The Gamer and his awkward boy (English Translation)

12

Co-translator : babibubego

12. Survivors are Worried About The Killer

Thee disappeared until the evening and Soh didn’t know if the other party had opened his messages. Even if you send your friend’s phone number to another round but the caring green balloon was not read yet. With anxiousness and concern Soh then call P’Laem for the peace of mind that the nightmare last night was just nonsense that he had thought or that it was an omen.

And he’s got good and bad news about P’Thee. The good news is P’Thee is safe and the bad news is P'Thee is often drunk at P'Tap's place due to heartbreak after breaking up with P'Bella and he needs some time alone. but P'Laem said that there is no need to worry about the tournament, because they will still compete on Wednesday.

But Soh is still worried, because his heartbreak isn't because they fought or broke up temporarily. But heartbroken because their story is really over.

What happened? That night Soh remembered that P'Thee went to pick up P'Bella, there was no sign that they would break up.

“Take this blow your nose.” Arm gave tissue to Soh who borrowed his phone to talk to the team members.

“Why is your voice like that Are you annoyed that I have snot?”

“No, because you look pathetic.” The person who spoke was sitting opposite Soh, while James took the risk of getting cold by sitting near Soh. “What happened?”

“P'Thee didn't read all my messages. I better wait than piss his off.”

“Come on, find him in his condo, you guys are close, I see him spoiling you. Ask how ironic he is.”

“Why does Arm sound angry?” Soh looked at his friend's flat face, “Are you angry because I have a team? Can you speak honestly.”

Arm and James looked at each other until the person sitting next to him grabbed Soh by the neck. The eyes of the sick person are ready to regret his mistakes and are also ready to correct them. Arm can understand without opening his mouth to explain, because he believes that Soh knows better than anyone else.

“Why should I be angry?”

“Because we don't play together often. but I'm still the same, you two are still the center of my heart.”

“Where is the center?” James frowned

“There is zero before one, even zero is more important than one of course.”

“I will get angry when you play jokes and you are close to your team, and still remember us both.”

“I started to catch up with people. So stop scolding me.” Soh said proudly as he folded his arms, James looked at his friend who was sitting across from him.

“I'm not mad, I'm glad you finally opened up to people other than me and James.” Arm says honesty. Although previously he was afraid to leave his best friend alone. but it seems he doesn't need to worry because Soh remains the same, just giving his time to be friends.

The worries they feel produce something positive, Soh makes friends, there are people with good hopes, and people who love what it likes. There were people who were pushing to the point of not daring to stand until so many people become interested and supportive.

Arm and James feels like sixties father watching their son grow.

“Don’t worry about me. The two of you are my friends. P’Thee is my brother who is in the same team. Everyone is important and I was too greedy too, I want keep it all to myself.”

“You’re talking more because you’re so keen, right?” James dimed his eyes as he lean away from Soh who keeps smiling after confessing his love so greasy that they can’t help.

The destination of this evening doesn’t end at the condo like every day. A skinny boy wearing a mask standing in front of the tall condo, looking for entrance which could be slick walking behind others. But he stood still there with tablet that James temporarily lent while waiting for the phone.

Even after arriving, Soh didn’t dare to send other messages to tell him that he was here. Courage and concern punching on another in the head and thought the courage side was not good at all. Soh could not knock on the other person’s door and act as if it were normal, how close is Soh with P’Thee? The young boy was aware.

Anyway Soh, would you take the bus to come back? If P’Thee was ready, he would probably reply your messages, but bring yourself here, are you really going to go back like this?

Soh frowned, clenched his mouth and his fist, turn his body full degrees and walked back on the way in. Even in his head he still argue

‘When you are need a comfort, P’Thee took a taxi to come to see you. so what are you doing now? Are you going back just like that?’

‘But it’s not the same case, perhaps P’Thee wants to be alone rather looking at your stupid face.’

‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry.’

‘If you going up and being hit by P’Thee, it would be better rather being pussy?’

Ouch… I have a headache.

The youth pulled his mask down and put his hand on his forehead to realize that his body is not in good shape too. Soh must choose whether going keep on to fight with his own though or going back to take a rest. And he chooses to sit down in a wooden chair next to the garden to stop.

