CH 19

The longer the awkward silence grew, the deeper the wrinkles between Shin Do-Gyeom’s brows.

In addition, Ye-Hyeon’s eyes shook from side to side.

The tips of his round ears also flushed red.

“Would you like to go eat with me?”

‘Choi Ye-Hyeon, you idiot. You stuttered until the end!’ Ye-Hyeon thought.

Ye-Hyeon, who said everything under pressure, immediately bit his tongue.

However, he couldn’t even pick up the words he had already said.

“Now?” Shin Do-Gyeom asked.

Ye-Hyeon could feel Shin Do-Gyeom being dumbfounded.

Ye-Hyeon swept away the burning neck.

“No. Not now, but lunch, no, dinner is good, and just any time…”

Ye-Hyeon voice became smaller and smaller as he ramble on.

It was beyond embarrassing and shameful.

Even making long eye contact with Shin Do-Gyeom suddenly became burdensome.

Ye-Hyeon didn’t know why he was squeaking like a broken robot.

Ye-Hyeon’s head gradually fell down.

“Me, with you? Why?” Shin Do-Gyeom asked.

On the other hand, Shin Do-Gyeom was very calm.

A clear refusal was conveyed from a slight gap in each word.

Ye-Hyeon, who took a deep breath for a while, bit the tip of his tongue tightly and raised his head with a smile as if he was embarrassed.

“You said you wanted to get close. I can’t come out to this place starting tomorrow. I don’t think I have a talent for bows. So tell me your contact number.” Ye-Hyeon explained.

Shin Do-Gyeom bent the corner of his left mouth obliquely.

Ye-Hyeon swallowed his dry saliva with a blunt laugh.

If someone gave him a potion and told him to sell it to Shin Do-Gyeom, it seemed like he could sell it armed with a commercial smile.

“If you don’t like rice, can you drink coffee?”

Ye-Hyeon couldn’t give up his lingering feelings and tried one more time, but the more he talked, the more pathetic it seemed.

In the end, Shin Do-Gyeom turned his back on Ye-Hyeon as if it was not worth hearing more.

‘He has been acting a little, no, a lot more like a jerk, but I didn’t do anything wrong. It’s all because he’s cranky! It was both unfair and shameful.’ Ye-Hyeon thought.

Ye-Hyeon had to kick the blanket every night, recalling when he was laughed at by Shin Do-Gyeom.

Ye-Hyeon frequently immersed himself in sword art classes to forget the shameful memories of that day, but it didn’t do much good.

It just hurt Ye-Hyeon’s body and his head.

‘We have to meet to increase the intimacy of Shin Do-Gyeom… I said I wouldn’t go any further, but the thought of visiting the archery field made my face hot. When I was working, I was always told I’m shameless, but I didn’t know why it couldn’t be applied when I tried to get close personally. Should I search for how to get close?’ Ye-Hyeon thought.

Ye-Hyeon picked up his cell phone and sighed again.

“There’s an empty seat.” Yoon Seung-Jae said.

Yoon Seung-Jae held a pile of plates and sat in the corner.

Ye-Hyeon, who followed Yoon Seung-Jae without much thought, found Shin Do-Gyeom sitting at the table right next to him while sitting down.

Ye-Hyeon made direct eye contact with Shin Do-Gyeom as if he was watching him approaching this way.

He turned his head to Yoon Seung-Jae without hiding.

“What are you doing this afternoon?”

Ye-Hyeon was embarrassed and his voice was higher and faster than usual, but Yoon Seung-Jae seemed to be distracted by the food and didn’t notice.

“Since you are learning how to handle a shield. Did you say you’re going to climb a mountain after that? I heard that endurance is especially important for tankers.”

Yoon Seung-Jae started taking classes related to tankers, perhaps because he was curious about Ye-Hyeon’s praise of tankers.

“However, it did not mean that I quit the swordsmanship class at all. It takes great stamina to combine classes that were too much to take.” Yoon Seung-Jae said.

“What if it’s a waterfall again? Does that help?”

Ye-Hyeon couldn’t shake off his doubts and asked quietly.

Among the training methods available at the training center, there were quite a few ways to think.

‘Is this right?’

“It was pretty good. Later on, you too. No. Don’t do it.”

“I’m not going to.”

Ye-Hyeon responded to Yoon Seung-Jae moderately and frowned.

‘Should I pretend to know Shin Do-Gyeom? No, can I…? Since I was in the same space as the two targets, I felt like I was being shameless and cheating secretly. I felt like I was on a thorny cushion. It’s better to pretend you don’t know, right?’

Ye-Hyeon slightly turned the chair in the opposite direction of Shin Do-Gyeom.

However, Ye-Hyeon couldn’t completely erase Shin Do-Gyeom from his perspective, but he wanted to feel comfortable.

[system]

The intimacy of Attack Target 3: Shin Do-Gyeom, has decreased by 1 point.

Then the intimacy dropped.

Ye-Hyeon lost his temper because he couldn’t get enough energy.

‘Did it fell because he pretended he didn’t know him? Even if I say hello, you’ll ignore it!’

No matter how much Shin Do-Gyeom did, it was too selfish.

“I’ll bring some more rice.” Yoon Seung-Jae said.

As Yoon Seung-Jae left, only Shin Do-Gyeom and Ye-Hyeon were left.

Shin Do-gyeom’s presence bothered him.

