Volume 1, Chapter 13 – The Red-Haired Girl Named IllusionFeather

“Sister Xiaomu… just now, that was amazing…”

Even though she knew this was only a game world, thinking back to the battle that had just taken place still left Tianyin a little shaken.

“I was really, really worried just now…”

“Worried about me?”

Xingyu Muxi smiled, reaching out to gently run her fingers through Tianyin’s long silver hair.

“Well, anyway, everything turned out pretty much like I said it would, didn’t it, Xiaoyin?”

“Eh?”

A confused sound.

“I mean this leveling spot. See? There aren’t any other players around now, are there?”

“Um…”

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Tianyin looked around in confusion, and sure enough, just as Xingyu Muxi said, there was no one nearby…

No, that wasn’t quite right… there was still one person left.

A girl.

“H-hello…”

Feeling Tianyin’s gaze, the girl gave an awkward, stiff smile.

“Sister Xiaomu, do you know her?”

“Mm, she should be the one player Xuanyuan Alliance didn’t get around to chasing off earlier.”

Xingyu Muxi still remembered her, more precisely, she remembered the role that girl had played just moments ago.

Of course, Tianyin hadn’t paid much attention to that part.

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“Ah, h-hello… Lady Fairy…”

When she noticed Xingyu Muxi looking at her, the girl’s tone grew increasingly nervous and stammering.

“M-my name is IllusionFeather… Well, that’s my in-game ID. My real name is—”

“Mm, you don’t need to say your real name. Just your game ID is fine.”

Hearing that the girl named IllusionFeather seemed ready to reveal her real name, Xingyu Muxi interrupted her with mild exasperation.

“So, what is it you need? If it’s nothing important, I’m sorry, but I plan to take Xiaoyin to level up now.”

“Eh…”

IllusionFeather’s face showed a flash of panic, which quickly turned to nervousness.

“Lady Fairy, c-could you… could you maybe take me along too?”

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“Hmm? Why so suddenly?”

Xingyu Muxi was a bit puzzled. In this game’s system, while experience points were shared among party members, the efficiency of monster hunting often more than doubled, so grouping up was usually the better option.

However, the problem was that Xingyu Muxi’s attack power was so high that even if they grouped up, there wouldn’t be enough monsters for everyone.

And more importantly, Tianyin was an NPC.

Instinctively, Xingyu Muxi felt that revealing Tianyin’s true nature as an NPC would be an extremely unwise move.

So, when the girl asked to form a party, Xingyu Muxi had already decided on her answer.

“Um… I just want to follow in your footsteps, Lady Fairy. I hope that one day I can be strong like you and not get bullied by other guilds…”

Well, in every sense, that was a pretty normal reason.

Of course, being told something like that, Xingyu Muxi did feel that refusing outright might sound a bit harsh, but the risk of exposing Tianyin’s identity outweighed everything. So she made up her mind to reject Illusionfeather’s request to join them.

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“Sorry. Maybe another time. For now, I just want to focus on leveling up with my little sister.”

“Ah… I see… I’m really sorry for bothering you then…”

The girl’s expression showed clear disappointment, though she didn’t seem too crushed by the rejection.

Naturally, since she’d been turned down, there wasn’t much reason for her to stay any longer. So after saying goodbye to Xingyu Muxi and Tianyin, she crushed a Return Scroll and disappeared from the spot.

Of course, since this was the beginner’s area, the Return Scroll simply sent her back to the beginner’s village…

Finally, with the departure of the red-haired girl, the Red-Eyed Rabbit field was left with only two figures, Tianyin and Xingyu Muxi. No other players or NPCs remained.

“Well then, Xiaoyin, it’s finally starting, the road to your very first level up~”

Looking toward the nearby field, where a newly spawned rabbit hopped out, looking almost identical to a real-world rabbit, Xingyu Muxi’s lips curved into a beautiful smile.