translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
Zone six, Crusaders guild territory.
A group of figures flashed past the entrance, their steps hurried as they walked into the lobby.
The eight into four Creation Era World Cup guild ranking match had just ended.
The Crusaders guild had ultimately won the kill for Bruce the Death Hunter, and their total points ranked them first on the scoreboard. They’d also successfully secured a spot in the upcoming quarter finals game.
However, despite all this, there was no evidence of joy in the stances of these people who’d just returned from the competition server. On the contrary, the entire atmosphere was very solemn, and as everyone looked toward the two people walking at the front, they all fell into a cold silence.
“Fish God, shouldn’t you explain yourself a bit?” The guild leader of the Crusaders guild frowned. His expression was very displeased. “I can ignore the way you don’t normally participate in guild activities, but you suddenly took action like this today. It seems a bit inappropriate for you not to say anything on the way back, right?”
Gentle Fish finally chuckled briefly; the meaning behind the sound difficult to discern. “What should I say? Isn’t being number one in points enough of a fee for my silence?”
His attitude towards this particular guild leader had long become normal, and his response was as perfunctory as ever.
However, if one listened carefully, at this particular moment, there was a rare trace of impatience in his exceedingly mocking tone.
And it was precisely because they’d caught onto this faint trace of emotion that the other contestants exchanged glances with each other, and no one was ignorant enough to intervene between these two most influential members of the guild.
Army Breaking Overlord could naturally sense Gentle Fish’s impatience.
However, if one had to pick between this or remaining silent the whole way, being able to get a response was still a good result.
Gentle Fish relied on the popularity he’d accumulated in the game over the years to habitually disregard the current guild leader on a daily basis. However this time, in addition to his habitually disdainful attitude, there was an additional level of impatience for the first time.
Even Army Breaking Overlord himself couldn’t say where this distorted sense of pleasure came from. He was in a pretty good mood as he switched to an official attitude, “If it weren’t for the fact that we’re now number one in points, you would need to do more than just explain yourself. We clearly decided on a strategy prior to the match, yet you suddenly changed tactics during the competition, confusing everyone and causing anxiety. Was that appropriate? Fish God, although you are someone that the previous guild leader asked to stay with the guild and someone we also respect very much, the arena has never been a stage for anyone’s one-man show.”
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Gentle Fish used the ‘one click clear’ button several times in a row, but it wasn’t enough to handle this fierce army of friend requests. He frowned impatiently and simply selected the ‘refuse all friend requests’ option in the system settings.
The whole world finally quieted down.
And it was at this moment that he happened to hear Army Breaking Overlord’s last sentence.
Gentle Fish had a smile that wasn’t quite a smile on his face as he lifted his gaze and looked over, “The arena isn’t a stage for my one-man show? If we could qualify without this ‘show’, then of course, I’d be happy to remain idle.”
His attitude was overly straightforward and was just short of writing the words ‘you’re all too weak’ directly on his face.
Everyone present just felt that they’d been caught off guard and suddenly attacked. They instinctively covered their chests as their faces either grew darker or paled.
There were only a few gods in the game who could ignore these ranked high level players, but it just so happened that Gentle Fish was one of them.
Moreover, he already didn’t have much of a friendship with the people present, so there was naturally no need for him to maintain any kind of superficial cordiality.
Army Breaking Overlord’s expression was ugly. He gritted his teeth, “If you had been willing to obey commands, then we would definitely have qualified for the top four anyway!”
“Okay, okay, it’s my fault.” Gentle Fish nodded, then glanced at the mechanic beside him. His tone was heavy with insinuation, “Next time, I’ll try my best to convince myself that I must. Trust. The. Command.”
He glanced at the time after he spoke, then shoved his hands into his pants pockets and walked away without looking back, “There shouldn’t be anything else, right? In that case, I’m heading back to rest first. This competition was really very exhausting.”
Army Breaking Overlord remained silent while the others didn’t even dare move a single muscle.
Only a solitary green figure unhesitatingly rushed out of the crowd without paying any heed to their guild leader’s expression and quickly following behind Gentle Fish with a ‘whoosh’.
Gentle Fish had long heard the sound of footsteps approaching from behind.
He didn’t look back at all, and it wasn’t clear how he’d made the judgment, but he abruptly leaned to the side and calmly avoided the bear hug that flew towards him.
A rather aggrieved voice rang out, “Master, what are you dodging for? I just wanted to comfort you! Just look at how those people in the guild are getting more and more outrageous. During the strategy meeting, your plan was clearly better than theirs, yet they insisted on ganging up in order to exclude you.
