Chapter 72 – Exercise

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“Arang, let’s try moving once.”

“Fighting!”

Doctor Unnie is saying while touching my prosthetic right hand, and Older Sister Anna is cheering her on enthusiastically from the side.

Emboldened by their support, I focused on my severed arm and the attached prosthetic.

The prosthetic is clenched into a fist.

“Keueueung…!”

I’ve realized while doing rehabilitation training and LEORE, it’s not just Arang’s emotions that are hindering the manipulation of the prosthetic right now.

My body simply can’t accept it. The prosthetic.

As my body’s senses and nerves have become exceptionally developed, the basic prosthetic is trying not to connect with my body.

From the start, my brain, now accustomed to this body, isn’t accepting the prosthetic.

It’s as if it’s saying, “This prosthetic doesn’t suit the body!”

However.

If I combine this body’s physical abilities and judgment, this kind of prosthetic is nothing.

Hup!

“Oh! Arang, you’re moving it!”

My fingers started to move, and one finger stretched out from the prosthetic, which was basically clenched into a fist.

“I succeeded…!”

“Arang. But why did you only extend the middle finger?”

“Because it’s the coolest finger… so…?”

“Tsk tsk.”

Older Sister Anna folded the extended middle finger of the prosthetic.

The rehabilitation training for the prosthetic arm and leg had a 1mm improvement. Until now, all I could do was wiggle them, but today I even moved one finger.

After rehabilitation training came exercise.

Actually, it’s called exercise, but it’s rehabilitation training.

No matter how freely I can handle the prosthetic arm and leg, it’s impossible without a body to support them, so exercise is essential.

Doctor Unnie said that my body is normalizing, so I was planning to start exercising.

Ultimately, my body has to move directly when I move the prosthetic arm and leg.

The problem is how to increase the muscles in my body without arms and legs.

The hospital is perfectly providing nutrients. I don’t think of it as hospital food, but as food from a restaurant or hotel, it’s so delicious.

Moreover, they seem to know Arang’s eating habits perfectly. I don’t, but Arang hates eggplant, mushrooms, and broccoli.

I haven’t seen eggplant, mushrooms, or broccoli even once while eating the food from the hospital so far.

This shows how much the people in this building are considerate of her. Of course, they’re getting paid that much, but still.

Exercise started with moving my arms and legs as much as possible.

I decided to start with the basics for the muscles that had completely disappeared after living in bed for several years.

“Okay. Let’s raise your right shoulder. Slowly, that’s right. You’re doing well.”

First is my right arm.

An arm that’s missing half between the elbow and shoulder.

Following Doctor Unnie’s words, I slowly raised that arm, or rather, my shoulder.

“Eueut…!”

It’s hard to just raise my arm towards my ear.

“Slowly. Little by little. You’re doing well.”

The arm that moves smoothly in LEORE couldn’t move as I willed it in reality.

Doctor Unnie massages me after showering every day, but after being in bed for a long time and not moving my body when I enter the virtual world, the muscles are bound to shrink.

“Let’s do the left arm too. Okay… that’s right, good.”

It seems really serious that it feels heavy even though three-quarters of my arm is missing.

The same goes for my legs. Even though three-quarters of my legs are missing, it takes all my effort to move my legs by moving my pelvis, and they drop limply in less than a minute.

“Hooah… hoo… it’s hard…”

“Let’s try a little harder, Arang!”

“Eueung…!”

Next, we’re going to do jumping jacks while lying down.

I’m not jumping, but moving my arms and legs while lying down. First, I did as much as I could slowly and diligently.

But I gave out on the fifth one. Not five sets, but after waving my arms and legs five times.

“You did well, Arang! Let’s increase your stamina a little more while you’re healthy!”

“Eung…”

My body in reality… my defense is much lower than the Assassin.

At this rate, it seems like I’d die even if a level 1 newbie accidentally hit me with a wooden sword.

I’m covered in sweat all over my body after moving that much.

Sweat is dripping down, my body is sticky, and my patient gown is clinging to me.

“Arang, you worked hard? You’re sweating a lot.”

When I tried to wipe the sweat by moving my arm and attaching my head to it as much as possible, Doctor Unnie wiped the sweat on my face with a towel.

It’s not just my face, but the problem is my whole body.

I realized this for the first time while exercising after becoming Arang, Arang is the type to sweat a lot.

My whole body is covered in sweat.

Moreover, is it because my body’s senses and nerves are developed? I can feel the sweat dripping down my body in detail, which gives me goosebumps.

“Unnie… please take off my clothes…”

“Euk…! Arang, it’s too dangerous to say that with that expression. I feel like I’m becoming a bad person…!”

