If the quest didn’t need four people, Leo might have picked a fight with the man. However since he was needed, he could only swallow his anger for now and try to ignore the remarks from the man. Instead he chose to share the quest details with the 3 of them.

Ouroboros had a drop of cold sweat drip down his forehead as he realized that he had made a mistake. He felt both hot and cold when he stood in front of Leo. On his right, Lunas fiery gaze was locked on him in a silent threat: ‘Say one more word and I will crush you’. On his left, Lily glared at him with ice in her eyes. If it was possible, she would have left him as a block of ice with just her eyes.

“My bad, My bad. I presume that you are the little brother?”

he scratched the back of his head before trying to salvage the mistake with a light hearted remark

“It’s just that you are so cute, my brain couldn’t think of you as anything but a cute lil girl~”.

Bloodlust bloomed from the two girls while even the boy in question glared at him like he wanted nothing more than to tear him apart. Despite the tension, he put a confident smile on his face, pretending as if he wasn’t a little bit terrified of the three of them.

“Are you sure you can’t call anyone else?”

Leo asked, turning his head towards Lily hoping to replace this rude snake with someone who didn’t irritate him but she just shook her head in disappointment.

“It seems that this village has no other players. Beast Races are apparently pretty rare. So for better or worse, we are stuck with him.” .

‘Tsk”

Leo clicked his tongue in disapproval. Instead he turned away from the irritating snake, irritation leaking from his voice

“Fine then. Lets go to the forest and get this quest over with!”

“Wait a second Leo. I have a present for you”

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Lunas sudden interjection caused Leo to look back to see her pulling out a small paper bag from what looked like a void in space. Perhaps it was how Players inventory looked from an outsiders point of view.

“I bought you a change of clothes . You can’t keep going around like that. We don’t want them to mistake you for a bandit or something.” she explained with a small smile on her face.

Leo looked at his own blood stained clothes before looking at the bag in his sisters hands. Realizing there was some merit in what she had said, he flashed her a bright smile and said “Thank you sis!” before taking the bag from her hands.

Without a second thought, he mentally thought to equip the new clothing as it was actually proper gear. In a split second, his bloodied clothes were replaced with a new outfit but the clothing in itself horrified the young man.

He now wore what he could only describe as a short leather vest that fully exposed his midriff and upper arms while also exposing part of his chest in addition to a pair of black shorts that had a hole in the back from which his exposed tail fit through perfectly. The overall ensemble made his already adorable appearance appear a bit more sensualized which made Leo feel ashamed. A wordless cry of embarrassment escaped his lips as the 3 people in his party had different reactions.

Ouroboros was trying his best not to laugh, his facial expression twitching as he made a calm but clearly mocking remark

“You look very nice in that. Super adorable.”

Seeing the young man on the verge of tears was quite amusing to him. He did feel a twang of sympathy for Leo as he was technically being bullied but it was most likely unintentional. Even still, Ouroboros had no intention of ever stepping in to help him out on that front, he wouldn’t want to sabotage his fun.

Luna was relatively expressionless but she gave Leo a big thumbs up, her nose flaring with pride as she thought the outfit looked great on him. She was oblivious to the reason why Leo was staring at her with tears in his eyes. She thought he was in tears from getting a gift from his big sister, unaware that he was screaming ‘SIS YOU IDIOT!’ in his head.

Lily didn’t overly react to the sight at first glance. She simply covered her mouth with one hand to cover her smile before turning her head away. Her mental state was a complete mess as she felt like she was on the verge of getting a nosebleed from the cuteness. While saying nothing, she scoured through the menu options, trying to find the camera function so she could take pictures of the incarnation of cuteness before her.

Leo tried to manipulate the menu to change back but found out he couldn’t as the clothes he had been wearing were labeled [Destroyed] and one couldn’t re-equip destroyed items after taking them off.

Leo wanted to go find something else to wear but Luna reached out and grabbed his hand, pulling him along

“Lets go complete that quest!”

Luna clearly excited to finally go out into the forest and fight let out an enthusiastic shout.

“Noooooo! Let me change!”

Leo howled in misery as he was dragged away, even when he dug his feet in, he was unable to stop his sister from pulling him along.

Lily let out a small laugh as she followed along. She felt comfort in knowing that Leo was also unable to stop Luna when she became excited

“Poor lad~”

Ouroboros softly laughed before following behind them with both of his hands on his head in a relaxed manner.

“By the way Ms. Lily, it would probably be best you dont tell the Bunny that you are taking candid photos of her brother. Might ruin your friendship~”

. “You can shut your mouth”

Lily growled back with a frown upon hearing the snake whisper in her ear. Still, she did take his advice into account and turned off the photography function for now.

The party of four was set and their journey into the forest was about to begin as the moon rose high into the sky.