Hi this is Benji Himura I am starting a new fanfic. I don't own Ragnarok online I also don't own the characters of that story or the plot; taking out the changes that I will make and the characters that I will create. I own Benji Himura and others characters that will show up in the story. It might be violence and sex in the story so if you are underage of seventeen are warned the content might be too improper to your age. Read by your own will and risk. In anyway enjoy the story.
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Chapter six: Guild issues
Benji leans back on his chair and sighs. 'I am tired…' Benji thinks looking at his glass of juice. "You look really tired Benji-taisho." Haruka commented casually. "Do you want a blow job?" 'It would be nice…' Benji thought absentminded. "What?!" he asked when the question finally sinks. "What did you said Haruka?!"
"I said that you really look tired and if you would like to take a bath." Haruka answered. "This castle has an outdoor bath for males too." Benji nods sighing inwardly, he pinches the bridge of his nose. 'I must be really tired to be hearing things like that.' "I will go take a bath now." He said standing up. "Then I am going to my room." Haruka nodded with a smile leaving the room with him.
While moving to the bathing room Benji fully misses Haruka clicking her tongue annoyed. After undressing and washing himself Benji soaks on the outdoor hot spring. 'I must be a wreck to be hearing things like that.' he thinks leaning his head on the edge of the pool and looking at the crescent moon. 'I mean it does have months since the last time that I got laid but this is a bit too much for my taste…'
'Let's see when Mana and Shina left I passed two months leveling by myself and not on the mood for it, I met Alexis and Isis one week after it completed two months that they left for that war. Since I met Alexis and Isis have been around one month making nearly three months with out it.' Benji idly calculated, he sighs loudly. 'I guess that I should either find a girlfriend or go to the pleasure district, I guess that the later is better I don't want a steady relation.'
"I can't have a steady relation…" he whispered scooping some water on his right hand. 'If it felt that bad when Mana and Shina went to the war if I ever return to my world it will be even worse because then I won't ever meet them.' Benji stands up and dries himself before dressing and moving to his room to try to get some sleep before the girls pester him in the morning.
One the next morning Benji is once again sleepily tanking for a handful of girls in the fourth level of Payon Dungeon. Alexis, Isis, Haruka and Sara are there too as well six more girls of lower levels. Alexis being by far the most aggressive of all the girls quickly reached level fifty and became a knight on the previous night.
One of the girls levels and while the others congratulate her a male swordsman that just warped there is pestering Benji after recognizing Benji. Stressed and moody because the lack of sleep and tiredness Benji punches the young swordsman hard before walking away cursing in at least four different languages.
Isis heals the young man. "I apologize for our leader he is a bit moody and he really hates when people ask to join our guild." She said in an apologetic tone and smile. "Feel lucky that he held back considerably because he is really strong." After healing the still stunned swordsman the group chases after Benji.
"Dammit!" Alexis shouted when their search bears no fruits. "He must be cloaked somewhere!" "Let's give him a bit of a break Alexis." Isis said to her friend with a smile. "You can tank for us after all you are a high level knight." And with those words Alexis is pressed to tank the others.
Not so far from there in one of the many ruined houses Benji watched everything. He sighs content when seeing the group moving away, he sits in the farthest corner from the door and pulls a poring doll from his inventory and places on the floor before lying down, resting his head on it tipping his sweet gent over his face thankful that the dungeon is dark enough to sleep.
A Sohee looks at Benji curiously. "You know that it is dangerous for you sleep here?" she asked casually, holding her sleeves over her mouth while she speaks. "Well the only aggressive monsters here are the Munaks and the Skeleton archers; both of them can't hit me." Benji replied looking at her with the corner of his eyes. "Since you aren't aggressive and normally monsters don't enter in the houses I am taking a nap here."
"You are out of your mind." She muttered in an annoyed tone. "Considering that I have around one hundred hours of sleep to catch up you might be right." Benji commented casually. "If you are around when I wake up see you in few hours."
Around ten hours later Benji wakes up from his nap, he looks at his watch that was hidden under many layers of cloth. "Already this late…well I should get going, it is way past lunch time." He commented looking around he notices that the Sohee is still in the house looking at him. "Still here?" he asked casually. "I thought that you would have wandered off by now."
"I am curious to see what would happen while you was sleeping." She replied in an arrogant tone. Benji packs the doll that he used as pillow and the sweet gent that he was using to cover his face. "You don't see many adventurers taking a nap in the middle of a dungeon right?" he asked casually. "Right." She answered looking at him. "They aren't that careless."
