chapter 4
004. goal! Goal!
“Let’s start class. I’ll call attendance first.”
It was the professor who organized this uncomfortable group, but it was also the professor who rented me in the frozen atmosphere a moment ago.
I could have thought that they gave me medicine and gave me medicine, but if Doa was Luca, I might have been given wild ginseng, not medicine.
“Na Seong-hoon.”
“Bae Yoon-cheol.”
The professor calls you by name.
Because Doa was Kim, she had already answered.
By the way, banana milk… You only eat low fat. Hmm…
The class lasted about two and a half hours, including a break, and the professor taught the first hour and gave us time to have a meeting for the rest of the hour.
It was common, but few teams talked about the project for the entire hour given.
There was a team where there was a group of friends who were close to each other, and there was a team that was scared to start and just chatted.
That’s why I saw the opportunity and thought that I should definitely talk about the prosecutor’s drama after the meeting.
“ruler. Then we will take a short break and have a meeting with the members.”
“Taemin. Wanna go get some coffee?”
Jun-seok tapped my elbow as soon as the break started.
“It is. What.”
“Would you like to go too?”
When Jun-seok asked the girls in Jo-won, they followed us.
“ah. But I don’t think we have anything to talk about for an hour.”
When Jun-seok muttered something annoying, Min-ji helped.
“a. What. It’s better than just two hours of class.”
“That’s true, but pretending to be doing something isn’t bothersome. Should I sneak out a major assignment for that?”
“I’d rather gossip than get caught doing that and look hateful. brother.”
Jun-seok and Min-ji go ahead.
And me and Doa following behind him.
Doa only looked at the screen of her phone, as if she didn’t want to make eye contact with me.
I wanted to text her, but what she was playing was a very classic brick-breaking game.
I’ve only done it for a short time, but it’s really just a way to kill time.
It wasn’t a long game.
“What would you like to drink?”
Upon arriving at the cafe, Jun-seok took out his card and said he would pay at once.
“I am Ice Americano!”
Minji was the first to answer, followed by me, who hadn’t thought much about the menu.
“me too.”
Come to think of it, I remember hearing about Luca’s cafe stories, so I watched with excitement about what menu Doa would choose.
“I… um… green tea latte.”
It’s ambiguous.
That was the diagnosis I made after recalling Luca’s broadcast.
[I usually buy strawberry yogurt or something like that often, right? But there are days when I just don’t like sweets. you know what You know what.]
[Then, just order a green tea latte. How many people eat this? But is this really a good drink with a low failure rate?]
[Wow. tasteless. Pity our Pingtukdans who don’t know the greatness of green tea~]
Luka, who had been flooded with booing in the chat window, fought steadfastly.
And I, who was present at the scene, was also ardently resisting Luca, who was trying to persuade us to drink green tea latte.
“ruler.”
When Junseok offered a drink, Doa reached out and grabbed the plastic cup.
“thank you.”
“Now let’s go in. I will be late.”
way back to the classroom.
I looked at Doa’s back with a little slow step.
[everyone. If I meet you in real life, you will never find me?]
[I’m a total jerk, so I hide my face a lot and don’t speak well.]
[Ah~ Because this is a broadcast~ We talk comfortably like this.]
In the broadcast, Luca was a person who was a complete insider.
He spoke eloquently, and his skill at taming the viewers was on the very end.
If I were to list the reasons I like Luca, I thought I could say 100 more, but in the end it came down to one sentence.
[Lucca is a very attractive person.]
Virtubers who use virtual avatars have to be charming in the end, even if they decorate Amman characters beautifully.
Because the virtual world is a world where everyone is equal when it comes to appearance.
If you wanted, you could make your eyes bigger or your nose taller with just one click.
That’s why you had to be more attractive than revealing your face to survive, and Luca proved that wonderfully.
“ruler. Then, let the meeting begin.”
The clutter subsided and at the professor’s words, we started a formal meeting.
“Shall we take a look at all the materials we brought?”
