Glacier sister, don't want to be a sandwich

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Chapter 148: Hikawa Family’s Gaming Journey (Part 2) (Revised)

At night at Bingchuan's house, the three sisters of the Bingchuan family sat in front of the computers in their respective rooms.

"How do we play this?"

Hikawa Sayo felt a little strange looking at the computer screen in front of her.

"Well, um, sister, you need to register an account first, then choose a server, and then go in to customize your face—customizing your face means adjusting your character's appearance!"

Yue Ge's voice rang out cheerfully from the headphones, with her usual energy and enthusiasm. "Can I share my facial design? My character is super cute!"

"Well... I don't really care whether the character is cute or not..." Saya sighed, and started clicking step by step according to Yuege's instructions.

While she was still exploring the account interface, another active voice suddenly sounded in the voice chat.

"Oh oh oh! I'm already in!"

Hinata's voice exploded like an effervescent tablet, her tone filled with undisguised excitement. "There are so many sparkling little stars on my clothes! It's super!"

"That's too fast, isn't it, Sister Hina?" Yue Ge asked curiously. Normally, it would take a while for everyone to pinch their faces, but Hina came in so quickly. "How did you choose so quickly?"

"Because I don't have to choose!" Hinata replied matter-of-factly, "I like anything that sparkles!"

"...Is it really okay for you to play like this?" Saya muttered worriedly while operating.

"Of course!" Hinata said confidently, "As long as my sister is with me, everything will be fine!"

"Ah..." Saya sighed softly, but the corners of her mouth curled up slightly.

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Finally, after a long thirty minutes of trial and error, Hikawa Sayo finally managed to log into the game successfully.

"Okay, I'm coming in too."

Her voice rang out over the voice channel.

In front of the screen, Sayo frowned slightly, sliding the mouse back and forth in her right hand. Her perspective swayed left and right in the virtual world, as if she was adapting to this new operating method. "Next... what should I do?"

"Add me as a friend first, then I'll bring you and Hina-san to my place!"

Yuege skillfully sent out a friend request and gave step-by-step guidance via voice.

Under Yue Ge's guidance, the three of them soon gathered at the same small grassland village, and their character models stood side by side in the game world.

"Uh……"

Yue Ge looked at the scene in front of him and couldn't help but hold his forehead.

On the screen - three almost identical girls with blue hair, green eyes, and even their hairstyles are not much different.

One of them was wearing silver-white heavy armor and standing upright meticulously, while the other was wearing blue light armor and a pair of cat ear headdresses and was dancing in circles.

"Why, why do the sisters make their characters look exactly like real people?"

Yue Ge complained helplessly, switching her eyes between the two characters, "It's impossible to tell who is who at all!"

Sayo said seriously, "I just thought... it would be easier to make it myself."

"I just think it's so--luuuu! So cute!"

Hinai said this confidently while controlling her character in the game to swing her dual swords and spin and jump.

"Alright, alright..." Yue Ge sighed, tentatively accepting her sisters' assumption that "the game character is equal to myself," and continued, "So... what professions did you choose?"

"warrior."

Sayo responded concisely.

"I'm an assassin!"

Hinai's voice is full of energy.

"..."

She had been fully expecting her sisters to form the most classic warrior-mage-priest combination with her - but now it has become two front-line damage outputs and one assassin.

No matter how you look at it, this combination seems like a sign that the team will be wiped out due to insufficient health.

"It feels like another tough battle..."

She muttered to herself, but a bitter smile slowly appeared on her face.

Forget it, it was she who insisted on dragging her sisters into the trap, so this result seemed to be expected.

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Taking advantage of the level, Yue Ge controlled the character while leading his two "newbie sisters" to sweep through the major newbie areas, successfully raising their levels by more than ten levels.

However - the higher the level, the greater the challenge.

The area that was once easy to pass through, now not only has the monsters' attack power increased dramatically, but even the hatred mechanism has become much more complicated.

Different from Yue Ge's "steady and steady upgrade rhythm with neat equipment", Sayo and Hinata, as "fast upgrade party", not only have equipment that is old from a few levels ago, but also almost no medicine.

The result is that as long as you enter an area with slightly dense monsters, the hatred chain is triggered, and a group of monsters pounce on you. As soon as the front-line warrior Yue Ge pulls the enemy in front, the health bars of the sisters in the back row drop down.

"Wow...Sister, use the medicine quickly!"

Yue Ge operated while keeping an eye on his teammates' health bars.

"The medicine... is still cooling down!"

Sayo's tone also became a little hurried, and the character was running around in panic between the monsters, with several debuff icons flashing on his body.

"I'm here to save you!"

Hina's voice was still lively, but her control was not so reliable. She rushed forward and cast an assassin skill, hitting an astonishing 84 points of critical hit.

"It seems... not enough."

Just as she finished speaking, a huge mace whizzed down in front of her, directly emptied out the remaining quarter of her health, leaving only a despairing red number floating on the screen.

"It's over..."

Yue Ge's face changed, and just as he was about to turn around to rescue, another wave of monsters rushed up.

"boom!"

Two fireballs flew in from a distance, sending the monster that was clutching Yue Ge back a few steps. Then, a familiar voice rang out in the team channel:

"Hehe~ It seems that without the help of this Great Demon Princess, my followers are indeed... a little inferior..."

"Slightly inferior." RinRin reminded from the side.

"Yes! Slightly inferior!" Yazi made a grand appearance controlling the fire mage character.

