Chapter 28 – Korean Branch Manager

Read​ on K​atReadi​ngCa​fe

After eating a simple Moms Touch set burger, I ordered a drink for dessert and had it.

I realized over time that prosthetic arms and legs, while nice to look at, are quite uncomfortable.

No matter how light they were made, perhaps because my arms and legs had been gone for so long and I didn’t have much muscle, the devices that held the prosthetic arms and legs in place to the severed ends were quite irritating and painful.

I carefully called out to Older Sister Anna.

“…Unni.”

“Arang, what’s wrong?”

“Can’t I… take off the prosthetic arm and… leg…? It hurts…”

“Ah, you’re not used to it yet, are you? But are you sure? Everyone’s here.”

“I’m… okay…”

“Alright.”

Anna Unnie and the doctor carefully removed my prosthetic arm and leg one by one.

As soon as they were all off, I felt a wave of coolness and went limp.

“Are you tired?”

“I’m a little tired… I think…”

With my belly full and my arms and legs feeling cool, plus Anna Unnie stroking my head, I closed my eyes as I was.

==

As Arang fell asleep, everyone stopped talking and stared at her, listening to her soft snores.

Their expressions shifted from concern to fatherly smiles as they watched the young girl sleep peacefully, no longer seeing the corpse-like expression she often wore.

But that fatherly smile didn’t last long.

Until now, everyone knew that Arang’s arms and legs were prosthetic. But knowing that and seeing it directly are two completely different things.

Everyone knew about Arang’s limbs, which hadn’t moved once since they’d met her, but they were still taken aback by how easily they were removed, offering no resistance.

Anna carefully picked Arang up and carried her into the bedroom, laying her on the bed. Doctor Kim Hyesun decided to stay by Arang’s side.

Originally, Anna was going to stay, but she decided to talk to the others who had been playing the game with Arang.

As soon as she closed the door securely behind her, silence filled the room.

Lee Anna was the first to break it.

“Thank you all. Thank you again for talking to Arang and playing the game with her.”

“Anna, I was really surprised. To think you were hiding such a cute younger sister, Arang.”

Yu Eunji said to her friend with a smile, as if it were nothing.

“Eunji, I’m really grateful to you. Arang waking up, getting out of bed, and leaving the hospital is all thanks to you recommending the game LEORE.”

“Hey. Arang is really brave, isn’t she? She would have woken up even if it wasn’t LEORE.”

“Miss Hayan, thank you again. I’m really glad that the first person Arang met and played the game with was Miss Hayan.”

“Ah, no…! I got a lot of comfort from Arang too…!”

“Mister Kang Hangil, thank you for treating Arang as a person and acknowledging her. Arang was so proud when she talked about her interview with Mister Kang Hangil; she was really happy.”

“I’m really glad. I was afraid Arang would hate me because I made so many mistakes when talking to her.”

“No. Arang really likes you all. I’m really moved when I see Arang, who always lacked motivation and spirit, playing LEORE.”

While the Arang Arang Gathering was talking about Arang, Kang Hangil frowned as he looked at his phone, which was ringing with an alarm.

One of his editors had informed him about what was happening in the Leore Gallery: some people were intentionally spewing malicious comments—no, terrible words—about Arang.

“There’s something you all need to know.”

Kang Hangil showed his phone to everyone.

It contained all sorts of sexual harassment, accusations, and false rumors about Arang.

“What is this…! Hangil Oppa! Can’t you do something about this!?”

Yu Eunji, who had become close to Kang Hangil, was furious, using his name in a situation where they were spewing out terrible words that no one in their right mind could bear to read.

“I know that this site is basically made through Masble, so it’s hard to catch them because it’s an American IP. That’s why they’re writing these posts without hesitation.”

“That’s right… I know that too…”

“That can’t be… No, wait a minute…?”

Yu Eunji was about to get angry, but she hurriedly raised her head and looked at her friend Anna, who was looking at her phone through the link she received from Kang Hangil.

She was a sophisticated, cold, and beautiful friend who you would mistake for a celebrity if you just saw her, but in fact, Anna’s identity was the Korean Branch Representative of Masble, a company that’s sweeping up money all over the world.

The Korean Branch Representative, which was the largest and most influential among Masble’s branches in various countries, was none other than her friend Lee Anna.

“Anna. You’re the Korean Branch Representative of Masble. Isn’t there anything you can do?”

“…Huh!?”

“…What, what did you say!?”

