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Chapter 47
"Preparations began for the gathering of the Overlords of the Five Continents. Even if we lose in ability, we must not lose in spirit, for if we lose in spirit, we will lose face, was what everyone was thinking. No matter what, we have to give the people from the other continents a taste of the Central Continent's overwhelming enthusiasm!" Swan Beauty declared boldly as she suddenly busted into my study where I was working.
"Hmm…" I said uninterestedly as I finished reading and signing the paper in front of me before I set it aside with the others already completed.
But not one to be discouraged by my lack of interest, I suddenly found Swan Beauty at my side as she continued, "My Liege, we've decided to adorn Infinite City lavishly, so as to display Infinite City's strong spirit to the other Overlords. What is your opinion on this?"
"No problem, no problem," I answered casually before waving a hand towards her wanting her to go away so I added, "Anyway, it's got nothing to do with me. If they'd like to turn the city gold, silver, or even rainbow colored, it's all up to them. I'm gonna to leave it their hands."
Upon hearing that, an extremely rare, kind smile appeared on Swan Beauty's face, causing me to start slightly at the sight of it.
'Why does that look remind me of Yulian when she's mad so much?' I asked myself as a cold chill suddenly went down my spine as my instincts told me that something bad was about to happen and it didn't involve Gui either.
Just as this thought passed through my head, Swan Beauty raised her hands and clapped twice, causing a line of people to suddenly appear around us, each with an object of some sort in hand. There was just one similarity between those oddly shaped objects: they were all golden.
"Someone shut the doors!" Swan Beauty shouted as she pointed towards the door which was instantly obeyed.
'…'shut the doors'?' I repeated to myself as I carefully looked at Swan Beauty wondering what the heck was going on.
Seeing that she had my attention, Swan Beauty slowly leaned down towards me before saying in a voice as low as a cello, "My Liege Lord, please, strip!"
…I will admit that I did stare at her dumbfounded, but that didn't last long as a group of people yanked me out of my seat and into a changing room that was suddenly in my study.
From there I was literally stripped of all my dignity…you could say.
Upon looking over at Swan Beauty (the dressing room curtain only came up to my chin), I found Swan Beauty completely unconcerned with what was happening to me, but sensing that no one meant me any harm—I allowed them to do as they pleased.
"Prince has been completely stripped." One of my 'violators' said, poking his head out of the set-up dressing room.
"Hmm, good!" Swan Beauty said before she pointed at the pile of weird gold stuff and said, "Let's try this set first."
"…What?" I said before I was once again crowded by my 'violators' who proceeded to shove, yank, and pull me into what looked and felt to be like armor.
Once it was completely on, I was shoved out for Swan Beauty to inspect who did so as she slowly walked around me, examining me from my head to my toe.
"No good! Change!" Swan Beauty ordered simply as I looked at her in confusion, but just like that I was yanked into the dressing room once again to go through the stripping ritual once again.
"Not enough! Change again…" Swan Beauty said after I had been stripped down, redressed, and shoved out to be inspected once again.
'So Swan Beauty was only choosing my Overlord outfit for me.' I thought in amusement as I stood perfectly still as my 'violators' pulled the rejected armor off of me before pulling another set on me.
"That is not flamboyant enough!" Swan Beauty rejected another offering.
"That is not flamboyant enough either!" Swan Beauty exclaimed as she stared at me with mounting anxiety when I came out of the dressing room again, but this time by myself before I turned in place so she could look me over.
I chuckled lightly at her misfortune when someone kicked the door wide open, causing both Swan Beauty and I to turn to see Jing and Wen with a few people behind them, holding more weird gold armor.
"The flamboyant clothes are here!" Wen announced happily as they headed over to Swan Beauty to present it to her.
"Could that be…?" I stared with horror at the horrible thing in their arms. "That's not Peacock-man's armor, is it?"
"That's right!" Jing replied as though it was the most ordinary thing.
"I'm so not wearing that!" I told them as I slowly backed away from them all, eyeing the hideous armor.
I recalled that time when I had been in the Eastern Continent, when I had first seen Huang Wei wearing that sparkling golden armor.
At the time all I could think was, 'How could anyone actually have such bad taste!?' However, it seems, this time, it was going to me who will have to wear the very outdated thing.
'Is this what they call turning the tables?' I asked myself thoughtfully. 'I had mocked his taste at the time and it's now my turn?!'
With that in mind, I added, shaking my head frantically, "I'm not gonna wear that!"
"Oh, yes, you are!" Swan Beauty announced before I was yanked back into the changing room of doom, but this time I didn't go down without a fight.
10 minutes and several people drinking red health potions later, I was standing wearing the dratted thing, my eye twitching every once in a while.
I just knew that the once 'hilarious' effect that looked on Peacock-man would defiantly look equally 'hilarious' on me.
"Don't worry, Prince, the effect you have when you wear this is totally different from Huang Wei! It looks rather good on you," Wen said trying to console me.
"Not bad, not bad. Now this is flamboyant enough," Swan Beauty said, nodding, looking very pleased.
I twitching violently at her words as the satisfactory look on her face really had me worried because it meant I was going to be forced to wear this gold plate and have a meeting with all the other Overlords of the five Continents while in it!
How terrible is that?!
"Prince, it looked way better on you then it did on….! I swear!" Wen said sensing my 'Blood Elf' was emerging with Jing trying to help.
"Yes, it's majestic on you!"
"…I'm not wearing this at the meeting!" I snarled as I slowly looked at everyone in the room who all started sweating heavily at the look at gave them.
-We once again censor the look that Prince gives. Thank you for your patience.-
"…Fine," Swan Beauty said, finally giving in as everyone in the room cowered behind her. "If you hate it that much, we'll just get a blacksmith to modify it…"
20 minutes later…
I stood before the full length mirror admiring my new armor change. I had literally dismantled that horrid piece of armor as well as a few others only to rebuild it under my own preferences.
It was open from my waist showing off my defined abs. The armor itself was a good combination of dark blues and purples with silver with a long black cloak attached to the back my shoulders.
Though my favorite part about my new armor was that I didn't have to wear a helmet, instead I wear an addition to my 'tiara' in a sense. I was wearing more of a crown now instead of a tiara.
It was also a lot heavier then I would have liked it, but as Swan Beauty wanted flamboyance then I was going to give it to her!
All in all, I quite liked how I looked, heck; even Swan Beauty was looking me over with approval as I turned towards her with a smug grin.
"At least you're pleased now." Swan Beauty said reluctantly as I chuckled at her before heading to my 'throne' room to show off how I looked.
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"How come the other Overlords haven't arrived yet?" I asked as I sat down on my throne to wait for all the Overlords to appear.
