The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 8

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Chapter 8
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The moment the Opponent Player and I burst from the alley onto the road, the oncoming vehicles slammed their brakes.
Screeeech—
BANG—
His eyes blazed crimson.
【Here it comes.】
In that instant, a sharp whistle of wind cut through the air near my ear.
Whoosh, BOOM—!
The Opponent Player charged forward with his blade and unleashed the Constellation’s ultimate skill, and every vehicle on the road, unable to withstand the pressure, lifted into the air and was hurled backward in unison.
A devastating area-of-effect skill of the explosive type.
The road gouged deep, and the expensive cars common to the city tumbled like fallen leaves.
Screams of people echoed from all directions like background noise.
Through the meaningless battle of those who could no longer be called human, the city that humans had built through blood and sweat was obliterated in an instant.
Destroying the city is exhilarating.
It fills me with a dizzying, intoxicating sensation—as though the world itself rests in the palm of my hand.
“Cough!”
Of course, the ultimate skill from moments ago had destroyed more than just the city.
The backlash from the sudden HP drain brought a burning sensation as though my insides were being shaken, and a violent cough tore from my throat.
But no blood appears.
I was sent flying by the pressure, but I seized a nearby Mercedes to steady myself.
Using the grip strength of my catch, I evaded swiftly, and the enemy’s blade that had been rushing toward me embedded itself perfectly into the car’s body.
BOOM—!
The Mercedes was split in half.
【An opening.】
I hurled the vehicle—now torn and crumpled like paper—while casting a skill and swinging my leg with all my might.
CRACK!
It connected perfectly with his head.
“Nice.”
I didn’t miss the moment he was sent flying, and I quickly pursued while casting the Constellation skill.
As the skill activated, Kkolkkalpi, who had possessed my body, muttered.
“【How dare you, you insignificant thing.】”
With that cringeworthy declaration, my body teleported, and I appeared ahead of the enemy who had been sent flying.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
In that brief instant of teleporting from there to here, my existence scattered like smoke, and the overwhelming, omnipotent power that emerged seemed to tear through space itself.
A barrage of crimson laser flashes filled the rear and detonated.
BOOM—!
[K.O!]
[You Win!]
The Opponent Player, having exhausted their remaining HP, fell to their knees and collapsed.
I won.
Kkolkkalpi chattered excitedly.
【That last skill was good, right? The synergy got even better. It’s because your faith in me grew as you accepted my words.】
I let his words go in one ear and out the other while opening my message inbox.
I’d seen a notification that a message had arrived at some point, but I’d forgotten about it while absorbed in combat and only just remembered now.
The contents were as follows.
[Hello, Chicken Seat. I’m not sure if you’ll remember me, but I had the honor of doing a team raid with you on the Korean Server not long ago. The thing is, I’m running a broadcast, and I was wondering if you’d be interested in appearing on it….]
It was a message proposing that I appear on his broadcast, along with a fairly generous appearance fee.
There was no reason to refuse.
Unless I had glasses, acne, a pig face, or a limp.
‘They’re offering good money. Ugly people do pretty well these days anyway. With my face, I’d definitely draw attention—maybe I should just close my eyes and go for it.’
Money controls thought.
I was drawn in by the tempting amount, then hesitated.
[…If you don’t mind my asking, I’m also curious which Guild you belong to as a Hunter. Your skills are so exceptional that you seem like you could be either a Hunter or a professional athlete….]
Without meaning to, my expression hardened and my heart went cold.
【Are you listening to me? The more you trust me, the stronger you can become, I’m telling you? Originally, between a Constellation and a human—】
“….”
My mood soured.
I cleared away the reward video after the tally finished and immediately logged out of the game.
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Returning from virtual reality to reality, what had happened in the game felt like a midsummer night’s dream.
But.
“Coin Market.”
A window appeared before me instantly.
You have accessed the Coin Market.
Remarkably, it was exactly the same Coin Market I’d seen at the Convenience Store today.
“Is this really possible?”
It didn’t feel real.
That buying something within this system window and having it apply to reality….
It was exactly as I’d hoped, chillingly so.
I’d occasionally fantasized that if money or rankings earned in the game could affect reality, then I, a world-ranked player in God Opal, would be an incredibly powerful Hunter or a wealthy person.
Of course, even if this were real, I’d lack nearly enough coins to purchase what I wanted.
‘I can gather coins somehow. As long as this is real.’
I wondered if I’d been played by fragments of data, but looking at the Coin Market like this, belief was beginning to take root where there had been none.
I rummaged through the Coin Market, which looked like a game item shop, and glanced at the top line.
