358. Leore (1)

As expected, games are more dopamine-inducing when you win dramatically.

I’ve become so accustomed to Leore that I can see all the users, monsters, and even bosses, and parry everything, so there’s not much tension.

Even if I die to a raid boss, it’s only because I don’t know the pattern, so I can’t even get nervous if I want to.

But now?

As I’ve gained weight, it’s become harder to time my parries, so I’ve been playing the game by blocking and deflecting instead of parrying, and every movement feels like a life-or-death situation, so the dopamine rush is no joke.

My heart is pounding.

I wanted to rush to the next field boss with this adrenaline-filled body that I haven’t felt in a while, but I decided to rest for a bit.

My body isn’t tired, but my mind might be.

I have to play the game for 24 hours, so I need to find the right time to rest.

,I should only catch one field boss a day since they’re mentally draining.’

There are too many users around too.

I tried for about 3 hours, and everyone was watching me.

Usually, there are a lot of troublemakers when trying to catch a field boss, but surprisingly, no one even thought about catching the field boss while I was trying for 3 hours.

But it’s not really causing trouble.

When you think about it, it’s bad manners to try to catch a field boss alone for 3 hours.

But no one else wanted to do it, so it doesn’t matter!

I waved to the users and returned to the guild house.

==

The news of Arang’s field boss try spread like wildfire.

In many communities, articles comparing Arang’s old videos with her recent battle against the field boss Orc Chieftain increased rapidly in a short period of time.

[Lee Arang Shocking Physical Condition]

[Her Highness’s Current State]

[Arang’s Illness Recurring?]

Various articles and videos related to Arang began to surface.

Speculative articles began to run rampant, and people’s worries continued to rise.

And the people who were most worried were none other than Arang’s close friends.

In particular, Arang’s Leore friends and school friends, who had been meeting with her regularly, contacted her immediately when videos and articles related to Arang suddenly appeared on Ryutube and in the community.

Arang replied to all the messages, saying that she was fine and not to worry. But of course, she knew Arang would say she was fine, so Anna contacted her.

Anna sent this reply to all of Arang’s friends.

Arang’s condition has changed suddenly, so visits with Arang are strictly prohibited for the time being. If you have any questions, please contact me separately.

Everyone was shocked by the simple yet frightening message.

The words “suddenly changed” and “strictly prohibited visits” proved that Arang’s condition was very bad.

Just a few days ago, everything was fine, and then suddenly this message came, so everyone was bound to be in a state of mental confusion.

Especially Baedeopgae, who was very close to Arang, immediately lowered her head at Anna’s message.

She looked at Arang, who was rolling around in her arms and touching her chest.

“A, Arang-ah…?”

“Huh? Why?”

“T, that’s…”

Baedeopgae was worried about how to say this to Arang, who was staring at her with bright eyes in her arms.

Arang was smiling brightly as always, and she wasn’t sure if she could say something like, “Are you okay!? Is your body okay!?”

Arang is trying to play the game with a smile, but should she stop her? Should she awaken her to reality?

Her mind became complicated.

Arang’s mind is already struggling with various traumas, and she’s playing in the virtual world to forget about them, so should she talk about it?

At least she should be happy in the virtual world, right?

Her mind was completely disorganized.

Arang was resting, touching Baedeopgae’s well-built, muscular body, when she immediately noticed Baedeopgae’s expression when she called her.

She realized that she knew about her situation.

Because usually, Baedeopgae likes her belly and even her bare feet, no matter how artificial they are, but she had a serious face instead of a goofy one, so she couldn’t help but know.

“Unni. Visualize.”

“H, huh?”

“Visualize it.”

“W, wait a minute.”

“Wait. That movement is a gesture to erase it. Just visualize it.”

“Ah…” “Quickly.”

Baedeopgae had no choice but to visualize her interface. Arang nodded as she looked at Anna’s message that Baedeopgae was looking at.

“Well, I couldn’t hide it even if I wanted to.”

“Arang-ah, are you, are you okay?”

Arang covered Baedeopgae’s mouth with her hand.

