"Eh? How is that possible?" x all
That was everyone's shared reaction when they heard Tohka's words.
It had only been about a day since they started the ga. Although everyone had been leveling desperately, they were still so distance away from eting the marriage requirents. How could Tohka possibly have reached the required level in such a short ti?
"Um... Tohka, you didn't pay for items too, did you?"
Shido asked with cold sweat.
"Pay for items? What is that?"
However, Tohka only tilted her head naturally.
"Well, let take a look."
Realizing that a girl like Tohka, who only had a few months of experience even buying things in real life, could not possibly understand online paynt, Shido stood up and went over to Tohka's side to see what was going on.
"Wait, Tohka, forget marriage level, you're not even level ten yet!"
After looking at Tohka's status bar, Shido cried out.
"Eh? Isn't the marriage level this one over here?"
Tohka froze for a mont, then pointed to the other side of the screen.
"Um... that's your cooking level, right?" (TL:nah I'm taking my word back)
Noticing that Tohka was pointing at the life skill bar, Shido discovered that the character's cooking level had already risen quite high. Unlike the character's own level, life skill levels rose much faster.
"But when you talk about the level needed for marriage, the first thing that cos to mind is cooking, isn't it?"
Tohka tilted her head. It seed the girl had equated the level needed for marriage with so kind of bridal training.
"What you're saying is strangely hard to argue with, but this is a ga. If you want to marry, cooking level alone won't work."
Shido explained with cold sweat.
"Umu... How could this be?"
Tohka looked at her own character with a sad expression. It seed she truly wanted to marry Shido very much.
After that false alarm, everyone, including Tohka, continued their leveling journey.
But not long after...
"Uwaaaaaah—! I got killed!"
Kaguya suddenly looked at her screen with panic.
"Well, fighting monsters above your level is very risky."
Shido said. The Yamai sisters had chosen the thod of fighting monsters far above their level, which relied heavily on player skill. However, the downside of that thod was that a single mistake would cost them dearly.
In this ga, dying deducted experience points. In other words, if they were not extrely careful, dying too often would cause their level to go down instead of up.
"That's not it! It was a player! I was killed by a player!"
Kaguya hurriedly explained.
"Indignation. What is with that player called Kurumi? She suddenly rushed out and killed Kaguya." (TL:Lmaooooooo, well Kurumi can just let her clones play yep yep)
Yuzuru said angrily.
"So in other words... PK?"
"Looks like it."
Shido and Mikoto looked at each other. PK, or Player Killing, ant battles between players. Although it carried the feeling of people hurting each other, it was also an essential part of MMORPGs.
"Well, running into that kind of thing can't really be helped..."
Mikoto comforted them. Getting PKed online was irritating, but as part of the ga, one could only say Kaguya had bad luck.
"U... uwa..."
However, at that mont, Yoshino also let out a small cry.
"Wait, Senpai, we're getting PKed too!"
Shido shouted in surprise.
"Eeeeh?"
Mikoto turned her head and saw that the character Yoshino controlled had been quickly killed by a player called "Kurumi No. 1."
"Wh-what is going on here?"
Along with Kotori's cry of surprise, everyone saw countless characters with IDs made up of Kurumi plus a number appear from every direction on the screen. And then, they were wiped out.
"This..."
Shido looked at his revived character and scratched his cheek, speechless.
"...This has to be on purpose, right...?"
Mikoto continued Shido's words, speaking in an incredulous tone. No matter how they looked at it, this had been a planned ambush.
"Kukuku! Pretty bold, that one called Kurumi."
"Agreent. We must teach her the price of laying hands on the Yamai sisters!"
The already highly competitive Yamai sisters were instantly fired up. They decided to take revenge on Kurumi.
"Um... What should we do?"
Natsumi looked at Kaguya and Yuzuru, who had already entered war mode, and asked helplessly.
"Well, we should still focus on leveling for now."
Kotori thought for a mont. Compared to PKing Kurumi, marrying Shido was much more attractive to her.
"But there are so many of them..."
Shido frowned. The strangest part was that the other side seed to have clones, controlling countless characters at the sa ti to attack them. Even if they wanted to level, it seed hard to find a safe place.
"In that case, how about going into a dungeon?"
Mikoto thought for a mont. Right now, the only safe place was a dungeon. A dungeon was a map opened separately only for the players in a party. In other words, Kurumi, who was not in the sa party, could not enter the sa dungeon as Mikoto and the others no matter what.
"Mm, let's do that."
Shido nodded.
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November 3rd. It had been nearly four days since the Spirits began investing themselves in the ga.
Kaguya and Yuzuru had fallen behind in level because they were fighting Kurumi.
Tohka had spent part of her ti on cooking, so the gap had widened for her too.
Yoshino and Kotori left the party when their levels were almost high enough to marry. If they kept leveling together, they would be unable to surpass Natsumi, who had started earlier and had a level advantage.
At Yoshinon's suggestion, Yoshino decided to find high level players to carry her. Unfortunately, after the players in the party learned that Yoshino was a little loli, they beca extrely clingy. Even after she left the party, they persistently sent private ssages to her. Poor Yoshino was so frightened that she trembled, and in the end, she chose to AFK. (TL:Ayo, police catch these asshole)
As for Kotori, the girl chose to challenge high-level monsters, but while farming, she ran into Kurumi. In the end, she was tragically PKed and corpse camped. Her days were miserable.
As for Mikoto... Although she did not need to attend school, she still had the shrine to run. Spending the whole day addicted to gas was not acceptable. On top of that, she was playing a male character and had no chance to marry, so she simply did not let Shido help her idle-level either.
In the end, the winner of this leveling-and-marriage contest was, without any suspense, Natsumi.
That night...
"I... I reached marriage level..."
Natsumi looked at the scene of her character leveling up on the screen and said in a small voice.
"Umu... So frustrating..."
Tohka looked at her own character with a gloomy expression.
"Well... This can't be helped."
Kotori looked at the screen where her character had been killed by Kurumi yet again, repeatedly telling herself in her heart that this was only a ga.
"Congratulations, Natsumi."
"Cong... congratulations..."
Mikoto and Yoshino smiled and said to Natsumi.
"Th-thank you..."
Natsumi lowered her head shyly.
"Th-then let's go do the ring quest."
Although it was only a ga, looking at his and Natsumi's characters, Shido still felt sohow embarrassed for no reason.
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