'For today's conference of the five Overlords of the Five Continents…' I thought in pleasure as I lazily slumped down on my throne and leaned a head on one fist. 'Well, technically it would have been the Five Continents, but the Flower Overlord of the Northern Continent's whereabouts were still unknown.'
'The Smiling Overlord of the Eastern Continent would never do any non-profit gaining activity, and the Southern Overlord—Undying Man—would forget about anything at the sight of a beauty, so the only thing that could be confirmed was that Wacko and Dan-Dan from the Western Continent would show up…if they didn't get distracted by any beautiful things, that is.' I thought, remembering what Loli had told me about them previously as I crossed my legs, being as royal as I could just please Swan Beauty and to mess around.
I was apparently doing a good job as Swan Beauty nodded in approval at the way I was presenting myself.
"Speak of the devil," Loli said as she walked in from the doors, smiling.
Raising an eyebrow, I opened my mouth to ask what she meant when I spotted Wacko and Dan-Dan right behind her, waving frantically at me.
A smile immediately spread across my face as I stood up from my throne and moved forward to welcome them when suddenly, my right foot slipped from the combination of my cloak, the small (and forgotten) step before the throne, and the heavy weight of my new armor that I wasn't used to.
So without further ado, I was sent flying into the floor with a loud thud.
"Wow! Even his falling pose looks so beautiful!" Dan-Dan praised while Wacko nodded enthusiastically in agreement by her side, both of them looking at me with admiration like usual.
Hearing that, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but when I looked up, I found that the majority of the people in the throne room were either trying to smother their laughter or gaping at me in shock.
Loli, on the other hand, was standing off to the side howling in laughter, not even caring of the later consequences which only got worst as I tried to get up with the heavy armor on me.
But eventually, ten minutes later, I finally managed to get to my feet to see more people laughing uncontrollably. Blushing, I explained, "This set of armor is really heavy, alright? So standing up after falling is really hard."
"Liege Lord… Oh my, I-I-I think I'm going to faint…" Swan Beauty said weakly, seemingly on the verge of collapsing, in shock at my image failing before one of the Overlords.
"Ha-ha, Swan Beauty, don't faint, don't be angered by a certain rotten wood and dirt wall," Loli said as she pretended to run dramatically to Swan Beauty's aid.
Ignoring Loli's actions (for now) I turned back to Dan-Dan and Wacko and said, Anyway, how have you two been? I hope as friends, you wouldn't go spread some strange rumors, right?"
Wacko immediately thumped his chest and promised, "Don't worry! My wife and I will definitely not say a word about this…"
"And in return, will you fall again just for me to see?" Dan-Dan added as both her and her husband looked at me pleadingly.
"…Let's discuss the assassin incident first," I answered instead as I held back my desire to roll my eyes at the odd pair and got down to business.
Frowning, Loli turned very serious and said, "Western Overlord, please describe the assassin situation on your side."
"Sure!" Wacko folded his arms and recalled, "We've encountered assassination attempts about two times. The first time was when my wife and I had just returned to Freedom City for a short while. As for what we were doing then, well—I've forgotten."
Dan-Dan immediately cut in and said, "At the time, we were both standing in front of the city gates, planning how to beautify them."
Looking enlightened, Wacko looked thankfully at his wife before continuing, "That's right. At that time, my wife and I were indeed wondering how to beautify our city gate. Actually, I felt that embedding some gems would do, but my wife felt that we should create a sense of natural beauty by coiling some tendrils on them instead, however—"
"Just the main points!" Both Loli and Swan Beauty shouted, veins pulsing, much to my amusement.
Wacko immediately snapped back to the main topic and continued, "Suddenly, someone asked me if I was the Freedom City's Overlord, and, of course, I replied yes. Then a glittering blade came straight at me. While I was dodging, I heard my wife screaming and when I looked, it almost scared the life out of me. There was another assassin attacking my wife. Luckily, due to my wife's fast reflexes, while dodging she summoned the Bloody Blade to fight against them. Speaking of which, my wife has always been so clever…"
Just about everyone in the room sighed toward the sky as if asking the gods, "Just how long would it take to finish hearing about this incident?!"; while I touch my mouth to stop me from laughing.
Luckily, Dan-Dan seemed to know her husband's habits too (or she could have sensed everyone's hostile auras) quickly picked up from where he left off.
"Let me tell it, hubby. That day, when I realized that someone was trying to assassinate my husband, I immediately heightened my senses. The ones who were attacking my husband should have already known that we are never separate from each other, so there couldn't be just one working on this mission. Indeed, just when I heightened my awareness, I sensed someone right behind me."
"Then, we realized that the two of them were alarmingly strong. As far as we know, people with that kind of skill on the Western Continent are all people whom we know. Hence, we found the situation to be very strange," Dan-Dan recalled carefully.
Scratching his head, embarrassed, Wacko added, "It wasn't that odd to me, I was really excited about fighting against them."
"I know the feeling," I said as a blood lustful sigh as I recalled all my assassin attempts.
At my words, Wacko brightened as he turned towards me, grinning, "I know, right? It gets your blood pumping like crazy!"
"Eh-hem!" Swan Beauty coughed to get our attention and Wacko and I looked over to see her, and several others, all tapping their feet in annoyance.
"I-i-in the end, though," Wacko quickly continued, sweating slightly, "The two of them ran away when my teammates heard the commotion and started rushing toward us. Their speed was amazingly fast, just like thieves, but their strength was equally good, just like a warrior's. I really can't figure out exactly what their class was."
"That's right!" I interrupted pointedly, snapping one of my fingers, causing several of my companions to glare at me thinking I was going to pull a Wacko, but I just grinned at them playfully as I continued, "The first assassination attempt on me, was by someone along those lines, 'speed faster than a thief, but with strength comparable to a warrior'. Very peculiar, wouldn't you say?"
"That should be impossible!" Loli said as she shook her head before explaining, "Theoretically, in order to have high speed, other skills must be sacrificed!"
"Could this be a bug in the system?" Someone asked worriedly sending a chain of whispers as everyone speculated.
"Or…something even worse?" Loli whispered gravely, immediately causing us to glance at each other worriedly.
"Maybe it isn't that bad." I said in comfort as I put an arm around Loli's shoulders and squeezed gently before adding to everyone, "Let's wait for now and discuss this more when the other Overlords arrive."
At my words, everyone relaxed and nodded in agreement.
"Have any of the other Overlords arrived yet?" I asked out loud and much to my surprise, Loli's face went of uneasiness to disgust in a manner of seconds.
"That Undying Man will definitely arrive," Loli muttered as she moved away from me.
