“Man, how boring...” Kim Su-Gwan groaned while glancing at the posts popping up in the online forum of the bicycle club he belonged to.

This club used to be the country's top road bike community; lively and interesting exchanges between the members constantly happened in this club a few months ago. But now... It somehow felt like all the passion had simmered down a bit lately. Back when the unknown monster made his appearance, new messages would continuously inundate the forum. Whenever that monster showed up, the club members would rush out and try to snap photos of him, and they would even broadcast the route he was taking...

“Yup, those were the fun times.”

The unknown monster must have lost his interest in bike riding, as he hadn't shown up in months.

"Maybe that's why there's so little life in the forums..."

Since this downward momentum wouldn't be good for anyone, the club decided to hold a qualification-style tournament not too long ago, but too few people applied, and the whole thing eventually fizzled out.

An online club's main reason for existence was people having the same interest coming together to form a community. However, the members pouring their all into the club would inevitably reach that period in their lives when their wives or job hunting dealt too many critical hits to their free time. Their activities would slowly wind down until new members joined the club and gradually superseded them.

At least, that was what Kim Su-Gwan told himself—he told himself into thinking that the...