Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 117

Naia

The place that was designated as Pandora’s mixer venue was a newly improved area.

There was no particularly strong monster there.

There was simply area boss and field boss added to there after the  large scale update. The area was chosen as venue because few players had  defeated the new enemies there.

The players would obtain job point and skill point from defeating the area boss and field boss there.

The number of boss defeated was also affecting the marriage system.

The merit to the partner would be greater the more boss the player had defeated.

Naia raised her favorite battle axe high above her head and swung it toward a monster while imagining her husband’s face.

The boss had a round body and eight thin hands. It received great damage from the axe’s attack.

The players around her who were participating in this mixer attacked the faltering boss.

Naia’s style was purely brute force.

Normally a player would feel fear when facing a boss or enemy with  huge body, but she never felt anything like that from the start.

She would boldly step forward and landed her attack.

Because of that, she often got called as berserker or the like by her acquaintances.

「Naia-san, nice attack~. Do your best~」

A player with support job was cheering her with a cute voice. But she herself wasn’t doing anything much.

Princess play.

It could be easily imagined that this particular player had played with such style until now.

Her party consisted of that support player and a male magician player.

And there was also another vanguard like her――.

「DORYAAAA!」

The player skillfully moved his great shield to deflect an attack  before steadily whittling down the enemy’s HP with his great sword.

It was an excellent player who served as tank that could also deal damage to the enemy.

He acted as a sturdy shield for the party that drew away the enemy from them.

If there was a problem, it was that his avatar was the unpopular orc, that was all.

(It’s easy to fight like this.)

Naia’s combat style required her to rush forward, so she was prepared to getting hit herself.

It was possible to deal with the enemy’s attack using player skill,  but something like dodging or blocking everything was impossible. Only  players from the clearing group could possibly do such thing.

The orc player Ponsuke lifted his great sword high above his head. Then it generated visual effect.

There was strong light and electric sparks that made crackling sound. It seemed to be an attack with very high attack power.

In fact that was true.

The attack of light swung down. The boss screamed while turning into red particles that vanished into thin air.

The battle was over. It was only then the player who seemed to  specialize in princess play casted healing magic to the whole party.

Naia thought 「Too late」 inside her heard, but she wasn’t so brusque that she would say it out loud.

(Aa, I’m getting stressed out. Perhaps I should invite a friend and go play.)

Of course, she was planning to play inside Pandora.

The magician approached Ponsuke.

「Ponsuke-san is really strong. Are you a clearer?」

Even Naia thought that Ponsuke had high player skill. She wouldn’t be  surprised if he was really a clearer with how well he moved.

Ponsuke put away his weapon while shaking his head.

「I’m not. I have experience with joining the clearing, but the actual  clearer is in a different world――they’re even more deviant than this.」

The support player lost interest when she saw Ponsuke denying that he was a clearer.

She checked her status screen to confirm the point that she just obtained.

Naia too placed her battle axe on her back and talked to Ponsuke.

Not many player had talked to Naia in this mixer because of the race  she was using. Her race wasn’t an unpopular race like orc, but as  expected her outside appearance was still problematic.

「You use your shield really well. My friend told me that it’s hard to get the hang of it. Are you a veteran player?」

Before Pandora’s popularity increased explosively.

There were veterans who had been playing this game ever since that time before this game had become so wildly famous.

It couldn’t be helped that she thought Ponsuke was such veteran.

「It has been almost a year since I started playing. I’m not a veteran.」

One year was a period of time when having player skill or not became important.

Someone who had played for that long would be participating in the clearing if they weren’t slow.

Though there were also many casual players who only had high level and nothing else.

(Aa, this person has talent.)

Naia was thinking like that.

From talking with him, she had the impression that he was a student from his atmosphere.

Surely, he was rich……someone who walking the same path of life like her husband, she arbitrarily thought.

(……How boring.)

Because of that, Naia’s assessment toward Ponsuke was lowering inside herself.

The support player said,

「Hey, let’s go to the next checkpoint already. Ah, Ai-chan also want  to say something, you see~, Ai-chan want the boss’s drop item~」

It seemed the boss had dropped a rare item.

The magician made a troubled expression.

But, Ponsuke――.

「It was Naia-san who landed the first hit. She was also the one who  dealt the most damage to the boss’s HP after that, so shouldn’t it go to  her?」

He ignored the adorable looking player who looked like an idol and thought to hand over the rare item to Naia.

The support player who was doing princess play looked dumbfounded.

「Eh? Ai-chan also want it though」

Ponsuke was calm.

