The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 70

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Chapter 70
‘What’s left in Battle Royale if you take out backstabbing? Hwang Beom-young probably just wants to agree on a ten-minute truce.’
Red Star was clearly thinking the same thing I was.
【He won’t listen to that.】
Of course not.
I gazed intently at the silhouette of the cute girl avatar shuffling ahead of me.
‘This feeling is really strange.’
This was my first time seeing Hwang Beom-young’s main character in person.
A cute girl customization with tiger ears and a tiger tail—items that could only be purchased with real money.
Since Hunters’ in-game nicknames are widely known through guilds, most players typically match their main character’s gender to their own.
‘Whether it’s bold or thoughtless, I can’t tell.’
Thanks to that, the entire nation knew about Hwang Beom-young’s preference for the gap moe aesthetic.
The tiger-customized cute girl ahead suddenly spun around and meowed at me.
“Why do you keep staring?”
Staring? What staring?
I was just looking.
Besides, isn’t a custom avatar meant to be seen by other people to some extent?
Hwang Beom-young looked me up and down.
“Tsk. You pervert. You picked a female character too, so stop scanning me like that. Fair or not, I could just gouge your eyes out.”
“…?”
Hwang Beom-young, wearing the face of a cute girl, perked up her adorable tiger ears.
‘I’m actually a real woman, you cross-dresser.’
I had no idea why I, a confident woman, had to hear this from some net-camming jerk.
‘I can’t just blurt out that I’m a woman.’
We were being broadcast.
Viewers were watching.
In any case, Hwang Beom-young seemed to have no idea that I was already someone she knew well.
The players rushing toward us hesitated.
“Huh!”
“Run!”
The red dots on the minimap indicate the presence of other players on the same floor, but they don’t reveal nicknames.
If you’re unlucky enough to run into the wrong person, you die.
Boom!
Hwang Beom-young rushed forward like lightning and attacked one of the players.
[Player ‘Hate Muscle Loss’ has been defeated.]
Having already fought somewhere else, the player with low HP died instantly.
[【Fair Bonus Obtained】
-Gold +100G
-Stat Points +1]
‘Oh.’
A bonus had triggered.
No wonder nearly every player in the tournament rushed to form a Fair with someone.
“Ugh!”
Witnessing the death of a player paired with them, another player immediately cast a Constellation skill.
An ultimate ability.
Hwang Beom-young, who had been closing in, instantly retreated.
Boom boom boom crash—!
Mana erupted from the player in all directions, descending like countless rain streaks and hammering the ground.
“Tch.”
While he fell back momentarily, I downed the health potion I’d just purchased and sprinted forward.
Sword Mage skill.
[Depthwaltz]
Crash. Boom crash.
The Opponent Player’s Constellation glared at me with blazing eyes, but this one was finished.
Whoosh—!
[Aura Pierce]
Crash—!
The player, my blade piercing nearly straight through their heart, met a glorious demise.
[Player ‘Bullet Shield Expert’ has fallen.]
That kill was mine.
Since they were a relatively high-level player, I gained 2 stat points and 200 gold.
Allocating the acquired stats to Intelligence increased my mana pool.
The players erupted in outcry.
“D-dammit! Hwang Beom-young!”
“Why did those two have to pair together?!”
Well, things just happened that way.
Hwang Beom-young and I rushed at each other as though neither would yield.
They were my prey.
Crash!
Boom—!
Hwang Beom-young and I vented our frustration from the lower floor, tearing through the First Floor and snatching up players like catching mice.
[Player ‘K Keyboard Warrior K’ has fallen.]
“Cowardly bastards!”
[Player ‘Sparta777’ has fallen.]
“Dammit!”
[Player ‘Heal Please Heal Heal’ has fallen.]
“Aaaah!”
[Player ‘Genius Full Sync Tank’ has fallen.]
[Player ‘Invincible Gunner’ has fallen.]
….
‘Sweet, sweet indeed.’
Being able to hear every Player’s voice made the Game feel entirely different.
The exhilarating rush was doubled.
Gold and stats accumulated at a frenzied pace.
【Two powerhouses joining forces are overwhelmingly strong, though admittedly almost boring. But other powerful Rankers have likely formed alliances as well. Let’s continue at this pace.】
I agreed.
Partnering with a top-tier Ranker—not some ordinary one—made hunting absurdly effortless.
Hwang Beom-young seemed to feel the same way; at some point, he’d stopped complaining.
‘Delicious, absolutely delicious.’
The First Floor fell silent in an instant.
The last red dot visible at the far end of the minimap vanished.