Put his backpack on his laps and take out his medicine and drink it. The young boy still have fever, he didn’t forget it. His mother keeps telling him to take a good care himself, because she still have jobs to do in Chiang Mai, so she can’t come over. But now Soh is more worried about P’Thee. It’s okay to pretend to sleep and not answer my mom LINE, once.

After he takes his medicine, he put the tablet on his laps and opens Twitch, to see if any update from P’Thee. It will quite difficult for him to going live when he’s heartbroken, but Soh still keep checking his Twitch.

Unexpectedly, the youth was quite astonished when his eyesight saw a short clip that had just been uploaded three minutes ago. Soh took out the earphone before the clip of shooting game begins, with a greeting as usual, but he could feel his cheerfulness that was diminishing that he barely left his cheekiness.

And this clip doesn’t have P’Thee’s face, there  is no video player even in the corner of the screen. Soh looked at the game character who was running begin the bunker and sat down to find that escape which the neighborhood doesn’t have the same team to shoot support even on person, this means that the situation of P’Thee’s character is quite random and risks getting caught.

(How to see where the enemy is, first see from the trajectory of the bullet fired, like now, come both left and right)

(It tells you what kind of gun the side is, hoping for close range or long range outcomes. I think one of those two people holds an AK-47 like me. 3 matches. The other one, if I’m not wrong, I’d say he use a MP5, the bullet is the same. But this one is a little less scary, because it’s only in close proximity. The scary one is the man who holding AK-47. Well if he hit me three or four shoot, I’d have fallen.)

Vari : Nong Thee are live today?

Pongsathon : Why is it weird polite?

NickGreanmer : Thank you for the tips, this clip is very helpful.

BlueLagoon : Is P’Thee sick? Sounds strange.

(Sitting, yawning, waiting someone to release the first mag, this time it’s up to audience, listen carefully to how many shots that opponent has shots? Because the timing of changing the mag is extremely important, even though it’s just a split second, it allows you to cut off enemies if you use that moment to pop up and shoot together.)

(One dead, hurry and switch to a carbine and aim well, one, two, three, not dead, okay, run to find the bunker and change the mag to fix the work.)

A character in a military uniform is putting the mag in a new one, P’Thee remained silent from another killer character that was running to chase. Even a bomb thrown into pressure to run away. P’Thee grabbed an AK-47 and splashed in at the enemy that was close range almost able to call it close up.

(If shooting an AK-47 at close range, aim very low because the recoil of the gun will rise up to the head.)

Soh looks serious which is not seen often, perhaps it is in old clip that P’Thee brought up for fans to watch during the time when he couldn’t do live stream. But listen to a tone that was no different from him began to weigh. Will it be an old clip for sure? Only there word in Soh’s mind.

Soh took off his earphone and shaking his legs anxiously. Look up to the darkness sky to pressure himself to decide what to do at this time. P’Thee definitely not well, that’s not an old clip.

Soh bend down and collect his things, breath through his lips to gather courage before deciding to run to the restaurant downstairs, order a menu for the sick person, then going to supermarket to buy fresh fruit.

Soh stopped in the same spot, he asked himself again if it’s right to reach out and pet him after consoling. The decision was even more difficult than the first live stream, Soh looked up at the tall building and looking for an answer in his mind that if P’Thee opened the door and he was in bad mood, at that time he had to hand me something to eat and said that he stopped by to meet friend around here. P’Thee will trust it, right?

Soh finally decide to go up, following the middle-age couple, he couldn’t believe that he can doing this. Soh take a deep breath in the innermost side of elevator and let the new IPhone price conversation go in left and right when his heart racing.

Soh stood in front of P’Thee’s room door and spent about five minutes of cowardice before hitting the air with a fist and repeat the reasons for being here before deciding knocking the door three times. He could only stand and wait because no one opened the door, and make his heart beating more fast.

P’Thee might be fallen asleep or he would have wanted to do something else more than walk in the door to welcome a child who wasn’t that close to him. Thee would have wanted to P’Laem more, he must be in the wrong time.

Soh clenched his lips as he put his hand on his forehead worriedly. He swears that he won’t knock again, because if the first, P’Thee not open the door, maybe the second time would be the same. Finally, Soh hung the rice and the bag of fruit to the doorknob, he hoped that the other person would open and sees it before the maid would pick it up first.

