The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14
“I never touched them.”
When I glanced back at the High School Boys, they flinched and avoided my gaze.
It was true that I’d seen them once at the Convenience Store, so there was a connection, but I hadn’t even chased after them, let alone beaten them.
These bastards must have pinned something on me.
Thwack!
“?!”
I crumpled to the ground as a kick landed squarely on my stomach.
The one at the front had suddenly kicked my belly without warning.
“Don’t play dumb. There’s probably CCTV footage of you chasing after us with a steel pipe.”
“Pin him down.”
The sun was setting over the Back Alley.
Above my body, the deep shadows cast by the streetlights in the Alley fell across me.
Out of six of them, two were wielding clubs.
My overweight body was far too slow, and the enemy was too numerous, but my instincts wouldn’t allow me to just lie there and take the beating.
Before one of them could swing his wooden club, I seized the opening and drove my chin upward.
Thwack!
“Gack?!”
“What—what?!”
The remaining two and the High School Boys stared at me with wide eyes.
I had the instincts from the Game World.
The problem was that my physical specs in the Game and in reality were completely different.
‘I’m too slow.’
Even though I could see every movement clearly, even though my mind mapped out exactly how to fight, I couldn’t dodge properly.
Crack!
I barely managed to raise my arm and block the wooden club as another attacker brought it down, and searing pain shot through my arm.
“Ugh!”
Unlike the Game, where pain flashed and vanished instantly, real-world pain lingered and interfered with the fight.
For the first time, I felt acutely how much my body had weakened.
Thwack!
The moment I blocked the club, I kicked the stomach of the attacker in front of me.
I’d managed to land a hit on each of the two with this clumsy body, but it still wasn’t enough to subdue them.
The two of them retreated a step.
“This bastard….”
“Looks like he’s had some fight training.”
They looked at my legs.
They seemed to wonder why someone with disabled legs could fight so well.
But this was the limit.
“Huff, huff.”
I was already exhausted, my breathing ragged, my limbs trembling uncontrollably.
Of the three, the only one not holding a wooden bat cracked his knuckles with a series of pops before yanking off his jacket.
Yeah, this guy.
You could tell at a glance he was Athletic Thug.
“I was wondering where my little brother got his ass kicked by some pathetic bastard, but now I see why.”
I didn’t hit him.
But at this point, truth hardly mattered anymore.
The Older Brother’s eyes flashed with murderous intent.
From the atmosphere, it seemed like he beat his own brother regularly.
Thwack!
He feinted at my stomach to drop my guard, then drove his fist into my face.
My glasses flew off.
One of them stomped my glasses into pieces, then swung a wooden bat at me.
Crack!
After that, I was defenseless.
‘If I’d just had some muscle. Damn it, all because of my legs. If my body was at least lighter. I should’ve exercised regularly.’
I’d undergone rehabilitation therapy.
But it hadn’t helped much, and I couldn’t afford to continue it long.
Disgusted by my crippled leg, I’d stopped exercising at some point.
Still, up until now, working diligently at the Convenience Store, hauling goods and moving around constantly had been enough.
Smack! Smack smack! Smack!
All I could do as I took blow after blow was curl my body into a ball for protection.
“What, that’s nothing?”
“The crippled bastard’s tougher than expected.”
“Hey! The older brothers got revenge for us!”
“Thank you so much!”
The voices of the High School Boys echoed sharply through the Alley.
My entire body trembled.
Smack smack smack smack!
It hurt, but I could endure it.
“Look at that weight. This bastard’s got serious durability. What’s his actual weight class?”
“It’s all fat no matter how you look at it.”
“Pig bastard, get some exercise.”
My insides boiled.
Humiliation, shame, contempt, defeat, regret, and fury at my own weakness.
‘These guys wouldn’t even be worth a single punch to me…’
Just as they said, fat was durability and weight class—if I’d just had some muscle, these Back Alley delinquents would’ve been nothing.
“!”
In that moment, the Coin Market suddenly flashed through my mind.
Plus, I had coins I’d earned yesterday.
“…The Coin Market?”
Crouching in place, I muttered to myself when a familiar message window appeared before my eyes.
Do you wish to access the Coin Market?
I pressed yes and connected to the Coin Market’s main page, where a lengthy list of recommended items was displayed as always.
After checking the price of the item I wanted, I glanced at the top of the market.
Coins Held: 450C
Seeing it was 450 instead of 350, it seemed Kkolkkalpi had forgotten to collect 100 coins.
I rapidly selected items.
Strength Enhancement Level 1 (300C)
Fatigue Purge (50C)
Weight Loss 1kg (100C)
Exactly 450 coins.