‘The Escalator.’
When Players change floors, they don’t show on the map.
The surviving Players had either ascended to the Upper Floor or descended to avoid us.
Then.
Grrrrowl.
“?”
A strange sound echoed.
Both Hwang Beom-young and I glanced down at my stomach simultaneously.
‘What was that?’
Just as I was puzzling over it, a system notification appeared.
[⚠System Warning: Hunger level has exceeded 80%.]
[Locate and consume high-quality food within the Map.]
[When hunger level exceeds 90%, your HP will begin to decrease.]
[Consumable food items are marked in yellow.]
Ridiculous.
Hwang Beom-young scowled.
“What kind of absurd mechanic is this? Did you skip eating before the tournament started? You’re already starving from just that?”
“No way. I’ve been playing for days. Of course I ate a proper meal beforehand.”
Then.
Grrrrowl.
This time, the sound came from Hwang Beom-young’s stomach, not mine.
“….”
“….”
Hwang Beom-young stared down at his own stomach with a vacant expression.
“What is this….”
Now he was experiencing exactly what I was.
This wasn’t some illusion—we were genuinely hungry.
‘Why is my Main Organization’s fuel depleting so quickly? Though it makes sense that the body gets hungry. But this physical hunger is being converted into a hunger stat in the Game?’
How they implemented this was utterly inexplicable.
Hwang Beom-young growled.
“If you log out to go eat, I’ll kill you Fair or no Fair, so remember that.”
“Why don’t you just find food inside the Map?”
“I meant logging out.”
“Have I lost my mind.”
No matter how hungry I was, that was ridiculous.
The Tournament had barely started—I had no intention of logging out just to fill my stomach in reality.
‘Since the Tournament lasts 72 hours, I could technically log out, eat, and come back.’
But realistically, that would only be viable later when the survivor count had drastically dropped, not during the early stages.
First, I needed to head to the Second Floor.
Hwang Beom-young asked me.
“Where are you going?”
“There’s a Fast Food Restaurant upstairs.”
“There’s probably something on the First Floor too.”
“The Tournament is in full swing—are you just going to eat? We need to eliminate Players too.”
We’ve already swept this area clean of Players.
“…Damn.”
Unable to muster a retort, Hwang Beom-young muttered a string of curses and obediently followed.
The entrance to the Second Floor was deserted.
No Players in sight, but NPCs swarmed everywhere.
‘What the—’
The moment countless NPCs spotted Hwang Beom-young and me, they snapped photos frantically as if we were celebrities.
Hwang Beom-young glared menacingly at the annoying NPCs.
“Can’t even kill these things outright.”
They were genuinely irritating.
If I could slash them away with my blade, I would have eliminated them long ago.
The problem was that the NPCs possessed an unsettlingly realistic presence yet couldn’t be touched by hand.
‘How did they implement this? And people are reacting with “Oh, how cute”?’
I bolted toward the Fast Food Restaurant in the corner of the Second Floor, dodging the NPCs trailing behind me.
Yellow markers immediately appeared on the Map.
Consumable food supplies—but the problem was the red dots surrounding them.
“!”
Bang!
Someone immediately opened fire on us.
Bang! Bang bang! Bang—!
Hwang Beom-young and I instantly dove behind obstacles to evade the attack.
A considerable number of Players had already gathered at the 2nd Floor Fast Food Restaurant, searching for food.
‘Did they all enter a starving state?’
Hwang Beom-young, who had been crouching in cover, immediately moved again.
I dash forward.
“Hwang Beom-young!”
“It’s Hwang Beom-young!”
Hwang Beom-young’s in-game nickname was ‘Beom Descended’, but no one ever called him that.
‘The guy’s just that famous.’
How desperate was I to pretend to help those Delinquents who’d messed with me, just to catch a glimpse of his face?
Foolish as it was, securing 100 million made it an exceptionally wise decision.
Boom!
Hwang Beom-young detonated a Constellation area-of-effect skill.
Golden light erupted, and golden blades swept across the entire Fast Food Restaurant vicinity.
‘Now’s the moment!’
Seizing the opportunity, I abandoned the fighting Hwang Beom-young and rushed straight into the shop.
One Player hiding inside.
Before the startled Opponent Player could even swing their sword, my blade flicked across their throat with lethal precision.
Thunk!
Critical hit.
[Player ‘You Die I Live’ has been eliminated.]
After disposing of the Player inside the shop, I picked up the golden french fries.
“…Tsk.”
They really did make it well.
Even knowing it was just data fragments, it looked incredibly appetizing.
Freshly fried potatoes and a hamburger set.
Let me eat.
The NPC shop attendants huddled in the corner of the counter stared at me with vacant expressions.
Crunch.
“?!!”
The moment I bit into the fries, an unexpected festival of sensation erupted.
‘This, this can’t be?!’
It’s delicious.

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