387. Raid (6)

You can say whatever you want to me.

But you can’t just single out Pinku Berry-ssi and say whatever you want – that’s something I absolutely cannot tolerate.

My mood was already shit because, based on the TOP 10, we’re currently in 8th place and haven’t even cleared the 1st floor.

But the first thing I hear when I come out is criticism of Pinku Berry?

Does he wanna die?

The talk about Pinku Berry-ssi has been ongoing. Pinku-yang said she wasn’t paying attention to it, but with so much being said, there’s no way she’s not bothered by it.

Pinku-yang told me last time that she felt a bit burdened being in the raid party selection, but I told her absolutely not.

Pinku-yang is already having a hard time, and you dare say such things when there are so many users watching?

I’d like to ask Anna-ssi to prevent that user from even logging into Leore, but if I do that, there’s a possibility of other stories coming out, so ignoring it is the answer, but I’m too annoyed to do that.

I just flipped off the reporter and returned to the guild house with the raid members.

Before logging out, we all gathered together, talked about today’s tries, and then logged out.

I want to stay in Leore, but I don’t know when I might get sick or feel unwell, so I logged out.

And my body is important, but I’m also worried about Pinku Berry-ssi.

Before leaving the virtual world, I contacted Pinku Berry-ssi and asked her to come to my room, and then I logged out of the virtual world as well.

,You’re worried, aren’t you?”

,Huh? I’m okay. I’m okay.”

I opened my mouth as soon as I saw Pinku Berry-ssi entering my room.

Pinku-yang said she was okay, but she said it in such a loud voice that everyone could hear in such a crowded place.

Even I would have felt uncomfortable, embarrassed, and ashamed.

As Pinku Berry-ssi approached me, I could see that her bright, retriever-like expression had darkened slightly.

In the virtual world, her clothes are so flashy and the lighting is so bright that it’s hard to see, but I tried to minimize the stimulation to my senses, so the lighting wasn’t bright and was subtle, so I could clearly see Pinku-yang’s expression.

I held out my arm to Pinku-yang.

Pinku-yang naturally hugged me and came up to sit on the bed.

,If it’s too hard… should we change it?”

I included Pinku-yang in my raid party because of my own selfishness.

In fact, continuing the raid party might have been difficult for Pinku-yang. Because there was such a big incident in the past.

She might have wanted a slow game life where she could chat or adventure with people she knew.

But now, instead of a slow life, she’s playing the game at the forefront, receiving attention from countless people.

,No, it’s okay. I’ll keep being here if Arang-ssi wants me to be.”

Pinku-yang shook her head, buried her nose in the crown of my head, and fiddled with my cat ears with her hands.

,Pinku-unni. I always say this, but you don’t have to live for me.”

Bae Ddeopgae-ssi is just next to me with a perverted hobby, but Pinku-yang is showing an obsession with me.

That obsession isn’t a bad obsession. It’s kind of like she thinks of me as herself, should I say?

Each of Pinku-yang’s actions is like she likes what I like, as if she’s projecting me.

It’s not that I feel bad about this. Like Bae Ddeopgae-ssi, she strictly keeps the line and never does anything that would make me feel bad.

That’s the problem.

Honestly, how can people live together without fighting?

Even if they’re close family members, there will be fightsㅡ

No. Come to think of it, there’s almost a 10-year age difference, so is it strange that there are fights…?

,Huh? Arang-ah, don’t worry. Unni is so happy right now? Of course, I felt a little bad about what that user said earlier, but I’m not too bothered by it. Sseu-eup… Hua…”

Pinku Berry-ssi is rubbing against my head as closely as possible.

It’s a really perverted sight, but I feel relieved that she’s just showing me that side of herself.

Yeah, relieve your stress like this.

By the way, how good does the smell of the crown of my head have to be for her to do this?

I slyly raised my arm, lowered my head, and smelled my armpit.

I get managed every day, so I didn’t really smell anything.

,I still don’t know.’

==

First Clear Run, Day 2.

After our raid party slept, our ranking dropped to 11th place.

But don’t worry.

We’re going to skyrocket this time.

I thought a lot about this 1st floor while sleeping.

And there’s one thing I thought of.

Maybe it’s because of me that we can’t clear the 1st floor? That’s what I thought.

Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense that we can’t clear the 1st floor.

