After fooling around with the three girls so more, Lily had to leave to help out her grandma with so things, Akorya decided to take the opportunity to make herself so lunch, and adow wanted to grind more so that she could level up and hang out with us using her avatar in the higher-level zones since that was where we’d be going.
As for , I decided to hang out in Cani’s restaurant with so pie while I thought about things seeing as how I didn’t exactly have anything else to do.
I had to admit that I was horrible about doing the things that I wanted to do. It didn’t help that I had already fucked the dragon which made
feel like I made so progress toward my goal, and that was more than enough to satisfy
and let
feel like I deserved a break.
Not that I really needed a break from anything in the first place. All I was doing was playing a ga, hanging out with my girlfriends, and having sex. I had more than enough videos to upload online for a couple of weeks without having to record new content—all thanks to having a backlog of videos and ideas—which ant that… yeah, life was easy.
But I still felt like taking a break from my “quest.”
Really, as much as I enjoyed the idea of becoming Lust’s Champion or whatever… there were probably better people than
for that out there. I just wanted to have fun. It wasn’t that I was entirely disinterested in the idea, but it felt like it should have probably gone to sobody who was actually more interested in actively pursuing that goal than … who basically only went after it to get it over with. I had the option to do it, and thus that made
want to do it, but only barely.
It was like being in the mood for apples.
I was rarely in the mood for apples. If I bought apples, I’d typically buy a whole bag of them, eat one, and then lose interest. But because I had a whole bag of apples sitting in the fridge and I didn’t want them to go to waste, I’d force myself to eat them just to get it over with while procrastinating for as long as possible, sotis until they beca a bit questionable to actually eat.
Becoming Lust’s Champion felt the sa way. I was hyped for it at first. It sounded cool, exciting, fun, unique—all that stuff. But over ti, it turned into a bag of apples sitting in the fridge that I felt obligated to eat just because they were there, not because I actually cared about it.
It just felt like it wouldn’t be right to be the one who gets the option of becoming Lust’s Champion only to not even follow through with it. And if I did beco Lust’s Champion, what was that going to be like? What was going to happen or change?
Sophie, Gluttony’s Champion, just… chilled out in the middle of nowhere, basically. All she did was cook and eat. She only really ca out of her place if she was invited to as far as I could tell. So, maybe things wouldn’t change too much.
But if they weren’t going to change, what was the point? I didn’t exactly want anything to change, but I also didn’t want to go through all that effort for nothing. And as far as I was aware… Sophie being Gluttony’s Champion basically just ant that she had access to so extra crafting recipes that seemingly nobody else had access to. If that was all I was going to get access to, was it even worth it at all?
I really wasn’t the right person for the role. Sobody more suitable would have been more hyped up about the possibilities and unique opportunity of being the first person to experience being Lust’s Champion.
Why couldn’t I get more excited about it?
The only reason I could think of was… basically, I was already perfectly satisfied with how things were. But didn’t I already co to that conclusion before I forced myself to get it over with?
Maybe that was just what I needed to do. Every ti I felt unmotivated to do sothing, I had to realize again that I was already satisfied with things before I could force myself to actually go and—
“What’s up?” Cani asked, her voice snapping
out of my thoughts. “You’ve been staring at your empty plate for a few minutes now. You find the aning of life or sothing in it?”
Admittedly, it was kind of embarrassing being called out like that. I had no idea I was just… spacing out staring at an empty plate. Well, it wasn’t entirely empty. There were a couple of crumbs atop it thanks to the slice of pie that she served , which I already finished due to it being absolutely delicious. “Yeah. I found out that the aning of life is pie. Without pie, life is aningless.”
Cani offered a small smile before opening up her nu so that she could place another slice of pie on my plate. All it took was a single press of a button on her end to instantly teleport a slice of pie to my plate. Thank you, technology. “I figured you’d want another slice,” she said. “But really, is everything alright? I don’t need my landlord quitting on
or anything.”
“Quitting? What makes you think I’d do that?” I got started on the next slice of pie right after asking that.
