chapter 24
024. Are you angry?
I just wanted to say nice things.
Be kind when informing.
Don’t leave it as if it’s too stagnant.
I thought that if today’s atmosphere went well, my brother could be a good arcade roommate.
“ah. Then why don’t you do it alone!”
Although I had come with all my heart, I felt my teeth clenching when my brother ignored my advice.
There was a pattern that was difficult for me, so I taught him how to point it out, but my brother refuted that it was okay to do it this way.
oh If you are a beginner, listen to me like a beginner.
But the funny thing was that my brother was right.
My brother’s big hand pressed all four buttons simultaneously with one hand so easily, as if he didn’t need the hand gestures I’d struggled to study.
“Child. what’s the matter.”
My brother must have noticed that I had pouted, and he tried to cheer me up with a joke.
It was more annoying that I felt like my heart would be relieved by a sad smile.
oh real cheater.
My brother kept cheating with his face.
Yeah… what. My brother didn’t do anything wrong.
It was a funny situation to put it in the realm of error in the first place.
It was just advice I didn’t need.
“…do it again.”
“Is that it?”
“It’s okay to do as I told you, but it doesn’t matter if you do it the way oppa showed you, so try again.”
“Okay.”
After inserting the coin again, my brother stood in front of the machine and started operating it as I told him.
As the music started playing, I naturally hummed behind me.
I didn’t play it when I came alone because there was only a version that was too easy for the difficulty level in the game, but the fact that it’s a masterpiece hasn’t changed.
Patterns that get harder as you get closer and closer to the climax.
“Now here…”
When I heard my brother talking to himself, I concentrated and looked into his hand.
cheek cheek cheek cheek
Buttons that can only be pressed by spreading one’s fingers as wide as tearing one’s hand apart.
My brother showed me with his body that he was not wrong a moment ago.
“Five! done!”
I couldn’t help but smile when I saw my older brother happy with the combo’s success.
Newby.
It was also because it was always cute to see newbies who had just started and were happy to achieve poor results.
After the song, my brother looked down at me with a very triumphant face.
I clapped because it felt like ‘Did you see it’ written on his face.
“Well done.”
“I said I would.”
“Even though I’m level 5, I’m condescending.”
“If you conquered 5 out of 10, this game is nothing!”
I just slowly nodded at the newbie’s cheeky remark.
“Right. Right. Then, let’s try level 10 by taking a bite at this point, shall we?”
“…is it okay?”
will it be this man
However, it seemed necessary to press the shoulders that had risen too high, so I selected a song at my own discretion and pressed the play button.
“brother. It starts right away, so get ready.”
“Write… Ah. come back It seems a bit difficult.”
Taemin oppa couldn’t continue the conversation any further.
“hey. Wait a minute. hey.”
I feel a dizzying pleasure in the urgent voice.
Ha… that’s it.
My brother’s hand struggled to press the buttons urgently, but he couldn’t help it.
Levels 5 and 10 are the difference between heaven and earth.
9 to 10 was also a pretty high hurdle, so 5 to 10 was nothing to talk about.
The result is, of course, FAIL.
My brother smacked his lips with a rather confused face.
“…It’s difficult.”
“ah. If I practice a little more, I wonder if I can go as far as 8.”
But when I offered words of encouragement, thinking that it might not be folded at all, my brother turned his head to look at the other devices.
“Are you good at everything else here too?”
“Hmm… I tried everything, but the main thing I did was this brother, and I did a lot of that at the end.”
“Are you doing anything other than rhythm games?”
“I do. Instead, I’m not obsessed with setting records just like that.”
“I see.”
My brother went up to the first floor again, probably not the style of playing only one game.
“Let’s try this.”
What my brother pointed out was a game of wits that can be played by two people.
The way to play was simple.
It was just that when the light came on, whoever pressed it faster got more points.
“Sincerity?”
“why. Are you good at this too?”
“brother. If you watch that rhythm game, don’t you get a quote?”
“There are estimates that your fingers are short.”
If I were a character in a cartoon, I would have had a mark engraved on my forehead.
“do. Beverage Bread.”
I put the coin in without hesitation.
“ah. okay. Instead, there is no refusal.”
“Men are single.”
“You are a woman. Doaya.”
Provocation against each other is over there.
When the lights on the game console started to come on, the two of us were busy pressing buttons.
A crackling crackling sound echoes.
“hahahaha…”
I caught my breath at the same time as the announcement that the round was over, and on the scoreboard…
[240:210]
“under. brother. You said I couldn’t win.”
look at it Because it doesn’t.
Where would a newbie try to beat me with a game like this.
“Cabi.”
