377. Daily Life (1)

Time has passed since my room was devastated due to sensory overstimulation.

During that time, I became close with Shueri and Elucia, and spent time with the guild members.

In the midst of all that, my daily life changed a lot.

Under the pretext of protecting my stomach, I eat one meal a day in reality, not in the virtual world.

How do I eat when I’m in the virtual world? I just eat something like a pill. Before entering the virtual world, I take one pill, which supposedly contains most of the nutrients needed for the day.

When I was a man in the past, I didn’t think much about cooking.

I just ordered food through delivery apps all the time. But after being born as Arang, things changed.

Because a world-renowned chef lives in the same building as me, cooking breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and making amazing and delicious dishes every time.

Of course, in the beginning, it was all foods that wouldn’t irritate my stomach, like porridge, but after about half a year, when I started going to school, I ate a really wide variety of dishes.

Not only did they make meals, but also desserts, and my appetite just kept going up and up.

Naturally, cooking became another joy. But now, due to sensory overstimulation, my meals have been replaced with capsules, and the food I eat directly to prevent my stomach from weakening has just become porridge.

In short, I’m not in a good mood.

Even someone who isn’t interested in food would definitely go, “Ew…” if they had to eat just one pill and porridge all day.

I can’t take my favorite half-bath, I can’t eat my favorite food, I can’t go outside, I can’t see the sunlight, I just can’t do anything.

Even though this situation arose due to my special circumstances, I absolutely can’t stand it anymore.

There are too many restrictions.

It’s not like I’m stressed because I don’t have arms or legs, but this really feels like stress is building up.

My doctor *eonni* said to wait until the senses calm down and then get sensory therapy once they’ve subsided to some extent, but I felt like I’d go crazy waiting.

Frankly speaking, if there was no virtual world, I would have become like Arang.

Of course, I know that Arang went through even harder days. Nevertheless, the current situation was hard for me to endure.

==

,I don’t want to do this anymore.”

I said in a place where everyone could hear during my regular brainwave test.

That I don’t want to do it like this.

,Arang-ah.”

,It’s not like I’m just saying I don’t want to do it without any reason.”

This isn’t the virtual world, and it’s not something that can be brushed off with just *aegyo*.

For my family and doctor *eonni* here, it’s something they think my life depends on.

But if I continue like this, my mind will die before my brain does.

I want a normal life like before, and my family and doctor *eonni* want me to stay in the virtual world until my senses calm down.

So, I’m thinking of negotiating a middle ground.

First of all, what I want is a half-bath and food.

I can give up wearing prosthetic arms and legs, going outside, or seeing sunlight completely.

,Half-bath and food…”

,I’m so frustrated and it’s hard for me. I don’t want to do anything drastic, but I wish I could go back little by little.”

My doctor *eonni* and Anna *eonni* fell into deep thought at my words.

I didn’t push any further and gave my *eonnideul* enough time to think.

,I’ve been thinking about the stress aspect, even though I’m doing this to protect Arang. In the end, it’s important for the mind to be healthy too.”

My doctor *eonni* is giving me more positive words than I expected.

I had thought of several things to say in case I got a cold rejection like last time, but it became unnecessary.

,There’s just one very important condition.”

Condition?

,It might be uncomfortable, but you have to keep wearing the brainwave measuring device.”

Brainwave measuring device… you mean this thing I’m wearing now?

It’s shaped like a beanie that covers the entire head, with lots of small, white, round things attached to it.

I guess they’re planning to keep checking the stimuli I receive.

That’s enough for me. Honestly, it’s not even uncomfortable. It just feels like wearing a hat, so it’s no problem at all.

,But Arang might feel uncomfortable with this appearance, so I’ll talk to Arang’s parents about that part.”

Transformation?

Anyway, it means that if I’m in reality with the brainwave measuring device on, it’s okay to take half-baths or eat food little by little.

Now, my emotions go back and forth with every little thing, so I quickly felt better.

,It’ll probably take about a week to make it.”

Anna *eonni* stroked my head and roughly told me how long it would take to make a portable and dedicated brainwave measuring device for me.

A week will pass quickly anyway.

How long have I endured until now? I can’t even endure this much?

In the first place, the raid isn’t far away, so it’ll pass quickly if I talk about raid-related things.

