294 – Childhood Friend (2)
-The fact that the four apostles suffered from amnesia is entirely a result of their intentions.
-For reference. They wanted you to accept the situation as it is and not overcomplicate it.
-Well, if you really feel bad, you could restore their memories right now.
-Then you think they’ll find it quite boring?
-So, all I have to say is this.
“Try to do well… “
What on earth were our friends thinking and what were their intentions when ordering Gigi the strange option of amnesia?
I had no way of knowing.
In this way, the conversation with Ki ended up only increasing new questions rather than resolving existing questions.
Well, anyway-
Did you get nothing from your conversation with Gigi? Well, that wasn’t the case again.
The doubts remained the same, but the anxiety disappeared.
Now that we have learned that our friends’ loss of memory is not an accident or incident, but an event.
In fact, in some ways, our friends losing their memories may have been a strategic choice.
According to Ki’s words, the more faithfully my friends and I engage in this virtual life, the faster the causality accumulates –
If you lose your original memories like our friends, you will be able to immerse yourself more deeply in this virtual life.
Maybe that’s why our friends temporarily sealed their memories.
“You idiot, the food is going to get cold.”
Just when I had gathered my thoughts to some extent, I heard Miss Miz urging me on from the living room.
I suddenly became curious.
How should I treat Ms. Miz?
Just like you originally treated Ms. Miz?
Or, as a childhood friend to fit the setting of your virtual life?
‘After all, it’s Huzanga.’
The worries did not last long.
No matter how blind I am, I can’t read the atmosphere, but it wasn’t serious enough to break my friends’ memories while they were immersed in their virtual lives.
More than anything, wouldn’t the cause and effect accumulate more quickly if you immerse yourself in the setting?
For that reason.
I fully accepted the ‘memories of my childhood friend Ms. Miz’ that were sitting in a corner of my mind.
“I’m leaving~”
Should I say I am fortunate?
My relationship with my childhood friend Ms. Miz was not much different from my existing relationship.
I was worried about what would happen if my acting was awkward, but I was able to interact with my childhood friend Ms. Miz very naturally.
A different daily life begins to build causality.
***
“Taran~”
As I entered the living room, I saw Ms. Miz welcoming me with open arms.
“Has nothing changed for me?”
Ms. Miz, standing at attention and spinning in place like a character in the character selection window.
‘Oppa, I haven’t changed anything…!’
This is a very bad question that divides men and women.
But fortunately, I could clearly see Ms. Miz’s change in my eyes right now.
Miss Miz was wearing an apron, unlike before.
“Did you buy a new apron?”
“Nod. What?”
Miss Miz adjusted her posture by standing crookedly with both hands on her hips.
“Deadly posture.”
“It’s definitely going to be fatal to your back health.”
“A bewitching posture.”
“Be careful of back pain.”
“That’s superhuman mental strength. Even though this body does this, it doesn’t give up?”
I was embarrassed.
That’s right, because what I could see right now was a small girl wearing an apron with a flaming skull on it and awkwardly posing.
The same goes for the T-shirt with the animation character on it that I was wearing just now.
Looking at it, our childhood friend Ms. Miz seemed to have quite avant-garde tastes.
“What can I say? It’s an amazing design. It looks like something a clerk at a restaurant like Tteokbokki would wear.”
“Isn’t it cute?”
“Hmm…”
“That’s a shocking reaction. Then what about me?”
“Hmm…!”
“Kugung!”
Miss Miz fell to the floor and expressed her frustration.
“It was an appeal to my conversion…!”
“Is this an apron with a flaming skull on it?”
“Isn’t it s*xy?”
“Hmm… I’ll try my best to have that perspective.”
“Damn it. Now that things are like this, I have no choice but to move on to plan B.”
“Taran~”
Miss Miz got up from her seat and pointed to the table while making a sound effect in an emotionless tone.
“Oh…!”
There was a generous meal – no, a full table set out there.
Is it Halloween today?
It was only for a moment, but that thought occurred to me.
The omelet rice had ketchup sprinkled all over it to cover up the ruptures, and it looked like a smiling face shedding bloody tears.
The seaweed soup piled high with undercooked seaweed looked like a ghost that had just crawled up from a well to place a curse.
There’s even grilled zombie fish with pieces of flesh missing here and there, and eggs that have been cut into pieces.
“What do you think? Young man. Are you feeling a little on fire?
“It’s on fire… Wow, it’s definitely a visual that whets the appetite…”
“What about s*xual desire?”
“Uh… What part of that…?”
“A s*xy lady who cooks?”
That attitude again.
Would Ms. Miz be happy if I told her the truth that making an S line with her petite body would only be cute?
