KYB Ch 37

To others listening, it might sound like Kisekki was upset. His tone and voice had not a trace of kindness in them. But Ye Woo-won knew better.

‘He’s in a good mood.’

It was something he couldn’t explain in words, but when Kisekki was in a good mood, there was a certain unmistakable feeling about him. Catching it, Ye Woo-won secretly let out a small laugh.

“I want to keep going, but I have other things to do today.”

—“Other things?”

“Yes. I need to start enhancing soon… so I have to do some fishing too.”

Why did people focus so obsessively on expanding Guild Territory?

Guild Territories had a huge variety of content, but the most popular activities were fishing and gathering. Because if you took items caught from fishing and had the blacksmith process them as offerings, your equipment enhancement success rate increased. In other words, fishing was money.

—“You already have all your items, don’t you?”

“Well, yes, but…”

Truthfully, Ye Woo-won had been stuck at the previous level cap—190—for a long time, so he already had more than enough items to level up. With his current gold and materials, he could reach level 210 easily.

“Lately I’ve only been doing Territory War, so my fishing and gathering levels will start dropping.”

That was the problem. Fishing and gathering levels naturally decayed over time if not maintained. That’s why he couldn’t delay them any longer.

“So today, as much as I want to keep going, I’ll stop he—”

Ye Woo-won intended to leave the voice chat, but—

—“Invite me too.”

Kisekki casually asked him for an invite, stopping him from disconnecting.

“…Pardon?”

—“Hurry. Party invite.”

“Oh, alright.”

He asked again in confusion, but since Kisekki’s voice sounded impatient, Ye Woo-won instinctively sent the invite and formed a party with him. The names “Kisekki” and “Yewoo Beomjeol” lined up next to each other in the party window. They had gone to Territory War together so many times that the sight—once unimaginable—now felt strangely normal.

“But, Kisekki-nim.”

But that was Territory War. This was fishing.

A delayed sense of oddity tugged at him, and he tilted his head.

“You don’t usually go fishing, do you?”

He had heard from guild members that Kisekki bought all his enhancement materials instead of fishing or gathering. And besides, he was already max level.

—“What are you talking about.”

While he was thinking, the two of them had already been moved to the Guild Territory. When Yewoo Beomjeol raised his fishing rod in that state, Kisekki’s fishing level—since they were in the same party—became visible.

—“I’m crazy about fishing.”

[Lv. 2]

Seeing Kisekki answer so nonchalantly, Ye Woo-won blinked, as if doubting his own eyes.

‘Crazy about it…?’

His fishing level was 2. And yet he said he loved fishing? Ye Woo-won was stunned speechless. Had he taken an extremely long break? Even so, he had never heard of anyone’s fishing level dropping that low.

“Well… sure…”

Ye Woo-won quietly checked his own level. Level 140. Exactly seventy times higher than Kisekki’s.

It was hard to question Kisekki further when guild members started greeting them the moment they entered the Territory.

Since Territory War was a guild-based activity, all records appeared on the guild logs. And lately, every time they logged on, Ye Woo-won and Kisekki had been going to Territory War—so naturally, people were getting exhausted watching them.

They were together so often that the guild had started calling them a married couple.

Naturally, Kisekki hated it.

Meanwhile, Ye Woo-won only gave an ambiguous smile.

—“…Heh.”

Kisekki let out a humorless laugh.

Ye Woo-won blinked slowly. How did he know?

He had meant to type exactly that into the chat. And of course, the moment Ye Woo-won typed it without hesitation, the guild chat was instantly flooded with streams of laughter.

—“…Ah—fuck.”

At the same time Kisekki cursed into the voice chat, the same curse popped up in guild chat.

The Necromancer performed the “smiling sweetly” emote.

He looked like a reaper risen from the underworld.

no.10 immediately prostrated.

‘Maybe I should lower my headset volume.’

The outcome was obvious. Kisekki was clearly about to go on a swearing spree again, so Ye Woo-won intended to turn the volume down. But unexpectedly—

—“You’re ridiculous. Crazy bastard.”

Kisekki burst into laughter. Even though he muttered in disbelief, he couldn’t hide the amusement in his tone. His low, rumbling laughter tickled the ear. When that soft laugh echoed through his headset, Ye Woo-won suddenly felt like taking his headset off and scratching at his ear.

‘What is this?’

It felt strange.

‘This has been happening a lot lately…’

Sometimes during Territory War, whenever he heard Kisekki’s voice, he’d feel his ears itch like this.

Well… headphones at a PC café were probably dirty, or maybe it was static electricity. Thinking nothing of it, Ye Woo-won rubbed the back of his neck with his fingertips and typed.

Was there a guild event today?

…Ah. So that’s why the guild chat kept pinging during Territory War.

Guild chat really was a jungle. The moment the guild members managed to latch onto that tiny slip of phrasing, they swarmed in like piranhas and began pecking at the guild master, no.10.

At that moment, an unfamiliar nickname appeared in the alert window.

TL’s Note:
[1] The words for use and write are the same in Korean. So, Kisekki’s word actually double meaning.