The Gamer and his awkward boy (English Translation)

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Co-translator : babibubego

9. Stones and Plaster Wound
“I’m the boss, damn Dame Eight!

ZAMZAM : Win the first round, do a talk. After waiting for the second round, he fell to death again.

Jiratha88 : I hate the accent.

NooAnny : Personally, I like the components a lot. This is an example of a person using the correct language. Children of the next generation who are still using the wrong language should be corrected and take P’Thee as an example.

Nawaphol 771 : Fix you first @NooAnny

Mankrub : What did Thee say?

Toey_ts : I’m the boss, God damn it! But I don’t plan. It’s a bad word.

AlienFromEarth : I feel very controversial. One heart wants you to win because Khun Soh is in the team, but my other heart I want Ai’Thee find the woe.

Zazajung : Thee is the best.

Vari : We are going to Japan from 15-27 now. Affordable price.

After defeating the first team easily, Thee didn’t waste too much time, so he opened a live streaming and made a victory pose. A young man rocked in a chair, flickering with his hand, reading a lot of comments that began flow faster and faster, before bending down to pick up something.

Faiizzzz donate 100 B :
Wait.. A mask?

Nickey 1998 donate 50 B :
Monkey mask like in Bruno Mars’s MV. Where I can buy it?

The fans in the chat room continued to increase until some of them had to donate in order for gamers to see their messages. Thee recently bought a monkey’s head mask, so he wants to show the world a little bit of fun. Partly because he promises Nong De that he will wear mask too. Everyone can play a simple game, but to make it interesting and fun is difficult thing. He really understands that Nong De is really shy despite his great game play, so he just keeps wearing his bear mask.

“What game should I play next?” the young man teased with a good mood. Grabbed ukulele and turned the chair like a child.

BOYSTORY : I want to see P’Thee play SAW again.

MinA1004 : HILLBILLY

Uniporn :The trap is good. Want to see people crying because of the trap.

Miyukijjang : You can play anything. But I want hear P’Thee play Ed Sheeran’s song >_<

“I don’t play Ed’s songs, I’m adulterous.” He winks at the camera and smiles like he knows that he will definitely be cursed by parents.

OnePenMomOfThr33 : Hello, son of the full moon.

Except for this guy

“Shia Laem sat!” He shouted cursing the little kid who entered the chat room with a name that could provoke him as always. I won’t reveal my mom’s name, damn kid!

Wolf999 : Why is it so rude? Ten thousands children watch your channel, you should behave and be a model for society.

“Another.” Thee mouth a message of good people in this world, then headed out unmasking, “I understand that people expect me to do so, but hey sir, I just a normal game player, I’m not a bureaucrat or a big man in society, don't you interfere too much in other people's lives? Here’s just sniffing glue. I don’t it necessary.”

OnePenMomOfThr33 : Yes, don’t say my brother!

“You’re good!”

Phongsathon donate 50 B :
Qing dog was born

OnePenMomOfThr33 : Speaking to hard, Hyung. I did not win a dog born. He just wanted help mom save nine months on sanitary napkins.

“At least for nine months they sleep in incubators because they were premature, don’t talk too much.” Thee made mockery of the younger kid who not as short as half western.

Ploypailin donate 200 B :
P’Thee someone went to curse P’Soh in the live, what should I do?

The young man was unsure of how many seconds he spent reading the text on the screen before his fingers close the live streaming without saying goodbye. He didn’t even know it was true or not. But Thee hurriedly press into Nong De’s channel before getting the answer in a still image of the game without a voice narrating what the character is currently facing. Because there was a group of people who were cursing in the chat room with all kinds of rude messages which he thought was too harsh for a person.

33003300 : Short wallaby! Play games so so!

11001100 : Trying to be mysterious, wanting get attention. In spite of the fact that you are just little boy, the skull likes to stick to the cybercafé I went after that. Do not let me reveal who you are.

Yurikojung : What are you barking around here? Don’t mess with Nong!

Joyly : Nong Soh, you don’t have to read the text. Just close the live. Today the race is tired and rested first.

44004400 : Gamer’s society wide, isn’t it? In order to exist you must cling to that person.

11001100 : They are sycophants, I want to know if he takes his mask off and see that damn face! Are you still going whistling? Congratulations!

22002200 : How am I laughing? Poor Thee until I have to come this far and I’m so glad with subscribe tomorrow.

BOYZA704 : I can’t watch the story of game because of friends like you. The placenta of the world.

Epicwa : Please stop before I lose my temper.

33003300 : I will come every day until he begged to stop and pray.

A lot of hate messages were conveyed, Thee place both hands on the keyboard and asked himself if he should cursed the bastards to save Soh, but other side suddenly argued that doing it will not help Soh since those people would never be hurt it was even more fun to see him squirming.

