KYB Ch 26

Still, there are occasional guilds that live quietly without doing anything, like the guild Ye Woo-won once belonged to, so everyone just let it go.

Steal flags?
That explanation didn’t help Ye Woo-won much. After all, someone who never went to Territory War wouldn’t know anything to begin with.

Go to a guild Territory War… right away?

Ye Woo-won looked at the screen, slightly troubled. He was curious, but with zero info, he had no clue how it actually worked.

‘There’s no way I could do that. I should look it up first and come back.’

He didn’t want to drop the guild’s win rate by stumbling into a Territory War blindly. He was about to politely decline and say he’d check it out, when—

‘Scrim^[1]?’

A scrim means having guild members face off against each other.

The guild members pounced on the idea as if they’d been waiting. Apparently, they all liked PvP.

This was moving too fast. How did the conversation get to this point? Ye Woo-won glanced at the guild leader, a bit bewildered, but—

The guild leader raised the stakes.

How should he choose?

Should he just invite any three people to the party? As Ye Woo-won fretted, an invite popped up.

‘Oh, did the guild leader send it?’

He wondered if someone had kindly taken care of it for him, and reached to accept… but the inviter’s name made him flinch.

What’s with this Ki-ocust ^[2]again?

He looked around, puzzled and met Kisekki’s eyes from afar. Kisekki stood alone away from the cluster, as if uninvolved with all this.

‘Did he press the wrong button?’

Another party invite all of a sudden—surely it was a mistake.

Ye Woo-won declined the invite. But then—

The invite came again immediately, and Ye Woo-won froze in confusion.

Looking around, it seemed none of the guildmates noticed Kisekki sending invites to Ye Woo-won. They were lined up, squealing happily.

‘I’ll just refuse for now.’

Earlier the party acceptance had led to the Ki-ocust incident.

But as soon as he refused, more invites came, and Kisekki became annoyingly persistent.

Is this a Déjà vu?

It felt like the same thing had happened before.

‘But why?’

No explanation—just invites and a hard stare from afar. Ye Woo-won couldn’t figure out the intent and felt perplexed.

After staring between Kisekki and the guild members for a while, he finally couldn’t stand the relentless dinging and decided to accept just once.

The room he entered was not against another guild but a user-configurable Territory War.

‘I thought he has gone AFK; it turns out he’d been watching this whole time.’

In other words, it was the scrim match the guild members had been chattering about.

Ye Woo-won asked, bewildered, but Kisekki gave no reaction.

Just when he thought of leaving the room out of confusion—

They got invited?

Ye Woo-won stared at the guild chat in surprise. Weren’t they waiting for an invite from him?

But the mystery dissolved quickly into something almost laughable.

The two of them entered the room where Ye Woo-won and Kisekki were already waiting, side by side.

Nyamnyangi and ITrustCactus assumed, at that timing, that the invite obviously came from Yewoo Beomjeol, and they accepted without even checking the sender’s nickname.

But when they realized the one who sent the invite was actually Kisekki, they panicked. Ye Woo-won, of course, was still bewildered.

…And just like that, a sudden 2:2 Territory War was formed.

Guild content can always be spectated by others. Hearing that a Territory War had been created, the guildmates pressed “Spectate.”

As spectators instantly filled up, Ye Woo-won remained completely confused.

The guild members were confused as well, but since a 2:2 user-set Territory War was what they originally wanted anyway, they accepted it.

‘He invited us and still isn’t saying a word.’

What felt strange was that Kisekki, the one who caused all this, was completely silent.

TL’s Note:
[1] So, around the Late 90s to early 2000s (If I remember correctly), dating shows were very popular in Korea. And in one of the most popular dating shows, the participant usually throws a rose at the opposite gender to show their interest in them. Since then, Korean TV shows often use this type of action to pick their partners (especially when they want to give off the 90s to early 2000s vibe.
[2] The same thing goes with this part; in the dating shows, each participant will do a talent show to appeal to the other participant. Then they will line up and close their eyes to wait to be picked by the participant they are interested in.
[3] 동기사랑 나라사랑 (Love my comrade, Love my country). It’s a phrase often used in the Korean military.