Story

The day after Comic World.

My whole body ached, my non-existent legs throbbed, and I had no strength, but don’t worry.

It’ll all be solved neatly once I enter the virtual world.

Other connection devices might be different, but the one I’m using, called the ‘Doomsday Device,’ blocks the spinal nerves that connect my body and head, so once I enter the virtual world, all that stuff disappears.

In cases of extreme pain, the body can’t recover, and the shock hits all at once when you come out of the device later, but if it’s just a little fatigue or a minor cold, the body recovers on its own when you take off the device, and it’s all neatly resolved.

I entered my personal room in the virtual world and, instead of immediately going into LeoLe, I opened an internet window and went to my fan cafe.

I wanted to go to Comic World on Sunday too, but it’s impossible in my current condition.

If I were just spectating, it might be okay, but I didn’t know that cosplaying would be this hard.

I had no choice but to announce on the fan cafe that I couldn’t go to Comic World.

Then, I started browsing the fan cafe.

As expected, the number of posts on the cafe had exploded because of yesterday’s Comic World.

,Oh… Wow, is that what I looked like?”

Among the people taking pictures of me at Comic World, there was a camera that anyone could tell was super expensive.

But I never imagined it would produce such results.

There was a picture of me with a quality that looked like it came straight out of a fashion magazine.

I left comments thanking everyone who posted my pictures and saved the ones I liked.

I knew I was pretty when I occasionally looked in the mirror before taking a bath, but being photographed so meticulously and beautifully makes me almost fall for myself.

[Ah, Arang-i isn’t coming today… She went to work yesterday… I could have gone today tooooo!]

[Anyone who didn’t see Arang-i’s cosplay in real life should just die lololol]

[Real-life Arang-i is so cute it’s driving me crazy ㅋㅋ I almost picked her up and ran away]

[Such a cute creature plays LeoLe]

After looking at some of the simping posts about me, I also browsed the LeoLe gallery, and there were just as many posts about X as there were about me.

Wondering what was going on, I clicked on a popular post with X in the title.

I immediately knew what was happening.

It seems like there’s a lot of talk about me on X right now.

Looking at the uploaded photos, my name and the name of the novel I cosplayed were trending in Korea.

‘I can quit LeoLe, but I’ll never quit gaming.’

I might share stories or little bits of my daily life like Lin-ssi, but I have zero intention of making friends and giggling on X.

There’s long been a saying that you should avoid female gamers who also use X. People’s perception of X hasn’t been very good.

‘Come to think of it, the gallery is similar.’

Of course, this doesn’t mean all users of the gallery or X. It’s just that there are definitely a few users with a screw loose, no, all their screws are loose.

‘Not even screws, there were just a lot of users with their brains removed. This brings back memories.’

I used to run a raid group in a game, and there were eight of us, including me. Among them, there were three female users, and all three of them used X.

Then, one day, those three suddenly started fighting like crazy.

As the raid leader, I checked to see why the raid members were fighting.

It turned out that one of the female users had written a post on X, visible only to her followers, badmouthing the other two female users.

But the follower friend of the user who wrote the badmouthing was friends with the other two women, so the two women who were being badmouthed found out about it.

The three female users were having a full-blown mud fight, and they all came to me, saying that I should kick that user out of the raid group, and even started playing politics with the other raid members, trying to ruin the raid atmosphere, so I happily kicked all three of them out.

You might say, shouldn’t I have only kicked out the user who wrote the badmouthing? But I didn’t like the actions of all three of them in the raid group chat and Discord, so I kicked them all out.

It would have been nice if it ended there, but of course, it didn’t end there.

Suddenly, those three women, united again after being kicked out, started spouting nonsense on X, saying they would expose our entire raid group, including me, and started cursing at us.

After experiencing that, if a female user also uses X? I would just block them. Back then, my opinion of X was the worst.

But well, that’s all in the distant past now, so I should let go of my prejudice, right?

If it were the past, I wouldn’t have had any interest in X, but maybe I’m stuck in my past prejudices now.

‘The gallery has changed into a super nice gallery now, after all.’

The old gallery was a place where you could see everything from personal attacks to every curse word in the world, and a battle arena would open all the time, but if you look at the current LeoLe gallery or Brown gallery, everyone is nice.

It’s not that there are no curse words, but it’s just like friends using them with each other.

‘Maybe people’s personalities have grown as we’ve entered the future era.’

I cleared away my narrow-minded thoughts and searched for the Nobel and Arang tags on X.

‘As expected, everyone is nice.’

There were just simping posts saying I was pretty, cute, what’s with the prosthetic arm, small, etc.

‘There are a lot of nicely taken pictures here too.’

The fan cafe had a lot of solo shots of me, while X had a lot of selfies taken together, so I picked out the good ones and saved them.

==

Thursday.

It’s LeoLe’s weekly reset day and update day.

This update is something that many LeoLe users are looking forward to.

The reason is none other than the fact that the LeoLe system is undergoing a major change.

As soon as Director Kim Ji-hoon said that a system would be added to LeoOn that uses AI to allow all users to create stories, many LeoLe users went wild.

And that update is today.

Arang couldn’t keep her legs still at school, she was so excited.

For Arang, it’s not just an update, but also a chance to proceed with the main quest that she’s been holding onto for so long, and to meet the Arang AI that she created herself.

She doesn’t know exactly how it will appear yet, but what’s certain is that it will appear in the form of an overwhelming boss.

As soon as school was over, Arang headed straight home, and instead of taking a bath as she always did after school, Arang went straight to her room, removed her prosthetic leg and arm, and logged into LeoLe.

She had pre-booked the update, so she was able to log in immediately.

As soon as she logged into LeoLe, Arang noticed something strange about the scenery.

,Is this the Fifth World Temple?”

She always chatted with her guild members before quitting LeoLe, so she always logged out in the guild house, and when she logged in, she would always wake up in the guild house.

But what Arang saw in front of her eyes wasn’t the chandelier in the guild house, but the ceiling of the temple where the Fifth World Administrator, Disnier, resided.

,What? Why did I wake up here?”

Arang raised her lying body.

,Coffin…?”

Arang realized that the place she was lying was a coffin.

No matter how she looked at it, it was a coffin.

It wasn’t an ordinary coffin. Anyone could tell how much the person in this coffin was loved and cherished.

‘Is this starting from that part?’

Arang recalled when she was defeated by the Mead raid group in the field boss state.

‘At that time, Disnier-nunna definitely held me and shed black tears.’

Arang took her eyes off the coffin and looked around.

The faint starlight outside from the stained-glass temple windows gathered in one part of the temple through the stained glass, and in that light, Disnier was kneeling, with her hands clasped together as if praying, and her eyes closed.

,Disnier-nim?”

Startled by Arang’s words, Disnier raised her head and, seeing Arang standing up perfectly fine from the coffin, ran to Arang and hugged her tightly.

,Ah… Arang-nim. Arang-nim…! I’ll never, never lose you again… Never…!”

,Heueh…”

In the moment of being dazed by Disnier’s hug, Disnier’s chest sensation, and her body odor, an alert popped up in front of Arang’s eyes.

Ttiriring.

==

Disnier, further corrupted by your death, sacrificed countless lives to revive you.

With the determination to never lose you again, she gave you a part of herself.

World Boss [Lee Arang] will appear every Friday.

==

,What the hell is this all of a sudden…?”

Not a field boss, but a world boss?

Arang couldn’t get rid of the question marks in her head at the word ‘world boss,’ which she was seeing for the first time in LeoLe.