Both hands clenched tightly and grasped the phone on the left which was the same rhythm as someone called and the young man did not hesitate to answer the call as soon as he realize Nong De was the one who called.

“Nong De.”

(Ah..P’Thee answered the call very quickly. I’m shocked..)

“What are you doing?”

(Soh come down to buy instant noodle. So I called P’Thee while walking to the mini mart. Today the first game is cool. But in the last game, Soh is the first one right now. A three minute highlight of Thr33Gamer’s shots collection is released recently.)

“…”

(When I saw P’Thee play, Soh said there would have been more people turning their attention to the killer. But has P'Thee eaten? Maybe you have, because I saw an alert that P'Thee was out.)

“….”

(P’Thee)

“Waiting downstairs, don’t go anywhere. I’ll go to you now.”

The person in other line didn’t answer. He would be happy if the child wanted to rethink whether he wanted to show him the next movie or not. And finally Nong De replied softly, ‘yes..’ So he hung up the call and grabbed the purse not caring about his outfit was a pajamas.

Just thought that a young kid will have to deal with a group mean people. Thee doesn’t want his younger brother face a bad thing first, he used in that place before, so Thee really understand how it would feel like. When you signing up for anything in social media it means you put yourself in open world that is visible easily.

Human have a reason to hate, but some people have no reason to think that social media is an independent world which they think they can do anything. But the point is Thee wanted to protect that boy who didn't mean to hurt anyone. Nong De is just a normal kid who likes to play games.

Taking a taxi from Lak Si to Silom takes 45 minutes, if there is no traffic jam, plus anxiousness that constantly accelerates the driver, which make Thee understand his annoyance and give a couple hundred tips. He rushed into the condo without wasting any time walking and before leaving, Thee already told his girlfriend about Nong De’s situation which she understood and told him to take care of Nong De too.

Thee wore the old-fashioned slipper he bought because the boy said that he would remember his father every time he saw it. The tall young man stopped his footstep and gasped while making eye contact with the boy in his dark t-shirt pajamas sitting on the brown wooden bench in front of the garden.

“P’Thee comes quickly.”

“Almost an hour? That’s fast!”

“Yes P’Thee condo is far.” He tried finding the abnormality on other person’s face, and it was easy to see because the boy avoided eye contact with Thee beside the boy was shifted to the right, “wait a little here, Soh will go buy water for P’Thee.”

The boy stood with his wallet even though he had not finished talking. Thee sighed to see Soh's back, looking carefully at the cars driving into the condo, before he lowered his head and stomped his feet.

Thee looked at the Nong De’s phone that he leaves. It’s not automatically lock screen, which probably because the kid is reading the sheet he took. But that’s not as interesting as the LINE messages that pop up on the screen.

Jiranee : How’s your day? Are you tired? Don’t overdo it, mom is worried.

Jiranee : I’ll be there this Saturday. Does Soh want eat something special?

Jiranee : Stir fried vegetable with broccoli? Or should I have fried pumpkin?

Jiranee : I think I can make both of them.

Jiranee : Mom will put it on Tupperware, in case Soh can’t eat at all, you can put in the refrigerator and warm it later.

Jiranee : I miss you. You go read the book and go to bed.

Thee didn’t mean to, he read it until the messages stopped bouncing on the screen. The young man stroked his neck, thinking what kind talk that his mother would do if she text him. The controversy arose in the mind that the phone should not be messed up in the first place, but on other side, he thought it would not stop at all what the previous conversation would be like.

“Water.”

“Thank you.” He opened the bottle cap and drank almost half of it, before turning to look at the person next to him who put a straw in the carton box of banana milk use both hand to hold it and gently suck.

“You already eat MAMA* and still have milk, is there black hole in your stomach?
*MAMA is one of noodle brand is Thailand.

“Soh said, maybe in Soh's stomach there are many helminthes…” Soh spit a tube out and made a dizzy face as he put his hand on his head and raised his eyebrows.

“What can you do, young man?” Thee did not know whether this question was appropriate to ask Soh, because Thee did not know how to console other people, in his head there were only dirty words and insults.

“Of course I can, things will get better after I eat.” The two of them understood each other not to talk about the hate speech that was in the previous chat room. “So that's the reason P came here? Thank you very much P.”

“I just wanted a free drink, don't you know?” The young man picked up a half-finished bottle and made the person next to him laugh. “It's my first time seeing it, but I don't feel guilty about causing you to experience it.”

“Yes Soh understand. Soh is not the only person who is insulted by the world or people I meet, I can still do live. My dad said if no one hates it means that person never existed. While Soh exists so they can hate Soh.” Nong De smirked.

