Middle School Girls.

You really gotta play RPG games together.

Everyone’s probably experienced it a few times.

Even if it’s a really fun game and you enjoy it, if you’re alone, there are times when you just give up on it.

Even if it’s not that fun or addictive, if you have friends to play with, you’ll play it for a long time.

That’s how important friends are in games.

But I was worried because I hadn’t been playing LORE with the kids for a long time.

Usually, when the central person who leads the game disappears, it naturally falls apart.

There’s no one to gather people, and instead of playing the game together, you just log in and play alone in a game you don’t know anything about? And in a game with lots of people, not a single-player game? That’s really tough.

But it turns out that even though I wasn’t there, they were still playing LORE with Nakyeong-nunim.

As someone who recruited them into LORE, I feel so proud.

We all ate lunch together and then went back to our respective homes, where we met again in LORE.

,Everyone, welcome~ Good job on the exams.”

Baedeopgae welcomes the middle school girls.

,Huh…?”

,Who are you?”

,Are you a new guild member?”

The kids don’t recognize Baedeopgae.

,It’s me! It’s me, Baedeopgae! Can’t you see the nickname above!”

,… Eh?”

,Eyy… that’s a bit much for a joke. Did that pervert unni force you to do it?”

I can understand the kids’ reaction.

After marrying me, she put aside the black leotard avatar she always wore and is now wearing the wedding avatar she wore when we got married.

When we got married, the exams were really close, so the kids couldn’t log into LORE and didn’t see it.

I’ve seen a lot of screenshots of me in my wedding outfit, but I haven’t seen any of Baedeopgae’s, so it’s understandable that they wouldn’t know.

Moreover, she always wore a black mask to maintain her assassin concept, so this is probably the first time they’re seeing Baedeopgae’s bare face.

I also saw Baedeopgae’s bare face for the first time at our wedding in LORE.

,No way, is that really the pervert unni!?”

,Daebak! So pretty!”

,Wow… seriously, just changing one avatar makes you look this different…?”

Sseudek.

The middle school girls flock to Baedeopgae, and my bodyguard nunim approaches me from behind.

,Arang-nim.”

,Unni, welcome! Welcome to LORE.”

Unlike the middle school girls, bodyguard Nakyeong-nunim’s face has changed a lot.

,Unni, your face is so different? I think you looked prettier before.”

,I do go to school, but the guideline is to minimize exposing my face.”

,Ah…”

Come to think of it, she’s always been by my side, giving me arm pillows and helping me, like a maid, so I forgot again.

The fact that Nakyeong-nunim is an elite mercenary from the world’s largest military corporation, Mars.

And that person is attending middle school. It’s absurd just thinking about it.

Even though it’s the future, a bodyguard who goes to middle school with you.

In reality, Nakyeong had the look of a fox, a cold and sharp ice princess, but now in LORE, she’s become round and soft, not just a fox but a desert fox, a socially awkward person with poor communication skills.

The difference between LORE and reality is big, but her non-verbal gestures and tone of voice said it was Nakyeong.

Nakyeong’s nickname was Yena, which was completely different from her name, Nakyeong.

,Um… is it okay if I hug you?”

Nakyeong carefully asks while I’m admiring her LORE appearance.

,Right. She really liked the maid cat screenshot last time, didn’t she?’

I nodded in agreement.

Nakyeong carefully lifted me up and hugged me, slowly stroking my cat ears.

==

-Wow, is Arang going to turn on the broadcast?

-Let’s gooooooooooooo

-Kkiyoyoyoyoooooooot

-Wait a minute, something feels uneasy?

-What, Arang’s turning on the broadcast?

-No, emergency.

-Shibal, we’re screwed. I don’t think this is just a broadcast?

-????????????

-Why isn’t anyone saying anything????

Arang is someone who doesn’t turn on the broadcast if possible.

Arang is the only one who doesn’t turn on the broadcast even during raid tries.

There are only three cases where Arang appears on broadcast.

The first is the broadcast of Yesol, the current streamer in charge of the Munchkin Cat Guild.

The second is the broadcast of Reina, the guild leader of the Mead Guild.

The third is Kang Han-gil’s broadcast, where he occasionally comes out and hangs out.

Except for these three cases, he doesn’t appear on broadcast.

That’s not to say that Arang has never turned on the broadcast.

He has turned on the broadcast a few times, but the problem is that all of those broadcasts had incidents happen.

So everyone wants Arang to turn on the broadcast, but they also don’t want him to turn it on.

Because whenever he turns it on, there are a lot of heart-stopping things that happen.

