The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 66

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Chapter 66
Baek Hee-an noticed my hesitation and worked hard to convince me.
“I’ll handle Jeong Hee-ji too. That woman… sigh. Despite her normal appearance, she’s genuinely not in her right mind.”
She certainly seemed that way.
‘I’ve never seen a woman with such incredible physicality and fiery spirit before. If I were a man, she’d be absolutely my type.’
And yet such a woman was jealous of me.
‘Thank you.’
I hoped Jeong Hee-ji would continue to jealously feed my starving self-esteem for a long time to come.
However.
‘I appreciate the jealousy, but the problem is her impulsive behavior.’
My workplace being just a Convenience Store was a saving grace—otherwise, my cohabiting roommate’s ex-girlfriend had come to my workplace and created a melodramatic scene accusing me of two-timing in front of my colleagues.
Now every time I went to the Convenience Store, I had to hear about Baek Hee-an from Kim Jung-yeon.
‘How do I silence this… Oh!’
A thought flashed through my mind—if Baek Hee-an would just give him a ride in a foreign car like he sang about, that would solve everything.
“The dating thing was really just supposed to be pretend, and I didn’t know rumors would spread. Lee Yu-na agreed to fake date me because of Jeong Hee-ji.”
I was half-listening while lost in thought, but the last part snapped my attention back.
“…!”
Lee Yu-na.
“You dated Lee Yu-na because of Jeong Hee-ji?”
“We both needed a fake relationship. I had my reasons, but Lee Yu-na also had a stalker from the same industry bothering her.”
It was shocking news.
“What kind of bastard! A sasaeng fan?! Is he still following her?!”
“This is a secret, but it’s not a sasaeng fan—it’s a famous man from the same industry… But why are you so worked up?”
“A man? Don’t tell me he’s an idol? Who?”
“It’s a secret. Anyway, I’ve never actually dated Lee Yu-na or Jeong Hee-ji. Regarding both of them, I’m clearly the victim here.”
Baek Hee-an shook his head.
He was the victim in this situation.
Heh.
I suppressed the hollow laugh rising in my throat and examined the troubled Baek Hee-an.
‘Still an iron wall, I see.’
He was exactly like this back in college, and he seems unchanged now.
Even though Baek Hee-an’s face was pale as rice cake, his public image wasn’t particularly kind.
With his cold, businesslike demeanor and unwillingness to lose to anyone, he didn’t seem like the type to easily date women unless he genuinely liked them first.
I didn’t know about Lee Yu-na, but Jeong Hee-ji definitely liked Baek Hee-an.
That’s why she was jealous of me.
‘He’s rich, handsome, and works at the same place so she’d see him often. He’s worth liking.’
The Baek Hee-an I’d seen so far was like Shin Podo with that face—an impenetrable fortress who absolutely refused to date anyone.
‘Who does this guy want to date that he won’t date anyone? Could it be…’
A moment of silence.
Baek Hee-an’s eyes narrowed with suspicion as he looked at me.
“You’re not gay, are you?”
“…?”
My thoughts had just tumbled out of Baek Hee-an’s mouth.
‘Why did it come out there?’
For a moment, I wondered if I’d spoken my thoughts aloud, but that clearly wasn’t the case.
Baek Hee-an spoke with displeasure.
“You show no interest in me, yet you’re all over Lee Yu-na.”
“What, what?! All over?!”
The shocking word choice felt like it might shatter my bones.
All over.
All over, he said.
“Never mind that. Anyway, I have something important to tell you.”
“Who said that? Did, did Lee Yu-na say it directly? She was upset? What, she calls you ‘Older Sister’ to your face but curses you behind your back?”
“The main tournament matches start soon.”
This bastard.
He threw a stone of discord into my beautiful, enchanting human relationships and then changed the subject.
Baek Hee-an continued speaking.
“The Battle Royale uses a Fair system. You’ll be paired up in groups of two. You know that, right?”
“You’re not answering? Did Lee Yu-na curse me out? Is she afraid that she’ll treat my social smile as her only hope in life forever? Or is she worried that even though she’s a woman, she might get the impression that one smile from me means a marriage registration? Huh?”
“….”
Baek Hee-an’s eyes gradually narrowed, but that wasn’t important right now.
“Hey, answer me quick! I originally had a lot of interest in AVE!”