Because we were in 1st place until the middle. But suddenly we get reversed in half a day?

That means there’s some condition in the middle that we haven’t achieved, but other raid parties have.

This is a similar case to the early raids.

The boss who transformed into Hasi-ssi Naro, with me being the last one left.

Like that, I think that because I’m showing an abnormal appearance, it’s flowing in a different way than other raid parties.

So, I decided to do it differently this time.

Give the warlock some leeway.

Until now, I’ve been pushing the warlock like crazy. But this time, I decided to give him some room to do something.

If this were a raid with gimmicks and patterns that are clearly defined like past raids, it would be a useless action, but I think this is an action that will work in the current raid.

The current raid boss thinks, judges, and acts like us.

,What are you thinking?”

The warlock tilted his head, seeing that our raid party’s method had changed.

I’m making it easier for the warlock to use magic. I’m enduring as much as possible with healing, shields, and my parrying.

When I looked at it, this 1st floor boss isn’t a boss that you can push with force.

,Arang-ah. Mana…”

,Pinku-unni. It’s okay. I’m pretending to be okay.”

,Okay…!”

I endured and endured like that.

Instead of attacking forcefully like yesterday, I defended steadily, not walking on a tightrope like the warlock said we were cockroaches.

,You cockroach-like bastardsㅡ!!!!”

The warlock shouts that we’re cockroaches again.

,I won’t let you set foot in this sacred space anymoreㅡ!”

The black mana that symbolizes the warlock began to ripple.

Kugugugung.

The ground is shaking.

,Wow… what is that.”

,Hieuk…”

Numerous corpses rose from the ground behind the warlock. I couldn’t see it in detail because it was mosaiced, but even if it was mosaiced, anyone could tell that it was a human corpse.

First of all, it’s a successful try just by seeing that.

As expected, the cockroach strategy was right.

The warlock, who unusually said the word cockroach a lot.

The warlock is quite uncomfortable with us being here.

Like cockroaches have entered his house.

I told the healers not to attack at all.

So that they can save even the mana they would use to attack and heal.

The mountain of corpses began to be vaporized into mana and absorbed into the warlock, and the warlock began to create a huge magic circle that he had never seen before with his 10 hands.

,I’ll stop itㅡ!”

Uncle Long Arms raised his shield and used his awakening skill at the forefront of our party.

In response, our healer’s shield and damage reduction buffs came in one after another.

,Die!!!”

Meteorites began to fall from the huge magic circle.

,Ooh…”

It was a similar awakening skill to the sorceress, but the meteorites were a little different.

The sorceress’s awakening skill meteorites were meteorites that could really be called meteorites, but the boss’s awakening skill wasn’t made of stone, but… meteorites that were mosaiced.

In other words, they combined corpses to make meteorites.

,I have to give it to the Leore design team.’

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!

It was a powerful attack, but even so, we blocked it without much damage with the knight’s awakening skill, the healer’s shield, and the various damage reduction buffs we got from the party synergyㅡ

,There’s still more!!!”

Uncle Long Arms realized the situation the fastest and shouted.

The meteorites that shattered as they attacked us.

If it was the sorceress’s awakening skill, it would have ended here, butㅡ

This isn’t just a meteorite, it’s a meteorite made up of corpses.

The meteorite debris scattered around us as it shattered.

The debris swelled up.

,Pinku-unni!!!”

,Eueueukㅡ!”

Pinku-yang urgently used a skill.

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!

==

The healer’s shield came in urgently, and the party wipe was barely prevented because there were buffs.

But the weak healer and ranged dealer died.

It’s a hopeless situation since the healer died, but it’s the first time we’ve come this far, and the knight can heal a little bit.

On top of that, the warrior also has a skill that restores his health, so it’s possible to make some progress here.

,Keueueukㅡ! You, you cockroach bastards….!!!!”

,Huh? Arang-ah, the boss’s health is going down?”

,Hoo. I guess this is the right way to do it. Maybe if we use not only the tank’s awakening skill but also the healer’s awakening skill in the last attack, we can withstand the corpse explosion?”

,Then shall we retry?”

,No. We don’t know what else will come out. Let’s check what comes out until we wipe.”

,Okay.”

From now on, it’s my time.

I smiled as I looked at the warlock who was holding his sword and panting.