Chapter 64 – #20. Growth (2).

#20. Growth.

[‘Return by Death’ is activated.]
I came back right after leaving the academy.

Round 15 has started.
As always, Elena sprays the equipment.

“I will give you the right equipment. It will be less dangerous if you wear it.”

I headed to the ‘First City’ with poor 2-star equipment.
On the way, Dahee Yoo did not show much reaction.
He walked away without saying a word to me.

Did it go well?
There were too many gaps in the setup I threw in.
The biggest hole is that if Yoo Da-hee just returns, it will be the end.
My other self comes out and it’s nabal, and if the opponent doesn’t do it, the game is over.

‘What is he thinking?’

I arrived at ‘First City’, only looking at Dahee Yoo’s back.
When we arrived at ‘First City’, we grabbed two dugouts.
In this episode, Dahee Yoo did not say that she would catch it with me.

“Dahee! Why are you in such a hurry? You can do it slowly.”

Elisha sweated profusely and furrowed her brow.
He stopped Dahee Yoo as if he didn’t understand.

He had been hunting for 4 hours already.
It was slower than this even when he overworked the male beastmen.

Eloin and Elvaron, who had been patient with only seeing Elisha, were also looking at Yu Da-hee with dissatisfied faces.
Elisha stopped Dahee Yu on behalf of the elves.

“… Yeah i’m out of my mind Whoops… Now i’m a little bit better My thoughts have been sorted out.”

After 4 hours of rolling around with the native soldier, it seemed like my head was organized.
What conclusion did you draw?

“Let’s go back.”

We earned 30,000 coins per person and returned to the ‘safe zone’.
The sun was still up, but everyone didn’t want to hunt anymore.

The elves went away.
Since Elena looked at me and tried to follow Elisha, I, the benevolent owner, readily agreed.

I was left alone with Yu Da-hee.
Among the players busily roaming around the ‘First City’, we feel alienated from standing still.

“… Hey.”
“Why.”

While watching the players in a daze, Dahee Yoo called me.
The carefully opened mouth repeats opening and closing in a dainty manner.
I was hesitant to speak.

“No. Nothing. I don’t think it’s something to say now.”
“What? Just tell me now.”
“No.”

Dahee Yoo swallowed what she wanted to say.
It wasn’t something to say right now, meaning that if you think about it differently, you need a strange atmosphere.

“Would you like a drink?”
“Is the sun this bright?”
“Well, no one cares when you drink. I didn’t play and eat today.”

Dahee Yoo wanted alcohol to ask me what she wanted to ask.
It’s best to borrow alcohol when you don’t want to ask soberly.

But the problem is, I’m much less drunk than Dahee Yoo.
He must have been answering questions from Yoo Da-hee in a drunken state.
Do you know what to say and drink together?

“… Yes. Let’s go.”

If you refuse, then you are not Kim Jinwoo.
If it was a thinking and moving baby, it wouldn’t have twisted this far.

We went into a tavern.
Dahee Yoo raised her hand and called for an employee and spat out a nonsense.

“What I always eat.”
“… What did you always eat? Did we come to the first floor today?”
“Oh, is that so?”

Dahee Yoo smiled and lowered her arm.
The sound of rolling eyes can be heard from here.
Yu Da-hee was looking at me and observing me.
I thought she totally cheated, but I still have my doubts.

One drink, two drinks, I continued to drink.
One, two, empty bottles pile up.

“Yoo Da-hee… ?”
“Ah. I feel like I get drunk a lot today.”

It is awkward.
It’s fucking awkward.
Dahee Yoo tilted her glass and she awkwardly pretended to be drunk.

Compared to my outstanding acting skills, there is a difference between heaven and earth, rookie and top star, Goliath and David.
If I had the right to cast, I would be confident that I would hit the FAIL button immediately after saying ‘Yoo Da-hee cannot go with us.’

“… Five bottles now?”

We’re not even drinking that much.
Even if you drink 5 bottles of Yu Da-hee alone, the message will not go unnoticed.
Dahee Yoo You have to start by blowing 10 bottles with Nabal before you can rub them together, but it is impossible to rub them like this.
Is that why?
I wondered what he was trying to say.

“Kuhhh… !”
“Hey, you drink well.”

Yu Da-hee frowned and emptied her glass.
Until he shakes off an empty glass over his head.
I smiled and filled the empty glass.
It was hard to hold in laughter when I just watched what he was doing.

“Drink. Why am I the only one drinking?”
“Because you drink better. It’s about getting the balance right.”
“Just drink. You’re drinking to get drunk together.”
“No, in the end I got drunk…”

I matched it with Yu Da-hee.
I drank moderately and gave off the feeling that I was drunk.