“Now, there are such obvious problems in the arena. If you hadn’t made changes according to the circumstances to get number one in points for this game, we may not even have made it into the top four in the overall rankings. Yet now that things turned out well, there wasn’t even half a word of gratitude, and they even wanted to throw the blame on you. Acting cute after taking advantage; it’s like you owe them something!”
Gentle Fish didn’t even look at the youth dressed all in green behind him or even turn his head as he walked into the private lounge in their guild territory, “Oh, I really do owe them.”
“Psht. The person you owe is the former guild leader, not that damned Army Breaking Poop!”
Gentle Fish: “I still quite like the way they look at me like I’m an eyesore yet always need to ask me for help.”
The green youth had a game ID that was very suited to his image. He was called ‘Green Maniac’.
As Gentle Fish’s apprentice, at this moment, the longer he looked at his master’s indifferent attitude, the angrier he felt. “Say, what gives that Army Poop the right? What the hell gives him the right! Just because he has a management role in the guild, does that mean he can swagger around, flaunting his power?”
“Why else would he be like this? Hey, why don’t you go and get a guild leader position too?”
Gentle Fish sorted out the things in his backpack, then recalled that strange incident that occurred when he returned to the game server. He casually clicked open his friend list. “Regardless, it’ll be over soon. Per the contract that I agreed to with Old Yi, it’ll basically expire after this season’s league ends.”
“F*ck, you’re finally reaching the end of it! Master, where do you plan to go afterwards? Once you leave, I’ll follow you right away. I’ve disliked that Army Poop for a long time, and I can pretend he doesn’t exist as long as I don’t see him!” Green Maniac rubbed his chin and imagined a beautiful life after leaving the Crusaders guild. He couldn’t keep his entire mouth from curving upwards in happiness.
He delightedly daydreamed for a while. When he looked up again, he realized that Gentle Fish had stopped moving and remained motionless, as though someone had pressed a pause button on him.
Green Maniac blinked in confusion, “Master, what are you playing at? One, two, three, freeze? Do you need me to accompany you?”
Gentle Fish didn’t answer, but he finally started moving again.
As if he didn’t quite believe what he was seeing, he scrolled back and forth through his friend list from top to bottom, several times over.
Ultimately, he finally determined that a certain profile picture that he’d classified individually under the header ‘Heartbreak‘ was really missing.
The original 0/1 had now become 0/0. It was particularly eye-catching or rather, it was startling and shocking at the same time.
However, this was reality that he must accept––he’d only gone to the competition server and played a breakout match, yet the account on his friends list that he’d cherished and treasured for a full five years had simply. Disappeared. Just. Like. That. From his friends list?!
Gentle Fish once again fell into that frozen ‘paused’ state.
After a long time, he decided to contact customer service.
He soon received an official reply: [Hello, dear. We have already verified the issue that you submitted. It should be that the player themselves initiated the act of deleting friends, and there is no error with the system data. Dear, please face reality and consider whether or not you have previously committed any bad behavior that may have offended the other party! Dear, we are not sure if you are satisfied with our service this time, so please give a five star review, mwah! ~^_^~]
Gentle Fish: “.”
Mwah? He suspected that this customer service representative was mocking him.
In that short moment of time, a very subtle and uncertain emotion emerged in his heart.
Gentle Fish clicked open the friend search interface and entered a game ID: ‘Poisonous Milk’.
No one could’ve ever imagined that Fish God, who could command the wind and the clouds in the game, would one day feel his hands tremble when clicking the ‘confirm’ button.
It was clearly only a second of time, but it felt unprecedentedly long.
The system reply popped up: [Sorry, the ID you searched for does not exist.]
x: love this customer service representative~
awww he stored it under heartbreak. there,there your wife is hiding, you just need to find him again.
Poisonous Milk to Main Account…😂 Oh to be stored under heartbreak and to disappear after 5 years, I’m very curious how he will woo our MC xD
Thank u for the update!
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Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Love the customer service representative
Thanks for the chapter
Thank you for the chapter! I’m so happy that we finally get to meet Gentle Fish. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
😔😔😔 dont worry little fish, fate will lead you back to your “heartbreak”, can’t run forever!
thank u sm for the chapterrr 💗
Customer Service is brutal
I’m kind of curious, maybe Fish will leave the guild and join his ‘future’ sweetheart right?
Also, he was way too decisive looool.
I’m super interested in this novel, and I agree, it seems like it should be really popular!
Ohh~ Gentle little Fishies swims in Poisonous Milk