My Girlfriend Is Very Good To Me [EN]: Chapter 165

Ep. 164

After That.

For several days after receiving the game console from Heena as a surprise gift, we were genuinely happy.

Even without playing games, I was happy just to be greeted by my daughter when I came home and to welcome my wife back from her hard work.

The Switch added a bit more vitality to my life. The games I started playing with determination after so long were really fun. All kinds of games were.

Yeah. It was fun. I had a lot of fun.

Before I knew it, I was apologizing to Heena.

“…Sorry.”

And Heena looked at me with a very displeased face, pointing at the game console.

“Honey, remember. From now on, you can only play games for one hour a day.”

“Yes…”

I had nothing to say in my defense.

How did this happen?

—

After receiving the Switch, I started playing games with Heena, as she wished. First, we started with exercise games.

A type of game where you hold a round device the size of a car steering wheel and follow the poses on the screen.

It was more fun and more exercise than I thought. Although there was only one device to play with, everyone was just doing the poses together from the side.

“Wow, this is tough! Should I exercise too?”

“Hyung [older brother or male friend], you really need to. Should I get you a gym membership?”

“What gym? I’ll just do this.”

Even Heesung hyung, who wasn’t interested in this kind of thing, was doing it from the side, finding it fun to do together.

“Eomma [Mommy]! Do it like this?”

“Hehe, Sarang is so flexible~ You’re doing great!”

“Mommy too! Mommy do it too!”

“Will Sarang teach Mommy?”

“Yes!”

Sarang was following me with subtle movements. Heena clapped and cheered for Sarang.

“Oh my~ This is difficult~”

“Oh my…. They have things like this these days?”

“I know, right?”

And as we were doing that in the living room, my mother-in-law and father-in-law, who came home late from work, also joined in. We moved all the tables to the side, and the whole family fell into exercise.

That is, the situation that Heena wanted—playing games together—was immediately created. She seemed very pleased with that, and Heena had a very satisfied look on her face.

I, on the other hand, took the main device and engaged in exercise in a combative manner.

“What the! I did the pose right!”

“Han Yeon-hoo, do it right!”

“Keuk… I can’t lift my leg…!”

This wasn’t just exercising but also included adventurous elements such as defeating monsters by correctly performing the exercise posture and number of repetitions.

It wasn’t as easy as I thought. I had been going to the gym and still do yoga and stretching with Heena, but my body got tired quickly.

But then the monsters kept hovering in front of me, so I couldn’t help but catch them. I tried to give up because I was so tired of doing it with stubbornness and competitiveness.

“Wow… I really can’t do it. I can’t anymore…”

“Daddy! Cheer up!”

“Heot! Daddy will cheer up!”

I managed to proceed to a certain point with Sarang’s cheering buff [positive effect or encouragement].

Anyway, the first experience with the game console went well. It was something that adults would think was beneficial, and I could do it with Sarang.

Since the time I spend at home and the time I spend with Sarang are the same, it was difficult to do anything unless I could involve Sarang.

And after the whole family was covered in sweat, Heena smiled brightly and asked me while waiting to take turns showering.

“How is it? Is it fun?”

“Yeah. That game is really good. It’s exercise, and it’s quite fun.”

“I’m glad you like it.”

“Thank you, Heena. You bought it thinking of me… it must have been quite expensive.”

“Eung [yes]. It’s okay. I’m sorry that I couldn’t pay attention to you… I was always stubborn…”

“Stubborn. I just wanted to be with you.”

I gently hugged Heena, who was trying to make a slightly cloudy expression. Of course, if I had to pick the root cause of why I quit the game, it was Heena and Sarang, but it was never ‘because’ of them.

These two were just more important to me than the game. So now I only had gratitude.

To the point that she didn’t just leave me as I am now, when it’s become natural for me to hardly play games, but thought of me.

“Sarangie too… wants to do it with Daddy…”

“Then shall we do it together, the three of us?”

“Yes!”

In the end, what I had to do was enjoy this game console as much as possible with Heena’s consideration. I was having so much fun that I didn’t even realize the time was passing, so it wasn’t going to be difficult.

And from then on, I started to get a little addicted to the game. However, being addicted doesn’t mean that I’m just holding on to the game all day as soon as I get off work.

When I get off work and come home, it’s about 4:30, and when I take a shower, it’s 5:00. By the time I finish eating, it’s roughly between 6:00 and 6:30.

After that, I set aside a little bit of time for coding and English studies, which I basically never let go of, and in the remaining time, I took Sarang and played games little by little.

Heena often comes home late on weekdays, so we usually end up playing together.

“Sarang-ah [Sarang, vocative ending used affectionately]. What should we name our meow meow?”

