《LOVENEMIES [END]》47 - Keberangkatan dan Kedatangan
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Pada paruh kedua bulan Desember, Kim Myungsoo ditunjuk oleh tim hoki es pemuda Tiongkok untuk berpartisipasi dalam Kejuaraan Hoki Es Dunia U-20 tahunan yang diadakan di Polandia. "U-20" atau Under-20 mengacu pada kriteria usia kompetisi, yang berarti bahwa hanya pemain di bawah usia 20 yang dapat berpartisipasi.
Selain dirinya, ada juga pemain hoki es lain dari tim UNK bernama Kim Sunggyu.
Mereka berdua pertama-tama akan pergi ke Busan untuk berkumpul dan berlatih dengan anggota tim lainnya selama sebulan sebelum mereka terbang ke Polandia. Sunggyu berasal dari Busan dan perjalanan pelatihan ini terasa seperti perjalanan pulang kampung baginya.
Hari mereka terbang kebetulan adalah hari sebelum kejuaraan seluncur cepat provinsi. Meskipun latihan tim seluncur cepat sudah selesai hari itu, Bae Sooji memutuskan untuk terus berlatih karena dia tidak berpartisipasi dalam kompetisi. Tapi, rencananya digagalkan oleh desakan Myungsoo bahwa dia harus mengantar pria itu pergi.
Alasannya adalah akan tampak memalukan karena tidak ada yang mengantarkan kepergiannya.
"Kim Myungsoo, apa kau seorang putri?" Sooji mendengus.
Alih-alih kesal, Myungsoo tertawa," Aku akan menunggumu."
Sooji memutar matanya ke ponselnya.
Meskipun dia kesal, dia tetap setuju untuk pergi.
Mereka naik taksi ke bandara. Karena kedua koper milik pria-pria itu terlalu besar, bagasi taksi itu hanya dapat memuat satu dan koper yang lain harus diletakkan di kursi penumpang depan. Mereka bertiga – Bae Sooji, Kim Myungsoo dan Kim Sunggyu –
duduk di kursi belakang dengan Myungsoo duduk di tengah.
Biasanya, tidak ada masalah dengan tiga orang duduk di belakang. Tapi, tubuh Myungsoo dan Sunggyu terlalu besar dan tinggi. Sooji merasa tempat duduk itu sangat sempit dengan mereka bertiga duduk berdesak-desakan seperti ini. Myungsoo duduk dengan berani dan agresif seperti seorang penjahat. Mereka duduk sangat dekat sehingga paha Sooji menyentuh paha Myungsoo. Gadis itu tidak terbiasa duduk begitu dekat dengan orang lain dan merasa sedikit tidak terbiasa untuk diselimuti oleh aroma asing namun akrab.
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Suasananya sedikit aneh, tak seorang pun di taksi yang berbicara. Pengemudi taksi sedikit sedih dan merasa bahwa ban mobilnya akan meledak karena ketegangan yang dibuat oleh ketiga anak manusia itu. Pria tua itu ingin mengomel dengan keras tapi dia takut melakukannya.
Myungsoo adalah orang yang pertama yang berbicara. Dia bertanya pada Sooji,"Apa kau tidak memiliki pidato perpisahan sebelum aku pergi?"
"Ini tidak seperti kau tidak akan pernah kembali." Sooji melengkungkan bibirnya. Dia benar-benar tidak memiliki apa-apa untuk dikatakan. Setelah berpikir sebentar, dia bertanya, "Bagaimana kalau aku menyanyikan lagu untuk kalian berdua?"
Myungsoo dengan cepat menghentikannya. "Jangan. Kasihanilah kami."
Kesal, Sooji mengayunkan lututnya untuk memukul pria itu. Myungsoo tertawa saat dia menghindar ke samping.
Di samping mereka, Sunggyu memandang ke luar jendela tanpa suara.
