VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"You have this thing~?" Stars appeared in her eyes as soon as he showed Olive the pictures of Az, Miu, and Sera.

"Yup. They are my friends."

He knew her much better than she knew herself, and the same was true the other way around.

They had been together for a long time, so they knew a great lot about one another.

"Wow~! Look at them~."

Elio had a talent for taking pictures, and when they were inside the game, he had taken hundreds of pictures- screenshots- of various things.

Some of them were of his cute friends.

And, he knew of all the people in this world, this friend of theirs would love those adorable creatures unconditionally.

Especially the gecko.

"That smiling one is Miu, the round one is Az, my first friend in that world, and Sera is the most recent one.

She hasn't been around for that long, but she is a nice person."

He already told her how his adventures until now have been.

How his tutorial went, how he met those slimes, how he met Alex in the new town, and how the town was.

He had photos of all the occasions. He showed her all kinds of things. From small things to the pretty things to the creatures that he met in that world.

He showed her videos as well.

And, since all of this was [Cloud data] that he was showing her through his cyber watch's holographic screen, the quality was the same as the quality of his in-game vision.

The technology in this era was very convenient. Especially some of the things that have evolved into something that was only concepts a few decades back.

He liked this whole development of science, but he did not understand most of the things. The tech was her field, so he preferred to stay out of all of that.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Her name is Miu~? She's so cute~!"

Olive had a unique liking for reptiles.

Back at her house, she had made a special greenhouse where twelve different kinds of reptile species lived together.

And, she loved shiny crystal things as well– combining both of them, and giving it a forever happy bright smile, Miu was someone she could not possibly not like.

"If you start playing, you can meet them, you know?"

He knew merely telling her about the world, the cool things there, the things that she can do over there, and all various kinds of things would be ineffective.

Unlike normal people their age, she was of an older mindset like her mom.

Her dad was one cool person that Alex was best buddies with, but that was mainly because of how similar those two were.

"Elio… you know I have no time to play games. I have to manage the shop."

She looked at him with an upset face.

Her love for baking, this shop and seeing the satisfied smiles on her customers was one of the reasons she was not playing those games.

She did not find them boring, but there was nothing there that she cannot have here.

Plus, if she wastes her precious time playing games like the rest of them, who would look after the shop?

"You have plenty of time, Olive. We play for too long, but since time goes on three times faster in that place, even if you just play for three or four hours, that would be three times in that world."

Elio scrolled through the images and showed her one of the cuter one of Miu's smiling photos… which was certainly effective.

"You know what? You can cook as you like in that place, and if you open a shop in a big city there, you can attract even more people.

Plus, you can fulfill your wish of making a reptile cafe there."

A place where snakes serve tea, iguanas pass on sugar, and a place where crocodiles are helpers.

She wanted a place where people and these reptiles could live together without the state laws preventing something like that.

She obviously cannot do that absurd thing in reality, but things would be different inside this particular game.

"I know you have tried it in games before, but this one is different. I don't think there is something specific like a reptile cafe in <NO> but I remember there is a unique cafe belonging to one of the famous tamers."

He showed her Miu's picture when she was looking at the unique Mana plant in the restaurant where they met Miss Aloha for the first time.

The amazed look of the little gecko was even more attractive to her since the reptiles that she had in reality were not as expressive as this one.

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This was her first time seeing such a unique creature.

"Alex, tell her."

"Nah. You're doing a nice job convincing her."

She did not get to see any drama, so she was enjoying this new soap before her while chewing on her bread.

It was fun seeing these two. Especially when she was switching between her cute side and her professional side like that.

"You're something else, Alex…" Elio really did not know what to do with this girl. He wanted to spank her or something, but he could only glare at her in this place. Still…

"Hey. Don't look at her like that!" Olive hit his resting hand with a spoon while looking at him with an angry look.

He was talking with her and if she did not want to interfere in their matters, she had all the right to just sit there and watch. She was doing the right thing in the first place.

Unlike this friend of hers, she was at least not doing anything to force her into playing that game.

Olive wasn't interested in it since she knew if she likes that too much then she wouldn't be able to focus on what she was doing right now.

And she did not want that.

"Olive…" He looked at Alex's smirking face with another angry glare, but he could not continue it when Olive was here.

So he just shook his head, ignored her, and looked back at his friend while showing her a photo of Misha and Miu.

Something that instantly caught her attention…