NOVEL NEXT chapter 54
Yu Chae, who had taken a hit from me and had his HP shaved down to an ant’s worth, started whining.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Why are you scolding me!
[Guild] Yu Chae: A husband should love his rabbit-like wife, but all you ever do is scold me ;ㅡ;
[Guild] Yu Chae: Sob sob this is too much..ㅠㅅㅠ
Husband my ass. Wait—so you’re the wife in this setup?
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: Cancel it right now, ffs
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: What’s with 100 million gold?
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: You really gonna keep throwing money away on this bullshit?
100 million gold was about 100,000 won in real money. A hundred bucks just to take down some loser you met in-game.
And you’re telling me he’ll pay out for however many people get the kill? If even ten manage it, that’s a million won gone.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Gasp ㅇㅅㅇ
[Guild] Yu Chae: Are you worrying about me?
[Guild] Yu Chae: I’m touched~ ><
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: Do you actually want me to divorce you?
[Guild] Yu Chae: lolololol I was kidding
Not grasping the seriousness of the situation, Yu Chae just giggled and sent a cocky emote.
[Guild] Yu Chae: If you wanna stir aggro, you need to put up at least that much.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Anyway, Sangdanghan won’t go down easy, so I won’t end up spending much.
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: Won’t go down easy?
I tilted my head, recalling Sangdanghan’s actual skills. Not even close to that level.
Yu Chae, quick to pick up on what I was thinking, added an explanation.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Well… you can’t kill him if he’s in a dungeon or farming alone.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Even just turning off his PvP flag makes him untouchable.
[Guild] Yu Chae: At most, you’ll see maybe three verifications pop up.
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: You sure?
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: That bastard Sangdanghan might purposely let himself get killed just to screw you over.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Nah, he’s not that smart.
It was me who felt embarrassed at his firm response.
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: Wait.
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: He’s really that dumb?
[Guild] Yu Chae: Yep.
[Guild] Drink Some Water: Yeah, he once put up a bounty before.
[Guild] Drink Some Water: Didn’t even last an hour before he got stomped and turned off PvP lolol
[Guild] Jeo Jolryeoyo: …Huh.
[Guild] Drink Some Water: Dumb, maybe.
[Guild] Drink Some Water: But his pride’s ironclad lmao
[Guild] Yu Chae: kekeke
[Guild] Yu Chae: Even if he left PvP on and just kept dying on purpose, it wouldn’t matter much.
[Guild] Yu Chae: Not that he would lol.
Unbelievable.
I could only sigh at Sangdanghan’s incomprehensible behavior, while the guildmates who’d already found him started chattering excitedly about their kills.
[Guild] TheHunter: Ah damn, I missed itㅠㅠ
[Guild] Mocha Bread: Yo, he actually got the last hit lololol
[Guild] Staeric: 100 bucks, get ^ㅡ^v
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: Bruh.
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: You got a job and still go this hard?ㅡㅡ
[Guild] Staeric: Because I got a job…
[Guild] Staeric: That’s why I went this hard.
[Guild] Hunting Madman: Man, this is exactly when assassins are busted as hell.
[Guild] Hwa So-un: Then be an assassin if you’re jealous.
[Guild] Hunting Madman: …Great joke.
[Guild] Hwa So-un: hahahahaha
[Guild] ManaOing: Honestly I’d rather skip the 100 bucks lol
[Guild] Staeric: Wow, harsh ㄷㄷ
[Guild] Drink Some Water: Staeric got first?
[Guild] Hwa So-un: Yup.
[Guild] Hwa So-un: Nobody else has even found him yet.
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: Told you he hangs out at Relta Island lol
[Guild] Mocha Bread: He really was at Relta Island.
[Guild] Mocha Bread: What a clown.
[Guild] Park Seungjin99: Danghani’s kinda cute tho lol
[Guild] Staeric: Time to post the screenshot on Free Board hehe
[Guild] TheHunter: Treat us.
[Guild] Staeric: Should I?
[Guild] Staeric: For you, Hunter, I could treat you not just once but a hundred times~
[Guild] Hunting Madman: Babe, what about me?
[Guild] Staeric: Who are you again?
At this point, Sangdanghan almost felt pitiful. If it were me, I would’ve turned off PvP the instant a bounty went up.
[Party] MelodyCode: lololol
[Party] MelodyCode: Omg, someone really posted proof on Free Board.
[Party] MelodyCode: Serves him rightㅋ.ㅋ
‘Well, he had it coming.’
Either way, since the biggest victim here—MelodyCode—was satisfied, I guess that was enough.
As Yu Chae predicted, Sangdanghan didn’t even last an hour before he disabled PvP.
According to the guildmates tailing him, the swarm of hunters was so overwhelming that even when he respawned on the spot, he’d be dead again within ten seconds.