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“…I’ll try my best to make you feel that way!”
“Hmm. Good posture. Passed! You deserve to eat my cooking.”
I sat in front of the table under the guidance of the chef, who was very courageous in many ways.
“My heart is pounding.”
Miss Miz, who was sitting across from me, rested her chin on both hands and looked at me with sparkling eyes.
“Uh-“
It was then that I discovered the bandage wrapped around Ms. Miz’s finger.
Coarsely cut vegetable pieces of omelet rice.
A bandage wrapped around Ms. Mizu’s finger.
My gaze went back and forth between them for a while.
“Huh? Ah.”
Miss Miz, sensing my gaze, relaxed her posture and looked down at her hand full of bandages.
The atmosphere of the place became heavy in an instant.
What is my appropriate response in this situation?
Eating delicious food without saying anything?
Ask Ms. Miz if her hands are okay?
After finishing the meal with tears in your eyes and a runny nose, you bow down and say you are indebted to me?
“Ta-da.”
At that time, Ms. Miz removed the bandage while making a sound effect with her mouth.
“…?”
The spot where the band-aid was attached was clean without a single scratch.
“I prepared a prop with a band-aid to highlight the unique side of my childhood friend who is not good at cooking but tries hard, but isn’t this true? Isn’t he really talented at cutting knives?”
“…”
“Still, I tried to put a band-aid on it because it was disappointing. What’s it like? Does it burn a little?”
I immediately got up from my seat and approached Ms. Miz.
Miss Miz looks up at me while sitting down.
My hands went towards Ms. Miz’s face.
“Oh… Is there a big one…!”
Miss Miz closed her eyes while muttering.
“Wow~”
At the same time, the lips protrude in a devious way.
“uuung-!!!”
Those lips just let out a scream.
Both of my hands mercilessly pulled on Ms. Miz’s cheeks.
In a moment.
Miss Miz, who was finally freed from her cheek-stamping brother, spoke while rubbing both cheeks.
“How about mine? Was it soft?”
“It was so poor that I couldn’t feel anything.”
“Kugung!”
I felt like I had a complete understanding of how to treat my childhood friend, Ms. Miz, through a series of steps.
An immature younger sister.
I thought this would be exactly what it would feel like if I had a younger sister.
Is this really what the distance between childhood friends is like?
I’ve never had a childhood friend, so I’m not sure.
“Okay, let’s eat. Miss Miz. I’ll eat well.”
“…Wait. Can you say that again?”
“What do you say?”
“The part where Miz will eat you.”
Miss Miz held out her cell phone with the recording function turned on.
I ignored it and just scooped up a spoonful of omelet rice and put it in my mouth.
“…!”
“It’s that delicious?”
It was food from my home world that I had tried for the first time in a long time, and it was a breakfast that Ms. Miz carefully prepared for me.
At first I was a little taken aback by the aggressive visuals, but I was immediately moved by it.
I was confident that I would enjoy the food no matter what it tasted like.
I planned to repay Ms. Miz’s cooking with a smile full of emotion.
“Ta!”
“What?”
But my plan collapsed in the face of an overwhelming storm of taste.
“And run!”
“Does that mean it tastes like honey? I just happened to add some honey.”
“And what the hell!!!!! Ms. Miz! What on earth did you put in the omelet rice!?”
“A little vinegar for sterilization?”
“Why sterilize!?”
“I guess I wanted to cook a healthy dish for an idiot.”
“Can healthy food be interpreted that way?”
“Shame.”
“It’s not a compliment!”
“I’m embarrassed.”
“Besides-“
Is there anything different in this world?
What was inside this omurice was a different world.
I took another bite of the mysterious hop mixture, feeling like an adventurer exploring a cave.
“Vinegar and honey alone couldn’t have tasted like this…! What else did you add!?”
Miss Miz rested her chin and stared at the omelet rice and said.
“Sincerity and affection?”
“Oh my gosh!!!”
As I was sighing, my mouth was filled with saliva due to the sour taste of omurice.
***
“Good, I ate…”
Clink.
I put down the spoon weakly.
Clap clap clap clap.
Then, the sound of Ms. Miz clapping was heard from the side.
“Hey, eat all that? It’s too strong.”
“Miss Miz… Shouldn’t you be impressed by the fact that I ate the dish deliciously despite Ms. Miz’s poor skills?”
“That emotion evolved into admiration. Anyhow, I think there was something in between that was difficult to ignore. Despite my poor skills?”
“Ah! Without realizing it, I realized my true intentions!”
“If you keep doing that, I may never make you breakfast again.”
