The Chicken Legend's Game Becomes Reality - Chapter 93

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Chapter 93
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Inside a black van parked on the roadside as darkness began to settle, there was a person.
“….”
Dark, melancholic eyes like black stars embedded in a pale face.
It was Roha.
‘This can’t be real. I was actually doing that to Yu-na….’
Just remembering it made my skin crawl.
Those enormous, predatory eyes that had swept over me from head to toe as if I were delectable prey.
Overwhelming physical strength.
That entire atmosphere of a massive predator savoring the thought of consuming fragile prey.
Shiver!
‘If Yu-na hadn’t been there, I might have been the one in danger…!’
Roha was profoundly shaken by the existence of that bodyguard who had intimidated him into trembling fear.
The moment the two of them left, he regained his senses and immediately spent the entire day tracking that woman to identify her.
‘I wasn’t tracking Yu-na, so there’s nothing to say about it.’
Even as he engaged in something akin to stalking, fear drove him to convince himself that he was simply following the rules that woman had imposed.
After his pursuit, Roha arrived at an even more surprising and shocking conclusion.
‘I’ve never heard that Baek Hee-an sold one of his two floors. So that terrifying woman is actually cohabiting with Baek Hee-an?’
It was truly a mystery.
‘And I thought she was a bodyguard, but what’s with the convenience store part-time job?’
It made no sense.
Even as I trembled and secretly gathered photos of that woman to collect information about her, it was difficult to understand what kind of situation this was.
The biggest mystery was Baek Hee-an himself.
‘This doesn’t add up.’
I’d never heard of Baek Hee-an cohabiting with anyone.
If this were true, it would be a massive scoop.
That the great Baek Hee-an’s cohabiting partner was such a fat and ugly woman—I couldn’t believe it even after seeing it myself.
‘Why would he choose that woman when Yu-na is so desperate to live with him?’
In South Korea, Baek Hee-an’s every move is the ultimate news material that can generate enormous interest.
It was remarkable that there hadn’t even been rumors or articles about it yet.
‘I don’t understand any of this.’
Everything I saw today is confusing.
From my perspective, the possibility that Baek Hee-an—who only dates beautiful, successful women—would be in a relationship with that ugly, fat woman seemed absolutely impossible.
But seeing him visit the convenience store where she works suggests it’s no ordinary relationship.
‘…What if they’re actually dating?’
A brilliant idea flashed through Roha’s mind.
He could break a story about Baek Hee-an dating that large, terrifying woman.
Then Baek Hee-an’s perfect image would suffer tremendous damage, and that woman would be too busy with reporters to spend time with Yu-na.
‘Once rumors spread that Baek Hee-an is dating that woman, Yu-na will distance herself from her first.’
Roha had discerned quite early that Baek Hee-an held no interest whatsoever in Lee Yu-na.
However, he couldn’t be certain whether Lee Yu-na harbored no interest in Baek Hee-an either.
‘This is the perfect opportunity to separate Baek Hee-an from her.’
Torment the disagreeable Baek Hee-an, and remove the dangerous fake bodyguard clinging to Lee Yu-na.
Up to this point, his reasoning remained cunningly sound, yet Roha’s thought process veered into peculiar territory at one juncture.
‘A scandal with Baek Hee-an would benefit that woman too.’
Roha had distinctly sensed that the Scary Woman was quite taken with his face.
Such a face-obsessed woman couldn’t possibly dislike Baek Hee-an.
Separate Baek Hee-an and that woman from Lee Yu-na, ignite a scandal without ruffling the Scary Woman’s feathers!
Truly, killing two birds with one stone!
Roha genuinely believed in this plan.
‘Perfect.’
The flawless scheme lifted Roha’s spirits considerably.
He withdrew his phone from his jacket.
“Reporter Kim, it’s Roha. How have you been?”
[“Oh, hello Roha! What brings you to call at this hour? Is there a story you need me to suppress?”]
“Not suppress—I’d like you to break an exclusive story instead.”
[“An exclusive?”]
Keen interest and intrigue resonated through his voice.
The man was a reporter for an internet media outlet known in the entertainment division for sensational scandal pieces.
He’d profited from information Roha had leaked on previous occasions.
‘This is a mega-exclusive.’
Roha gazed upward through the car window at the gleaming top floors of the Officetel.
Never expensive to begin with, the luxury Officetel had skyrocketed in price with a premium attached once Baek Hee-an moved in.
“There’s a woman living with Hunter Baek Hee-an.”
[“What?! Baek, Baek Hee-an?! Living together?! Is this really true?! But if it were, how could it have stayed so quiet?”]
“Seems they’ve only been living together recently. I’ll send you photos.”
I’d encountered them at the parking lot and followed them directly.
