Lily walked around wearing a Noh mask, looking for somewhere to live that was cheap and that she could stay in permanently.
Why didn't William answer her?
She thought he wanted her to join his guild so didn't he mean it anyway?
All the good places were occupied by guilds and that annoyed her.
After looking for half an hour, she gave up. She tried calling William again and if she didn't hear from him, she would remove him as a friend if that option even existed.
William was falling asleep out of boredom and could tell Leo wasn't interested in their conversation about a strategy to defeat the next boss either.
"Can't you just ask Ace or Ezekiel, then I don't have to participate." he said, yawning.
"They only care if you're included, have you forgotten that?" Calista replied.
Suddenly William heard a message:
LickMe has contacted you. Do you want to accept the call or decline?
He was so pleasantly surprised that he got up and looked at the others and said, "I have to take an important call." and went to a corner and accepted.
Suddenly Lily heard a ping sound and a man's voice said, "What can I help you with?"
She was surprised to hear William's voice in her head.
"Is there a guide where you can see how much it costs to set up a guild?" She asked.
"It's expensive just to pay for the information and it's only people who do it when they are certain they want to create a guild." William replied.
Lily knew that everything cost money here and was reminded of her father's words 'nothing is free in the world' and he was right. The air she breathed here had cost her gold to get here.
“Why do you want to create a guild suddenly? You must meet a lot of requirements first.” William said.
“I don't like that I can't see how much gold I have, and you said a guild can store gold.” Lily answered honestly.
"Yes, that's right but if that's your only concern then you can join my guild temporarily if that's the case." William suggested.
Lily knew he was right that it was a small thing to waste a lot of gold on and she knew the feeling of being alone in a guild with inactive players. Unfortunately, people knew LickMe so she had to change her name, but it would also change on William's screen.
“There is something I have to tell you first.” she said explaining to him that she could change her name with a 24h cooldown and wanted to join his guild temporarily but wanted to use a different name.
"Alright then change it now and then come to my guild building at the entrance." William said with a big smile.
"Why is he so happy all of a sudden?" Calista asked, looking at him.
"I don't know, but he's been like this since this morning." Ethan replied.
Suddenly William came walking towards them and said, "We have a new guild member but he is shy so I will take him alone and show him around."
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The man in cleric clothes named Luck stood up, looked at him in surprise and said, “You never accept new members. Did you hit your head this morning?”
"Don't you know LickMe?" William asked.
They all looked at him in surprise and Ethan said excitedly, "Is it him or her?"
"No, but it's his little brother." William replied.
"So that's why you were so excited about that call because you thought LickMe would join us." Amelia said, breathing a sigh of relief.
Suddenly it dawned on her that LickMe was a man so now she wasn't worried about his brother joining their guild. She was not interested in a nobody and it was nothing new that William was interested in LickMe because he had appeared on the rank list out of the blue.
"Yes, yes, that's fine enough. We're done now anyway,” she said looking at Calista, “Come on let's go.” and they left the building.
Ethan stood back with Luck and looked at him curiously and said, "We want to meet him."
"I'm not interested in men, and I have my goddess." Leo said leaving the building jumping in joy.
William didn't know if LickMe would meet Ethan and Luck, but it was better to ask to be sure as he doesn't want to get on her bad side.
Suddenly, Lily heard William say, “My two friends want to meet you. We're close. Is it okay?"
Since Lily could change her name and was wearing a Noh mask it didn't matter. She was most afraid of meeting women because they could be extremely annoying.
"Okay. I will come over in a little while and change my name now.” she said.
She removed her long daggers and put on her hood because if it was down her long hair could be seen.
"Can you name me Santa Claus." she said.
"Understood Santa Claus." replied the system.
She heard a ping sound and opened her interface:
Name: Santa Claus
And breathed a sigh of relief but was jubilantly happy because it meant she could use LickMe again if it was another name and run around insulting people. She knew she had to be careful if people checked her stats but when she got more titles and subclasses, she might be able to change them to her advantage.
She made her way to the gold building and saw William and 2 other men outside looking at her. When she stood at the entrance, the 2 men studied her immediately.
“So, you're LickMe's little brother. You're not very tall.” Ethan said, checking her stats:
Name: Santa Claus
Title: Fish Slayer, Dungeon Master
Class: Assassin
Lvl: 220
When they saw her name, they looked at her shocked and surprised.
"Your big brother's name is LickMe and you're called Santa Claus. You must come from a special family.” Ethan said.
"My mother had a wet dream the day before my brother was born so that's why it became his name." Lily replied.
"My name is Luck and that's Ethan." Luck introduced, holding out his hand for a handshake.
Lily was about to extend her right hand but suddenly remembered that her body was that of a woman and he would notice that she had fragile female hands.
"I would like to shake hands, but I have mysophobia." she said which was half the truth because she hated some types of bacteria.
"Pardon." Luck said, withdrawing his hand.
"Come let me show you around." William said opening his interface.
Suddenly Lily heard a ping:
Guild Master Lord William has invited you to join his guild
Lily was about to accept it but looked at him and asked, “Do people notice that I've joined your guild and is it mandatory to participate in guild events? I'd rather be incognito.”
"Everyone only looks at the top 1000 because we have thousands of members and no, you don't have to. When you store gold, we automatically get guild points with which you can buy things.” William replied.
Lilly accepted it:
You have joined the Guild Dancing Dragons. You are now bound to the guild for 2 months and cannot leave it.
Lily looked at William and saw that he was smiling widely but, in her eyes, it looked like he was laughing at her. She would only use his guild for a week to settle in and buy the necessary items but now she was bound to it for 2 months.
Why didn't he mention that?
"You're cunning you didn't mention the important detail." she said and pouted.
William chuckled and now smiled even more, and it looked like he was blooming.
“Unfortunately, you are bound to my guild for 2 months before you can leave it.” he answered.
Ethan and Luck looked at them both now understanding what was going on.
So, it was actually William who had tried to recruit Santa Claus, but why was he so interested in him?
Suddenly something dawned on Ethan, and he looked at William in surprise.
Now he understood why he avoided women all the time, but he was sad that he hadn't been confidential with them since they were some of his best friends.
They had to take good care of Santa Claus if he was under William's wing.
“Welcome.” he said, smiling.