Defeat

This morning, my favorite potato salad was served.

I moved my prosthetic arm, which now moves like a normal person’s, and used a spoon to scoop up a large portion and put it in my mouth.

“Mmm~”

“Arang-ah, eat your vegetables too.”

“U-ung…”

Anna handed me the vegetables next to the potato salad, and I felt a slight aversion.

My tastes have changed to that of a child, and I’ve lived without being picky, but Arang-i rejected them.

“Are you going to do Leore today?”

“Of course. It’s raid reset day today, so I have to work hard!”

“Then I’ll send you doping food by mail, Arang-i.”

“Thank you always, Unni.”

Anna now plays Leore more diligently than I do.

I’ve been playing Leore for 16 hours a day for half a year, so there’s no content left for me to do, but Anna has only started recently, and she’s only recently started to enjoy Leore in earnest, so she’s working hard.

On top of that, she was recently raising a combat job with Soonchu, Anna’s only friend.

I was about to play Leore right after breakfast, but Anna stopped me.

“You need to brush your teeth.”

“Ah, right.”

In the past, I would just be held by Anna, Pinku Berry, and have my teeth brushed, but now that I have prosthetic arms and legs, I can do what I want, so brushing my teeth has become a hassle.

Honestly, I used to only brush my teeth before going to bed because I was lazy, but now that I have family members who are with me almost 24 hours a day, I brush my teeth three times a day more diligently than anyone else.

I feel like I want to just ask Anna to do it for me, but I feel like I’d be too shameless to do that.

And it’s true that prosthetic arms and legs are convenient, but they’re also uncomfortable and painful.

No matter how much I’ve adapted to my prosthetic arms and legs, they’re clearly uncomfortable and painful.

It’s just that I hate not being able to do anything in reality without someone’s help because I don’t have arms and legs, so I wear prosthetic arms and legs as much as possible.

Until now, when I had arms and legs, I was using the arms and legs that the AI created in the virtual world, but the arms and legs I feel in the virtual world are different from the sensation and weight of the prosthetic arms and legs in reality.

In particular, in the virtual world, it feels like real arms and legs, but in reality, the weight of the arms and legs I’m thinking of is different, and I don’t feel any sensation, and no matter how I think about it, I feel like they’re prosthetic arms and legs.

On top of that, I had to wrap various things around my body to attach the prosthetic arms and legs to my body, which is why it’s uncomfortable.

The uncomfortable thing is that I have to wear various things to fix the prosthetic arms and legs to my body, and the pain comes directly from the amputation surface of my legs.

Arang-i’s skin, which has become weak after being in a vegetative state for three years. And the amputation surface is much more delicate than other skin.

You might ask what that means, but after opening my eyes as Arang-i, I worked hard on rehabilitation and exercise, but that doesn’t mean my skin became stronger.

But then, after amputating my legs, I don’t just leave the bones and flesh exposed, I transplant other skin.

Anna and the doctor didn’t tell me, but I wonder if they transplanted the skin from my amputated limbs?

In any case, since I transplanted the skin that was originally there, it’s bound to be more delicate than other skin.

In that situation, every time I walk, the weight of my body is on the prosthetic leg, and the connection point and the amputation surface rub against each other, causing pain.

The connection point of the prosthetic leg and the amputation surface of the leg are firmly fixed, but since they are different parts, it is impossible to prevent them from moving completely.

To put it simply, it’s similar to the principle of blisters forming on your feet when marching in the military.

Even normal people feel pain, so how would Arang-i’s weak body feel?

‘I remember when Anna first saw my amputation surface.’

When I was doing rehabilitation training with the prosthetic legs, there was a bar next to me that I could hold on to, so I didn’t realize it because my weight wasn’t fully on them, but when I was able to walk on my own, I was so happy that I didn’t feel any pain and moved around, and then I took off the prosthetic legs.

At that time, my amputation surface was covered in blood, and Anna screamed.

Even now, Anna is worried about me and tries to take off my prosthetic arms and legs whenever she has a chance, but I refuse.

In the end, this is something I have to get used to.

With the thought that my skin will get stronger someday.

‘I wonder if it won’t hurt if I enhance it to +9?’

Actually, the pain isn’t that bad. No, it’s bad from Arang-i’s perspective, and bearable from my perspective?

My current state is that for two weeks of the month, my emotions are dominant, and for the remaining two weeks, it’s the period before, during, and after menstruation, so Arang-i’s emotions are dominant.

So, when Arang-i’s emotions are dominant, I try not to wear prosthetic arms and legs.

