Gaming Trinity ༓ TXT || Taegyu

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"Did you really not read anything about the video game before coming here??" Taehyun asked sort of shocked.

"Pipe down male deuteragonist."

"HEY!!" Taehyun is the kind to not let any insult or false info about him or disrespect pass. "I'm part of the main cast!"

"Nah."

Taehyun looked confused. Does this guy think he can just say 'nah' then it'll be magically written in the script that he's not a main one..? "But-"

"Nah." He scratched his head a little.
"We can tamper with the script right.. I'm the player of the game so I'm the main character and I'm deciding that you're not. So just hush up and play your little secondary role." For once his voice wasn't emotionless, Taehyun can actually sense his hostility.

The shorter clenched his fists feeling offended. "YAH—"

Asuka got in between then, facing Beomgyu. "We're on your team which automatically makes us main characters. Leave him alone and be quiet or I'll kill you."

"The three of us now form a trinity." She said.

"Where's the part where I agreed to that?" Beomgyu asked with his signature deadpan look.

"Non-existent. But there was a part where I said that I'll kill you if you don't be quiet."

She continued. "A tower not too far away is waiting for us. We have been assigned to participate in the project that happens inside it." Asuka informed the newcomer, hands on her hips.

"There's a tower?" Beomgyu asked.

Asuka sighed.

"Why do you think there's the word tower in the title of the game you're freaking playing?!!" Taehyun shouted.

"But hell, participating in something seems like such a pain in the ass.." He groaned looking up at the artificial sky.

"I?? WHY are you playing this game?!!"

Taehyun is not being listened to at all.

"Can't we send that loud guy to that place while we form a duo and go somewhere else.." Beomgyu proposed to the girl with a hint of seduction.

"They only accept trios." She seems to be playing it off like her heart didn't skip a beat just now.

"Ah." He then looked down at Taehyun and said with boredom. "I was struggling to find an answer but now I get why you exist:
You're a filler character, there just to fill up space, giving me and Asuka access to the tower..
The developers probably made you pretty so your presence is more tolerable..."

"Just what the hell?! It's not that!!!"

"I don't see what else....."

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◈ Saved progress.
(Automatic)

Walking through the forest is the shortest way to go there so the three soon got on their way to this intriguing tower, while doing so they got more familiar with each other.

The female lead and the gamer were walking together while Taehyun was trailing behind, hands formed into fists. He knows damn well that Beomgyu is purposely trying to seclude him out, thankfully Asuka is often turning behind her to check on him.

Beomgyu stepped over a big branch. "So Asuka, we're apparently the same age."

The girl hummed. "You're 20 too?"

"Yeah." He briefly turned around to ask Taehyun. "And you?"

"19–"

Hearing that age, Beomgyu immediately gave a snort of derision.

"What's so funny?"

Instead of replying to him, Beomgyu informed something to the girl. "In Korean age, that guy is still a minor. Now I can't help but see him as your clingy little brother-"

"Yah!" Taehyun started stomp-walking behind unbothered-Beomgyu. "We're in Japan so we go by international age here!"

Beomgyu turned around and made a provocative smirk. "Oh right~ I'm guessing the agi wants an apology.."

Taehyun suddenly stopped in his tracks which made the older ones stop too. He was just standing there, processing what Beomgyu said while wondering if he even heard it correctly. "AGI?!!" (=infant) His face went red in anger and embarrassment. This rapid change of skin tone is quite an unrealistic phenomenon but we're in a video game where improbable things happen countlessly.

"What?" His expression gave nothing else other than malice. "It suits you."

Some people might take this well but not Taehyun, he feels belittled. He was about to fight back but then he felt a soft hand grip his own which caught him off guard. Asuka said. "Hey yarô, (jerk*) could you stop bothering him, it's getting old."

At the moment, Beomgyu's emotionless eyes are solely taken by the fact that they're holding hands.
And something he can't help but find disturbing is the way Taehyun is staring at her with apparent admiration.

"Tsk." Beomgyu shot them a glare before turning around to continue their walk. "Whatever."

'This isn't "bothering" he's just too sensitive. As expected, cute people are a nuisance.'

・Minutes later

"We're here." Beomgyu remarked, seeming awfully uninterested.

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Omg, me, you better speed up things  a little or they'll loose interest!! Taegyu, kiss now! Wait no too fast.
7 other characters, appear now!