Dahee Yoo, who had been talking and laughing, stares at me with a serious face at some point.

“… It’s Jinwoo.”
“Why.”
“Did you sign a contract with a guy named Pluto on the 0th floor?”

I put on an unexpected expression and shook my head in denial.

“Who is that person?”
“Don’t pretend you don’t know… I know everything and ask.”

As if feeling sorry for me who signed a contract with Pluto, Dahee Yoo touched her hair and felt frustrated.
Her fine fingers ran through her black hair, revealing her white forehead.

“Why did you sign the contract? No, the contract is not the problem. That’s additive Why are you doing this to me?”

Dahee Yu narrowed her eyes and glared at me.
It’s cold.
A dagger flies and pierces her chest.

“Are you still hiding something from me?”
“No. Doesn’t exist. Sincerely.”
“Lie.”

Yu Da-hee’s eyes were really black.
If we were facing each other, there was an endless pulling power.

What should I say?

It wasn’t that he didn’t feel guilty for cheating on Yu Da-hee.
I don’t want to think deeply, so I’m just ignoring it.
I know very well that the longer I sleep, the more I cannot come back.

Because Yu Da-hee’s mental strength is not that strong.
I think I should reveal it at the right time, but I don’t know what to reveal first because there are so many things I’ve done.

“… Yeah, Jinwoo doesn’t seem to be hiding anything from me, right? It’s hard because I couldn’t tell you. I’m contemplating whether or not to tell you what I realized today.”
“Even if you say you’re not hiding anything.”
“To the end? You’re not going to talk until the end, are you?”

Dahee Yoo poured alcohol into her stomach with a bottle.
I know I’m not going to get a message anyway, but Marley pretended.

Taking the already empty bottle away, Dahee Yoo speaks.

“Kim Jinwoo.”
“Why do you keep calling me? I know you’re not drunk, so stop pretending to be drunk. Mr. Dahee.”
“I am still thinking about it. Depends on how you do it. So stop now.”
“I don’t know what you mean. Give me a hint.”
“… Hint? You already know the answer But do you need a hint?”

Dahee Yu pushed a bottle towards me.
The bottle pushed down the table was sparkling green.
Fluid swaying inside, just fucking alcohol.

Seeing that the swearing came out first, my stomach seemed to be trembling with fear.
When he was caught by Dahee Yoo, it didn’t end well every time.

Either I passed out, or I vomited, or whatever, it ended up turning my stomach.

“I will drink slowly. So drink slowly too.”
“… No. I want to get drunk quickly Really, I can’t talk without being drunk.”
“What the hell are you trying to say…”
“I warned you. The moment I speak with my mouth, you are done.”
“I’m sorry, I’m looking forward to it.”

It’s fear
I didn’t even choose horror as the genre, but horror movies are progressing on their own.

Hearing my words, Dahee Yoo savagely opened her eyes and emptied and refilled her glass.
Since he pours his own alcohol, I appropriately snatched the bottle and poured it for him.

As if that scene was funny again, Dahee Yoo chuckled and drank the glass.
I didn’t laugh because I liked it.
It was a smile close to a mockery.

At this point, I can’t help but notice that I’m a butterfly caught in a spider’s web.
The more you move, the more you call for spiders, and if you endure, you are destined to be eaten by spiders someday.

“Slow down…”
“Slowly? If you tell me what you’re hiding, I’ll stop drinking here. I will forgive you everything. I don’t know why, but I can understand. I’m ready. Do you have any thoughts on what to say now?”
“… Even if you have nothing to say…”
“Under. Then don’t stop drinking. It’s me who’s drinking, so why are you fussing? You say I’ll do what I want to do when I’m drunk, why are you upset?”

It got rougher.
I could see that instinct was growing stronger than reason.

One bottle, two bottles, Yu Da-hee emptied the bottle without stopping.
It reached the point where I couldn’t count the empty bottles even if I used all my fingers and toes.

Because of the alcohol, Dahee Yoo’s eyes went wide.
He said, “Manda” And then went away.

“Dahee, let’s go back and rest.”
“Say or not? Jinwoo, don’t you have any thoughts to tell yourself?”
“Are you starting again?”

I plan to stop drinking and take a break.

Outside, the sun has barely set.
Other players are coming in to rest after hunting.

When everyone else has a wet stomach to end the day, we are out drunk with alcohol.

Dahee Yoo muttered, putting her hands together and showing only her knuckles.

“Not as much as this? How much?”

Anyone could see that the tea was drunk.
Seeing how Dahee Yu tasted it first, I thought I hadn’t drank too much.

