Chapter 82 – You’ll Die Out Here
When I arrived at the game company in the car of the guide I had contacted in advance, the people in the lobby started whispering while watching the kids.
In particular, the reaction of men was very strong.
All the men passing by had their eyes drawn to this side, and a few even glanced at each other while drinking coffee.
Regardless of nationality, beauties always attract men’s attention.
‘But please don’t look at me with strange eyes.’
There are four women, especially beautiful women, next to me, so there are a lot of people staring at me at the same time.
Fortunately, she did not have to endure the gaze for long.
3 minutes after arriving at the lobby, a man came down and ran right there.
“Hello, I am Nakamura, the director of Grand Ragnarok! The Queens, right?”
“Yes, this is Soye Shin, Haeun Lim and Minji Park from The Queens. And this one is manager Lee Se-jin, interpreter Mr. Tachibana, and lastly, I am Yu Ga-hye, assistant manager.”
She was a little surprised to see Yu Ga-hye greet her in excellent Japanese.
I thought she was very competent because she didn’t know anything when she talked about work on the way home, but I would have thought she’d mastered Japanese as well.
Is this the original job of a secretary?
‘If you think that such a person would know between me and the kids… Ugh, that’s terrible.’
Cook.
As I was looking at Yu Ga-hye, shaking my teeth, So-ye stabbed her in the side.
“You should say hello too, Sejin.”
“Ah, that’s right. That… Oh, how are you?”
“Hello Sejin Lee! Let’s go straight to the conference room. Come over here.”
Director Nakamura smiles and responds to my simple Japanese greetings.
He said he was a game company, and also a game director with quite a high level of virtue, so I was worried that he would come out with an unusual person, but he also has thorough business manners.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I thought that if you were a director at a game company, you would be at the otaku level.
Just watching ordinary people, I thought ‘I don’t know anything…!’, Or I thought that I had no common sense and no business manners because I was only absorbed in my own worldview.
I apologized to myself and followed him into the building.
***
On the way up the elevator, director Nakamura looked at The Queens and thought.
‘Are these people interested in our game?’
He didn’t want to drag people who didn’t know anything into the world of Grand Ragnarok he had painstakingly completed.
If possible, I want to work with only people who are affectionate and understand my worldview well.
It’s Im Ha-eun, I’ve already advertised it, and the synchro is amazing, so even if I can’t help it…
‘Hmm, this kid is quite… Orianna and Synchro will be fine.’
Nakamura, who was looking at the other two members, turned to Park Min-ji.
It is quite difficult to find a model who is short but has big breasts, but who is satisfied with that?
‘The visuals are ok… But what about the inside?’
Unless he understands his worldview, he shouldn’t offer you a job.
After finishing his thoughts, he threw a question to test Minji Park.
“You said you were Park Min-ji, right? Do you like games?”
“I ask you, Minji.”
“That, that…”
“Of course I like it very much. Our Minji is a total gamer haha.”
“–That’s what you say, Mr. Nakamura.”
“Okay… What’s your favorite game?”
“I ask.”
“Uh… So…”
“I really like Grand Ragnarok too.”
“I say — Mr. Nakamura.”
Haha, that’s right.”
Seeing Lee Se-jin diligently answer instead, Nakamura was disappointed.
Park Min-ji didn’t even answer the question he asked himself, and the manager next to him hurriedly answered instead.
‘The visuals looked pretty good… Tsk, this isn’t it.’
Just as planned in advance, only Lim Ha-eun will hold the cosplay event, and the stage will end after talking about the opening group song of the game.
It was Nakamura who decided that inwardly.
On the other hand, looking at him like that, Park Min-ji thought.
‘I’m afraid I’ll laugh if I’m wrong, so I can’t speak well…’
It was Park Min-ji who saw Nakamura’s face several times in the Internet community while playing Grand Ragnarok.