“It’s a 30-point difference, but what’s the point?”
“hey. It’s 6 cars, but it’s a bitch. Enough of this.”
It seemed like Taemin oppa was the only one who was subject to lenient standards.
“That’s it, you know I need to buy you a drink, right?”
“Draw. I’ll buy it for you.”
The older brother who smiles.
My brother seemed to be a person with a stronger desire to win than I thought.
This might be a bit similar to me.
One by one, information about Taemin oppa that he did not know is accumulating in his head.
It was a strange feeling.
I just didn’t listen to the story itself before.
No matter what I said, I couldn’t understand anything because only a cold reaction came back.
While I was thrilled at this moment with my brother, the shadow of my doubts also deepened.
What the hell is the difference between Kim Do-a then and Kim Do-a now, so they react so differently?
At least outwardly, not much has changed.
Even the hair style is the same.
The style of makeup is also the same.
I didn’t even think that the human material had changed.
I’m still just Kim Doa.
“Doah.”
After I was lost in thought for a while, my brother tapped me on the shoulder.
“ah. yes?”
“Do you want to go out to eat after playing some more games?”
“Bob?”
“Is that difficult because you are busy with that assignment?”
It can’t be.
I couldn’t tell Taemin oppa, but in fact, this week’s teamwork task was raw food itself.
Jun-seok oppa just asked about the type of equipment and how to operate it, but to me it was no different than telling a fish to swim underwater.
I’m a virtual idol, can’t I do that?
If I were to submit VR world filming as an assignment, I felt like I could unintentionally carry it by the collar.
It’s an advertisement plan, but wouldn’t it be necessary to do the excessive kawaii moves that viewers demand?
“Let’s go eat together. Is there anything else you want to eat?”
“How about a snack bar?”
At my brother’s invitation, I felt like we were a real couple.
We met during the day, played games together in the arcade, and ended up at a snack bar.
Even wearing the same clothes, the sense of immersion is doubled.
“…like.”
“I’m not good at spicy food, so I eat tteokbokki with a mild taste, is it okay?”
Before the lingering aftertaste of the excitement was gone, my brother immediately smashed my delusions.
Who eats tteokbokki with mild taste?
What’s the difference between pouring more water and eating hot ramen? it.
“okay. then.”
However, I didn’t want to refuse the long-awaited invitation, so I obediently accepted my brother’s offer.
After playing the game for about an hour, we sat on the chairs in a state of exhaustion.
“hey. My arm hurts so much.”
“It’s because I hit it with too much force.”
“What should I do when it comes to difficult parts?”
“It’s a lack of training.”
Even in boys’ cartoons, masters always let go of their strength and let their opponents attack naturally.
Rhythm games were exactly the same principle.
Real old figures play gently, but most of them hit the beat perfectly.
I thought it was really amazing and cool.
“Shall we go to eat now?”
“like.”
Time passed quickly, pointing to 5:00 PM.
After leaving the arcade and returning to the bus stop, we entered a snack bar in the neighborhood right in front of us.
“What do you want to eat.”
“I just want tteokbokki and tempura.”
“Here, please give me a tteokbokki, fried rice, and sundae.”
Shortly after placing the order, the lady brought out the food right away.
“Gosh. bachelor. Do you have a girlfriend?”
“Child. no.”
Seeing his face recognized, he seemed to be a regular here.
“a. I came wearing the same clothes, but what are you hiding? How many years have I been doing business here?”
“Have pretty relationships~ This is a service!”
When the lady gave me a potato croquette that I didn’t order, my brother just laughed hahahaha and moved on.
“…embarrassed.”
“Iknow, right.”
When our eyes met, my brother scratched his head shyly and held out his fork.
“ruler.”
“thank you.”
I had passed by this store on my way back and forth, but it was the first time I had gone in and tried it myself.
“…delicious.”
“Is not it.”
Rather than a franchise taste, it really tasted like the old days when I ate cup tteokbokki, so I had a friendly feeling.
I was eating deliciously…
“Doah.”
“yes?”
Taemin oppa called my name with a very serious face.
“Wait a minute.”
what. Did I do something strange…?
After pulling out a couple of tissues, my brother got closer and closer to me.
“sorry. I’ve been worrying too much about it since before.”
As it was, I wiped the tteokbokki sauce from my mouth.
what. when was it buried
Why did you ask but didn’t tell me?
If you told me, I would have cleaned it right away!
My ears are burning with shame.
I knew I had to say thank you, but I couldn’t get the words out, my mouth twitching as if under a silence spell.
“…Are you angry?”
oh really.
why are you doing this to me Taemin’s older brother.
Instead of answering, I just shook my head.