"You might be right." Benji commented rummaging thru his inventory. "Want one?" He offers to the Sohee a pet food; she looks suspicious at the offered food but accepts it and eats it demurely. "Apple juice?" Benji asked holding a bottle of apple juice; she nods and also takes the offered drink.
Benji pulls a meat and an apple juice and eats too. "So what made you begin talk to me?" he asked casually, he does know that normally monsters only say one sentence before attacking or say something when they are pets. "I just got curious about what you was doing." She replied after drinking some of the juice.
After eating Benji stands up and dusts his clothes. "Well it was nice talking to you." he said to the Sohee. "I got some sleep and because of that my mood improved a lot." Benji leaves the house and notices that the Sohee follows him. "Want to walk with me?" he asked casually.
"Don't flatter yourself." She said in an arrogant tone while hiding a blush with her sleeves. "I am just following you because I am curious to see what else you will do that will amuse me." Benji chuckles lightly. "I don't mind that." he commented. "You have a name?" she denies nodding sideways. "Not that I remember and if you want to call me of something give me a beautiful name." She replied.
"Tsugumi sounds good?" Benji asked casually while killing a skeleton archer. "It does." She replied hiding a smile with her sleeves. "If I am not wrong it is a name of a bird." Benji commented gathering the fallen items. "A bird…" Tsugumi whispered; she keeps following him while Benji moves out of the dungeon.
Benji isn't surprised in seeing Tsugumi wincing at the sunlight when they leave the cave; after all she was deep on the dungeon since she was born. It doesn't take too long before Alexis and the others find Benji on the opening in front of the dungeon, of course Alexis made sure of voice her displeasure at his disappearance. Benji isn't surprised with the fact that no one of his party noticed Tsugumi or even seem to care about it; those girls sometimes can't notice the obvious.
Much later in the that night everyone is moving to the baths, then the mass of girls that Benji's guild is composed of notices the Sohee and crowd around the monster making many questions to her and pampering the monster. "You are Master Benji's cute pet?!" A red haired archer asks to Tsugumi. Benji that is looking at everything with an amused smile pulls a silver knife of chastity from his pockets and holds with his left hand and shows to the Sohee waving it lightly, mouthing to her to say yes.
Benji can clearly see the heart emoticon from the monster when she set her eyes on the knife. "Yes I am." Tsugumi answered to the archer girl. The girls drag the pet to the bath with out much resistance from her. Half an hour later Tsugumi enters on Benji's bedroom with her hair lightly damp and looking refreshed.
"That was mostly enjoyable." She commented casually. "Back in the dungeon the water is cold." "Glad to hear that." Benji replied from his bed. "Anyway catch." Benji tosses the sheathed knife to the monster, Tsugumi hurriedly and a bit clumsily catches it on the air hugging against her chest. She let out a sigh of relief and rubs her cheeks against the knife.
"Now that makes you my pet officially." Benji said with a smile. An exclamation mark pops from the pet as the realization sinks in. "I am total idiot." She muttered slapping her own forehead. "I followed you out of the dungeon, at the food that you gave me and took the taming item. I don't believe on this."
Benji chuckles lightly. "You could at least say that I am not an idiot." Tsugumi says glaring at him. "You are just naïve." Benji says with a smile. "Better now?" "Yes." Tsugumi snapped sitting on the bed. "I can't believe on this. I am a pet now…" "Better fate than facing an adventurer." Benji commented. "True." Tsugumi replied. "So where I sleep? And if you say floor I will test the knife against you."
"Not that you would be able to do it anyway." Benji said with a teasingly tone. "And the bed is quite big you for sure can find a comfortable spot on it as long you don't steal my pillow." "I rather sleep on the floor." Tsugumi says in an aggressive tone. "Suit yourself; I am not going to get you a bed here until the morning." Benji replied lying on the bed. "There are extra pillows and blankets on the closet over there. Turn off the light when you are done."
The spirit tosses a glare at Benji before placing the knife on her waistband and picking the mentioned sleeping items. She arranges herself in the floor and turns of the lights of the room. After ten minutes tossing and turning she gets tired of the floor and with her pillow and blanket moves to the bed.
"Don't try anything funny." She warned in a cold voice. "Whatever." Benji replied from his side of the bed, the pet gets a good amount of space between her and Benji, thankfully the bed it was really big and have room for at the very least four more people sleep there comfortably.