When the gacha went bankrupt, when the event difficulty went crazy, when I barely had time to play the game, but then I had to check it out, and when the overseas IP was suddenly blocked and made it difficult to play, etc…
In all those cases, ‘Nakamura this shit! Garbage!’ Along with other users, swearing at him and making jokes with twisted memes of his face.
Is it because of those memories?
As soon as Park Min-ji saw him in real life, it seemed like she would burst into laughter reflexively.
‘I want to win a role in the course because I appealed hard… I’m going crazy because I’m laughing just by looking at it…’
I have a longing for work (?), But I can’t smile at people’s faces.
“…Wow.”
However, the moment Park Min-ji got off the elevator, he forgot all about laughing.
“Freya one-on-one scale figure…!”
An enormous figure made of a game character in real size in front of the office stole all of Park Min-ji’s attention.
It wasn’t the only thing that stirred her heart.
“Wow, Chi, the 1/7 Astraia moonlight version figure… All of the Dark Knights, even Petit Q…”
Aren’t there a lot of game goods everywhere on the computers and screens in the widely open office?
Park Min-ji’s eyes swung around here and there to see everyone gathered, including all kinds of limited editions.
“Well?”
Seeing her like that, Nakamura’s curiosity blossomed.
Wasn’t this girl just not interested in the game?
No, I guess she just liked her because she was cute.
“Do you like Astraia?”
“Yeah!”
To the question posed as a test, Park Min-ji answered directly in Japanese without going through an interpreter, and Nakamura was a little surprised by the response.
‘What? Have you really played our game?’
Was it because he was shy in the elevator?
“I-I really like you… ‘I thought of you even in a flash of light’…!”
When the smile disappears, the desire to appeal jumps out.
Park Min-ji diligently copied her in-game lines vocally, drawing her own attention.
“Oh oh.”
Not only is it in Japanese, but the acting tone is also well mixed.
Is this only possible if you know the game?
Nakamura began to admire Park Min-ji’s changed attitude.
“That’s amazing! It’s Astraea’s ambassador in this event, isn’t that?”
“Yeah! Ma, that’s right… It was fun… I liked it…”
“Ohh, yes yes yes. Are there any other characters you like?”
“My favorite… Character number one is that… ‘I’m going to live with you’, ‘Hey look, what an amazing sunset’, plus that, that… Virtia from ‘You’re coming out here and dying’. …!”
Park Min-ji, who is excited and continues to spit out voice imitations, appeals to her interest.
At that time, Lee Se-jin, who was next to her, whispered to Park Min-ji with a worried look.
“Minji, what did you just say? I’ve never heard of it…”
“I am Ambassador Virtia…’I will live with you’ and ‘Hey, look there, it’s a great sunset’, ‘You’re going to die here’…”
“Yayaya, isn’t that official?”
“Huh?”
“‘You’re going to die here’ is just a meme! Besides, isn’t the amazing sunset… A line from a doujinshi? Neither of those lines were written in the official text!”
“Heeep! Ha, ha, awah…”
Park Min-ji, realizing his mistake, began to panic without being able to deal with it.
Haha, that’s amazing! What a real fan!”
But that was exactly what was in Nakamura’s mind.
Not only do you know all the game characters, but you know all the lines of the famous doujinshi, and even Internet memes!
This doesn’t just mean superficial research, it means you’ve researched it properly, or you really like this game.
I thought that people who said they were K-pop idols wouldn’t be interested in a game like this.
‘There are so many things I want to do together with this kind of ‘Hon Mono’.’
I think we can use this group well not only for the event tomorrow, but also for various promotions in Korea.
This, don’t just pass it over, I have to commission this and that.
‘I hate it for people who don’t know this worldview, but it’s doubly welcome for those who know it well.’
It was Nakamura who immediately corrected his first thought as he became cheerful.
***
After the negotiations with the director were over, the dessert shop Minji wanted to try was nearby, so she took a short break there to give her a reward.
“It’s delicious? It’s very sweet.”
“Very… Delicious… Ehehe…”
“Don’t eat too much. Both of them are prone to gaining weight.”