"The Overlord of the South? The strongest warrior of Second Life?" I asked to make sure I knew who I was talking about before I added to test the waters, "He seems like a fellow I would like to meet him."
However, the moment I said that, a weird expression appeared on the faces of the three people before me, causing me to raise an inquiring eyebrow back at them for their looks so they explained.
"Undying Man's really more comparable to an undying cockroach." Loli stated bluntly causing a laugh to pop from me in response as Wacko continued, "I heard that he has sworn to never die. It is said that he once fought so much that even his intestines were falling out. However, he forced his way back to town by eating herbs with miniscule healing properties growing by the side of the road. He crawled his way back to town, across the entire city square, and back into the castle to find a cleric to heal him, all the while dragging his intestines."
Both of my eyebrows shot up at this new information as I looked from Loli to Wacko to Dan-Dan and back again in that order, trying to see if they were pulling my leg.
"I heard that he loves to propose to girls. It is said that he's been rejected over three thousand times. Doesn't he know that beautiful things can only be viewed from afar?" Dan-Dan shook her head and sighed.
I pressed a hand to my mouth to cover the smile of amusement at Dan-Dan's words.
'Been rejected over three thousand times?' I thought to myself in amusement, my math brain already kicking in. 'If my math is correct, then that would mean that he proposes at least 8-9 times a day.'
"He's a little desperate, don't you think?" I asked as I crossed my arms to look at the three who knew or knew of the ridiculous man.
"The last time I went to find him, I added another ten times to his record." Loli said through gritted teeth. "If I'd stayed for a few days longer, I probably would've made his record a record-breaking four thousand times!"
And that was the last straw as I started laughing whole heartedly as I bent over slapping my knee.
"Ha-ha-ha," I laughed as I slowly calmed down. "Hmm, now I really want to see how he looks like when he gets rejected! It just might be too funny to resist!"
"You'll soon get to see it, and you'll never want to see it again," A voice replied coldly from behind me and turning around, I saw Ming leaning lazily against the door, looking over his shoulder with a rather sneering expression.
Turning to face me, his expression changed to one of glee as he added, "And I'm here to announce that the Undying Overlord of the Southern Continent is already here, and he's currently in the midst of proposing to Yulian and Rose."
"And not Ice Phoenix as well?" I asked in amusement, knowing to answer already.
Ming smirked back at me as he said, "Sally was immediately claiming Ice Phoenix as his the second the Undying Overlord entered the room. I never knew that you could freeze someone with just one look!"
I chuckled fondly at that before sobering, eyes narrowing dangerously, "Why didn't Wolf-bro do anything?"
'Undying Man didn't even pass up Yulian?' I thought as feelings of protectiveness rose up for Yulian. 'Can't Wolf-bro even defend his own wife?'
"Before Wolf-bro could even react," Ming continued, unaware of my dark thoughts, "Yulian had already rejected him. And then—"
Before Ming could finish his sentence, a blood-curdling howl rang through the hall. "Oh g**! I've failed again! Oh g**! I've been rejected over four thousand times now! G**, why must you do this to me? Is giving me a girlfriend that hard? Let me tell you, I'll definitely get a girlfriend and show you! I'll prove to you that man can triumph over fate!"
"…That's him," Ming said crisply, pointing backwards with his thumb.
At the same time, in an extremely helpless voice, Yulian started urging him kindly, "Undying Overlord, this thing about proposing, please leave it till later. Would you please go to the hall now to meet our Liege Lord of Infinite City?"
"Anything you say, beautiful." said an extremely disgusting and toady voice.
"I feel that this person could stir up big trouble," I snarled, sternly, putting everyone in the room on edge as they all inched away from me slightly.
"Don't worry, he definitely couldn't cause as much trouble as our Liege Lord," Loli said grimly.
"I should hope not!" I said curtly, as I glanced at Loli before adding, "Imagine if there were two of me!"
The looks of horror on various face was enough for my answer at I turned towards the door to wait for this…this upstart of boy!
'You don't approach my sisters without my consent!' I snarled, eyes narrowed as I fought to urge to pace like a caged animal.
"My lord, the Overlord of the South has arrived." I heard Swan Beauty's voice announce before she led a bunch of people in. As for the person walking in front, I guessed he probably was the Overlord of the South.
'Overlord of the South?' I thought. I wonder if he's a super ugly person. You know, to propose three thousand times is not an easy task. Even if one closed his eyes and shot randomly three thousand times, one would eventually hit a few birds, right?
Hence, I concluded that unless he was so ugly that his looks would even scare the gods and the ghosts, to get this record of four thousand times that should be impossible to achieve.
So I started dissecting his looks even as I pushed down my protectiveness rage over my companions.
The man had a very muscular body…that's good, I suppose—although I didn't like muscular men, but I'm sure there are quite a number of girls who do.
He had a defined face…that's good, too; a very determined mouth, which seems to fit his features nicely and very handsome eyebrows.
Under the eyebrows though were… A pair of huge, sparkling, shoujo-manga style eyes that were even more astonishing than Doll's cute big eyes!
'This…' I thought in veiled disgust, fixing my feet firmly to the floor so I wouldn't leap away in disgust. As most of my friends knew, I'm not one that likes big and sparkly eyes (my baby sister, Doll's eyes excluded), but can you imagine, a tall and muscular manly man with a huge pair of eyes with long eyelashes from those shoujo-mangas? For those who have no such imagination, I will plainly telling you this…
IT'S UTTERLY DISGUSTING!
Making sure to keep my face blanked, I subtly glanced around the room to look at the others.
Wacko looked as if he'd stepped in a pile of poop while Dan-Dan stared with her eyes opened wide, her mouth opening and closing as though she was having difficulty breathing.
…Well, it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who's shocked and disgusted.
But all visitors were guests, even if I didn't want to treat them as such. So gathering up my aloofness, I faced the Undying Overlord waiting before me again.
The Undying Overlord was now looking at me blankly and when our eyes met, I politely flashed him a forced smile.
"What a beauty! No, you're a goddess; the most perfect angel in this whole world!" A look of craze and desire suddenly appeared in his eyes and he had a painful expression on his face.
After what seemed like he'd determined something, he started charging toward me with the horsepower of a train, slid across the floor, and kneeled before me. Then, a splendid red rose appeared in his hand as words of praise came pouring out of his mouth. The words came out so smoothly that it seemed that he'd already said them a thousand times… It should be a thousand times already indeed—'or should I say four thousand.' I thought with a lot of inward amusement as I stared down at the insane male with a blank face, waiting, just waiting for him to realize that I'm male in Second Life, not female.
A good five minutes pasted of this quite stupid man's words before, finally, someone who had been following behind Undying Overlord, slowly walked forward, stood beside the Overlord, placed a hand slowly on his shoulder, and said, bluntly, "Overlord, the person before you is male."
