Chapter 111

During the ambiguous one-hour maintenance break, we decided to gather on the server run by the Mea’d raid party to discuss the upcoming hunt.

Usually, the virtual world only offers one personal room per user, but with additional payments, you can acquire your own server. Naturally, the Mea’d raid party had one.

Not just one, but they had three servers, and we entered one of them.

Since everyone was taking care of bathroom breaks or other real-life tasks, I was the first to enter the invited room.

“Wow, it’s neat!”

It looked like a clean, spacious hotel room.

To rest my sluggish body as my period approached, I jumped onto the large bed in front of me and lay down.

Even though using heightened senses in Awakening Mode doesn’t give me a headache, the fatigue doesn’t just disappear.

“Haah… Ugh… Why does this bed feel so good?”

It felt much softer and bouncier than the bed in my virtual room.

My bed is just a bed, but this one made me question if it even qualified as a bed—it was so soft, bouncy, and cloud-like.

“Is this a pay-to-win bed…!?”

There are many ways to decorate a virtual world room.

You can use the basic free version like I do, or purchase cash items.

I thought the free version was no different from reality, so I decorated my room with free items.

But the paid bed was beyond my expectations.

The free furniture was just furniture—ordinary, like in real life.

‘But this is the virtual world. If you want, even a slime bed could exist here.’

What was scary was that there was a QR code on the headboard linking to the bed’s sales page.

I immediately clicked the link.

A window popped up with detailed information about the bed.

“Crazy, a virtual world bed costs 1 million won…?”

If a real-life bed cost 1 million won, I’d understand. But a virtual bed for 1 million won…? That makes no sense.

‘Wait a minute…’

Come to think of it, this virtual world feels no different from reality. In fact, this feels more like reality now.

Out of 24 hours, I spend 14 hours in this virtual world, excluding 8 hours of sleep.

I rolled around on the bed, savoring its texture.

A bed that could never exist in reality. It must have been designed to provide all sorts of pleasant sensations.

‘If this were reality, I’d definitely want to buy this bed.’

Lately, I’ve been feeling healthier, spending more time with Anna unnie and my parents.

My parents gave me 100 million won as pocket money for Leore, but since Leore doesn’t allow pay-to-win mechanics, there’s not much to spend it on.

I’ve only been using it to buy costumes.

‘I should ask for virtual world-specific pocket money.’

I didn’t think I needed paid furniture, but after experiencing this bed, my mind changed.

While enjoying the expensive 1 million won virtual bed, someone entered the room.

Only those invited by Reina could enter, so it had to be someone from the recent hunt.

I sat up.

==

Echo and Vision thought highly of Arang. She wasn’t just a bratty, immature kid but a mature, serious gamer with skills.

Moreover, they got along well.

Playing together felt like gaming with a fellow 30-something guy.

If this weren’t Leore, they’d think a 30-year-old man was inside this girl.

But this is Leore.

Gender can’t be faked, body shape can’t be changed, and appearance can’t be significantly altered. So Arang’s appearance is no different from reality.

“Arang is really hard to figure out. Sometimes she seems like a young girl, other times like a male gamer like me.”

Echo went to the bathroom, ate an energy bar, and entered the room using the code Reina sent.

“Ah! Echo!”

As soon as he entered, he heard a cute, lively girl’s voice and turned his head toward the sound.

“Hey, Arang. You’re early—”

Echo froze when he saw Arang.

This wasn’t the Leore world, so Arang looked like her real self, wearing her own clothes, not her in-game gear or costumes.

Echo himself wasn’t wearing his [Soma] class armor but a plain shirt and slacks.

Arang looked completely different from her Leore appearance.

In Leore, Arang wore a tight black leotard with a black coat and a red skirt—an assassin’s outfit that looked more cute than sexy on her petite frame.

But now, Echo’s brain short-circuited at the sight of her.

Arang was wearing an oversized T-shirt that slipped off her shoulders and dolphin shorts, which are popular among women for comfort.

“Uh… uh… uh…”

“Echo? Echo?”

Arang waved her hand in front of Echo’s frozen face, then grabbed his collar and shook him.

“Whoa!”

I thought I could shake a grown man’s body without issue, but since his soul seemed to have left, Echo fell toward me when I pulled.

“Ugh!?”

For a moment, I thought he’d crush me, but luckily Echo snapped out of it and braced himself on the bed, averting disaster.

What could have been a simple mishap escalated when Reina entered the room at the worst possible moment.

==

‘I need to get in there and hug Arang.’

Reina hadn’t seen Arang in a while and wanted to recharge her Arang energy by staying close, but it was tough.

They were in different guilds, parties, and had different login times. Plus, Arang had many rivals vying for her attention.

“Arang!—…?”

Reina blinked at the scene before her.

A cute, kind, beautiful, and small Arang was being pinned to the bed by a monstrous-looking man.

But that monstrous man was Echo, her most trusted party member.

“Reina unnie, hi~”

Arang greeted Reina with a bright smile, but Reina didn’t hear her.

“Echo…?”

Echo, now fully alert, saw Reina’s expression.

That look. That vibe. He knew it.

It was the same look Reina had given a male party member who sexually harassed a female member.

“W-wait, Reina.”

“Wait? Wait!?”

“It’s a misunderstanding! Really!”

“Are you saying this is a misunderstanding? Do you have no conscience!?”

“It really is a misunderstanding…!!!”

“A misunderstanding? Really? You didn’t think anything when you saw Arang like that? Really!?”

“I didn’t! Arang’s only 15!”

“You didn’t feel anything seeing her cute and sexy like that!? Are you a eunuch!?”

“Reina, are you crazy!?”

As the two started arguing, Arang quickly got up from the bed and jumped into Reina’s arms.

“Reina unnie! Calm down!”

==

Wow. That was shocking.

I thought she was just a cute girl who liked Precure and gaming, but I didn’t expect her to have such a scary side.

Come to think of it, she’s the leader of the world’s top raid party.

Being a raid leader in an RPG game is no small feat.

Leading the world’s best party in the most famous RPG game isn’t just about being good at the game.

You need that kind of authority. But I didn’t expect her to be that terrifying.

If this continued, Echo would be in big trouble, so I explained it was just an accident.

“Arang, really? You’re not being coerced, right?”

“Really. Don’t frown, you’ll get wrinkles.”

“Okay. Got it.”

Reina, despite being the oldest among everyone I’ve met, sometimes feels the youngest.

After resolving the situation, I listened to Reina’s scolding.

I shouldn’t dress like this. I need to be careful. I should dress properly.

“You should only dress like this when you’re with me—ahem. Here, wear this dress unnie picked for you!”

I put on the dress Reina gave me, and by then, everyone else started arriving.