TGMND 150 Side Story Part 2 End

[Global] FrogSaysRibbit: Ribbit..ㅜㅜ

[Global] BackFromLifo: They say they won’t add you as a friend because you’re a scammer who took items and quit

[Global] FrogSaysRibbit: Oh lol Screw you, already added as a friend thx

[Global] BackFromLifo: Hey if you’re going to keep up the concept do it properly or just talk normally

[Global] FrogSaysRibbit: Ribbit ㅇㅅㅇ

[Global] BackFromLifo: I want to beat you up

[Global] Jeon-chan: lolololololol

Yeo-woon bid them farewell and immediately left the waiting map. Ji-gu’s character was stuck in the guild room. Since he said earlier he was going to feed his cat, he must still be away.

Yeo-woon opened the box and selected a black tuxedo cat. After entering the housing area and double-clicking the cat pet, a window popped up asking for a name.

!! This is a housing-exclusive pet. Interactions are only possible within residential areas and upon use become untradeable and bound to the housing area.

Master, please give me a name!

[Bbosong]

As soon as the name was entered, the cat that had dropped at Yeo-woon’s feet ran ahead down the gravel path. Stopping in front of the house, its form became faint before running through a small door that had appeared under the front door.

Yeo-woon pushed back his chair and stood up, heading straight for the entrance. After putting on shoes and going outside, he entered the neighbor’s house using the passcode and saw Yoon Ji-gu peeking his head out from the living room to check who had come in.

“Huh?”

Yeo-woon frowned in confusion upon seeing him and awkwardly got up. With the sound of the cat lapping water behind him, Yoon Ji-gu walked towards him.

“Hyung, you’re here?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you staying over?”

Strange. It’s not even the weekend tomorrow, why…? Yoon Ji-gu mumbled to himself, then took a step back, feeling uneasy at Yeo-woon’s sudden grin.

Before he could escape, Yeo-woon went behind him and quickly covered his eyes.

“Stay still.”

“Wh-wh-what is it! Why are you covering my eyes all of a sudden!”

“I’ll give you something nice.”

“You’re probably trying to give me something perverted again!”

Anyone who heard it would think Yeo-woon brought strange things over all the time. And usually when he said things like this, it was mostly Ji-gu letting his imagination run wild. Yeo-woon let out a laugh of disbelief at being called a pervert just for covering his eyes.

“And once I give this, I can’t take it back…”

Still covering his eyes, he led Ji-gu to the room with the computer. After seating him in the chair while he continued chattering about what he was doing, Yeo-woon removed his hands, and Ji-gu looked up at him in confusion.

“Go to the house.”

Yeo-woon leaned against the chair’s backrest while subtly pointing at the monitor. Ji-gu, still looking puzzled, followed the instructions and moved maps.

When Ji-gu’s character entered the housing area, he saw Neuta’s character standing idle where he had left it.

“What am I supposed to look at…”

Ji-gu mumbled as he stepped onto the portal created in front of the house. When the front door opened, a cat’s meow greeted him.

“…!”

Surprised and unable to speak properly, Ji-gu jumped up but his legs gave out and he collapsed back into the chair. Yeo-woon couldn’t help but laugh at how he crumpled like a newborn giraffe.

Barely managing to hold onto the desk’s edge, Ji-gu looked up at Yeo-woon and stammered.

“I picked it up on the way.”

“No, how could you just pick this up…”

Well, it was true that Yeo-woon got it by chance though.

“Since I couldn’t contribute anything when you bought the plot, consider it part of the dowry.”

He trembled at the word ‘dowry,’ dazed again. Yeo-woon crouched down to meet his eye level. He pinched his nose and asked.

“You said you were happy about living together. Isn’t this our newlywed home?”

“What? No, it’s not!”

“And here I thought you were already getting excited…”

“…”

“You don’t like the gift?”

The response was immediate. Ji-gu shook his head vigorously, worried he might misunderstand, and belatedly said.

“I like it. Really…”

“I’m cool, right?”

“What?”

“Makes you want to wed me right away, doesn’t it?”

After hesitating for a moment, Ji-gu nodded with a bright red face. Then he unnecessarily added something that didn’t need to be said.

“But that’s the first time I’ve heard the word ‘wed’ since my grandmother’s friend used it.”

“…”

Yeo-woon quietly closed his mouth, at a loss for words at his innocent comment. The nerve of this kid. He seemed cute just a moment ago, but now he felt like smacking him.

***

[Guild] neutaaaa: Whoever just dumped trash and left, come out^^ I saw everything

[Guild] CatMeowMeowMeow: Who was it lol

[Guild] Wandu Wandya: Who else could it be

[Guild] Ji9star: Must be CatMeowMeowMeow;

[Guild] CatMeowMeowMeow: Running away

After driving out the person who visited this house most frequently besides themselves, Yeo-woon clicked on the blinking mailbox below to open it.