“Well, it’s just… I used to play another ga kind of like this, but without the dicks everywhere, where
and a friend owned a restaurant in a city together. Knew the guy ever since I was a kid. Always played gas together. Anyways, he started doing what you’re doing. Instead of actually doing fun stuff in the ga, he’d just… log in and then laze around without actually doing anything. He’d sit at a table, eat so food, and then look exactly like you did. Turned out that he just lost interest in gas and they weren’t fun to him anymore, so he gave up on them. Stopped logging in entirely soon after that.”
That was a pretty classic story of friendship in online gas, unfortunately. “You still friends with him?”
“Not really. It’s not like we ended on a bad note or anything, we just… sort of drifted away. He got busy with real life, even adopted a kid with his wife, while I just… wanted to spend all my free ti playing video gas. We just went completely separate directions in life. Felt like I was the one always reaching out to him first whenever I saw him online, so I stopped trying to poke him every chance I got… and that was that. He never tried ssaging
first. So, that was that. Your expression reminds
of his, so… don’t just leave. I’d have to find a new place to set up shop in. Oh, or you can hand the dungeon over to . You can leave if you do that.”
I reached over to flick her arm before saying, “I’m not going anywhere. I promise you that I have no interest in stopping playing anyti soon. I was just thinking about… well, what I actually want to do in the ga. Obviously, I want to have my dungeon here, and I want to hang out with all of you, but I’m already content. I feel like I just want to keep things how they are. Part of
wants to see the dungeon grow and feature all the ideas I’ve had for it, but I lack the… motivation to actually do all of that. It would be fun to see, but I don’t actually care about getting it done. You know, like with you and your restaurant in here. If I had to run it myself, I would never get around to it no matter how much I might like the idea of it.”
“Huh. Makes sense. Well, I think I know what you need then.”
“Yeah?”
“Yep. You’re a manager. Or… what’s above manager? An executive? I’m not sure, but I’ll go with executive for now. You’re an executive. You need managers working underneath you. You co up with the ideas, and then you provide others with the resources to get them done. You want a restaurant? Then you hire
and let
set up a restaurant. You want a bunch of different, thed dungeon floors with a ton of different monsters? Then you hire sobody who is passionate about interior decorating and monster fucking.”
“But that’s… so… capitalist. Co on, I can’t just… hire other people to do all the work for
while I sit back and enjoy the results without putting in any work myself.”
“Like it or not, but you have a seriously rare resource here. There are plenty of others like
who will happily work for you, basically for free, just for a chance to play around with it seeing as how we’d probably never get an opportunity at any other ti in the ga.”
That couldn’t have sounded more disgusting to
even if it was true. I absolutely hated the idea of just… sitting at the top giving other people the privilege of working in my dungeon. It wasn’t like I could actually reward their labor in any aningful way, either. They would basically be getting paid in either exposure or experience, which was absolutely horrible. I didn’t want a dungeon staffed by what were essentially unpaid interns.
But at the sa ti, it was just a ga and, like Cani said, people were more than happy to do sothing just for the experience. What were gas for if not the experiences within them?
“That’s a lot of expressions you’re switching between,” Cani said. “Internally struggling or sothing?”
“Yeah,” I answered and took another bite of my pie. “You could say that. It just wouldn’t feel right to basically manage a bunch of people, but… I can’t deny that it would probably work best for . Hire people who are passionate and want to have fun managing the dungeon, and then I support them however I can, but mostly leave them to do their own thing.”
“The way I look at it, it’s only shitty if you don’t give them any creative freedoms. Obviously, they won’t want to do only what you want to do. You have to let them do what they want. That’s why it’s important to find sobody who wants the sa things as you. Hire sobody who doesn’t share any of the sa ideas and you’ll be disappointed. Hire sobody who is passionate and has the exact sa preferences and ideas as you, and it’ll be like you’re the one doing all the work without actually needing to, and they’ll be happy to do it while you sit back and reap the rewards. It’s kind of manipulative and lazy if you think about it, but this is a ga. Nobody is being forced or pressured into doing anything they don’t actually want to do.”
