353. Flesh (3)

Exercising without arms and legs.

I’ve been steadily doing it every day with the feeling of rehabilitation exercises.

It’s a body that doesn’t have much trouble doing daily life, but when I exercise, my stamina doesn’t improve well-that’s Arang’s body.

In the first place, it’s strange for a body that has done nothing but lie like a corpse for over 5 years to return to the normal range in just 1 year.

Gaining weight now is also part of becoming normal, but I can’t stand the fact that my Lole skill is declining in the process.

It’s definitely an abnormal underweight, but I’ve lived underweight and there wasn’t really a problem.

I didn’t feel any discomfort and I never got sick.

But since I gained weight, there are so many things that are uncomfortable.

First of all, this goddamn body becomes a perverted body that gets excited by trivial things because its senses become more sensitive every time it gains weight.

Kkuuk.

“Ugh…!”

I’m pressing my stomach directly, and even when I press it, my body reacts strongly. I don’t feel good at all with this kind of body.

Yeah. Honestly, I don’t care about this kind of body. Because I just don’t have to do this kind of thing.

But I can’t stand my game skills getting worse.

I’ve updated it several times so far, but there has never been such a difference between my senses and this much.

Clearly, 1 of force should move 1, but it only moves about 0.7, so the difference between my senses and the actual movement is so big that it’s quite uncomfortable.

It’s like the gravity suddenly became heavier.

If I go to a raid now, I’ll definitely become a complete noob with lower-tier skills.

No, it might be even lower than a complete noob. I might just become a troll.

That’s how bad my body condition is for playing Lole right now.

This is a serious matter. No matter what, I can’t stand my game skills declining.

Even if I’m underweight, I have to lose weight.

The food I eat at every meal is prepared by world-famous chefs to ensure I get balanced nutrition, so rather than reducing the food I eat, it’s right to reduce desserts.

‘Let’s reduce eating desserts for now.’

When I was a man, I didn’t eat sweet desserts even if someone bought them for me, but after becoming Arang, they suited my taste well.

Macarons, cakes, and various other desserts go right into my mouth.

Even if my mind is that of a 30-year-old man, my body itself is that of a young girl, so it felt so delicious.

On top of that, I can eat whatever food I want at any time, and world-famous chefs make me three meals a day, so I keep eating.

It’s hard to say that because my stomach is so small, but I definitely eat more than my stomach used to.

Whenever I eat, my stomach sticks out slightly.

“I won’t eat dessert today.”

As soon as I finished eating and told Anna and Pinku that I wouldn’t eat dessert today.

“Ah, Arang-ah, are you sick!?”

“Doctor unnieeeeee!”

All hell broke loose.

I just said that I wouldn’t eat the dessert that I had been eating regularly, but everyone suddenly panicked and shouted.

“Why are you making a fuss about dessert? I just don’t want to eat it because I don’t feel like it.”

If I said I wanted to lose weight and go on a diet, they would definitely oppose it, so I just made an excuse that I was full and didn’t want to eat.

==

“Arang-i is working really hard today?”

Doctor Euiseo-sensei, who helps me with exercise, stroked my head as if I was admirable.

No matter how much I like games and have to prepare for the competition, I always spend some time after eating and then exercise.

For rehabilitation exercises and to replenish the muscles that disappeared while living as a corpse for 5 years.

Today, I exercised even harder to lose weight. It’s not that I’ve been doing it half-heartedly until now. Today, I did it even more fiercely.

The doctor-sensei who saw me like that praised me and even stopped me.

She told me that if I, who still have fewer muscles than an average person, overdo it, it won’t get better but will have a bad effect, and she told me while massaging me after the exercise.

I moved around diligently with my armless and legless body, trying to burn as many calories as possible, and I also exercised wearing prosthetic arms and legs so hard that the amputation surfaces were sore and painful.

And after washing away the sweat cleanly with a shower, the moment I lay down to play the game.

I fell into a deep sleep.

==

This is really ambiguous.

I have to lose weight to play the game well, but the process of losing weight is so hard that I fall asleep during the time I should be playing the game.

When entering the virtual world, I lie down for a long time.

A connector on my neck completely blocks the signals moving from the brain to the body, and the connector recognizes those signals and makes the body in the virtual world move.

In other words, while in the virtual world, the body doesn’t receive any signals from the brain and is just a body with a beating heart. That means it’s no different from a sleeping body.

Then what will happen?

I don’t consume any energy.

In the PC days, I at least sat down. In the virtual world, I lie in bed and the body tries not to consume energy at all.