But the worries don’t want to be too harsh for this child, the door that closed for almost several days was opened by the owner of his pale face. Those previously cheeky eyes were so red that they immediately noticed. Upon entering the truth, the words that had been prepared were swallowed up his throat.

“Soh….bought rice for P’Thee.” They meet each other’s eyes in silence. Once again, the skinny boy couldn’t read the other person’s mind how he was feeling, want him to be here or not? Because Thee want to be alone. If it is the matter, Soh probably ready to going back rather make Thee feeling uncomfortable.

Soh got the answer, an unexpectedly hug. He didn’t know how to act right now, just stand still and let his senior lie his face on Soh’s narrow shoulder, the body that has been hit by fever since Saturday is still hot like fire and he realize that other’s body had the same fever.

The sound of playful man’s sighs was light indicating fatigue. The hug that was thought to be lax become more tightened that there was almost no room for air to pass. Soh could smell the beer hit under his nose. The smell of it was full of regret that was eating this brother.

There is no longer a person who likes to shoot jokes, speak sternly. Now there’s only one big guy who’s physically and mentally ill and Soh doesn’t care if P’Thee wants to be alone, he was reaching up and holding in midair during one last question of himself before hugging the brother and gently stroking the wide back.

“Eat half of plate of rice so you can take a medicine. Soh will make an orange juice with honey lemon. I guarantee that your throat not well.”

Soh hopes that he doesn’t force his concern too much. He tried to find the middle of this feeling so as not to make other person feel uncomfortable. But P’Thee just sits still looking Soh who arranged the dish on the table in silent.

Soh turned his gaze toward a beer can that just been opened after the clip was uploaded. Soh go straight to collect it in garbage bag and tie the bag in order to prevent it from emitting a bad smell before suddenly meet the eyes of other person.

“In your eyes, am I a bad person?” Thee raised his head and ask a random question and he wished the boy would tell the truth rather than comforting him with other lies.

Soh didn’t reply immediately, Thee looked at the person who taking out the oranges looking for juicer. So Thee walked over took him down and leaned his back on against the wall, he wanted to ask why Soh was here, though he was equally ill.

“P’Thee, do you remember the day when I got cursed?”

“Um, remember.”

“Yes, after hearing P'Thee comfort Soh, I can feel bigger than before.”

“….”

“P’Thee makes me realize that society we live in is having a good and bad. But Soh think on person isn’t all bad, there must be someone whom wants him to do well and he would want to be good person in someone’s eyes too. Which Soh thought was big enough because Soh itself cannot be a good person for the whole world.”

Thee keep looking at the child from behind, look at the strength of himself, it’s wrong for him to be weak.

“We may be a good man for a person, but Soh says that we can be someone’s buffalo.”

“Buffalo?” He laughed for the first time caught up with the sad day. “Damn super strength like this or what? Huh?”

“Strong, but you don't always have to be strong. P'Thee may appear in front of Anti because he often looks angry and cursing, but what they don't know is that for P'Tap, P'Jack, P'Laem, and Soh, P'Thee is the best.” The hand holding the lemon raises its thumb as it stands back and forth. The young boy smiled faintly at those words and lowered his head.

“Understand, say it… “ Thee rubbed his tip of his nose because the flu, leaving a moment of silence. “You are all talking about it, aren’t you?”

“A little bit, not all.”

“I’m sorry I didn’t back to your dorm last night. Despite I promise to take care of you.”

“It’s all right, P’Thee doesn’t have to think too much. Soh feel much better because P’Thee. The person who should speak is has to be Soh, thank you for the fifth time.” The listener laughed in the throat as he shook his head, even when the sickness to the red nose would still take care of others, this kid is really stubborn.

“Keep counting, if you skip the number, I will know.”

“Soh is good at counting numbers, there will be no mistakes.” The youth did not mention any messages that were sent and if it creates embarrassment for P’Thee, he’s going to have to apologize for taking both the LINE himself and his friend’s LINE, “You don’t have to tell you what happened, Soh came because I wanted to eat and I’d go back to reading.”

“Why? Even though Bella has updated the status about how bad I am. don't you want to know what happened to me?”