On the next morning Benji finds Tsugumi actually sleeping over him. "This explains why was hard to breath." He muttered lifting the pet's legs from the bed lifting her back from his chest. Benji moves to the bathroom and begins to take his morning shower, he is aware that is the 'day off' from the guild and that means getting the high level members of the guild and expend all the day facing boss monsters and other monsters like that.
Putting on his assassin clothes Benji leaves getting his equipment, he meets the high level second job members of the guild in the dinning room or mess hall as some called it. Assigning the girls in two balanced and strong groups Benji adjusts the taxes on them, they all know that is guild's day, everything that they win will go towards the guild for the growth of the guild.
Layla the oldest knight of the guild walks to Benji as the other girls of her group prepare the needed items. "Taisho you have few minutes to spare?" she asked tapping the hilt of her sword, a signal that Benji learned that meant that she is worried and thinking hard about some serious issue.
"Yes." Benji answered. Layla nodded and pointed to a distant corner of the still quiet room. "I am worried about your health." She said when sure that no one was hearing them. "Not only me but Erika is also worried, you are very pale. It is getting noticeable since you formed this guild."
Erika was the oldest priestess of the guild, the one that healed him immediately after the battle against the Wasted Years. "I am working a lot recently." Benji commented running his right hand on his hair. "Tanking the members, fighting MVP, running the guild, I don't really have much of rest."
Benji chuckled bitterly. "The price of being an assassin level 95 and guild leader." Benji added. "We can take care of MVPs without your help once and a while." Layla said seriously. "We don't have any high level assassin other than me here." Benji replied. "Our thieves are still thieves and two of them want to be rogues."
"It is true but we have one strong level 89 knight and one battle priestess of level 90." Layla replied. "Not counting wizards, sages, hunters, a monk and an alchemist. We can deal with MVP. We are all well equipped and carded as you are. You need to take a break or you might get really hurt, you are our pillar of support and leader, if you are hurt the morale will fall drastically."
"But if I don't go battling the morale also falls greatly." Benji pointed out. "I know that a good part of the morale of the guild is based on the legend of my invulnerability and invincibility."
"The lower ranked and level members haven't seen the end of the fight." Layla said recalling the day of the liberation as they came to call the day of the creation of the guild. "But I saw that you nearly died there, if wasn't for the dancer you might have not survived. I saw how much damage you took."
"Makie came in a good time but I also had pots with me." Benji commented. "I tend to push my luck a lot I don't deny it." Layla sighed seeing that she won't be able to make Benji back away from the fight, it was part of the reason that everyone was so loyal, and they knew that he wouldn't leave them alone when needed.
Returning to the group Benji gives the final instructions to them. "Okay group B will go to Seal Beach." Benji says to them. "As usual focus on mobsters for the sapphires, gather a mob and fry them with area spells the same goes to seals and anything else that moves and gives loot."
"Ryokai!" Layla, one wizard and one sage, one priestess and two huntresses shouted. "Group A, we will be going to Nifflheim and kill everything that moves and isn't another adventurer." Benji continued. "Ryokai!" Erika, a second priestess, the monk, two wizards and the remaining two huntresses shouted as one.
"We return here at dusk or when we run out of supplies and our carriers are unable to carry anymore." Benji said looking at the two blacksmiths of the guild; each group would be taking one girl to carry the brunt of the loot. "Whatever happens first." The girls giggle at the addition; it was part of the tradition to say that, usually they have to return three times in a day to unload the carts and inventories.
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Benji leans tiredly against a rusted metal fence; Melissa the group's blacksmith is collecting the loot while Erika and Saya are casting sanctuary around the group to heal them. "My cart is nearly full." Melissa said after collecting the last of the loot.
"I am running low in gems." Saya announced. "Same here." Katia the wizard of lower level of the pair said.
"Erika cast a warp portal back to the guild." Benji said to the priestess. "We go there rest a little, unload the inventories and cart, get new supplied and get back here." "Okay." Erika said before casting the spell. One by one the members of the party enter in the portal and leave the dungeon.
Arriving in the closed armory Benji sees Melissa and the other members starting to store the loot in the depot. "Rest more." Erika said standing next to Benji. "You took the brunt of the damage today too." "Luring monsters isn't an each job." Benji commented pulling some juice from his pocket. "But we got some good loot; I am guessing two millions just on the past hours. And the guild gained few levels too."
"Still you are working too hard." Erika replied casting a heal on him. "Even with a darkness aligned armor you still took a lot of damage." "And because of that the others haven't taken much damage." Benji said with a smile. "It is the job of a meat shield." Erika sighed at his words.
