Chapter 57 – Meeting

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Reina and Emma arrived at the meeting place with different thoughts in mind.

Reina was excited to meet the cute Arang, while Emma was suspicious of Arang and determined to protect Reina.

“Is this it?”

Emma held up her phone to double-check that this was the meeting place. Even though she had used GPS, they were just in the middle of the street.

“There’s nothing here?”

“Right? Did I get the wrong place? I’ll ask Arang.”

“Aren’t we being scammed?”

“Arang would never do that.”

“No, when have you even met Arang? We haven’t even talked to each other, let alone seen each other’s faces, not even in the virtual world?”

Emma sighed, as she expected, and picked up her phone to see if there was anywhere to go nearby.

Then, a woman’s voice was heard.

“Hello. Are you perhaps Reina and Emma?”

Hearing their names spoken in a very polite tone and perfect English, they turned toward the voice.

“Huh…? A, Rang…? Is that Arang?”

Reina, who had searched for and memorized all of Arang’s videos, tilted her head as she looked at the woman in front of her.

As soon as she saw her face, she thought of Arang, but she was similar to Arang yet completely different.

A woman with a face and body that looked like what Arang would look like if she became a beautiful career woman in 10 years.

“Are you Reina and Emma?”

“Ah, yes, yep! Are you, by any chance… Arang?”

“Hello. I am Arang’s older sister, Anna. You can call me Anna.”

At Anna’s words, Reina let out a sigh of relief.

Anna looked so much like Arang that she momentarily wondered if Anna was Arang, using her body shape and Character Customization to look like Arang.

The things she had planned to do while meeting Arang were instantly shattered in her mind, and she even felt murderous intent towards Anna, but she barely managed to come to her senses at Anna’s words.

‘Phew… I knew she looked similar. Thank goodness. She’s Arang’s Older Sister. That’s why they looked alike. That person wasn’t Arang.’

Reina changed her expression and was about to greet Anna with a bright smile when…

“Wait a minute. Why are you here? The person we were supposed to meet is someone else, right?”

“E, Emma…!”

“My younger sister Arang is not feeling well, so it was difficult for her to come all the way here. We came to pick up Reina and Emma.”

Anna pointed to the limousine behind her.

“Huh?”

Reina was flustered by the sight of the top-class limousine, which was hard to see even in America.

Emma felt even more ominous about the situation that was unfolding.

The atmosphere was already scary, but the sight of the scary bodyguard opening the limousine door made it even scarier.

For some reason, she felt like the moment she got in that car, she would be crossing a river from which she could not return.

Numerous crime dramas she had seen flashed through Emma’s mind.

Even if Korea is good in terms of public order, this is a foreign country, not America.

“Reina, Reina.”

Emma tapped Reina’s arm next to her, signaling her.

Let’s run away quickly.

However, Emma’s hand was already hitting the air.

“Huh?”

“Emma, what are you doing! Come on! Awesome! The whole limousine is decorated with Leore merchandise!!!”

Reina had already gotten into the limousine and was like a child, exclaiming “wow, wow” at the limousine decorated to match Leore because of Arang.

Emma sighed, as usual, at Reina’s immature behavior and entered the limousine next to Reina.

“Oh… what is this…?”

“Amazing, right!? It’s awesome! Wow, isn’t that the OneTailed Fox Ultimate Figure!? Awesome, it was a limited sale of 100 units, so I could only see it in pictures!? Wow…!”

Emma was also impressed by the appearance inside the limousine.

The limousine itself was decorated as if it had been made for a child who liked Leore.

In that sense, the quality was better than the various stores that had been decorated through collaborations.

‘It’s like the limousine itself is in the Leore world. I’m surprised and amazed like this, so what about Reina…’

Looking at the various decorations related to Leore inside the limousine, the charismatic world’s number one Mead Guild Leader disappeared and there was only a child.

“Where did you get this!? I haven’t even seen it on the Leore website…!”

“Leore company gave it to us as a gift.”

“A gift from Leore company? Huh, are you, by any chance, an employee of Leore company!?”

“No. I’m just close to the Leore company.”

“Wow… I’m so jealous.”

Emma was not paying attention to the conversation between Reina and Anna and was looking out the window as much as possible, keeping an eye on where they were going.

