Chapter 54: A Long Journey and a Familiar Welcome.

Showing an action as if there was something to say and then not opening your mouth is an act that belongs to a serious crime in South Korea.

It was only natural that Yu Sieun, who had committed such a heavy crime, was being interrogated by me, who had witnessed the scene of the crime.

“No, it’s really nothing.”

“If it’s nothing, then you can just tell me…!”

“Um. That’s…”

However, Yu Sieun’s interrogation wasn’t easy, as befit someone who had committed a heinous crime.

During the interrogation, Yu Sieun maintained a consistent attitude, stubbornly shutting her mouth and refusing to confess.

“I was just about to say that I hoped we could start the private lessons as soon as possible… I stopped myself from saying it.

It’s because I thought you, Eunsol, would also have schedules you had already planned, so it would be better to hear your words first.”

I had managed to draw out a meaningful answer at the end of a few minutes, but in my view, it was almost certain that it was an answer she had made up just now. Now that the years I had spent with Yu Sieun had gotten quite long, I could just tell by listening to her voice.

‘Huum….’

However, I didn’t continue with the additional interrogation late at night on purpose.

It was late at night.

It was a time when both I and Yu Sieun had to go to bed for tomorrow’s schedules.

“Then, shall we go tomorrow? What time would be alright for you?”

“Huh? Tomorrow?”

“You said just now that the sooner we proceeded, the better. I’m fine with starting from tomorrow. The season doesn’t have a lot of time left, either, so the more we reduce the variables, the better, right?”

“Hmm… That’s right. It seems you can come whenever it’s convenient for you. I’ll be at home anyway.”

“Then shall we decide on arriving around noon tomorrow?”

“Yeah. I’ll wake up early and wait.”

When the next morning dawned, I entered Yu Sieun’s address into the navigation app and wondered what would be the best way to travel there.

The most sensible route consisted of three buses and one subway. But the number of transfers was high, and there were also times I had to walk in between, so it was quite complicated.

I had only had the thought that it was quite far away when I had heard the address from Yu Sieun a few months ago, but it was beyond what I had imagined when I searched it directly.

Even so, it wasn’t to the extent that I couldn’t go, so there wouldn’t be a problem with carrying out the plan, but it seemed I would have to move quickly to keep the words that I would arrive by noon.

I had originally been thinking of picking out a present for my first visit, but now it seemed that keeping the time was more important.

I regretted that I hadn’t searched it at least once before going to sleep yesterday, but it was too late now.

I should just go empty-handed and say that I’m the housewarming present, and throw out a joke, or buy coffee from nearby and bring it in.

Since the former had a high possibility of being very forced, I decided on the coffee and got up from my seat.

Now that I had cleanly washed up and dried my hair, which I had just finished doing, the remaining preparations for going out didn’t take long.

I grabbed Yu Sieun Set #5, which I had newly purchased to match the weather that was getting colder when I had last met her a few months ago, and dressed myself in it.

After that, the preparations for going out were over with me dispersing my belongings, which were twice as plentiful as in the summer, into my pockets.

After opening the door and going outside like that, I headed for the bus stop while experiencing the somewhat cold air of late October.

The route that connected bus-subway-bus-bus ended about two hours later.

Public transit was something that was so subtle; traveling 15km with a bad route takes much longer than traveling 30km with a well-constructed route.

Yu Sieun’s house was a place that was both far and had a bad route for me. Surprisingly, the two hours I had taken now was also a travel time that had come out because things had gone well to some extent.

‘Huu….’

Was this process something that office workers and college students who moved around by public transit experienced every day?

It was probably less painful than the people who used public transit during metropolitan area [TL Note: the Seoul Metropolitan Area]’s rush hour, considering that I wasn’t moving during a time when people were crowded, even though I wasn’t moving with a route this tangled.

But it was like this even though that was the case.

I thought I might get a little freaked out by the harsh reality.

‘I have to keep walking….’

It was a private lesson that I had started of my own free will, but even so, I wasn’t confident that I could continue it for longer than a week if the commute was to this extent.

The energy consumption of the moving process was also energy consumption, but the problems with my main job were even bigger.

Even if solo ranked videos were work that took less effort, it still took about six hours. I couldn’t keep repeating a commute that sharply consumed both my energy and my time.

The final process of the journey towards Yu Sieun’s house, starting from the bus stop and walking, ended a little past noon.

