Chapter 73: The Roleplayers (1/2)

Merlin watched as the blonde girl's face suddenly shi+fted into a worried expression after receiving the notification that she had been poisoned Her tongue turned purple, and that purple blight quickly spread along her face and down her neck

The rest of her teairl's face was overtaken by the purple hue, they then turned to face Merlin with their weapons drawn

"What the hell did you do to her?" The sa his sword at him

"What do you mean what did I do?" Merlin looked at him with a dumbfounded expression, "I didn't make her lickblood How do you not expect blood trans?"

The redhead see with his retort It seemed she wasn't very fond of blood, or at least the consu a ranged play-style

Merlin guessed that this was a group of friends who decided that they wanted to roleplay as characters, which wasn't an uncoame allowed you to live a second life completely different to your own, so most people who enjoyed the escapis out their characters, so a personality that was the complete opposite of their real life counterparts

The aggressive katana guy clearly went for a samurai theme, the archer went for the typical redhead archer woman trope that was popular in fantasy stories The heftier iant, or bulky barbarian-like character that swung around heavy weapons And the blonde girl went for the typical cute-but-psycho character trope, most likely modelled after some character from pop culture

"Calm down, the poison will dissipate in five uard up "Now, before you go back to attacking me, can you just confirroup? There is a chance this "

"We're not a part of their group, we are against their group" The redhead archer spoke up this ti it at Merlin just yet

"Good to hear, well I'er the group "In fact, I have this red nao"

Hearing this, the group seemed to calm down a tiny amount, but they still had their weapons drawn It was at this ures appeared in the distance froroup, sobnny and Typhoeus were running towards the group as fast as they could, and once they were only a few meters away, they slowed down into a small walk

"See, I told you they wouldn't kill each-other, you orried for nothing" Typhoeus remarked out loud as he approached

"They all have their weapons drawn, I'd say they were close to--" sobnny caught a gli as she stared at her "Alvira, why are you purple?"

The blonde girl who sobnny called Alvira didn't answer, and instead tried covering her purple face with her long blonde hair in eroup turned to face Merlin, who had just started sheathing his gladius

"Well, now that we've figured out our affiliations Friends?" Merlin spoke up as he ripped an arrow out of his battered shi+eld, offering to hand it back to the archer "We can call it a tie"

The archer was the first to put her weapon away, she retrieved the arrow Merlin handed to her and stowed it away in her quiver The big guy followed, placing his war haround with a thud It didn't seem like the samurai wannabe Zankoku trusted Merlin that roups began having a friendly conversation for a few minutes, and eventually Merlin's poison lost its effect, causing Alvira's face to return to its usual colour