Undying Overlord's still blabbering mouth immediately snapped closed before his disgusting eyes slowly rose up to look at me as I stood there in place, staring at him.
But when I saw that look of disbelief in his eyes, I couldn't help myself as I sneered down at the man before saying, "You're quite stupid, aren't you? No wonder you can't get a girl if you don't know a guy from a girl."
At my words, two rivers of tears started streaming down his face before he actually started hitting his chest and cried hysterically, "How unfair! G**, even if you want to punish me, you don't have to be so cruel! Letting me meet the most beautiful woman in the world, and then telling me that she's actually a he!"
OK…now I'm mad!
Just as the man was about to continue, I seize his throat harshly with one hand before hauled him into my face to snarl coldly, "Listening to me and listen well, you disgusting fool."
"You're disgusting little pity party had just about been enough for me. I have met a more hideous man then you and I have yet to hear his utter a word of complain against his misfortunes." I said as I shook the Overlord cruelly even as the man looked at me in shock and horror at how furious I was.
"We have all gathered together here in my country to talk about more important things then you unable to be remotely civilized! So I recommend that you pick yourself from off the floor and show me that you're not a spineless piece of s***, but a refined Overlord, GOT IT?! I WILL NOT HAVE YOU ACTING THIS IN FRONT OF ME!"
At the last few words, I yelled it in his face before jerking him away from me before I straightened up and dusted my clothes off as I watched the Undying Overlord wiped away his tears and, in a composed and polite tone, said, "I'm so sorry for the inconvenience I might have imposed upon you. Allow me to introduce myself; I am Undying Man from the Southern Continent."
Everyone in the room stood gaping at the instantly transformation even Undying Man's companions were looking at me with admiration.
"Greeting to you, Undying Overlord," I said with just as politeness as the man. "I'm very honored to meet have you; I am Prince, Overlord of the Central Cont-"
However, halfway through introducing myself, Undying Man suddenly went haywire again and started charging like a bullet train toward Loli.
With tears of excitement streaming behind the man, he said, "I missed you to death, Lolidragon!"
"But I didn't miss you at all," Loli said bluntly, rolling her eyes before she then gave him a look as though she'd just seen food that'd been left outside for a month.
"Hey!" Ming's voice sounded from behind Undying Man. As Undying Man was turning around, a shadow immediately sent a flying kick toward him. In response, Undying Man gave a bellow before quickly dodging to the side.
The side of my mouth twitched as I stared with my eyes wide open, as did Ming as he withdrew his foot, which had landed square on Undying Man's face.
"That…I didn't mean to do that." Ming said hesitantly, embarrassed. "I just wanted to kick beside his ear to scare him a little; he was the one who went and moved and planted his face on my foot."
'From what I just saw, that seems about right…' I thought as I fought to keep my face straight and bust out in laughter like I wanted to.
"Why did you kick me?" Undying Man suddenly approached Ming with teary eyes. Ming appeared shocked and was forced to stare into those shoujo eyes, which were about a couple inches away from him.
Then, his whole body tensed up and he started foaming at the mouth, and then with a shudder, collapsed. Finally crawling into a corner, Ming started vomiting profusely.
'Not bad,' I thought in slightly amusement, pity and disgust. 'Ming knows that he shouldn't vomit right in the middle of the hall, though I do wish that he needed ant done it at all!'
"Hey, are you alright? Why are you vomiting like this?" Looking concerned, Undying Man walked to the corner and patted Ming lightly on his back only for poor Ming to turn around to face that pair of extremely horrifying eyes once again. Ming immediately covered his mouth with his right hand, crawled into another corner with his left, and started another earthshaking vomiting experience.
"Is he sick? Should we go to the pharmacy and get some medicine?" Undying Man asked while turning a pair of worried yet sparkling eyes on everyone.
"I'm not sick…" Ming replied sickly. Not daring to glance at Undying Man again, he said, "I just wanted to warn you not to get near my wife, Lolidragon, again."
"Who's your wife?!" Both Loli and Undying Man bellowed, one in rage and the other in shock.
"You, of course, Lolidragon," How amazing, even after vomiting so terribly, Ming could still assume a refined, handsome look and reply.
"Are you really his wife? Lolidragon?" Tears started, once again, pouring from Undying Man's eyes like running taps, causing me to twitch in annoyance.
"Of course not…" Loli started to say before looking at Undying Man's eyes where she immediately turned around and started regulating her breathing. With her back still to Undying Overlord, she pointed at Ming and said through gritted teeth, "I'd rather be Undying Man's wife than be the wife of someone like you."
"I don't believe you!" Ming said coldly. "I dare you to stare into his eyes for ten seconds!"
'…That's harsh.' I thought even as I noticed that everyone looked as though they felt it was an impossible task before the three of them started quarreling. There were cold and sarcastic tones, angry bellows, and little sobbing sounds…
"Do they even know what we should be doing right now?!" Swan Beauty asked, rubbing her temples with an annoyed expression.
"…Well, it seems to be that I actually do have the prestige an Overlord should possess," I said slowly still watching the still quarrelling Undying Overlord; I also added silently that I just might be the most professional.
"Please stop quarrelling, let's take care of important matters first," Swan Beauty urged Loli and Ming, an edge of desperation in her voice.
Settling back lazily onto my throne, I started wondering if the Overlord of the East would be equally interesting.
"I wonder what kind of person Winter Triumph will prove to be…" I said softly out loud as I rubbed my temples. "I wonder if he will be just as problematic as this one."
"I heard that he's a Pluto-maniac. I really want to compare our money making methods," Yulian said with anticipation, causing Wolf-bro, who was standing at the side, to give her a helpless look while I gave her a slightly exasperated look.
"Let's wait for the Overlord of the East to arrive before proceeding with the discussion. Is that okay with you?" I asked Wacko with a smile.
Wacko shrugged, smiled faintly before pointed at the still quarreling group, "No problem, it's not like we can't discuss anything right now anyway, not with that going on."
"True…" I said back slowly before my attention was caught elsewhere.
"The Overlord of the East has just arrived!" Zui's voice sounded from the door.
"Excellent!" Before I could speak, the person who I assumed was the Overlord of the East spoke.
"…Excuse me?" I asked as I stood up from my throne to watch a scholarly looking man enter the room.
"What a strong wall!" He praised as he walked in horizontally while touching the walls and said, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, this material, this coat of paint, everything is of top quality."
'The wall?' I asked myself as I continued to watch him, still trying to figure out his mental status at the moment when the scholarly man shouted again, "Beautiful!"
