CH 14

[(Party) Sunken Moon: Odd or even?] 

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Odd.]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: Alright, let’s start.]

In the game, the maple leaf tree before them just dropped a few maple leaves. They quietly waited for five seconds to see another set of leaves fall down from the tree. The number was crystal clear: four leaves.

Yue Ran suddenly got furious and wanted to smash his keyboard. 

He also lost on his first bet, so when he heard Sunken Moon brought up the same bet, he wanted to redeem himself, but he still lost—this time he could afford to act shamelessly.

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: That was my first time playing. I’m inexperienced so this round doesn’t count (tear) (tear) (tear).]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: This doesn’t require experience.]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: I don’t believe you. What if you already know the pattern? This is completely unfair (sob).]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: But you chose first.]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: That’s why it was unfair to me. I could have won if I also knew the pattern (sob)!]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: Then what do you want to do?]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Another round, best of three.] 

[(Party) Sunken Moon: If I agree, could you treat me with a better attitude?]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Okay~]

Sunken Moon agreed, satisfied.

However, with Yue Ran’s recent crappy luck, he lost the second round. He angrily ran out of his room to grab a box of ice cream from the fridge and came back to see a series of messages sent from Sunken Moon. 

[(Party) Sunken Moon: (smile)]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: No take backs this time.]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: Are you there?]

After eating a few mouthfuls of ice cream, Yue Ran’s anger subsided as he calmly thought of a reply. 

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Here now >_<]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Okay, I accept defeat (cry).]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: But you can’t ask me to be your apprentice >_<]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: That’s fine, I want you to run through all the instance dungeons with me one time each.] 

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[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: You can’t ask for that!]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: That counted as one thing.]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: No, there are so many instance dungeons, how could we go through all of them!] 

[(Party) Sunken Moon: We can take it slow.]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: You are so shameless (sob)!]

[(Party) Sunken Moon: (smile)]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: …] 

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: I don’t care. It was very shameless of you to ask for that! You should have picked a specific instance dungeon and not bundled all of them together. It’s like asking me to play this game with you without a specific time period, which will turn into me spending all my time online playing with you. Anyway, I won’t do it (roll on the ground) (roll on the ground) (roll on the ground).]

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The members of White Koi hid in the distance and watched the two silently. 

To avoid sister-in-law from seeing their messages, they created a YY chat instead of typing in the guild chat.

Blank went straight to the point. “What the fuck! Is Moon God trying to steal our sister-in-law away?”

“So Moon God was being a hooligan just like sister-in-law said,” Ashen Inner Thoughts guessed. “Was he too embarrassed to go into detail with us?”

Strongest O in Universe was sceptical. “That doesn’t sound like something Moon God would do.” 

BB Love questioned, “Then what do you think they are doing?”

They came up with no good explanation after a long discussion. In the end, someone weakly said, ‘why don’t they just go ask’. As if the floodgates had opened, they all rushed forward. With the guild leader nowhere to be seen, it was their responsibility to protect his wife!

However, they were a step too late. Because Yue Ran and that bastard had finally reached an agreement. They will do twenty arena matches together.

The crowd watched them leave. They sensed that the situation had turned more serious. 

Guild officer Ashen Inner Thoughts has Jiang Xiao’s WeChat, so he immediately contacted the guild leader.

The gossip party followed the duo throughout the way. When they saw the two queued up for an arena match, they quickly took a screenshot and updated the thread in real-time. The comment attached with the image: Even Getting Carried Looks Like Love.

Currently, the topic’s two protagonists already found their first opponents. 

Unsurprisingly, Sunken Moon was the one doing shot calling while Yue Ran didn’t want to verbally act cute, so he straight away typed ‘no mic’. Which didn’t bother Sunken Moon one bit. He just wanted to carefully observe the little summoner’s strength. 

It was a pity that his expectation was too high. After ten matches, the little summoner was terrible. Although he could tell his teammate had a fast apm, his playing was a mess.

