My Girlfriend Is Very Good To Me [EN]: Chapter 34

Ep. 33

There was some bickering for a while, but soon everyone was engrossed in the game. Of course, gaming alone is a great way to pass the time, but when you get together with friends like this, it sometimes feels like you’re in a time machine.

When you check the time after being immersed, it feels like hours have passed.

“Hey, hey! Mid is completely pushed! What are you guys doing?!”

“We’re all dead, what can we do?”

“Honestly, the jungler sucked so bad that we lost. Agree?”

“Agreed.”

“Alright, agreed 3 stacks [agreement from 3 people]? Han Yeon-hoo sucked so we lost.”

“The guys who got solo-killed in lane are saying this, it’s so frustrating.”

“I also want to kill the ADC [Attack Damage Carry, a role in the game] who abandoned the support and dove in to die, but let’s just surrender. Next game.”

We blame each other and swear like this. It’s so unfair that I’m the target, but whatever.

I cursed inwardly at the shameless guys’ manipulative politics. I vowed to hurl abuse in real-time if even one of them made a mistake from now on.

However.

-An enemy is legendary!

“…”

“Han Yeon, stop feeding!!!”

“Sorry…”

Like a lie, from then on.

-First Blood!

“No, why here…”

“Everyone, be nervous!! That bastard Han Yeon has put us on the express train to the abyss!!”

“Ugh…”

Due to my mistake or the jungler’s skill difference.

-Double Kill!

“Wow~ As expected, master pro Han Yeon-hoo! Not satisfied with dying alone, he even takes me as a companion to hell, I can’t help but admire his skill!!”

“…”

We lost repeatedly.

Honestly, my contribution to the defeat was so great that I had no excuses. However, these guys kept swearing at me, but they knew it couldn’t be helped, so they stopped nagging me a little while ago. We were just too unlucky.

Strangely, I kept getting matched with good players… especially in the same position as me.

“Hoo…”

Thanks to the consecutive defeats, I became more focused on the game. I kept looking for the next game without thinking, and when that led to a 3-game losing streak, I finally came to my senses. It was already around 5 PM.

I glanced at the time at the bottom of the monitor, and while grabbing the next game, I picked up the phone that I had thrown on the left side of the keyboard. It wasn’t that I was trying to check anything, but it felt like I unconsciously grabbed it when my gaze was away from the monitor for a moment.

I quickly swiped past the lock screen with a familiar motion, so familiar that I couldn’t even see what was on it.

After that, I naturally went to the main screen of KakaoTalk [a popular Korean messaging app].

[ Heena : I wonder when Yeon-hoo will see this..? (38) ] – 2:35 PM

“…Ah.”

-Thump!

A mix of “Oh no” and “This is a disaster” made me drop my phone from my hand.

My friends looked at me at the sudden loud noise.

“Han Yeon, what are you doing instead of accepting? Do you have tremors?”

“…It’s nothing. Let’s grab the game again.”

It wasn’t nothing, but there was nothing I could do now. Come to think of it, I said I’d text her whenever I had time.

I was too focused, so I only remembered that promise now, but I quietly put my phone back down.

If I reply now, Heena will probably react quickly, and it will be difficult to continue the game any longer.

Contacting Heena was important, of course, but.

My head knew that I should check the text and reply that I was sorry right away, but.

My heart was shouting that I had to break this losing streak somehow to get a good night’s sleep tonight.

If I go home like this, today’s worst plays will be running through my head until the moment I lie down on the bed.

So I decided.

To pretend I didn’t see it.

What’s the difference between apologizing now and apologizing in an hour or two? The result will be the same, right?

Yeah, I’ve heard that it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

If I’m going to beg for forgiveness anyway, I’ll beg later!

Heena, I’m sorry!

—

The game that I continued while ignoring Heena’s text, to put it simply, was a complete disaster.

A complete disaster.

We lost three more games in a row, but this time it wasn’t just me who was failing, but everyone else was failing equally.

But in a way, this was fortunate, because if we had lost narrowly, we would have been pissed off and become cold to each other, but since we were completely destroyed like this, everyone felt relieved instead.

We lost so ridiculously that we felt cheerful instead.

“Wow, I searched it up and the top laner who was carrying earlier was a master in the previous season? He’s so good at the game~”

“Hahahaha!! Wow, I really couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t even hit the skills!”

“Isn’t a 7-game losing streak really legendary?”

“For real. The shameless guys are playing the game with only one super good player each.”

“They won two or three games at first and then got completely wiped out.”

Thanks to reaching the Great Cheerful Mountain beyond the valley of frustration, we reviewed the game while laughing.

After talking like that for a while, everyone was tired, so we stopped the game for a while, drank the drinks we ordered earlier, and started talking about things other than the game.

