I Became a Member of My Favorite Group! - Chapter 50

As time passed, our house began to take shape.

At first, it was made of shabby wood, but we upgraded parts of it with stone.

We also placed sleeping bags inside and changed the respawn point, so now it felt like a proper settlement.

With that, the members started to find their own interests and activities.

Thanks to that, I felt like I could finally focus on farming.

“Alright, we’re off to explore!”

“Be careful out there!”

After a three-hour-long major task, the most active duo, Yukiko and Lilith, announced they were heading out to explore a dungeon.

In Last, there are various modes and plugins, and among them, the server added dungeon content where monsters appear.

Some people prefer PVE over the thrilling PVP clashes with others, so the server owner intentionally added it.

[User ‘Lulu’s Foot Wipe’ has donated 10,000 won for snacks!]

• Lulu, aren’t you going to the dungeon?

“Ah, thank you for the 10,000 won donation. No, I won’t be going to the dungeon for now. I plan to focus on farming. I’m thinking of growing a lot of pumpkins to sell.”

• Pumpkins would fetch a good price.
• But would there be buyers?
• Isn’t growing pumpkins tough?
• It’s super tough. Getting the seeds is hard, and they die so easily. They’re like the sunfish of crops.

Well, pumpkins are a bit tricky to grow, but if I work hard they’ll shine someday.

After all, they’re the most valuable food in Last!

Of course, there are other good foods like chocolate, bear meat, or canned goods that fill hunger, but those can’t be produced on our own.

Plus, with our current gear, hunting bears is tough.

And chocolate and canned goods can’t be sold.

With these pumpkins, I’ll become the best farmer in Last!

Crunch crunch

I wander around the plains, picking the small pumpkins that have grown.

Munch munch

[Pumpkin Seeds – 3]

When you eat them, you get pumpkin seeds like this.

I plant them in the field I made earlier.

I haven’t crafted a water pump yet, so I have to water them manually…

But once I finish gathering materials, I can set up an automated system. For now, I’ll just push through.

“Huh? Lucretia unnie, what are you doing here?”

When I returned to the field, Lucretia unnie was loitering around.

Didn’t Lucretia unnie say she was going fishing?

Erin unnie isn’t here, so she must have gone somewhere for a bit.

“I wanted to watch our youngest farming. Plus, I got some good items.”

“Good items?”

“Yeah. Here, take them.”

Whoosh

[Torn Rubber Pieces – 43]

[Broken Batteries – 15]

[Waterproof Tarps – 60]

Gasp!

The moment I picked up the items unnie dropped, I couldn’t help but gasp.

No wonder, because the items unnie brought were all essential for building farming facilities.

• Oh
• Wow
• Waterproof tarps are hard to get, but she got so many lol
• Lulu’s gums are showing lol
• As expected, the true cherry starts with tribute.

That’s right.

As mentioned in the chat, waterproof tarps are quite rare.

You can farm them on land, but the highest drop rate comes from shipwreck chests at the bottom of the sea and she brought 60 of them?

That means she must have found at least twenty shipwreck chests.

“How is it? Was unnie helpful?”

“Th-thank you, unnie…! I was really worried about getting waterproof tarps.”

To make planters, which are essential for farming, you need waterproof tarps.

Without them, you’d have to farm directly on the ground, which is hard to manage.

So I was planning to make just one row of planters with the tarps I had and start small.

But now, thanks to unnie, I can plant a lot more seeds from the start.

“H-how can I repay you?”

“Hey, no need for repayment. How could unnie ask for repayment from our youngest?”

“But still…”

• Lulu knows her manners fr
• You should repay her
• Upgrade a bow and gift it to her
• How about giving her the first pumpkin?

Give her a pumpkin?

That’s not bad, but compared to what she gave, it feels too humble.

“Well, if you really feel bad, there is a way you can repay me.”

While I was thinking of ways to repay her, unnie suddenly made a rather pleasant suggestion.

“What is it? I’ll do anything!”

“Hmm, really? Anything?”

“…Huh?”

I was eager to repay this debt, so I answered enthusiastically.

But the immediate response made me a bit flustered.

I could feel the atmosphere shifting.

• The mood’s intense lol
• She totally planned this lol
• The evil cherry is at it again lol
• The legendary unnie forcing the youngest lol

No, no.

What are you all talking about?

There’s no way unnie would give me a weird condition.

She must be suggesting something simple to ease my guilt.

