Levinas trembled as she typed out her own version of a curse word.

Judging by her expression, she seemed to feel guilty about it.

“Levinas, should we apologize?”

“Mm-hmm!”

Levinas slowly typed out each letter.

She finished spelling out “Sowwy for da bad wowds” at a snail’s pace.

Apologizing in such an informal way didn’t seem quite right.

I intervened before Levinas could hit enter.

-Sowwy for da bad wowds

The completed message was full of typos.

We couldn’t help it, sharing one keyboard between the two of us.

The person who had started the argument with us apparently didn’t like this message either, voicing a small complaint:

-You messed up the old man act.

“Act!”

He meant he didn’t like Levinas’s chat style.

Having explained it once before, Levinas understood the meaning this time too.

Woo woo!

Levinas angrily started lightly tapping the desk next to the keyboard.

Just then, Kwon Arin returned from the bathroom and grabbed Levinas’s hand.

“What are you doing?”

“Chat!”

Levinas pointed at the chat window with her finger.

Kwon Arin checked the chat history using the mouse wheel and started giggling.

“Hold on.”

Kwon Arin aimed her smartphone camera at us.

It looked like she was taking a photo or video.

After capturing our chat exchange too, Kwon Arin sat down at her seat.

Then she started typing:

-Watch out. You might get assassinated IRL for that.

-LOL, as if they’d actually kill someone in real life?

-Yeah LOL. I almost died IRL once for a slip-up in game LOL

-?? Did you actually meet up to fight?

Kwon Arin didn’t immediately answer the other person’s question.

She just fiddled with her smartphone and the game’s gallery feature.

-Check my gallery

The gallery was like a small blog where you could post photos and videos.

What Kwon Arin uploaded was the video of us she had just taken.

It showed an angry Levinas and me looking around nervously.

The video ended by showing our chat exchange.

‘Why do I look like that?’

Am I overreacting a bit?

As I moved my facial muscles, feeling self-conscious about my expression, a chat from the person who had argued with us popped up.

“Ah” was all they said.

They didn’t move for a while after that.

-Of all the… LOL

-RIP

-Be careful or you’ll become human garbage in an instant LOL

Other players surrounded them.

They started chatting in ways I couldn’t quite understand.

“Why are they acting like that?”

“Well…”

After standing still for a while, they started dropping items on the ground.

It looked like they were telling us to eat the items in front of us.

‘What’s going on?’

Is it okay to just eat random stuff like this?

If they’re dropping it on the ground, it probably isn’t anything too good, right?

While I was thinking this alone, Levinas started picking up and eating the items on the ground.

-Nom nom

After eating all the items, Levinas typed a message indicating she had enjoyed the meal.

She even threw some event fireworks into the sky.

It was Levinas’s way of saying thank you.

-Nom nom LOL

-That’s definitely Levinas LOL

How did they know it was Levinas typing?

They can’t see outside the screen, right?

I sat quietly and just watched everyone’s chat messages.

Then the person who had gotten angry at us made a bowing motion.

-Heh heh ;;

With an awkward laugh, they bowed down while Levinas set off fireworks in front of them.

It seemed they had made up well, which was a relief.

—

We were able to clear the final boss quickly.

It was thanks to targeting only the boss’s weak points as it moved rapidly.

-Gyeoul’s insane reflexes, wow

-How is the weak point hit rate 98%???

Thanks to hitting the weak points so well, the boss was frequently staggered.

That lowered the boss’s difficulty, allowing us to defeat it easily.

“Did we get first clear?”

“Yeah. They count the first five teams as first clear, and we definitely made it into the top five.”

Kwon Arin expressed her joy.

But that was short-lived.

After turning off the computer, Kwon Arin took us outside.

It was due to Yeoreum’s instructions not to game for too long.

“Ahem.”

Levinas looked proud as she left the PC bang.

She seemed pleased about defeating the strongest boss in the game.

“Levinas, that was really fun.”

“Yup! Levinas is strong when with King!”

Levinas flexed her arm muscles as if showing off.

Then she ran over to a nearby machine.

“This measures strength!”

“…A punching machine?”

“Yeah! It proves Levinas’s power!”

Levinas threw a punch at the reclined punching machine.

Thump thump thump-

She hit it enthusiastically with her small fists.