But today, suddenly, without any notice, the broadcast was turned on.

A black screen broadcast. A broadcast with no words.

It didn’t take long for viewers who were happy that Arang turned on the broadcast to become uneasy.

-???????

-No way?

-What? What’s really going on?

-Why did you turn on the broadcast?

-This is okay, right?

-Pinku, Yesol, none of them had broadcast announcements? What’s going on?

-Reina, Kang Han-gil, no announcements either?

-????????????????

,Aaa. Aaa. Can everyone hear me?”

Just as the anxiety was about to grow endlessly, Arang’s voice was heard, and Arang’s figure appeared on the pitch-black screen.

,Um. Okay. I’m not really doing a broadcast, it’s a CCTV broadcast again. I won’t be reading the chat or donations, so keep that in mind.”

With those words, the broadcast screen moved to the middle school girl party.

-???????

-Phew, thank goodness. It’s just a CCTV broadcast

-But didn’t you usually do this on Yesol’s broadcast??

-Yeah, I guess?

-But isn’t it 2 PM right now? Isn’t it still school time?

-It’s exam period right now

-Ah, that’s right

-But Arang isn’t in the party?

-???? Who’s Yena???

-Could it be a new middle school girl?

Arang was about to leave the broadcast like a CCTV, but then he thought that if Nakyeong went in instead of him, people might misunderstand again, so he opened his mouth.

,This time, a new middle school girl came in instead of me…”

The moment he was about to speak, he realized that he had to lie.

The fact that she’s a woman in her mid-20s, but she’s hiding her age and living as a 16-year-old, Nakyeong.

But since he couldn’t honestly say that, Arang just said that she’s a middle school girl in the same class and a very close friend.

He explained that he’s been busy with raids and subjugation battles, so he found someone to play with separately, and he would only help if they didn’t know something or had something difficult.

-Well, Arang does miss a lot of times

-He’s been missing for over a week because of the try this time

-Even if newbies do it, it’s okay because they have a strong backing

Arang moved the broadcast settings screen and the chat to the side and began to watch the middle school girl party.

==

The last time I saw them, they were level 30, but they must have worked hard while I was gone, because they were all level 50 before I knew it.

They’ve also done their second job advancements, and their understanding of their jobs has increased, so they’re clearing dungeons quite cleanly.

It’s been over a month since they started LORE, but their actual playtime hasn’t been that long.

Since they’re students who have to go to school and academies and take exams, they can’t play the game for long, but if they’re already this good, their future is quite reliable.

,But Nakyeong is definitely ridiculously good. Her physical skills are really the best.”

,Yeah. I thought she’d be good at LORE, but I didn’t know she’d be this good.”

Since it’s a CCTV broadcast, only the voices of the middle school girl party are broadcast, so Baedeopgae and I talked about Nakyeong comfortably.

Baedeopgae also comes over to my house often, so she naturally learned about Nakyeong.

So Baedeopgae was also curious about how well Nakyeong would do in LORE.

And the result was so impressive that it made me admire her.

,Is that what they call talent… it’s scary, scary.”

I was a little speechless at Baedeopgae’s words.

Isn’t Baedeopgae the one with more talent? I thought.

Even though she’s doing track and field, there must be a lot of people with good physical skills all over the world, but she’s surpassing those people and is ranked 1st as Grim Reaper, and she’s saying those words?

Of course, it’s PVE, not PVP, but even so, Baedeopgae has a really crazy talent.

In the first place, the percentage of women in the top ranks on the LORE Log site is really miserable.

The physical difference divided by gender is basically unavoidable.

But she’s still ranked 1st as Grim Reaper, so that says it all.

Of course, I’m also a case where talent overflows.

,Oops, I was thinking for too long.’

I started to focus on watching the middle school girl party again.

,Middle school girls are the best.’

In LORE, where the percentage of women is low, if you go to a dungeon with random matching, you usually end up going with gloomy guys.

So seeing the big, pretty middle school girls clearing dungeons while making cute shouts of encouragement made me smile involuntarily.

What’s even better is that they’re not bad, they’re doing well.

[Euaaak!?]

[Omeya!]

,Puhut!”

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Ah, if you don’t know the strategy, you can’t help but get hit

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ So funny

-ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The newbie moments they show in between, since they’re still newbies, made me laugh out loud.

And there’s something that I, Baedeopgae, and the viewers are all looking forward to.

That’s because this dungeon is the first dungeon in LORE to have a defense reduction debuff.

If you get hit by the defense reduction debuff, your armor will be destroyed…!