Saat mereka asik mengacau, taksi itu tiba-tiba tersentak. Tubuh Sooji bergerak dengan kepalanya yang terayun ke jendela mobil. Dengan gerakan cepat, Myungsoo mengangkat lengannya yang panjang dan meletakkan tangannya di sebelah jendela dengan telapak tangannya yang terbentang seperti perisai.
Kepala Sooji menabrak telapak tangan Myungsoo sebagai gantinya.
Sooji masih sedikit bingung pada awalnya. Dia baru menyadari apa yang terjadi saat dia mengangkat kepalanya dan melihat tangan Myungsoo menekan jendela.
Sooji menatap kosong pada garis di telapak tangan Myungsoo, bingung bagaimana harus bereaksi.
Sooji benar-benar tidak terbiasa dengan seberapa perhatiannya Myungsoo pada dirinya.
Seseorang, tolong kembalikan orang gila yang menyebalkan itu.
Melihat Sooji linglung, Myungsoo segera menarik tangannya. Dia berkomentar,"Kau sudah bodoh. Kalau kau membenturkan kepalamu, kau akan menjadi lebih bodoh dari sekarang."
Sooji memelototinya.
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Di tengah istirahat latihan paginya, pikiran Oh Sehun mengembara saat pria itu meminum air elektrolitnya.
Dia sedang memikirkan banyak hal, seperti kapan Sooji akan kembali, apakah pesawat Myungsoo akan ditunda keberangkatannya, apakah Myungsoo, orang yang benar-benar tak tahu malu itu, akan melakukan sesuatu pada Sooji dan...
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"Sehun." Sebuah suara memanggilnya dari belakang.
Sehun tersentak keluar dari pusaran pikirannya dan sontak memutar kepalanya. Dia heran saat dia melihat siapa itu. "Bu, kenapa ibu di sini?"
Orang yang memanggilnya adalah ibunya, Nyonya Oh.
Kejuaraan seluncur provinsi dibagi menjadi seluncur lintasan pendek, seluncur lintasan panjang dan seluncur indah. Kompetisi seluncur cepat lintasan pendek adalah yang paling awal yang akan diadakan sedangkan kompetisi seluncur indah akan berlangsung lima hari kemudian.
"Ibu akan menemanimu selama beberapa hari ke depan," ujar Nyonya Oh. Melihat bagaimana Sehun membuka mulutnya untuk berbicara tapi ragu-ragu, senyum wanita paruh baya itu menghilang. "Apa kau tidak ingin melihat ibu?"
"Ah? Aku tidak bermaksud seperti itu..."
Sehun hanya merasa sedikit aneh.
Setelah mengobrol dengan ibunya sebentar, dia mengesampingkan keraguannya untuk sementara waktu dan melanjutkan latihannya.
Adapun Nyonya Oh, dia pergi mencari Pelatih Park, pelatih tim seluncur indah, dan mulai berbicara dengan pria itu di samping.
Sehun memiliki potensi terbaik di seluruh tim seluncur indah. Diwarnai dengan kesan yang sangat baik tentang Sehun, Pelatih Park memperlakukan Nyonya Oh dengan hangat. Saat Nyonya Oh bertanya tentang penampilan Sehun, Pelatih Park sangat memujinya.
Namun, setelah memuji Sehun, Pelatih Park menambahkan,"Bisa dikatakan bahwa aku merasa bahwa Oh Sehun sedikit terganggu akhir-akhir ini. Apa ada masalah di rumah?"
"Tidak sama sekali. Ayahnya dan aku baik-baik saja.”
"Hm. Mungkin karena dia masih muda dan belum dewasa. Tentu saja, seharusnya tidak ada masalah dengan kompetisi ini. Oh benar, beberapa hari yang lalu, Pelatih Kim Jong Kook — pelatih kepala untuk tim nasional — melihat cuplikan kompetisi Sehun dan merasa bahwa keterampilan seluncur dan estetika penampilannya sangat unggul. Secara khusus, estetika penampilan Sehun sangat baik dan sangat jarang di kalangan atlet Cina. Dari apa yang dia katakan, aku merasa bahwa Pelatih Kim cukup tertarik untuk menerima Sehun ke tim nasional. Apa yang kau pikirkan tentang itu?"