Sunken Moon asked, “Are you doing it on purpose?”

Yue Ran pretended to act stupid and posted an emote of an adorable, confused face with question marks in the team chat.

He guessed Sunken Moon approached him because he doubted his identity, so he performed very hard. Thinking that after this time around, he and Sunken Moon could now remain as strangers after this brief encounter.  

Sunken Moon said, “You didn’t play like this during our arena match.”

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: I already told you before, it was because of hubby! He is a way better shot caller than you. I naturally would play at my full strength with him (puffs up with pride).]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: How about you?]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: (disdain)] 

Sunken Moon cried laughing. “Fine. How does he direct you? I want to see how big of a difference we have.

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: I will show you how great my hubby is (happy).]

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: He would say ‘Darling, use this skill’, ‘Darling, take two steps to the left’, ‘Darling, go behind me’, ‘Darling, you did great’, things like that (spin in circles)!]

Sunken Moon: “…” 

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: In each of his commands, I feel very powerful (shy).]

Sunken Moon: “…”

I see.

Yue Ran thought it wasn’t enough. As he was about to add a few more examples, he saw an in-game notification. 

[>Smashing Vault of Heaven is online]

At the same time, he received a private message.

[(Private) >Smashing Vault of Heaven: Where are you?]

[(Private) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Arena.] 

[(Private) >Smashing Vault of Heaven: With Sunken Moon?]

[(Private) Vault of Heavens Essence<: How did you know?]

[(Private) >Smashing Vault of Heaven: I heard it from someone.]

[(Private) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Oh.] 

Seeing that Sunken Moon didn’t queue up for another match, he urged him to be quicker.

[(Party) Vault of Heavens Essence<: Could we go faster? My husband is online and I want to play with him (happy).]

Sunken Moon was slightly startled  and immediately suggested, “Call him here. Let’s do 3v3 and he can be the shot caller.”

That heavy blade player must be a pro. 

With no news regarding Dying Star, he could only look for another option for the future double battle competition. He was considering asking one of the couples.

On the other hand, Yue Ran couldn’t simply reject Sunken Moon’s suggestion, since it contradicted his ‘being sticky to hubby’ persona.

After coming up with an excuse, he was considering whether to use a simple one like ‘my hubby is very busy’ when he saw a new private message.

[(Private) >Smashing Vault of Heaven: Ask him if he wants to do a 3v3, I will come to find you.] 

After a moment of hesitation, Yue Ran heard Sunken Moon say, ‘let your husband display your full potential’. He knew right away that if he passed on this, Sunken Moon would look for an opportunity to try again. So he went with it. At worst, he could put his acting skills to the test again.

He sent a screenshot of Jiang Xiao’s ‘shot call’ examples in the private chat before sharing their YY room numbers.

A moment later, the three assembled and clicked ‘start’ to search for opponents.

Sunken Moon reminded, “Master, did he inform you? You will be our shot caller.” 

Jiang Xiao made a soft “En” as they waited for the countdown to hit zero. Once the match started and they could see who they were up against. He said in an indifferent tone, “Focus down the mage first.” Having commanded for ten games, Sunken Moon seized the time to rehydrate. But Jiang Xiao’s voice completely surprised him and he spewed water at his monitor.

Holy fuck, Tempest?

Before he could respond, he heard Tempest’s cold voice give a series of calm and clear orders, “Darling, freeze the healer. Perfect. Step back a little so I can protect you. Please give this husband a critical hit chance buff. Nice, thanks.”

Sunken Moon: “…” 

None of this is real! He is absolutely hallucinating!

Translator has something to add:

Teo: Changed “live stream” to “livestream”.

Future Teo: Philotes, thank you for selecting my project for the CG’s 5k celebration. I have the chapters translated but they are not edited (I do not want to defile the readers’ eyes with my Engulish). But please be on a look out for future extra chapters in the next few weeks.