Ch. 1 New Game
by AfuhfuihgsChapter 1 – New Game
Translator Note
KatTL: This has been translated and proofread by AZ09XO. If you’re wondering why this is appearing in NU, that’s because someone uploaded DarkMTL’s mtl to NU without permission. Pure unedited MTL goes against NU guidelines.
I think I’m pretty good at games.
FPS, MOBA, RPG, etc. No matter the genre, I always reach the top at least once when I start playing. Of course, whether I’m as good as a pro gamer… Well, the answer is debatable.
One reason is probably my lack of immersion. Pro gamers focus on one game, analyzing, studying, and digging into it. But I quickly get tired of games.
In short, I’m a rank 1 “찍먹” (dipping) player.
Clicking keyboards, mice, and pads eventually feels futile. The funny thing is, I enjoy new games more than anyone else, but I get bored after a while.
No matter what content is updated, I’m just not interested.
I don’t know, maybe it feels unrealistic? I can’t really explain it. I just can’t enjoy a game for very long.
If I think about the games I’ve played the longest, it’s RPGs. The process of reaching the Raid, studying the Gimmicks that I initially thought were difficult, and the sense of accomplishment when I cleared it were definitely great.
But no matter the RPG, the Gimmicks became repetitive, and the Damage Per Second cycle always repeated, so I couldn’t help but get bored.
This time, I was deleting the game I was playing and wondering if there was any game worth playing at all.
But what’s going on?
I looked around.
A blue sky with beautiful clouds floating by. A pleasant, cool breeze. Medieval buildings and countless people all around me.
I was standing in what looked like a town square.
‘Other world reincarnation?’
No.
The reason it’s not just another world reincarnation is right in front of me.
A long red bar is visible on the 11 o’clock side of my vision.
No matter how I look at it, it’s a Hit Points bar. A Hit Points bar that shows my Hit Points. Then, of course, the one below it is Mana, and the one below Mana is Stamina.
Octahedrons were floating above the heads of passersby. And below that, something was written. Judging from the fact that different words were written on each one, it seems to be a nickname. And there were English letters and numbers attached to the nickname.
LV : 54
This obviously means that person’s level.
‘Game?’
A User Interface that looks like it came straight out of an RPG is floating in my vision.
Is this a transfer to another world, like the regular trope in comics, anime, and novels? But the sounds I hear around me are just like the chatter you’d see in the global chat of an RPG.
From hunting grounds to dungeons, items, potions, etc., they’re talking about ordinary RPG games, and the occasional sound of someone logging out doesn’t make me think this is just another world.
“Hey, I’ll see you again tomorrow. I have to go because I have tutoring.”
“What? Are you still going to that English academy?”
“Yeah. It’s annoying. I told my mom I was annoyed with the English teacher, but she won’t change it.”
“Oh, really? That sucks. See you tomorrow, good luck.”
“Okay, okay.”
Two boys who looked like students were talking next to me, and the boy who said he had to go to the academy put his index and middle fingers together and lowered them in the air, then kept gesturing and disappeared.
Like he logged out.
‘Virtual reality game?’
I was dumbfounded just thinking about it. These days, people are debating whether to make games with Unreal Engine 5 or not, and suddenly there’s a virtual reality game.
But all the senses I’m experiencing now are so vivid.
The sunlight is dazzling, I feel the cool breeze, and all the information coming in is no different from reality.
Like that boy who disappeared earlier, I raised my hand.
‘Huh?’
The hand that came into my sight was very foreign. This isn’t my hand? My hands were bigger and rougher. But the hand I’m looking at now is obviously a young girl’s hand.
Only then did I realize something was wrong.
‘Everything’s so high.’
Everything around me was high. From people to buildings and various objects.
I used to be tall enough to look at the tops of people’s heads, but now I had to look up at them.
‘I’ve gotten smaller…?’
Is this a dream?
When I lowered my head, I saw a small body. Both hands were small and petite, and my feet barely reached the floor.
In the glass of the building next to me, the figure of a small girl was reflected. The little girl was looking at me.
A small girl with long black hair neatly down to her waist and no expression on her face.
When the eyes of the expressionless girl moved and the corners of her mouth turned up, I realized that the small and cute girl reflected in the glass was me.
‘What is this? Is it really a dream? But it’s too vivid to be a dream?’
When I pinched my cheek, I felt pain.
But the pain was a little strange.
‘Vibration?’