Lee Yu-na’s car was so conspicuous that tracking proved effortless.
[“You even took photos? Baek Hee-an living with a woman? If this is real, this is absolutely the scoop of the century…”]
“That’s why I said it was exclusive. I’m sending the files now—have it plastered across the portal homepage tomorrow morning during rush hour.”
After completing the file transfer on his phone, Roha casually reviewed the videos and photos.
A plump woman, and Baek Hee-an.
Baek Hee-an had visited the Convenience Store once in the afternoon, then picked up the woman again late at night during evening rush hour.
[“Ugh, don’t run away!”]
An irritated voice from the playing video came through faintly.
Their relationship didn’t seem particularly good.
‘How much debt does that woman owe that he chases after her like this? Isn’t this living arrangement really just Baek Hee-an’s one-sided imprisonment?’
Debtor and creditor.
Roha’s imagination extended no further than this.
[“I’ve received the file.”]
“I’d appreciate it if you could make the headline as sensational as possible. Once you see the photos and videos directly, inspiration will come naturally.”
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Waaaaaah—!
I won.
The moment my blade pierced through the Opponent Player’s neck, the system window erupted with a spectacular victory display.
[The throne’s master has been decided.]
[Glory to the King of ‘Seoul’, Joo Hyun-soo!]
My confident name blazed across the highest point of the scoreboard.
An overwhelming victory.
Exhilaration.
A joy ready to burst surged through my veins alongside adrenaline.
‘See! I told you I’d win!’
I wasn’t sure who I was speaking to, but it felt as though someone within my mind was laughing.
I had won.
The victor of the first main Tournament Battle Royale was me.
‘I’m filthy rich now!’
Coins gleaming like gold and currency—won and dollars—rained down from the sky like a downpour.
Then.
Beeeep—!!
A siren loud enough to shatter eardrums wailed deafeningly.
[Emergency Sudden Quest Triggered!]
[⚠Dimensional Rift Detected — A magical wave stronger than before has been observed!]
[A fifth Gate has opened in Gangnam. If the Gate is not closed, immediate death will follow.
—Number of Gates: 5
—Rank: S]
‘…What?’
A sudden wave of déjà vu crashed over me.
The worst possible development—something I’d managed to appear composed about during the Tournament, but which had made my palms sweat with dread.
The fifth Gate.
A suffocating terror jolted my senses awake.
‘Wow. I’m waking up. This must be a dream.’
My desperate unconscious will that this couldn’t be reality had triggered a lucid awareness.
The Tournament had ended.
This wasn’t real.
But the moment my dream became lucid, true reality called me back.
“Joo Hyun-soo—!”
“!”
At someone’s urgent, blood-curdling call, my eyelids—which I’d forgotten existed—were forcefully thrust open.
A dimly lit space.
Splatter.
Lukewarm liquid cascaded down across my face.
“What… ugh….”
Where am I?
A bone-chilling cold and the sickly metallic stench of blood flooding my nostrils.
Blood.
And in the darkness, a presence breathing steadily as it stares down at me.
“Run! Now!”
Baek Hee-an spun around frantically, something large and cone-shaped protruding from his chest.
A terrible premonition seized me.
‘What… what is this? Whose blood is this?’
The darkness was too absolute to discern what was happening.
Crackle—
Then Baek Hee-an unleashed his wide-area lightning ability, igniting electricity that flooded the dim space with sudden brilliance.
In that instant, a horrifying tableau materialized before my eyes.
“!”
We were inside a Cave.
‘…A Gate?’
And Baek Hee-an’s adorable Pikachu pajamas were drenched in crimson blood.
Nearly from head to toe, everything was red.
‘The Pikachu….’
His left arm hung limp at a grotesque angle, the bone clearly dislocated, while a monster’s massive talon had pierced through his chest and been severed clean.
A sight too horrific to look away from.
Boom! Boom! Boom—!
Three explosions revealed an even greater hellscape unfolding within this space.
“!”
Goat horns, blazing crimson eyes, and fluttering scarlet banners.
Baphomet.
A massive horde of roughly five hundred Baphomet, each towering nearly 2.5 meters tall.
And above their heads, five Zombie Dragons reaching toward the Gate’s ceiling, their decaying flesh peeling away to expose colossal bone joints as their eyes gleamed with malevolent light.
Shrieeeek—!
Thud! Boom!
One Dragon, its body half-severed, writhed in agony.
While I’d been asleep, something catastrophic had unfolded—Baphomet corpses littered the ground around me.
“…The fifth Gate!”
The moment realization struck, my heart threatened to burst from my chest.
It had opened.
The fifth Gate—the one that had flickered briefly like a glitch during the Tournament’s final moments before vanishing—had manifested in reality.

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