“I want, but I wait P’Thee trust Soh first. Soh could wait.” Thee feel like this kid is taking him to back to stand on the small road on the way Seven Eleven with the original saying he thought it was tender mind, but all the time he was known, the boy never made him feel guilty for trusting him once.

“I feel so bad, I’m not used to life without Bella.”

“Want to reconcile? If P’Thee is not worried about laying out forms, just go, I’ll call Grab for you.”

“No,” the young man shook his head. “But Bella would not be the same again.” If they choose to reconcile with weak heart, soon they will fight again over the same things.

“Soh has never had girlfriend so I doesn’t want to say much. But Soh think P'Thee feels the same pain as P'Bella.”

“No, the one who hurts more is probably Bella who has to meet a guy like me.”

“P’Thee no one because who hurts more or less. P’Thee has right to regret, cry and drunk as much as you want. Don’t worry about it, just say one word if you want Soh to stay or go back, Soh is ready, as long as P’Thee feels better.”

“What made you do this for me?”

“P’Thee has become an important person in Soh’s life. If I were to just ignore it without doing anything, would Soh be a very mean person?” the dummy boy turned to ask for Thee’s opinion, so he smile faintly and nodded in response, “But P’Thee please stop drinking, you had enough.”

It was not often that P’Thee heard the other person talking like this, and he understands what kind of intention the dummy boy has.

“Yes… Soh..”

“Yes?” the owner of the name turned his body holding a glass of orange just with both hands. Those eyes shone with wonder, so he sighed and licked his lips relieving a terrible feeling.

“Can someone like me get some consolation?” After seeing his girlfriend conveys a lot of feelings on social media, Thee feel guilty for being the one who made her do it.

“If P’Thee doesn’t bother with Soh, Soh will give you consolation day and night until you get annoyed.”

“That’s where the console, you called bullshit.”

“Oh, that’s it.” The boy laughed as he handed over the glass. So he could only lift a few drinks and had to stop because he felt like he would puke.

“Oh my God!”

“Do you want to take antiques first? I’ll get in my backpack.”

“Well, it’s okay.” Thee shook his head and went straight into bathroom, Soh followed and rubbed his back before coming out to get tissue for him to wipe his mouth.

“This time let me take care of you.”

The young man was stunned by the words that made him who in the sadness feels better. Thee weren’t having lot friends, so having someone who shows you that he’s not alone it’s good.

Even though he thought he would sleep stupid in bed and die like a street dog, but the other mind was against shout to be strong if he don’t want to be sparrow approaching twenty-seven.

Thee wiped his mouth while flushing the toilet, he saw Nong De walked to the front and pushed his hand towards many dishes before raising thumbs on both sides, as if he didn’t eaten them, he’d regret it until the day he died.

“You bought a lot, very rich!” Thee raised his eyebrows, complain, approach the boy and tapping the spoon gently over Soh’s head before turning his eyes as if he wanted to know what Thee’s thinking. “Goes another glass of orange juice, so we will get better at the same time.”

The owner of the pale nose smiled as he looked at the other person who sat down to eat without having to thinking of persuasion anymore. The youth looked at the senior who scooping the rice followed the soup. After vomiting, P’Thee will probably have some food, even though it’s only four or five spoon, it’s better than nothing.

“Don’t just look, go get another glass of orange juice, sitting here and eat.”

“Actually I'm going to make it again, but I'm hungry, until my stomach screams. maybe P'Thee didn't hear it, because P'Thee's hearing is bad.”

“Good at make excuse. I don’t think I want you to eat. Because I don’t want to get cold from you.”

“Why? We’re both carriers.”

“That’s a lot of talk, you know who’s in the ranks?”

“Whoa, this challenge. Finished eating and met Soh, the Juke Master. Didn’t come because of the temple fair, P’Laem confirmed.”

“Oh hurry up. I’ll hang it on the pole until sweep.”

The heartbroken still sad, but Soh felt the old P’Thee is come back. Even if just a moment, the young man rubbed his head, praising him for daring to decide what he wanted to do rather than taking the bus back with the chaos in his heart. Soh are just ordinary people, not so special. But he wants to be the part that makes P’Thee stand up and get through the trouble until his heart gets stronger.

If playing games together make P’Thee smile, running away from the edge of the murderer’s knife would be worthwhile.