Calm down. Calm down…
Eileen forced herself to calm down and carefully thought of a way to break out of the situation.
But the inn owner didn’t give her any time to think.
“Hurry up and open the door! Stop playing dead!”
The inn owner urged repeatedly, as if he was about to break the door down in the next second.
There was no choice. Eileen could only take things one step at a time.
She timidly opened the door and looked at the fierce-looking inn owner in front of her. She felt her whole body tense up.
If he threw a punch at her, she would probably cry for a long time…
“Boss, can you give me a few more days for the room fee? I promise I’ll pay it next week!”
Eileen said shamelessly.
The money she had on her was only enough for food. Where would she get money to pay the room fee?
“You said the same thing last week… Forget it. I’m not here to talk about that today. People from the Light Society are here looking for you.”
Upon hearing the three words “Light Society,” Eileen immediately became alert and was ready to run at any moment.
There was no other reason.
Previously, she had been set up by people from the Light Society. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gone to borrow money from them.
This Light Society sounded like some kind of legitimate organization, but in reality, it was a high-interest loan gang run by a bunch of local thugs and hooligans.
Relying on two D-rank adventurers, they crazily oppressed and harvested people like her—bottom-tier adventurers and ordinary civilians.
If this were anywhere else, two D-rank adventurers would be nothing more than roadside thugs.
But in a small city like Crisel, where there weren’t even many B-rank adventurers, they were existences that could leave people breathless under the pressure.
“Then… Boss, where are the Light Society people?”
Eileen didn’t see anyone.
“Here.”
The boss took two steps to the side.
Behind him was a shabbily dressed little loli.
Her height only reached the boss’s waist, and her figure was quite slim and small.
No wonder the boss could completely block her just by standing there.
“I won’t disturb you two. You guys take your time talking, okay?”
The boss found an excuse and directly slipped away.
He was just running a small inn. It was best not to provoke hooligans like the Light Society. Staying away was the best choice.
“Atia?”
Eileen recognized this little loli.
She had been present the last time she was set up by that bad woman from the Light Society.
“Don’t, don’t, Miss Beelzebub, p-please… please return the money. O-otherwise, our Light Society w-will not let you… off!”
Atia lowered her head and used almost all her strength to stammer out this sentence that seemed to be threatening her.
How cute.
There was a saying that went well: When you are weak enough, even getting angry looks like you’re acting spoiled.
Wasn’t this exactly describing Atia at this moment?
Based on her understanding of Atia, Atia seemed to have just joined the Light Society.
Looking at her like this, she didn’t seem like someone who was truly vicious or evil.
She was most likely tricked into joining.
Eileen was also somewhat surprised by Atia’s sudden appearance.
Did that bad woman look down on her?
Sending such a cute little thing to collect debt?
[Atia Knight has come to collect the debt. What is your choice?]
[A. Accept: I can’t pay the money right now, but going to the little room would allow me to earn some quick cash to tide me over.]
[B. Refuse: I won’t pay. What can you do to me? (Subsequently, the Light Society will send D-rank adventurers to have a deep ♂ exchange with you)]
[C. The Unimagined Path: Little cutie, do you want to play wrestling ♀ with big sis? (After raising affection to eighty, you can directly poach her)]
[Atia Knight’s current affection value is fifty (Passerby)]
Suddenly, an option box identical to the one in the game popped up in front of Eileen’s eyes.
After being dumbfounded for only two and a half seconds, Eileen immediately reacted.
This is a romancable character!
She didn’t even need to think about A and B. They were definitely not options.
One meant dealing with a bunch of burly men, the other also meant dealing with men on both sides. What was the difference?
As for C…
Eileen looked at Atia, whose height barely reached her chest, and asked politely, “Um… Atia, are you an adult?”
“Miss Beelzebub, w-what do you mean by that?!”
As soon as she finished speaking, Atia exploded like an angry little kitten, huffing and puffing. In one second, she transformed into a round-headed old man. “I am from the dwarf race! I just look short, I’m not a child! And I’m even older than you!”
Older than me?
Eileen recalled that when she created the character, she had set the age to eighteen.
If that was the case, didn’t that mean Atia was a legal loli?
What was she waiting for then?
“Atia, I didn’t mean to say you look like a child. I just purely didn’t want to commit a crime.”
“W-what do you mean?”
Atia was confused.
“According to the laws of the Navora Principality, pursuing an underage girl would be punished by death. I don’t want to lose my life because I fell in love with someone I shouldn’t love.”
After hearing Eileen’s explanation, Atia became even more confused.
“What do you mean by falling in love with someone I shouldn’t love and losing my life… Wait!”
Atia suddenly came to her senses. Her little face instantly turned red all the way to her ears. But she still asked in a confirming manner, “Miss Beelzebub, y-you… are you confessing to me right now?!”
“Looks like my little cutie isn’t stupid after all.”
Eileen smiled.
[Atia Knight’s affection has increased to seventy.]
It increased. It even went up by twenty points!
Eileen looked at the prompt and felt incredibly delighted in her heart.
She had never fought such a rich battle before!
She needed to know that in the past, when she was romancing those female characters who had rare items, affection would rise bit by bit.
The hardest one to romance, the imperial princess, had taken her a whole week to攻略.
To poach Atia, she only needed eighty affection points.
Now she was only ten points short.
Eileen decided to press the advantage while she had the momentum.
“Miss Beelzebub, y-you can’t do this! B-between girls… there can’t be any results!”
“Who said there has to be a result between us?”
Eileen directly reached out and, catching her off guard, pulled Atia into her embrace.
She slightly leaned down.
Their cheeks were so close that they could even clearly feel each other’s warm breaths.
“The secular world thinks we can’t be together, but after we’re together, why should we care about what the secular world thinks?”
Eileen was very confident in her appearance and figure.
After all, this was a character she had spent an entire day creating.
36D with long legs, beauty that surpassed even Yang Guifei.
Forget about men—even women couldn’t resist.
“T-t-t-t-this…”
Atia was already completely incoherent.
But her affection still hadn’t changed.
Not enough heat yet.
Time to turn up the intensity!
“Atia, I know you’re actually not a bad person. You must have been tricked by that bad woman Gillian into joining the Light Society, right? Don’t be afraid. From now on, just follow me. From now on, I’ll be your strongest support.”
[Atia Knight’s affection has increased to ninety.]
Whoa…
She used a bit too much force.
In the game, eighty affection was enough to unlock a close friend relationship.
At ninety affection, they could directly become lovers.
After maxing affection, they could even unlock marriage plotlines…
Of course, unlocking the marriage plotline meant she couldn’t romance other characters to obtain rare items.
So Eileen would usually become lovers at ninety affection, then after maxing the affection, find some reason to break up or unilaterally end the lover relationship and fly far away.
Why does this sound so much like something a scumbag girl would do?
However, these characters wouldn’t actively contact her or come looking for her, so she hadn’t really taken it to heart.
“But… but we don’t understand each other well enough yet. L-let’s start as friends first, o-okay, Miss Beelzebub… no, Miss Eileen?”
Atia twisted and turned in Eileen’s arms as she spoke.
Ninety affection really was different.
She even dared to directly call her by name now.
However, Atia’s request was exactly what she wanted.
She owed the Light Society money and naturally couldn’t stay in Crisel for long.
Once she saved up enough travel expenses, she planned to slip away.
At that time, parting ways with Atia wouldn’t bring her any psychological burden.
After all, she was no longer playing a game.
She had truly arrived in the world of the game.
The person standing in front of her was no longer a bunch of data that followed its settings.
She was a living, breathing person.