Chapter 20 – Day 20

Day 20

“Yawn-.”

As sunlight poured through the window, Cheon Seoa, who had been lying in bed, yawned and got up.

“It’s already morning.”

Growl-.

Cheon Seoa, who had been wearing a blank expression as if still half-asleep, soon blushed slightly at the loud sound coming from her stomach.

Right.

“The human body is inconvenient. Having to consume food at specific times.”

But what can she do?
Without doing this, she can’t function on Earth.

So, when Cheon Seoa came out of the room, two men were already busy in the kitchen preparing breakfast.

A young man whose somewhat carefree atmosphere had subsided was cooking while emitting flames from both hands.
The monstrous being made entirely of shadows was cooking, unraveling the shadows that formed its body.

The sight of these two cooking seemed as if they were competing for someone….

“Ah, you’re awake, miss!”

“Good morning, miss.”

As Cheon Seoa emerged from the room and stood watching them blankly, the two noticed her presence and greeted her with a loud welcome, bowing their heads.

“What are you doing?”

“Well…, as you can see, we were preparing breakfast.”

“For whom…?”

“Of course, it’s for your breakfast… isn’t it?”

The young man answered with an awkward smile to Cheon Seoa, who was asking with a look of incomprehension.

To be honest, the young man hated doing this kind of thing.

After working hard to become a direct subordinate of the Seven Sword Emperor, to suddenly become a servant to an unknown child overnight.

Of course, he knew well that this was the only way for him to survive, but still, what he didn’t want to do, he didn’t want to do.

However.

‘Eek-!’

The young man glanced out the window and screamed internally.

A crow was perched on the railing outside the window, peering into the house.
In both eyes of that crow, there was a strange pattern.

The young man knew all too well that it was a kind of summon sent by the Seven Sword Emperor to monitor whether they were carrying out their orders properly.

“Haha, please sit down quickly.”

Drrrr-.

The young man spoke while directly pulling out a chair.
At the same time, the shadow monster set up prepared dishes on the table through its shadow.

Cheon Seoa, who had been quietly observing the two, said.

“You really don’t need to do this.”

Though she said that, Cheon Seoa sat down very naturally on the chair the young man had pulled out.
As if receiving such treatment was an everyday occurrence, Cheon Seoa’s actions were incredibly natural.

“Everything looks delicious.”

Cheon Seoa said with a bright smile as she scanned the table set with various foods.

The young man and the monster smiled contentedly as they looked at Cheon Seoa’s smile.

* * *

“I’m bored.”

After finishing breakfast, Cheon Seoa, who was lying on the sofa and rolling around, muttered while staring blankly at the ceiling.

Since coming to Earth, she had been through so much.

Thanks to that, Cheon Seoa now found the peaceful time she was experiencing after so long to be boring.

The young man, who had been glancing at her, soon gathered his courage and spoke to Cheon Seoa.

“Miss, are you bored?”

“Yes, I’m bored.”

“Then… how about playing a game?”

“A game?”

At the young man’s words, Cheon Seoa wondered why she hadn’t thought of that herself!

Certainly, before falling into the Cultivation World, I used to enjoy playing games quite a lot.

However, the reason I couldn’t even recall the existence of games now might be because I haven’t had the chance to play them for such a long time.

By the way.

‘I wonder what games are popular these days.’

Is it still League of Legends, like when I was active on Earth?
Or is there a new game that’s gaining popularity?

Suddenly curious about this, Cheon Seoa asked the young man.

“Do you have any games you could recommend?”

“Hmm…, a recommendation…”

The young man fell into deep thought at Cheon Seoa’s question.

What game should he recommend?

Is it still League of Legends?
The one that’s still dominating PC bang usage rates even after more than 10 years since its release?

But.

‘The level of LoL users is too serious.’

What if Cheon Seoa makes a mistake and receives verbal abuse from other users?

Probably, though he’s not sure, starting with their master, the Seven Sword Emperor.
The entire Illuminati would mobilize to track down the user who verbally abused Cheon Seoa to the ends of the Earth.

And after that?

It would likely be followed by something so terrible that it would make the person beg to be killed with their own mouth.
Of course, Illuminati would never let that poor human die.