And the topic that is currently worth talking about is the sea trip that we briefly talked about on the day of the school vacation ceremony.

The date we roughly set was already next week.

“Hey, but where are we going?”

“I don’t know. How about Sokcho where Han Yeon went? Isn’t it good there too?”

“The sea is clean and it’s pretty good, but there are a lot of people. There will be more when we go.”

“Ah, it’s annoying if there are too many people.”

We discuss the travel schedule that we had casually thrown out.

However, since they weren’t the type of guys who could make detailed plans in the first place, I ended up deciding most of it.

Useless bastards.

In fact, any sea is good, but the problem is that there will be a lot of people everywhere around this time. What should I do, I thought, and one memory from last year flashed through my mind.

“Then, shall we go to the valley instead of the sea? Shin Eui-hyun, you said there’s a good place to play near your relatives’ house in the countryside. The place we were going to go to last year but got canceled.”

Last year, we planned a trip to the valley instead of the sea in the first place, and we were going to stay at Eui-hyun’s relatives’ house that I just mentioned.

But about two days before departure, the aunt there sprained her leg, so we couldn’t go. She told us to come and play without worrying about her, but honestly, we couldn’t help but worry.

If there are no major problems, it would be okay to go there this year. After all, we’ll be playing among ourselves, and it’s not a very rural area, so there seem to be some convenience facilities around, and the accommodation is free.

Moreover, he said that it is mainly used by local residents, so it is not crowded.

I was inwardly admiring myself for this exquisite plan that stabs at the vitals, but these guys don’t seem to like it.

“The valley is a bit…”

“Why? You were so sad that you couldn’t go last year.”

“That’s true, but…”

Kim Soo-hwang trailed off and gave an ambiguous reaction, and the other guys were giving off a similar vibe. I was wondering if they were making separate plans without me knowing, when Shin Eui-hyun took over the baton.

“Anyway, my aunt told me to stop by if I wanted to come this year…”

“What? Then that’s perfect! We can go there!”

“But it’s a valley.”

“No, why the hell is it a valley, you bastards?”

It’s very different from the sea, but the valley has its own taste. And don’t just oppose it, give your opinion.

Garbage sounds continued to be heard to me, who didn’t know what was going on.

“You have a girlfriend, so you can say that easily. You trash…”

“I guess we single losers should shut up and play among ourselves.”

“You even worry about single people… You’re such a grateful person.”

“…”

They were just jealous that I had a girlfriend. I also felt guilty for occasionally posting couple photos, so it was hard to say anything.

I should refrain from doing that in the future.

“Or…”

While I was reflecting a little on my past actions, Hyun-woo, the last member of this PC cafe [internet cafe] and travel party, opened his mouth.

“How about your girlfriend’s friends…?”

“Heena’s friends?”

“It’s not like we’re going to do anything, but I think it would be nice to just hang out together.”

I blinked at those words. Heena doesn’t talk about school very often. So I know she has friends, but I don’t know how many there are or what their names are. There’s no way someone like Heena would be an outcast, but I don’t know how many friends she has that we could go with.

Anyway, I thought about it for a while at the more innovative idea than I thought.

Hmm, this member plus Heena’s friends. Before I even know if it’s okay or not, the first hurdle is whether we can match the schedule.

If it’s okay, these guys are sometimes trash, but they’re not that weird and it might not be bad?

No, come to think of it, this is not the time to ask that. When do I check Heena’s text and reply..?

I’m going crazy. I think even Heena would be angry.

The worries that I had put aside for a while as if escaping reality began to rise again.

I felt my hands and feet tremble, and I was agonizing with my chin resting on my hand, when they were screaming like monkeys next to me.

“If not, let’s go to the sea and hunt together!!”

I’m already at a loss as to how to appease Heena, but I have to listen to this crazy sound.

“Why would I do that, you crazy bastards.”

“Hmm… Well, Han Yeon has a girlfriend, so it’s a bit like that. Just be near when hunting and pull out if you get matched?”

“That’s good? This bastard looks so kind on the outside, so it’s easy to reduce wariness.”

“But Han Yeon-hoo’s talking skills are also needed…”

How on earth should I stop this unfounded delusion? Besides, the biggest problem with this terrible plan is.

“No, putting aside the feasibility, if you succeed, you’re going to abandon me and play? You guys are really the worst trash?”

“Sacrifice that much… uh…”

When I criticized the shameless nonsense, it seemed like a rebuttal was about to come out right away, but Soo-hwang suddenly looked above my head with trembling pupils while speaking.

Realizing that the gaze wasn’t directed at me, I slowly turned my head back, wondering if the PC cafe hyung [older brother/male friend] had come to warn us because we were too loud.

At the same time, I almost stopped breathing.

“?!!!?!?”

Because right behind me, my girlfriend was standing there, smiling brightly as always.