"Big sister Gabriel is staying tonight? Yay!"
In the living room, learning Gabriel would stay overnight at Shin's house, Illya let out a happy shout.
Her reason for happiness was simple—Gabriel could play games with her, and compared to others at home, Gabriel's gaming skills could be considered quite outstanding.
After all, from long years of accumulated online gaming experience, even though online games and console games weren't the same track, this experience could still be somewhat useful.
"Really no sense of caution..."
Sitting beside Illya, Chloe's expression wasn't so happy—she watched Illya run to start the console, grab controllers, and come back, couldn't help sighing.
Although both Illya and she were very close in appearance and physique, clearly Illya's thought processes were still those of an 11-year-old girl, completely different from hers.
Chloe had already realized that Gabriel staying overnight meant another girl would be lying on Shin's bed tonight—these were all competitors!
Illya seemed to have no improper thoughts about Shin yet, at most just wanting to help Irisviel争取 gain more of Shin's affection, but Chloe's thoughts were different from Illya's.
Although fundamentally speaking they were the same person, whether age or experiences had forged completely different thoughts. Chloe was prepared to personally compete for Shin.
"Like this, competitors are becoming more and more numerous. I also need to find a way to make my move soon..."
Chloe took the controller Illya handed over, casually selecting her game character while thinking in her mind about how to act.
After all, Chloe was very clear that her biggest obstacle was her loli physique... Although there might be people who liked this, Chloe wasn't certain whether Shin would be interested.
However, no matter what, she definitely had no problem in terms of age. Even with a loli physique, she was still a legal loli and wouldn't back down.
Gabriel chose to stay overnight at Shin's house to prevent herself from forgetting the time playing games and accidentally staying up late again.
However, Shin didn't need to consider so much. After returning to his room, he still entered the familiar online game—just tonight, Gabriel would be unprecedentedly offline.
Zuke: "Healing Angel has something today and can't make it."
After entering the game, of course Shin first explained in the guild channel that Gabriel wouldn't be online today, lest guild members worry about Gabriel's situation.
However, after this message was sent out, it immediately received massive positive responses from guild members—everyone seemed shocked by Shin's statement.
Girl A: "Healing Angel won't be online today? Really? Is it the end of the world?"
Black Swordsman: "That person actually has a day when they won't be online at night. How could I have such a dream?"
SUN-LE: "How does Zuke know about this? Could Zuke and Healing Angel actually know each other offline?"
Jasper: "They probably exchanged contact info, right? Usually those two seem quite familiar too."
As expected, Shin's words immediately caused a huge stir. Gabriel, who usually unfailingly came online, was completely absent from the game today, making everyone feel it was incredible.
Of course, some attentive people noticed that although Gabriel wasn't online, Shin knew about this in advance and announced it in the game.
However, everyone just mentioned it casually without thinking there was any problem—after all, there's no rule that people playing online games can't know each other offline, right?
But probably because someone brought up this topic, the guild channel in-game suddenly began discussing offline matters.
Jasper: "Speaking of which, we've played games together so long but never actually met."
Black Swordsman: "Forget meeting, many people haven't even used voice chat. We can't even confirm the gender of who's on the other side."
Applico: "So are we holding an offline meetup? I see many game guilds occasionally hold such activities."
Girl A: "Oh? So meeting offline? I don't have any objections."
SUN-LE: "Meeting netizens should still be somewhat cautious... However, if the guild leader has this intention, I wouldn't oppose it."
Sure enough, the guild's topic quickly turned to offline meetups, and people were already starting to seek Shin's opinion.
Shin was this game guild's leader—although Shin basically never exercised any power as guild leader, everyone basically gathered based on interest.
However, because Shin was previously quite helpful in-game and had good gaming skills, everyone seemed to trust Shin fairly well.
If Shin was willing to hold a guild offline meetup, presumably quite a few people would respond.
Zuke: "Easier said than done... When an offline meetup actually happens, a whole bunch will definitely stand us up."
Black Swordsman: "Ah, well..."
Blank: "Everyone has their own lives after all."
Shin knew these guild members' situations well—don't look at how enthusiastically they discussed now, if there really was a gathering activity, plenty would stand them up.
Why did Shin care so much about Gabriel as a gaming teammate? Because Gabriel was one of the few players in this guild who wouldn't stand people up.
Zuke: "However, if you're really interested, it's not impossible. Any good meetup location recommendations?"
Of course, Shin actually didn't mind meeting these players, even sometimes feeling these players gave a very familiar feeling.
Just didn't know how many people would actually show up at the meetup.
Girl A: "Come to Saitama Prefecture! I have a good meetup location here!"
Seeing this message, Shin remembered that previously Girl A had contacted him, saying if he wanted to meet her, come to Saitama Prefecture.
Now it seemed she wasn't lying—moreover, she actually dared to meet offline, meaning her previous claim of being a girl wasn't deceptive either.
Soon, the guild members in-game made a decision—the meetup location would be in Saitama, though the meetup time needed further discussion.
Moreover, everyone suggested letting Shin, the guild leader, first go to Girl A's place to see whether the meetup location Girl A mentioned was actually suitable.
Zuke: "You really treat me like a workhorse..."
Although Shin was speechless about these guild members throwing work at him, in the end he still accepted.
To be continued…