By Zephyria 
Mo Yeon-hu felt a chill run down his spine.
‘How did he know I was here?’
He was sure he had hidden well, but it seemed Opening had found him during the brief moment he had let his guard down.
(Whisper) Opening: You there? lol
‘I’m scared…!’
If this wasn’t a horror movie, what was? He felt as if his heart were about to leap out of his mouth. This was a hundred times scarier than Arister.
He considered simply logging out without answering, but the subsequent whisper held him back.
(Whisper) Opening: What’s up;
(Whisper) Opening: Were you AFK here the whole time?
Yes, please just let it go like that. Mo Yeon-hu prayed with his hands clasped, but…
(Whisper) Opening: Nah, you were somewhere else.
‘He’s sharp….’
It seemed Opening already knew where Mo Yeon-hu had originally been.
(Whisper) Opening: Have you been following me this whole time?
(Whisper) Opening: Hello?
(Whisper) Opening: You there??
(Whisper) Opening: Hmm, are you actually AFK??
Fortunately, the AFK indicator was floating above his head, and since he had been standing perfectly still when he was caught, Opening seemed to be uncertain.
‘It would be weird to speak up right now…!’
If Opening had openly revealed that he was searching for the core, Mo Yeon-hu could have immediately pushed the narrative to execute him.
But if the other party simply claimed they were just walking around, the atmosphere would get awkward, and above all…
[(CH03) Miu: Momo-nim, our goal isn’t to catch the spy and execute them immediately.]
[(CH03) Miu: We need to find out who they are first.]
Miu had said.
[(CH03) Miu: I intend to use them to catch the tail.]
That they had to use the spy within the Alliance to catch the opponent.
‘We finally caught the tail, but if I get caught here, they’ll just cut it off.’
If it became known that Mo Yeon-hu was suspicious, Opening would stop his activities. Then the tail they had worked so hard to catch would become useless, and Mo Yeon-hu swallowed hard.
Then, he quietly changed his status window to ‘Online’ and moved his character.
(Alliance) 0momo0: Wow, it’s Opening-nim!!
(Alliance) 0momo0: Hello!!
(Alliance) 0momo0: I just woke up, what are you doing here??
(Alliance) 0momo0: Gasp, we’re so close?? hehehe (Alliance) 0momo0: I thought we were kissing >< And acting as naturally as possible, he brought out the speech patterns of the slightly dim-witted and kind ‘Momo.’ (Whisper) Opening: ?; (Whisper) Opening: What were you doing? Opening reacted immediately. (Alliance) 0momo0: The game was still on so I came back, and Opening-nim was here! (Whisper) Opening: Ah. (Whisper) Opening: But you. (Alliance) 0momo0: Yes?? (Whisper) Opening: Weren't you up there a while ago? When did you come here? He really is sharp... Mo Yeon-hu knew that in times like this, he had to be brazen. (Alliance) 0momo0: Huh???? I don't know.. (Alliance) 0momo0: Why am I here? T_T (Alliance) 0momo0: Can a character move while AFK? What is this?? (Whisper) Opening: ? (Whisper) Opening: That makes no sense. (Alliance) 0momo0: But I really don't know why I'm here T_T Did I maybe die and respawn?? (Whisper) Opening: ?? (Alliance) 0momo0: I've been sleeping since yesterday afternoon... I'm just eating now... T_T?? Gasp, or did I accidentally press keys on the keyboard while sleeping face-down on my desk T_T.. (Alliance) 0momo0: No wonder there was a bunch of weird stuff typed in the chat window m- T_T I must have pressed something and ended up here T_T Mo Yeon-hu looked around while typing confusedly. Opening didn't say anything, but he glanced behind Mo Yeon-hu. And then, luckily. (Whisper) Opening: You can actually walk here in a straight line from where you were. A lifeline had been thrown! It seemed heaven had given him a way out. Mo Yeon-hu barely kept his knees from buckling as he read Opening's chat. (Whisper) Opening: Since your character was behind the fence. (Whisper) Opening: Didn't you actually press the keyboard while sleeping and activate auto-walk? (Alliance) 0momo0: Gasp, there's something like auto-walk?? (Whisper) Opening: ; (Whisper) Opening: p Mo Yeon-hu pressed the P key, confirmed his character was moving, and spoke in surprise. (Alliance) 0momo0: Oh, I think that's what I pressed!! There were a bunch of p's and ['??? things pressed on the keyboard! (Alliance) 0momo0: Daaaaamn, it really walks when I press p!! (Alliance) 0momo0: Does it stop on its own eventually?? (Whisper) Opening: Sometimes? (Whisper) Opening: It doesn't stop if you keep walking, but if you stay in the same spot, it thinks it reached the destination and turns off after a few minutes. (Whisper) Opening: You didn't even know this?; (Alliance) 0momo0: T_T Yes;; it's so cool;;;; Could- it possibly work for Mounts too? (Whisper) Opening: Yeah. (Alliance) 0momo0: This is crazy. (Alliance) 0momo0: Wow!!!... This is so convenient. (Whisper) Opening: Seriously, how do you play the game with a brain like that? (Whisper) Opening: You're playing with zero efficiency. ‘I'm not that much of an idiot….’ He obviously knew that pressing the P key made the character move automatically, but since he pretended not to, Opening believed him more readily than expected. Perhaps recalling 0momo0's usual ignorance about the game, he didn't press further. (Whisper) Opening: So are you logging off now? (Alliance) 0momo0: No, since I'm awake, I'll see what to do. (Alliance) 0momo0: What were you doing, Opening-nim? (Whisper) Opening: Gathering. (Alliance) 0momo0: Let's do it together!! He hadn't seen him gathering at all, but Opening lied skillfully. ‘Miu hasn't replied yet.’ Mo Yeon-hu pushed himself on Opening to prevent him from investigating any further. (Whisper) Opening: I don't want to. (Alliance) 0momo0: Oh, why T_T (Whisper) Opening: It's a hassle. Of course, he was rejected flatly. (Whisper) Opening: Why do you even do gathering? (Whisper) Opening: You don't have any crafting skills, you literally just do gathering. At the question of why he gathered without any specific crafting skills, Mo Yeon-hu was momentarily speechless, forgetting the situation. ‘He's making a very valid point.’ In this game, farming and gathering were the most basic forms of labor and the foundation for maintaining the Alliance, allowing one to save a significant amount of currency. However, that wasn't why Yeon-hu did it. ‘Because I'm used to being bossed around…?’ From the moment he joined the Alliance, he had been driven harshly with farming and gathering. Afterward, for some reason, he felt bored when he stayed still, so he kept doing it like a hobby. How should he answer this? (Whisper) Opening: Are you doing it to be liked by the Alliance Master? Just then, Opening hit the nail on the head. (Alliance) 0momo0: T_T That's right. (Alliance) 0momo0: I'm doing this because I want to be loved. Mo Yeon-hu answered quickly. (Whisper) Opening: For real?; (Whisper) Opening: What do you even do with being loved? (Alliance) 0momo0: It feels good to be liked by Miu!! (Alliance) 0momo0: So I'm going to keep working hard in secret and put things in the warehouse under Miu-nim's name!! (Whisper) Opening: Ugh; what does a man♥♥ gain from being loved by another man with the same ♥? (Whisper) Opening: So gross. Seeing Opening's disgust, Mo Yeon-hu tilted his head. (Alliance) 0momo0: A man by another man?? (Alliance) 0momo0: Miu-nim is a woman? (Whisper) Opening: What? (Whisper) Opening: ??? (Whisper) Opening: What is this now (Whisper) Opening: ???????? But Opening's reaction was strange. (Whisper) Opening: I'm asking just in case. (Whisper) Opening: Do you actually think Miu is a woman? (Alliance) 0momo0: Huh? Miu-nim is a woman. (Whisper) Opening: LMAO (Whisper) Opening: lol does they say that? That they're a woman?? (Alliance) 0momo0: Well, obviously. Mo Yeon-hu suddenly remembered Miu saying before that they were a man. At the time, he had just brushed it off. ‘Since Ms. Mi-yeong is Miu….’ Therefore, Miu had to be a woman, and he thought the "man" part was just a concept they were playing in the game. (Whisper) Opening: No one told you this? (Whisper) Opening: Wow, this is hilarious lol ffs lol (Whisper) Opening: I'm telling you because I actually feel sooooo sorry for you. (Whisper) Opening: Actually, Miu-nim isn't a woman. Everyone knows except you. (Alliance) 0momo0: What?? No, why is Miu-nim a man..?? (Whisper) Opening: lol when they turned on the microphone a long time ago, their voice was super deep lol (Whisper) Opening: I heard it, and the other members heard it too lol (Whisper) Opening: And besides, looking at how they talk in chat, isn't it impossible not to know? lol are you ♥♥? lol (Whisper) Opening: So stop the bootlicking lol (Alliance) 0momo0: What are you talking about? Miu is a woman.. (Whisper) Opening: Ah, I'm going crazy, what do I do with this kid lol (Whisper) Opening: Ah, I've got it. (Whisper) Opening: Hey, go check the Alliance bulletin board. (Whisper) Opening: If you dig through it, Miu's account info is there. (Whisper) Opening: Try sending some money lol their name will probably pop up.