Twisted Destiny Chapter 60: Ranger

After dinner, Sam and I take a quick shower, which was quite a bit less heated than last ti, and prepare for our next VR adventure.

“Hey Sam,” my sister peeks into the room.

“Mhmm?” Sam nods.

“Don’t forget that Hilda will private ssage you the coordinates before you spawn in. If you spawn in earlier we will have to co and fetch you.”

“Ah, right! Thanks for the reminder.”

“No probs.” Élise winks.

“But I can make my character already, right?”

“Yeah, shouldn’t be an issue, you can recieve PMs in the chara creation. Just don’t press spawn.”

“Alright.” My girlfriend smiles.

“Anyway, see you later.” My sister closes the door behind her.

“So, are you ready for your next adventure?” I ask Sam while I help her with her leg.

“With you? Always.” She gives a kiss on the cheek.

“Charr.” I smile as I put her leg away.

“I know.”

I get back on the bed with her and Sam almost imdiately pushed down against the mattress, giving a multitude of smaller kisses, starting in my neck, moving back to my cheek and finally ending on my lips.

“Need to take so advantage of our private ti now, before we dive in.”

“You’d be surprised how much private ti we can get in the ga too.” I kiss her back on her lips.

“Is that so?”

“Mhmm. And even so, I don’t think the others mind a clingy and super gay Sam. You should’ve seen my sister with Nikki last ti.”

“Oh?”

“Yeah, Nikki is a vampire in-ga and she does like her blood from ti to ti.”

“Wow, that dietary change is pretty rad I guess.”

“Mhmm. And I think the both of them enjoy how it feels too.”

“So lewd.” Sam giggles as she rolls off to my side.

“Yeah.” I roll on my side while Sam does the sa, so we can both stare in each other's eyes.

“My pretty catgirl.” Sam boops my nose with her finger.

I giggle. “My badass girlfriend.”

Before I put on my headset I quickly get out of bed and head towards the door.

“For Pocky and Mochi?”

I nod. “They like snuggling with us when we sleep, and it’s fun to wake up with them.”

The mont I open the door a curious Pocky walks in already.

“Hey there Pocky, we’re going to sleep.”

Pocky ows.

“What does she say?”

“She wishes us a good night.”

“Wish her a good night from too!”

I do as my girlfriend asks and Pocky replies with a happy wl before I head back to bed.

“See you in-ga, sweetie?” I hold her hand as I hover my finger over the switch.

“Will be right there.”

The headset switches on and soon I find myself back in a familiar place.

“Hey there, kitten.”

Hilda was already waiting for , she’s sitting upright looking at the map. “Alright, these are the coordinates…. and sent.”

“Hey Hilda.”

She walks over to and gives a hug. “So, is there gonna be a day where you are not going to show people you are a catgirl?”

“Perhaps.” I hug her back.

“And I also heard about another cat girl from your sister?”

“Yeeeee. And there might be another one soon too.”

“Another one?”

I explain the situation with Carol and Hilda starts laughing. “Well, I guess I can see why she would like the idea. But as you said, trying it out in ga is probably the first course of action.”

“Yeah…”

“Oh, by the way, how are you feeling about the heat thing?”

“It ca as a bit of a shock really, I never thought about it before.”

“I can understand that.” She pats my head. “For all we know it might not affect you, but better be safe than sorry.”

“Mhmm. My sister said sothing similar.”

“Want to buy you a cat food bowl to be sure? Maybe a cat collar too?”

“Hilda, Imma bite you.” I pout.

“Just kidding, just kidding.” She laughs. “If you ever change your mind though, just tell .”

I chomp her hand.

“Ouch!”

“I warned you.”

“Hilda, Ami, you awake already?” I hear my sister from outside the tent.

“Yeah, we are.” Hilda replies.

“Great, have you already sent a ssage to Sam?”

“I did, I did.” Hilda exits the tent, but before doing so she winks at . “Don’t stay in bed for too long, we need to go and find your girlfriend.”

“Yeah yeah.” I’m still a bit pouty because of her teasing but once she leaves the tent I quickly get dressed.

Let’s hope Sam didn’t insert the wrong numbers.

“Feels good to be back in this ga to be honest.” My sister comnts when I get out of the tent. She’s stretching her arms and legs too.

“Yeah, I missed this as well.” Nikki smiles, uncovering her vampiric canines.

“Yep.” Hilda starts packing up our tent after . “Sam said she was going to send a ssage right before she spawns in, so we can wait here for a bit longer.”

“How accurate is the spawn chanic?” I sit myself down on one of the logs next to the extinguished campfire.

“Pretty accurate.”

“And what does that an?”

“Within a kiloter or so.”

“That’s still quite a lot of area to cover...”

