True Relationship
The three elements that make up a novel are characters, events, and setting.
But isn't that true no matter where you insert it, even if it's not a novel?
Promises are the same.
If you're going to meet, who meets whom.
What you do after meeting.
What time, where you meet.
You have to decide that.
Of course, there's a way to think about what to do after meeting.
But as I told the viewers earlier, I'm a planned person.
I knew Jaemin and Gabi would come because I told them.
Wouldn't I tell Gabi?
But when Gabi reacted like that upon seeing Jaemin, I was a bit surprised.
Maybe I hadn't told Gabi.
“Gabi, look. I told you Jaemin is coming too.”
But when I checked the KakaoTalk message I sent,
It was correct that I had properly informed her.
Just that Gabi was too excited to notice.
“Eh, ugh, hit…… Sorry, I was too excited to notice.”
Was it that much that I was happy to treat you to food?
It's not like eating out, just at our house.
Why dress up so much, not casually.
And forgetting that Jaemin is coming……
“Ahaha, that could happen. But is it okay if I make Gabi uncomfortable? Maybe you'd be reluctant to broadcast? Then I won't turn it on.”
“Ah, no. As long as my face doesn't show, it's fine. Hands are okay though.”
But the moment I heard Jaemin's apologetic words, I instinctively realized.
This is the non-verbal communication between women……?
Smiling in front, but behind getting what they want?
Yeah, maybe Gabi dressed up because she thought someone else was coming.
But I didn't want to give the impression that she was all dressed up just because someone else was coming.
I wanted to create the image that she dresses up like this when meeting me, that she's pretty, etc.
On the other hand, Jaemin is in a state where she only needs to stream.
So she blurted out those hard-to-refuse words to Gabi.
Deep.
Not like starting an argument or competing, but it's hard to read the opponent's intentions through words and actions.
It would be nice if there was an official, though.
Since there isn't, my breath is already getting tight.
Now that I'm a woman, do I have to be so careful?
……No, I won't.
Instead of that, I should just say I'm a man.
That's not wrong either.
So before Jaemin turned on the broadcast on her phone, I said directly in front of the two.
“Wait a minute, don't turn on the broadcast. I have a consultation for you two.”
“Ah, Noel is having a consultation…… Fufufu, is it a love consultation? Did you get a boyfriend?”
“A, a boyfriend……?”
Jaemin with a mischievous expression, Gabi with a pale face.
Um. Jaemin is enjoying it since she already knows I'm a woman from the beginning.
Gabi knows I was a man……
Isn't that ironic?
Even though the body is female now, and she chose female underwear happily for me.
Anyway, the mind is male, so liking a man would feel like seeing a homosexual, right.
That's why it's fortunate, the opposite.
Right now, I'm interested in women.
“Well, it's a consultation about people. The other person is a woman. Jaemin knows, but there's someone I thought was the next-door sister until now. When my mother stabbed my father and surrendered, because my condition was so bad, she took me to the hospital. After that, she often came to our house to take care of me.”
“Ah, that person. I know.”
“Ah. Every time Noel talks about that sister, her voice gets excited, it's enviable. How well she takes care of you.”
Jaemin probably knows from before.
Somehow, Gabi also knew about the existence of that sister.
Did she watch my broadcast?
……Although it's a broadcast I want to do, when Gabi said she watched it, I felt a momentary embarrassment.
But I can't close my mouth out of shame.
“……It’s not just taking care, but spending time together. Anyway, I'm grateful for that too, and grateful that she took me to the hospital before, so I was thinking of inviting her for lunch today. So I went to the next door, but the sister said she doesn't live there.”
“What kind of horror movie is that. Noel, I'm scared. You're not going to tell ghost stories or something, are you……?”
“Hmm, hearing that story makes me worried too. Since she knows the house password and comes in and out.”
So when I brought it up,
Gabi was scared, Jaemin became serious and worried about me.
Well, anyone would think that.
But I want to believe her too.
As I thought before, if she was trying to do something, she would have done it earlier.
And originally, the sister never said she lived anywhere.
I just thought she lived next door, and thought she was the person who saved me.
