Never gonna give you up

School finally came...hoorayyy...time for another year of hard lessons that my brain refuses to understand,

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"here they come!"

A man with brown hair heavily clad in silver armor traversed through the stone slab corridors. Where 7 green, big and tall orcs armed with metal knuckles and wooden clubs chased after him.

"Fumio, Schwein get ready!"

And with the sound of his voice, two figures jumped in front of him taking on the horde of orcs.

"leave this to my bad-self!" a blonde handsome, blue eyes man wearing a blue leather tunic with silver breastplate and a red cape wielding a two handed heavy broad sword charged through the horde.

Landing behind them, he swung his broad sword to the side cutting 2 orcs in half, then using that momentum he attacked the last one with a downwards slash.

"groahhh!!!" the orcs screamed in pain before disintegrating into light particles.

"hmmp, easy." the man boast and puffed his chest proudly looking with his chin upwards.

"duck!" Schwein heard this and instinctively followed his words.

A wave of gust brush passed him caused by the other man who's none other than Fumio.

Using his blood red pointed spear he pierced through the orc's body that was just about to attack Schwein like marshmallow, then some kind of blood root sprouted up from the ground directly below on the orcs position constricting their movements by wrapping itself among their feets up to their knees.

The spear head then transformed into a blood red scythe and came in on the sides cleaving them all in half leaving none alive.

"your spear is overpowered as ever." Shcwein said and looked at Fumio.

"im just lucky that i got it at the game's anniversary event."

"that's some luck you got there, you do know that hundreds of millions of players are on this game right? And you got the limited edition EX+++ dragon bane spear with just 1 spin from the gacha. While my bad-self spent all my hard earned gems and got nothing but high grade healing potions!!!"

"hahaha."

"damn it!!!" Shcwein kept on throwing a fit while Fumio just chuckled.

"im here for healing! Are you ok Fumio?!" a girl with long messy black hair and big blue shining sapphire like eyes run towards them,

she's wearing a pink short dress with white frills on the sleeves and inner areas of the dress, thigh high white socks, pink shoes and two pink ribbons tied on her hair, wielding a short staff with a long blue gem adorned on the middle, and two wings on each side of the gem.

"Heal!"

A bright green light showered Fumio and the next second all the scratches and wounds on his body were now gone.

"h-hey guys, help me! Ahhhh!!!" the armored man however wasn't safe, another horde of orcs showed up with quadruple the numbers and started beating him down.

"you should heal Shcwein as well Ako, im not the only injured one." Fumio pointed his finger on the rampaging man that kept on kicking the ground while screaming the words, "its not fair!!!"

Ako nodded cutely and used her recovery skill to heal him as well.

"i feel like we've forgotten something?" Fumio pondered and looked at the two of them for answers.

"hmm? Beats me." Shcwein just shrug it off.

"forgotten something? Probably just the wind." Ako went closer and snuggled next to Fumio's chest.

"but still my bad-self is quite surprised that the two of you married, i thought that Fumio would never agree." Shcwein looked at both Fumio and Ako.

"hehe all my efforts aren't in vain."

"i just thought that it'd be fun and a nice change of things, plus having this ring that boost all statuses is pretty op." Fumio showed him his hand where a golden ring is placed on his ring finger.

"umu, congratulations on your marriage and like you said having an accessory boosting your stats isn't bad." Master chimed in on the topic.

"h-hey guys i wanna congratulate you as well but a little bit of help would be nice!"

"oh right! Rusian!" Fumio looked behind him and saw Rusian being mercilessly thrashed by the orcs.

"Master is your spell ready yet?" Fumio stared at the man with short violet hair and yellow eyes, wearing nothing but white pants and a green jacket that barely covers his chest.

"no it still needs time!" he shouted while going back to what his doing.

"i see, then Ako heal Rusian quickly!"

"got it!" Ako shouted cheerfully and started casting her Heal spell.

"ha! Hey guys this orc is almost dead i just need to hit it one more time!" Rusian got in his stance and prepared for the final strike until a wave of green light showered the orc making the depleted hp bar to a full one.

