Inquiries

After finishing my farming, I logged out of Leore to go to sleep.

As soon as I returned to my room in the virtual world, I jumped onto the bed. Sleepiness washed over me as soon as I lay down on the fluffy bed, but I opened the menu and went online.

It had been a while since I visited the Leore Gallery.

Most of it was about the game, but here and there, stories about me caught my eye. With a pounding heart, I clicked on the most upvoted post.

It contained screenshots of me taken by people I had met while diligently farming in the dungeon today.

I knew I was pretty and cute, but seeing it in screenshots like this, I looked awesome.

The jet-black armor, the contrasting pure white cloak, and the stylish Taseom Sword. Anyone would have to think it was cool.

As expected, in the comments-

,Huh? Why? They say it’s tacky?”

Most of the comments said my avatar was tacky. No way, this awesome armor is tacky…?

Jet-black armor, a pure white cloak, and a Taseom Sword with a reddish glow. This is tacky? Are they all blind?

I immediately replied to the most upvoted comment.

Tododok, tododok.

[The person who said this is tacky has tacky eyes]

Hmm, that’s enough. This way, they won’t know it’s me, and I’ve also pointed out that their fashion sense is wrong.

If this is tacky, what’s cool?

==

,Huh? You want to play Leore? Really? You…?”

Lee Anna’s university friend, Yoo Eunji, doubted her ears when her friend Anna brought up Leore.

,Yeah. You asked if I wanted to try it because it’s fun. And I’m not saying I’ll do it. I’m asking you to tell me about it.”

,Ummm…? So you’re not thinking of playing it yet, but you want to know what kind of game it is? You, who has never played a game in your life?”

,Yeah.”

Lee Anna took a sip of her Americano in front of her and said.

,You couldn’t because you were studying in college, and you couldn’t because you had to work after graduating, but suddenly?”

Yoo Eunji recalled her university days.

If you had to pick the most famous person among the students at Seoul National University, it would definitely be Lee Anna.

From her looks to her figure, there wasn’t a single thing that wasn’t pretty. On top of that, she didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, had no piercings or tattoos-she was pure itself.

Men approached her, trying to win her over even once, but she coldly rejected them all.

Both men and women found it difficult to approach Lee Anna, but one day, Yoo Eunji heard someone crying in an empty lecture hall and went inside to find Lee Anna.

She was so surprised at the time that she approached and asked if she was okay, but she didn’t hear why she was crying, she just comforted her. That’s how they became friends.

Yoo Eunji had loved games since she was young.

So, she asked Lee Anna, whom she liked, to play games with her several times to share her hobby, but she kept getting rejected.

But suddenly, she met up and asked her to tell her about Leore.

,Leore has improved my relationship with my younger sibling.”

,… Huh? Sibling? You had a sibling?”

,Yeah. So, Eunji-ya, I’m really grateful to you. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have been able to talk to my sibling.”

,Uh, uh, uh? I can’t follow the flow of the story. So, Anna had a sibling, and they became close when that sibling started Leore? Did I hear that right?”

,Yeah. That’s right.”

,Does being close to your sibling mean you didn’t get along with them before?”

,Umm… it feels like that.”

Anna told her about Arang to some extent. Without mentioning her physical condition, she said that they had become closer through Leore.

,Oh… so you want to know about Leore to get closer to your sibling? To talk about Leore and stuff!”

,… Yeah.”

,Wow. That’s a big deal. Your sibling liked games?”

,Not really. They didn’t usually play games, but they really like Leore. They always talk about Leore.”

Anna thought of Arang. Arang in the virtual world is truly the pure and cute Arang of the past.

The problem was reality. When Arang returned to reality, she reverted to the Arang before she died.

A reality without arms and legs. No one would want that. But by playing Leore, Arang returned to the Arang she knew.

,My sibling seems to be famous in the game. They were happy because they did something and people praised them.”

,Famous? It’s not easy to become famous in Leore because there are so many players. What’s your sibling’s name?”

Anna had only played mobile games a little in her life. So, she didn’t know how famous her sibling Arang was in Leore, so she said her sibling Arang’s name.

,Lee Arang. It’s a very cute name, right?”

,…? Lee Arang? Lee Araaaang!?”

Yoo Eunji slammed the table with both hands and jumped up.

