First of All, Dungeon

“You’re back again…”

The woman who received Arang’s inquiry email yesterday sighed, even though she had already replied, Arang sent another inquiry email like a nagging mother.

‘Ha… You gotta say something that makes sense.’

Something about an [MDB] connector that she’s never even heard of. She wrote a long, weird story.

“This is so annoying. So annoying. These are the kinds of kids who screw up this job. Because we have to respond to each and every one of these. Ugh.”

The woman used the same macro reply as before and sent the inquiry response.

The next day, after work, during dinner time. While eating dinner with her colleagues, they talked about work.

“Ah, everyone’s still keeping that in mind, right?”

The one who brought up work first was the oldest woman who had been working the longest.

“Yes. The general director-nim told us, so we remember.”

As the work talk naturally continued, the woman in charge of Arang’s inquiry frowned. The reason was that she had a vague memory of the topic that had just come up.

“That’s right. I didn’t expect the director-nim to ask us directly. But it’s strange. He’s usually not the type to manage specific users separately.”

“The director-nim said it himself. He’s not giving any benefits or privileges.”

“Still, isn’t this the first time the director-nim has come to the customer center because of one user?”

“That’s true.”

As the conversation progressed, the woman remembered. The Leore general director-nim had come to the customer center team himself and told them directly.

The director-nim’s specific user’s nickname was definitely Lee Arang.

‘Lee Arang…? That name looks familiar…? Why is it so familiar?’

The woman continued to think without moving her spoon. It was definitely a name that remained in her head.

‘Is it because the director-nim said it himself?’

She was about to finish thinking that it was just because a high-ranking person in the position of Leore general director came all the way to the customer center and asked her directly, so it stuck in her memory.

Ttalgeurak.

“Huh? Are you okay? Why did you suddenly drop your spoon? Oh my? Were you forgetting something important?”

The woman dropped her spoon on the floor and stood up abruptly, and all the surrounding colleagues looked at her.

“T, this is a disaster…!”

The woman finally realized where she had seen the name, the nickname, Lee Arang.

It was the nickname of the user who had sent the same inquiry twice, and she had gotten annoyed and sent a macro reply.

“Why? What’s the disaster? Why did you suddenly get up like that?”

“That… well… that user the director-nim a, asked about… I, I just sent a macro reply…”

“…What? Is that true?”

“Y, yes…”

A few days ago, the Leore general director-nim had come and bowed his head and asked.

If an inquiry email or inquiry call came in about a user named Lee Arang, could they let him know the contents of the inquiry?

He even said that he couldn’t give specific users benefits or privileges, so he wouldn’t manage them separately, but he just wanted to know what the inquiries were about.

But she had been neglecting it until now.

“Hey! Why are you telling us now! No, before that, you didn’t even know!? Are you crazy!? Ha… No, I’ll contact the team leader-nim. Haa…”

“Ah, th, that’s… well…”

The woman had no choice but to hang her head in the face of the gazes of those around her and her colleagues.

The customer center team leader finished work safely today and returned home, and was having a pleasant dinner with his wife when he suddenly sighed at the ringing of his company-only cell phone.

“It’s okay. Answer it.”

“I’m sorry.”

“No. Isn’t it important if you get a call at this hour?”

“You know I hate getting calls at this hour. Ah, hello?”

The customer center team leader’s eyes widened.

“Ah, I understand. I’ll contact you right away.”

==

I’m annoyed.

I’m confused by the frustration and annoyance rising from my chest that I’ve never felt while living as Arang.

First, I logged out of Leore and lay down on the bed in the virtual world room. I sighed and checked the inquiry response.

I read it carefully and reread the inquiry response I sent last time.

It’s the same.

There’s nothing different. Not a single word or special character is different. The same macro reply came.

“Haa…”

It hasn’t been long since I started living as Arang, but this was the first time I’ve felt so emotional.

Is it because my body, head, and mind are younger? Or is it because I’m a woman? It was hard to control the negative emotions.

Usually, all game customer centers are the same, so I would have just said, “Oh well.” But as I lived as Arang, I naturally mixed with Arang’s emotions, and emotions that I couldn’t control rose up.

Like how I naturally think of Anna as Anna-unni in reality, or how I can’t speak well.

“Hoo… Hoo…”

While I was taking deep breaths to cool down my raging emotions, Anna came into the hospital room.

[Arang-ah. Unni is here.]