“Me, me? Haeun-ah, I’m not like that. Whatever I ate…”
“It may go to the chest, but it also goes to the stomach a little.”
It was very satisfying to see the three of them resting while eating something delicious from a distance.
Come to think of it, I haven’t had this much free time lately.
There’s also a You Tube live scheduled for tonight, so I won’t be able to take a long break, but it’s best to take a break while I can and give a prize to someone who did a good job.
‘That director was Chin…’
After hearing the doujinshi line, it made me very happy, adding Soye and Minji’s personal work to tomorrow’s event, and allowing two more Queens songs to be performed on the group stage.
Judging from the fact that he said he wanted to continue working together even after returning to Korea, it seems that he will continue to contact us from now on…
I don’t know how the real world will go.
Even when Minji uttered that line, her eyes went dark at the thought of ‘It’s ruined!’
“It’s amazing, Mr. Lee Se-jin.”
I was watching the kids for a while, and Yu Ga-hye, opposite her, suddenly threw a compliment.
“Yeah?”
“Park Min-ji… You ordered me to study Japanese and games in advance, right? I’m going to use it when I talk to the director today.”
“Uh…”
No, it’s because Minji is just an otaku.
I can’t say that.
“…Sure. I ordered it a little earlier.”
“It’s quite useful. You can only do one thing at a time, but work comes before your own greed…”
“Yes?”
“No. Just talk to yourself a little.”
Slurp.
“Can I just ask you some personal questions?”
“Sure, of course.”
“Lee Se-jin, what is your goal?”
“That’s the success of The Queens.”
“That’s their goal. I’m asking about your goal.”
“Uh…”
No, I was really just thinking about raising Queens better.
More than that, well, to keep a good ‘relationship’ with the kids?
“Um…”
I was thinking about how to answer this sudden interview question, but the back of my head suddenly felt sore.
If you turn your eyes slightly, you can see that the children are quietly observing and staring in this direction.
“””…”””
If you just talk to Ga-hye Yoo, everything goes like that.
Baby, don’t be like that.
You have to hide as much as possible that you have a relationship, so you’re only keeping your distance in front of this person.
“…Well, the bigger the ambition, the harder it is to speak in front of others.”
“Oh, yes?”
“Looks like I asked a stupid question. Just pass it on.”
Ga-hye Yoo takes a last sip of coffee after saying those words and becomes quiet.
What the hell are you thinking?
From this woman who doesn’t even know what she’s up to, she wonders why she erased the CCTV and why she’s inquiring about her.
‘I’m getting very tired from the first day.’
I just took a sip of coffee without saying a word.
***
‘What kind of scheme is he plotting?’
Looking at the man in front of her eyes, Yu Ga-hye rolled her head as best she could.
She said, ‘When she saw the CCTV footage, she wondered if the company was just taking care of her own needs… She was using the app to work instead of making her a sex slave.’
The app given to Lee Se-jin is a low-performance version.
That’s why she can’t issue more than one command at a time.
However, Lee Se-jin was using that one command right to work.
Im Ha-eun made her do an act she didn’t want to do, and Park Min-ji made her study to advance into Japan.
‘As a man, women like that would just be crazy.’
Making these kids work hard…
Are you a eunuch? Or gay?
So what the hell was it about having time alone with the kids in the first place?
The only thing I could confirm with the CCTV was that I had a private time with my kids in a place where no one else was around, but I couldn’t find out what I was doing during that private time.
‘Even if I deliberately ask what ambition is, of course he avoids answering…’
Did you notice that this person is observing deeply?
Then this man, in many ways, is hard to be vigilant.
He was a man who immediately tried to find out the truth as soon as he gave the app, so is it natural?
‘Since he said he couldn’t use that method again… Even if it was difficult, he would have no choice but to dig it himself.’
There is still plenty of time left.
Yu Ga-hye sipped her remaining coffee as she cleared her mind.