Kang Hangil and Lee Hayan were startled by Yu Eunji’s words and looked at Lee Anna.

Seeing Lee Anna holding Kang Hangil’s phone and looking at it with a serious expression, Kang Hangil and Lee Hayan realized why they had doubts when they first saw her.

They knew that Arang was using a 10 million mileage avatar, so they knew that her family was rich, but they never imagined that she was the younger sister of the Korean Branch Representative of Masble.

“This… I’ll definitely take care of this. I will, without fail…”

Everyone swallowed hard as Lee Anna, who was already a charismatic and cold woman, showed a serious expression and held back her anger.

“I will contact my parents directly about this.”

Lee Anna immediately got up from her seat, handed the phone back to Kang Hangil, picked up her own phone, and stood.

“I’ll be back after a quick phone call.”

As soon as Lee Anna left, Kang Hangil and Lee Hayan hurriedly searched for the Korean Branch Representative of Masble on their phones.

The Lee Anna they had just seen was plastered all over the internet in headshots.

“I’m so surprised that Lee Anna was the Korean Branch Representative of Masble…”

“I, I was surprised too.”

“But it’s a relief. As far as I remember, the parents of the Korean Branch Representative were the founders of Masble. That means cooperation is possible.”

“Great! That’s why you have to have good friends!? Those bastards are all dead! What!? How dare they slander Arang like that!? Isshi!”

Yu Eunji jumped up and waved her hands wildly in the air. Then she sat down and said to Kang Hangil.

“That’s right. What are you going to do, Hangil Oppa?”

“About what?”

“Arang said she’s going to make a guild. Hayan and I don’t have a guild right now, so we’re going to join Arang’s guild right away.”

“I have a guild that I made with my viewers, so it’s a shame, but I’m going to try to cooperate.”

“That’s definitely a good idea. Then what about the Raid?”

“I have to go to the Raid with them. I don’t know what amazing and wonderful things Arang will show us.”

“Right, right! I’m so curious~”

“That’s right. I was so excited when I first caught the Corrupted Judge with Arang.”

The Arang Arang Gathering naturally moved on to talking about LEORE.

==

Virtual world connector.

In modern times, the connector has become so integrated into modern life that there are hardly any people who don’t use it.

There are several reasons for this.

The first is, of course, that you can enter the dream world of the virtual world.

Masble made the connector and released the game engine that allows you to create a virtual world for free, and charged a fee for the money earned from the game.

Because of this, many game companies jumped in to create virtual world games in the virtual world created by Masble.

Thanks to that, many virtual world games appeared, and many gamers bought connectors to enjoy those games.

The second is convenience.

The connector, which seems to require overwhelming technology to enter the virtual world, was simply released as a choker type that hangs around the neck, and it was so lightweight that even a 10-year-old child could wear it.

The last is versatility.

The virtual world wasn’t just a world where you could play games.

Anyone could use it because it had many conveniences, such as trying on clothes you wanted to wear in the virtual world and checking them out, or using a huge movie theater alone.

Not only gamers, but also ordinary people gradually started using connectors, and so many things came into the virtual world that it became impossible to do anything without a connector, so it penetrated deeply into people’s daily lives.

Now, whether a cell phone works well as a cell phone is no longer the reason why people buy it, but how well it works with the connector is the focus.

Now, it’s no exaggeration to say that all information and certificates are in the connector.

A man returning home from work.

The man bought a lunch box for dinner at a convenience store and took out his cell phone when he arrived home and put the lunch box in the microwave.

“Haa… I’m really speechless. I’m speechless. Are they all Lolicon? What’s so good about sucking up to that bitch.”

Ding!

“And what? The Korean Branch Representative of Masble? Bullshit, if that’s true, then they’re really nuclear. Do those kids have no brains or parents? Can’t they think like that?”

The man took the convenience store lunch box out of the microwave and ate it while continuing to write posts on the Leore Gallery.

After finishing his dinner, he put on the connector to play Leore and lay down on the bed.

He immediately pressed the power button on the connector and closed his eyes.

He was sucked into the darkness, and as soon as he arrived in his virtual world room, something was wrong.

“What. Why can’t my body move? Ah, fuck, this is really going too far.”

Just as he was about to get up to turn the connector off and on, a window popped up in front of the man’s eyes.

[Connector Temporary Suspension Notice]

[Your connector has been temporarily suspended and cannot be used.]

[Please check your email for details.]

“Uh… fuck…?”

Az09xo