I finished my second slice of pie and then grumbled a bit. She had a point. It was probably the best idea there was. Not to ntion that I was already basically doing exactly that with both her and Thera. Cani managed the restaurant, while helping out with the front and managing guests, and Thera managed the defenses and security while also helping out with interior decorating every now and then. So, I was already doing exactly what I felt uneasy about, and it was working great. I just needed even more people to help out. Maybe just two more. One person to handle stuff like thed, erotic floors and rooms, special events, and so on, and then another person to handle collecting monsters.
But I couldn’t leave everything to them. I still had to provide in so way that only I could.
And if I thought about sothing that was seriously unique to
that only I could do… then it was becoming Lust’s Champion… and basically just using that as a marketing point.
Hey! Co and check out our dungeon owned by the ga’s only Champion of Lust!
Sothing like that.
But honestly, I already felt a bit better. Coming up with a plan that involved sharing the responsibilities with others so that I could focus on fewer things made
actually feel more motivated to go and finish up Lust’s questline.
But then there was the question of where was I going to find two others willing to help out with the dungeon who had the sa ideals as ?
There were a few people I knew who might be willing to help out, but I wasn’t sure. I’d have to basically set up interviews with them to gauge their interest in roles like that.
For the ti being, though, since I had at least one clear goal to focus on, being the futa, I—
“Question,” Cani said, interrupting my train of thought once again.
“Yeah?” I replied.
“You and your girlfriends are kind of in an open relationship, right?”
“Basically.”
“But they never fuck anybody else.”
“And honestly, at this point, I don’t exactly fuck anybody else either. It’s pretty much an open relationship in na only.”
“I see. Well, that ans you’re allowed to have sex with actual people, not just NPCs, outside of it, right?”
“Technically.”
“We should have so fun soti, then.”
I blinked a couple of tis before asking, “What brings this up?”
Cani shrugged with both her hands and shoulders. “Do you think I’m not going to ever get horny hearing all the moans in this place? I still have my own needs. And you’re pretty cool, so if I’m going to casually hook up with anybody, I’d rather it be with you.”
“Well, it’s definitely not sothing I’m opposed to.”
“I have to say, I’d rather you show a bit more excitent about it. I think I’m pretty cute, right? An avatar that attracts n to buy my food should also make them want to fuck .”
“You’re not wrong. I just—I don’t know. Never really expected you to want to fuck. Plus I figured you had a thing for Thera instead.”
“If… if I could do things with her… I—I would. But… she just… teases . Plus,” Cani looked
right in my eyes, “she’s set on—wait. Uh… ignore I said that.”
I raised my eyebrow. “She’s set on what?”
“Sh-shush! Anyways! Just… next ti you’re horny and your girlfriends aren’t on, just co bend
over one of my tables or sothing, got it?”
I sighed and smiled. She was pretty cute when flustered. “Got it. Also, since you’re a dog girl, that ans I get to tease you by calling you a good girl during it and all that, right?”
“Do… do you really think my avatars would be a dog girl and a wolf girl if I wasn’t into that sort of stuff?”
“Good point. I’ll have to get a collar and leash then.”
A slight blush colored Cani’s cheeks, prompting her to stand up and turn away. While she might have hidden the blush of her cheeks, though, all she really did was expose her wagging tail to . “Don’t… don’t talk like that unless you’re ready to do it now.”
“Who said I’m not?”
“I—I did! I have to leave in a few minutes for my little brother’s soccer ga… and there’s no way I’m only fooling around for a few minutes and then leaving. That would just annoy , and then I won’t be able to—”
“Won’t be able to stop thinking about being called a good girl while a leash tugs at the collar around your throat, unable to focus on your little brother’s ga?”
Cani’s avatar disappeared from existence the second I stopped talking.
Teasing her was fun. I understood why Thera did it.
I was going to have to make it up to her later.
For now, though… it was finally ti to actually go and fuck the futa. I had the determination to get it over with for the sake of becoming Lust’s Champion. All I had to do was wait for Lily and Akorya to get back, and then we could go over.
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