Jun-seok suggested that we share the materials we had brought together before the class through a tablet.
“This is the material I brought…”
Jun-seok, who was also a model student, prepared the right materials at the right time on his own.
“So I thought that a lot of people use this technique?”
“Ohh… I think something is fine.”
“Do you think I’m good too?”
“For now, I’ll look at the data Doa brought.”
[Expansion of the metabus market.]
As soon as I saw the title, I couldn’t help a coughing fit.
– Cool Cool Cool Cool
“hey. Taemin? Are you okay?”
“ah. uh. Let’s see.”
Did he shoot me, who was sitting in front of the monitor all day and staring at it?
The article Doa brought made me feel like I was hit in the bone for no reason.
“Certainly, new technologies of this kind are getting a lot of attention these days.”
Unlike me, who coughed up blood due to excessive immersion, Jun-seok read Doa’s articles very academically.
“But I don’t know how much this can be reflected in the finished video we will make later.”
“is that so?”
Doa looked like a downcast puppy, perhaps because she was sorry that the data she had found was not well-received.
“It’s not that it’s bad or anything like that, it’s because I can’t imagine the outcome well at this stage. Let’s take a look around and talk more.”
Afterwards, Minji and I had time to look over the materials prepared, and we eventually tried to come to an agreement to proceed with the project based on the materials prepared by Junseok.
“Then I think it would be nice to go with mine and mix some of the ideas you guys brought in between.”
“good!”
Wanting to start a small talk as quickly as possible, I eagerly helped Jun-seok clean up the mess as if he were barely there.
“I think it would be nice to put the contents of the metaverse that I brought back when it comes out.”
“yes.”
“great. Then, for now, I will proceed in this way, and I will write the plan and submit it.”
“Then, did you finish today’s meeting?”
“right?”
As soon as the captain gave permission, I immediately threw rice cakes with the mindset of a fisherman.
“what is it. Guys, this is a popular prosecutor drama these days. did you see that?”
“Five. Brother, can you see that?”
Minji, who seems to be the most personable among them, answered my words at once.
“They say it’s popular these days. I haven’t seen it yet.”
Everyone threw out one word at a time, but Doa, who I was most curious about, kept her mouth shut and didn’t say anything.
“What about Doa?”
In the end, I couldn’t stand it, so I asked her a question first.
“Ah… I enjoyed it.”
“Everything up to date?”
“yes.”
If it’s okay here, the next question was the key question.
“Which of the people out there did you like the most?”
“I think I liked the female lead the best…”
Since the content matched Luca’s report, I tried to ask a more in-depth question, but I was not given a chance.
“ruler. Is Joe doing well here?”
When the professor who had left the inspection approached the desk where we were sitting, Jun-seok straightened his back and explained the concept of our group.
“This topic itself is good, but um… go ahead. Next week I’ll take another look at your progress and tell you if it’s okay to go on.”
“All right. thank you.”
“Thank you~”
Ai… Why did the professor come at this timing?
I thought it was difficult to lead the conversation naturally, but I had to let go of all the fish I caught.
What other question should I ask Doa for twenty questions next time…
I didn’t ask a few questions, but I decided that I thought the probability that Doa was Luca was quite high.
Doa’s answer matched Luca’s personal tastes that Luca talked about on the air.
It was the moment when I thought it would be ambiguous to make a final decision because there was no final blow.
“Doaya. It’s my birthday tomorrow, so I’m having a drink with the kids. Do you want to come too?”
“Tomorrow is going to be a bit difficult. I have some work.”
“Cabi. Hyunji and Jiseon are also coming.”
“really? Ah…but I’m really busy this week…”
I had my ears pricked up towards the conversation between Minji and Doa, and I opened my eyes to the contents that followed.
“a. You can gather the kids and watch it again on your birthday. Doa. When did you say your birthday was?”
“not there yet.”
“So when is it?”
“me? October 25th.”
…goal!
Goal!!!
I just opened my mouth and looked at Doa with a devastated face.