“Um, not knowing the name is because I didn't ask. Same for the address. If she was trying to steal, she would have done it earlier. There wasn't much to steal anyway. But because it was a relationship based on misunderstanding from the start…… how should I talk, so that we can continue to get along well.”
But even excluding those things,
The time we spent together doesn't turn gray.
So I want to continue to have a true relationship.
That's why I'm asking because the sister is a woman, Jaemin and Gabi are women.
As the two of you talked earlier.
Women, if you mis-speak, you might get other information beyond the words and figure out the direction of emotions.
Even if I have no intention,
They might misunderstand in the other direction.
I hope there's even a little chance of that.
Because we started as a relationship based on misunderstanding.
“Um, first, I think it's better to speak honestly. I thought she was the next-door sister, so I asked from where I learned about Noel. Still, since we've spent time together, I'm relieved. Something like that.”
“Yeah, Jaemin's words seem right. It's better to first make sure of each other's identities than to make feelings hurt. Ask for names. And in today's world, you should know each other's phone numbers if you're close, right?”
But both of them talked about redefining the relationship before feelings.
Actually, that might be right.
Since we've been getting along well so far, the assumption that we'll continue might be my naive thought.
The sister knows where I live, the house password, my name, everything I do.
But I know nothing about the sister.
Ah, it's not nothing.
I know how pretty she is, that her job is tiring.
But that's all.
I don't think it was wrong, but at the point where I was misinformed, it might be a bit sorry.
I was seeing another person overlaid on the sister.
“Yeah, thank you all. I'll do that.”
So I gladly accepted Jaemin and Gabi's words.
I asked for that reason.
With that answer, Jaemin's expression quickly softened.
While Gabi still had a worried face.
“But Noel, you don't like that sister, do you?”
“Um, I do like her. But you two are closer.”
It seemed like that worry came from jealousy.
I could easily answer.
Recently, we've spent a lot of time together, so I personally like her.
But if I could express intimacy in numbers, Gabi is higher than the sister.
Still, we've been friends since childhood until now.
Just because the sister is my ideal type.
White hair, a face that looks a bit tired but confident.
Red eyes like mine, but unlike the ominous me, two beautiful eyes like gems……
But where did I first meet this sister.
I just can't remember.
Just that at some point, it became natural that she's behind me, next to me.
Well, it's not a big deal.
Chicken has arrived!
“Ah, now it's okay to turn on the broadcast. That's all the consultation I wanted for you two.”
“Yeah, let's do a Grandmaster promotion celebration broadcast siiiiiiiiiick!”
“Wao!”
Taekhyun's story from the day before still bothered Jinseok.
Jinseok searched Noel's record.
Probably because the nickname is common, many users with hashtags searched together.
But there were two Noels in the Grandmaster section.
Of those, one had a champion pool with Jax, Pantheon, Aatrox, Fiora……
She handles some similar champions sometimes, but generally the opposite of the delicate girl's appearance.
These are warriors who dominate the battlefield and lead the game to victory.
Jinseok rather hoped that the girl would feel the limit at the beginning of Grandmaster.
She plays well like a pro gamer, but not enough to be a pro player.
If that's the case, she would fail to join the league due to lack of ability and become a mascot player to promote the League of Champions.
Then it's good for both sides.
But at the same time, he wanted her to be a talent that could crush other pro players.
Obviously, the coach talked about risk and return.
Compared to the money spent on female players, compared to the psychological troubles of pro players, or other scandals.
Is there anything to gain by recruiting her?
Can she promote HLG to first division and win the championship in the Korean league and World Championship?
When everyone thinks no, he hoped there was at least one such player.
Isn't it a natural thought for a gamer?
The desire to beat down the underdog has always been there.
Also, as a member of another team, the desire that this player be on their team.
So the searched Noel's record was.
Grandmaster 517 points.
That would mean she entered the stable Grandmaster range, whether someone climbs or not.
And the score that was stagnant for a while and suddenly showed an upward trend.
It seems she got some realization.
Like a martial arts novel.
While playing the game, she got a realization and her skill skyrocketed.
Still, Jinseok hoped that Noel would reach Challenger this time.
Up to the top rank where there are only 300 players in one server.
He sent a message to Taekhyun.