Chapter 129

The news about [Chicken Without Legs] spread from the Leore Gallery to Arang’s Fan Cafe, and from Arang’s Fan Cafe to the Leore Reddit.

Arang’s limbs were furious upon hearing the news about [Chicken Without Legs], and they all started joining Monster Hunter to find [Chicken Without Legs].

Since it was a game that had been out for two years, the number of active players had been barely maintaining 10,000, but it suddenly surged to 50,000.

However, Arang, who had been playing the game for a day, had already disappeared due to her period.

At that moment, Arang was in the bathroom with her older sister, Anna.

During her period, she always used the Ottogi ketchup bottle trick to ensure cleanliness and hygiene, washing her body with lukewarm water.

While having dinner with Anna and discussing Leore, Pinku Ihayan contacted Anna.

“Hayaan has something to tell Arang.”

“Huh? Something to tell me?”

Anna switched to speakerphone, and Pinku Ihayan’s voice came through loudly.

“Arang, can you stay away from the fan cafe and community for a while?”

“…? Okay, got it.”

Arang didn’t know the reason, but since Pinku Ihayan was her first friend and someone she trusted the most, she nodded without question.

Besides, during her period, she was too tired to do anything other than play games, so she didn’t mind avoiding the community or YouTube.

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Day 4 of her period.

Fortunately, her body was recovering quickly.

Last time, she was in pain and emotionally unstable for the entire week of her period, but this time, being her second period, she started feeling better by the fourth day.

There was still some menstrual bleeding, but the amount was much less than before.

Since there was no pain, there was no risk of it building up and exploding all at once, so she could play games for longer without worry.

This time, she decided to play Monster Hunter solo.

Of course, Monster Hunter is more fun when played in multiplayer. But last time, there were instances where the monster she was hunting suddenly died, or she got interrupted, or she ended up interrupting others, so she decided to go solo for now.

Playing multiplayer and hunting monsters together is fun when you have decent gear and can farm together, but right now, she felt like she was just riding the bus.

No matter how good your physical skills are, you can’t beat gear advantage.

After all, this isn’t just an arena game; it’s an RPG where gear matters.

“Ugh…!”

Riding a mount with excellent agility, she roamed the fields of Monster Hunter and hid behind a tree when she saw a monster of overwhelming size.

Thud… thud…

With each step the monster took, the ground shook as if an earthquake was happening, and small animals around started fleeing.

‘Wow… It was intimidating enough on screen, but seeing it in person… I can’t even think of hunting it…?’

She had hunted many monsters in Monster Hunter and had solid gear.

Thanks to her experience from playing on the computer and her physical skills, she was playing smoothly and felt confident.

She was thinking of starting to hunt Elder Dragons and was looking for traces.

But then she encountered a monster that wasn’t an Elder Dragon.

A monster with power rivaling that of an Elder Dragon.

A monster with a Tyrannosaurus-like appearance, like Anjanath.

A monster that, when it appears, threatens to wipe out all life around it and disrupts the ecosystem with its gluttony—the Explosive Dragon, Ibizho.

Its leg was as thick as a tree, its body larger than most trucks, and its massive mouth dripped with saliva, looking like it could swallow her whole without effort.

‘Hmm… Let’s just give up!’

If this were the old Monster Hunter, she would have just hunted it, but seeing it in person, she didn’t even dare to try now.

She had seen many terrifying and bizarre monsters in Leore, but the Ibizho walking in front of her now was on a whole different level of intimidation.

‘Let’s carefully go back. Wait a second…’

Hiding behind a tree after seeing the Ibizho, she tried to escape but noticed something strange.

The massive and heavy Ibizho should have caused an earthquake with its movements, but…

‘Why is it so quiet…?’

Gulp.

She swallowed her saliva.

Her sensitive senses were sending warnings all at once.

Grrr…

A small growl.

Not a roar, but a small sound that shook her entire body and gripped her heart, making her tremble as she turned her head.

“Eek…!”

As soon as she turned her head, she saw massive teeth and a mouth.

