Chapter 50
Chapter 50
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 50
Chapter Title: Fighting is Prohibited!
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As time passed, our house started to take on a proper shape.
It had begun as a rickety wooden shack, but we'd upgraded parts of it with stone.
We'd even placed sleeping bags inside to set our respawn point, turning it into something that could really be called a settlement.
That got the members thinking about content they wanted to create for themselves.
Thanks to that, I finally felt like I could focus on farming.
"Alright, we'll head out exploring then!"
"Be careful!"
After wrapping up a massive three-hour project,
the most energetic duo—Yukiko and Lilith unnie—announced they were off to explore a dungeon.
Last has all sorts of mods and plugins added.
One of the ones on this server is dungeon content with monsters.
Apparently, the President added it on purpose for folks who prefer PVE thrills over bumping into other players and doing tense PVP.
"Ah, thanks for the 10,000 won donation. Yeah, I'm skipping dungeons for now and focusing on farming. I'm thinking of growing a bunch of pumpkins and selling them."
True, pumpkins are a bit tricky to grow.
But if I keep at it, they'll pay off someday.
After all, they're the rarest food in Last!
Sure, there are other great hunger-fillers like chocolate, bear meat, or canned goods.
But those can't be produced on-site.
Bears are tough with our current gear, too.
And you can't even sell chocolate or cans.
With these pumpkins, I'm going to become Last's top farmer!
Crunch crunch—
I wandered the plains, harvesting the small pumpkins that had sprouted.
Munch munch—
Eating them gives pumpkin seeds like this.
Plant those in the field I made earlier.
I can't craft a water pump yet, so watering by hand for now...
Once I farm up more stuff, I can automate it. Just gotta push through for now.
"Huh? Lu-unnie, what are you doing here?"
When I got back to my field, there was Lucrezia unnie wandering around.
Didn't she say she was going fishing?
Ellin unnie was nowhere in sight, so maybe they'd stepped out briefly.
"Just came to watch our maknae farm. And I snagged some good loot for you?"
"Good loot?"
"Yeah. Here."
Whoosh—
Gasp!
The moment I picked up the items unnie had dropped on the ground,
I nearly choked on air.
And for good reason—they were all essentials for building my farming setup.
Exactly.
As the chat pointed out, tarps are pretty rare.
You can farm them on land, but the highest drop rate is from shipwreck chests—underwater.
And she brought back 60?
That means at least twenty wreck chests.
"What do you think? Even unnie can be helpful, right?"
"Th-thank you, unnie...! Tarps were my biggest worry."
They're essential for making planters, the most important part of field farming.
Without them, you're stuck dirt-farming, which is a pain to manage.
I'd planned to make just one row with what I had and start small.
Now, thanks to unnie, I can plant a ton right away.
"H-how should I repay you?"
"Psh, repay me? What're you talking about with our maknae."
"Still..."
Give her a pumpkin?
That's fine, but it'd look pathetic compared to what she gave me.
"Well, if our maknae really feels bad, there's a way you could repay me."
I was pondering repayment options when
unnie tossed out some welcome words.
"What is it? I'll do anything!"
"Hmm, really? Anything?"
"...Huh?"
I'd jumped at the chance to settle the debt,
but her immediate reply caught me off guard.
I could feel the air shift.
No, that's not it.
What are you all saying?
Unnie wouldn't attach weird conditions to me.
She's just offering a simple payback to ease my guilt, since she knows I'll feel bad.
"Huh, no answer? Our maknae wouldn't say stuff she doesn't mean, right?"
"N-no way...! Tell me anything."
My hesitation made unnie press again.
I frantically shook my head, signaling I'd accept any offer.
Sure, how bad could it be?
Probably the usual teasing routine.
I'm a growing VTuber!
I won't flinch at that level of prank...
"For real? Then come play at unnie's house next time?"
"Pl-play?"
"Yeah. You've hung out alone with Lilith, but never with me."
...Not never!
That's a huge demand!
I still get nervous alone with Chae-yoon unnie, and now Ra-hee unnie's house?
Her family might even be there!
"What are you all talking about? Eat me? You'd think Lu-unnie was a bad person."
I sharply scolded the chat's baseless hate.
How sweet is unnie?
She'd never mistreat me.
"Right, unnie?"
Slurp... Yeah, that's right.
Ugh, you all overreact so much.
Anyway, if that's what unnie wants, no choice.
She'd even vented in the group chat about me only hanging with Lilith unnie.
This is a good chance to bond. Playing alone isn't bad.
"So, what'll it be? Coming over?"
"Y-yeah...! If that's what you want..."
"Great. Our maknae listens so well."
Unnie patted my character and chuckled.
The chat was still rioting not to let her take me,
but I ignored it and accepted.
Does this mean another off-collab?
Gotta ask unnie for details later.
