(Lisbeth x male reader) The Woodsmen and the Smith

Floor 48

(U/N) POV

I was in an Inn like usual, I mostly never leave this space. Not since everyone died. It's been 2 years since I've been trapped in this wretched game. Mom and Dad dead by day two, my best friend Rob went and disappeared a week in. Then, Crystal, she commented suicide after a month. I had nothing to return to, nothing at all.

Since then all I have been doing is lounging in an Inn on the 1st flour. I hear that the Assault team has made it to flour 70. Good for them, they want out of this game, me...I got nothing. This game took everything I had. I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. It's terrible, this feeling.

I've seen many people walk into this Inn and walk right back out. All there is now is me and the NPC who runs the place. Today was a little different, I guess a murder happened on Flour 48 in a safe zone. A guy was killed and everything. Maybe if I go up there someone will kill me, I'd like that.

I left the Inn for the first time in months, I could barely remember what the world looked like. I walked to the teleport gates and went to Lindarth on Flour 48. Once I arrived I was meet with a cozy town. The fastest way to be met with a killer was to walk around. And walk around I did.

I completely forgot how to fight, somehow my level was in the 90s. You must gain experience by drinking alcohol because I should be level 5. I was walking around until I bumped someone. The person who I bumped into crashed to the ground. I looked at the person to be greeted with a girl. She had pink hair and wore a red dress, beside her were a bunch of weapons. I continued walking despite her yelling at me

"You! You asshole. Get back here and help me pick these weapons up" She yelled

I continued walking but she suddenly went silent. I turned around to see her nowhere in sight. That's a bit odd, the weapons still were scattered across the ground. Did she disappear? Was it maybe the murders? It is my fault she may die. Surely not right? they wouldn't take a cute girl right. What wait? Cute! Of course, they would take a cute girl. Wait, I'm calling her cute, I'm I cheating on Crystal if I think that? No, no, no, I must do the right thing and help her.

I ran to the weapons and choose a one handed axe. After I go in my menu and start putting my skill points into skills. I start to put them into axe skills and tracking. Once I finished I used my tracking skill to follow the tracks the murders left behind. After a while of tracking, outside of the safe zone, I find three players carrying a body in their arms.

I ready my axe and throw it to attack. They weren't expecting it and the axe took half of one of the murders health

"What the hell," one of them says

"We were followed?" Another says

"Guys, I'm low on health, this guy must be good, we stand no chance," the hurt one says

"Dump the girl and run!" They say as they drop the girl

I run-up to the girl and untied her, once her face is reviled all I can see is great fullness.

"Thank you, thank you so much," She says in a voice fit for an angel

I go to speak but nothing comes out. I try again and my voice just squeaks.

Finally, I say," your welcome" In a harsh and quiet voice

"Are you alright?" She's asks

"Yea, just been forever since I talked to anyone" I respond as my voice comes back to me

"O man, I was so scared, I didn't know what they would have done to me if they had gotten much further," she says

"It was nothing, after all, I was the reason this happened in the first place, I want to say sorry for bumping you on the street and not helping you up," I say with shame in my voice

"All cool, we are even," she says, "want to help me retrieve my weapons"

"Yeah sure, first off here," I say as I hand her the one-handed axe

"I used it without your permission, I don't have a weapon of my own," I tell her

"It's fine, you saved me with it so keep it," she says as we walk back to town

"Thanks," I say in a quiet voice.

We reach the weapons and I help her pick them up.

"Can you walk me to my shop?" she asks

"Yea, no problem" I respond

We walk to her shop

"By the way what's your name," She asks

"O, it's (Y/-- not that... it's (U/N)" I tell her

"Pleasure to meet you (U/N) my name is Lisbeth," she says with a smile