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And carefully, Ye Woo-won added. And if it’s not too much trouble, could you please check your mail just once—

But before he could even finish, the chat window began to scroll rapidly.

Kisekki was laughing like a madman, as if he had lost his mind. What’s gotten into him? Startled, Ye Woo-won looked over, and a whisper popped up.

Ye Woo-won was about to ask what that cryptic message meant.

Kisekki was already gone. He had cursed and instantly left the raid.

Everyone stared blankly at the empty spot where Kisekki had stood, confused, while Nyamnyangi’s character suddenly bent over and burst into laughter.

Nyamnyangi kept laughing uncontrollably by himself.

At that moment, the guild master tagged everyone to recruit for the next Territory War.

Most of the party members had to join the Territory War, so they all left the raid room. Left alone in the now-empty raid room, Ye Woo-won stared at the unclaimed reward chest that once belonged to Kisekki and thought.

To be honest, before going on this raid together, he had found Kisekki rather uncomfortable, but after actually spending time with him, he wasn’t as bad as expected. That scolding had only felt unfamiliar at first; once he got used to it, it didn’t bother him anymore. The real problem was the others.

‘If things keep going this way, similar situations will probably keep happening.’

Just earlier, he had received multiple whispers from people worried about him because of Kisekki’s behavior.

‘If things keep going like this, the guild members we play with are definitely going to feel uncomfortable.’

At the very least, he needed to become close enough with Kisekki so that others wouldn’t feel uncomfortable.

‘But how?’

The method didn’t come to mind. If this were real life, he could just buy him a meal and slowly break the ice, but Kisekki was a game player.

As he was pondering, a message popped up in the guild chat from Kisekki. Seeing that, an idea suddenly flashed through Ye Woo-won’s mind.

‘That’s it.’

But there was something Ye Woo-won overlooked. A man so yielding that people often called him a pushover—someone who didn’t even know how to break away when he should—Ye Woo-won, on very rare occasions, just sometimes—

—would produce an outcome so bizarre that it astonished everyone.

‘If I just follow Kisekki on every raid he goes to, that should do it.’

And once he made up his mind, he never looked back—unyielding, relentless.

Neither Ye Woo-won nor Kisekki knew what was about to begin.

A quiet Sunday afternoon, inside the game God of Water Veil.

Members of the Gaesae guild—the second-ranked guild across the entire server—were gathered on their Guild Territory, chatting while waiting for someone soon to log in.

The guild hadn’t been in the best shape lately. A month ago, a fight between an officer and the Mystic had disrupted raids, and after the guild was blacklisted, a few members had quit.

Still, for most active members, their greatest interest wasn’t the Mystic. Sure, being on the Mystic Association’s blacklist meant they sometimes had to raid without a healer—but even so—

Even with all that, the guild’s mood wasn’t gloomy. Right now, their biggest excitement—one that made them forget the missing Mystic entirely—was…

Yes, their newest guild member, the Dragon Knight.

At first glance, Yewoo Beomjeol didn’t stand out beyond his class. With his polite greetings and calm presence, even his username didn’t sound flashy. He wasn’t particularly eccentric or flamboyant, and his tone was gentle— plain, even.

Of course, that was only—

That was only until one person appeared.

The moment Kisekki logged in, the guild chat exploded. Even members who’d been doing other things dropped everything and rushed to the Territory, eyes gleaming with anticipation for what was about to happen.

Appearing on the Guild Territory with a furious tone, the player named ‘Kisekki’ was one of the founding members of Gaesae, alongside no.10.

According to the guild master, no.10, Kisekki hadn’t been this abrasive when he first started playing. But after encountering too many weirdos, he’d changed his username to Kisekki and become violently temperamental.

TL’s Note:

[1] Doki Doki is a cute Japanese onomatopoeia for heart pounding. KongKang literally used the Japanese one.
[2] Same as no.10, I have no idea what he means, but if I had to guess… when in Korean, someone swears, people usually say stuff like “your mouth’s dirty” or call it a rag. So basically, Kisekki was saying this is just the start of his swearing spree today.