"So when is Zuke planning to come to Saitama Prefecture? I need to prepare to host you."
On Shin's phone, Girl A sent a message—they'd exchanged contact info before, so naturally could chat directly via phone outside the game.
One could see Girl A was truly preparing to use the area near her home as the offline meetup location, so was somewhat impatiently preparing to have Shin come inspect it.
"I'm available anytime, mainly depends on when you're free recently."
Shin also replied to Girl A's message on his phone—although for ordinary people, getting to Saitama Prefecture still required taking the subway and spending some time.
However, for Shin, going to Saitama Prefecture was just a matter of thought. As long as Shin was willing, flying around Earth several times was no problem.
Of course, since Girl A was just a netizen and Shin didn't even know the other party's situation, naturally he couldn't casually tell others about these abilities to show off.
In this game, the person closest to Shin was probably Gabriel. Although Girl A was also a decent game teammate, she wasn't as close as Shin and Gabriel.
"Then how about this Saturday? I'm free anytime on weekends. =w="
Girl A's reply also quickly reached Shin's phone. Although just a text message, it gave Shin a feeling of eager anticipation.
Previously Girl A said she was a female high school student—if her words were true, then indeed only weekends would be available. Shin had already anticipated this.
In fact, judging from in-guild gaming times, the vast majority of guild members were students or office workers. At least everyone's gaming time was quite regular.
Even someone like Gabriel, an online gaming addict, would only be immersed in games all day on weekends. Monday through Friday she'd only be online evenings to dawn.
"Then let's meet this weekend. The offline meetup time can also be set for some weekend."
Soon Shin arranged a time with Girl A on the phone—however, it must be said, Girl A truly had no defensive awareness toward Shin, very easily revealing the location near her home.
When Shin told her this behavior wasn't safe, Girl A sent back impressions with quite trusting wording:
"Oh my, should I say Zuke usually behaves too well? I don't feel any sense of danger at all."
Being clearly a female high school student yet showing such lack of caution toward Shin left Shin somewhat speechless—it seemed he'd somewhat underestimated guild members' opinion of him.
"Eh? Offline meetup?"
At night, when Shin turned off the computer preparing to wash up, he went to the living room and told Gabriel about what he'd just discussed with guild members in-game.
As expected, Gabriel, who'd been competing with Illya and Chloe at a racing game, froze completely.
She didn't expect that just one day offline from the game, the guild members in-game discussed such a major matter—this gave her a feeling of being excluded.
Of course, actually the reason guild members suddenly discussed offline meetups was precisely because Gabriel wasn't online, so it wasn't deliberately excluding Gabriel.
"How about it? Interested?"
Shin asked Gabriel with a smile. If Gabriel was interested, when he went to see Girl A this weekend, he could bring Gabriel along.
"Offline... I'm not really interested. After all, I'm only interested in the online game."
Gabriel's expression seemed somewhat troubled. As a very pure online gaming addict, in Gabriel's view, offline meetups were somewhat unnecessary.
Shin expressed understanding about this. If it were his former self, he probably wouldn't be interested in such offline activities either.
However, just when Shin thought Gabriel probably wouldn't participate in this activity, she suddenly raised her head, staring at Shin:
"By the way, you just said Girl A is a female high school student?"
Girl A—this game ID Gabriel naturally recognized too. Among guild players she was a member with decent skills. Gabriel often ran dungeons together with Girl A.
However, what she cared about now was that Shin just said he'd go see Girl A this weekend and that Girl A was a female high school student—this made her very concerned.
She had to be concerned, because Gabriel was very clear that she and Shin went from online to offline, ultimately developing this kind of relationship. What if that Girl A was the same?
"Ah? She did say she's a female high school student, but I don't know more specifics since we haven't met yet."
Shin froze, then seemingly realized what Gabriel was concerned about and couldn't help finding it somewhat funny.
"That person usually doesn't even join voice chat. Who knows if her claim of being a female high school student is true or false?"
"No, since that person dares invite you to meet, it means her being a female high school student is probably true."
However, Gabriel, who usually hardly liked using her brain, now thought quite seriously. She crossed her arms over her chest, frowned thinking for a while, then made a decision.
"Then I'm also coming to see this weekend!"
Clearly, what drove Gabriel to follow wasn't interest in the game guild's offline meetup, but pure vigilance that Girl A might develop an improper relationship with Shin like herself.
About this, Shin just shrugged—actually if something really happened, Gabriel seemingly couldn't stop it anyway.
"Is Dad going out this weekend?"
While Shin and Gabriel talked, Illya and Chloe also listened to the entire conversation. Chloe directly asked her doubt.
"Mm, meeting a friend."
Shin smiled and rubbed Chloe's head. He hadn't yet noticed Chloe's feelings toward him, still just treating Chloe as a child.
However, Chloe had many more thoughts—although being patted on the head by Shin showing intimacy made Chloe quite satisfied, this level of intimacy wasn't what she wanted.
"Should I go discuss with Sella and Leysritt..."
Now Chloe also felt that fighting alone, she probably couldn't make further progress with Shin for a long time.
So naturally, Chloe thought of the two maids Leysritt and Sella—if it were them, they could definitely help her.
To be continued…