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Hours later Benji drags himself to his room after a bath. All that he desired was his soft bed and hours of sleep. Erika and Layla were doing an awesome job in crowd control keeping the other guild members busy and not noticing that Benji isn't with there with them.
Haruka noticed that but remained in silence, those two girls were by far the strongest members of the guild not counting Benji, going against them meant going against now level 90 knight and priestess, she is only a level 63, she knows that she isn't strong enough.
After the dinner Erika and Layla makes sure that all the members are there, it was time for some internal changes in the organization of the guild, the leisure pace of the lower leveled members to level up was making things hard to the high level members.
"Attention!" Layla shouted getting the attention of everyone in the room. Makie also knew what was going to happen, she wasn't high enough to aid in the monster killing so she remained in the guild keeping the other girls busy with games and chores. "I want every one of you opening your guild charts and seeing how many members above level seventy five exist on this guild."
Confused the girls do so while not understanding the why. "There are only eight members of that level not counting our leader." Erika said seriously. "And our guild has a total of sixty seven members! It isn't enough high level members!" "More than twenty of you are bellow level sixty, twenty more are bellow fifty. We have two level thirty members and the remaining thirteen are between the levels sixty and seventy."
"And why that is important?" A swordswoman asked. "We were given a total of six months to get used to this castle and grow as a guild before this castle enters in the official War of Emperium circuit." Layla answered seriously. "When that happens other guilds will attack our castle, our home with the intent of stealing it from us. They won't be small guilds or guilds of low level; they will be some of the strongest guilds of Rune-Midgard. Guilds armed to the teeth; packed with an army of high level members ready to defeat us to steal this castle and take the treasures that this castle gives to us as well the dungeon bellow it."
"How long it has passed since we were given this castle?" Erika asked to the girls. There are whispers among the girls. "Two months." Alexis said looking at the priestess. "Exactly." Layla replied. "In two months our number grew but our strength hardly increased at all. I don't question our leader's recruiting methods, but you all aren't making the needed effort to level up and aid your fellow members. Most of you are only interested in being tanked and chatting with each other. What you think that it will happen if the war comes and you are still this weak?"
"And what you are doing about that?" A merchant asked. Erika puts her hand on her forehead and shakes her head in disgust. "He was so tired that haven't changed the taxes yet." Erika said. "Look at the members' taxation."
"He doesn't taxes us." The merchant said changing the page of the chart. "He doesn't taxes you girls." Erika said seriously. "But over eighty percent of his experience goes to the guild, same goes to his zenys. And today all us of the inner circle who normally get twenty percent of taxes volunteered to get a ninety percent tax to increase our guild's level. All that loot that we got today will be reverted in money for the guild to buy better items for us. You think that I bought this slotted tiara and the mistress card? It was borrowed to me by the guild so I would save money in gems the same with Marine and Bella."
"My doppel sword also came from the guild." Layla added. "Same with most of the equipment of every one of you, you think that it was free? This equipment is a show of trust of our leader, we work hard to show that we deserve that trust; we level up and aid every one of you so you can do the same. You want to know why none of you have level three or level four weapons with the extra slots or rare cards? Because you girls wouldn't use it right, sure doppel equipped weapons would really make life easier, but you ever worked hard enough to show that you can have one? A doppel card costs seven millions that when we find that cheap. Level three and four weapons with extra slots are at least five millions."
The crowd gasped in surprised. "Most of the money came from our leader's personal account, so everything that you use that was given by the guild cost him money. Did you contribute enough to have the right to have a rare weapon or card?" Erika asked to them. "We don't mean only giving money to help the guild." Makie added. "Experience, helping your companions to level up and donating items that you won't use so it can be given to a companion that can use it."
"This day off as we call it is nothing more as an excuse for us the high level guild members including our leader to go out to hunt MVPs or raid a dungeon for loot to sell." Erika continued. "While you all were resting and leisurely enjoying the day we were fighting non-stop to make out guild better. Any of you noticed how tired our leader is?"
"We did." Haruka, Ami, Alexis and Isis said stepping forward. "We aren't surprised." Layla said with a smile. "The four of you are prospective inner circle additions. But you aren't moving as fast as you could with all the help that our leader gives you, we and as we I mean Erika, Makie, Marine, Bella, Saya, Katia, Miura and me think that you could have been over level seventy five by now."
"But even noticing how tired he is none of you voluntaried help to ease his workload." Erika added. "I did." Haruka replied. "I do it every day; I try making him rest and take easy with the tasks." "We take notice of this." Makie said. "But if you leveled a little faster don't you think that it would ease some of the weight from his shoulders?"
