Han Qingyu didn’t mind others using “Blood Gourd Boy” to refer to Instructor Lao. After all, the nickname had started with him and spread from there.

For him to be called “Eldest Gourd,” though… 

That implied a ranking. If there were an eldest, then there was almost certainly a second eldest, and who would that be?

Sometimes, self-awareness was a truly annoying thing to have.

“You don’t need to feel too bad about it, Plague Chicken. You did contribute last night,” Han Qingyu said, changing the subject with jarring abruptness. “You drew two ape-men and over a dozen people away from us. Sure, you can’t cut people down like an A-ranker, but at least you can take a beating like one.”

Laughter broke out.

When it came down to it, the most decisive figure in last night’s...