“Don’t worry. It has nothing to do with my life. I’m just more sensitive to external stimuli.”

“R, really?”

“Yeah. So don’t worry about anything. Nothing will change much from now. The only thing that will change is that Unni can’t touch my belly in reality.”

Arang sighed deeply.

Until now, she had barely managed to say that she was okay and kept the people around her from struggling.

In the first place, she’s healthy, but the people around her don’t know that, so in their eyes, she’s just a kid with severed limbs and mental illness from various traumas.

She had shown them a healthy side of herself until now, and she had even overcome the pain, but she suddenly fell back down to the bottom.

She had no idea how to pull herself back up again.

==

Starting with Baedeopgae, friends started coming to the guild house like crazy.

She doesn’t have many friends in the first place, but all of those few friends rushed into the guild house and ran to her.

She doesn’t know how many people are grabbing her body and crying.

“Jumoooooooook!!!”

She was worried that everyone would become mentally exhausted if this continued, so she jumped up and shouted.

“Everyone’s so worried!!! It’s not a terminal illness!?”

She raised her fist and moved her body as if to prove that she was healthy, throwing punches.

“It’s just a disease that makes me more sensitive to my senses, so Anna Unni said no visits to avoid external stimuli. So don’t make a fuss!”

She’s here to have fun in the virtual world with everyone, not to receive sympathy or care.

She’s playing the game to have fun, not to cry and be sad, right?

“From now on, if you whine in front of me, I’ll spank your butt!?”

No matter how okay and happy she tries to be while playing the game, the people around her keep showing her negative emotions, saying, “You’re pitiful, you’re sick, you’re struggling.”

She’s even starting to wonder if she should really be sick.

Is this what they call gaslighting?

Anyway, she doesn’t want to be forced to feel these negative emotions right now. She wants to have fun playing the game.

She doesn’t want people to make her feel sorry for herself.

“Answer.”

“”Y, yes!!!””

Now that things were somewhat settled, she looked at Emma.

Even though it’s been a while since she’s seen Emma, she still has great breasts.

She immediately dove towards Emma.

Even though there was enough physical force to cause vibrations, Emma’s voluptuous breasts absorbed all the physical force of her dive and gently cradled her head.

==

“Wow. What a mess?”

She had cleared up some of the misunderstandings with her friends by talking to them directly, but not with other users.

The fan cafe and the community were a mess.

If you only read the posts here, you’d think she was going to die tomorrow.

The posts were so well-written that even she was convinced by the bullshit.

In particular, she’s embarrassed to see the posts comparing her old videos with her recent Orc Chieftain videos, detailing how flawed she’s become.

It’s just that she gained weight, which suddenly increased the weight of her arms and legs, confusing her senses and making her skills worse, but the posts here speculate on various reasons, such as her body being messed up or her illness recurring.

She’s too embarrassed to explain that it’s because she ate a lot of high-calorie desserts and gained weight.

“You can definitely see that my skills have deteriorated a lot.”

She’s not even trying to parry.

She can’t control her body well yet, so parrying is forbidden. She’ll die the moment she does it.

,I wonder if this is what it feels like for ordinary users to play.’

She woke up as Arang, who had an insane talent from the beginning when playing virtual reality games, so she doesn’t really know what it feels like to be an ordinary user in the virtual world.

“I should write something in the fan cafe first.”

As she said before, she doesn’t want people to look at her like she’s a pitiful person.

She was really dizzy back at the guild house.

The way they looked at her wasn’t like they were looking at a person.

“I should get Pinku to check my word choice in case it’s weird.”

As her mental age got younger, her word choices sometimes caused disastrous misunderstandings.

But now she’s grown up.

She immediately started getting Pinku to check her work.

“Okay. If I send it like this, Pinku will post it well.”

“Are you done?”

Emma, who had kicked everyone out of the guild house and was the only one giving her a boob pillow, said to her with a motherly smile.

“Yeah. I think everyone will stop worrying if I do this.”

“Good job.”

Hah.

She should take a bath with Emma sometime.

She’s curious.

She wonders what the bare skin of those destructive breasts feels like.