In other words, it’s a structure that makes it too easy to gain weight.

The top users of Lole also manage their bodies to maintain good bodies for both male and female users, but people who have average skills and bet their lives on the game are usually one of two types.

They either eat and don’t move, so they gain a lot of weight, or they don’t eat because they’re playing in the virtual world, so they’re skinny.

The top users who play virtual world games also exercise to improve their body’s senses and physicality, but there is also a reason to manage their bodies because they don’t use their body’s energy when they only play virtual world games.

In other words, I have to exercise hard in the end…but it’s quite difficult to exercise with this body.

‘Should I reduce the amount of food I eat as well as desserts…?’

==

Space War.

There is still time until the competition, but I definitely can’t win in my current state.

I’m already dizzy trying to focus all my attention on Space War, but the issue of gaining weight is happening.

The scary thing is that preparing for the Space War competition requires investing a lot of time in the virtual world.

In other words, the time to lose weight decreases and the time to gain weight only increases.

The better I get at Space War, the more weight I gain and the worse my Lole skills become.

The more weight I lose and the better my Lole skills become, the lower the probability of getting good results in the Space War competition.

I’m caught in an impossible situation.

It’s impossible to reduce the amount I eat because there are many eyes watching.

‘If this continues, I’ll become a normal weight.’

But there’s no choice.

First of all, Space War, which has a competition, is important.

The Space War competition is held only once a year. Lole raids still come out at least 4 times a year, so it’s right to invest in the Space War competition rather than Lole right now.

‘The problem is that I’m worried about gaining more weight and becoming more sensitive.’

The 30-year-old man’s libido hasn’t been felt until now thanks to the body that hasn’t felt libido, so I didn’t have any thoughts, but the moment Arang’s body suddenly gets excited and the libido awakens…

I don’t know what will happen, but I don’t want to skip the competition just because I’m scared of this.

I, who once dreamed of becoming a pro gamer, can play games in the same environment as pro gamers.

I can’t not do it when such an opportunity has come, my gamer spirit doesn’t allow it.

I will definitely aim to win the competition even if my body becomes strange.

In fact, the strange thing about my body is not that my health is deteriorating, such as carpal tunnel syndrome or herniated discs.

It’s just that I’m becoming a sexy body that would only appear in 19+ comics or web novels.

Since I have a mind that is not even interested in men in the first place, wouldn’t it be okay even if my body becomes sexy?

‘I just need to ask them to remove the camera in my room and that virtual world monitor.’

Since Pinku Berry already saw me getting excited from pressing my stomach and slightly wetting myself, I have already transcended the realm of reality and reached enlightenment.

==

‘There’s no one to practice with.’

I didn’t expect this.

The time to play Space War on the broadcasting platform Roop is roughly from evening to dawn.

There’s usually no one at this time in the morning. In fact, there are fewer streamers broadcasting in the morning.

Because there are definitely fewer viewers in the morning compared to the evening, there’s no reason to broadcast in the morning.

It’s not like playing ranked games is really helpful for practice either.

‘Changing the sleeping pattern would change a lot of people just because of me.’

If it was just me changing my sleeping pattern, I would change it right away.

But if I change my sleeping pattern, it’s not just me who changes.

The chef who cooks for me, the doctor-sensei who manages my health, Anna and Pinku who love and cherish me, all change.

Even though I’m Arang-i, who is addicted to virtual world games and occasionally causes accidents, at least my mind is that of a 30-year-old man, so I have some thoughts.

‘Hmm…’

Since that’s the case, instead of me changing, let’s just coax a few people to help me practice to change.

Isn’t it more beneficial for 2-3 people who help me practice to change their lifestyle pattern than for dozens of people, including me, to change their lifestyle pattern?

‘That’s a very good idea.’

Of course, I don’t just tell them to change.

It’s natural to give them appropriate compensation. I have to think about how to give that compensation, though.

Giving money seems too bad from the recipient’s point of view.

…..Isn’t it?

If I give money to a 16-year-old armless and legless kid and say, “Please help me practice!”…

What if that money is a lot?

‘No. This isn’t my money.’

Even though Mom gave me a black card to use as I please, this is clearly not my money.

‘I should use the money I earn myself to spend money comfortably.’

I didn’t think about making money because my parents are rich, but I need to earn money myself to spend it comfortably.

There are already plenty of situations to make money.

A RyuTube with over 3 million subscribers, a head of engineering with the world’s top engineering college, and a fan cafe with about 1 million members.

That’s enough.