The NPC Got A System

18. A New Team Gathered!

A fine looking girl with shoulder length hair and a flat bang came forward while holding her hand together. Her pale cheeks blushed red, which made her a perfect example of innocent beauty.

“What’s your name, Miss?” asked Nash abruptly, almost raptured by her breathtaking look. But Nash could handle his facial expression and act normal, he must realize that it was not a right time to think about something useless like that. Nash needed to get out of this dungeon tower safely.

“Ah … m-my name is Lisa.” Lisa, felt embarrassed because Nash was looking directly to her eyes. The real reason behind her willingness to volunteer was that Nash saved her life on the first floor back then and Lisa could not stop herself from not falling in love at the first sight with Nash.

“Miss Lisa, are you a healer?”

“Ah! Y-yes …,” murmured her, almost whispering. She even avoided direct contact with Nash, which made him started overthinking.

Nash raised one of his eyebrows and looked around to see if everyone had the same thought like him but it seemed that Lisa’s beauty had bewitched everyone, even Siegrid that clearly showed hostility toward Nash now forgot to close his half-open mouth.

(What is it? Am I saying something wrong?)

(Kyaaa! He’s so cool! No, Lisa! Go get yourself together, don’t act like a foolish girl! B-b-b-but he’s so cool and strong and handsome too, I want to hold him and hug—no! Stop it, Bad Lisa!)

If only Nash could hear Lisa’s thoughts, he would have been scared and withdrew his decision to make her a healer in his team.

“What type of healing you do, Miss Lisa?” asked Nash again.

Lisa snapped from her thought and answered real quick. “Oh! I can heal minor injuries in a wide range and give buff to maximum two people at front side, I’m sorry but my level isn’t enough to unlock the higher skill ….”

Nash replied with a light smile. “That’s enough for now. Thanks, Miss Lisa.”

He thought it was appropriate to thank someone willing to help with a smile and sincere words, but Nash did not know what kind of effect it would make if he used it to the wrong person. Like now, Lisa felt both her feet melt on its place and she could not hide her blushed cheeks anymore, and the first person who noticed that was Siegrid.

Siegrid, who was being single all entire his life, never met someone like Lisa. The first thing that popped up in his mind when saw her was: “She’s so cute, I want her to be my girlfriend.”

He even imagined how their happy life would be after this. They would have two cute little kids, boy and girl, and lived in the countryside, spending their old times together until death do them apart. But it was instantly shattered when he realized that his dream girl had a secret crush on a person he hated so much.

“We’ve got a tanker, a healer, but no fire user. That won’t do.” Nash hummed and tapped his feet on the floor, he needed a fire user in order to fulfill his plan. This was a quick plan he made solely for defeating the Gargoyle Guardian monster.

“I volunteer.”

“Huh?” Nash turned his head and dropped his jaw in great shock when finding who was speaking. “Sieg? Are you crazy? Why would you volunteer in my team? Do you want to mess it up?”

Nash cynical comment made everyone looked at Siegrid, including Lisa. She was kind of mad at him because when they got up to the second and third floors, Sieg just used the little girl as his walking shield and benefited from it.

(Such a mean and cruel man! I hate him!)

Siegrid shrugged his shoulder and even winked naughtily at Lisa, making her cringe. “Well, technically speaking, it’s not me who want to volunteer in your team, but her.”

He suddenly pushed the little girl forward and almost made her stumbled because of the chain on her feet.

“Ouch!”

“She said that she wanted to join your group earlier, she’s a blue fire user from white fox tribe, rare among the rarest,” stated Siegrid with a smug face, Nash knew that man had something under his sleeve, but he could not guess what was it. Nash then turned his gaze toward the little girl.

“You want to? I’ll not force you, it will be a hard battle for a little girl.” Nash said all of this pure from his concern, but for her, it looked like that Nash belittled her just because she looked like a child.

“I can! I want to! And don’t call me a little girl!” Her tail rose up and wagged side to side, as if told that she was angry right now. However, it was all useless because she looked like an angry kitten in Nash's view.

“Fine, fine. If you insist.” He nodded and tried to hold his laugh, then he looked up again to see Siegrid, he needed to find out what his motive was. “So, what do you want in return?”

“What?” Siegrid widen his eyes in shock. “No! Why you accuse me something bad like that? I really want to help, nothing in return.”

(That’s why I don’t trust you more, you fucking moron.)

Nash wanted to say that out loud but he did not because Nash could see the reason when caught Siegrid stole glances toward Lisa that kept hiding behind Greg.

(Oh, how love can blind someone that fast.)

He scoffed shortly and tried to ignore Siegrid. It would be good if he stayed like this for a while and did not try to pick a fight or do something worse that might cause death to all of them.

“So, it’s just three people? No more?” asked Nash while sweeping around, everyone avoided Nash eyes and turned their head somewhere else as if telling him that there were no more volunteer. “Huft, alright.”

He turned to the three people that had gathered in one place.

“Greg, Lisa, and …?”

“You can call her anything, a slave didn’t need a name anyway. How about calling her ‘dirty little slave’? That’s a good idea, right?”

Nash gave a sharp glance to Siegrid because of his lousy mouth.

“What? You wanna fight, huh?”

Nash rolled his eye and walked to the little girl, before kneeling in front of her. She looked scared and somehow embarrassed by Siegrid’s words. “I’m sorry to let you hear a nasty thing like that. Do you have a name … from your parents, maybe?”

She slowly looked up and stared at Nash’s jade pupils for a while before shaking her head. “I don’t remember my parents … I lost my memories.”

Nash nodded weakly. “Then what do you want to be called? Is there a name that you like?”

She kept silent for a while, Lisa and Greg also waited for her reply with a curious expression. The little fox girl never been asked like this before. People kept coming and told her that she needed to obey her master and was not allowed to speak first. But now, someone asked for her opinion?

“S … Shein. I hear that name when I’m on a cage in a carriage. It’s a princess name from foreign kingdom. I-I want to be called like that.”

“Then use it. No one gonna punish you for sharing the same name with a princess. You can do anything you want, Shein.” Nash petted Shein’s fluffy head and got up, he could feel a death stare coming from behind but he tried to ignore it.

“Greg, Lisa, and Shein. I will not lie to you that this battle going to be easy, but we can win this by working together. Greg, I need you to be behind me and receive the Gargoyle’s attack when I try to find his weakness from above. Lisa, I want you to buff and heal Greg at the same time so he will not tired quickly. And lastly, Shein, I want you to make your strongest fire and shoot it when I give a hand signal. You guys, got it?”

Greg, Lisa, and Shein looked at each other before nodding together.

“Yes!”