Akira changed into his battle suit and followed Iwasaki while remaining concealed.
He forced himself to stay calm and not do anything rash. 'I want to kill him. This bastard.' With every passing second, his rage intensified. 'I want to crush his head and tear his limbs. No, calm down Akira, I have to root out the organization, this useless garbage...'
The fact that he was useless garbage enraged Akira even further. 'He's trash, but he managed to ruin my entire life. He doesn't even qualify as a villain, which makes me angrier. Iwasaki, this bastard is the sole reason why the organization was able to control me.
He plays with women and spends endless amounts of money on worthless things, and the only reason why the organization kept him, even though he was not even qualified to breathe the same air as them, was because he controls my weakness.'
Iwasaki received a call. "Yes… hmm, okay. I will go."
He proceeded to a tower dungeon, appearing to be newly formed as many players gathered there. Akira ceased concealing himself and entered the crowd.
At the entrance, a 24-year-old beautiful lady was arguing with the player association officer. "See, I am a 4th level VIP. Is there anyone higher than me? Why aren't you starting the bidding?" She asked with a cold attitude.
Akira remembered who she was. 'That's the Summer Snow Guild's leader, I think she is vice guild leader for now.' He observed Iwasaki clicking his tongue. 'Does he want to go into the dungeon? Then let's help. If he gets the reward, maybe he will give it to his boss.'
Approaching the officer, Akira said, "Excuse me. I'm a solo player named Black Bear. I want to enter the dungeon."
The officer scanned the QR code on Akira's mobile and confirmed, "Yes, you can enter."
"Wait, are you the cut-hand man?" Shizuka asked curiously. "Where is your brother?"
"We separated," Akira responded.
"Did you get into a fight?"
"No, for more efficiency, we split up," Akira explained. Shizuka felt embarrassed for assuming without thinking but maintained her cold demeanor.
"Is that so? But officer, why is he allowed? Is he a 5th-level VIP?" She inquired.
"No, but when two players have the same status, the favorability goes to solo players," the officer explained.
"Aa, excuse me, I want to enter too," Iwasaki interjected by showing his QR code. The officer scanned it. "1st level VIP. You can…"
"Wait," a man interrupted, arriving with a few more fancy-looking men. "Miss. Fujiwara, do you need some help? I have 3rd level VIP status."
"I also have 3rd level VIP," two more men echoed.
The officer felt pressured but upheld the rules. "Sorry, but you need another person with a 4th-level VIP to favor bidding."
"What? We are five people and they are only two, that too, one of them is only 1st level. This is an abuse of power by the player association," one of the men protested.
"Yeah, do you know how much you got from our donations combined? Why are you favoring a solo player?" another added.
Akira ignored them and said to the officer, "If there's no objection, I will enter."
The first man caught Akira's shoulder. "Stop. Where do you think you are going when I am speaking?"
A sword slid under his chin, very close to his neck, causing the man to release Akira by stepping back. He saw who did it. "You are...White Rabbit?"
"You are lucky that's not a weapon," said Haruka, referring to his hand.
"What are you doing here, White?" Akira asked in a serious tone.
"What? I just saved your ass. Is this how you show your gratitude?" Haruka yelled.
"I said not to follow me."
"Who followed you? I came to raid this dungeon."
"You don't enter this dungeon."
"Who are you to say that?" Haruka showed her QR code to the guard. The officer scanned it and said, "4th level VIP. Now there are two 4th level VIPs; you can enter the dungeon now."
Akira clicked his tongue. "Tsk, don't follow me."
Haruka sarcastically said, "Yeah, I made it my life mission to follow you."
Iwasaki became happy. 'Wow, these two big shots. If I can blackmail them, I will get a higher position in the organization.'
Akira and Haruka went into the dungeon.
The remaining players didn't have a choice but to enter as solo players. They could still bid the next day, but the rewards in the reward room would be less, so it was not worth it.