Ye-Hyeon, who was struggling with soup because he had no appetite, closed his eyes tightly.

‘It’s a job. I’m working.’

Ye-Hyeon kept repeating to himself and forcibly pulled the corners of his mouth.

After three or four attempts, Ye-Hyeon was able to smile quite naturally.

“Hello, I’m seeing you here again. Isn’t it fate that we should be close to each other?”

Ye-Hyeon tilted his head and opened his eyes wide.

Ye-Hyeon copied the gentle expression that Yoon Seung-Jae sometimes showed, but it didn’t seem to have much effect.

Shin Do-Gyeom did not ignore or avoid Ye-Hyeon, but the reaction was lukewarm.

[system]

The intimacy of ‘Attack Target 3: Shin Do-Gyeom’ has increased by 1 point.

Seeing that the intimacy was restored immediately after only greeting, it seemed right that it fell off because he pretended not to know him.

‘You can ignore me, but I can’t. Is that so?’ Ye-Hyeon thought

Ye-Hyeon grumbled inside but kept his smile.

“It was a little hard to say hello because I had a companion a while ago.” Ye-Hyeon said.

[system]

The intimacy of ‘Attack Target 3: Shin Do-Gyeom’ dropped by one point.

‘I just talked to him, but I lost his intimacy. I don’t have to say hi, I don’t have to talk to you. What do you want me to do?’ Ye-Hyeon thought.

Shin Do-Gyeom was too difficult.

“Hey, can’t you tell me your name now? Until when do we have to do that?”

He was so distracted by the ups and downs of intimacy that Ye-Hyeon almost called Shin Do-gyeom’s name.

Ye-Hyeon had a hard time because he knew his name but couldn’t call him.

“Shin Do-gyeom.”

He thought he would ignore me again, but Shin Do-Gyeom somehow told his name.

“Do you remember my name? Choi Ye-Hyeon. Last time, I was too reckless, right? I’m sorry.”

Ye-Hyeon smiled quietly, feeling embarrassed.

[system]

‘ Target 3: Shin Do-Gyeom’ affection increased by 1 point.

Yoon Seung-Jae is slow, but his intimacy and affection steadily increase, and Shin Do-Gyeom was weird because he kept going back and forth between intimacy and affection.

Even if they were different, they were so different.

Thanks to this, Ye-Hyeon realized that what he is doing is really a dating sim.

‘Be different for each target, you mean?’ Ye-Hyeon thought.

Shin Do-Gyeom, who finished his meal neatly stood up.

“Please say hello next time.”

Ye-Hyeon chased Shin Do-Gyeom’s back with his lingering eyes.

“Who is he? Do you know him?” Yoon Seung-Jae asked.

As if it were a baton touch, when Shin Do-Gyeom left, Yoon Seung-Jae returned.

On his way back, he seemed to have seen Ye-Hyeon talking to Shin Do-Gyeom.

Yoon Seung-Jae’s voice sounded a little blunt.

‘Should I say I know…?’Ye-Hyeon thought.

“Why? Is he bothering you?” Yoon Seung-Jae asked, stiffening his face.

“Do you think I always get bullied?” Ye-Hyeon replied.

Yoon Seung-Jae showed signs of dissatisfaction even if he answered jokingly.

“You haven’t been energetic lately. Tell me if anything happens. I’ll make sure.”

“Okay. I’ll tell you first.” Ye-Hyeon responded.

“You promised?” Yoon Seung-Jae immediately put out his pinky with an excited face again.

[system]

Target 4: Yoon Seung-Jae’s affection increased by 1 point.

“Yoon Seung-Jae…” Ye-Hyeon reluctantly intertwined his little fingers and called Yoon Seung-Jae as if he was in pain.

He didn’t mean to increase affection.

‘Why is it going up?’

Shin Do-Gyeom alone is a headache, but his head was pounding with Yoon Seung-Jae.

“Hmm?”

“What’s your ideal type?” Ye-Hyeon asked.

“All of a sudden? Do you want to talk about dating with me? Are you a middle school student?” Yoon Seung-Jae replied.

When Yoon Seung-Jae said, Ye-Hyeon forgot that it was serious and burst into laughter.

“You’re a high school student, is that it?”

In Ye-Hyeon’s eyes, middle and high school students are not much different, but it was pretty cute to draw a line.

“It’s okay, so tell me.” Ye-Hyeon said.

‘I thought I should know Yoon Seung-Jae’s ideal type first so I could avoid it so that my affection level would not increase. I thought he would spit out a lot of pretty, good-natured, or plain stories, but Yoon Seung-Jae hesitated.’ Ye-Hyeon thought.

“Someone like a mother.”

“Huh?”

“No, thanks. Why are you suddenly talking about something strange?”

Yoon Seung-Jae spread his rice in his bowl around for no reason.

‘Yoon Seung-Jae said ‘mother’, but obviously, I asked because it was a remark that was far out of my expectations, but I definitely heard him called “mother.” ‘Wait a minute. So you’re saying I was like a mother? Where?’ Ye-Hyeon was surprised.

Ye-Hyeon wanted to know the criteria for the rise in affection, but it got even more confusing.

‘Is it okay because intimacy rises better than affection? Let’s be a little more careful until the intimacy is over 10 and the tutorial is laid out.’

Ye-Hyeon looked at Yoon Seung-Jae with a serious expression, who was excitedly eating.