"Well… we don't have a relationship in which we would say that to each other, do we?" Oh Kang-Woo replied apathetically.

Just like he'd said, they weren't even close enough to be acquaintances.

Kang-Woo looked at the girl with short red hair and continued, "So, what do you need from me? Uhhh…"

"Cha Yeon-Joo…" the girl with short red hair said as she turned to Kang-Woo and walked toward him. "My name is Cha Yeon-Joo."

"Cha Yeon-Joo?"

Kang-Woo thought that he had heard that name before and tried to remember where he'd heard it.

'Ah, she's one of the Players the people in the waiting room were talking about.'

He remembered hearing about Players who had gotten an S-rank Trait on their First Awakening.

'I believe she was the guild master of one of the five great guilds.'

The 'five great guilds' referred to the five biggest guilds of Korea—the Hanul, Red Rose, Onnuri[1], Mir, and Angel Wings Guilds. Kang-Woo remembered having read her name among the list of the guild masters of those five guilds.

"Red Rose…?"

"Yeah. I'm the guild master of the Red Rose Guild."

"…"

If Cha Yeon-Joo was the guild master of one of the...