I got up from my seat and approached Dahee Yu’s seat.
I was thinking of forcibly getting up and leaving.

“It’s Dahee.”
“Still, I haven’t said anything. I couldn’t even hear it.”
“I have nothing to tell you?”

After listening to it over and over again, even though my tongue was twisted, these words came out straight.
I have nothing to say.
All the settings I’ve come up with have been discussed in previous episodes.
This episode is just an ignorant Pluto contractor.

But Dahee Yu laughed at me as if she didn’t believe me at all.
Blood rushes to the lower part of the body, which must have been paralyzed by alcohol, thanks to the sloppy lips that rise.

Dahee Yu tapped the chair next to her.

“And I wasn’t drunk. Do your eyes look like I’m drunk?”
“Uh. I think I’m fucking drunk.”

I quietly sat down next to Yu Da-hee.
Dahee Yoo looked at me and smiled.

Dahee Yoo raises her glass.
I thought it would be the last glass, so we decided to drink it together.

Braided-!

Not knowing her own condition, Dahee Yoo drank the last cup at once.

“Oh, write… ! Life is written…”

Yu Da-hee, who squinted her eyes, wanted to pet her, but managed to hold it in.

“Your expression is strange.”
“At all?”
“You’re laughing strangely.”
“Yoo Da-hee, are you drunk?”
“I’m not drunk.”
“You don’t seem to be able to speak properly?”
“I wasn’t drunk. I’m not drunk. Whoop whoop…”

Yu Da-hee let out a deep breath.
I wondered if I was going to do Tora, so I suddenly brought a bowl to my face.

“I wasn’t drunk! Don’t vomit!”

Dahee Yoo vehemently rejects the bowl I offered her.

A horror thriller turned into a gag.
Thank you very much.

Even as I filled Yu Da-hee’s empty cup, my insides were full of worries.
I honestly thought I was getting fucked.

What does Dahee Yu really know?
It wasn’t just one or two stabs, but I was trembling all by myself.

“Don’t get drunk. Don’t get drunk… I’m not drunk… !”

Even in novels, it is rare to see Yoo Da-hee drunk.
Maybe 5 out of 2,000 novels?
There are only a handful of drunken scenes.

Dahee Yoo screamed at the drain and then started pouring out words.
The way he was fidgeting was not cute.

“Jinwoo… I’ll forgive you if you tell me right now… No, no. In fact, you don’t even have to tell me… Knowing everything doesn’t change anything… Whoa…”
“Uh? Are you crying?”

Dahee Yoo bursts out of juice.
It is said that when people get drunk, their emotional ups and downs become worse, but I didn’t know that the world’s Dahee Yu could squeeze out the juice.
I took out a handkerchief from my inventory and handed it to Dahee Yoo.

Dahee Yoo rubbed her eyes with my handkerchief.

“Thanks… Still, it’s a bit sad that there are things I don’t know about Jinwoo… I want to know everything about Jinwoo…”
“…”
“I just think it would be nice if Jin-Woo told me everything… I can’t help it if I don’t want to tell you… You probably don’t want to tell me because you don’t want to depend on me…”
“I never thought of it that way.”
“… Then you can tell me.”

Yu Da-hee’s eyes shone sharply.
This year, I haven’t been drunk.
I wasn’t drunk at all, but I pretended to be drunk and squeezed juice.

Fuck.
Suddenly, goose bumps set in.

She seems to have been momentarily mistaken that she had escaped from the web.
I was still struggling in the spider’s web.

“Jinwoo.”
“Why, why… ?”
“I have a problem. Do you know what?”

I didn’t open my mouth.
If I opened my mouth, I thought I would say I wasn’t curious.

─ Kyaaaaah! It hurts! It hurts so bad!

A shadow spirit suddenly popped out and complained of pain.
At that time, a hand came up to the front of my pants.

“I’m debating whether or not I should tell you that I’m being tricked.”

While looking at the shadow spirit, Dahee Yoo dropped a bomb.
Looking at her belatedly, Yu Da-hee was staring at me with her cold eyes.

“Yoo, Dahee Yu… ?”

Small and fine hands tightly wrapped around my Junior as if holding an egg.
In a split second, I realized Junior was being held hostage.

“… Answer me directly to my question. The moment when even a little bit of lies are mixed…”
“… Aww! All right! All right! I will tell you everything I know!”

Dahee Yu gave strength to her hand.
It was on a different level from when he wore a mask and attacked me.

It was play then

‘This time, it’s real…’

If the answer is wrong, Kim Jin-woo in the 15th episode may not be able to produce the 2nd generation…