I raised an eyebrow as the scholarly man suddenly hugged a pillar on the side of the hall while scrutinizing and fingering the carvings on it gently. "Such beautiful carvings, I wonder how much it would cost to carve all this."
Finally looking at me, the scholarly man walked quickly toward me. With a glint in his eyes, he said, "How handsome and overpowering."
Finally getting when he was going on about, I stepped aside as Winter Triumph walked past me, heading for something behind me.
Turning around, I saw him hugging my throne tightly and muttering to himself, "If this throne costs less than one hundred gold coins, no, no, no, less than fifty gold coins, I'll have one made."
"It costs three thousand gold coins," I stated bluntly, feeling quite smug with the cost of my throne. It was very expensive to make, but will the large amounts of money coming in from me, Yulian didn't complain.
"What?" Winter Triumph shouted in disbelief and jumped away from the throne. "Too expensive! This is too expensive! How can it be so expensive?"
After muttering to himself for a while, Winter Triumph's eyes suddenly lit up as he looked toward me, but it wasn't me he was looking at. Oh, no! You see, readers, my new armor was very shiny!
Seriously, is this man a crow or something?!
I was proven right when he said, "That set of armor you're wearing can't be cheap, right? What a pity, because even though the defense level is high, it seriously hinders one's movement. One would be better off getting a set of armor that has low defense but has high agility. That way you could save money and be more efficient when it comes to fighting mobs."
"Better yet," he said with a strange look in his eye, "let's trade. The defense of this armor is not low, plus it provides ease of movement, allowing you to make your way swiftly around any battlefield!" Winter Triumph started profusely advertising his armor.
A cute young lady beside Winter Triumph rolled her eyes at him without any attempt at saving face and said, "Stupid brother, why do you want to trade with him? You're also an agile type, so what's the use in getting that heavy armor? Other than for show, it's practically useless."
"You idiot, can't you tell that it's made out of silver?" Lowering his voice, Winter Triumph whispered, "Do you know how many gold coins you can make from melting that thing? It is much more expensive than this set of armor."
"Oh!" the girl replied, looking enlightened.
"Are you interested in trading with me?" Winter Triumph asked, smiling politely.
"Stupid brother, they've already heard what you just said!" Making a wry face, the girl said, "He's not going to want to trade with you."
"Is this true?" the East Overlord exclaimed. After a moment, his plan uncovered, Winter Triumph laughed weakly.
"Quite!" I replied with a bitter smile as no one knew that I was planning on keeping this armor as to help me level up. That and I quite like how it looked on me!
"I'm the Overlord of the Eastern Continent, Winter Triumph. This is our first time meeting, and this is my sister Disi," Winter Triumph smiled as he finally introduced himself and his sister.
"I'm Prince from the Central Continent, pleased to meet you." I forced myself to say before I turned slightly to introduce Wacko and Dan-Dan next to me. "This is the Wandering Overlord of the West continent and his wife, Dan-Dan."
"Ah, it's the wandering couple. I've heard a lot about you both." Again, with a smile, Winter Triumph started chatting with Wacko.
"Excuse me," I said politely before I slammed my fist onto a table nearby creating a loud *BOOM* to ring through to room.
Instant silence was my answer.
"…Now that I have all three of you quarreling children's attention, I'd advice you all to calmly cease and decease with this pointless quarreling or I will be force to make you." I said coldly as Loli, Ming, and Undying Man nodded frantically, sweating bullets.
"Now then," I said to Winter Triumph. "That one over there, with tears pouring down like a tap, is the Overlord of the Southern Continent."
Just when Winter Triumph was about to reply, Disi suddenly cried out in alarm and pointed her finger directly toward the front of the room.
Both Winter Triumph and I stopped to look in the direction Disi was pointing only to see that she was pointing at Yulian who also looked extremely surprised for some reason.
Then, Winter Triumph gave a tiny "Ah."
Looking at their expressions, it was obvious that Yulian knew Winter Triumph and Disi so I just put all the pieces together.
Doll was the Princess of China in real life and Yulian apparently was some kind of servant to her and at the time when she found us had joined the group for the sack of protecting Doll, but that changed when she fell for Wolf-bro.
"Yulian, you know them?" Wolf-bro asked, surprised as he looked at her while Yulian seemed to be panicking.
Before Yulian could respond to Wolf-bro though, Disi had already rushed forward, grabbed Yulian's hands, and started shooting off words out of her mouth like bullets, "Yu, why did you resign without any warning? Everyone misses you so much! Hurry and come back to us, to the department. Life without you is like missing an arm."
"That's right. It got so busy that the amount of money earned has dropped too," Winter Triumph added with emotion.
"Re…really?" Yulian replied weakly.
Disi suddenly threw out a really baffling question, "I heard that the princess is on the Central Continent too. Yu, did you run into the princess here?"
Yulian did not reply and instead just stood there blankly. However, could see from Winter Triumph's frowning expression and Disi's look of understanding, that Yulian was using the private messaging channel.
"Yulian?" Wolf-bro asked again in a doubtful voice.
Surprised, Yulian immediately turned around and smiled at Wolf-bro. "They are my former colleagues."
"Then what is this about a princess?" Wolf-bro asked, frowning.
"About that…" Yulian's eyes started drifting away, not daring to meet Wolf-bro's eyes.
"About this princess that you guys keep going on about," I said as I crossed my arms as I heard Doll coming down the hall. "Don't you mean Doll?"
At my words four people whirled around to look at me shocked just as Doll came skipping into the hall where we were.
"Eh? Why are there so many people?" Doll asked excited before the smile faded from her face as she spotted Winter Triumph and Disi standing near Wolf-bro, Yulian, and I.
"…Oh…"
Chapter 48
I coughed twice to break the sudden silence as Winter Triumph and Disi instantly moved over to Doll only to kneel down before her where they stayed while everyone else in the hall stood gaping at the trio in shock which I couldn't fault as it was a little surprising to say the least.
"Would someone care to explain what exactly is going on?" I asked as I had gotten tired of the shocked silence.
"Ah! Nothing much, Prince-bro," Doll waved her hands frantically as she turned towards me, but I noticed that she was also using her eyes to warn the two people still kneeling on the floor.
"So, Winter Triumph, are you and your sister both Doll's citizens or something?" I asked as I shrugged casually, not really caring if they were or not.
"Her retainers!" corrected Disi as she looked up at me, displeased.
"Retainers?" Everyone surrounding them gasped, making me roll my eyes in annoyance.
"Of course," I said as I turned towards everyone while gesturing towards Doll.
"Doll here is a princess, so having retainers isn't that strange, is it?" I commented naturally, but when I looked up at everyone, I twitch in annoyance to see that Doll was staring at me with her eyes wide, as was the others who just about had their jaws on the floor.