He was making a face that seemed to say that he didn’t care about a person’s appearance.

「All of us want it but, it was Naia-san who contributed the most.」

The support player sulked.

Naia felt slightly refreshed.

(Is that cute avatar not to his taste? Well, it was amusing so whatever.)

Ponsuke and co headed to the next destination after that, but the support player [Ai] stopped helping out completely after that.

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It was five times in total.

Naia kept heading to the designated locations and did mixer in each  location. She somehow reached the goal with players who weren’t her  acquaintance like that.

Many players got fed up in the middle and ran away, so only two third of the participants remained in the end.

(Ai-chan who like princess play is still here.)

The conspicuous Ai was holding hand with a handsome looking male player.

It seemed that they had become couple, or rather they had found their marriage partner successfully.

Her partner was a high elf.

He was a guild master of his own guild.

It seemed the high elf’s guild wasn’t big, but it was active near the frontline.

It seemed the merit that Ai got from him was also big. She was hugging his arm as though to say that she would never let go.

(……Or rather, that girl really sounds fake. Is she a male? A GIRL  (Guy In Real Life)? My condolence handsome guy~. That girl is absolutely  a brat in his middle school or lower. She’s definitely cackling  inside.)

Not many player called out to Naia because of her appearance.

There were also some players who proposed marriage to her because  they wanted the merit that she could give, but some of them demanded her  to remake her avatar.

Naia refused them with no compromise.

(Even though appearance doesn’t matter in game. Haa, there are only idiots here.)

She didn’t know when it started, but now her days were filled with self-loathing that came from her stormy heart.

It was the proof that she had no leeway left in her life.

It was then.

「Ah, Naia-san.」

There was a player who called out to her.

It had become night. The guild that was hosting this mixer was preparing to do BBQ and campfire and many other fun activities.

「Aa, Ponsuke-kun.」

Naia called him with “-kun” suffix because he was a student. She forced a smile on her face.

Ponsuke looked completely like a monster when it was night like this.

「Thanks for everything today. What happened after that?」

Naia shook her head.

「I didn’t find the right partner. Well, I managed to make a friend though.」

She could only make one friend, not a marriage partner through this mixer.

Even so Naia thought that it was worth it to participate in this event.

「Anyway listen to this. There was this couple who are university  students and lovers IRL. Seeing them made me thought, why are you guys  here but……the girl found someone else to marry and they got into quarrel  because of that.」

The university student couple participated in this mixer to make fun of the other players.

Naia didn’t really care about them but, the girl then started saying that she wanted to marry with another male player.

It started when the girl was considering what kind of merit she would  be able to get from marrying――the color of her eyes changed when she  saw the number.

The male player was a veteran and in addition he was a key player.

The number of boss he had defeated, his login hour, they all far  surpassed the girl’s lover. In addition, he gave a lot of other benefits  as a veteran player. The girl said that she wanted to marry him no  matter what.

Her objective was the status benefit.

But, the veteran player also accepted.

It was the girl’s lover who wasn’t amused. He participated in this  mixer to make fun of other players, and yet at the end his lover  declared that she would marry another player.

But, at that time――.

『What’s your problem? This is only inside the game. It’s not like this is real life.』

――She said that and forced the marriage to happen.

(Just break up already you two)

Naia thought like that when she was watching it.

Ponsuke smiled wryly from hearing the story.

「That’s……a disaster wasn’t it?」

「Yes, it was a real disaster. What about you?」

Ponsuke had great player skill and he had also defeated a lot of  boss. The merit that someone would get from marrying him should be big.

「……It’s no good. Even after that area boss and some other enemies  showed up and the party got high spirited. But even though everyone  around me was getting it on with each other, I was the only one who kept  getting left out.」

Naia chucked inside her heart hearing Ponsuke’s failure.

「That’s too bad. I’m also troubled because I can’t find anyone.」

That was the truth.

There was no man who approached her because of her appearance.

Because of that she was isolated even in the barbeque event that was  her last chance. Ponsuke must be in the same shoes with her.

(Well, I guess I can at least be his conversation partner.)

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SOLOLY who was hired to be the cameraman of the event……was getting hanged.

He was literally getting tied up and hanged up by the guild members.

He was hanged upside down on a tree on the floating island. He was surrounded by the girls and being used as target.

「W-wait! You will understand if you listen to my story!」

「No use――arguing!」

The girls were firing at the hanged SOLOLY with rifles.

The bullets used were special rubber bullets that wouldn’t penetrate. However it was really painful.

「Ouch! That seriously hurt!」

A night passed after the mixer and SOLOLY returned back gleefully. The girls ambushed him in that moment.

