge stone statue with his sword stuck in it. As long as you get out of the exploding passage. As long as you mourn the death of a colleague. As long as you train hard. A note from her was attached to each picture.

‘Am I a fool?’

Even after a year has passed, I have not forgotten.

I will probably never forget it until the day I die.

The traffic light was red.

[I found a group of patrol cars approaching from a distance of 100 meters.]

“Why are they chasing you?”

[Isn’t it because Loki crashed into the police station as soon as he arrived?]

“Did I do that?”

Then the man spoke in annoyance.

“I was going to go to a place where there are no people anyway.”

“Now, wait a minute.”

Beep!

The siren of a police car.

Finally she came to her senses.

The sports car she and the assailant rode in was driving in reverse on a four-lane road.

“Who are you!”

“Han Israt.”

The man opened his mouth.

“Han... Israt...?”

No way.

She opened her mouth.

He resembled the hero she knew.

Black hair and confident eyes. to a unique facial expression.

However, Han Israt was a character in the game.

‘You can’t really...’

said the man as he shifted gears.

“Originally, I didn’t intend to come, but I changed my mind when I saw what you were doing.

What a profit!

A sports car, halfway out of the roadway, brushed past the trees.

Shards of broken wood spilled onto the seat.

[If you keep going like this, you will catch up.]

“Is the drive over now?”

[You can escape if you use your strength.]

“I have no intention of using my power carelessly.”

The sports car swerved midway and backed into a narrow alleyway.

The car came to a complete stop before hitting the dead end of the alley.

“Anyway.”

The man laughed and said.

“If we’re going to talk, we’ll need to get somewhere safe.”

“...”

“You decide. It doesn’t matter if a madman jumps out saying he’s kidnapped me.”

The man got up from the driver’s seat and exited the car.

She sat in the passenger seat.

All sorts of thoughts and imaginations swirled around her head.

“One Israt.”

She looked up at the man,

exactly as she had imagined him to be,

except

that

he was wearing the finest suit instead of leather armor

.

” It ‘s

been

a while

,

Amkena

.

”

She was sure.

“...”

She moved from the passenger seat to the driver’s seat.

The man who was watching this sat in the passenger seat.

[I apologize, Master Amkena.]

Fluent Korean came out from the navigator.

[This time The meeting won’t interfere with your daily life.]

She

put

her hand on the steering wheel

. [Thank you for loving ‘

Pick Me Up

!

‘]