1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 1

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 1 Episode 1

1. Virtual reality game Intium (1)

“Son, are you awake?”

Ye-sook Lee tilted her head at the lack of an answer.

She can feel the procrastination in the room, but she remains silent as to whether she is not yet awake.

“Son? Can Mom come in?”

“……”

“Are you really going in?”

“Ummm… Hey, I’m awake.”

Ho-young was not yet awake, and with her half-closed eyes, she opened the door and walked out.

There was a slight shadow on his face, but Ye-sook Lee didn’t say anything.

She just put her heart into her heart and she smiled brightly.

With her heart wishing that Hoyoung’s expression would brighten even a little.

“Ho-ho-ho, did a magpie sit on your head in the middle of the night and then go? It doesn’t make sense.”

Ye-sook Lee tells Ho-young to wash up, and she pushes him into her bathroom.

Today was the day I had a consultation once every two weeks.

After having a simple breakfast with Ho-young, who came out of the shower, the two left the house to go to the hospital.

“Son, why don’t we just hold hands instead of doing that?”

“But… I think it’s better not to do that anymore…”

“But, does this only stretch her mother’s clothes?”

Ye-sook Lee pointed to Ho-young’s hand, which was holding the hem of her own robe.

“And when a mother can hold her hand with her son, she wants to hold her a lot.

“Oh no! Absolutely not!”

At Lee Ye-sook’s sudden joke, Ho-young was startled and embarrassed and answered in a loud voice.

flinch.

Perhaps he was surprised by his own loud voice, Hoyoung shrugged his body slightly and looked around.

He still had no one around in the hallway in front of his house.

Ho-young, who confirmed that there was no one around except them, stroked his chest inwardly.

“Then don’t refuse, grab it, son. I’m going to drop her mother’s arm.”

“Huh…….”

Ye-sook Lee grabbed her outstretched hand and Ho-young followed Ye-sook Lee to her elevator.

Hoyoung’s house was on the 8th floor of the apartment, and Lee’s car was on the 2nd basement level of the parking lot, so it was a bit long to walk down.

Waiting for the elevator to go to the underground parking lot After a while, the elevator stopped on the 8th floor.

When the door of the stopped elevator opened, Ho-young flinched slightly and stepped back half a step.

“……Aren’t you going to ride?”

“Oh, I’m sorry. Please go down first.”

“Okay, then.”

Inside the elevator was a family of four with both hands full of luggage.The elevator seemed full because of the luggage they were carrying.

Hoyoung hesitated because he couldn’t get on that elevator.

Instead of Ho-young, Lee Ye-sook sent them down first.

Lee Ye-sook gently stroked the back of Ho-young’s hand, which was holding her.

I could feel Ho-young’s trembling coming up through her own hands.

“Son, what do you want to do? Do you want to go down the stairs? I think your mother is a little lacking in exercise these days.”

“Huh…….”

Today was the start of a long holiday followed by a public holiday.

Perhaps people with loads of luggage will come down to go out and play with their previous family members.

No matter how long he waited, the elevator, which was quiet enough for Ho-young to get on, would not come down.

Ye-sook Lee and Ho-young walked down the stairs to the underground parking lot.

Hoyoung had a phobia of people.

* * *

Ho-young’s father had to say goodbye to the world without seeing his son’s face due to an accident while he was still in Lee Ye-sook’s womb.

At that time, Ye-Sook Lee felt her own heart ache as if her own heart was being ripped apart.

She was in so much pain that she was about to follow her husband’s foot in her shock.

But she relied on the thought of her ho-young in her own belly and endured her pain for her ho-young.

When Ho-young finally showed her face to her world, Ye-sook Lee’s pain was greatly healed.

Ho-young, who grew up only with his mother’s hands without a father since childhood, but thankfully, he grew up as a good child.

He’s never been a gangster, and he’s been a good listener and caring kid.

He was a good boy who had never hurt his parents’ hearts.

But did he grow up to be too gentle?

Or maybe it was because of the background that he grew up under his single mother.

Less than a month after Ho-young entered high school, he fell into the eyes of a single child.

It wasn’t in a good way.

He initially approached Ho-young as a classmate.

He was a bit joking, but at a level that could be overcome just because he was a friend.

But it didn’t take long for that relationship to turn into a victim and a perpetrator.

The reason he was tormenting Ho-young wasn’t really that big of a deal.

The reason was that he stood out and was more popular than he was and that was annoying.

He knew that Ho-Young was raised by his single mother, so he relieved his stress by harassing him without worrying about it.

At first, it started out as a simple errand that would be between friends.

But after a while, the money used for running errands turned from his money to Hoyoung’s.

Radical pranks between friends soon turned into one-sided violence and went beyond the limit.

Hoyoung’s connections from elementary and middle school days turned away from him, who was being bullied.

He immediately turned his back on him, fearing that he would get caught up and cause harm to them as well.

The teachers didn’t give Ho-young any help as they watched the student who was the perpetrator.