He couldn’t even play properly anymore, so it seemed he just declared defeat.
The moment Yu Chae heard that Sangdanghan had turned off PvP, he jumped in with another server-wide announcement.
[Server] Yu Chae: Sangdanghan is on his knees begging me to stopㅠㅡㅠ
[Server] Yu Chae: I’ve got a soft heart, so I’ll let him off this onceㅎ.ㅎ
[Server] Yu Chae: Anyone who killed him before this server chat—post your screenshots on Free Board with the kill log visible and I’ll mail you the gold^^
It hadn’t even been thirty minutes since that megaphone when Free Board flooded with proof screenshots. Including Staeric, five people in total split the 100 million gold after fierce competition.
Watching it all unfold, I swore to myself that no matter what, I would never end up on Yu Chae’s bad side. From the first time we met, I already knew—this bastard is a certifiable lunatic.
And now I had to marry this lunatic. Fuck.
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[Drink Some Water: Our guildmaster and the newbie’s wedding]
[Drink Some Water: It’s been set for this Saturday lol~~!!]
[DoraHeeImnida: Wow hehe]
[Mocha Bread Bread Bread: Whoa, amazing~]
[Mocha Bread Bread Bread: So jealous~ (emote)]
[ㅇㅇ: lol]
[ㅇㅇ: thx]
[ManaOing: lmaooooo]
[ManaOing: You two are moving fast^^]
[I’m Lagginggg: I’ll… definitely be there..^^]
[TheHunter: Wedding gift money, 50k gold sound good?]
[Haereun: Let’s just say it’s an autumn brideㅎㅎ]
[Park Seungconssi: Autumn bride lololol]
[Park Seungconssi: Sounds fancy lol]
[ㅇㅇ: Autumn bride?]
[ㅇㅇ: What’s that got to do with the season?]
[Drink Some Water: Doesn’t it change depending on the season you get married?]
[ManaOing: Probably does?]
[Staeric: I went to a coworker’s wedding once,]
[Staeric: The decorations and even the bouquet change depending on the season.]
[Drink Some Water: Yeah yeah, that’s why people say “Spring Bride” or “May Bride.”]
[ㅇㅇ: So autumn’s good?]
[Let’s Play Pattycake: Eh, autumn’s decent enough.]
[Drink Some Water: (emote)]
[Drink Some Water: You’d know if you’d ever been to a real wedding lol]
[Haereun: hahahahaha]
[Haereun: Autumn’s nice, has a good vibe.]
[ㅇㅇ: Ok, got it.]
[Jeo Jolryeoyo: No seriously, you guys sound like it’s an actual wedding.]
[Jeo Jolryeoyo: It’s a game, you lunatics.]
[Drink Some Water: lmfaoooo]
[Haereun: lolololol]
[TheHunter: Ahahaha]
[ㅇㅇ: ㅠㅅㅠ]
[ㅇㅇ: The husband’s too coldhearted..]
[ㅇㅇ: The autumn bride is sad..]
[Jeo Jolryeoyo: ––]
“Kim Yuchae, cut it out.”
Unable to hold back after scrolling through the group chat, I finally said something. Yu Chae instantly replied with a voice dripping in fake sweetness.
“But hyung, how can a husband call his bride a lunatic right before the wedding…?”
“Shut up—ah, second phase.”
Right now, Yu Chae and I were on Discord call, running the Black Dragon raid together.
It was part of a new post-prelims event: join the scheduled dragon raid, collect “special dragon scales,” and trade 200 of them at an NPC for a random item box.
Each raid gave up to twenty scales. A standard RPG-style collection event, but the loot pool was decent enough that players were flocking to it.
I could solo this kind of raid easily now, but Yu Chae had pestered me nonstop to do it together over call, and here we were.
“Fine… then answer the question I asked earlier.”
Dodging the shockwaves from the ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) dragon’s tail slam with an evasion skill, I replied.
“I already told you—you can do whatever you want.”
Yu Chae, lazily swinging his chains, spoke again.
“How could I just do whatever I want?”
“Why not?”
“I have to customize to match hyung’s ideal type.”
Ideal type, my ass.
“Just pick something. Brown hair, brown eyes, whatever.”
Since both of our characters were male, one of us had to either use the reincarnation system to reroll into a female character or bring an alt.
Yu Chae had insisted—since he was the one who suggested the marriage, he’d “take responsibility” and reroll into a female. I told him to just use an alt, but then he latched on, saying he’d customize the character to my ideal type, and kept bugging me all day.
After my half-assed answer, Yu Chae fell quiet for a moment before speaking again, voice shy this time.
“Brown hair and brown eyes? That’d match your character, hyung.”
“…What, punk?”
“I like that……”
“……”
God, I’m exhausted.
Note
Customization (커스터마이징): A term used in games referring to setting and designing a character’s appearance, outfit, etc.