translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
Green Maniac noticed his master’s wavering appearance and inquired weakly, “Are you finally unable to stand Army Poop any longer? How about we look for a chance to mess with him?”
Gentle Fish glanced at him, “How do you send a bad customer service review?”
Green Maniac: “?”
Gentle Fish: “… Never mind.”
He rubbed his temples gently, and his gaze landed on the system notification that indicated an ID error. His fingertips gradually slid down the sharp contours of his face, and then he slowly buried his face in his palm.
Suddenly, he burst out laughing.
To proactively delete him off his friends list and even change his game ID.
Very good. Did this mean he was finally willing to come back?
This wave of bandit-like operations was performed very beautifully.
Although Gentle Fish didn’t speak, Green Maniac inexplicably felt a chill sneaking up from behind him, and his tone gradually grew even weaker, “Master? Don’t show this kind of expression… I’m scared.”
A long time later, Gentle Fish had finally laughed enough. He closed his friends list and cast his gaze over, “What expression?”
Green Maniac: “With one glance, it looks like someone is going to be unlucky… that kind of terrible expression.”
Gentle Fish: “Why can’t it mean that someone will be lucky?”
Green Maniac looked at the ceiling.
He didn’t want to talk about things that weren’t possible.
Gentle Fish’s emotions were a bit complex at the moment, but overall, he was still in quite a good mood. At this time, he showed a rare humble attitude, “Hey, Greenie.”
Green Maniac subconsciously straightened his back, “Master, please speak!”
Gentle Fish thought for a while, “Say… if one day you deleted me off your friend list, what would be the reason for it?”
Green Maniac directly held up his hand to the sky and swore,”I will never delete you off my friend list in this lifetime, master!”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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“Someone else in the guild?” Green Maniac thought for a moment, “In that case, it must be because they can’t stand your abuse of power, don’t want to suffer from extreme oppression, or can’t bear to be tormented any further by your many insane actions.”
Gentle Fish kept a slight smile on his face, “What if it’s someone else who hasn’t been online for five years who deleted me off their friends list as soon as they came back?”
“Ah, then it should be because of old grudges. There should be many stories between you two where the listener would feel sad and witnesses would even shed tears, right? Otherwise, they wouldn’t have held onto a grudge for so many years, to the point where the first thing they do after returning is to deal with old grudges! To be honest, master, your five year assumption is a bit long. For someone to still remember after all these years, imagine how miserable and offended they must have been back then…”
Green Maniac’s words paused slightly, “Wait a minute, five years? If I remember correctly, previously, Master said that his wife quit the game five years ago, right?”
Gentle Fish: “.”
Dense Green’s brain could compute quite quickly at times like this.
“Is Master’s wife back?” Green Maniac’s eyes lit up, but then only shock remained, “But why did she delete you off her friend list? Could it be that her hand slipped?”
A figure appeared in Gentle Fish’s mind, and his tone was firm, “Slipped? Impossible. Even if you put him inside a pile of 100 DPS dealers, he would still be able to accurately and precisely deal with everybody equally.”
Green Maniac: “Then why? Why on earth? Why!?”
Gentle Fish: “… Shut your mouth.”
Why?
He also wanted to know why.
He’d obviously done so much to welcome this person’s return, no matter when that was. So, exactly which step had gone wrong?
After getting a headache from all the noise, Gentle Fish finally gave up on trying to figure out the truth of the matter with this good apprentice of his. “Let’s not talk about this for now. I remember that our dear guild leader mentioned a while back that he wanted me to go out and help the guild recruit more people, right?”
Green Maniac: “But why did Master’s wife delete you? Didn’t you even plan the confession of a century back then?”
Gentle Fish looked at him steadily.
Green Maniac held back his words, instantly switching to answering his previous question, “That’s right. After all, there has been a boom in returning players, and all the big guilds are fighting over people. And in our guild, you have the most influence.”
As he spoke, he decisively crossed his hands in front of him to make a gesture of refusal, “But, as you said at the time, it’s impossible for you to help with any matters outside of playing in competitions. It’s impossible in this lifetime! They want to make use of your popularity while suppressing you? No way, no way no way no way…”
Gentle Fish didn’t let him continue ‘no way’-ing. His tone lengthened slightly, “Say, if you and the guild leader both fell into the water at the same time, who would I save?”
Green Maniac couldn’t quite keep up with his jumping thought patterns and was confused, “Of course you would save me. My green hair is so cute, and I’m also your darling apprentice.”
Gentle Fish glanced at him, “If you continue being so noisy, I’ll just drive the boat away.”
Green Maniac covered his mouth: “.”
Gentle Fish smiled contentedly, “In the next few days, help me ask the guild leader for specific details around the guild recruitment.”
He glanced sideways out the window, and his mood seemed to brighten up, “The weather is really nice. It should be very suitable for fishing, right?”
Green Maniac looked at the dark clouds in the sky that weren’t far off and still approaching.
Was the perennially rainy weather in zone six considered good… good weather?
However, looking at Master’s mood swings, why did he always have the feeling that someone was about to be unlucky?
