Huh? Isn't This A Galgame?-Chapter 18 - 17 Misfit

The system's unique electronic mechanical voice echoed in his mind.

9527: [Sorry, player involvement is confidential information. Players in the novice trial area map have no access]

...Confidential?

When Wen Nan first arrived at that four-person male dormitory room, which was the respawn point on their map, he and the chubby guy, the glasses guy, and the jock had clearly chosen a target to pursue together.

If it really needed to be kept confidential, shouldn't players have been separated to make their choices right from entering the respawn point?

Now they're saying it's confidential... something fishy is definitely going on here, right?

So, is the system protecting some special players?

Yu Shujun... is she really just a game character played by some player in disguise?

If that's the case, then her weird behavior and bizarre attire make sense—

In such hot weather, wrapping herself in long sleeves and pants with a school uniform, bangs covering most of her face, wearing thick glasses, and using clumsy makeup techniques to make herself completely unrecognizable, all serve one purpose—hiding her real appearance.

But why would she mix in with the game characters?

If she's a player, doesn't she need to complete the mainline tasks like Wen Nan? Becoming Wen Nan's pursuit target would only make her task completion much harder, wouldn't it?

Wait a minute...

Wen Nan seemed to have overlooked an important question—

Is she... really "her"?

As far as Wen Nan knew, this was a male-targeted romance strategy game. Theoretically speaking, players inside should all be male, or at least psychologically male.

So, if the player disguised as Yu Shujun...

Wen Nan's thoughts were all over the place—

Even though the players who entered the novice trial area this time were quite diverse, Wen Nan himself absolutely had no such inclinations.

If this game only allowed players' consciousness to be loaded into character bodies, then having men play female roles and become female characters might reluctantly be something he could turn a blind eye to and grit his teeth through, after all, Wen Nan had also thought about the "if I turned into a woman, I'd let my bros have some fun first" kind of stuff.

However, in the current game, it was very clear that their original bodies were directly transmitted into the game map, even if level and attribute changes could cause some changes in the body, they certainly hadn't reached the extent of changing gender.

In this case...

The possibility of this Yu Shujun being a cross-dresser became very high!

Hiss.

Wen Nan felt a tightness in his heart and his nerves clenched.

He shivered and shook his head vigorously.

If he encounters Yu Shujun again in the next mainline task, he must talk things through with "her."

It would be best if the two could reach some sort of harmonious coexistence agreement—let "her" disguise as a game character for whatever purpose without interference from Wen Nan, but "she" should also not disrupt his pursuit tasks. By the end of the trial, "she" should actively max out the favorability and give Wen Nan a fake "five-star rating," and they would call it even.

Then the two could go their separate ways, minding their own business.

Just as he made up his mind, the system's voice reappeared in his mind.

9527: [Mainline Task 1 has ended. Please return to the respawn point within 15 minutes to initiate task settlement. Exceeding the specified time window will result in losing the settlement qualification. Please be aware.]

With those urging words, Wen Nan stood up and walked towards the male dormitory.

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Back in the dormitory, the floating light screen above had a huge countdown, indicating the time when task settlement would begin.

At this moment, the room was empty except for Wen Nan.

He was actually the first one back.

The floor was still littered with empty drink bottles, and the familiar, complex odor of foot stink and instant noodles lingered in the air.

Wen Nan leaned back in his chair under his bunk, accessing the [Community] panel from the system in his mind, wanting to check out the livestream panel, only to find out that during settlement status, livestream rooms automatically close.

About to head to the [Shop] to have a look, the dormitory door was pushed open.

The jock walked in with heavy steps.

It had only been one night, yet the jock looked as if he had been through a lifetime; he'd left as a spirited young man and returned looking like an old man close to his grave, hunchbacked, leaning against the wall, and staggering towards his spot.

The moment he saw Wen Nan, he was stunned, "You... you quit midway?!"

Wen Nan shook his head, "The task ended, so I came back."

The jock, upon hearing this, doubted his ears or his memory, "You, you weren't, weren't you pursuing five female... female characters at once?"

"Yes," Wen Nan nodded, replying honestly, "All five settled."

The jock gaped at Wen Nan in disbelief, "Five? All? Settled?!"

How could that be! He had only pursued one neutral NPC and almost got crushed into quitting, while Wen Nan had pursued five female ghosts! How could they all be settled?

Even if settled, why...

The jock scrutinized Wen Nan from head to toe, finally focusing on his lower half, "Why... are you so clean?!"

For a moment, Wen Nan felt the other was questioning his manhood, but he considered himself a disciplined man. He thought completing the first task in the trial area shouldn't have progressed to the point of becoming "unclean," right?

Stunned for a bit, Wen Nan asked back, "You're not clean?"

Just as Wen Nan finished speaking, another figure slowly walked in from outside the dormitory door.

Wen Nan and the jock looked towards the doorway at the same time, seeing the chubby guy slouching, leaning against the wall, staggering towards his place.

He held his waist with one hand, grimacing in pain with every step, sucking in a breath.

The moment his plump body touched the chair, he immediately jumped up, finally shimmying his buttocks to the edge of the chair, sitting in a very effeminate posture.

His gaze fell on Wen Nan, looking shocked, "You... you quit midway?!"

Wen Nan: "...Task ended, so I came back."

Chubby: "Why... are you so clean?"

Wen Nan: ...

Take two.

Wen Nan asked again, "You're not clean either?"

Just then, the glasses guy entered from outside the door, similarly hunchbacked, bracing against the wall, staggering towards his spot, and sitting down with a very effeminate posture.

Likewise, upon seeing Wen Nan, he was startled wide-eyed, "You—"

"—Didn't quit, very clean."

By now, Wen Nan had learned to preemptively answer.

In the dormitory, the other three looked at Wen Nan with a gaze reserved for the strange.

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Wen Nan: ...

He never thought there would be a day when being "not dirty enough" would make him seem out of place with others...