“Despite Ms. Miz’s poor workmanship. Despite Ms. Miz’s poor workmanship. Despite Ms. Miz’s poor workmanship. Despite Ms. Miz’s poor workmanship.”
“If you keep saying that, I’m starting to get angry. Tomorrow, I’ll try a more difficult dish.”
“…”
As soon as we started accumulating causality, a desperate crisis came.
Will I be able to build causality safely?
“Well, I’ll stop joking here. Ms. Miz. I really enjoyed the meal. Quite… What can I say? It was a different and enjoyable experience.”
“It was delicious, right?”
“Apart from the taste, I was happy that someone was preparing breakfast like this for me.”
“Why are you ignoring that? For your information, if you marry me, you can eat things like this every day.”
“That must never be overlooked.”
“What warning is this?”
Trace Ten Commandments No. 1.
Never pile up dishwashing areas.
After the meal is over. I moved the used dishes to the sink and immediately started washing them.
“Even if I did it.”
“In the first place, this kind of thing is done by people who have earned it.”
“What is it? Are you indirectly criticizing someone who has been getting a lot of money and not once thought about doing the dishes?”
While I was washing the dishes, Ms. Miz sat nearby and spent time alone.
One fact about my childhood friend Ms. Miz.
Miss Miz was very interested in subculture.
While I was washing dishes, I could hear the sound of an animation that Ms. Miz was playing on her cell phone from behind.
“Damn it, Gojo Satoru. Stop being so strong. There’s no tension in the story at all.”
That, combined with the sound of dishes being washed, created a very peaceful atmosphere.
Now that I think about it.
I felt like this was the first time I was spending such peaceful time alone with Ms. Miz.
Sometimes such a situation did not arise, and sometimes conditions were not available.
In this world, I was always driven by the quest to save the world.
‘Questra…’
But when I started the quest, I suddenly became curious.
What would happen if I displayed the cause-and-effect accumulation I am currently doing in the quest window, like the girl of light did?
‘Are you trying to accumulate about 10% with one person?’
While I was thinking about it, I tried conveying my idea to Gigi using electromagnetic magic.
If you can check how the process of building causality is progressing, it will be of great help in building causality in the future.
-That sounds fun!
He actively supports my ideas.
And after a while.
-Come on!
With those words from Ki, a window appeared in front of my eyes.
[Progress: 0%]
“…”
Is this all?
Ki, the god of our Earth, seemed to be quite interested in minimalism.
This is a window with a design that brings out the beauty of blank space to the extreme.
The content is also poor.
Above all – progress.
‘Why are you at 0%?’
Breakfast with Ms. Miz, which was full of both joy and pain, had no effect on building up cause and effect.
This was quite shocking.
I am lost now.
“Fool?”
“Hmm?”
“What are you thinking?”
I think he was so shocked that he assaulted Meng for a moment.
Miss Miz paused the animation and asked me a question after seeing me standing still with the water running.
“Oh, it’s no big deal. I guess I was just looking back on a happy time.”
“Hmm. There is a saying that good food is remembered not for its taste but for its memories.”
“I thought it was a very stylish line considering Ms. Miz’s cooking skills.”
“Hey. A rude monologue came out. Be a good guard.”
“Oh, this is rude.”
When I looked at Ms. Miz for a long time, I was able to read her own emotions from that emotionless face.
Miss Miz laughed heartily, and I also laughed heartily.
A pleasantly comfortable atmosphere.
In that atmosphere, Ms. Miz seemed to be in agony for a moment, and then she opened her mouth with great difficulty.
“Fool.”
“Yes?”
“Fool… Don’t I bother you?”
“…Huh?”
Suddenly?
I also thought Ms. Miz was joking.
However, the mood Ms. Miz spoke in was more serious than before.
“Actually…”
Miss Miz paused as if she was having trouble continuing her words.
Okay.
After a while, Ms. Miz, who managed to make up her mind, continued speaking.
“Actually, I wanted to make this the last time I came to the idiot’s house.”
It was an untimely and shocking confession.
“Actually, I was planning to make today the last time I come over to the idiot’s house for a meal.”
“Huh? Why?”
According to virtual life settings.
Miss Miz and my parents were so busy with construction work that they barely even came back home, let alone to Korea.
They are terrible parents who think that all they need to do is give them money.
So, Ms. Miz and I spent a lot of time alone at home since we were young.
It was very natural that we got to know each other by chance and ended up spending time eating together to relieve our loneliness.
It’s been 10 years now since the relationship that started when we were little kids.
“That’s right… It’s a nuisance.”
With her guilty face, Ms. Miz summed up the exchanges of those long years.