"Noooooooo!!!" Rusian shouted in horror before being tackled to the ground and getting hit on all sides.

"oops...im sorry..." Ako dejected, lowered her head down.

"its ok we all make mistakes although yours is more frequent." Fumio smiled wryly and started patting her head.

She didn't refuse but instead went closer to him.

"yoshhh! Its ready! Meteor crash!"

Master shouted and a flaming hot meteor spawned from the ceiling and went crashing down on the pile of orcs burning them all to ashes.

The dust settled and Rusian was inside the crater caused by the skill, laid down on the ground Yamcha style.

"Revive!" Ako casted another one of her skills which like the name says lets her revive a person.

"what took you so long Master?!!" Rusian got up and looked at the person in question.

"i was busy buffing my spell with skill damage enhancing potions." Master then showed them the vials used on his long staff.

"tch, what a wasteful way to use premium potions like that."

"fret not, cause i still have more! "

"damn you rich player,"

"so today's grinding session is finally finished right?" Rusian asked Master. He nodded and the party now went back inside their guild base.

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The insides isn't really that special, it closely resembles that of an adventurer tavern in medieval or fantasy games,

All of them gathered and sat in a rectangular wooden table, Master was seated on the host seat, Schwein and Rusian are seated on the left while Ako and Fumio were on the right side.

"Well done to all of us for completing another successful raid!" Master enthusiastically smiled and clapped her hands.

"It would have been easier if our healer didn't accidentally heal the orcs, not only that you also got lost when you guys are all talking on the chat" Rusian said with a sigh.

"...im sorry im such a clutz."

"you don't need to dwell on that, we're all fellow guild mates plus isn't it more fun and challenging when it happens? Like that time you got lost and accidentally found the hidden bost on the dragon cave?" Fumio smiled and tried to comfort Ako.

"well Fumio's right, its definitely more fun when unexpected things happens, plus i kinda got used to it, and stressing over small stuff like this is an insult to our bonds as fellow guild members." Rusian also commented and smiled cheerfully.

"Dont listen to this dork Ako, you're definitely more useful than this damage soaker canon fodder." Shcwein said.

"What did you just say about me you one trick pony glass canon?! if it weren't for me tanking you, just one hit and you'll be dead!"

"ha?! Stop overestimating yourself meat shield! my bad-self is an all arounder great fighter!"

"i see you're still sleep, i suggest you wake up now, better late than ever!"

"you!!!"

"no you!!!"

Schwein and Rusian got in another heated fight that they always do everytime, for everyone it just became a norm.

Ako felt better and smiled cheerfully again, hugging Fumio's arm even tighter.

"umu, it's nice to see that all my fellow subordinates are getting along nicely."

They all talked some more before individually logging off.

"see you guys tonight."

"farewell for now everyone."

"i still have things to do so I'll exuse myself out."

"umm...Fumio thank you for lifting my spirit up earlier."

Fumio before logging off, received a private message from Ako. He smiled and replied.

"no worries we've been playing since the beginning right? Getting triggered over stuff like this won't even faze me."

Ako upon reading this smiled even brighter.

"Also thank you for letting me be your wife and accepting my proposal! Even though you rejected me 31 times, I promise that I'll be the best housewife that no one ever was!" Ako's eyes practically became like stars shining brightly.

"dont mention it." Fumio just smiled and chuckled.

Fumio or rather the past Fumio and Ako met a while back then,

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being both noobs at first they decided to form a friendly party to level up quickly, Fumio got a taste of why Ako was all alone, she's a natural clutz healing the enemies accidentally, getting lost most of the time, panicking when the situation was critical, but he never abandoned her, why? Because he saw himself in her, a person thats been rejected by real life relying on the Internet in means of escape from reality.

He used her to feel better for his short comings, helping the pitiful girl to boost his ego, to think that there's someone thats even more pitiful as him, he felt personal satisfaction in seeing that so never left her side.

he never once saw her as a friend only a way to pass his mentality of being the most useless person in his clan to her.

thats where it all started Ako along the way caught feelings for him because of his "kindness and understanding" for her, so she proposed to Fumio, which failed spectacularly, but Ako was the kind of person to never give up when she puts a goal in her mind, and so she tried and tried again getting rejected each time,

until the miraculous event that happened 1 week ago, she once again steeled her heart and asked Fumio to meet her in a dock located on a peaceful and serene glistening blue lake surrounded by a lush forest.

