Jeongmo (Guild Meetup)

I wanted to go back after watching the tournament, but of course, that was rejected.

These large-scale tournaments were rare unless it was a world championship-level event, so I wanted to see the globally famous LORE Korea tournament in person and feel the excitement.

But because of the things I had done, I nodded and went home as Anna-unni said.

I had no choice but to watch the game through the broadcast.

I apologized once again in my heart to that Mr. Woo-cheol, the manager of this tournament, for the commotion in the broadcast chat, which was still buzzing with my story.

Although there was a commotion caused by me, the tournament thankfully regained its momentum thanks to the passionate commentary of the casters and commentators.

The competition proceeded with a total of 24 participants who had already passed the preliminaries.

They were amateur users, not pros, but their skills were definitely amazing.

They showed unexpected strategies and created admirable scenes.

The tournament was on fire with the games of such users.

Among them, a user who showed overwhelming performance won with overwhelming skill.

I thought I would see that user in a pro tournament soon.

After arriving at the hospital room and greeting my unnis, I quickly fell asleep due to the fatigue from the seizure.

‘I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s Jeongmo… Heumnya…’

==

I couldn’t figure out if this was okay, better, or worse.

No tears, snot, or saliva, but empty eyes containing death, a small nose that made me doubt if she could breathe, and lips that were smiling but made me doubt if she was really smiling were definitely things I saw on the screen, but seeing them in a real photo felt different again.

“Arang-ah…”

Kang Hye-sol’s eyes welled up with tears as she looked at Arang’s photo on her phone screen.

It wasn’t just because of the single photo Arang had just uploaded that she was crying.

Sadly, the photo before the one Arang uploaded was also a photo Arang had uploaded.

It was a photo of Arang smiling brightly, bragging that she had reached Grand Master rank.

“KKiyaaaaaaak!”

While looking at the photo Arang had just uploaded, she trembled and unknowingly touched her phone, and it switched to the photo of Arang smiling brightly.

Arang’s photos, which had completely different atmospheres to the point of being polar opposites, made the viewers feel even more heartbroken.

“Hye-sol-ah, are you okay?”

“I’m not okay…! Unni, did you know about this…!?”

“Yeah. I knew.”

“I see. Is Arang-i in a lot of pain…!?”

“They say she’s in a stable condition right now, but because her condition suddenly improved, no one knows when or how it might change…”

“That can’t be…!”

Ttiring!

[Lee Arang]: Don’t worry, everyone! I’m completely healthy~ The guild Jeongmo tomorrow will proceed without any problems! See you all tomorrow!

Arang spoke as if it were nothing, whether she knew the feelings of the guild members right now or not.

“Eiiiiik! How can I not worryyyyy!”

Kang Hye-sol jumped up and shouted.

“Unni, that’s so unfair! How could you keep hiding such important things!”

“If I told such heavy stories, and Arang’s story, you wouldn’t see Arang as just Arang.”

“Th… That’s… but…”

“I was so surprised when I first saw Arang too…”

Kwon Mi-ae recalled the first time she met Arang at the guild Jeongmo.

Even thinking about it now, it was a meeting that made her hands tremble.

“Heung…! Mi-ae unni, tell me the story of the guild Jeongmo when you first met Arang right now!”

“Okay.”

==

The day of the Munchkin Cat Guild Jeongmo.

The location of the guild Jeongmo was suddenly changed yesterday.

No one in the guild said anything about changing it suddenly the day before the Jeongmo.

First of all, the distance from the original Jeongmo location wasn’t significantly different, and the changed location was a hospital.

Everyone had seen the condition of their guild leader, Arang, yesterday, so the guild members accepted the Jeongmo at the hospital.

Kwon Mi-ae and Kang Hye-sol walked towards the hospital entrance that Arang had marked on the map for the guild Jeongmo.

Soonchu and Pinku Berry were already talking with other guild members at the meeting place.

“Bae-deopgae, welcome.”

“Hi hi.”

Soonchu greeted her friend Bae-deopgae, and in that way, all the Munchkin Cat guild members except for the guild leader gathered.

All the gathered guild members were good people, and the most noticeable person among the guild members was Palgiri (Arm Length).

“Wow…”

Mara Jjamppong looked up at Palgiri, tilting his head all the way back.

“Hello. Mara Jjamppong-nim. I am Palgiri.”

“Ah, h-hello. Wow… Palgiri-nim, you’re so huge? I felt like you were really big in LORE too… So that wasn’t stretched, but shrunk.”

