The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 33

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Chapter 33
It seems like a Manifestation skill has been added alongside Possession this time.
It’s not something only I can use.
The Manifestation skill wasn’t listed under Constellation-exclusive skills—it was in the common skill section available to all Constellations.
I opened the Room settings.
‘Nice.’
Kkolkkalpi had configured the skill cooldown to reset quickly, so there was nothing for me to adjust.
The players are probably thrilled, thinking the game AI can now manipulate the Player’s status window.
‘Though it’s not AI—it’s something very real.’
The event format was a battle royale where only one person survives, and the combat map was the Colosseum in Italy, beautifully restored in its intact form.
Maps with this kind of wide-open layout are casually called arena maps.
“Let’s begin.”
【Tch.】
I pressed the practice start button.
As the space reconstructed itself into the Colosseum, countless AI avatars stared at me with gleaming eyes.
The God Opal preliminaries start on Friday.
Four days left.
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After finishing warehouse organization at the Convenience Store and clocking in, I glanced at my phone and froze.
[(Donghwa Daily) Brawl with mysterious assailants shakes entire Hwanghae Hotel… Guests evacuate in panic]
‘Mysterious assailants?’
Reading the article, any mention of Hwang Beom-young and Baek Hee-an fighting was conspicuously absent, instead artfully reframed as hunters working hard to apprehend the assailants.
Browsing internet community reactions to the article, there were plenty of speculative comments suggesting it was hunters fighting each other.
Given how frequently hunters visit the Hwanghae Hotel, such incidents must happen fairly often.
‘Now I understand why hunters frequent that place.’
In fact, even when the staff evacuated me, they never mentioned Baek Hee-an and Hwang Beom-young fighting.
It was simply that Baek Hee-an suddenly left while I was eating, and Hwang Beom-young’s voice was so distinctly audible that I immediately realized the two were clashing.
Baek Hee-an and Hwang Beom-young are famous not just throughout the Hunter Community, but nationwide.
For having absolutely terrible relations.
A dangerous incident where world-class hunters clashed in a hotel was smoothly swept under the rug.
‘Money and power really do reign supreme.’
I found myself envying the enormous influence backing these two individuals.
The morning rush had wound down, so I sat at the Sales Counter and checked the pile of messages.
I sent a blanket text to Mackerel and the Hooligans expressing their concern for my safety—fortunately the matter resolved well, so let’s not see each other again.
I couldn’t tell whether Hwang Beom-young’s people had paid them off or what.
‘I never want to see those irritating Mackerel and Hooligan bastards again. But what do I do about this guy?’
I stared quietly at Baek Hee-an in my KakaoTalk friends list.
The one who hid his identity and baited me.
I want to permanently expel this bastard from my life, but I received sixteen million won in sponsorship a few days ago and even got a free hotel meal.
I went in prepared to lose the sponsorship, but it seems like I’ll keep receiving it going forward.
‘It feels like a waste to turn it down.’
As a top-ranked Hunter in the Korean Hunter Community and someone who frequently took on expensive overseas missions, this guy was drowning in money he couldn’t even spend.
Besides, having met him in person, he seemed desperate to do anything to ease his guilt toward me.
After deliberating, I made my decision.
‘Right. You can hate the person, but never hate the money.’
The way I’d clashed with Hwang Beom-young at the Hotel Restaurant was one thing, but honestly, thinking about Hunters’ superhuman strength, I had no desire to associate with them.
Even if we were classmates, you needed at least a matching social standing to maintain a relationship.
‘How much could his charity sponsorship amount to anyway? I should take it when he offers. But if he’s really that sorry, I wish he’d just deposit a clean 10 billion won directly into my account.’
Then I felt I could completely forgive Baek Hee-an.
‘Forgiveness? I’d love my enemy.’
The way human hearts treacherously oscillate between dislike and affection—maybe this was what they meant by love-hate.
‘But how does that bastard keep getting more handsome?’
I completely understood Baek Hee-an’s Ex-girlfriend’s obsession with marrying him at all costs.
When the marriage rumors broke, Baek Hee-an apparently dumped her on the spot.
I couldn’t fathom how he could dump a woman who was rich, beautiful, and desperately devoted to him.
‘If it were me, I’d marry her.’
I briefly searched for Baek Hee-an’s Ex-girlfriend, who boasted a pretty cat-like face befitting a famous idol, and his ex-ex-girlfriend, called the Goddess of the Hunter Community, then turned off my phone screen.
I was about to turn on a home workout video to get some exercise in.
Ding—
The Convenience Store door opened.
“Welcome—”
The moment I saw the customer’s face, I froze and my expression hardened.