,Huh? Oh. You know her? How do you know her?”

,Anna-ya! There’s no one in Leore who doesn’t know Jung2Arang right now!”

,Really…? My sibling is that famous?”

,That’s right! Jung2Arang’s impact in Leore is huge! A genius among geniuses who takes down field bosses alone and has the first and smallest number of people to clear low-level field bosses!”

Yoo Eunji hurriedly took out her phone and showed Anna a screenshot of Arang appearing in a dungeon.

,That’s Arang, right!?”

,Oh, that’s Arang. Yeah. Arang is wearing armor like that.”

,Wow. Unbelievable. From Anna’s genes, who doesn’t know the Korean alphabet for games, came a sibling with such talent.”

,That sounds kind of offensive…?”

,Anna-ya, Anna-ya…!”

Yoo Eunji grabbed Anna’s shoulders and said with sparkling eyes.

,Introduce me to Arang…!”

,Introduce you…? In reality?”

,No, no, in the game! Just a moment…!”

Yoo Eunji took out a diary from her bag and quickly wrote down her Leore nickname and carefully placed it in Anna’s hand.

,This is my nickname…!? If, if you don’t mind, could you tell her to send me a friend request with this nickname…!? Huh!?”

Anna looked at her friend and thought.

Eunji, who was her only friend while attending university.

She is now a friend who runs a famous clothing store in Gangnam. It’s annoying when she asks to play games sometimes, but she’s a really good person in terms of personality and character.

She was worried that there might be bad people among the people she meets in the game, but if she thinks she has a friend by her side,

,It will have a better influence on Arang.’

Anna herself had learned a more smooth way of communicating with others thanks to Eunji, so she nodded.

,Okay. I’ll tell Arang.”

,Re, really!? Thank you!”

==

A woman working at the Legacy of Raid Customer Center sighed deeply at the countless inquiry emails piled up today, as always, and looked through them one by one.

Most of the content was about accidentally throwing away items and asking for restoration, inquiries about the Mom’s Touch collaboration, and balance and updates.

She usually handled them with macros, but she found a strange inquiry in the Mom’s Touch collaboration-related inquiry emails.

,I can’t authenticate because I don’t have fingerprints. Is there another authentication method?”

The woman frowned.

Basically, you can’t buy or use the access device unless it has the user’s fingerprint authentication.

But there are people in the world who don’t have fingerprints. Such people can purchase the access device by going directly to the store and using their resident registration and ID card.

So it’s written small at the bottom of the Leore Mom’s Touch notice. You can authenticate by bringing your access device.

,There are so many people who can’t even read these kinds of posts. Ugh, I already have so many inquiries to look at, please read properly before making inquiries.”

The woman entered the macro response created for this Mom’s Touch collaboration inquiry and sent it.

Then she immediately opened the next inquiry.

==

,What is this!”

I woke up and checked the reply to the inquiry email I sent before logging into Leore.

But the inquiry reply was a formal macro reply.

,People who cannot authenticate with fingerprints can authenticate through the access device. You can go to the store you want and authenticate the authentication system in the access device to receive the keyring?”

Does this even make sense?

Take the terminal illness machine, which is bigger than a king-size bed, with me? Huh? Is that even possible!? That’s why I sent the inquiry!

No. Well, the terminal illness machine MDB is a very rare access device, with only 5 in the world.

Since people all over the world are using the common choker access device, it’s inevitable that these kinds of inquiries come in.

Ummm…

What should I do about this? If only the authentication issue was possible, I could just go with Anna.

No. This time, let’s send another inquiry email saying it’s not just an authentication issue, but an access device issue.

Leore helped me well with my hacking and illegal modification incident last time, so wouldn’t they help me this time too?

This time, I wrote it properly.

[Hello. I’m sorry for sending another inquiry email.]

Starting with

[I currently don’t have arms and legs and have an illness, so I’m not using a normal access device, so authentication through the access device is not possible.]

Good, good.

[I don’t have an ID card because I’m not an adult yet, and I don’t have a student ID because I’m not attending school. Instead, can you tell me if it’s possible with a family relationship certificate or a resident registration?]

Oh, right. I shouldn’t forget this either.

[The access device model I’m currently using is [MDB]. Thank you.]

Good, perfect! If it’s still a macro after this, I’m going to call.