Fishing

On a rock near the sea, there is a wooden chair chilling there. And on top of the chair, there is a player sitting there very relaxingly. He wears T-shirt and shorts. He also put a fishing cap on his head. There is a box near him that store fish. His fishing rod is fixed in a rock nearby. Even though he seemed to be sleeping, he focused on the movements of the fishing rod very carefully.

???: "Oh? Hello Kade. It seemed that my spot has been taken."

Kade turned his head and saw who is talking.

Kade: "Sup, Twenty pal, that's call first come, first serve."

TwentyCharactersLong: "Aw man, this spot is quite good. I can't believe someone taken the spot before I came."

Kade: "Normal people wouldn't find out this spot. But I am quite adventurous. These not quite secret spots are easy to find for me."

TwentyCharactersLong: "Welp, I guess I am heading further from here then."

TwentyCharactersLong: "By the way, are you competing in the fishing competition?"

Kade: "That one? Yeah I am. It seems like you are one of the competitors as well. What prize are you aiming for?"

TwentyCharactersLong: "First prize. If I can't get that, then second, third is fine as well."

Kade: "Cool, I am aiming for third prize only."

TwentyCharactersLong: "You aim for eating for free ticket? Hahahaha."

Kade: "Yup, equipment whatever that is, it is not as good."

TwentyCharactersLong: "But they are still much better than starter equipment."

Kade: "True, they are. But I don't like it. Their quality is like common to uncommon quality. I want some epic and legendary equipment."

TwentyCharactersLong: "Then you should go kill a dragon and get the materials instead of sitting here and fish."

Kade: "You are right. But my combat power right now is trash, I am quite sure that dragon will one hit me."

Kade: "Also, no one has found out any sort of dragon hideout yet. So, I can't even do that even if I wanted to."

TwentyCharactersLong: "Then what are you going to do about it."

Kade: "Fishing, leveling up is time consuming. I prefer chill gameplay. Relax comes first, leveling up comes next."

TwentyCharactersLong: "You say you want legendary equipment. You should dream about it instead."

TwentyCharactersLong thinks that Kade want something but not working hard for it will never reach the goal, or rather, takes a really long time to reach the goal.

Although TwentyCharactersLong himself is also a chill player. He works hard every day. But he never overdid it. Once he reached his daily goal, he will go back to the base and play for the rest of the day. So even though TwentyCharactersLong's level is below average, he won't see himself as garbage.

Kade shrugged as a reply to TwentyCharactersLong's message.

TwentyCharactersLong shook his head and sat at the spot far enough so that Kade's fishing spot won't affect his fishing spot.

Kade: "…"

TwentyCharactersLong: "…"

Both of them are sitting quietly. Although the view is quite relaxing in a third person's eye, but both of them are watching the fishing rod seriously.

-10 minutes later

Kade: "Ha! Finally, come over here, fishie."

Kade got up and pulled the fish out of the sea.

TwentyCharactersLong: "Congatz."

Kade: "Hed, I will take your kind word, thanks."

Kade put the fish into the box. Then he took out another worm on the hook. And threw it into the sea. Finally, he placed the fishing rod near a rock. He sat down and wait again.

Kade: "…"

TwentyCharactersLong: "…"

-30 minutes later

TwentyCharactersLong: "Ak."

TwentyCharactersLong felt heavy on his fish rod, then he immediately pulled back. Kade noticed the ruckus over there and turned that way.

Kade: "Congratz."

As soon as Kade said it, TwentyCharactersLong successfully pulled the fish out of the sea.

TwentyCharactersLong: "Thanks. Phew, fishing is quite tiring."

Kade: "Of course. Pulling out the fish not only requires you to fight against the force of the fish, but also the friction from the sea as well."

Kade: "Oh yeah, you have to fight against gravity too."

TwentyCharactersLong: "You seemed to know a lot about fishing."

Kade: "Oh? You noticed it now? But of course, I fish in real life too."

TwentyCharactersLong: "Oh? No wonder why you seemed very professional."

TwentyCharactersLong felt a professional fisherman aura on Kade on the first glance. Now he understood why Kade had that aura.

Kade: "Not 'seemed' (very professional), is 'is' (very professional)."

TwentyCharactersLong: "Alright, whatever."

Kade: "…"

TwentyCharactersLong: "…"

The sun went down and the sky went dark. The two fishermen were already packing things to leave.

Kade: "You are leaving too?"

TwentyCharactersLong: "Yeah, aren't you packing stuff too?"

Kade: "Well, if you fish here for one more day, you should be able to reach the base in time."

TwentyCharactersLong: "No, I don't like having no spare time to prepare for accidents. If accidents happened and I couldn't get back in time, I will be kicked out from the competition."

Kade shrugged as a response.

After Kade and TwentyCharactersLong finished packing stuff, they left and headed towards the player base. But things didn't go well for them.

Player bandit: "Look what we have here, two fishmen walking buddy buddy to the base."

Kade: "The Fourth Disaster…"

The guild The Fourth Disaster is also known as the bandit guild. Because nearly all the players in the guild will steal or rob other players' product of hardships.

TwentyCharactersLong: "Wait! How did you know we are fishmen?"

We had all of our fishing tools except the fishing box in the temporary storage. How did they find out that we are fishermen? TwentyCharactersLong thought.

Player bandit: "Hah? Look at that guy beside you. Totally a fisherman outfit. Also, the box you two are holding. We all know that you can't put living beings inside the temporary storage. So, there must be fish inside the box. Am I correct?"

Kade: "You are correct. I can't believe my outfit betrayed me."

TwentyCharactersLong: "…"

TwentyCharactersLong looked at Kade speechlessly.

Player bandit: "Yeah yeah, whatever, enough talking. Now die!"

At the same time, multiple arrows and bullets shot out from the side of the forest. There were too many to the point that there is no space to dodge the shots. The two poor players then died from the ambush.

After the two of them died, all the stuff inside the temporary storage went out. Then a bunch of player bandits come out and check the loot.

Player bandit: "Haha! This is great! We will win for sure if we hand these fish to leader."

Player bandit: "That's right! Hahaha! This is so much more fun than killing monsters."

Player bandit: "But players don't grant experience. That's a downside of PVP."

Player bandit: "I don't care. If I feel good, then I will keep killing!"

-Meanwhile, inside the player base

TwentyCharactersLong: "… We must retrieve our stuff back!"

Kade: "What are you planning to do?"

TwentyCharactersLong thought the fact that they have a lot of people and the fact that they might left that area already. He immediately gave up trying.

TwentyCharactersLong: "So what should we do?"

Kade: "We can't do anything, just report it to the manager of the competition. I am sure she will do something about it.'

TwentyCharactersLong: "Alright, I guess we can only do this for now."

TwentyCharactersLong clenched his fist showing that he is still very angry.