Head of Korean Branch

I ate a bit of the basic hamburger, Mom’s Touch set, and I’m having a delivered drink for dessert.

I realized over time that artificial arms and legs, while they look good, are quite uncomfortable.

Even though they were made to be light, maybe it’s because I haven’t had arms and legs for a long time and don’t have much muscle, but the devices that are fixed to the cut surface where the artificial limbs are attached were quite bothersome and painful.

I carefully called out to Anna-unni.

“,,,Unni.”

“Arang-a, what’s wrong?”

“Can’t I… take off the artificial arm and… leg…? It hurts…”

“Ah, you’re not used to it yet, right? But are you going to be okay? Everyone’s here.”

“I’m… okay…”

“Alright.”

Arang-unni and the doctor carefully removed my artificial arm and leg one by one.

As soon as they were all off, I felt limp with relief.

“Are you tired?”

“I think I’m a little… tired…”

With my stomach full, my limbs feeling cool, and Anna-unni’s caresses on my head, I closed my eyes.

==

As Arang fell asleep, everyone stopped talking and stared at Arang, who was sleeping soundly.

From a corpse-like expressionless face to just a sleeping face of a young girl, everyone wore a dad smile.

But that dad smile didn’t last long.

Until now, everyone knew that Arang’s arms and legs were artificial. But knowing that and seeing it directly are completely different.

Everyone knew about Arang’s arms and legs, which hadn’t moved once since meeting Arang, but everyone was silent at Arang’s arms and legs falling off so easily without any resistance.

Anna carefully picked up Arang and went into the room with the bed, laid her down on the bed, and the doctor, Kim Hye-sun, decided to stay by Arang’s side.

Anna was originally going to do it, but this time, she got up from Arang’s side to talk to the people who were playing the game with Arang.

After closing the door securely, only silence lingered.

It was Ian Anna who broke the silence first.

“Thank you all. Thank you again for talking to Arang and playing the game together.”

“Anna-ya, I was really surprised. I didn’t know you were hiding such a cute younger sibling, Arang.”

Yoo Eun-ji said to her friend, smiling as if it were nothing.

“Eun-ji-ya. I’m really grateful to you. Arang regaining consciousness and getting up like this and coming out of the hospital is all thanks to you recommending the game LORE.”

“Eh. Arang seemed really strong, though? She would have gotten up even if it wasn’t for LORE.”

“Hayan-ssi, thank you again. I’m really glad that Hayan-ssi was the first person Arang met and played the game with.”

“Ah, no…! I also received a lot of comfort thanks to Arang…!”

“Kang Han-gil-nim, thank you for treating Arang as a person and acknowledging her. Arang was so proud when she talked about the interview with Kang Han-gil-nim, she really enjoyed it.”

“I’m really glad. I was worried that Arang would hate me because I made so many mistakes when talking to Arang.”

“No. Arang really likes you all. It’s really touching to see Arang, who always lacked motivation and spirit, playing LORE.”

While the Arang Arang meeting was talking about Arang, Kang Han-gil frowned while looking at his phone, which was ringing with an alarm.

The reason was that one of his editors had informed him about what was happening in the LORE gallery.

It was none other than a few people intentionally spewing malicious comments, no, terrible words, about Arang.

“There’s something you all need to know.”

Kang Han-gil showed his phone to everyone.

It contained all sorts of sexual harassment, criticism, and false rumors about Arang.

“What is this…! Han-gil oppa! Can’t you do something about this!?”

Yoo Eun-ji, who had become close to Kang Han-gil, was furious and said Kang Han-gil’s name in a situation where they were spewing out terrible words that were impossible to look at with a sane mind.

“I know that this site is basically made through Masble, so it’s hard to catch because it’s an American IP. That’s why they write these posts without hesitation.”

“That’s right… I know that too…”

“That can’t be… wait a minute…!?”

Yoo Eun-ji was about to get angry, but she quickly raised her head and looked at her friend Anna, who was looking at her phone through the link she received from Kang Han-gil.

If you just look at her, she’s a sophisticated, cold, and beautiful friend who you’d mistake for a celebrity, but in fact, Anna’s identity is the head of the Korean branch of Masble Corporation, which is currently sweeping up money from all over the world.

The head of the Korean branch, which is the largest and most influential among Masble’s branches in various countries, is her friend Lee Anna.

“Anna-ya. You’re the head of Masble’s Korean branch. Can’t you do something about it?”

“…Huh!?”

“…Wh-what did you say!?”