‘New mail has arrived. Please check your mailbox.’

[Received Mail]

From: FrogSaysRibbit

Subject: Ribbit ‘ㅅ’

Attached: Garden Wood×99, Crude Rock×99

The grateful frog had sent mail again. Yeo-woon had told him countless times that the housing pet was enough and he didn’t need to send anything else…

The items he kept sending were all miscellaneous materials needed for crafting housing furniture. They weren’t expensive, but they took some effort to gather them.

Thanks to this, recently whenever Yeo-woon logged into the game, he found himself enjoying looking through the furniture catalog and crafting new furniture until logging off. At first, he had placed the crafted furniture randomly without any sense of unity, until one day Ji-gu brought it up because it bothered him.

[Couple] Ji9star: Can I arrange the furniture instead?

[Couple] neutaaaa: Why, is it ugly?

[Couple] Ji9star: Not exactly…

[Couple] neutaaaa: You can be honest

[Couple] Ji9star: You just lack… sense? Maybe? >_<

[Couple] neutaaaa: lololololololololol

[Couple] Ji9star: lololol

[Couple] neutaaaa: lolololololololololololololol

[Couple] Ji9star: Are you mad…?

Eventually, they decided to split the house in half and rearrange the furniture as they each wanted. Since Ji-gu criticized his sense, Yeo-woon wanted to see how well he could do. Thinking this, he took a short nap and woke up to find his half of the house completely black.

The wallpaper was gray, the floor was black, and all the furniture was only in black and gray. That was when Yeo-woon first learned that the furniture he had made could be dyed.

In contrast to Ji-gu’s all-black taste, Yeo-woon decorated his half of the house in vibrant colors. For taking in-game screenshots, bright and excessive looked cuter than dark and gloomy.

Yeo-woon chose bright colors for both wallpaper and flooring and dyed all the placed furniture in various colors. After successfully finishing the furniture arrangement, Yeo-woon sent the house plot number to his Lifo comrades in a note and logged off.

When he returned after finishing his work the next day, familiar usernames were inscribed in the guestbook. Yeo-woon captured and kept all the guestbook entries that contained nothing but a single fist emoticon without any lengthy messages.

[Guild] Halloween Eggplant: Did you all see that Ji-gu’s house was selected as an exemplary housing case?

[Guild] CatMeowMeowMeow: ㅡㅡ Why?

[Guild] Wandu Wandya: Being competitive again

[Guild] ParkRoach: Cat is crafting trash in the guild house again lol

[Guild] Halloween Eggplant: lololololololololol

The house, with its atmosphere split exactly in half by the door, became a minor sensation.  People on the server would come to take photos wearing coordinated outfits. Going further by dividing even the exterior in half made the concept feel even more distinct.

[Guild] Wandu Wandya: Really shows both their tastes lol

[Guild] neutaaaa: What tastes?

[Guild] Wandu Wandya: The gloomy side is Neuta-nim’s, the flashy side is Ji-gu’s, right? lololol

[Guild] Ji9star: It’s the opposite ㅡㅡ

[Guild] neutaaaa: It’s the opposite ㅡㅡ

[Guild] Wandu Wandya: Huh, really?????

Perhaps because it differed from their usual coordination preferences, most guild members had assumed the opposite about who decorated which theme.

Wondering if his character really looked that gloomy, Yeo-woon tried changing outfits, but with the cloak covering everything, it just looked ridiculous, so he ended up reverting back.

[Couple] Ji9star: Last night

[Couple] Ji9star: I dreamed about living in the house hyung decorated?? Feel like I need an exorcism now

[Couple] neutaaaa: lolololololololololololololol

[Couple] Ji9star: Really.. it was super messy and exhausting

[Couple] neutaaaa: Gu-byeol’s already imagining living with me lol

Lately, Yoon Ji-gu had been bringing up topics like this more frequently. Every time he teased him about being eager already, Ji-gu used to protest at first, but recently he stopped denying it.

[Couple] Ji9star: But

[Couple] Ji9star: Even if hyung makes the house look like that

[Couple] neutaaaa: Look like what? ㅡㅡ

[Couple] Ji9star: Ah just listen

[Couple] Ji9star: Even if everything is completely different

[Couple] Ji9star: If it’s hyung

The chat stayed quiet for a while. He wondered what was taking so long to write, but when the message finally came, it was very short.

[Couple] Ji9star: I like it

Just three words. All his emotions were compressed into those three words. He likes it. He likes him.

[Couple] neutaaaa: Gu-byeol why do you say you like me in game lol

[Couple] neutaaaa: Too shy to say it to my face?

[Couple] Ji9star: Can I come to your house?

[Couple] neutaaaa: I always go without asking

[Couple] Ji9star: Coming now

Yeo-woon left the front door slightly open and waited for him. The door to his house was always wide open. So that the person he loved could come in anytime.

<Side Story 2 End>