He sees and pretends not to see, hears but pretends not to hear, knows but pretends not to know.

The teachers did not become a fence to protect Hoyeong.

A friend who had a sincere friendship with Ho-Young since childhood could not help him directly because he went to a different school with Ho-Young.

However, because he was Ho-young’s support, he could appeal to him in pain, so Ho-young was able to endure.

His friend thought of Ho-young’s work as if it were his own, and worked together to find a solution for him.

But was it said that bad news overlapped?

The only friend with whom he could confide in everything and share the burden left him.

His friend passed away after being caught up in a subway fire incident that shocked the entire nation.

Hoyoung went to the joint funeral and cried all day long.

Ho-young, who had lost the support of being a friend, could not hold on for long after that, and after driving a big nail in Lee Ye-sook’s heart and leaving a scar that would never go away, she dropped out of school and stayed in her room.

As time passed, with Lee Ye-sook’s sincerity and hard work, Ho-young’s condition improved a lot compared to the beginning.

Lee Ye-sook and Lee Ye-sook had a conversation between her visits, but he was able to sit face-to-face with her Lee Ye-sook and have a conversation with her.

He could not even come out of her room, but if he accompanied Ye-sook Lee, he could go out to places with few people.

He improved a lot, but when she met someone other than Ye-Sook Lee, her head went blank and she couldn’t open her mouth.

Thanks to the time spent, I was able to communicate to some extent with the psychiatrist, who is in charge of psychological counseling for Hoyoung.

“Student Hoyoung, there is something I would like to recommend to student Hoyoung.”

The psychiatrist smiled kindly at Hoyoung.

“Do you have any plans to play a game?”

“A game… huh?”

“Yes.”

According to the doctor, Ho-young is now in a plateau.

If you compare him to when he first met with the doctor, he’s gotten a lot better now.

But it was said that he has been on his feet lately.

It would be helpful to meet many people for Ho-young’s treatment.

But looking at Hoyoung’s condition now, it could have been poisonous.

Still, he was repeating the cycle of thinking that he had to increase the number of people he met for treatment.

So the doctor was recommending a game to Hoyoung as an alternative method.

“Two months ago, a virtual reality game called Initium came out.”

“Ah… I’ve heard of it.”

The doctor smiled happily when he saw Hoyoung voluntarily answering his own words rather than his questions.

“Why not go through the process of getting used to people through virtual reality games?”

Ho-young couldn’t answer the doctor’s words.

Although it was a game, I felt a sense of rejection and had hesitation.

“I’m still afraid to meet people, but the game is a virtual world, not reality. No one can do any real harm to Hoyoung.”

“……”

“Think about it.”

In the car on the way home, the doctor’s words kept running around in Ho-young’s head.

VR MMORPG Intium.

It was the first virtual reality game, and it was a game that boasted so much perfection that everyone said it was another world.

Hoyoung was also a man, so there was little interest.

I used to watch the play diaries and streaming of people on the Internet, too, sometimes too much.

There was a time when he thought about doing it, even though it was only for a short time.

But Initium was the first virtual reality game.In order to play, I needed a capsule, a dedicated connector that costs several million won.

The account fee was a bonus.

It was not an online game that you could play with a few mouse movements just because you wanted to.

food-.

While her car stopped at her signal for a moment, Ye-Sook Lee saw her, Ho-Young, sitting next to her.

Although she had never read it once, Ho-Young was the son of Ye-Sook Lee, who had a stomach ache.

Ye-sook Lee was not the mother who couldn’t read her son’s expression.

“Son, do you want to play that virtual reality game?”

Hoyoung flinched at Lee Ye-sook’s sudden words.

“Huh? No… That…”

“Mom wants her son to do that~.”

“But… the capsules are expensive… The account fee is separate.”

“Do you think our house can’t even pay that much? Mom has a lot of money~.”

It was the house where Ye-sook Lee was doing economic activities alone.

However, she was the head of the design team at A-One, a famous fashion brand whose job was to step into the world little by little.

In terms of economic level, she belonged to the middle class, so she had no burden on capsules and account fees.

Even if she was a burden, Ye-sook Lee would have been willing to bear that burden for her Ho-young.

“Are we going to buy something for our son first, and then buy one for my mother and go sightseeing together? There are many beautiful scenery that do not exist in reality.”

“……Huh.”

Ho-Young felt that she was Ye-Sook Lee and that she was speaking for herself.

That’s why she couldn’t refuse.

Two days later, a capsule was installed in Hoyoung’s house.

There was an empty room she was teasing, so she didn’t need to reserve a space to install the capsule.

After the capsule installers left, Hoyoung was very surprised when he came out of the room and saw the capsule.

“Mom, how did this get here already?”

“Fufufu, her mother’s ability is this much!”

Capsule, the connector of Initium, was continuously out of stock due to the popularity of the game.

For the production of capsules, the manufacturing plants were quickly running production lines.

Nevertheless, obtaining the capsule was close to picking the stars in the sky.

It was something that could only be obtained by making a reservation.