"Wow, the radio station just announced a huge secret!" Ming whistled and I knew by his tone that he was criticized me.
"Nobody knew…?" I asked innocently after sending Ming a pointed glare for the comment.
Doll sighed softly, catching my attention, so I rolled my eyes before grabbing her gently on the arm before pulled her close to me.
"Doll, what's my name?" I asked her making sure that my voice was heard by everyone.
"…Prince. Why?" Doll asked confused, not getting what I was hinting at.
"Alright," I asked easily with a smile as it slowly dawned on her what I was doing. "And since I am known as Prince, consider you, Doll as my baby sister, what does that make you?"
"A princess!" Doll chirped happily and I grinned back at her as I ruffled her hair.
"Alright, you all heard me," I said as I turned back to everyone in the room. "So stop acting like idiots!"
"Oh, was that what Winter Triumph meant?"
"That surprised me for a second there." Several people mumbled to each other before they relaxed and went back to what they were doing before.
But personally knowing that Doll was actually a real princess and Winter Triumph and Disi were actually Doll's retainers, I hugged Doll closer to myself before smirking at them over her head to taunt them before I started playfully squeezing Doll's face much to Disi's horror.
"Unhand her Highness right this moment, you fiend!" Disi yelled as he leaped to her feet and yanked Doll away from me before blurting out the truth. "How dare a peasant like you touch Her Royal Highness in such a manner? You think that she's just a fake princess?! I'll have you know that Her Royal Highness is of the Royal Line in this country!"
Once again silence filled the room as everyone gaped at Disi now while Doll sighed in despair that her secret was now officially out.
"Nice one…idiot!" I mumbled as I slapped my forehead with my hand before sliding it down my face just as Disi realized what she had done.
"I really didn't say it on purpose, Your Highness! Please don't be angry with me!" Disi begged as she instantly released Doll and cowered at Doll's feet with her brother doing the same, but he was shooting disapproving glances at her.
Giving a rare, bitter smile, Doll replied, "It is fate, I guess. I just hope that no one will be angry with me for hiding my identity."
"Who would dare be angry with Her Highness?" Disi commented angrily, apparently forgetting that she was the one who had spilt the secret in the first place. "Her Highness didn't do it on purpose anyway. Does she have to reveal her identity as a princess to every single person she meets?"
"Disi, don't say anymore. Anyway, it's entirely my fault. Everyone, please forgive me," Doll said while looking toward the members of Odd Squad with eyes of regret and dismay.
"Rest at ease, Doll, no one's going to blame you." Ignoring the title of princess, Wolf-bro patted Doll on her head while smiling warmly.
But somehow, the smile on Doll's face seemed rather reluctant; her expression also looked rather lonely.
Then, feeling sorry for Doll, Loli walked forward and started comforting her, saying, "Don't worry, Doll. I understand how you feel, but don't worry. No one in Odd Squad is ever going to change their attitude toward you."
Hearing that, Doll's eyes actually turned red and she buried her head into Loli's chest, her shoulders shuddering.
I stood watching Loli and Doll with a soft smile which Doll say when she looked up and then over at me.
"Need you ask me if I'll treat you any different?" I asked her before I pinched her cheek.
"I seem to remember me tell you that I knew you were a real princess before." I said thoughtfully before I threaded my fingers through hers as I rested my forehead on hers.
"You're my baby sister here in Second Life and you'll always remain my baby sister." I whispered softly for Doll's ears alone, causing Doll to start crying once again.
"Now, now," I soothed as I cradled Doll and rocked her back and forth a few times. "Don't cry anymore, you're making Gui jealous you know."
"Wha-?" Doll asked in confusion, but upon turning to look at Gui, she did indeed find her glaring at her in jealousy.
Giggling at Gui who pouted at her before smiling, I could still tell that Doll still wasn't the right amount of happiness so I decided to use my final killing move. Shoving my hands into one of my many pouches, I quickly pulled out a bag of cookies; Doll's favorite.
"Here, Doll," I said getting her attention. "I'll give this bag of cookies to you, if you don't be sad anymore, deal?"
Seeing that, Doll froze though I could see the small trail of drool at the sight of the cookies. I looked at her in amusement before opening the bag of cookies, took one out, and held it next to Doll's mouth.
"You want me to feed you, right?" I teased as I leaned down next to her, grinning playfully at her. "Come on, say 'Ah'!"
Before Doll could even respond, Disi became instantly outraged and shouted at me as I turned slightly to looked at her blankly, "Do you think you're feeding a puppy or something!? Before you is our country's princess! Even if you're not going to kneel down, there's still certain etiquette by which you should abide—!"
Crunch!
Attack Successful! Prince has lost 25 HP!
A sharp sound rang out through the room as Doll took a bite of the cookie, but with it a good part of my fingers.
I calmly turned back to Doll, blinked at her before looking down at my right hand to ask, helplessly, "…Doll, did you have to bite my hand, too? Were your teeth trained or something? Their attack power is really high, and they made me lose a rather large amount of HP."
Finally letting go of my aching right hand, and after licking her lips to get the cookie crumbs off it, Doll said, "Iron Teeth. I've been training them every day with French baguettes. They are currently at level five with an attack of fifty."
"…well…" Was all I could say back as Wolf-bro healed me.
"Y-your Highness!?" Disi opened her mouth wide without holding back her shock and surprise, but one could see that she was suppressing the need to scream out, 'Your image, Your Highness!'
"Don't worry about it, Disi. Having to abide by the rules and etiquette of real life alone is tiring enough for Her Highness." Winter Triumph said as he looked rather unhappy about his sister's overreactions. "Rarely does she get a chance to play a game, so just let her relax."
"Brother's right about this—Ah! Your Highness, how can you behave in such a manner?" Halfway through agreeing, Disi suddenly noticed Doll crawling all over me like a monkey, searching. She had devoured the last bit of the cookies and was trying to discover any sign of food that I usually had hidden on me. Disi immediately overreacted and tried to correct Doll's behavior.
'She's just like Swan Beauty, except that Disi is more honest and frank compared to her.' I thought in amusement as I grabbed Doll around the middle so that she was dangling at my side before I pulled out another bag of her favorite cookies and handed it to Doll, much to Doll's delight and Disi's horror at the way I was treating my country's princess.
"So what are your sister's and your jobs under Doll?" I asked Winter Triumph curiously as I "ignored" Doll's continuous act of making funny faces at Disi from behind me as she ate her cookies while Disi continuously tried to correct Doll's behavior.
"We are in charge of the Finance Department. Living a life with money is the best life ever. Simply earning money during the day is unable to satisfy me anymore. Now that I can also earn money at night in Second Life, what could be better?" Just like a cat that caught the canary, Winter Triumph had an extremely satisfied look on his face.