==

As the same days passed for about a week, only one week remained until the raid was released.

And there’s only a week left of summer vacation.

During the week, I talked with the guild members about the upcoming raid.

After spending time like that, today is finally the day my brainwave measuring device arrives.

I had been waiting very, very much for a week.

Because I decided to take a half-bath after receiving the brainwave measuring device.

It’s not just the word “half-bath,” but I decided to take a half-bath with really hot water, not a lukewarm half-bath that’s adjusted to my body temperature.

So, today, after receiving my dedicated brainwave measuring device from my parents, I stopped as if I had been hit in the head with a hammer.

,Oh my. Arang-ah, how cute!”

,I thought it would suit Arang, so I made it like this. What do you think?”

This brainwave measuring device was also made by my parents, of course.

I know how amazing my mom and dad are. The whole world knows it now, so let’s stop talking about it. People who are good at this kind of thing are said to have a screw loose, and I think that’s true.

I don’t think I should say this to my parents, but when I look at the brainwave measuring device in front of me, I can’t help but say it.

When making the portable brainwave measuring device, I didn’t think much about the appearance. The brainwave measuring device I’m using here now isn’t really cumbersome, and other than the fact that it looks ugly, there’s nothing particularly uncomfortable about it.

So, I thought that the new brainwave measuring device that my parents were making would simply be a headband type.

But the brainwave measuring device in front of me was completely different from my expectations.

It felt like they had taken cat ears off and attached them to a headband like a cosplay decoration.

It’s similar to the old Nekomimi brainwave sensor, but the quality is completely different.

Anyone could tell that was just a toy machine, but this is made too elaborately.

Mom smiled contentedly and put the brainwave measuring device on me, then showed me a mirror in front of me.

,Ome…”

I was amazed by my appearance in the mirror, looking like a cat *suin* that anyone could see.

,As expected of our daughter. I thought it would look good on you in the virtual world, so I made it in the form of cat ears, and it suits you so well~”

It was like seeing myself as a cat *suin* when I changed my race in LeoRe, not in reality.

It’s just that there’s no cat tail-

*Jjonggeut*.

Huh?

The cat ears visible in the mirror moved slightly.

When I moved my ears with the thought of moving the cat ears like in LeoRe, the cat ears in the mirror also moved as I thought.

,It would be a shame if there were only cat ears, so I made them as similar to real cat ears as possible. On top of that, since this is originally an object for measuring brainwaves, while we’re measuring them, we’ll read those brainwaves and link them to the cat ears-“

Mom started explaining about the cat ear-shaped brainwave measuring device.

My parents are really amazing.

I originally thought that Dad was the engineer and Mom was the one running the business, but it’s completely different.

Mom is the engineer.

Most of the time, Mom develops things and Dad provides assistance and care from the side.

Mom said she was glad that the brainwave measuring device was working well after seeing the ears move, and Dad checked my brainwave measurements from the side and said there were no problems.

Honestly speaking, I’m a little embarrassed.

It’s because everyone knows that this is a game world, not reality, so I can act cute and *aegyo* without any hesitation, but wearing cat ears in a state where I recognize that it’s reality is embarrassing.

On top of that, they made it so well that it’s not like a brainwave measuring device, but the quality is like I’ve really become a cat *suin*.

When you think about it, it was strange that it took a week to make the brainwave measuring device.

The brainwave measuring device is already made, and all they have to do is adjust it to fit my head perfectly.

Considering Mom’s skills, it would have been finished in a day or two.

But it took a week?

My mom, who created a company that dominates the world and made countless inventions?

In my opinion, the reason it took a week is 100% to make these perfect cat ears. Otherwise, it’s a quality that can only be seen as real cat ears.

Still, let’s be grateful for what they made.

Because I can now take a warm half-bath because of this.

There’s an important point here.

Even if I don’t feel that way, my brainwaves don’t. Now I have to control that and show that even if I take a half-bath, my brain is perfectly fine~.

Right now, I’m very normal except for my sexual sensitivity, to be honest. My sexual sensitivity is seriously sensitive due to sensory overstimulation, but everything else is clearly normal.

I’m confident in amplifying my senses, but I’m not yet confident in killing them, but I’m going to succeed in order to protect my work-life balance.