Monica’s POV

“That’s what happened sir.” I say to the hologram screens showing the conference room of XCom’s higher ups where all of them were in there.

“So not only does he really have such a condition, it can actively talk with him. This man is a danger both in real life and in Virtual Life Online.” One of the older men said instantly.

“That may be true but from what Miss Benjuva said if it takes over the main body is put under too large of a stress making it dangerous for it too. If it’s like that, he wouldn’t actively take over since it’s a danger to his own life.” Another wiser man.

“I agree with you, not only that virtual reality encases the mind within the avatars. That means to a degree we can develop something to control the separate mind.” a different one of the higher up said.

“Like what? Block it out? Do you think the human mind is so easily controlled!? I suggest we ban him for life in any and all games because both his class and personality is a danger to others not only in our games but in all the other companies. With that wasp he can torture an entire city with numerous methods. Who knows if he won’t try for the same class in other games and use it for torture and other crimes after being taken over by that thing inside him!?” One of the younger men in the room said.

“That is impossible. First off his class involves a very important history questline for VLO’s. Also the original class can only be given once. There won’t be a second time, a second opportunity. Even if we ban him, the avatar will become an NPC with a dull personality and the Queen of the hive will instantly know something happened to him and it could end VERY badly. Not just his queen but the one that gave him the class as well.” The voice of a woman explained.

I was shocked to hear XCom’s AI participating in this. It seems the situation is one that even she was called on.

“What do you suggest doing huh?” An elder man, that gave me the chills like when you see a snake, said.

“Advance patch, Fairy familiar ahead of schedule. All players will acquire a spirit familiar that can do menial tasks and works for solo players to have a companion that can learn craft skills. Through this system I may be able to isolate this second conscious within this second body but the mental link will still exist and it is possible that in certain cases it would switch spots but the mental load will be greatly reduced as his mind will remain conscious or he would fall completely unconscious in the body of the familiar allowing his mind to fully shut down and be ejected instead of remain active through the second conscious.” The AI explained.

“What is the progress on this system?” The CEO asked, speaking for the first time.

“Patch is 100% complete but other patches that would have been released together aren’t more than 60% complete.” She replied.

“Then install this immediately, when players log in they should enter a character creation screen again to build the familiar.” The CEO ordered.

“Alright, I shall get to it. Maintenance message sent and logging all players out.” The AI soon left.

“Monica, continue to monitor Leon Holmes' condition and return once he is fully recovered.” The CEO said and pressed a button shutting the screen off.

I let out a sigh and shut down the holoprojector before sitting back in my chair tired.

“This is tiring, I want to play already, why do I need to wait so long?” I complain but couldn’t do much beyond this.

Leon’s PoV

“Ah! Feels good to be out of bed and at home!” I say and stretch.

After several weeks in the hospital, I have all but recovered besides this demonic whisper behind my ear.

“You love me, admit it!”

“So Leon, make sure to not play for another day and rest up well.” Monica said behind me. After coming she has been accompanying me for the last weeks since I woke up and now this was the final day before she leaves since I am fully recovered.

“Right, did I miss much in the game?” I asked.

“An update that would have come out much later but because of your problem and the fear of repercussions ingame it was released earlier and is already implemented.” Monica said.

“You don’t need to worry much about him, not only does he have me but all our company is very friendly and will look out for him.” Debbie said.

“If it’s like that then I will take my leave. Remember, nothing until tomorrow.” Monica said.

“Bitch is annoying but has a nice ass. Maybe we can fuck her into loving you.” “Shut up!” I mutter. “Thank you for the help.” I said and shook her hand and followed her out until she flew off before letting out a sigh.

“Finally home, now to go over my babies and make sure no asshole did anything to my house.” I say.

“Earth to jackass, who the fuck would want 1340 fucking bugs with no real use besides for messed up jackasses like you who fap to them instead of that hot babe next to you that you should be fucking?” He said with a voice of disgust.

I rub my head and look at Debbie and couldn’t help agreeing that she is beautiful but considering my habits and collection, I would likely scare her more than anything.

“So what are you going to do now?” She asked me.

“Well, for one I want to take a shower to relax and since it’s been nearly a month since I have been away I need to clean out and restock my fridge since the things there must have gone bad already, not to mention that I have to check on the living specimens i have. Then I need to see the situation online and see how Levi is doing.” I say. “Jackass… dense fucker.”

“I’ll help and go buy the food, then after that is done I can even help you clean your house and maybe your collection.” She said.

“Sure, the house isn’t small so some help is good.” I said with a smile.