Raising her gaze slightly, she locked eyes with the Ibizho’s pupils, which were as big as her head.

“Ah…”

ROOOOOOAR!!!

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[Leore Gallery]

[The Identity of Chicken Without Legs]

Isn’t this Arang?

[Comments]

Nah, no way.

Why not? It’s totally possible.

Don’t you know Arang? She’s a hardcore Leore fan.

She could be playing other games, you know.

Arang, who plays Leore for 16 hours a day for months? LOL

She’s not logged into Leore right now.

Don’t you know Arang doesn’t log into Leore for a week during her period? You really don’t know anything about her.

Are you friends with Arang?

I’ve known her since she first started playing Leore.

[Is Chicken Without Legs playing Monster Hunter?]

I’ve been checking the servers, but I can’t find her.

[Comments]

I saw her online in Jindaru’s stream sometimes. Maybe she’s playing solo?

[Chicken Without Legs]

Only Jindaru knows about Chicken Without Legs right now.

We should ask Jindaru to catch her.

[Comments]

But what would we do after catching her?

Make her change her nickname.

Just for that?

Just for that? Don’t you know what our gallery owner looks like in real life?

She doesn’t have limbs, right?

Wow, you crazy jerk, just get blocked.

Am I lying? Am I saying something weird? I’m just telling the truth.

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“Wow… Is this really happening?”

Jindaru was shocked by the sudden increase in viewers.

His stream usually had around 100 viewers at most.

He only streamed Monster Hunter and uploaded Monster Hunter videos, so it was a stream only known to a few.

But suddenly, the number of viewers exceeded 1,000, all because of one user: [Chicken Without Legs].

Jindaru, who just wanted to enjoy Monster Hunter casually, set the chat to be accessible only to viewers who had subscribed to his YouTube channel for a month.

“Wow. Everyone suddenly showing up like this is a bit scary.”

-Is it really because of one user?

-Is Arang that big of a deal? Wow.

-If you don’t know Arang while playing a virtual world game, you’re a spy.

-But it’s possible not to know, right? Monster Hunter is a completely different game.

“I didn’t expect this much impact. I don’t plan to do anything about the [Chicken Without Legs] user. It’s just a user with a nickname.”

-LOL, it’s hilarious that everyone’s freaking out over just a nickname.

-Exactly, it’s just a nickname, not even an insult.

-It’s like no one gets satire or jokes.

-This is ridiculous.

“For now, I’ll keep the chat like this. I’m just a regular Monster Hunter player. Don’t expect me to do anything about this.”

With the increasing number of viewers, Jindaru decided to end the stream.

“I think the user should know about this controversy.”

He didn’t expect a nickname to cause such an uproar.

It was just a nickname: [Chicken Without Legs].

He thought it was just someone who liked chicken breast.

But for those who knew Arang, it felt completely different.

-Chicken Without Legs.

-?

-Do you have some time?

-Yeah.

-Can we meet and talk?

-Sure. But first, help.

-What’s wrong?

-p6@aNE+GaWM7

Jindaru realized that the combination of letters and numbers was a server code and immediately entered it to join Chicken Without Legs’ server.

As soon as he entered the server, he opened the minimap and saw Chicken Without Legs’ icon in the forest area.

“Aha.”

Chicken Without Legs’ icon and Ibizho’s icon were rolling around together.

Ibizho, which had been massively buffed in the transition to the virtual world game, was infamous when it first appeared in VR Monster Hunter.

Even Jindaru, who had played all the Monster Hunter series, thought, “You expect me to hunt that?” when he first saw it.

“I should go help quickly.”

Jindaru mounted his ride and rushed to where Chicken Without Legs was.

ROOOOOOAR!!!

“Eek!!!”

“Wow…”

The building-sized Ibizho was rampaging, with Chicken Without Legs rolling around beneath it.

“Wow, the size of that thing…”

Jindaru, who had played Monster Hunter for a long time, had never seen an Ibizho that big.

“Don’t just stand there, help!!!”

“Ah, got it!”

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