‘Come to think of it, when I get more used to it later, should I try cosplaying as Fullmetal Alchemist?’

While thinking about this and that, I finished brushing my teeth and went back to bed and took off the clothes I was wearing with Anna’s help.

Then, I carefully removed my prosthetic arms and legs, and Anna, as always, pouted her lips and gently stroked my amputation surface.

A grown adult pouted her lips, but Anna is such a beauty that even that look was cute.

Twitch.

“Ah, I’m sorry, Arang-ah…!”

I just twitched because it was ticklish, but Anna thought I was in pain, so she stroked my head and hugged me.

==

“Hoo~ This is the feeling.”

As soon as I logged into Leore, I stretched my body greatly.

Brown Dust also has arms and legs, but Leore is basically an RPG game, and the level of your body increases according to your stats, so my whole body is overflowing with power.

There’s still a lot of time left until the raid, so I was about to recruit people to do daily and weekly quests together in the guild chat, but-

“Princess!!!”

The guild members who saw that I had logged in rushed into the guild house.

“Huh?”

Not just one or two, but almost dozens of people came in.

“W-what is it!?”

“Zeta! Check the Princess’s condition-!”

“Okay!”

Zeta, a female guild member and one of our long-term guild members, nodded at the words of the leader of our foreign guild members and ran to me, who was sitting on the bed.

Zeta, who got on the bed, used the bed’s curtain function to make the bed invisible to the other guild members.

“Sorry, Arang-ah! Just for a moment-!”

Zeta picked me up and started checking my body condition here and there.

“…?”

I didn’t understand Zeta’s actions.

An alarm came up asking if I wanted to report Zeta for the contact in Leore, but I thought Zeta must have a reason for doing this, so I turned off the alarm.

“Hoo… Thank goodness.”

Zeta carefully laid me down on the bed after checking my condition, and then opened the curtains again.

“How is it!”

“Fortunately, there’s nothing wrong.”

“Phew…”

“… Huh?”

I can’t keep up with the current situation at all.

The situation where almost all the guild members who are currently logged in are gathered and sighing in relief at Zeta’s words that there is nothing wrong.

“Um. Can you explain what’s going on?”

==

I thought something big had happened, but it was just RP.

No way, I was kidnapped by the Brown Dust forces and something big happened, everyone is having fun playing the game.

“We haven’t even had a meetup with the Princess yet…!”

Ah, is that it?

But you’re Korean and you guys live abroad.

We were supposed to have our Munchkin Cat meetup on the last Saturday of February.

Most of the guild members have already decided to participate in the meetup and have booked their plane tickets, so you’re jealous of that.

I’m just a 15-year-old, no, 16-year-old girl.

Well, I’ve confirmed that it’s not a big problem.

“Three people who want to do daily and weekly quests with me, hands up!”

“”””Hands!!!!””””

==

[Leore Gallery]

[We’re going to lose her at this rate.]

What should we do? We decided to have a war, but we can’t have a war.

They keep saying they’re going to take the Princess well, and even if we say something there, we’ll get banned and can’t do anything.

And we don’t have a way to communicate with Arang-i, and even if we could communicate, we’d be telling her not to play a game she’s having fun playing?

That’s also a bad thing.

Do we just have to lose her?

[Comments]

-Shibal…

-Is this right… We’ve lost.

[We still have the Arang-i Love Squad.]

There’s an Arang-i Love Squad in Leore.

They’re definitely thinking of a plan to turn this situation around.

On top of that, there’s [Arang-i Belly Blanket], who’s famous in our gallery for being crazy about Arang-i, so Belly Blanket won’t want to lose Arang-i to them either.

[Comments]

-Arang-i Belly Blanket was there?

Yes, Arang-i Belly Blanket has been famous for being crazy about Arang-i for a long time, so they’ll do something.

Really, they’re even in Arang-i’s guild, so won’t they say something to Arang-i?

-If it’s Belly Blanket, they’ll come up with a really amazing plan.

-Arang-i Belly Blanket has been crazy since a long time ago.

They were Arang-i’s foot licker at first, but then they changed to Belly Blanket, lol.

At first, I wondered why, but it was because Arang-i didn’t have feet, lol.

ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Belly Blanket is really crazy.

==

“No. Why would I?”

The users belonging to the Arang-i Love Squad put question marks on their heads at Belly Blanket’s words.

“I can touch Arang-i’s belly as much as I want even if Arang-i isn’t in Leore~ Ah, can’t you guys? Keukeu. Oh, now that I think about it, I should go fart on Arang-i’s belly tomorrow~”

Belly Blanket left only those words and logged out of Leore.

“”Shibal?””