For the rest of the day we clean out the dust from the house and restock the fridge and cabinets and clean the monsterly stinky dishes. Then in my room I make sure to check to see if the glasses weren't busted by what happened before I picked up my stinky clothes to wash.

At the end of the day the house was sparkling.

“Thanks for the help, if you ever need something don’t hesitate to ask.” I said.

She blushes slightly and smiles, “Alright, I will hold you to those words then.” She said.

“Oh smooth one jackass, now she got you by the balls and just needs to pull down the pants!” “WOULD YOU SHUT UP!?” I shout huffing before I rub my forehead.

“Is he that annoying?” Debbie asked worriedly.

“Do you know those cartoons with the little demon and angel on your shoulder?” I asked and she nodded since that is something common in cartoons. “Well it feels like I have satan on my shoulder and I lack god on my other one to keep my sanity.” I said. “Oh please, you're gonna make me blush from the compliments.”

“Wow, didn’t know it was that bad. Well you should get some sleep, Levi is already excited for your return. She has already gotten a class advancement but there is a problem for you now.” Debbie said.

“What?”

“Your bugs and Levi’s level and power far outmatches yours. You should think about taking classes to learn proper spear or glaive techniques or go to the warriors guild and get some training there.” Debbie said.

“AH that! Yeah, agreed. I will probably be stuck for several weeks trying to level up.” I say.

“Oh right, I discovered that there may be some relations between druid and Arthromancer. It seems the grove we possess has a similarity to your hive. Maybe you can also learn some druid magic. I can teach you some, stuff like transforming is a really good way to boost your strength when you get the hang of it.” Debbie said.

“Druids have an ability to transform into animals… I didn’t read all the books… wait I’ve not even looked through everything and I keep waiting even longer. I’m stupid…” “What else is new?” “for not reading it all.” I cursed.

“Yeah, that is dumb. It's a class item so you really should read it more.” Debbie said.

Afterwards I hear him criticizing and see Debbie off before heading to bed so I don’t need to listen to him and so I can get to the game quicker.

***

After a round of dizziness that was common with logging into the VLO I was met with something I haven’t seen in a long time.

Standing there waiting like a doll was a woman with cherry pink hair and eyes, pale skin that was white like snow and a plug suit that showed each and every curve to its fullest. This was the same woman that helped me do my character creation.

“Hell yeah!! Never thought I would see this smoking hot bitch again! Jackass, go grope those puppies so I can gauge her sizes. I bet it’s at least a 90 if not 95!”

“Please refrain from saying such things or I will make it harder for you.” She said frowning.

“You heard him?” I asked, shocked.

“I am the main AI of this system, you are connected mentally to the system so hearing your second personality is a given. Now, the reason you are here is because we have implemented a new system known as Familiars. All players acquire a small fairy companion that can perform small tasks. We implemented this beforehand because I wish to try removing your other and house him in this body and create a safety system to protect your mind and body.” She said and suddenly the prompts appeared and soon a small floating figure the size of a 1 year old with four wings like a dragonfly appeared. “Normally the player decides the look but because your other will be using this as a body he shall be the one to customize this.” the AI said.

“Hell yeah!” He shouted and instantly the skin turned red, the wings turned batlike, horns popped up and he turned into a little demon.

“Let me decide.” I instantly said and with a giggle she nodded reverting the fairy back to what it was.

“Fuck off! This is my character!” He shouted but I ignored him and thought about how to make him and decided to make him look like myself. A mini-version of me appeared. For the wings I had to agree with the idea of bat wings and ended up making them red as well causing it to have four small bat wings to sustain him.

“Looks strange.” I mutter.

The clothing was a bit off but I started to customize that.

“Oh oh! The biker clothes! That looks awesome!” He said excitedly and I looked strangely as I pressed it and the clothes appeared on the fairy.

On the back was a pitchfork with a fire behind it.

“It looks strangely fitting, if I make the eyes red, the ears elf like it would look like an elf biker with black hair.” I say.

“Ohh that isn’t half bad. Seems our tastes are still alike, as horrible as that seems.”

“Well the logo still needs to change.” I say making the pitchfork vanish.

“How would you like it?” The AI asked.

“Can you have P.I.T.A. written on the back.” I asked and she nodded. “Then put that.”

“YOU JACKASS!!!”

On the back of the leather jacket the word P.I.T.A. appeared splendidly in a format that looked like lighting was forming the letters.

“That looks really nice.”

“FUCK!! THIS SHIT ISN’T FAIR EVEN IF IT LOOKS COOL!” I could seriously imagine this fairy holding his head and throwing a tantrum.

“Would you like any accessories?” The AI asked.

“Yeah! Give me a miniature of this bastard's Glaive, the blade can be blunt and not do any damage but make sure the blunt side can still be used like a small hammer or mallet and make it keep that instrument inside.” He said.