But.

‘There aren’t many good games besides LoL, you know.’

Certainly, if only we could do something about the players’ level, there’s no game quite like LoL.
Should I just close my eyes and recommend LoL?
But what if I get cursed out for real?

As the young man continued to ponder, unable to answer promptly.

“How about Valorant then?”

The shadow figure, who had just finished washing the dishes, said while untying the apron.

“Valorant?”

Cheon Seoa tilted her head at the shadow figure’s suggestion.

“That’s right! Valorant! That’s the one!”

The young man exclaimed with a bright expression, as if he had found a ray of light in the darkness.

* * *

“Now, miss. Hold the mouse with your right hand, move the cursor over the icon, and then quickly double-click the left button with your index finger…”

“Um… I can use a computer just fine, you know?”

“What? Oh, hahaha! Of, of course! Of course you can! That’s only natural!”

Cheon Seoa spoke indifferently to the young man who was explaining as if to a three-year-old child.
Only then did the young man realize his mistake and let out an awkward laugh, while the shadow figure looked at him as if he were pathetic.

Anyway.

‘Valorant, huh.’

Valorant.
It was a game with a name I had never heard before.

From the explanation, it was a game released just under a year ago.
However, it was a game released by the company that made LoL.

Valorant was a 5v5 character-based tactical shooting game.

Users choose one of the agents with various abilities.
When the game starts, you use the money given initially to buy various weapons and skills, and the goal is to kill all the opponents.

However, unlike typical FPS games, Valorant had ‘skills’ that could create numerous variables.

So, Cheon Seoa grew interested in the game called Valorant and quickly finished the tutorial.

“It looks complicated on the surface, but when you look inside, it’s quite a simple game.”

Agents have different positions depending on their skills.
In Valorant, multiple users decide their positions, choose agents accordingly, and play strategically to ultimately win the game.

However, this doesn’t mean that team composition considering each agent’s position is crucial.

Since Valorant is fundamentally an FPS game, it’s possible for one skilled player to carry the other four players.

So, in the first match after finishing the tutorial….

PublicGirlIsHere: Hey, you bastards! How can we have 5 duelists!
WhatCanIDo: What can I do?
S2SupremeOverlordS2: It’s just a normal game, let’s play
PublicGirlIsHere: Fuck, I got matched with these fucking idiot worms

The chat was filled with all kinds of swear words from the start.
Especially at the point when all five users, including Cheon Seoa, who didn’t care about team composition at all, chose the strike team…

‘T-This is over.’

The young man watching from behind sweated nervously and muttered to himself.

This was a game that was impossible to win.
While the other four showed some signs of having played Valorant before, the problem was Cheon Seoa.

A newbie among newbies who had just finished the tutorial.

That’s why the young man prayed to a god he didn’t even believe in, hoping that no one would hurl insults, let alone trash talk, at Cheon Seoa.

Please.
Please don’t curse!
The moment you curse, we’ll all die, including me!

However, the young man’s prayers were utterly useless.

And for good reason.

One-shot-one-kill… is impossible due to the nature of Valorant, but…
Once Cheon Seoa fired her gun, enemies that weren’t even visible on the screen all died from headshots.

As a result, the chat was in chaos.

A level 1 character not only got headshots every time she fired but also didn’t die even once during 13 rounds.

Is that all?

Despite enemies clearly not being visible on the screen, they were still dying, so eventually, accusations of Cheon Seoa being a hacker started popping up in the chat.

Along with the word ‘hacker’, all sorts of curses and insults intertwined, with messages uniformly condemning Cheon Seoa flooding the chat.

As this happened, the young man and the shadow entity fidgeted anxiously.

“Can I make it so I don’t see the chat window at all?”

“O-Of course! If you type /all mute, you won’t see any chat from teammates or the enemy team.”

“Thank you.”

At the young man’s answer, Cheon Seoa types all mute without hesitation.

With that, the wildly flowing chat suddenly stopped.

Only then did Cheon Seoa show a satisfied smile, and soon.

“This is quite fun.”

She flashed a bright smile at the young man and the shadow monster who had recommended the good game.