"will you marry me!" she lowered her head and extended her left hand out, she thought that it might be the same as before, that she might get rejected again.

'but I won't quit no matter what!'

"sure, lets get married."

'ahh...there it is his signature line when he rejects me, but like i said no matter what i wont gi-..."

"ehh...?"

She was stunned never once did she heard his laughter, she looked up with confusion seeing his bright and handsome face smiling with amusement.

What? Impossible?! He smiled? He laughed? All those times that they spent together she never once saw him smile he always had this aloof and quite expression on his face that never seems to change but now he feels different, he feels warm and welcoming. Heck she even noticed how his personality and the way he speaks had changed drastically but she thought that Fumio was just happy and opening up to others.

She was stunned and surprised, different emotions clogged her mind but his next action snapped her out of it.

Fumio grabbed her hand and looked at her confused.

"you ok? So should we get married or not?"

Not hesitating Ako immediately replied.

"Yes! Gladly!"

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"see you later at night."

"you too, see you at night, also."

Ako suddenly went closer to him and whispered something before logging off.

"i love you, hehe~"

"haha." Fumio also finally logged out to.

Stretching his arms and reclining on his ergonomic chair, Fumio couldn't help but smile.

"playing games was really fun, specially if you play it with others."

Training and cooking are just one of the things that he immersed himself into in these past month, he scoured the Internet for more information about the things that the old Fumio never knew, like watching mainstream movies, anime, tv shows, and reading manga, comics and fanfictions for entertainme- i meant for reasearch.

But if you ask him whats his favorite source of entertainme-, reasearch material, its Legendary Age, a popular MMORPG set in a medieval fantasy world, knowing that the old Fumio played this game competitively almost spending most of his time and attention on it, he thought that why not give it a try?

And so he did, and he enjoyed it very much, the hours and hours of endless grinding just to level up by 1, losing your insanity in hopes to get the 0.001% of obtaining precious loot from monsters, the thrill of gacha.

But the one thing that he really enjoyed was spending time with his online friends, he was stuck in the dark abyss for so long that he badly needed company just to not feel like he's back in that eternal suffering.

Talking with them filled his heart with warmth, he finally found people the he can spend time with. Precious friends that you laugh and joke with.

That's why even though they haven't met in real life Fumio already considers them as his best friends.

And about the thing with Ako, honestly Fumio felt bad for her, seeing that the old him didn't even bother thinking otherwise to her proposals, he was distant and a man of few words to everyone even to his guild members, so thinking that nothing won't go wrong he finally accepted.

honestly he was quite perplexed seeing how happy she was, its just a game right? Why is she acting like it's real? Not only that shes also very persistent i mean the old him rejected her 31 times! Yet she still persists till the end.

"Ako is a strange girl, or guy." well it doesn't matter if she's a guy in real life, the virtual her is caring, kind and thoughtful he also finds her cute whenever she sees him talking to other girls and getting jealous over it.

"the way the air around her seems to change to a dark and sinister one, her eyes slowly darkening devoid of light and a hint of blood lust coming from her, seemingly wanting to go out for blood."

"its so~...oh shit what am i saying?! am i really getting turned on just by that...? My taste sure is weird..."

he might be into yanderes, of course him being her wife is just in the game so he really didn't care if the real one was a guy, reality and virtual are both different things, plus he aint swinging that way no matter what.

Fumio stood up from his chair and checked the time, its just 11:05 am.

"you know what, school is about to start next week and i havent even gotten a hair cut yet."

Fumio went near the mirror and checked his reflection on it, his hair was long enough to reach his shoulders.

"i should at least go to the salon and freshen up."

Fumio then went near his wardrobe to change.

"i also need to buy new clothes, my wardrobe is just full of black and white formal wear."