"Okay, okay, okay, just a moment..."
"hmm?"
"I'm sorry, but why are we so close...?"
The strange man then pulled his face back and bit his lips that were smiling. And why am I sitting on the floor now? There was a sharp pain in my palms as if they had just been scratched, and the cold floor felt faint. Confused, Kwon Yeo-ju tried her best to understand the situation. Understand. Understand. Understand. Then, the man from before suddenly reached out his hand. No, I still don’t understand.
"Get up. The floor is cold too."
"..."
Why, why did such a handsome man appear in my 26-year-old single life without warning?
I thought you were underage
W. Yeonmang
At first, I thought it was a crazy dream, but after thinking about it two or three times, it finally came to mind. The fact that I had randomly picked up a game CD at a bookstore I had become a regular at. It was a game with a blank title and a dull cover that no one would want, but the owner smiled kindly and put it in for me himself... I ended up taking it with the Lord of the Rings series, volume 3. Anyway, I shouldn't have played it, even if it was just out of curiosity.
"I woke up and I was in a game... in a game..."
《You Who I Met By Chance》
~First meeting with the main male protagonist 1 [Kim Tae-hyung] updated~
Favorability increased by 3%.
"...That's also a minor."
The female protagonist sighs at the pink status bar that has been flashing before her eyes. First of all, she is in a very difficult situation because this incident occurred on Sunday, the day before she goes to work. If this is a dream, please let her go 4 hours before she goes to work. Or just let her live here. Power commuter Kwon Yeo-ju hugs the child she ordered and cries.
The game world seems to be set in a university. Naturally, the female protagonist is also a college student. I was worried that it was too late to go to college at the age of twenty-six, but the status window said that she was a twenty-year-old freshman... Is this a good thing? The female protagonist took five million selfies without thinking. At least she felt good because she looked fresh and young.
"It's hot."
Suddenly, Kwon Yeo-ju flinched at the tingling sensation on her palm. When she looked, it was a scar from the morning injury. That is, the scar from falling on the floor when she first opened her eyes in this secret. The face I saw back then was really... handsome. As she was staring blankly, the status window popped up again with an exaggerated sound effect.
《The College Student's Duties》
Mission
Afternoon classes start promptly at 2 o'clock.
Please arrive at room 219 of the teachers' building by 2 o'clock.
If successful - Meeting with the main male protagonist 2
If failed - 1 hour of lecture time added
Focusing on the penalties for failure rather than success, she dashed toward the teachers' college faster than light.
***
Safe 2 minutes before the start. She ran so desperately without knowing the way that the bitter taste of blood rose from her throat. Yeoju barely managed to get the back seat and lay down on the desk. If she had a friend, she would have left her as a substitute, but since she got here, her human relationships were forcibly deleted, so she doesn't know anyone. Come to think of it, she doesn't even have a family. That's ridiculous. Even my Poppy? This is crazy, ridiculous. Someone pushed their body next to Kwon Yeoju, who was depressed after belatedly facing reality.
"hey."
"Huh?"
"Did you call attendance?"
"Oh no, not yet."
"Thank you. Would you like some chocolate?"
ABC chocolates fell one by one onto the heroine's outstretched hand. Four, five, eight, no, stop. Over there.
"Just tell him to eat."
"You want me to buy you a meal?"
"yes?"
Kwon Yeo-ju, whose hand was sealed in a pile of chocolates, turned her head away in disbelief. At that moment, she ran into a hot guy from campus.
"Yeah, I guess so."
Oh my god. It was so heartwarming, the female lead knew right away that this guy was the second main male lead.
《That guy is the main male protagonist》
no.
But that's not true. Seriously...
***
So what if she's not the main character? The twenty-year-old female protagonist (the twenty-six-year-old female protagonist possessed by E) came to get food from a young extra with a lot of selfish intentions. Why? What? What should I do? Kwon Yeo-ju is alone and glares into the air.
"What department are you in? I think I just saw you in class this time."
"Uh... Me. Me. That's..."
Although she graduated from business school in real life, the female protagonist keeps talking, wondering if something has changed in the game.
"Ah, management?"
"Huh? How did you know?"
"There's a phrase on the fruit. It's the same fruit as my friend."
The man pointed at the female protagonist's clothes and chuckled. Now that I look at it, she's wearing a nightgown. Kwon Yeo-ju awkwardly laughed along and put a fork in her mouth.
"But the name just now..."
"By the way, I didn't give my full name. My name is Park Jimin."
"I recommend you. I'm a first year student."
"It looks like that."