Akira and Haruka split up without speaking. Iwasaki saw that. 'They seem to be in a fight. If I use my skill on White Rabbit, then Black Bear will be in my palms for the rest of his life.'
Akira messaged in the system.
**Akira: Why did you come here?
Haruka: I really planned to come here. I didn't expect you to come here too.
Akira: Be careful of Goda, the man you pointed a sword at. He is extremely vengeful. Always use detection.
Haruka: ok**
Akira detected that Iwasaki followed Haruka. 'That bastard is trying to blackmail me with Ruka this time, but I am not worried. He is weak, and his skill won't work on her.
The professional skill she got from ascension at level 20 is called cleanse, with a passive effect. Any kind of marks, tracking skills, debuff skills, or skills that have a homing effect never work on her.
There is also an active skill part where she can use cleanse on her party members with a cooldown of 1 minute. That skill is so overpowered that I made her upgrade it to S rank the moment she got it.'
Akira quickly finished the monsters and did some more to collect crystals while shooting a video. After he had enough, he went to the reward room entrance portal and saw Fujiwara also coming to the exit, and both stopped at the entrance.
"It's you." Fujiwara seemed interested in talking to Akira. "You were in a hurry before, so we couldn't speak. Here's my business card."
Haruka took it while appearing out of nowhere. "Thanks. If you move aside." She pushed them away and entered the reward room.
"That's..." Fujiwara felt awkward.
"Don't mind him," said Akira and entered the portal. Fujiwara also entered and saw those 5 other men were already in the reward room. "So I am the 8th one here." Fujiwara walked towards them.
While Akira and Haruka tried to pick weapons, Goda said, "Hey, don't you have the minimum courtesy to let a lady pick first?"
"So this dungeon only has 5 rewards?" Akira asked sarcastically. "Then you should thank me for stopping you from bidding, and why are you so sure that I am not a lady? More so gay?"
Haruka smacked Akira's head. "Don't be creepy. Just let her pick. We are going to sell them anyway."
"No, I want that jelly ball." Akira went and picked it up. 'If we combine 5 of these items, we will get an SS rank item that can change into anything.'
"Well, I am a bow user anyway, I will pick the bow," said Fujiwara and picked the bow. Haruka picked the dagger.
"Let's go," said Akira, and Haruka followed him.
"You guys already made up? Aren't you waiting for the pool reward?" Fujiwara asked. They called the collection of dead players' gold and items the pool reward.
"No, requests for our videos are starting to pile up just in one day," said Haruka.
"I saw your videos too. You are fast learners, more so teachers," Fujiwara praised them.
"Well, that's my girlfriend's idea," said Haruka.
"You still didn't propose to her," said Akira. Haruka acted embarrassed. "I already got her parents' permission."
"Then she will be your fiancé, not your girlfriend." They made up a story that Black Bear and White Rabbit were siblings.
Black Bear had a girlfriend who was also a player while White Rabbit had a crush on his childhood friend, whom he couldn't propose due to fear. So he instead proposed to her parents and got their approval. His crush was not a player.
"By the way, your editing sucks," said Goda, catching the duo off guard. "You should hire an editor. You got more than a million views for each video. You can get more if the editing is good."
"Did they even edit? I think they just posted it like it is," said another man.
"We will work on that," said Akira, never expecting to hear advice from Goda. He was not as vengeful as Akira knew.
The duo left the dungeon. Haruka went to other dungeons while Akira waited in hiding.
All the reward winners appeared along with Iwasaki. 'As expected, he got the reward, even though he is trash, he at least managed it.' Akira thought and followed him. 'That is the problem with F and E rank versions.
People who raided tower dungeons a lot in these 2 versions became powerful because only these 2 versions of tower dungeons have S rank rewards. Later versions have the same rank rewards or one rank above.'
Iwasaki went outside the city. Soon he reached a voilet portal without anyone guarding it.