“You will not be able to guide the bugs even if you have this. It will be just an accessory.” She said.

As soon as she finished saying that, the fairy stretched his hand out and the miniature of the glaive.

“Oh and make it so that whenever this bastard upgrades or changes the glaive, mine changes with his.” He said.

“That can be done. Now choose his name.” She asked.

“Hm… now this is hard.” I say.

“Like hell it is. I was born in this game so name me Droso.” He replied.

“But my character is Droso so it would be confusing but since you are my dark emotions then Dark Droso or maybe Yami Droso.” I say.

“Dark is better, I can just be called DD. Just means I have more D than you.”

I roll my eyes to his stupid comment and put in Dark Droso into the name slot.

“Fairy Familiar creation complete. Welcome back to VLO.” the AI said and my eyes were filled with light before I appeared inside my room in the hive.

The Neural Poison Glitter Moth has evolved into the Hallucinogenic Poison Silver Glitter Moth.

The Toxic Poison Glitter Moth has evolved into Corrupting Poison Purple Glitter Moth.

The Rainbow Wing Dragonfly have evolved into Light Array DragonFly

The Black Wing Dragonfly have evolved into Stealth Wing Dragonfly.

Your Stealth Spider and Net Spitter Spider have bred and evolved to Tier 3 Ninja Spider. Ninja Spiders have also formed a social structure and developed different types.

Ninja Spider Shogun, Ninja Spider Shinobi/Kunoichi, Ninja Spider Gatherer.

The Bug Hunter Midges and Flesh Hunter Wasp have bred and formed one community and have formed the Predatory Wasp.

The Scavenger Wasp have evolved into the Torturer Wasp.

While you were gone Bombardier Beetle became Cannonier Beetle and has further evolved into Artillery Beetle.

The Nitro Flasher has evolved into Turbo Fire Flasher.

While you were gone Earth Flash Beetles have grown into Cave Flash Beetles and further evolved into Blinking Crystal Beetles.

While you were gone Breeze Signal Fly have grown into Storm Light Beetle and further evolved into Tempest Signal Beetle.

While you were gone Water Skid Blinkers have grown into Aqua Signal Beetle and have further evolved into Aqualight Shrimp.

While you were gone Spark Flies grew into Electric Flashfly and have further evolved into Lightning Bulb Beetle.

Your Glacier Glow Fly have evolved and became Mountain Glacial Wisp Beetles.

While you were gone Scaled Plate Pill Bug have adapted to several habits. Those from the Crystal Cavern have become Crystal Plate Roller Bugs, those from the Glacial Cavern have become Iceback Pill Bug and those living in the Volcanic Badland have become Obsidian Scaled Pill Bugs. Pill Bugs living in the Tropical Rainforest have become Rhino Roller Pill Bugs.

While you were gone Bullet Ant had grown into Bomb Ant and have further evolved into Rocket Ants.

While you were gone Mantis had grown into Sickle Arm Mantis and have further evolved into Steel Blade Arm Mantis.

My jaw drops as I am bombarded with messages all of them showing how the bugs evolved during the time I was away.

Before I could react to anything else, I felt something fall on me and I pushed the notices out and saw the 1 year old sized four bat winged fairy that held ‘it’.

“Oi Jackass! Stop calling me an ‘it’, I got a fucking dick! Want to see it that bad to prove it huh!?” He says getting up and pointing the glaive in his hand at me.

“Move it P.I.T.A. my body is sore at the moment so fuck off.” I say and get up before grabbing him by the scruff of his leather jacket and throwing him away but he stops after flying about 10 meters almost hitting the wall.

“Bastard!!” He cursed.

I should mention his voice is like that of a little mouse, squeaking. If I didn’t know who or what he was I would have actually thought it was cute.

Pop! Crack! Snap!

Getting up came with a myriad of cracks and snaps from my joints.

“Damn it, they made this game too realistic.” I say and begin stretching.

BANG!

“DADDY!!!” from the time it took for the door to bang open and for me to look, I saw Levi rushing at me with her arms stretched before she slammed into my mid section.

“Bufu!” was the only thing I could let out as the air was slammed out of me before I hit the bed and rolled back.

“WAHHHH!!!!! DADDY I MISSED YOU!!!” Levi cried.

What made this hard for me was that not only was her voice extremely loud now but she was releasing pheromones and her wings were buzzing erratically but all this was bug language and I could understand it all and it was giving me a major feedback causing my head to feel like it's being crushed while it was trying to expand.

“Levi! Get off him, can’t you see you are hurting him!?” a high pitched voice comes from the door and Levi pauses for a moment giving me relief.