Coins Held: 100C
“….”
There was one way to confirm whether this Coin Market was real or not.
Buy something.
I entered the Coin Market’s popular items list.
The list I’d seen at the very beginning appeared before me.
After filtering out unnecessarily expensive items like Hunter Awakening or Acceptance Items, I was left with reasonably affordable options.
Strength Enhancement Stage 1 (300C)
Ideal Body Shape Stage 1 (300C)
Beautiful Face Stage 1 (300C)
Clear and Transparent Skin Stage 1 (200C)
Height Growth 1cm (200C)
Weight Loss 1kg (100C)
Fatigue Relief (50C)
….
Fatigue relief was the cheapest, but it was such a vague item that I didn’t like it.
The next cheapest was weight loss.
‘What a waste of coins. Honestly, if I just worked out hard enough, I could lose weight anytime.’
Since I’d exercised so much from childhood, I had baseless confidence that I could shed it quickly with effort.
Though in reality, it might not be as easy as I thought.
The real problem was that I had no intention of losing weight.
I’d only feel motivated to exercise if losing weight would actually improve my life somehow, but truthfully, I had no urgent goal I desperately wanted to achieve right now.
“….”
I glanced around my room once.
Clothes scattered across the floor, damp and soggy.
In the sink, dishes with dried pizza cheese from ages ago were stacked in layers, and a few instant ramen containers rolled around beside the computer tower.
‘Anyone looking at this would say it’s the home of a game addict.’
I needed the conviction that I could change this life that had tumbled into the abyss through my own strength, through the Coin Market.
After brief deliberation, I made my decision.
“Let’s buy it.”
What mattered to me now wasn’t losing weight—it was confirming whether this suspicious Coin Market was real.
Losing 1kg of weight was particularly good because the metrics were clear, unlike fatigue relief.
I hauled myself up with difficulty.
The scale, which had accumulated dust from disuse, I pressed with my toes to turn it on, then stepped onto it.
[122.1kg]
“I’ve gained more weight. How on earth did I become such a pig?”
I suddenly remembered that every time I checked my weight, I set a new record, so I’d stopped weighing myself altogether.
I stepped down from the scale.
I purchased the weight loss item I’d bookmarked in the Coin Market.
‘Weight Loss 1kg (100C)’ – Will you purchase this? Coins equal to the displayed amount will be deducted.
Yes
An item storage slot was created right next to the Coin Market window, and then another message appeared.
100C has been deducted.
‘Weight Loss 1kg (100C)’ has been successfully purchased. Will you use it immediately?
Yes
Crackle.
In that instant, an unidentified status window flickered faintly above the Coin Market before vanishing.
“…?”
What was that just now?
It was brief, but from what I could glimpse, it seemed to be a message window in a different format than the Coin Market’s usual interface.
I waved my hand through the crackling space, but nothing appeared.
“What? Did it apply anyway?”
I checked the Coin Market.
The coins had definitely decreased, and the item had vanished from the inventory window attached right beside the Market window, so it seemed the purchase had gone through.
Thump, thump.
“Ugh. Heart, why are you acting up like this? Calm down, would you.”
I stepped onto the scale, deliberately ignoring my frantically pounding heart and the cold sweat seeping into my palms.
My weight had definitely been 122 when I’d weighed myself just moments ago.
[121.1kg]
It had decreased by exactly 1 kilogram.
“!”
This is real.
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My mind grew restless.
‘When does that tournament the Constellations mentioned start?’
I wanted to gather coins quickly.
It was fine that I’d resolved to collect coins, but I had no way of knowing when that tournament would actually begin.
As I unconsciously bounced one leg up and down,
“Aren’t you heading home?”
“Oh? Yeah, I should go now.”
It was the evening shift change at the Convenience Store.
Even though the part-timer had arrived, I was still planted firmly in the chair inside the counter, so the impatient worker finally spoke up to me.
He seemed to be intently looking at something on his phone, and his expression made it clear he was hoping I’d hurry up and leave so he could have the chair.
It was an unusually quiet day, probably because the nearby schools were on break.
The Yellow-haired Part-timer who’d come for the shift change sat down in the counter chair the moment I stood up, completely absorbed in his phone.
“What are you looking at?”
I asked casually without much thought.
“Nothing special, really. There’s a game I personally enjoy, and apparently a tournament for it is coming up soon.”
No way.
“That game wouldn’t happen to be God Opal, would it?”
At my question, the Yellow-haired Part-timer’s eyes widened as he stared at me.
“…Huh? How did you know? It was just announced a moment ago? The God Opal users and fans went crazy the second the news dropped.”
Wow.

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