Chapter 8: The Winery's Occasion: New Guardian

【MISS】

ah.

If you're not careful...

He stared blankly at the human-shaped target moving horizontally in the distance. The stand was clean and brand new without a single bullet hole.

The connection is disconnected.

Fushimi Kyoki thought he would be scolded by the cold-blooded boy with a strong presence next to him, or that he would be hit by a few bullets.

I secretly glanced at Gin, who was silent, and could only see the expressionless lower half of his face.

It seems that there is no intention to pursue the matter?

"Continue." The cigarette between his lips and teeth moved up and down, but his voice was not affected and became unclear. He gave the next instruction to the player concisely.

Fushimi Kyoji put down his weapon as instructed and went to the adjacent field to test his personal long-range sniping performance.

As your stamina decreases, the crosshair's movement speed will also increase.

When [Physical Strength] falls below 50 points, the player's hands holding the gun begin to tremble, and sweat involuntarily slides down his face, even though Fushimi Kyoji does not feel any discomfort from it.

It will not interfere with the judgment of shooting games.

The only benefit is that every time you complete a performance test, Gin's favorability will increase by 1 point.

No matter the results are good or bad, it is always +1.

After staring at it for a few times, Fushimi Kyoji stopped paying attention to the changes in favorability.

The rewards for the shooting game gradually decrease after the first claim is completed each day, but the difficulty continues to increase under the influence of [Physical Strength].

Later, Fushimi Kyoki pulled the trigger completely based on his intuition, and his hit rate tended to decline, but at least there were no more misses.

Approaching footsteps were heard from the side, and judging from the distance, it should be Gin.

The next second, his voice, not so clear from a distance, was heard, half sneerfully, as he said, "Blindly trying to hit the bull's eye will only backfire."

A figure wrapped in the smell of gunpowder and tobacco stopped on the left side of Fushimi Kyoji, his hands on her shoulders through leather gloves. He leaned down, and his soft silver hair with a satin texture slid down from his shoulders with the movement, and the slightly cool hair ends brushed against his cheeks.

"You have to think of the bull's eye as the enemy, the troublesome police, the troublesome police, or the heart of the rats..."

He guided them patiently, and with just a few words in his deep voice, he could bring people's thoughts into the scene he had constructed, making the eye-catching bull's eye in the field of vision gradually overlap with the bleeding heart.

"Now, show me what you would do to a rat that betrayed the organization."

Although he didn't know what the rat was about, Fushimi Kyoji was still inspired by Gin's highly motivating words.

The players were inspired.

Players are eager to try it out.

The player made an excellent call of [Bad], and the bullet passed by the moving humanoid target a hundred meters away.

Fushimi Kyoki: ...

"...Since he's a traitor, it would be too easy for him to just shoot him." Fushimi Kyoji imitated the happy criminals he saw on TV and laughed dryly twice, "Haha."

Uh-huh...

She herself felt it was far-fetched.

How could I possibly believe such a lame excuse?

"Oh."

But all I heard was a very light chuckle that I would have missed if I wasn't paying attention, nothing else.

"*【Gin】Favorability +2!"

"*【Gin】Current Favorability: 15"

"*(……snort)"

"*[Pop-up window has been blocked, no notification of favorability changes by default]"

Eh?

like……

Fushimi Kyoji raised his head, trying to tell from the pixels around Gin's lips how he felt.

Not angry?

“Just barely qualified.”

It was a rare moment to hear affirmation from Gin, and Vodka looked as if he had seen a ghost.

Gin glanced at him coldly, and Vodka hurriedly suppressed the unnecessary expression on his face.

"That gentleman agreed to my application. You won't need to follow us from now on." Gin's tone was calm, and no obvious emotion could be detected. "Other code members will take over everything for you later."

Fushimi Kyoki: Stare...

Vodka quickly stepped forward and explained the specific reason: "The newcomer from last time was a good seedling, and that gentleman also valued his potential. Big Brother was specifically asked to lead the newcomer, so Fushimi, you can only ask other code members to take charge."

Vodka consciously concealed the attitude of gin in it.

There is another point that Vodka didn't mention. Although everyone in the organization is loyal to that gentleman, there is also an invisible competitive relationship among them.

Being too close or having an intimate relationship will be seen as being tied to someone.

For example, he, and the future Dai Moroboshi, both belong to the Gin faction.

That gentleman's attitude towards Fushimi is still unclear. If he is someone directly under that gentleman like Absinthe, any attempt to win him over or get close to him would be tantamount to asking for trouble.

My brother probably thinks so too.

It is also a safe practice for both parties.

Vodka still felt in his heart that Fushimi had long been on the same front with them.

"……oh."

Perhaps it was because he saw the potential of Dai Moroboshi and wanted to focus on training him separately that Fushimi Kyoji had never met Dai Moroboshi in the base where he was.

All the plots in love games exist to advance the relationship.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like the beginner's guide to familiarize players with the gameplay and basic operations has ended, and the main storyline has officially begun.

Maybe we should show some reluctance when we say goodbye.

After all, during this period of time, apart from the target person who is about to become a corpse, the only people the player can see most of the time are Gin and Vodka.

Fushimi Kyoji selected the emoticon from the shortcut keys in the training wheel and clicked send.

【Expression】-【Crying】

“…”

There are four emotions you can use in [Expressions]: joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. This is the first time Fushimi Kyoji has used it, so he has no idea what the effect will be.

"Fushimi, you..."

But judging from Vodka's reaction of almost freezing up, as if he encountered a situation he was not good at handling, and raising and lowering his hands, the effect was probably good.

Gin exhaled a puff of smoke and let out a light "huff".

Expected indifference.

Those fierce eyes, through the gray smoke, gave people a sense of aggression that was close to non-existent.

"Are you a brat who hasn't been weaned and can't live without people?" Gin sneered indifferently.

The guy with a blank expression and tears in his eyes shouted to him without hesitation: "Mom."

Gin: “…”

But Vodka suddenly bent down and covered his mouth with his hands as if he was choked: "Ahem..."

Gin: “…………”

It's even worse.

"Who is my new 'mother'?" Fushimi Kyoki asked before the atmosphere became dangerous.

A vertical line appeared between Gin's eyebrows, and his lips opened and closed, uttering a name: "Vermouth."

He extinguished the cigarette butt with two fingers wearing leather gloves, and without even looking at it, he threw it away, and it fell accurately into the sealed bag that Vodka had hastily opened.

"Let's learn from her how to be a qualified member of the organization."

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[*Tip: The lit CG illustrations can be viewed at any time in the achievements~]

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