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“Ah-choo––!” It wasn’t clear if it was because of the cold wind that had just blown over, but Jiang Shi sneezed quietly just as he reached the door to his home.
Jiang Shi hadn’t actually been away from home for long. In total, he’d asked Bi Binghuo to let him get online for two hours, and he’d come back as soon as his time was up. In theory, there wasn’t much risk of getting caught in an awkward situation. However, he’d always trusted his intuition. At this time, his brows were furrowed, and he rubbed the tip of his nose as a sense of vigilance came over him.
Just as he opened the door, a huge black shadow roared towards him.
Jiang Shi paused in the act of taking a step forward, and he quickly retracted his foot. In the next second, a huge pillow smashed straight against the door.
There was a ‘bang’, and then it fell onto the shoe rack nearby, causing the rack and the pile of objects resting on it to suddenly scatter across the ground in a rush of noise.
Jiang Shi paused, then looked at the attacker in a moment of speechlessness, “Trying to murder your own younger brother?”
“Do I still need to murder my brother? Didn’t he just run off to an internet cafe to seek death on his own?”
Jiang Yan had a head of fiery, wavy curls. She was wearing a very ordinary set of pajamas, which did nothing to conceal the bright and charming temperament that came from within.
At this time, she was looking at Jiang Shi and sneering, “Very promising, sneaking off to the internet cafe while I’m not home. Are you making use of all the skills you learned in primary school? If I hadn’t arranged for a spy early in the morning, I’d really have been left in the dark.”
Jiang Shi: “… Bi Binghuo still values sex over friendship, as always.”
“Psht! If you didn’t do anything wrong, then there’s no need to fear ghosts knocking on the door.” Jiang Yan walked down the stairs and picked up the pillow off the ground, “Have some self-awareness about the state of your own brain. Was five years of treatment not enough for you to quit the internet?”
Jiang Shi remained quietly vigilant against a second attack. “You’re also aware that it’s been five years of treatment, and the doctors say that it’s fine already. What era are we living in now? Nerve weakness isn’t a serious illness now, and it’s okay to log on to the holographic cabin for a while.”
“Did you have normal nerve weakness? In short, this time you came back to the country to recover, and you don’t have the final say on whether or not it’s fine. Here, take it.”
This time, Jiang Yan didn’t use the pillow to attack. Instead, she took out a business card from her pajama pocket and handed it over. “You are scheduled for a full body examination tomorrow afternoon. You can wash away your sins when the full examination results are out. Understood?”
Jiang Shi took the card and glanced at the name on it. “Is this my new brother-in-law?”
Jiang Yan: “… Please call him Doctor Han. Also, he is likely to be your last brother-in-law.”
“Okay. I’ll be on time to go and see Doctor Han tomorrow afternoon.” Jiang Shi readily followed her advice and went with the flow, looking up with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “If the final diagnosis confirms that I can use virtual devices normally…”
The corners of Jiang Yan’s lips twitched slightly at his obviously determined expression. “You can play for a while.”
Jiang Shi showed a satisfied smile. “Thank you in advance.”
“I’m not talking to you anymore. I’m going to continue working on my recipe.” Jiang Yan glanced at the time, then turned to head back towards the kitchen.
Jiang Shi watched as her figure walked away and recalled his sister’s recent ‘love bentos’. He walked into the living room, lay down on the sofa, and the first thing he did was to pull out his phone to order normal food delivery that humans could bear to eat.
Compared with excessive use of his brain, it was obvious that Miss Jiang’s poisoning was much more life-threatening.
After ordering delivery, he soon received an order confirmation message.
Just as Jiang Shi was about to close the message, he glanced down and caught a glimpse of a text message sent by the Creation Era developers.
He remembered the news he’d heard in the dungeon today and paused, his slender fingers curling slightly as he clicked on the link to the official game forums contained in the text message.
According to the conversation between the people in the dungeon team, news of Gentle Fish’s ‘love affair’ seemed to have been spread quite widely.
The forum was such a gossipy place that there should be some interesting news there, right?
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The author has something to say:
Teacher Jiang: Who is the fish? Take a look at your ID.
Gentle Fish: Aren’t I just waiting for you to fish me up~
Did the translator purposefully do a part 2 for chapter 6 or was the raw novel like that?
not sure but translators usually halve chapters if they’re too long
if chapters are extra long, i’ll split into several parts (generally equivalent to the length of one normal chapter)
Crying thank u for the chapter
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
thank u for the update 💞
Rip Fish, your wife never knew you were his husband lmaooo
Thank u for the update!
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Translator, is the updates sporadic because this hasn’t been updated for a while and I really want to read it. If it is, it’s okay I can wait a bit longer…
ahhh… it’s pretty sporadic as i’m trying to finish off two of my other novels first. i figured it would be better to resume with a bang rather than doing random chapters here & there~
Bruh, it was dropped
); I love the translations on here but I guess I’ll have to use another site to read it then
Still waiting TT i hope the translator is okay!
Bruh. R u dead?