The Last server hosted by streamer Haneul Bom.
Over four days—short or long depending on how you see it—tons of streamers logged in.
Not just mid-tier ones averaging 300-400 viewers,
but mostly top-ranked Twitch giants.
Raku, the female streamer nicknamed that, was one of them.
"Oh, guys. What's this field doing here?"
After fleeing a nearby fight,
she spotted a field on her way down the hill and her eyes lit up.
It was minimalist yet cute, clearly someone's labor of love—enough to pique interest.
"Nah, they won't chase us this far. Let's go say hi."
She's the sociable type by nature.
Curious about the field's owner, she headed straight over.
A small stone building sat in the field, engraved with a cute message: "Please don't steal..."
"Pfft, guys, isn't this adorable? Not 'Don't steal!' but 'Please don't steal.' They'll steal anyway."
"Right? Let's call out. Hello? Anyone there?"
She scanned the field briefly, then called for the owner.
No one appeared.
Out farming maybe?
Thwip—!
"Eek?!"
She'd stopped to wait when an arrow from somewhere thunked into the stone building.
Startled, Raku looked up the hill and spotted the deer-masked enemy from earlier.
"Goddamn, so persistent...! Cheolgae, you gonna keep this up?!"
Cheolgae, a male streamer she was actually pretty close with IRL.
Raku yelled at him, and an even louder shout came back.
"Who smashes someone else's base first?! Got some nerve talking back!"
"You killed our team first, what...!"
"Your team started shit!"
"Argh, seriously! It happens in Last, so what...!"
As Cheolgae descended the hill, Raku pondered.
Her bag had no decent weapons—just a basic stone for farming.
Grab that, and he'd see combat stance and loose arrows without hesitation.
Game over.
"Ch-Cheolgae, calm down first... Let's talk it out..."
"Yeah, scram."
"You little shit!"
She tried to de-escalate,
but he kicked the table like always, proving their IRL friendship.
As Raku bolted across the field in rage,
"Um, excuse me... Please don't fight..."
"Huh?"
"What?"
A thin voice came from somewhere, and someone emerged from behind the stone building.
Cheolgae and Raku, unfamiliar with the voice, were baffled.
Viewers mostly recognized it and welcomed her—the VTuber Lulu, blowing up via clips across streams.
"F-fighting's bad... Please calm down..."
"Ah, y-you're... Lulu, right?"
"Y-yes... That's me. Nice to meet you."
Unlike total noob Cheolgae,
Raku knew of Lulu beyond the voice and played familiar.
Lulu bowed cutely, her voice stirring protective instincts.
Though characters were uniform tanned avatars,
her mic made Lulu's avatar overlay in the mind's eye.
"Sorry, Lulu. Won't trash the field—just kill this one quick and go."
Cheolgae fixated on his nemesis, nocking another arrow.
Lulu had zero ties to their beef.
"No, why kill?! Didn't you hear Lulu say no fighting?!"
"......"
But when Raku invoked Lulu and yelled,
he hesitated on the click.
Seeing Lulu innocently mediate felt like he was the bad guy.
Tension hung between them in standoff,
Lulu sandwiched, unsure, then suddenly dashed to the field behind.
And rummaged around.
She harvested two just-ripened pumpkins.
The only successes from today's seeds.
Oothers died or stayed tiny.
"Um, please don't fight... Take these and make up."
"Huh?"
"Oh? Pumpkins."
She scooped them up, returned, and dropped one at each's feet.
Sudden windfall lit up their eyes.
Chasing and fleeing had bottomed their hunger.
"Whoa! Lulu, you grow pumpkins?"
"Y-yeah. Just started today, and these two big ones are ready. Ehehe..."
"Only two? And you're giving them to us?"
"You didn't have to..."
Her hard-earned big pumpkins—the only two.
Realizing they got them, they tried to refuse out of guilt.
But Lulu just shook her head and smiled.
"Hehe, it's fine. As long as you two make up."
"Whoa..."
No greed whatsoever.
A true goddess of peace—chat became a sea of tears.
The mood flipped instantly; mid-fight Raku and Cheolgae bowed awkwardly.
"S-sorry, Lulu. Won't fight anymore."
"Sorry too. Didn't mean to cause a scene..."
"No! Come back for more pumpkins anytime!"
Rustle—
Lulu waved her character's hand and scattered more items.
They picked up paper-like slips: "Lulu's Pumpkin Voucher."
Not real Last items—probably plugin custom.
Usually worthless novelties used as currency...
"Bring this for a free big pumpkin! If I have any by then... Hehe."
"How... Lulu, you're too kind."
"It's nothing..."
Realizing it was her souvenir for field visitors,
they gasped and tucked the vouchers away preciously.
Thus passed the monumental event marking Lulu's pumpkin field going server-wide viral.