Nyonya Oh memiliki rencana yang jelas tentang karir profesional putranya. Mendengar kata-kata Pelatih Kim, dia tersenyum dan berkata,“Aku pikir Sehun baik-baik saja di bawah pengawasanmu. Tidak perlu masuk ke tim nasional."
Pelatih Park sangat tersanjung oleh kata-kata Nyonya Oh. Dia tertawa dengan senyum lebar dan melambaikan tangannya. "Tim nasional masih merupakan pilihan yang bagus."
Nyonya Oh mengerutkan bibir dan tiba-tiba berkata,"Pelatih Park, aku ingin bertanya tentang seseorang."
"Oh?"
"Ini tentang wanita muda yang bernama Bae Sooji."
Kebenaran di balik kemunculan Nyonya Oh yang tiba-tiba di UNK tidak sesederhana hanya ingin menghabiskan waktu bersama putranya sebelum kompetisi.
Untuk mempelajari lebih lanjut tentang kegiatan putranya, dia sudah menginstal aplikasi UNK dan mengklik forum kampus. Setelah mengetikkan nama Oh Sehun ke dalam kolom pencarian, dia menemukan banyak berita tentang skandal hubungan putra tunggalnya.
Dia benar-benar marah! Sehun baru berusia tujuh belas tahun!
Apa yang membuat seluruh berita itu menjadi lebih konyol adalah bahwa skandal hubungan itu tidak melibatkan dua orang, tapi tiga orang.
Bermain-main dengan dua lelaki berbeda pada saat yang sama tanpa keraguan — bagaimana mungkin seorang gadis dengan karakter seperti itu ada? Apa orang tuanya tahu tentang perilakunya?
Setelah membaca rincian skandal yang melibatkan putranya, Nyonya Oh tidak bisa duduk diam dan segera bergegas menemui Sehun.
Setelah mendengar umpan balik Pelatih Park bahwa Sehun sudah terganggu akhir-akhir ini, dia mengkonfirmasi kecurigaannya.
Sepertinya dia harus bertemu dengan gadis bernama Bae Sooji itu secara langsung.
P.s: Hari ini upload 2 part lagi karna part sebelumnya pendek >
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2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. The elven mage researchers are figuring out how to imbue heroes with power, while the heroes are trying to figure out how to use the powers that they gain. Humans are the best hero templates because they are blank and have no intrinsic magic. Or at least that what the elves thought. The human MC has his own secrets... There will be some similarities with litrpgs, but I would call it more a progression fantasy or gamelit story. For example, the stats are very low, at least initially. Say we have a stat called Str. Going from Str = 1 to Str = 2 is a huge deal. Also, going from Dex = 0 to Dex = 1 is an even bigger deal. I guess you could call it a "low-stat litrpg", haha. Also, the heroes won't be gaining stats simply by killing things or leveling up. You can't increase stats arbitrarily, either. There will be rules to how stats can increase, and how they work with each other. The elven mages will be figuring out these rules in order to craft stronger and stronger heroes. Some inspiration will be from cultivation magic systems, but there won't be overt cultivation, at least for now. A theme I really want to explore is the idea of interactions. That includes things like hero crafter vs hero, tactics vs strategy, skill synergies, racial interactions (dwarves, elves, etc), and son. Yeah, so hero crafting. I'm super excited about this project and venturing into publishing. If you want to check out the upcoming story, you can follow my RR author profile to see when it drops here. Finally... THANK YOU TO EVERYONE! I'm very sorry that SSA is stopping, but I hope at least some of you will find the next story at least as enjoyable, if not more. Thanks to all the readers who gave SSA a shot. Big hug or solid fistbump to all of you, whichever you prefer! I hope this message is not a downer but an upper, because I am psyched!! -purlcray -------------- BLURB: Talen, youngest Master of the Koroi, makes his way to the Empire's capital to salvage his clan's fate. 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