'Indeed, they're all money-crazed,' I thought in amusement before I was pulled back by Loli.
"Haven't you noticed that there's something wrong with Yulian?" Loli asked in a whisper. I glanced at her in confused before I looked over toward Yulian to see what she was looking at Wolf-bro with eyes of remorse.
Seeing that I had finally noticed Yulian, Loli pressed on, "If Yulian used to be Doll's retainer, how could she not have recognized that Doll is the princess?"
"I'm afraid that what Yulian said before, that she joined us because she was touched by our squad's teamwork and friendship, was all just a lie. The real reason was because…"
"She saw Doll?" I finished when Loli paused her sentence.
"That's right!" Loli said firmly. "This is what Wolf-bro is questioning Yulian about just now."
Upon hearing this, my protectiveness instantly raised its head as I now looked at Yulian and Wolf-bro, worried.
"…Weren't you in that mess with Wu Qing and Undying Man?" I asked distractedly, keeping my eyes on Yulian despairing expression.
Giving an extremely despicable smile, she said after an evil laugh, "Feng Wu Qing, that jerk, kept telling me to look into Undying Man's eyes. I got annoyed so I grabbed hold of his face and banged him into Undying Man's face."
That caught my attention as I turned towards Loli with wide eyes before laughing as I asked, "Is the poor man still alive?"
But all Loli did was laughed grimly, giving me no reply.
"-So you falling in love with me were all a lie?" Wolf-bro's sudden words filled with pain yanked my attention from Loli back to Yulian and Wolf-bro.
"Not a lie. Wolf, my love for you is definitely true," Yulian said looking so anxious that she was near tears.
Closing his mouth, Wolf-bro remained silent and stared at Yulian with eyes filled with coldness.
"Wolf, I admit, the reason I joined Odd Squad initially was because of the princess. Her Majesty, Doll's mother, was worried that Doll might learn bad things in the game, and hence purposely asked me to follow Doll. That was my initial reason for joining this team." With eyes full of remorse, Yulian looked at Doll and me.
When our eyes met, I smiled and nodded at her with reassurance to Yulian, causing her to smiled back briefly before turned back to Wolf-bro.
Full of determination as she had my support behind her, Yulian pressed on, "But Wolf, I swear to whatever you wish, to you, to my heart, that I have never tricked your feelings. I really, really do love you, and every time I see you, my feelings for you just grow stronger. I love your gentleness, I love your considerate nature, I love your charisma, and I love how you're able to stay calm and cool-headed at all times. I love everything about you!"
I nodded along with her touching speech before I looked around to notice with a little amusement that everyone (single men) was staring at the two of them with expressions that could be referred to as "go die, go die" as I could see that all the single males were all envious of Wolf-bro.
While Wolf-bro, on the other hand, blushed (not that his fur on his face couldn't hide his blushing red cheeks) before stammered, "Yulian you, you…"
"Or will you take back the conversation we have had before concerning our online character and how we are in real life?" I asked coldly as I glared at Wolf-bro who paled slightly as the old Odd Squad remembered that certain conversation…
Yulian pressed on, "Ha-ha! You don't need to worry about stuff like this! In reality everyone is different from his or her online character!"
"Like me, in real life, I am not this docile!" Yulian said as she held up a fist and I couldn't help chuckling slightly.
"That's right, Prince! It's enough that you remain the same in the game." Wolf-bro said as he waved a hand at me. "What you're like in real life is of no importance!"
"Who Yulian is in real life has nothing to do with Second Life!" I snarled before Moved to stand next Yulian before adding bluntly, "And just for everyone's information, I knew that Yulian was only joining our group in the first place because of Doll!"
"So what's your response, Ugly Wolf?" I asked coldly as I glared up at him as he looked down at me surprised before looking from Yulian and back again.
"I'm sorry, Yulian. Even though I knew that if your reason for joining Odd Squad was fake, you didn't necessarily have to cheat my feelings; I still couldn't help, but suspect your feelings. I'm really just a stupid wolf; stupid enough to suspect your heart!"
Everyone heard Wolf-bro say before I noticed Loli hiding behind Wolf-bro's broad back, imitating his voice and talking.
"Lolidragon!" Wolf-bro yelped as he jumped to the side, embarrassed.
"I was just helping you convey your real feelings!" Loli said as she crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow at Wolf-bro before adding, "Wolf-bro, I'm sure that you can say these words to Yulian again yourself, can you now?"
"Come on, Wolf-bro, tell her!" I said causing Wolf-bro to whirl around to look at me embarrassed before others joined me.
"Are you a man or aren't you?"
"Spit it out!"
"Spill it! Spill it!"
More than a little embarrassed, Wolf-bro trembled before blurting out quite loudly, "YULIAN, WILL YOU MARRY ME?!"
Before closing his eyes, his face (and fur) bright red as he waited with his eyes clench shut for Yulian's response.
I huffed in exasperation at Wolf-bro's less than graceful plead for forgiveness of Yulian.
I glanced over my shoulder at Yulian before rolling my eyes, but I smiled as she eagerly moved passed me to say, "I will, Wolf!"
Although blushing, Yulian did not hesitate to jump straight into Wolf-bro's arms, hug him tightly, and not let go. At the same time, Wolf-bro hugged her back gently.
"Alright!" I yelled as I glomped the couple who looked at me in surprise. "Group hug!"
I laughed as the old Odd Squad joined me in hugging Wolf-bro and Yulian each giving their congrats.
"D-Does that really worked?" I heard Undying Man ask and I was sure that tears were starting to pour out again. "Then why is it that in the past when I was proposing with not only flowers, sweet talk, and even kneeling down, I still couldn't even get a girlfriend! Why is it that others only have to randomly throw out the sentence 'please marry me' and a beauty will marry them?! G**, you are so unfair to me!"
"….um…excuse me? Everyone?"
Blinking in confusion, I turned to see a confused Zui, Broken Sword, Wicked, and Gui entered the loud and messy room with Zui having asked the question.
"Just a question; has the conference not started yet?" Zui continued as he looked at the chaos in the room.
"The conference has yet to start, but the music for the wedding march has started playing already," I said in amusement as I moved towards them, picking up my long cloak as I went before I added with a snicker, "Makes me wonder if we will at all."
"The conference! Yes, the conference should have started a long time ago." Only realizing it now, Swan Beauty hurried all the overlords to their seats.
When everyone was finally in his or her position, the Conference of the Overlords finally began for real. After a deep breath, I started recounting my encounters with the assassins.