His massive height of what looked like 2 meters and the physique to match would make anyone lower their head and run away if they didn’t know Palgiri.

Mara Jjamppong got goosebumps while shaking hands with Palgiri.

‘It looks bigger than my face…?’

“Come to think of it, why is Palgiri-nim’s nickname Palgiri 10cm?”

Because his height was overwhelmingly tall, the topic of conversation naturally turned to Palgiri.

“Uh… well… the truth is… I changed my nickname to make fun of the guild leader’s short and petite arms…”

“Uwat…”

Everyone was speechless at Palgiri’s words.

“He’s a devil.”

“He’s a devil…”

“I, I didn’t know it would turn out like this…!”

“But it turned out to be true. Arang’s arms are probably only about 10cm.”

“Soonchu-nim!!!”

Soonchu said with a smile, and Palgiri hung his head low, and Soonchu clapped and said.

“Shall we go to the guild Jeongmo now?”

“But is there enough space in the hospital for this many people to have a guild Jeongmo? Even if there’s a lounge, it feels like it would be a nuisance…”

Everyone nodded at Palgiri’s words. No matter how big the hospital was, they were worried about causing trouble to others.

“Everyone, don’t worry. Just follow me.”

Soonchu, Pinku, and Bae-deopgae walked ahead, and the remaining guild members followed them.

They walked past what was probably the largest building, and everyone started to wonder, and after walking for a while, a building that was about 5 stories tall stood before them.

“What kind of building is this?”

It was a building with a different appearance from the other hospital buildings. It was more like a mansion than a hospital building. It was clear that they had put a lot of effort into the exterior, to the point where it didn’t seem like a building inside a hospital.

“To put it simply, it’s Arang’s private building…? You could say.”

“Arang’s private building, you say?”

“Yes. Arang is the only patient in this building, and all the medical staff working here are only here for Arang.”

“Euek!? This entire building is just for Arang!?”

“Yes.”

“Welcome.”

Arang’s doctor, Kim Hye-sun, guided the guild members who had come to play with Arang into the building.

She meticulously completed all the necessary procedures for entering the building in preparation for any possible incidents. She worked even harder because of what had happened yesterday.

“Shall I wake Arang up and bring her here?”

“Is Arang still sleeping?”

“She’s in the virtual world right now.”

“Is that so? Heum~ then…”

Soonchu came into the building and saw everyone looking around the first floor, and she thought of something.

“Shall we go meet our guild leader, Arang, now?”

They had originally planned to play together in the lounge on the first floor, but because they had gathered earlier than expected and entered the building early, they decided to wake up Arang, who was still playing LORE.

“Et, unni…?”

Pinku realized that Soonchu was doing this to tease the guild members and tried to stop her, but when she thought about how Arang had almost made her heart stop a few times, she thought it wouldn’t be bad for the guild members’ hearts to stop a little too.

Everyone followed Soonchu without any suspicion, and without thinking, they followed Soonchu into the hospital room where Arang was staying.

“”…!!!””

In that way, the hospital room where Arang was staying appeared before everyone’s eyes.

A huge bed and Arang, who was small and petite and had no arms or legs, compared to the huge connector.

Electrodes to check Arang’s condition were attached all over her body, and there were medical devices that showed Arang’s condition at a glance.

It was not the appearance of a healthy person by any means.

The female guild members with weak hearts shed tears, and the male guild members couldn’t close their mouths.

Arang’s appearance, which was on a different level from her appearance in LORE, made everyone’s hearts ache.

[Huh!? Why did everyone come so early!?]

At Arang’s cheerful voice, everyone raised their heads and looked around, and Arang’s surprised expression on the large screen on one wall caught their eyes.

Arang, riding a mount she had obtained from the tournament, making a gyaru peace sign in the air.

[There’s still 20 minutes left? What do you all think of this!? It’s totally awesome, right!? This is the 2-person limited mount I got from this tournament!!! Kya~ Look, it can even fly!? First come, first served for one ride!]

“”Eh…?””

“Pfft.”

“Keuheut…!”

Unlike the guild members who had serious faces, Arang was bragging to everyone about the mount she had obtained from this tournament, laughing and bragging, so everyone couldn’t say anything and just opened and closed their mouths.

Pinku, Soonchu, and Bae-deopgae, who already knew Arang, laughed at the guild members’ dumbfounded expressions.