Vol 1 Ch 7

I was an S-rank Guide.

 

All the beautiful Psychics wanted to partner with me. Whenever I went to town, they lined up, hoping to link with me.

 

When I hunted with them, I would cast Relax and help them with my shield. After each passionate battle, they would bring me valuable loot.

 

They all came to me. After slowly pressing our lips together, we would begin the link. She would remove all her armor and climb on top of me.

 

I held her slender waist, lost in ecstasy. This was the game life I had always wanted.

 

With a deep gaze, I spoke to her.

 

「Are you really that beautiful in real life too?」

 

She pushed back her long hair, opened her bright red lips, and whispered into my ear,

 

“My dick is the prettiest.”

 

Huh? Why does she have genitals when she’s a woman?

 

Startled, I pulled her arm away. The face of the long-haired woman had changed into ShutUp’s.

 

***

 

Ding ding ding! Ding ding!*

 

‘Ah… who’s playing the piano at this hour… Ah, right, this is my alarm.’

 

My eyes snapped open. I wondered if I was having dreams like this now because I kissed ShutUp so much in the game.

 

‘Wow, am I really going to become gay in reality? I thought I escaped the panty guy, but now it’s this one?’

 

I calmed my racing heart and looked at my phone screen. The alarm I had set for 4 AM yesterday was ringing faithfully.

 

I was tired and almost fell back asleep, but I forced myself to get up, thinking I had to log in at least one day to get the experience points ShutUp hunted. Mornings are usually quiet with no customers, so I could afford to doze off a bit. That’s why I thought I could push myself a little.

 

I got up, washed my face and brushed my teeth, and just like when I left in the morning, I made and drank a cup of coffee. Outside the window, it was still filled with pitch-black darkness. Looking at my phone, ShutUp hadn’t done anything since the call back then.

 

“Looks like he gave up.”

 

He probably doesn’t know. That I wake up this early to log in. I stretched widely, sat down comfortably, and put on my helmet.

 

<<Welcome to Blood Planet.>>

 

<<Moving to your last login point.>>

 

As the screen changed, the land I escaped from ShutUp yesterday appeared. It was good that there were no other users because it was early morning.

 

As soon as I entered, I looked at the experience points at the bottom, and they were steadily increasing, probably because ShutUp had been hunting. My body flashed once. Unlike me, who logged off like that yesterday, he seemed to have hunted more.

 

I unfolded the map, looked for a low-level hunting ground where a guide could hunt alone, and checked the quests available in that area.

 

First, I moved to the warehouse in town. Then, I equipped only items meant for sale, which wouldn’t be a big loss if dropped, and took a portal to a nearby location. While traveling from town to a hunting ground via portal is free, returning to town from there absolutely required a return scroll. Or you’d die.

 

Since my level is 38 now, I went to a safe level 30 area. Not a place with spiders like last time, but a bright terrain.

 

<<Moving to ‘Pitar Grassland’.>>

 

As soon as I arrived, things that looked like jelly were hopping around everywhere. If they weren’t jelly, it would have felt like walking on a path in Olympic Park.

 

They didn’t look very strong, so I hit one nearby with a basic spell. After hitting it about three times in a row, it split into two.

 

“Huh?”

 

I stepped back and hit the following jellies. Then, the two became four. At this point, most people would think, ‘Ah, something’s wrong,’ and stop hunting, but I foolishly kept hitting them. Before long, dozens of them were following me, chopped into tiny pieces.

 

Then, one latched onto my ankle with a thwack! As soon as it attached, my HP started to drain little by little. But that would have been the least of my worries. When another one stuck to my ankle, my shoe was instantly absorbed by the jelly. Just like that, one of my shoes was eaten by them.

 

“What the hell!”

 

Losing one shoe slowed my movement speed. As I ran downhill, the jellies, rolling along, were naturally faster.

 

“Ah! What the!”

 

I used every spell I could while running, but most were support spells and weren’t helpful. The only one that somewhat helped was the speed spell [Rapid], which allowed me to gain a little distance and shake off the jellies.

 

Figuring I’d be caught if I kept running on flat ground, I looked around for places to evade.

 

Just then, I spotted a lake in the distance. I didn’t know if they would chase me into the water, but I went in anyway. Isn’t there a saying about going into water if chased by a swarm of bees? If there were other players hunting nearby, I would have asked, but it was early morning, so no one was around.

 

‘Hunting in the early morning isn’t always good, is it?’

 

As I walked through the lake, I saw the jellies had followed me to the water’s edge.