I sat up and saw her big teary eyes but I noticed she was a bit bigger but not by much.

“You grew a bit.” I said.

“Mn! I’m almost reaching the adult stage.” She said and looked glum.

I pat her head and she sits up letting me get up. Then I looked at the door and saw where the voice came from and saw a little girl no bigger than Levi.

“Levi, who is that little girl and why is she here?” I asked.

“WHO YOU ARE YOU CALLING A LITTLE GIRL!?” She shouted and it sounded as if something exploded as she suddenly appeared in front of me and slapped me on my face making me fly into the wall a few meters away but she held back to leave me with only 1% hp.

“Daddy!” Levi shouted but my ear was ringing and I couldn’t see or hear much as everything was spinning.

I heard a faint laughter and some confused voices before I heard the sound of slaps and felt a tiny hand hitting me like that of a child.

My vision was spinning but it slowly cleared up and my hearing returned.

“Earth to Jackass!!!” I heard a squeaky voice calling then I felt some slaps, then he raised his hand in front of my eyes. “How many fingers am I holding up?”

At this moment my vision cleared up enough to see that it was DD. Feeling pissed I punched him on the right side of the face sending him sprawling.

“Shut up!” I say and hold my face as I feel the pain then look at the loli who smacked me. “What was that for?” I asked.

“For calling me a kid!” She shouted.

I looked confused and Levi looked worried.

“Daddy, master is my Battle Maiden class master. She is already umm… 25 years old I think.” Levi says shocking me as I look at the woman.

“So that explains why you were mad, does the class cause all the women to remain so young looking?” I asked.

“Papa! Don’t say that!” Levi blushed and fidgeted. “I… did want to get bigger…”

“Hmpf, it makes our metabolism shoot up to the stars to handle our strength and skills. Also, it’s annoying how this little girl can’t rise 20 levels above yours so let's get started to train you so that I can make sure she gets the War Maiden class.” She said.

“Hold on brat, you called yourself an adult but your little tantrum almost killed that jackass!” A high pitched voice called and when we looked DD was floating near me.

She turned extremely fierce after being called brat.

“You dare call me a brat! Look at yourself, you're not even up to my waist and you dare call me a brat!” She cursed.

At this moment I get up and move away from him to watch him be squashed by her. Levi came over while not taking her eyes off DD.

“Daddy? Who is that?” She asked after tugging on my shirt.

“His name is Dark Droso, he is my nightmares that formed a second personality and the goddess of this world gave him that body. He is just a pain in the ass.” I say.

She looked at him like she was looking at a little pet, giving off that innocent child feeling. As Mary moved to squash DD, Levi suddenly shot forward and hugged him like a teddy bear.

“I love him! Daddy got me a little brother that looks even cuter than him!!!” She suddenly said and rubbed her cheeks against him while holding him in an iron grip smiling happily.

“O-oi! Let me go! You brat let me go!!!!” DD shouted but couldn’t fight out of her grip.

“This big sister will take care of you and we can play and hunt together.” She said smiling then looked at me. “Can I keep him!?!?” she asked as if she was holding a puppy.

“Sure, make sure to keep him out of trouble since he was the one that made me scary that time when I saved Flor.” I said.

“No way daddy, how can something so cute be so dangerous!?” Levi said astonished but suddenly saw me pointing at her master and when she looked she paused for a long moment making an awkward silence before Levi giggled.

“At least you know how to fear you shitty old man. Also what the hell was with you leaving a newborn girl alone for four damned months!?” Mary shouted at me.

“Like I could help it? That little demon in her arms caused my body to collapse from exhausting physically and mentally so if you want to blame and beat someone up beat him.” I said.

“You expect me to believe in something like dual personality and such farfetched bullshit like that!?” She replied.

“Hey brat! That guy is telling the truth! That ‘goddess’ pulled me out of his head to keep him safe and put me into this disgustingly weak body so I can’t do anything. LET ME GO!!” He shouted, making Levi only hug him firmer.

“Whatever, you seem stiff so let’s get you working.” Mary said.

“Levi, are there any humanoid creatures in the hive?” I said ignoring the loli.

“Mh! I caught lots of those ugly little green goblins and tossed them inside and now they evolved making lots of settlements in all the habits but the bugs haven’t hunted them since I can’t figure out how to make the swarm attack like daddy does.” She said.

“Alright, let’s go look for some weak groups so we can feed all the bugs and get them started on the path to growing into Tier 4 bugs.” I said.

“Oi, get me out of here!” DD pleaded but I just grin and lift Levi up and we walk out and go jump into the wilderness before the maniac loli saw.