What does that mean? It would be nice if it was just about looking young, but in context, it feels like it's about looking like a rookie. When the female protagonist glares at Jimin with a sharp gaze, he can't help but laugh loudly, as if he couldn't hold back the laughter he'd been holding back for a while. This guy is really... Why do you keep tearing people apart when you look at their faces? Do you want to be torn apart?
"Can I contact you more often in the future? We'll have meals together like today, and our classes will overlap anyway."
"yes."
The drunken Kwon Yeo-ju changed her mind in 0.3 seconds and drank.
***
Let me say this again, Kwon Yeo-ju is a virgin. That means she has absolutely no experience with the opposite sex. But today, she welcomed two hot guys, and even had a meal with one of them. She even got something for herself! Although it was just a game, it was so exciting that Yeo-ju had a hard time calming her pounding heart all the way home. Miyeonsi is the best. The bookstore man is the best. On the way home, Yeo-ju realized that she was homeless.
"Oh... where is my house?"
The status window that couldn't stand it anymore rang and told me to go to the dormitory. Thank you. But where is the dormitory? With that absent-minded monologue, I turned around and headed toward the lake park in the far distance on campus, and tried to go back the way I came.
"Ugh!"
I got hit. I mean, really... bang. There was a sound. I didn't fall over, but I already lost feeling in my right arm. This can't be explained unless it was hit by an eight-ton dump truck. Oh my god...
"Oops, sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I'm sorry!!!"
As I was clutching my dangling arm with a soulless face, the dump truck that had just crashed into me began to apologize with thunderous force.
"Excuse me, my arm feels a little crushed right now..."
"I'm sorry, you need to go to the hospital right now!!!"
"yes?"
The dump truck lifts Kwon Yeo-ju like a dumbbell. The status window flashes as she floats helplessly in the air.
《Beep Beep Patient Occurrence》
~Updated first meeting with the main male protagonist 2 [Kim Namjoon]~
Favorability increased by 2%.
Hey, put me down.
***
Surprisingly, the dump truck, or rather, Kim Namjoon, became the guardian of the female protagonist (who had never asked for it), seriously listening to the doctor's opinion and even paying all of the medical expenses. Considering that his right arm was seriously torn off for a good man, I concluded that Kwon Yeo-ju wasn't a bad person. And the main male protagonist... I said that. You can tell even without him giving his full name that he's a physical education student because of his large build. When I opened my eyes and saw him properly, he was quite handsome, and when the female protagonist left the hospital with bandages wrapped around him, my heart had already softened a lot.
"He gave me his number again."
I slowly unfold the crumpled note in my pocket. I never thought I would have two men’s contacts in my life as a single person. I scratch my head as if I was possessed and send a quick message to Kwon Yeo-ju.
[Honey]
[No typo]
[hey]
[Okay, okay]
[I'm really sorry]
[I'm sorry, I tried to contact you again]
[If you need more medical expenses...]
[no]
[Please don't sue meㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[Why are you scared? That's not it]
[just]
[Yesㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ]
[I also couldn't see ahead well earlier]
[Are you okay?]
[I want to]
[Me????]
[uh]
[uh...]
What is that? Those dots that I can't understand. After that, the female protagonist, who was embarrassed by the lack of response for a while, just blinked. And a few seconds later,
《Dump Truck Love》
Main male protagonist 2 [Kim Namjoon] is touched by your generosity.
Favorability rose to 77%.
"Is this guy crazy...?"
The female protagonist stops dead in her tracks. She wonders if there is such an easy man in the world. She is even more amazed. If you give me medicine when I’m sick, I’ll ask you to marry me. She mutters absentmindedly, and then suddenly thinks that it wouldn’t be so bad. Am I crazy? She slaps her cheek with her left arm, which is still good.
***
I don’t know if this is a real game or a dream, but the fact that it was almost evening and there was no way out meant that Kwon Yeo-ju had to consider the possibility that she would be trapped here forever. Simply put, the game ends once you clear it. ...So, wouldn’t it be okay to just catch anyone and raise their affection level? Then maybe she really should aim to marry Kim Nam-joon. The red light at the crosswalk in the middle of the city suddenly went off. Then, as Yeo-ju was about to cross without thinking, a faint sound lingered in her ears.
beep...
beep......
And the sight of the school being busier than usual, visible even from afar, with students flashing their cameras here and there, and a yellow police line drawn indiscriminately.
Earlier... Was that the sound of an ambulance?
The place where the police were blocking the way was the lake park we had just passed. Before I could even realize that the situation had become strange, the status window popped up as if it had been waiting for me.
《Mysterious Death》
Mission
Someone you know has died.
Identify the person and find the cause of death within the time limit.
6 days 24:00:00
.
.
6 days 23:59:59
.
.
"what?"