Mostly though, I spoke about the assassin I encountered in Infinite City and the other one in the tower with Zui and Wicked and how I believed that the ones who tried to assassinate Wacko, Dan-Dan, and me were definitely from the same party.
After my recounting, Wacko began describing his experiences…well actually, after many impatient death glares from everyone, most of the talking was done by Dan-Dan.
"Exactly the same," Undying Man immediately said after hearing our accounts. "It's the same situation as mine. I was nearly killed by that person. How dangerous. If I had been killed by him, could I, the Undying Overlord, still be considered undying?"
"But what reason do they have to kill us? Even if they kill us, at most we'll just drop a level. It can't affect our positions as overlords at all, and it's just not economically beneficial," Winter Triumph shook his head and complained.
"That's right, so what if they kill us? This is not the real world. They can't just kill us and seize our thrones," I said, furrowing my brow. "Originally, my general and I thought that the other party wanted to take over Second Life, and thus had to assassinate all of us. However, thinking back on it now, so what if they did kill us?"
"I do have a question. From what everyone has said, it seems that all four Overlords met the assassins around the same period of time. However, the type of assassin each met was the same. So is it possible that the assassins everyone met were the same two people?" Loli's question caught everyone's attention as everyone turned to look at her, "If it was the same people, then how did they manage to travel between four continents in such a short period of time? If they're not the same people, then since when were there so many anonymous elites in Second Life—especially now that all the suspected elites on the ranking board have been cleared of suspicion?"
Everyone remained silent after hearing that, even I leaned back in my seat to think it over.
From how everyone was furrowing their brows, I could tell that everyone had a lot of questions about this situation, but it was Wacko that finally asked the question that was on everyone's mind, "Why didn't the Flower Overlord come?"
"She and her five husbands can't be found anywhere, and the people in her city are looking for her as well," Ming replied, looking just as confused as we were.
"Maybe it's all her doing?" Undying Man curled his mouth with scorn before adding, "Only women would ever do such illogical things!"
"What did you say?!" Loli and majority of the women in the room shouted at the same time.
Undying Man immediately realized his slip and apologized with his big teary eyes, "Lolidragon, I'm not talking about you. You're the world's most logical, most clever, most beautiful—" as he jumped from his seat to go comfort Loli.
"Get away from me!" Loli yelped as she dashed around the table to get away from Undying Man.
"Sit down!" I snarled as I glared at Undying Man while pointing at his seat. The terrified man hurriedly did so.
"So the biggest suspect now is the Flower Overlord, who's not currently present?" Winter Triumph asked as I straightened my clothes and sat back down, all the while glaring at Undying Man.
"Although from what I heard, Flower Overlord is not one who craves power, but it's hard to say that none of her five husbands are—" But before Winter Triumph could finish, he was interrupted by a small commotion.
"It's definitely not the doings of the Northern Continent!" A group of raging people yelled as they rushed in. "It's because of a problem with the game Second Life itself."
Loli's face immediately turned dark from hearing that before she demanded, "And what do you mean by those words?"
The group of people shouted with rage, "There's definitely something wrong with Second Life!"
"And what evidence do you have? If you said those words without any evidence, you could get sued, you know that?" Loli shot back, making me look at her with slightly confusion.
'Why is she getting so upset about this?' I asked myself before I turned back to the group who had entered the Conference Hall. 'She inevitably has some feelings for the company. Is it because she's a hidden GM for the company?'
Seeing the tension, I immediately stood up to resolve the situation, "Now let's not fight. Let's just talk things out. Everyone is still unclear about everything, so there might be some misunderstandings here and there. Let's hear the whole story first."
Only after hearing my words, did everyone calmed down. Taking in a few deep breaths, the people from the Northern Continent slowly explained as they moved further into the Conference Hall, "We have already contacted Flower Overlord in the real world and she told us everything that has happened. Also, she has just passed it on to Second Life's game company.
"That day, Flower Overlord and her five husbands encountered five assassins. The assassins' power was beyond their expectations and they could barely handle them. Soon, all of them perished. It was not a big deal initially because, at worst, they would all just drop a level. However, that was not what happened. After dying, Flower Overlord and her husbands did not turn into white lights and resurrect in the city, but instead they got disconnected from the game!"
"'Disconnected from the game'?" Loli repeated with an anxious expression before asking nervously, "And what happens after they re-login?"
"There's no way to login to the game!" With a sorrowful expression, the people from the North Continent continued, "Flower Overlord and her five husbands… Their characters have all disappeared!"
"What?" Everyone present gasped in shocked, especially me as we all got to our feet.
'I had just narrowly escaped from being killed!' I thought as I gently rub my gut in remembrance of the pain. 'If I had been killed that time, then I too would have been…!'
"How…is that possible?" Loli said unbelieving.
"No matter if it's possible or not, it has occurred!" The citizens from Northern Continent shouted angrily.
After a moment of thought, Loli asked, "Didn't you say that Flower Overlord has told this to the game company already? What was their reply?"
"Still checking," They replied hostilely.
The expression on Loli's face could only be described as horrified as I moved towards her to put a hand on her shoulder.
If there was anyone from the game company here now, there would be an eight out of ten chance that he'd be caught by Loli and eaten alive.
Suddenly Loli rushed out anxiously, leaving a group of confused people behind, not including me, of course, as I already knew about her identity as a hidden GM as I guessed that she must have gone to discuss it with the company.
When she reached the door, Lolidragon turned around and yelled urgently, "I'll be back as soon as I can! Everyone be careful! You must not get yourself killed by the assassins!"
"Disappear?" Gui suddenly shouted with surprise as if just realizing what the newcomers were saying before he continued with his face as pale as a sheet, "So Prince nearly disappeared the last time he was attacked?! Then I'd never see Prince again!?"
"PRINCE-!" Gui started crying as he ran around in circles.
"Shut up!" I yelled, trying to get his attention over his loud crying which was joined Undying Man who was crying for Loli. "I'm still here, you moron!"
"The situation doesn't seem that simple; it might be something even more frightening," Zui said calmly, yet I could still see his anxiety toward the future.
"Second Life holds approximately ninety percent of the gaming market. If anything happens, things would go out of control." Winter Triumph said, looking rather disturbed.
"…Anyway, let's just protect ourselves till Loli get back with whatever information she gets her hands on about this." I said, sighing deeply.
Looking at my companions, I could not help, despite my encouraging words, but start worrying. If this character 'Prince' were to disappear, then what would I do?
…after all, 'Prince' had too many happy memories that I couldn't bear to let go of…
'What will happen to me if 'Prince' disappears forever?' I asked myself as I looked helpless around at all my precious companions and friends.
'Will I lose them?'
A/N: And that's it! Finally right? Lol :) Thanks for reading! R&R please and tell me what you think! :D
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