Since no money was inserted, no score appeared.

“Do you want to try it?”

Kwon Arin took some coins out of her wallet.

Levinas had the biggest reaction.

“Can I really?!”

“Sure. As much as you want.”

When Kwon Arin inserted the money, the punching machine rose up.

Levinas, who had been excitedly stamping her feet, threw a punch at the machine.

“Punch!”

Bonk-!

The punching machine tilted back slightly.

The score slowly climbed to 720 points.

Considering 9999 was a perfect score, it was quite low.

“How was that?”

Even so, Levinas looked confident.

She seemed to think 720 was a pretty high score.

“That’s amazing. It’s a three-digit score. Usually only adults can do that.”

“Yeah, Levinas is surprisingly strong, huh?”

“Levinas, that’s incredible.”

Me, Kwon Arin, and Saebyeok praised Levinas in turn.

Levinas’s shoulders rose proudly.

“I’ll give it a try next.”

Kwon Arin threw a punch at the punching machine as it rose again.

It had the characteristic heaviness of an adventurer.

Whack-!

Despite the powerful impact, the score only reached 5532.

It was barely over half of a perfect score.

‘That was really strong though?’

Kwon Arin looked fairly satisfied.

It seemed like a decent score.

Maybe they graded harshly in a world with so many strong people.

“Whoa! Five thousand!”

Levinas’s ears perked up in surprise.

There was quite a gap in scores, but it was the difference between an adult and a child.

Levinas seemed to understand this and wasn’t particularly upset.

“Saebyeok, want to try too? You’re the strongest after all.”

“Okay.”

As the coin was inserted again, the punching machine rose.

Saebyeok threw a punch that didn’t look very strong.

It was clearly a light punch, not using her full power.

Even so.

WHAM-!

The punching machine slid back a few centimeters.

She had pushed back the seemingly heavy machine with just a punch.

“Whoa!”

“Wow…”

The score that appeared on the machine was 9999.

She had gotten a perfect score with a light punch.

We couldn’t help but be amazed.

‘That’s incredible.’

How strong would Saebyeok’s punch be if she was serious?

Maybe I should ask her to show me later?

While I was lost in thought, the punching machine rose up again.

I instinctively sensed it was my turn.

“Gyeoul, you should try too.”

“Okay…”

As I stood in front of the punching machine, I realized something.

The strike point was too high.

It was because of my short height.

This meant I’d have to raise my fist up high.

But then I wouldn’t be able to put much power into it, right?

I hesitated before throwing my punch.

The pressure of everyone watching and the disadvantage of the high strike point meant I couldn’t put much strength into it.

Thud-!

The punching machine tilted back before returning to its original position.

The score was 0 points.

It had completely disregarded my punch.

I hadn’t missed – I’d hit it accurately, but this was the result.

“Hmm…”

Levinas nodded solemnly and patted my head.

She muttered “It’s okay, it’s okay” at the same time.

“King is still tiny, that’s why! When you grow up, you’ll be as strong as Levinas!”

“Huh…?”

But aren’t I stronger than Levinas already?

This was just because the strike point was weird, right?

I looked around feeling wronged.

But for some reason, everyone was nodding in agreement.

“The punching machine is still too difficult for Gyeoul.”

“Yeah. Gyeoul probably needs to use the kids’ version.”

“Um…”

It was frustrating, but I’d already shown what happened.

My body went limp with disappointment.

It seemed I needed to go home and rest.

—

After returning home, I lay down with my head on Yeoreum’s lap.

From that position, I watched the kids watching an anime.

“Strong horned wabbit! Invincible horned wabbit!”

Levinas sang along with the anime’s theme song.

I couldn’t help but giggle at how cute it was.

“Levinas speaks so adorably.”

“Hehe, kids’ lisps are cute, aren’t they?”

“Lisp?”

“Yeah. That’s why you’re cute too, Gyeoul.”

Me?

I had a lisp?

I looked up at Yeoreum with confused eyes.

“I think I speak quite clearly though?”

“Hmm, I don’t know? Your own voice usually sounds different to you.”

“R-Really…?”

Boom-!

I felt like lightning had struck above my head.

My ears pricked up in shock.

How does my voice sound to other people’s ears?

This seemed like something I needed to check properly.

I immediately turned on my smartphone’s voice recording function.

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