“Yeah. Welcome, Unni.”

[Arang-ah, what’s wrong?]

As soon as Anna heard my voice, she came to me, put her hand on my stomach, and asked me worriedly what was wrong.

“How did you know?”

[I’m your unni, so of course I know.]

“Actually…”

I explained to Anna what had happened to me.

First, I talked about the collaboration, and then I said that I was upset because I had a problem and gave an inquiry, but I received a macro reply twice.

[Really…? Arang-ah, don’t worry. Unni will help you.]

“Really? But I’m not asking for any special treatment. I just want to do the collaboration event as a normal user like everyone else.”

[Yeah. I know. Ah! And I met my friend, and my friend knows Arang.]

“Friend?”

[Yeah. That friend recommended Leore to me, so she helped Arang play Leore.]

I felt grateful to Anna’s friend for Anna’s words.

I don’t know why I opened my eyes in Arang’s body, but it’s certain that the trigger was Leore.

In other words, Anna’s friend is the benefactor of my life.

[My friend said she wanted to be friends with Arang, so she gave me this.]

Anna showed the note to the camera that allows me to see the hospital room.

[She said it’s her game nickname. She said if Arang doesn’t feel pressured, please send a friend request here.]

“Sunhangchugyeokgi?”

I don’t know what the nickname means, but I’m grateful to her, so I immediately opened the Leore friend window and sent a friend request.

Tdiring.

“Wh, what.”

As soon as I sent the friend request, it was accepted in less than a second.

[Arang-ah, don’t worry about this problem and play the game comfortably. And that Mom’s Touch collaboration? Do you want to go?]

“Yeah. I want to go.”

[Really…? I see. I’ll talk to the doctor about this. Is there anything else you need? Or anything you want Unni to do for you?]

“No. I’m okay now. Thank you, Unni.”

[Have fun playing the game today too. Unni will go and solve this and that.]

Anna lightly kissed my stomach as always and left the hospital room.

Since there’s nothing I can do right now, I logged into Leore to erase my annoying feelings.

I opened the chat window to a whisper that had already arrived.

[Arang-nim! Hello! It’s Sunchu! If it’s not too much trouble, would you like to join us for the next dungeon farming!? I know you’re done with the underground cave farming!]

Sunchu? Ah, I guess Sunhangchugyeokgi is called Sunchu.

I immediately typed that it was possible.

Not long after, someone came at a terrifying speed.

The user who appeared riding a large tiger had Sunhangchugyeokgi written above their head.

“Huh?”

I was surprised by Sunchu’s character customization as she got off the tiger.

“Hello. We’ve met before, right?”

It was the woman who was the tanker when I first used the matching system to enter the dungeon with other users in the underground cave.

She was holding the same huge axe as then.

“Hello. I never thought the tanker-nim would be Unni’s friend. I was so surprised.”

“I know, right? Suddenly Anna asked me to tell her about Leore, and I was like, what’s going on? Then suddenly she said Arang-nim was her younger sibling!? So I was so surprised!?”

Sunchu-nim, who was spitting out words at a rapid pace.

She seemed like a calm person when I first saw her in the dungeon, but now she’s just an extrovert herself.

She looks completely different from me, who has been living only in games all my life.

Pinku Berry felt the same as me, so I felt comfortable, but Sunchu-nim seems too extroverted, so I feel a little distant.

“Ah, I’m sorry. I only talked about myself too much, right? I was just so happy. To be friends with that chu2 Arang!”

“Chu2 Arang?”

“Everyone in Leore Gallery calls you that these days.”

“Chu2 Arang, even though I don’t go to middle school.”

“…Yes?”

Chu2byoong. What was I doing when I was in chu2…?

To be honest, I think I had a strong case of chu2byoong when I was in chu2. But now my mental age is as old as it can get.

Besides, I’m 15 years old now. I’m not in chu2. Besides, Arang got sick before she even got chu2byoong…

Wait, now that my mind is back, is chu2byoong coming now…?

But I’m not in chu2byoong right now. That’s for sure.

“Th… come to think of it, Arang-nim, aren’t you going to school today…?”

“Huh? Didn’t I just say? That I don’t go to middle school. This story is not necessary for playing the game. Let’s prepare for the dungeon!”

It’s not that important that I’m called Chu2 Arang.

What’s important now is the next dungeon.

I hope the equipment comes out quickly this time so I can graduate early.