She was dragged to a PC-bang by her friend. She was envisioning a noisy, smelly, and uselessly gloomy atmosphere, but the entrance told her otherwise. It was better than most cafés.

Her friend got them a couple's seat.

"These café-like PC-bangs have been popping up lately. They're good if you want to just stay for a bit," her friend said.

"Stay for a bit my ass. Like hell a gamer like you will just stay for a bit. But still, it's pretty good. It doesn't smell like cigarettes. The one in our neighborhood has a separate smoking area, but it still stinks." 

"Those outdated PC-bang will all go out of business soon. There are clean places like this, so who will prefer to go there? This one's on me, so let's get some drinks too."

Jiyu checked her Cyworld as she drank the carbonated lemon water that the part-timer delivered to her. She wrote a post before having a look at her visitors. She noticed that her visitors had dropped from some time onwards. One of her friends, who visited a lot, had also not visited in a long time. The only character she could see on the sidebar was her own avatar.

"You still use Cy?"

"Yeah."

"Everyone else quit already....