“Huh, no answer? Did our youngest say something she didn’t mean to unnie?”

“N-no, of course not…! Just tell me what it is.”

As my response slowed, unnie pressed for an answer again.

I quickly shook my head, signaling I’d accept any suggestion.

Yeah, how hard could it be?

It’s probably just the usual teasing.

I’m a growing VTuber!

I won’t be fazed by some prank…

“Really? Then, will you come over to unnie’s house next time?”

“Co-come over?”

“Yeah. You’ve only hung out with Lilith alone, never with us.”

…What!

That’s a really tough condition!

I still get nervous being alone with Chae-yoon unnie, and now she wants me to come over to Lucretia unnie’s house?

And her family will be there too!

• Gasp
• She’s doomed lol
• Lulu, run!!!!!!!
• Oh no, this is a crisis of chastity…
• The vampire that eats Axolotl… this is serious.

[User ‘Axolotl Protection Squad’ has donated 1,000 won for snacks!]

• Lulu, don’t go… you’ll get eaten…

“What are you all talking about? Eaten? Who would think our Lucretia unnie is a bad person?”

Amidst the chat’s exaggerations, I scolded them firmly.

Unnie is such a kind person.

There’s no way she’d mistreat me.

“Right, unnie?”

“Churp… yeah, that’s right.”

• Lol, she’s licking her lips
• Crazy lol
• She probably sees Lulu as food…
• Is this some high-level trolling?
• The next day, a USB with some video was sent to Cherry’s house…

Geez, everyone’s overreacting.

Anyway, if that’s what unnie wants, I have no choice.

She’s complained in the group chat before about only hanging out with Lilith unnie.

This could be a good chance to bond and spend time together.

“So, what do you say? Will you come over?”

“Y-yes…! If that’s what unnie wants….”

“Great. As expected, our youngest listens well to unnie.”

Unnie laughed while patting my character’s head.

The chat was still buzzing with viewers shouting not to take me, but I ignored them and accepted the offer.

By the way, does this mean we’ll be doing another offline collab?

I’ll have to ask unnie later for more details about the schedule.

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The Last server, hosted by streamer Haebom.

Over the course of four days—short yet long—many streamers have joined this server.

There are mid-tier streamers with an average of 300-400 viewers, but most of them are top-ranking Twitch streamers, the so-called “big company” streamers.

Raku, a female streamer, is also part of that group.

“Oh, guys. There’s a field here.”

While briefly engaging in combat nearby and hastily retreating, she noticed a field on her way down the hill and her eyes lit up.

The field, with its minimalist and cozy vibe, clearly showed the effort of its creator, making it intriguing enough to catch her attention.

• Someone already made a field?
• Oh
• It’s pretty big
• What are they growing?
• Let’s go say hi
• Be careful, enemies might follow

“Ah, they won’t chase us this far. Let’s go say hi first.”

Naturally sociable, she was curious about the person who made the field in Last and approached it immediately.

There was a small stone structure in the field with a cute message engraved: “Please don’t steal….”

“Pfft, guys. Isn’t this too cute? It’s not ‘Don’t steal!’ but ‘Please don’t steal.’ Even so, people who want to steal will still steal.”

• Lol true
• The font is cute too
• The ellipsis at the end is the killer lol
• I wonder whose field this is

“Right? I should call out to them. Hello, is anyone here?”

After briefly looking around the field, she raised her voice to call for the owner.

But no one appeared.

Maybe they went out to gather resources.

Whoosh

“Ah!”

As she decided to wait for someone to show up, an arrow suddenly flew and embedded itself into the stone structure.

Startled, Raku looked up the hill and saw the deer-masked enemy she had encountered earlier.

“Ugh, you’re so persistent…! Cheolgae, are you really going to keep this up?!”

Cheolgae, a male streamer she was quite close to in real life, shouted back even louder.

“Well, who told you to destroy my buildings?! What gives you the right to talk back?”

“Hey, you killed our team first, what are you…!”

“That’s because your team started it!”

“Ugh, seriously! It’s Last, things like this happen…!”

• Lolololololololol
• He actually chased her here lolololol
• Gotta give him credit for persistence lol
• At this point, it’s only polite to die lol

As Cheolgae descended the hill and slowly approached, Raku pondered.

She didn’t have any proper weapons in her bag—just a basic stone tool.

But if she pulled that out, he’d take it as a sign of aggression and shoot without hesitation.

That would be the end of it.

