Chapter 28
Chapter 28 – Is he asking for a battle
“Ah, this is why everyone loves electronic keyboards . ”
“Meow, meow . ”
On top of Jaegun’s knees, Rika answered .
Jaegun’s fingers had a clearer sound than before when he was typing .
It was a mechanical keyboard from Hetae Media . It was just fun pressing the keys on the keyboards because of the pressure . He was curious before, but he never used one because it was expensive . Now he knew why everyone was singing mechanical keyboard is so good .
“Rika, you hear the sound . It’s different, right? I searched it up and it’s about 400 dollars . The last one was was a 9 dollar one bought at a emart . Why do you think they bought me this? Maybe they want me to write one more book for Pegelon’s Magician?”
Jaegun asked Rika and kept hitting the keyboard .
About noon, the outside was boiling hot, but the one room was cool because of the air conditioner .
Beep!
A call came from Suhee .
Jaegun stopped his typing and grabbed the phone .
“Ahn, Suhee . ”
“I got your additional quest . That was fun too . ”
“Thank goodness . ”
“Did you eat lunch?”
“I haven’t yet . You?”
“I came out to eat right now . Eat on time . Ah, how’s today dinner? I’m meeting Hyojin so do you want to call Jongjin and eat lunch together? The 4 of us?”
“Sorry, I have to write something so it might be hard . ”
Saying that, Jaegun pulled up a word document with his one hand . The “Child of the 90s” that he was going to enter the Digital Literary Contest came up on screen .
“You’re busy as always . Rest sometimes . Your body might crash .
“I’m only going till the 15th .
“Why is it the 15th? Ahah, you’re writing something special?”
Suhee had great recognition as always .
Jaegun laughed even though no one was looking and answered .
“I’ll tell you when I do well . ”
“Tell me when you don’t do well, too . I want to read it . ”
“Ok . ”
A small sigh came across the phone .
Jaegun, even though he felt sorry, didn’t have anything to say so he stood quiet . Then, Suhee’s cheerful voice came back .
“Well ok, if you’re busy . Let’s meet later . Good work and contact later . ”
Jaegun got his posture and put his hands on the keyboard . After breathing a few times, he started revising the ‘Child of the 90s . ’ It was the 3rd time today that he was checking it over .
‘Sir, this scene where he’s meeting a old friend in jail is fine, right?”
Jaegun remembered Se Gunwoo’s figure and threw a question at him .
It felt as though Se Gunwoo’s voice was coming through his ear .
‘It’s natural . It’s not bad . If it was me, I would hesitate a few moments after the first greeting . ’
‘Hm, that feels good . I’ll have to change . How about this scene where the main character meets his first love?’
‘There’s way too many useless conversation . The main character is just laying out his own story which doesn’t relate at all to the main character . Delete everything . ’
‘Delete everything? But shouldn’t he have to say this much so the girl knows and understands that he’s been through a lot?’
‘That’s all your thoughts . The writer’s thoughts are going into the story’s characters . Useless . It doesn’t fit at all either . ’It was when they were waiting for the elevator .
Somii pulled out her phone . It was from JAegun .
“Sir, it’s Writer Ha Jaegun . ”
“Writer Ha? What is he saying?”
Somii showed the message instead of words .
Tewon smiled at the 3 lines .
-I’ve almost finished the Digital Literary Contest story . I’ll write a sequel fantasy about 5 books and send them to you . Tell that to the editor as well . Have a great vacation . ^^
“THat guy is amazing . Writer Ha isn’t having any summer vacation . ”
Tewon got on the elevator
Writing a fantasy as soon as he finished the Digital Literary Contest story . Extreme stamina and effort . He didn’t think he could do that .
Somii asked while pressing the 1 button .
“You’ve written a fantasy story in student days, too right?”
“Yes . I realized in 2 years that this wasn’t by path . I’m grateful . It’s different creating and writing . Ah, didn’t you say you were drawing as well?”
“I’m grateful I realized in 1 year that this wasn’t my path . ”
“Hahaha”
The two people laughed at the same time in the elevator .
Somii grabbed her phone and pressed an answer to JAegun . Write the best story so you can rest next summer .
… .
‘Phew, I’m going craz…!’
Myunghoon was sitting down and standing up on the computer for a couple times .
Today was the announcement day of the Digital Literary Contest result .
Usually they give out contacts to the winners before the announcement date . It’s for the purpose of information giving and the purpose of writing their winning speech .
But Myunghoon didn’t get that . Since he used a pen name called Ah Sungwoo and he didn’t put an email or contact information, it was sure .
‘I should get it, brother’s revising is amazing . There’s no way I couldn’t win . ’
He wanted to win .
He wanted to destroy that face that Jaegun made .
He wanted to be recognized by Suhee was a wonderful writer who stepped ahead again .
‘Phew… phew…!’
Myunghoon calmed himself down by breathing . THen he closed his eyes and clicked on the news announcement title . The screen filled with award results .
Myunghoon was covering his eyes and looking . From the bottom as well . 1grand prize, 3 runner ups, and 15 participation prize, a total of 19 people were getting awarded .
‘Ok, it’s not in the participation prize, of course . My novel can’t possibly be in a participation prize . ’
Then Myunghoon’s stare went to the runner ups . At that same time, his two eyes burst open . A feeling of rage and delight came together to make a strange feeling that went through his body .
‘Runner up? I got the runner up prize?’
A sigh of relief came out but a huge disappointment came as well .
A pen name of Ahn Sungwoo with the story he made ‘The Lonely Man of Seoul’ was definitely in the runner up column .
‘Dang it…! What kind of amazing people entered that they gave me runner up? Does this contest have any idea at all? What part of the story are they judging about?!’
Myunghoon grinded his teeth and moved his glance left .
At that moment,
Myung Hoon went pale and froze .
A name that he would never pass by was right there in front of him .