I even had to scrap the plan to get coffee from nearby and bring it in since I had received a call from Yu Sieun, who said she would come down to meet me about halfway there.

2 months.

It was a period that, conceptually, felt a little lacking to say that you hadn’t seen someone in a long time. There were people who go on a trip that lasts 18 months, after all.

But, the ripening [TL Note: aging or maturing] method of meeting your only friend after a long journey seemed to be sufficient to amplify the effect of the two months by about two or three times.

“Eunsol-ah!”

“It’s been a while, Unni.”

Yu Sieun and I, who had finished an emotional reunion at the front gate of the apartment complex, walked into the building as is.

Whether it was that the emotion Yu Sieun felt had acted as an effect that strongly enhanced her, there was a feeling that the location where we had touched when she had hugged me tightly earlier still had some heat remaining.

When we passed through the central entrance and got on the elevator, Yu Sieun pressed the 7th floor button.

I had the thought that she was living where she wanted to in reality, unlike in the game, but I thought I would get hit if I said it out loud, so I didn’t bring it out to outside the range of my lips.

I was going to Yu Sieun’s house, but unlike at first, I didn’t really feel any tension or anything like that.

Even though it was a new house, I wondered if it was because simply going into a house was an experience I had done before.

The fact that the password hadn’t changed either added to the familiarity.

While watching Yu Sieun enter the numbers with her birthday backwards into the door lock, I took the final steps of going into Yu Sieun’s house.

After passing the shoe rack and opening the inside door and going inside the house, Yu Sieun, who had taken off the coat that she had been wearing outside and put it on the living room, turned back to me. It seemed she would roughly show me the room.

“Well then, the room that’s seen the most when you come in is the broadcast room.”

There were three rooms in Yu Sieun’s house, which I had just looked around at in the living room.

One room that was seen the most when you went in through the inside door, which Yu Sieun was explaining now was the broadcast room. And two rooms that were facing each other on the opposite side after you passed the living room.

‘Wow….’

The broadcast environment in the broadcast room that Yu Sieun was introducing now had been strengthened to the point where it couldn’t be compared to the broadcast environment that had been set up in the place where Yu Sieun had lived before.

“…It seems like it’s been upgraded a lot.”

“The space has gotten a huge amount wider, hasn’t it. I’ll be able to install the other equipment too when the time to need it comes.”

If it was other equipment, it was probably things for the camera broadcast after achieving Grand Master that she had been foretelling.

“If you’re going to put up things like chroma key or lighting… it certainly would have been a little narrow in the previous house.”

“That’s right. But I don’t know well if I’ll be able to install them within this year.”

“I won’t say it like it’s definite, but Unni, you can almost definitely go to Grand Master, like 99 percent. I also came here to mentally care for you to be positive, rather than play.”

“Yeah. I have to do it with a positive heart….”

“What time will you start broadcasting?”

“1 o’clock today. There’s still some time left, so do you want to see the other places too?”

“I’d like to.”

Yu Sieun, as is, dragged me and went into a place that was open among the two doors, crossing the living room. It was the bedroom that Yu Sieun used.

It was a clean room, just like when I had visited before.

If you put the house owner, Yu Sieun, into it, I would have to say that it would make you nod on your own.

As such, since nothing big like a surprise happened, I threw a question at Yu Sieun, containing one question that had just come to me.

“Unni, but what room is that side room? It’s just that only that one had the door closed.”

I didn’t think it was a question that would be rude.

Yu Sieun, who had just shown me her broadcast room and bedroom, wouldn’t probably be using the room with the door closed for more personal purposes than these.

“” “

“U-, Um?”

But Yu Sieun was showing a suspicious amount of fluster after hearing my question.

“…Why are you surprised?”

“I’m not surprised. It’s just that, I didn’t expect you to ask. That room is just a place I use for storage. It’s a room where I put things I don’t use and clothes and stuff.”

It seemed quite surprised for something like that, but I, thinking of Yu Sieun who would have to seriously fight in the canyon soon, didn’t press any further.

I probably had to be that there were things in the storage room that she would be embarrassed to show to me.

Did she have a pillow with a character drawn on it or something? I hadn’t discovered it when I had come to Yu Sieun’s house before, but it could have come into existence in the meantime.

“……Shall we go to the broadcast room now? I think I should slowly start getting ready.”

As I was standing still, Yu Sieun tried to take me back to the broadcast room.

“I’d like to.”

I obeyed Yu Sieun’s guidance without resistance.

Respect for privacy.