Picking Up Girls With Game Exploits! (Yuri)

Username: CJS69Real

Level: 81

Class: Apprentice Knight

HP: 520/520

Attack: 144

Magic: 20

Defense: 87

Resistance: 67

Damage Reduction: 15%

Another week had passed… Time flies when you're busy and set on a goal. I logged on today at high noon, and just sat on the grass overlooking the vast green, just staring onwards to the bright, blue skies, sniffing in the air.

"Cory!!!!"

A fair-skinned lady in glistening heavy armor, etched with a holy symbol sprinted towards me. She wore a heavy two-handed shield on her back, her hair was braided twice, one braid sideways on her bangs, the other flutter in the wind behind as she sprinted.

"Hailie!"

I yelled and sat up, before getting body-slammed by her. The weight of her armor and shield totally collapsed on me as we started rolling around the dirt at least a yard away, before she ended up on top of me. But instead of awkardly shuffling away like we should, the precious gem of the Sonder leaned down and hugged me tighter.

"Hih…" Hailie giggled, "Been so long since I've seen high noon in this game! I never got a chance to be online at this hour!"

I was barely able to move any of my muscles apart from four limbs, so I just held her back as our cheeks rubbed when we put our chin on each other's shoulders.

"It's beautiful right! Say, Hailie, how's your wound doing?"

Upon hearing my question, the girl sat up and spun around, pulling up her hair to show me her vulnerable nape.

"You stab me quite hard yesterday! A crit, too!" She giggled, "But you and Sarah from the Lion's Parade managed to take over our farming site, congrats!"

"You managed to protect all of them, even people from my side, kudos to you, Hailie." I patted her head as she spun back around to look at me.

"Oh thank you! That's very nice of you." She answered, "It's my duty to make sure everyone's safe, even if they're not my teammates, of course!"

We sat on the grass, cross-legged as Hailie giggled and I just kept patting her hair because honestly, I couldn't stop. It was awkward quiet, and my strokes kept getting slower and slower until my hand naturally just slipped off with the momentum.

"Oh, you know… I'm surprised that, um-" Hailie stuttered embarassingly, "Both sides are really supportive of us dating, did you see the fanart of us on the forum?"

"I have…"

Most of them portray me as a gloomy dirty old man who's there to hurt their precious fan-favorite player though. While in some others, they took great notice of the fact that I have the vibes of a street rat while she was a holy Paladin, so the fanart (and fanfics) included her protecting me from tomatoes.

Weirdos.

Hailie had became a sort of… Symbol in the community, her impact and reputation sky-rocketed, probably due to Ann's help as a promotional image. But she got her own Tweak account where she stream once a week just chatting while farming with her little team of Marc, Pearl, Rina, and Mei.

"Um- Oh! Eirlys told me that my parents are coming to visit next week."

"Your parents?!" I gasped, almost forgetting their existence "I- I don't- Wait, this is going too fast!"

Hailie giggled.

"Relax, Cory! We'll just be flying to Vietnam for a vacation trip together, I went there before, you'll like the coffee there, I promise!"

"It's not that… I'm just- I don't know what to tell them about us, about why am I sleeping in their mansion in the first place."

"Because you're my sister's assistance and you're my girlfriend, duh!" Hailie rolled her eyes.

"Am I though?" I scratched my head.

Before I could have anymore self doubt, Hailie placed her gauntleted hands on my cheeks, squishing it slightly, and raised herself up to kiss me on the forehead.

"Uh huh, you are! And don't worry, I told my dad about you."

"Mmm… Fine."

We're at that stage in the relationship where we could kiss on the lips, both little smooch and passionate deep ones… But Hailie said she'll only do it in real life due to preferences.

And even though I'm a slut, I could not bring myself to think filthy thoughts around such a bright light like this gem of a person… She changed me.

We stood up and began to walk, hand-in-hand.

For the past two weeks, I've managed to put my blade on Ann's neck once, it was a day after the meeting at the coffee shop, when Tanya agreed to help, and infiltrated me inside so I can get a shot… It was easy, but now Ann knows, which now meant Tanya couldn't help me much further with infiltrating.

Oh and the price to recruit her? I will take it to the grave.

I received a text message coming from an account named CJS69.

It was Tanya… Speak of the devil.

"Hold on Hailie, I gotta respond to these messages."

CJS69: Where are you?

CJS69Real: With my girlfriend, why?

CJS69: Ann once told me you triggered Worsetingale, around 2 weeks ago?

CJS69Real: Yeah?

CJS69: Mhm… Nothing, have fun.

That was weird.

With that out of my mind, I turned to Hailie and told her.

"It was just Tanya."

She nodded.

"Hailie." I added, "Thank you for saving me."

The innocent girl tilted her head in confusion, she was probably trying to interpret that sentence, but failed to.

"Of course I would, Cory! You're my best friend, and now you're my girlfriend!"

I chuckled.

And that's the story of how I started Picking Up Girls With Game Exploits™

"(Yuri)!"

"Huh?" I turned towards her Hailie, who just said something weird, did she just say "Yuri" for no reason?

"Um… Is that Yuri over there?"

Hailie pointed in front of us, to the border of Klakku and Danielle.

Yuri was an NPC in the Eastern continent, an East Asian woman in a stereotypical Sinosphere-inspired dress, a trader from the far East frequencing Danielle Kingdom selling enchanting scrolls and whatnot.

What was she doing all the way over here, I thought?

Probably just to help end the story in a cheap pun.