Because of My Stupidity, I Became a Timid Vampire

Chapter 36 : I... I'm Not Worried About You!

"Did you play games before?" Xifeng asked Bei Yaoyue beside her. The not-very-large desk suddenly felt a bit cramped with two people using it.

Since Bei Yaoyue had proposed that Xifeng give her "hands-on guidance," she had brought her laptop to Xifeng's room.

"I did, but very little." Bei Yaoyue opened the installation program she had just downloaded.

"What have you played?"

"I remember there was one called... Angry Birds?"

"......"

Xifeng almost choked on her own saliva. If she remembered correctly, that was a game from at least ten years ago—it could definitely be called an antique.

"Because it was famous, I tried it for a bit, but didn't play long." Bei Yaoyue stared at the installation screen, paused, then said in a somewhat lonely tone: "I don't have any friends, so no one would invite me to play games."

"Don't say that. Aren't I your friend?"

Hearing Xifeng's words, Bei Yaoyue's gaze dimmed slightly, but she didn't say anything.

Installation complete, registration, login, entering character creation.

"Can the character's appearance be changed later?"

"Yes, but it's not something you can change freely."

"What are the conditions?"

"You need to spend money to buy an item called 'Fantasia' to change your appearance again."

"Oh, then it's fine." Bei Yaoyue waved her hand dismissively. Anything that could be solved with money wasn't really a problem.

She browsed through all the races and finally chose the one she had been most drawn to earlier—Lalafell, a half-meter-tall, round and chubby cute race that looked like a sausage.

"What job should I pick?"

"One character can freely switch between jobs. This is just the starting job, so pick whatever."

Bei Yaoyue nodded knowingly, then chose what looked like the coolest job—Lancer.

"Character creation is done. What should I do now?"

"Run the main story quest first. This game only has real content to play after you finish the main story."

"Oh." Bei Yaoyue stared at the forest city on screen for a while, then asked: "How do I control this?"

"......"

For a moment, Xifeng felt her head was going to explode. Was she bringing someone into the game or being a babysitter? Did she really need to teach such basic things as using WASD to move?

Though she was full of complaints inside, she still seriously explained the basic game controls and fundamental knowledge to Bei Yaoyue.

Watching Bei Yaoyue finally get on track and start running the main story, Xifeng finally breathed a sigh of relief and began focusing on being a wage slave.

"How long does it take to finish this main story?"

After playing fetch quests for a while, Bei Yaoyue found it somewhat boring.

While calculating DoT rotations, Xifeng didn't have much time to think about the answer and simply estimated: "If you skip all the cutscenes, maybe fifty hours?"

"That long?" Bei Yaoyue frowned. She wasn't really willing to spend too much time on games, especially since according to Xifeng, finishing the main story was just the beginning.

"If you want to save time, you can buy the main story skip from the cash shop. It lets you skip about 90% of the main story."

After saying this, Xifeng focused all her attention on the upcoming mechanics. Making a mistake would mean a party wipe, and wage slaves who mess up in carry parties get their pay docked.

After safely getting through the difficult mechanics, she heard Bei Yaoyue's voice beside her: "Bought it. What now?"

"Then you can start directly from the 5.0 main story... What!? You already spent money?"

Xifeng's mouse trembled, and she almost stepped into an AoE.

"Yeah, why can't I do the main story now?"

"......Because the 5.0 main story is level 70. You can't do it without a level 70 character."

"Is there a fast leveling method?"

"Yes, you can buy job boost potions from the cash shop."

"Oh."

After finishing the dungeon and collecting her wages, Xifeng looked at Bei Yaoyue's computer screen and found she was already running the main story with a level 70 Dragoon.

"Tsk......"

As expected of a rich person—buying boosts without even blinking.

Bei Yaoyue's ID was "Fengqing Yuesi." While Xifeng remembered this was indeed an idiom, somehow it felt like something was off?

"I sent you a friend request. Please accept it."

After Bei Yaoyue accepted, Xifeng habitually clicked on Bei Yaoyue's profile and was instantly shocked speechless.

All of Bei Yaoyue's jobs—even including crafting jobs—showed level 70, meaning she had bought level boosts for every single job!

You have to know, it took Xifeng two years to barely get all jobs to level 80, while Bei Yaoyue had caught up to 80% of her progress in just a few minutes, though the cost was over 3,000 yuan.

"Is this how all you rich people play games?" Xifeng felt genuinely heartbroken. That was over 3,000 yuan that just disappeared.

While 3,000 yuan wasn't an exaggerated amount, in Xifeng's view this money was completely avoidable spending. Playing different jobs and leveling them all to max was one of FF14's great pleasures.

"Let's call it here for today. I'm a bit tired, and I need to go back and work on commissions."

After playing for about another hour, Bei Yaoyue put down her mouse, stretched with a very alluring moan, her graceful body curves making Xifeng unable to help looking a few more times.

"Do you want to eat something? I'll go make it for you now." Xifeng checked the time—it was already past seven.

Earlier when Bei Yaoyue was hiding and avoiding her, she had angrily let it be, so Bei Yaoyue hadn't eaten anything until now.

Though Bei Yaoyue never mentioned it, in the end... she still couldn't bear to let Bei Yaoyue go hungry like this.

But right after saying this, Xifeng felt something was off about her words and quickly added: "Let me be clear—I'm not worried about you. I just haven't cooked in a while and want to practice."

"Pfft."

"? What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing." Bei Yaoyue suppressed her laughter and shook her head. "Then just make something simple, whatever you like. Just bring it to my door when it's done."

In that instant, she felt a long-lost warmth. She was very happy.

"Fine." Xifeng curled her lip. Bringing it to the door—acting all high and mighty.

"By the way, Bei Yaoyue, I have a favor to ask."

"Speak."

"Can you help me draw some character design art?" Xifeng grinned. "But I know your time is precious, so I'll pay. Just name your price."

"I can do it." Bei Yaoyue glanced sideways. "But what do you need this for? No need for money—consider it a perk of being my maid."

"Ugh... don't laugh at me when I tell you."

"......I probably won't."

"What do you mean 'probably'?" Xifeng pouted in dissatisfaction. "You should say 'I absolutely won't laugh at you.'"

"......I absolutely won't laugh at you."

"That's more like it." Xifeng nodded pretentiously, then hesitated for a moment before saying quietly: "I want to have someone turn the character designs into Live2D, then... do VTuber game streaming."