The sleepy looking craftsman players had gone without sleep because  they were forced to create the device for SOLOLY’s punishment while they  were also having to build the guild base.

They didn’t have time to sleep in order to fulfill their quota.

Anri rested her large rifle on her shoulder.

「……SOLOLY, what’s the meaning of this?」

Vein was pulsing on her forehead. She looked like she could explode  anytime. She was holding a photo. It was something that got sent to  everyone in the friend list.

A player who married could send such postcard to announce their marriage.

It was a photo of wedding ceremony with the shrine as the background……Ponsuke and Naia’s figures were there.

Mariela was trembling fiercely. She picked up a bazooka that was prepared for this occasion.

「Unbelievable. This is unbelievable……of all people……this is unbelievable!」

She went crazy from Ponsuke’s marriage.

She also went crazy seeing the one who Ponsuke married.

She fired the bazooka at SOLOLY. Explosive sound resounded loudly to  the surrounding. But, nobody stopped working even when they heard that  sound.

Lighter only glanced briefly at their direction before he started checking the progress of the base’s construction again.

The expressionless Alfie picked up……a chainsaw.

It had a sinister appearance of a heinous object that was created for the sole purpose of hacking up the target.

The girls were surrounded by torture implements and various wicked looking tools.

「……To think that Ponsuke’s preference is like this……I need to remake  my avatar right away. No, I have to hack apart this guy first before  that. He will be able to get away if my level drop back to 1, so I have  to do it now.」

SOLOLY was screaming seriously.

「S-SOMEONE HELPPPPPP! YOU ORCS! SEE, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO GET BEATEN UP YOU KNOWWWWW!」

However the orcs were also helping with the construction while  pretending to not hear anything. Everyone ignored SOLOLY’s screaming.

The orcs were whispering from far away.

「That’s just not it.」

「How should I say it? Murderous intent. That’s pure murderous intent.」

「It’s fine even if there’s no love but, that is a little……or rather,  it’s even possible that they won’t do anything anymore if we get in  their way now.」

The sinister chainsaw was closing in at SOLOLY.

「Because you led Ponsuke astray」

The expressions of the girls were seriously dangerous. SOLOLY screamed loudly.

「I’m sorry! I was disappointed because I couldn’t watch the  bloodbath, so I got a bit mischievous! But, realize that Ponsuke-kun  searched for healing outside because you all can do something like this  without even batting an eyeeeeee!」

He wanted to see a bloodbath.

SOLOLY schemed this plan because he was the only one who wasn’t there  to see it, but he had never even considered the possibility of the  girls’ violence coming down on him.

He thought that it would happen to Ponsuke or the girl he married.

Noin picked up the photo and stared on the bride’s face.

「This……something like this」

The bride――Naia was a female “MInotaurus” that had the same monstrous  outside appearance like orc race. She had bull head that didn’t have  even a speck of moe in it.

The two only looked like a pair of monsters when they were lined up side by side like this.

They were a well-matched couple in a sense.

「I can’t accept thissssss! Normally you all should be rushing toward  Ponsuke-kun or his partner shouldn’t it!? I’m begging you please spare  me! I’ll do anythinggggggg!」

The girls’ hands stopped.

They lowered their weapons and talked to SOLOLY with very cold and low voice.

「You’ll do anything? Then fess up all the information about this woman. You hear me, everything.」

SOLOLY gulped. He thought that perhaps he had done something that couldn’t be taken back.

He also thought just for a little.

(Ponsuke-kun, sorry. This is far more dangerous than I imagined but……it’s a bit amusing.)

SOLOLY told the girls everything about Naia without hiding anything.

「――I guess, they’re doing honeymoon around this time. I think they’re at the resort area.」

Players would receive ticket to play around at the resort area after marrying.

SOLOLY heard from Ponsuke that they would use the ticket to go play there.

The girls instantly fully equipped themselves with their strongest equipments.

Full power right from the start. It was the birth of seven assassins who wouldn’t hold back at all.

Mariela walked toward the floating island’s portal. The other six followed behind her.

The seven were silently exuding jealousy, anger, and various other  dark feelings. The guild members who they passed by would scream 「Hih!」  before rushing away from their path.

SOLOLY was relieved because he had escaped danger.

「E-eh? I’m still tied up.」

He was still hanged on the tree.

Lighter walked toward such SOLOLY.

「Reflect on yourself over there you shithead.」

He said that and walked away. But before that, he fixed a signboard that was written with 『Reflecting』 on the ground.

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