“…I haven’t been in contact with Lee Yu-na, so I don’t know. So stop talking about her. I’ll get you an autograph.”
Deal.
I almost said it.
“Who’s the stalker? Just the initials.”
“Fine. I’ll give you a basket of AVE photo cards I was forced to receive as gifts, plus a limited edition album.”
Deal, deal, deal!
This is a real deal.
Especially the part about ‘a basket of gifts I was forced to receive’ sparked enormous curiosity and anticipation like a random box.
After pacifying me in just two moves, Baek Hee-an got straight to the point.
“Hunters all promise beforehand who they’ll pair with before the tournament. Since they’re all top-tier rankers, I’m not confident going solo.”
“So?”
“Pair with me in the first main match.”
Pairing with Baek Hee-an.
For me, it seemed easy enough to backstab, and there was no reason to refuse since there was only profit to gain.
“What about Hunter Lee Do-jin?”
“I turned him down.”
“Hmm.”
So he did receive a proposal after all.
“I’ll support you properly. You’re a close-range dealer anyway. Since I specialize in magic, I’ll be a huge help with support.”
“Hmm.”
“I can feed you levels too. I’ll always give you the killing blows.”
There’s no easier mark than this.
‘This is sweet, isn’t it?’
But if I accept too readily here, it won’t look good for my image.
The game has already started.
If I’m going to backstab him in the tournament, I need to play it right from now on.
‘I’ll give him the cold shoulder to set up the betrayal.’
As I hesitated instead of accepting outright, Baek Hee-an’s expression darkened slightly.
“…You will, right?”
“I need to see how things develop.”
I’d meant to brush him off, but the words turned out to be true.
I can’t designate the starting location.
We can’t enter holding hands, and participants would be randomly distributed across the vast map.
‘Even if I wanted to catch the bus, if it’s parked far away instead of right in front of me, I can’t board it.’
Grrrr.
The white guy gradually turned dark, radiating black energy, then spoke in a dangerous tone.
“I’m ranked number one in God of Fighters and you’re hesitating? Where else would you find a better Fair partner than me? How much lower do I have to sink?”
He’d lost it.
The Top Ranker was literally begging me to use him as free mercenary—I could understand the frustration.
Before I could respond, Baek Hee-an fired off a question.
“Does anyone besides me know that you’re Chicken Seat?”
“No.”
Baek Hee-an’s eyes, which had been full of complaint, softened slightly.
Realizing his proposal wasn’t landing, his speech became a bit hesitant.
“…You know I’m good at this.”
“Who doesn’t know.”
It was funny watching the number one ranker appeal to his own skill.
Everyone in the world probably knew that Baek Hee-an was ranked first in God of Fighters.
“It’ll definitely help.”
That much was obvious.
Since the map loading location was random, I wasn’t sure how things would play out, but there was no reason to refuse if he was offering to hard carry.
‘But why is he going this far.’
He could just easily hand over ten billion won instead of doing all this.
‘Is he volunteering to be a sucker….’
As I remained silent in brief contemplation, Baek Hee-an, who’d been watching my reaction, widened his eyes.
“The Fair?”
“Ah, I get it. I understand, but the map is huge. The placement will obviously be random.”
“So what?”
“To survive the early stages, you might have to form a Fair with another Player right away. You probably will too. Let’s just accept that much from each other.”
“…With the difference in our skills, why would we? We can just meet up later.”
He was being quite stubborn.
Despite it being a tournament, insisting on solo play until he met me—it was so characteristically Baek Hee-an.
“We won’t know until we see. There are other rankers besides you and me.”
“….”
Unwilling to account for unexpected situations, Baek Hee-an ultimately said nothing.
And on tournament day.
My prediction proved exactly right.
I gazed down at the back of a beautiful female avatar shuffling along in front of me.
Tiger ears and a tiger tail—items purchasable only with real money.
“Why do you keep staring?”
Spinning around to face me, a cute meowing voice.
But wasn’t customization supposed to be shown off to others to some degree?
[Beom-young has arrived]
“Tch. You pervert. You picked a female character too—stop eyeing me up, or Fair or not, I’ll rip your eyes out.”
“…?”
Hwang Beom-young, wearing the face of a beautiful girl, perked up his cute tiger ears.
‘I’m actually a woman, you net-camming bastard.’
I couldn’t understand why I had to hear that from a cross-dressing jerk when I was a confident woman.

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