As she did so, she became anxious as she slowly began to see no buildings and no people.

A feeling that they were heading to a place where there were few people, a place where no one would notice even if someone disappeared.

‘Should I open the door and escape while the speed is slow…? Then what about Reina?’

While she was thinking about this and that, the limousine stopped.

“We’ve arrived.”

The limousine door opened with a swoosh. Outside the door, there would be scary people and drums… but fortunately, that wasn’t the case.

A pretty two-story building came into view. Fortunately, the things she had imagined did not actually happen.

“Wow. It’s a pretty cafe!”

Reina, not knowing Emma’s feelings, just smiled and walked along with Anna’s guidance.

“Emma, come on!”

“Hoo… okay.”

In the end, Reina and Emma entered the cafe that was in front of them.

As soon as they entered the cafe, what they saw was also full of Leore. No, it was Leore itself.

“Eeeeeeeee!? This is a restaurant in the Ardea country!? No, what, what is this! Awesome Emma, look at this! Wow what!? Awesome, awesome! Awesome!”

As soon as Reina entered the cafe, she ran to look around.

“Anna, was it?”

“Yes. Emma.”

“I’ve never heard of a Leore collaboration, and Leore is responding quite strongly to copyrights, so if you do something like this, there will be legal problems, right?”

“Leore allowed it.”

“… What? That Leore? You’re not lying, are you?”

“No.”

“Then everything in the limousine too?”

“Yes.”

“What the hell are you…?”

“If I explain my identity, it might sound a little strange. I am currently the Korean Branch Representative of Masble.”

“Eeeeeeeee!?”

Emma screamed for the first time since coming to Korea.

==

A table that looked like it was made of wood. The building was clearly modern, but the inside was medieval itself.

Everything from start to finish was exactly the same as the restaurant in Leore. It felt like they were in Leore right now.

Reina glanced around and put her index and middle fingers together and drew in the air.

Of course, nothing happened.

Reina was looking around with a foolish smile when she was startled by Emma’s scream from behind.

“Emma, what’s wrong!”

“Ah, noth, nothing… Haha…”

“It’s a little late. Arang is waiting on the second floor.”

“Huh! It’s already time…!”

Reina grabbed Emma’s hand, who seemed to have lost her soul, and quickly went up the stairs.

Emma came to her senses as she climbed the stairs.

‘To think that woman was a Masble employee, even the representative in charge of a country…! I knew the limousine was suspicious from the start…!’

Emma patted her cheek with one hand.

Right now, Reina was so hyped up with Leore merchandise and the Leore cafe that it was impossible to think normally.

In other words, Emma herself was the only one who could accurately judge this situation.

Emma, who had vowed never to lose her mind like Reina no matter what situation came, saw a girl as soon as she arrived on the second floor.

As soon as Emma saw her, she immediately realized that the girl was Lee Arang, the user who was the Guild Leader of the GuildRaid Group that had taken the WFK.

‘She has the same face as in Leore… but the atmosphere is completely different.’

In Emma’s eyes, she looked like a playful child in Leore, but in reality, she looked like a soulless doll.

‘Is she the type that becomes active in the game?’

Emma was slightly embarrassed by the girl’s dark atmosphere, which made it difficult to say anything.

‘No. Get a grip. That look might be to deliberately show a weak side.’

The girl’s eyes, which had been facing down, lifted her head and looked at us as if she had sensed our presence.

Empty eyes that showed nothing. Her slightly drooping eyes gave off a sense of horror that made her feel empty.

She knew that the person in front of her was a young girl, but her body became slightly cold.

‘She’s not an ordinary person after all…!’

“Reina, be careful. You have to come to your senses—”

“T, thrilling…”

Reina was not in her right mind after all.

==

When Reina came up to the second floor, I welcomed them.

As Reina explained to me, two women came. I don’t know who is Reina and who is her friend, but first, I greeted them.

I nodded slightly.

I want to speak, but the problem is that the two people don’t know Korean, and I don’t know English.

I can simply say simple English greetings, but unfortunately, it seems that it wasn’t Arang’s body.

Even though I can speak little by little now, English doesn’t come out well.

Well, isn’t it okay if the greetings are just understood by each other?