"Senior Ako!"

Yue Ge's voice was full of emotion.

"Leave the recovery to me."

A gentle voice was heard, and then, green recovery light enveloped Saya and Hina's characters, and their health bars quickly recovered to full value.

"Sushi!"

Yue Ge's eyes sparkled as he watched the girl controlling the priest role walk forward, steady and reliable as always.

"That...attack power enhancement."

Finally, the bard on the side also appeared slowly. The character controlled by Takamatsu Deng raised the instrument and played the melody softly, adding a golden buff halo to the whole team.

Yue Ge watched as his character's health bar on the screen slowly recovered to full, then looked at the team members who had re-formed around him, and the tense string in his heart finally relaxed.

The priest controlled by Su Shi stood in the back row, casting healing spells gently on her teammates, just like her calm and delicate personality; while the bard controlled by Xiao Deng stood quietly by, the golden buff light spreading like ripples, accompanied by the rhythm of her soft melody, bringing strength and encouragement to the entire team.

"Strengthen attack power, improve evasion, increase recovery speed..."

Yue Ge glanced at the status bar on her body. The neat row of gain icons almost covered the lower half of the screen, and she felt an unprecedented sense of security in her heart.

She leaned back in her chair, a relaxed and satisfied smile on her lips, and sighed softly:

"As expected... Xiao Deng and Su Shi are the most reassuring."

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Chapter 149: The Glacier Family’s Gaming Journey (Part 2) (Revised)

Yue Ge looked at the team that had just resolved the crisis, and she felt relieved. She turned to the people on the screen and asked:

"RinRin, Ako, Kotobuki, Motoyo, Hailing, Arisaki-senpai... why are you all here?"

Su Shi replied quickly: "Yue Ge, didn't you check the group chat just now? There's a special event tonight. Yazi is calling everyone in the group to fight the limited-time boss."

Yue Ge subconsciously picked up her phone from the table and saw several unread messages in the band group chat. She stuck out her tongue and muttered to herself, "Ah... I forgot to check when I was leveling up with the sisters just now."

She immediately switched back to the game interface, dragged Sayo and Hinata into the group, and then typed with a smile:

"Oh right, let me introduce everyone. This is my sister Sayo, a warrior, and my sister Hina, an assassin!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the character she controlled turned around and saw a row of female characters standing in an orderly manner - long green hair, emerald green eyes, and face shapes and hairstyles that were almost identical.

Yazi couldn't help but send a voice message: "...is your character design copied and pasted?"

RinRin also sent an emoji: "Σ(?ω?ノ)ノ It's so hard to tell..."

In the game screen, there are three blue-haired girls standing side by side, with the names above their heads written from left to right: "Tsukuge", "Saya", and "Hina". Although their clothes and weapons are different, the uniform style of the Hikawa family still makes the entire team interface look particularly unified.

The assassin character controlled by Hina even did a dance with its own moves, and shouted in conjunction with the voice: "We are! The Three Glacier Sisters!"

"Hina, be quiet." Saya's character silently took a half step back, but she didn't really walk away. She just sighed softly.

Yue Ge couldn't help but burst out laughing when she saw this scene, with the corners of her mouth curved like a crescent moon: "Hehe~ Since we met by such a coincidence, let's play together!"

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"Take my Dark Explosion!"

In the game, the character of the great demon princess Ako swung her staff, and a dazzling fireball, interspersed with purple and red special effects, slammed into the enemy group. The explosion's light effect almost illuminated the entire screen for a moment, and the special effect was accompanied by a huge "Critical Hit" text, creating a visual feast.

Sitting in front of the screen, Hikawa Sayo raised an eyebrow, looking at the middle school mage in a black cape, with exaggerated lines but explosive output. She couldn't help but turn to ask Xiang Yuege: "Ya Zi... is she always like this?"

"Yeah!" Yue Ge nodded with a smile, her tone full of appreciation. "Senior Azi has always been very cute!"

"Cute... huh?" Saya repeated in a low voice, recalling the scene when she had watched Ako perform at the Live House - at that time, she also had a firm look in her eyes, full of enthusiasm, jumping between the drums and the melody, full of energy.

She pondered for a second, then nodded: "It seems...it is indeed quite cute."

But the next second, another image emerged uncontrollably in her mind - Yue Ge with long green hair, shouting "Dark Explosion!" in the same middle school second tone.

There was a "thump" in Sayo's mind, and her whole body was shocked:

So cute! So deadly!!

She couldn't help but lower her head and cover her face, screaming silently in her heart.

"It's just..." She tried to calm herself down and muttered to herself, "This feeling seems a little familiar..."

The next moment, a loud voice came from the headset, interrupting her thoughts——

"Lu! Then I'll come too!"

In the game, the assassin character of Japanese cuisine suddenly rushed forward, showing a pair of shining double blades, "Look at my super slash!!"

“…” Saya slowly closed her eyes and let out a long breath.

It's this sense of familiarity.

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Yue Ge and his group marched forward in a mighty manner, and finally arrived at the spawn location of the special event Boss mentioned in the announcement.

In the center of this open space, a huge boss was crouching and sleeping.

Its body was covered in black scales that were cracked like lava, and on its back grew bony wings that were twisted like dead branches. On its head, two crimson-like eyes were slightly open, as if it had sensed the approach of the crowd.

"Is this today's boss? He seems... so scary..." Xiao Deng whispered in the voice channel, his tone full of nervousness.