Chapter 18 – Unexpected Ally.

Behind the ClownFrog a human with dark hair and scar across his mouth was pointing his gun right behind ClownFrog back.

(PK gunman?! I knew that I would maybe meet him sooner or later but why now?! Why the hell I meet him today of all the times?!)

(I can feel something poking behind my back, I can probably guess it's a gun barrel.)

(The story cleric seem not to notice him, its probably because he is using is torso to block the cleric vision.)

(For fuck sake! I don't have any time right now to deal with the PK players today and especially against this guy of all people! What kind of shitty luck is this?! I don't want to fight at all cost now!)

(However is he stupid? If he kills me now the cleric will call the guards to deal with him and even if he manages to kill the cleric before he does that, somebody may notice or see him killing cleric.)

(What is his game?)

"So, friend. What do you want?" – asked ClownFrog.

"Don't know. Maybe first give me my bandana back?" – asked the PK gunman.

"Don't know. I won it fair and square back then from you."

"And you are the guy with the gun barrel behind your back."

"And you are a guy that is right now in the city. If you try to even kill me the guards will end dealing with you."

"…." – both mans didn't said anything for a while.

"Tch."

"I don't want to get another death penalty in the row so let's make a deal, how much money do you want?"

"?"

(I wasn't expecting this?)

"Do you really thing I will sell it?"

"2 gold coins."

"?!"

100 copper coins = 1 silver coin.

100 silver coins = 1 gold coin.

(Huh. That's quite a lot. Well, we are talking about rare item here. I guess he really wants it back.)

(Hm… it sounds like a good deal. Should I accept it then?)

(But I would like to keep it for the boss fight if -)

"!"

"Hey, your deal is quiet interesting mate, but can I ask you few questions first?"

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"What the heck do you want you bastard?" – asked PK gunman.

"Nothing much. You have my word that I willing to trade the bandana for money, but I maybe it will change if you answer my question right now."

"…. Go on."

"First. Are you alone? Are you not with those people from before or in the party with them at the moment?"

"…No. I'm not working with them at the moment." 

"Are you sure? You aren't lying to me?"

"Of fuking course I'm not lying. If I were I would bring the others with me to beat you up together this time unlike before."

(True. It would be way harder to deal with all 5 of them at the same time. On top of that those guys would probably not look down on me like before because that is what got them killed before. I would get one sided beaten up this time if I were to face them together with this guy.)

"Okay, I will trust you about this for now."

"Second question. Would you be willingly to party up with me and work with me without betraying me?"

"?!"

(This is stupid idea and I know, however this guy is real deal when it comes to his skills. I know the risk of making the PK player work with us, however considering that we have limited amount of time to beat the dungeon before somebody else finds it, the risk is definitely worth it.)

"What kind of stupid question this is man? We fought like enemies yesterday and now you want to work together? Are you stupid or mad?"

"Just answer a damn question."

"…. What is it for me if I decide to work with you?"

"Loot obviously. Right now, I'm with the party of 2 other people. After we are done with hunting you will receive 1/4 of the loot. I won't tell you what we are hunting, but I can tell it maybe worth it for you. Obviously, you will also get your bandana back without paying anything before we start hunting."

"…. No matter how I look at it, you are suspicious like hell now, but- "

The man quickly took away his gun from the ClownFrog back.

"Let's say I will cooperate with you for now, however I still don't trust you. I just want my bandana back and you better not scam me when it comes to the reward distribution."

"Okay, however I also don't trust you, but it's not like I have choice."

(Honestly, I don't trust him yet one bit, however he is extremely skilled damage dealer.)

(He almost killed me two times when we fought. He manage to quickly get rid of my HP twice even after recovering it all after using potions.)

(He is also a damage dealer, the person we were need. I fought him my self and he does indeed deal shit tons of damage with his guns or the short sword. His reaction time is also great and he isn't dumb.)

We need him no matter what to beat the dungeon.

(It's worth a risk, however the problem still stands that he is Pk player. Just in case I will inform the others two about this though the chat about him being PK player and chance of him betraying us.) 

"So, when do we start?" – asked the PK gunman.

ClownFrog after finding the party member quickly contacted the others from the group about the situation, he also warned them the person in question is skilled gunman but he is also a PK player that ClownFrog fought before though the use of the chat without letting PK gunman know about it.

After some time, the entire group meet up in the specific spot.

"Let me introduce ourselves. This guy is a friend I once runed into. He is very skilled gun user."

"Yo. My name is GreyHunt." – said the PK user, revealing his in game name.

"Shir."

"Oron."

"ClownFrog."

[GreyHunt has joined the party.]

"Hm? Wait a moment, why the heck is the distribution method the party leader? What is this?"

"Oh, that? Well let's just say we have little bit of trust issue at hand, but as long as nobody betray each other then you will get your items in the end." – said Shir.

"…Okay, but I'm still skeptical about this." 

"Anyway, here. You can have it back." – said ClownFrog while giving back the skull bandana.

"Thanks." – said the GreyHunt while putting on his bandana back and covering his mouth with it.

"Anyway, what we are hunting anyway?" – asked GreyHunt.

Upon asking the question, the rest of the party looked at each other before silently nodding in agreement.

"?"

"Just come with us and don't ask anything." – said Oron.

"???"

The party bringed the GreyHunt with them to the bite ant dungeon entrance.

"…Oh. Well, that explains a lot now." – said GreyHunt after arriving at the dungeon entrance.

"So, the reason why you wanted me to join in was because you found the dungeon?" – asked GreyHunt.

"Yea. And we had a small problem while inside. When we got to the boss room, it was filled with army of monsters called bite ants. These monsters are able to take hit and also deal some damage to you. Even with us 3 it would be impossible beating the dungeon boss. We need 1 more person dealer to help us out." – said Shir.

"So that is another reason why you wanted me so badly to join you huh?"

"Yea. And obviously per our little deal you will get 1/4 of the rewards we get from beating the dungeon. We don't want to split the reward too much so we don't want to invite too many people." – said ClownFrog.

"You are both the damage dealer and very skilled player, so having us join is the best option we have in order to beat. Anyway, the deal benefits you as well, right?"

"…." – GreyHunt didn't responded to the ClownFrog and instead beginned thinking about something in silence before finally responding.

"Fine. I will roll with it, but if you try to pull any bullshit, I will put the bullet right through your skulls." - said GreyHunt while holding his revolver gun in his hand.

"Same to you, try to pull anything and you will be first one to die." – said Shri while holding her whip.

"…"

"…. They won't kill each other, right?" – asked Oron while stepping away from the pair and towards the ClownFrog.

"…."

"Why are you not saying anything?!"

"…I think it should be fine...Probably." – responded ClownFrog while looking away.

"Probably?!"

"Anyway! Both of you stop." – said ClownFrog while stepping between the GreyHunt and Shri.

"You can kill each other later on if you hate one another so much, but don't do that now. It will be impossible to beat the dungeon if even one of us die. So, like it or not we have to work together if we want to beat the dungeon and get nice loot on our hands. You both got it?" – asked ClownFrog.

"…." – the pair stared at each other aggressively before lowering their weapons.

"Okay, then can we go in now? We still need to clear this place before anybody else finds it and try to take it away from us by force." – said ClownFrog.

"Agree. Its better to do before anything annoying shows up." – said GreyHunt.

"Fine. We already wasted enough time. I just want to finish this dungeon already." – said Shri.

"Well then, let fuking beat this stupid dungeon." – said ClownFrog.