"I am leveling as fast as I can." Haruka protested. "My life is his and I am doing my best to meet with his expectations. But unlike everyone else here just recently I started to fight, until two months ago I was level 1 novice!"
"That is true." Alexis and Isis backed up the mage girl. "We were the ones tanking her before this guild was formed; she started leveling in the same day that this guild was made."
"Then we apologize." Layla said. "You are indeed working very hard to level this much in such short time. But we don't see similar efforts in the others." "We are moving in a fast pace too." Alexis and Isis, now a priestess said. "But we agree that isn't fast enough considering what is coming."
"That is our point." Makie said. "We aren't with a good average level here; we can't face guilds with an average member level of 89. We only have four more months to get on a good level and gather good weapons and cards."
"Then why our leader doesn't trans?" An archer asked. "Because if he does that our guild will have to face guilds with transcendent classes." Layla answered. "And I don't believe that anyone here other than the inner circle can get there before the first battle, and I am not sure if we would be in a good level. So we can't transcend if our guild isn't on a good level."
"Our point is that we all have to work hard to get on high levels." Erika concluded. "We will change the locations and start going to Niff, Glast, Seal Beach and Turtle Island. Dividing in three groups we can separate the members in levels and get them on high levels in those areas because the large number of aggressive monsters and spawn rate."
"But it will be a bit troublesome since the width of the level variation as well the lack of healers in the ranks." Layla commented. "Anyway we can at least work with the prospective ones in a fast pace and move in a slightly slower one with the others until we can get them all in a level that they can mob by themselves at least in Glast."
"Of course you will be escorted by one or two high level members in case of a really large mob or any other difficulty but their role will be only supportive, aiding only in emergencies." Makie continued. "They won't be tanking or killing for you, only aiding in case of need, otherwise you won't climb on the level ladder."
"And our leader?" An acolyte asked. "We wanted to give him a much deserved time off." Erika, Layla and Makie answered as one. "Let him just walk around and rest a little, when was the last time that it happened?" Not even Haruka could answer that question.
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Benji wakes with Tsugumi shaking him. "What?" Benji asked to the pet. "Is lunch time." She replied. "How long you plan to sleep?" "Until I feel tired of sleeping." Benji answered grabbing the pet and using her as a pillow. Tsugumi flails and protests at the usage of her stomach as pillow and her legs of plushie but is unable to escape from Benji's strong arms.
Sighing defeated the Sohee settles in staying lying on the bed, it wasn't entirely bad, not that she would admit to anyone, but she also missed her master, she wondered if was related to her new status as cute pet.
A couple hours later Benji wakes and notices that his bed was warmer than the usual, it takes few moments for him to notice the disheveled Sohee that he was using as pillow. 'Okay I am still wearing pants which means that I haven't done that.' Benji said after a brief study of the situation. 'Then during our sleep after she tried to wake me earlier her robes got out of place.'
Pleased with the theory Benji adjusts the robes of his pet, taking a look at his watch; that since his arrival seemed to give him a large ordeal of bonuses depending of certain actions and daytimes. 'Well it is mid afternoon. I wasn't disturbed so something isn't right.' Benji thought while standing up and putting on his entire battle equipment including the ones in the inventory.
"What?" Tsugumi mumbled hearing the noises of some of his weapons inside the inventory, rubbing the sleep from her eyes she looks at Benji. "Got tired of sleeping?" She asked adjusting her robes again. "Yeah." Benji replied. "Why no one disturbed me?" "The silver haired knight made a meeting with everyone in the dinning hall and made alteration on the groups." The Sohee answered putting on her other robes and adornments. "They are now leveling up by themselves. The group that called themselves inner circle grew tired of seeing everyone else slacking off on their duties."
Benji sighed running his gloved hand on his hair. "Well it can't be helped." Benji commented. "Let's go eat something." Tsugumi nodded and follows Benji out of the room. 'It is a good thing; it means that the guild is growing stronger not only in strength but mentally.' Benji thought as walking to the dinning hall. 'Maybe is about time for me to let them work by themselves without me around. I really want to learn what happened to Mana and Shina.'
End of the chapter six:
I want to thank everyone who is reading this story and everyone who was waiting for the new chapters. I apologize for the lack of updates here, it seems that this story is seasonal since when I tried to write before it wasn't flowing and now that the summer is arriving here and is hot as hell the story began to flow better. Let's see if more chapters pop up in the incoming summer and heat.