 

However, my guess was correct; the jellies couldn’t enter the water and just bounced around outside. Fortunately, the lake wasn’t deep. It didn’t matter if my equipped gear was absorbed since it was all for sale, but it was still a bit of a shame.

 

To get away from the jellies, I slowly walked sideways while submerged in the water. The jellies stayed only where I had entered, not sensing me as I moved into the lake. Crossing the lake looked dangerous, so I moved sideways little by little.

 

Just then, I saw someone running in the distance, just like me.

 

“…….”

 

However, they were naked.

 

This game really reflected reality well. If you lose all your armor, you run around like that. Of course, you could cover it with a mosaic option, but since I hadn’t, I had to see the dangling parts of another man.

 

If I had been surrounded by jellies like that, I would have lost all my gear and been running around naked too. And then screenshots would have been taken and posted on the bulletin board. I would have been immortalized as ShutUp’s partner, running around like that.

 

The man was laughing gleefully even while being chased. Then he spotted me in the lake and ran towards me.

 

‘I really don’t want to deal with him.’

 

I walked sideways, ignoring him.

 

“Hey!”

 

But before I knew it, he was right beside me. When I only saw him running around naked, he looked like a lunatic, but up close, his character model was handsome.

 

“What are you doing here?”

 

That was the question I should have asked.

 

“A guide?”

 

He asked that after seeing me holding a staff. Then he even washed his face in the lake water. He should either ask questions or wash his face, not both.

 

“Just wandering around. Thanks.”

 

This place didn’t seem to suit me, so I tried to use a return scroll to go back to town.

 

But he suddenly grabbed my wrist, stopping me from using it.

 

“Want to party with me?”

 

“No.”

 

Who would want to party with someone running around completely naked?

 

In Blood Planet, unless you’re partners, you can’t see the other person’s level in a party. They said it was to enjoy the thrill of PK. They reasoned that knowing someone’s level makes it easier to challenge them or be ostracized, so you have to read the room yourself. He had no title above his head, just his name.

 

‘Moment.’

 

“Your name is ‘Gentle Touch’? Wow, that’s nice. A guide named Gentle Touch. I’d like to feel your touch.”

 

He seemed even more dangerous than I thought.

 

There are many strange people in the world, but in games, you can easily meet lunatics, like a miniature version of the world. He reached out again, and I quickly dodged.

 

“I! Already have a partner!”

 

“Oh? Really? Who?”

 

“ShutUp.”

 

His bright smile turned into a sneer the moment I mentioned ShutUp. In that instant, I knew what kind of Psychic he was. A flame briefly flared above his head.

 

Could he be a user who lost items after being PK’d by ShutUp? But it would be troublesome if he took out his anger on me for ShutUp’s bad behavior.

 

“Do you like ShutUp?”

 

“No.”

 

“Then why did you become partners with him?”

 

I could have told him the reason, but I didn’t want to talk to someone who so brazenly exposed his son.

 

“Do you really have to go around naked like that? It’s quite uncomfortable.”

 

“Ah.”

 

At my words, he fumbled and put on his armor. That meant he hadn’t lost his gear to the jellies earlier, but had deliberately taken it off. He was truly an unusual pervert.

 

If things got worse, I reached for the Alt+F4 keys on my keyboard. I didn’t want to start my day with someone like this. Considering he wasn’t normal, I asked again.

 

“Why weren’t you wearing anything?”

 

“When they stick near my crotch and wriggle, it feels like I’m being caressed, and it feels good. Like masturbating without using my hands.”

 

“…….”

 

As soon as I heard the answer, I was so dumbfounded that I was about to force quit, but then I noticed the weapon he was wearing.

 

It was dazzling, and at first glance, it looked incredibly expensive. The weapon, which looked like a ring, glowed with a red light and was on fire. It was clearly different from my staff, which looked like it was made from a torn-off tree branch from the grassland.

 

<<‘Moment’ has sent a party request. [Accept / Decline]>>

 

His mental state was abnormal, but that weapon looked extraordinary. Perhaps I had met a benefactor who could level me up without ShutUp, giving me some hope.

 

I clicked accept and became a team with Moment.

 

First, once we’re a team, he can’t attack me. And if someone else attacks me, he can defeat them for me. However, I doubted anyone would come near such a pervert.

 

“Want to go fight a boss?”

 

“Really?”

 

Moment asked my level and then suggested we not go to too high-level zones, but safely hunt a level 60 boss, summoning a portal. The fact that he asked for my opinion before moving showed one thing. He was, at least, kinder than ShutUp.

 

I followed Moment into the portal.