“…Huh?”

I checked my body condition.

The first exercise I did after becoming Arang.

Sweat is flowing from my whole body, my face is naturally hot, and I’m panting.

However you look at it, it’s the appearance after working out hard. Of course, all that exercise was moving my severed arms and legs while lying down.

“You’re already sweating this much. Doctor will wipe you down.”

“Am I… the type to sweat a lot…”

“Ah, Arang!”

“Ah, I misspoke…”

I was going to say that I’m the type to sweat a lot, but the sweat dripping down my body reminded me of when I used to get rained on, so I unknowingly said water.

“Before showering, one lastㅡ”

Are you still doing more!?

“You can’t make that expression either. We’re going to do sit-ups as the last thing. But don’t worry. We’ll only do a little since you’re not used to it yet. You can do it!”

“Eue…”

Following Doctor Unnie’s gesture, I put strength in my stomach and lifted my body.

Even though it’s a simple sit-up, my body doesn’t follow me well. In the end, I came up by slightly bouncing my waist, but I tried not to give up on exercising as much as possible.

It changed from fluttering to thrashing.

Doctor Hyesun picked me up and went into the bathtub.

I sweated a lot, so today she washed my body more carefully than ever.

I hate exercising, but showering after exercising… feels good…

Moreover, at the end, after sufficiently warming my body with warm water, I get to do what I like next to taking a half bath.

That’s right…

Doctor Hyesun’s massage time.

For me, who has to lie down for almost 22 hours a day, massage is essential.

No matter how excellent a person’s body is, it will eventually die if it’s not used.

That’s why I get massages to stimulate my body and prevent it from stiffening, and to circulate the blood that doesn’t flow well while lying down.

“Hooheut…! Haeut…! Haeung…! Heuaaa…”

Before, Arang’s emotions were strong, so I didn’t say anything and just received the massage, but things have changed since menstruation.

I can’t speak loudly, but I can speak slowly. It’s enough that there’s no discomfort in communicating with other people.

As such, various voices came out.

The massage after exercising to my limit with an already weak body hurt more than I thought.

“Arang, bear with it a little longer. If I don’t loosen it up today, you’ll suffer more tomorrow.”

“Eueung…! I know eueung…!”

“B, but Arang… c, can you… not make those moans…?”

“Eueueung…? Moans…?”

“It’s nothing, it’s nothing. I’ll keep going…!”

Today’s massage was very painful, but I feel good that all the strength in my body is gone and I feel languid after doing it.

It’s like becoming a squid. Of course, I have 10 fewer legs than a squid.

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Rehabilitation training, exercise, showering, and massage were all over, and I returned to the virtual world using the Endoflife terminal.

I was originally going to connect to LEORE right away, but I was exhausted, so I went straight to bed and lay down.

After being in bed for several years, trying to move my body makes me breathless and my body feels numb even if I move a little.

This is exactly the feeling when a LEORE level 1 newbie sprints.

Later, when I can handle the prosthetic arm and leg, I’m going to check the stability by doing real exercise…

I can already feel the hardship.

But if I think of all of this as normalizing my body, I have to do it.

‘I hate exercising so much…’

Rehabilitation training is okay, but exercising makes me sweat a lot.

The reason I hate sweating is that I hate not being able to wipe the sweat when I want to.

It gives me goosebumps as it drips down my body, and if I had arms and legs, I would wipe it off, but since that’s impossible, I have to leave it as it is.

Older Sister Anna diligently wipes the sweat on my face, but she can’t wipe my body while I’m exercising.

Moreover, my patient gown sticks to me because of the sweat, which is unpleasant. Next time I exercise, I’ll just tell Doctor Hyesun to take off all my clothes.

It’s embarrassing, but there are no men anyway, and only Anna and Doctor Hyesun are women.

You might ask why I’m working hard on rehabilitation training and exercise when I’m going to be in the virtual world anyway, but I saw it.

The augmented reality theme park on RyuTube.

Moreover, the most popular game in the augmented reality theme park is the Monster Hunter game.

I was so surprised when I saw it.

The sequel to the game I used to enjoy quite a bit has continued to this day and has even come out in augmented reality. Moreover, it’s also in virtual reality games.

This is a very important event.

RPG games are good, but I also like Monster Hunter quite a bit. The feeling of not having the concept of leveling and feeling the proficiency of the weapon you use increasing.

First of all, I’m going to work hard on rehabilitation training and exercise to enjoy augmented reality and virtual reality more perfectly.

To play games!

Before that, I have to reach Challenger in PVP.

This is a man’s pride.

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There’s no situation to put it in, but I put in Arang, who was drawn cutely