My sister nods. “That’s what? The area of a circle is radius squared tis pi, isn’t it?”

“Mhmm, just over three square kiloters.” Nikki puts the last of their tent away.

“Yikes, how are we going to do that?”

“I do have one of these.” Hilda takes so kind of pistol out of her backpack.

“A flare gun? Isn’t that risky?” My sister sits down next to .

Hilda nods. “That’s why I’m not in the biggest rush to use it.” She puts the flare gun back. “There still might be bandits in the area, so unless you want to get into a fight right away…”

“Mhmm.” I nod. “So what do we do?”

“I think it’s best we split up in two groups then, if Sam stays put it shouldn’t take too terribly long before we find her.”

“Allright, and what are the groups? with Nikki and you with Ami?” My sister pokes her sword in the ashes.

“That’s indeed what I was thinking.”

“Alrighty then.” My sis pats my head.

“Keep Hilda safe, ok?”

“I’ll try.”

We stay put for ten more minutes, talking about the plan before Hilda gets up from her tree stump. “Just got the ssage from Sam, ready to move out?”

“Yesh.” I jump upright and join my partner.

“Send a ssage once you find her, and then rendezvous back here.”

“Yes ma’am.” My sister salutes Hilda and heads out to the south together with Nikki.

“So we head north and work our way clockwise?” I follow Hilda down the woods.

“Mhmm.” She nods. “Let’s just hope your sister knows the difference between clockwise and counterclockwise.”

“Ah, it shouldn’t be an issue. She has Nikki with her after all.”

“Fair point.” Hilda laughs.

We follow the stream up north for about 600 ters before turning east, trying to make sure we keep walking in a circle.

“How do we know if we aren’t walking in a circle though?”

“Gut instinct?” She shrugs. “Honestly this isn’t a perfect plan and it might take a while, but in any case it’s better than the flare option. I can sowhat guestimate our route based on the map.”

“Myeah.”

Right at that mont my ears perk up as I hear a yelp in the distance, coming from the east.

“Did you hear sothing?”

“I heard soone yell from that direction.” I point my finger towards where the sound ca from.

“Sam?”

I shake my head. “Sounded more like a man to .”

“Let’s check it out though.”

I agree with Hilda as we pick up the pace towards the sound.

Before we can get there, I can hear a second yelp, this voice was even deeper.

I look over to Hilda who now has started running. “I heard that too.”

It doesn’t take long to arrive at the source of the sounds. There were two n, one was pinned to a tree with an arrow in his shoulder, the other one was lying motionless on the floor, arrow in his back.

“H...help …” The man who was nailed to the tree moans out in pain.

I take my staff at the ready but before I can cast a spell Hilda stops .

“Look at their getup, Ami. Don’t you rember it?”

I take a close look at their uniform and now Hilda has put my attention to it, they do look vaguely familiar.

“These were the sa uniforms as the bandits who blocked the road.”

“Aaaah.”

“Yeah, they saw spawn in and thought I was easy pickings, and started to chase .” With a thump a tall, tanned, blonde cat girl lands next to us on the forest ground, a longbow in her hand and a quiver on her back. The thump almost made Hilda fall on her bum.

“Sam?” I hesitantly ask.

“Yep.” She slings the bow over her shoulder and embraces . My head at the perfect height to get squeezed against her ample bosom.

“Ah, oops, sorry kitten.”

“D-don’t worry, it was n-nice…”

Sam smirks and looks at Hilda. “And sorry for surprising you Hilda. I climbed up the tree to lay an ambush for these two.”

“It’s fine.” Hilda smiles. “So a ranger, huh?”

“Yeah, I wanted sothing that can do so supporting and can do so decent damage.”

“I’d say you picked well then.”

Hilda explains to that a ranger can, apart from shooting arrows into things, buff the offensive, defensive and healing capabilities of their allies.

“So Sam picked the perfect party synergy for us?”

“Pretty much.”

Sam looks incredibly proud of herself.

“Anyway, what do we do with that guy?” I nod to our temporary prisoner who is still hanging against the tree.

“I’m not a terribly big fan of executions.” Hilda pats the back of her own head. “If you heal him we can just tie him to the tree so he at least has a shot of survival, while also giving us plenty of ti to get away. What do you say Sam? They were chasing you after all.”

“Sounds like a plan to .” Sam nods and kneels down in front of the guy. “If you co after us again, this ti I’ll try to aim a bit more to the left.” She pokes her finger in the middle of his chest. “Right about hereso, like your buddy over there. Capiche?”

The bandit nods silently after which Hilda ties him up with so rope while Sam removes the arrow and I start to heal him.

Although I vehently agree with this course of action, I do hope letting him go doesn’t co back to bite us in the ass.