“Pretty! The color is pretty, so Pretty!”

“Okay~ Then this pink meow meow’s name is Pretty~”

Moving the body was quite fun, but I couldn’t move the living room table and move around in a complicated way every time I wanted to do that. So when we’re like this, we play a game called Meow Meow’s Forest.

I put Sarang on my lap and operated the pad. On the TV screen, my character, a pink cat, was walking around the village.

If I were doing it alone, I would have tried Mutcoin, which I saw as a meme on the internet, instead of the villagers, but I couldn’t do such speculative play with Sarang.

So slowly, in line with the purpose of this game, I slowly enjoyed talking to other cats.

“Daddy! What’s a field?”

“Field? Hmm… Sarang likes sweet potatoes, right? That kind of square place where you plant things like sweet potatoes is called a field.”

“Sweet potato! Sarang wants to eat sweet potato!”

“Then shall Daddy buy sweet potatoes next time?”

“Yes! I’ll share it with Daddy!”

Besides, this game was quite good for Sarang’s education. Of course, it wasn’t easy to explain by combining words and sentences that Sarang could understand, but parenting is never separate from a young child’s ‘why?’ and ‘what is that?’

“What, you already started? Wait for me. I’ll develop my village and visit there soon.”

“Make our characters pink so they don’t overlap~”

“Okay.”

And Heesung hyung got another Switch from somewhere, only to play this Cat Forest together because Sarang is watching it with so much fun.

Maybe when I can’t take care of her, he’s going to hold Sarang and show her how he plays.

If he likes children that much, he should have one. The cafe manager seems to be overflowing with thoughts of that.

-Drrrrr!-

While sitting on the sofa and wandering around the village to figure out the system, I got a call from Heena.

“Hello?”

[Ah, honey. I think I’ll be a little late today because I have a company dinner.]

“Really? Hmm, then shall I pick you up later?”

[No. I’m just going to keep my seat for a while and take a taxi back. How’s Sarang? Sleeping?]

“No~ I’m playing a game with her. That, Cat Forest.”

[Sarang must like it~ Playing meow meow game with Daddy.]

“That’s right, what. Then come in carefully later. I’ll be awake, so call me if anything happens.”

[Okay! I’ll call you before I leave!]

“Okay~”

-Click

I wondered what was going on, but it seemed to be Heena’s department dinner, which happens occasionally these days. There’s no forcing people to drink these days, so there’s nothing to worry about.

Of course, there’s the atmosphere of the place, but Heena knows how to control herself.

“When is Mommy coming?”

“Mommy is a little late. She’ll come when Sarang is sleeping~.”

“I wanted to sleep with Mommy…”

“Are you sleepy now? Then shall Daddy sing you to sleep?”

“Yes!”

It’s almost 10 o’clock, but I thought she wasn’t sleepy because she was looking at Meow Meow with sparkling eyes, but she was waiting for Heena.

I immediately cleaned up the game and took Sarang to the room to put her to sleep. Our daughter fell asleep quickly, probably because she was more tired than she looked.

I stroked Sarang, who was sleeping like an angel, a little, and quietly came out of the room so as not to wake her up. And I came back to the living room sofa and sat blankly.

Then what do I do until Heena comes? I was holding on to English a little during my spare time in Dongdae [neighborhood in Seoul], so I don’t really feel like studying.

While I was sending texts here and there, wondering what to do, Heesung hyung approached me.

“How’s Sarang? Sleeping?”

“Yeah.”

“Hmm… You’re going to play Go Forest with Sarang, right?”

“Probably. I’m refraining from doing it because I have Sarang, but if I were alone, I would have already started redeveloping the village.”

“Then would you like to try this?”

The game that hyung gave me was a famous open-world action-adventure game that I had heard of. I had never played other series because I had never had a Switch.

As I was holding the chip and hesitating, hyung added as if persuading me.

“Play it when you’re alone. Then you don’t have to connect it to the TV.”

That was definitely a big advantage. When I’m playing with Sarang, I’m occupying the TV under the pretext of playing with her, but I can’t keep connecting it at other times.

Besides, I have time until Heena comes anyway.

“Then shall I try it once? Is it fun?”

“Buying a Switch means you’re going to play that game.”

“I didn’t buy it… Okay. I’m installing it now.”

“If possible, don’t look at walkthroughs and do it yourself. If you really don’t know, ask me.”

“Okay~”

I was intrigued to see him recommend it with such confidence. Our game tastes weren’t exactly the same, but the games that hyung said were fun before were all pretty good.

And this game that I started like this. That game that I was going to try for a while while waiting for Heena without thinking eventually became the cause of Heena’s anger.