Kang Han-gil and Lee Ha-yan were startled by Yoo Eun-ji’s words and looked at Lee Anna.

Looking at Lee Anna, who was holding Kang Han-gil’s phone and looking at it with a serious expression, Kang Han-gil and Lee Ha-yan realized why they had doubts when they first saw Lee Anna.

They knew that Arang was using a ten million mileage avatar, so they knew that her family was rich, but they never imagined that she was the younger sibling of the head of Masble’s Korean branch.

“I’ll… I’ll take care of this for sure. Definitely…”

Everyone swallowed hard as Lee Anna, who was already a charismatic and cold woman, showed a face of holding back her anger with a straight face.

“I will contact my parents directly about this.”

Lee Anna immediately got up from her seat, returned the phone to Kang Han-gil, and got up with her phone.

“I’ll be right back after making a phone call.”

As soon as Lee Anna left, Kang Han-gil and Lee Ha-yan urgently searched for the head of Masble’s Korean branch on their phones.

Lee Anna, who they had just seen, was plastered on the internet as a headshot.

“I’m so surprised that Lee Anna-nim was the head of Masble’s Korean branch…”

“I, I was also surprised.”

“But it’s a relief. As far as I remember, the parents of the head of the Korean branch were the founders of Masble. That means cooperation is possible.”

“Alright! That’s why you need to have good friends!? Those bastards are all dead! Huh!? How dare they slander Arang like that!? Isshi!”

Yoo Eun-ji jumped up and waved her hands wildly in the air. Then she sat down and said to Kang Han-gil.

“That’s right. What are you going to do, Han-gil oppa?”

“About what?”

“Arang said she’s going to make a guild. Hayan and I don’t have a guild right now, so we’re going to join Arang’s guild right away.”

“I have a guild made with my viewers, so it’s a shame, but I’m going to do it with a feeling of cooperation.”

“That’s definitely better. Then what about raids?”

“I have to go to raids together. I don’t know what kind of amazing and wonderful things Arang will show us.”

“Right, right! I’m so curious~”

“That’s right. I was so excited when I first caught the Corrupted Judge with Arang.”

The Arang Arang meeting naturally moved on to the story of LORE.

==

Virtual World Access Device.

In modern times, the access device has become so integrated into modern life that there are almost no people who don’t use it.

There are several reasons for this.

The first is, of course, that you can enter the dream world of the virtual world.

Masble created the access device and released the game engine that can create virtual worlds for free, and had a policy of receiving the money earned from the game as a commission.

Because of this, numerous game companies jumped in to create virtual world games in the virtual world created by Masble.

Thanks to that, numerous virtual world games appeared, and many gamers bought access devices to enjoy those games.

The second is convenience.

The access device, which seems to require overwhelming technology to enter the virtual world, simply came out in the form of a choker that hangs around the neck, and it was so lightweight that even a 10-year-old child could wear it.

The last is versatility.

Virtual world. It wasn’t just a world where you could use games.

Anyone could use it because it had numerous conveniences, such as trying on the clothes they wanted to wear in the virtual world and checking them out, or using a huge movie theater alone.

Not only gamers but also ordinary people gradually started using access devices, and numerous things came into the virtual world, and it became so deeply ingrained in people’s lives that they couldn’t do anything without an access device.

Now, even cell phones are not about whether they work well as cell phones, but about how well they are linked to access devices.

It is no exaggeration to say that all information and certificates are now in the access device.

A man returning home from work.

The man bought a lunch box, which was dinner, at a convenience store and took out his cell phone after arriving home and putting the lunch box in the microwave.

“Haa… I’m really speechless. Speechless. Are they all lolicon? What’s so good about that kind of bitch that they’re sucking up to her.”

Ttiing!

“And what? Head of Masble’s Korean branch? Bullshit, if that’s true, then it’s really a nuke, do those kids have no brains or parents, can’t they think like that.”

The man took out the convenience store lunch box from the microwave and ate it while continuing to write posts in the LORE gallery.

After eating all of his dinner, he put on the access device to play LORE and lay down on the bed.

He immediately pressed the power button on the access device and closed his eyes.

He was sucked into the darkness, and as soon as he arrived in his virtual world room, something was wrong.

“What. Why can’t my body move. Ah, shit, this is really going too far.”

The moment he was about to leave to turn the access device off and on, a window popped up in front of the man’s eyes.

[Access Device Temporary Suspension Notice]

[The user’s access device has been temporarily suspended and cannot be used.]

[Please check your email for details.]

“Uh… shit…?”