“Ch-Cheolgae, calm down… let’s talk this out….”

“Yeah, get lost.”

“Hey, you jerk!”

She tried to take a diplomatic stance, but Cheolgae, proving he was a true friend, shut down the negotiation table with his usual tone.

As Raku cursed and tried to run past the field—

“Um, everyone… please stop fighting….”

“Huh?”

“What?”

A thin voice called out, and someone appeared from behind the stone structure in the field.

• ?
• Who’s that?
• It’s Lulu lololol
• Lu-ha
• Lu-ha-Lu-ha

While Cheolgae and Raku were confused, most of the viewers recognized the voice and welcomed her presence.

It was Lulu, a VTuber who had recently gained fame through clips shared among various streamers.

“Fi-fighting isn’t good… everyone, calm down….”

“Ah, um… Lulu, right?”

“Y-yes, that’s right. Nice to meet you.”

Unlike Cheolgae, who was completely unfamiliar, Raku knew about Lulu, even if she wasn’t familiar with her voice, and pretended to recognize her.

Lulu bowed her head and greeted them with her uniquely protective tone.

Even though all the characters looked like charred black figures, her voice coming through the mic made it seem like Lulu’s avatar was superimposed over the character.

“Sorry, Lulu. I wasn’t planning to ruin your field, so I’ll just kill this guy quickly and leave.”

Meanwhile, Cheolgae, focused solely on his nemesis, tried to draw his bow again.

After all, Lulu had nothing to do with this fight.

“Hey, why are you killing me?! Didn’t you hear Lulu say to stop fighting?!”

“…….”

But when Raku brought up Lulu and started shouting back, he couldn’t bring himself to click the mouse.

Seeing Lulu, with her pure heart, trying to stop the fight made him feel like he was doing something wrong.

• Lolololololololololol
• Fighting is a no-no!
• Using Lulu as a shield lololol
• Cheolgae’s probably cursing inside right now
• “You heartless woman….”

A cold tension hung between the two as they faced off, while Lulu, caught in the middle, pondered what to do before suddenly running back to the field.

Then, she quickly harvested two fully grown pumpkins.

They were the only successful ones out of the seeds she had planted today.

The rest had either died early or only grew into small pumpkins.

“Um, everyone… please stop fighting and take these to make up.”

“Huh?”

“What? Pumpkins?”

• Oh
• Pumpkins are rare
• And they’re big ones
• Did she grow them in the field?
• Growing pumpkins? That’s so inefficient lol

She picked them up and returned, placing one pumpkin at each of their feet.

The two, having unexpectedly stumbled upon a windfall, were thrilled.

After chasing each other for so long, both of their hunger bars were completely depleted.

“Gasp! Lulu, are you growing pumpkins?”

“Yes, that’s right. I just started growing them, and these two just finished growing. Hehe….”

“Wait, only two? And you’re giving them to us?”

“You didn’t have to….”

Realizing that these were the only two large pumpkins she had managed to grow, the two tried to decline out of guilt.

But Lulu just shook her character’s head and smiled.

“Hehe, it’s okay. As long as you two make up, that’s all I need.”

“Wow….”

• Lulu, I’m dead ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
• Lulu, my mom ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
• What? Is she an angel?
• I see a halo behind her lol
• She worked so hard for those precious pumpkins, and she gave them to these guys ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ

Her selfless act, like the manifestation of a goddess of peace, turned the chat into a sea of tears.

The atmosphere shifted instantly, and Raku and Cheolgae, embarrassed, bowed their heads.

“W-we’re sorry, Lulu. We won’t fight anymore.”

“I’m sorry too. For causing a disturbance….”

“It’s okay! If you ever need pumpkins later, feel free to visit!”

Rustle

Lulu waved her character’s hand and scattered something else on the ground.

When the two picked up the paper-like items, they saw the words “Lulu’s Pumpkin Voucher” written on them.

It wasn’t an actual item in Last—it was probably a custom item made through a plugin.

Usually, such items have no effect and are treated as currency substitutes….

“Bring this, and I’ll give you a large pumpkin for free! Though I’m not sure if I’ll be able to grow more by then… hehe.”

“What the… Lulu, you’re too kind.”

“Why would you do this….”

Realizing that this was Lulu’s way of giving visitors a memento, the two were stunned and carefully stored the vouchers in their bags.

And so, the incident that would make Lulu’s pumpkin field known across the server passed like a milestone.