Around that moment, the ones who had been beating me stopped moving, their breathing ragged.
“Huff, this bastard, huff, keeps muttering.”
“Wasn’t he muttering something earlier? Huh. Has he lost his mind?”
Ptui.
Someone spat on my pants, and the others snickered.
“Ugh, it’s so gross I can’t even touch him.”
“Let’s just go.”
“Don’t you ever touch my brother again. Next time, we’re going to the Convenience Store.”
The ones who had been kicking me a couple times with their toes as if I were filthy walked away, their footsteps fading.
Do you wish to purchase the selected items?
Yes
Thud thud.
“….”
I slowly pushed myself up.
The fatigue recovery item must have been something like an HP potion.
Suddenly my mind became so clear and sharp that I felt I could devour all six of them.
I didn’t know how much the strength enhancement would help, but I couldn’t let them leave like this.
With trembling legs, I moved as silently and quickly as possible, grabbing one of them by the shoulder and spinning him around.
“Wha—?!”
Eyes widening like lanterns.
Crack!
The dramatically improved movement and impact sent a thrilling surge through me.
‘Yeah, that’s it.’
I knew well enough that even at my strongest, one against six was reckless.
It didn’t matter if I couldn’t win.
The instincts from playing the Game had awakened.
As one of them flew back and crashed down, the other two and the High School Bullies stared at me with wide eyes.
“This bastard, what—?!”
Crack!
I threw my full weight behind the punch, and the satisfying crack of impact echoed through the entire Alley.
Unlike before, those who took the hit groaned and couldn’t get up easily.
Only the Athletic Thug remained standing.
The same setup as before, yet entirely different now.
I’d already grasped his full capabilities, understood his fighting patterns, and my body felt relatively light and nimble.
He spat out something.
“You’re not supposed to be able to…?!”
Whoosh—!
The Athletic Thug staggered violently backward after taking a devastating backhanded strike and crashed to the ground.
As if I didn’t know my own strength.
With enhanced strength, the power generated from a body weighing over 100 kilograms was absolutely devastating.
One hit would make the skull ring like a bell, eyes bulging from their sockets, ears splitting with unbearable pain.
I drove home my dominance.
“These bastards don’t even realize I was going easy on them.”
Ptooey.
As I muttered and spat blood-tinged saliva onto the ground, the three of them flinched and looked up at me with terror-stricken faces.
Their eyes wavered.
Their internal power calculator had probably shattered.
The guy who’d been getting pummeled moments ago suddenly got up and rushed back, only to unleash a punch that was incomparably stronger than before.
I must have looked like a monster toying with them completely.
“A-are you perhaps… a Hunter, sir?”
That was clearly the best conclusion they could reach.
I grabbed the collar of the Athletic Thug, who’d been slapped into complete submission and was now cowering pathetically.
He got dragged along helplessly.
The Two Delinquents and High School Boys watching this dropped their jaws.
I could see firsthand what kind of output a mere Stage 1 strength enhancement item could produce.
“What good does knowing that do you?”
At my question, he swallowed hard and answered.
“W-well, since we attacked first, we absolutely won’t report this! If you just let us go like this…”
“…”
Getting hit just once each had broken their fighting spirit considerably.
‘They’re incomparably weak compared to me.’
The self-doubt that had been plaguing me moments ago vanished completely.
Compared to these spineless thugs, my mental fortitude was nothing short of steel.
Besides, since they’d mistaken me for a Hunter, they wouldn’t come looking for me at the Convenience Store where I worked.
‘Though in this day and age, are there really Hunters working at convenience stores?’
I glanced at the High School Boys.
Startled by my gaze, they immediately dropped to their knees.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Their knees were practically shattering.
“I’m sorry!”
“I swear I’ll never set foot in the Convenience Store where you work again!”
“Never! Not ever!”
They were spinning their own narrative without any prompting from me.
If I’d had my way, I would’ve beaten those three mackerels senseless for dragging me into this mess.
But even if I was past the age of juvenile delinquency, laying hands on minors would only complicate my life further.
I’d barely managed to secure my position at the Convenience Store, after all.
But the grown ones were a different story.
“I’ll let the kids off the hook.”
“…Pardon?”
The Athletic Thug’s voice trembled with uncertainty at my conditional forgiveness.
“But you lot are taking a beating instead.”
The faces of the one in my grip and the Two Delinquents drained of all color.
Whether they reported me or not didn’t matter.
I wasn’t a Hunter, after all.
I hauled the Athletic Thug up by his collar with pure strength, then cracked my knuckles.
Crack, crack, crack—
It was time to properly test the performance of the items I’d purchased.

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