At first, I thought it was pain, but it felt like I had a smartphone against my cheek and it was vibrating.
My head hurts.
I can’t sort out my thoughts because of the sudden change in the situation and my appearance. But I think I know this.
That this place I’m in now is a virtual reality game like you’d see in comics, anime, and novels.
I tried the gesture I had stopped doing earlier again. Then, a hologram window appeared with a ringing sound. It was the menu window. And when I scrolled down, I saw the logout button.
Unlike the game in that famous novel, there was a logout button.
I want to press it right now, but I also want to play this virtual reality game.
I’m in that virtual reality game that I thought would come out before I died.
‘I have to play this right away.’
First, I decided to learn about this game. I sat down on a chair and immediately tore through the menu window.
As expected, I was level 1. Just looking at the clothes I was wearing, they were clothes that a beginner would wear.
In the place that looked like an inventory, there were 10 potions and a one-handed sword. I clicked on the one-handed sword.
I desperately grabbed the sword that appeared in front of me.
The weight transmitted from my hand. The cold handle. This sword feels like a real sword.
In the next menu, there was a quest window. There was only one quest there, and it was called Tutorial.
The content of the quest was simple. It was to catch one Goblin.
When I pressed the guide visible below the quest window, a path appeared on the floor in front of me. I immediately started running along the guide.
As soon as I arrived, I saw a plain where Goblins I had seen in various media were walking around.
Monsters with small heights and green skin, Goblins. Each of them was holding a small dagger.
The people around me were working hard to catch them. Not just clicking 평타 (basic attack) or skills like in a computer RPG, but moving, attacking, and dodging directly.
LV : 1 Goblin.
I pointed my sword at the Goblin in front of me.
It’s pounding. Emotions I’ve never felt before dominate my body, and I focus all my attention on the Goblin.
[Ah, Arang!?]
A beautiful woman’s voice echoed in my head and a hologram appeared in front of me.
[Forced Logout]
Forced logout is being executed due to an external request.
You can no longer play the game.
The connection to the server will be terminated.
Huh?
==
As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw a pure white hospital room. Not just any hospital room, but an incredibly luxurious one.
There were several machines around me, and a woman was gently shaking me.
She’s so pretty.
As soon as I saw her, I couldn’t help but think she was pretty. She has a cold impression and a charismatic older sister vibe.
The older sister, who wouldn’t be out of place anywhere, was shaking me while wearing a suit.
She kept repeating the word Arang.
Come to think of it, the beautiful woman’s voice I heard before I lost consciousness seems to be this older sister. She also said Arang!
I was wondering why she was calling me when—
“Ugh!”
A headache that felt like my head was splitting open came.
“Arang! S, Teacher!”
The headache was so severe that I fainted, and when I regained consciousness, a vast amount of memories had flooded my head.
==
In short, I’ve become a young girl named Lee Arang.
Should I call this possession? I don’t know.
This world is not the world I lived in, but a slightly more futuristic one. I also learned that the place I was in earlier was a popular virtual reality game.
The problem is that this young girl is dead. Of course, not physically, but mentally.
The reason is the situation this young girl, Lee Arang, is in.
Lee Arang has no arms or legs. Due to a disease that occurred after birth, her arms had to be amputated slightly above the elbows, and her legs slightly above the knees, and the muscles in her body continued to weaken.
Arang, who was only 10 years old, couldn’t withstand such a terrible disease.
The older sister who was looking at me earlier is Lee Anna, Arang’s older sister.
Older Sister Lee Anna and Arang’s parents took care of Arang diligently, but in the end, Arang’s mind, unable to overcome the mental illness, died.
The doctors said that Arang had no hope because she didn’t react to anything—pain, or any stimulation.
Arang is actually dead. But I’ve come into that dead Arang now.
All of Arang’s memories and the emotions of how difficult things were for her were all conveyed to me.
I was confused when these memories and emotions first came in, but now I’ve adapted.
Now I have to live as Lee Arang.
I have to live without arms and legs. It will be very uncomfortable and difficult, but I have to overcome it.
But when I think about it carefully…
Our house, that is, Arang’s house, is very, very wealthy. They own an apartment building and can feed three generations?
Besides, in Legacy of Raid, the virtual reality game I played earlier, I was definitely running on two legs and holding a sword with two hands.
Do I really need to live hard in reality?
I can enjoy that famous virtual reality game even without arms and legs…? Without worrying about money…?
==
Lee Arang in the game
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