“….”
“….”
Silence descended.
Just as I thought, ‘How the hell did this bastard find this place? Damn it,’ I remembered that this inconvenience was worth 100 million won, and my mind became serene like Buddha’s.
“What are you doing here?”
I didn’t know why this guy skipped the School Kiosk and came all the way here, but anyway, it was lunchtime.
At my question, Hwang Beom-young in his school uniform ferociously twitched his dark eyebrows.
His presence was always formidable.
If a black panther or black jaguar ate garlic for a hundred days and became human, it would probably look something like that.
The black-haired beast—no, Hwang Beom-young opened his mouth.
“Baek Hee-an threw the first punch.”
“…?”
“Baek Hee-an threw the first punch! I didn’t do anything!”
Uh, what am I supposed to do about that?
He seemed to be talking about what happened at the Hotel Restaurant yesterday.
Hwang Beom-young muttered.
“Using skills in the Building Corridor like that, no sense at all. Because of that, I got chewed out by my aunt again. Damn it.”
“….”
Baek Hee-an’s mysterious first loss.
To think I’d hear such nonsense from some underdeveloped beast—my suspicions about Baek Hee-an’s humanity were beginning to crystallize.
‘I should definitely keep my distance from Baek Hee-an if we contact each other again.’
Hwang Beom-young burst in, immediately accelerating into irritation, and brought over spicy chicken feet ramen, triangle kimbap, cheese, eggs, and more before pulling his wallet from his pocket.
At a glance, it was an obviously expensive luxury wallet.
“Ring it up.”
He thrust his card forward.
I thought it was ridiculous that someone with this much money wouldn’t just order delivery instead of eating this garbage, but we weren’t close enough for me to lecture him about it.
I was quietly processing the transaction when he stared at me and asked.
“What’s your real identity?”
I hesitated, thinking he might be picking a fight with me, but his serious expression suggested otherwise.
I placed his items into a plastic bag as I spoke.
“Can’t you tell? I work part-time at a convenience store. But why do you keep calling me ‘you’ anyway? You’re not even that old.”
Hwang Beom-young looked down at me and laughed incredulously.
“So you want to be called ‘sister’ just because you’re a woman, huh?”
“…What?”
What kind of nonsense was this?
Hwang Beom-young kept going, spouting incomprehensible drivel.
“His ex-girlfriend wore him down to nothing, and now look at his eyes. Even the great Baek Hee-an ended up dating this weird woman.”
“…?”
Only then did I realize the identity of that suspicious gaze he’d been giving me from head to toe since the beginning.
Displeasure surged through me instantly.
I slammed down the plastic bag I’d picked up to hand to Hwang Beom-young.
Thwack!
“Are you insane?! The more I hear, the more ridiculous this gets! You think I’m dating that lunatic?!”
Hwang Beom-young looked at me with a startled expression.
“…You’re not?”
“You, damn it, wait. So the reason you came to the hotel at that hour was because you thought Baek Hee-an and I were… like that?”
Picture it: a young woman and man at a hotel in the evening.
The red R-rated sticker appears.
“Damn it! What the hell was this loose-minded brat thinking! Ugh! I’m going to be sick!”
“…What did I do? I just went to the hotel to eat.”
Hwang Beom-young stared at me with a bewildered expression, but the suspicion that had already formed had solidified into certainty.
“Take that and get out.”
“I wasn’t thinking anything.”
“Get out!”
Hwang Beom-young grabbed the plastic bag from the counter and stepped back, avoiding me as I practically breathed fire.
The guy who should have been equally frustrated was looking at me with a complicated expression.
“Do you actually hate Baek Hee-an?”
Hate?
I had resented that bastard for such a long time.
Back when the world seemed like nothing but a flower garden and I was brimming with righteous conviction, I threw myself into saving him—and this is what became of me.
I forced my expression into something neutral.
“…I wouldn’t exactly say I like him. He and I are just university classmates, nothing more. Besides, it hasn’t even been that long since we reconnected. So don’t go spreading such nonsense around.”
Hwang Beom-young, who had been listening to me with an odd expression, cut right through it.
“That’s fucking disgusting, Baek Hee-an.”
“….”
“I’ve never seen a woman say she dislikes Baek Hee-an before.”
The enemy of my enemy is my ally—or something like that.
When I scowled instead of denying it, Hwang Beom-young laughed as if amused.
Heh heh.
“I’m heading out. See you again, Sister.”
Despite it being a natural form of address for someone older, he delivered it with such an insufferably cocky tone, as though he were doing me some grand favor.
That punk.
Hwang Beom-young bolted out of the Convenience Store before I could even protest.

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