“I was cursed all the time and I was confused about what to do. Both hurt and angry, ask everyone around you or ask yourself what was wrong, but I never got the answer. P’Tap said, ‘There is a lover, there must be someone to hate you, you will do it.’ Yes not everyone will like about what you do. Some things might be good but some things may be sensitive for other, and I understood. Even though I realize it little too late. How do I do something that I loved when I was a kid until I forget to think about other people. It is better to be overlooked than to pay attention and play dead.”

“P'Thee must have been through a lot tougher than Soh.”

“It may be related and a little painful, but P depends a lot on the mind. It depends on how we accept it after a while and I begin to adjust and finally find a middle ground. We can't please everyone, but we can't be bad either, some people might hate who we are or they just hate you for no reason. The reasons are very complicated.”

“That's right, on social media so many people come together, it would be impossible for everyone to agree on one thing. After this Soh will try to think positively at least some people still like Soh's live stream. Soh hasn't closed the live yet, until now I don't know what the audience is thinking, how can Soh disappoint everyone like this. First Soh will come back and apologize to everyone.”

He grabbed the man’s hand under it and looked up to tell him that he don’t have to carry anything on his shoulders anymore, “Not because I said really wanted to tell everyone in life, then.”

“Ahh.. P’Laem?”

“Well,” he smile and nodded in response, “Heal yourself first and then heal other people. Do you understand?”

Nong De stood still for a moment and nodded slowly, so he exert little force to bring him back to his seat and Nong De did not pull a little.

“The fact that a group of people still love us for who we are, it’s the best thing of the day. And you know, we don’t know if tomorrow they will hate us or not. But what we can do is cherish it as much as we can. Come back and say that to the person who defended you. Heal yourself first and then go. However the audience already understood that such a dull person would not act right. No one is force to face people’s heels.”

“Soh will remember.”

“And for people to hate us, we can't stop it, but we can stop ourselves from paying attention to it.” Thee paused for a moment wondering if he was talking too much. “In the past we may have stood where no one knew us, but now we don't.”

“We are standing here together and seen by those people holding stones in each hand.” Thee pointed out with the movements, “They have the right to throw the stone at us, but I don't want you to get hurt.” He stroked the head of the careless boy who then nodded, he didn't know how to help a child who had just seen how bad the social world was.

“Soh doesn’t want P’Thee to hurt.”

“Huh?”

“Maybe P'Thee thought that P'Thee had been hit so much, until you got used to it, because P'Thee had accepted that and threw back at the person who threw the stone at P'Thee. But sometimes P'Thee also makes mistakes until the pain builds up, but that's okay, Soh will try not to cause suffering to P'Thee.” The young man looked at the smiling child, and stroked his head as if the one who needed to be consolation was himself.

“You still in this state of shock, but you still worry about me? It’s really cool, kid!” Instead he laughed and turned to look in his eyes to show him that the sadness had already started to fade away.

“At first Soh was afraid of its existence, but now it has changed.” Nong De smiles. “Soh wants to keep playing games with everyone even if there are not matches or whatever. Soh just think that playing games with P. Like P’Laem and P’Jack. Soh feels grateful.”

“…”

“Do not worry. Soh will not read that messages again. Or if I accidently read that mean messages again, I’ll remember P’Thee’s word.”

“Well, good at talking. Grow up quickly.” He turned around, crossed his arm, sat back straight.

“If Soh gets hurt by the stone throwing, Soh will put a plaster on Soh's wound like this.” Nong De showed his index finger which was wrapped in plaster.

“Why can it hurt?”

“The paper cut my hand during the day. Don't blame Soh for being careless, it's because P'Laem is cursing.”

“You sloppy!”

The owner of banana milk is pouting, Thee can't help but squeeze it so it looks like a platypus

“I’m completely lost. He said a lot like a suppressed person for three lives.” Thee probably didn’t have to wait for an answer, because Nong De had already given it, it was those eyes that shriveled while still being squeeze on his lips. The young man released his hand and painted his arm on the back of the bench. A sigh of relief that finally brought a smile to this child. Even if it was a skull and shell matter. “This Saturday you don’t have to go to P’Tap shop. I’m busy.”

“Did you go on date with P’Bella?”

“Yes.” Even though it is a lie. He wanted this child to feel comfortable spending time with her mother without interruption.

“P’Thee?”

“Yes?”

“Even if someone says how bad I'll see you, but for Soh, P'Thee is the best.”

He looked at the person beside him and lowered his head to see the wound on his finger. He was hurt physically as well as mentally. The boy looked confused by the silence, finally he hit his leg lightly and gave thumbs up.

“P’Thee is great!”