Frontiers ~Chronicles of Bucket-san’s Detailed Pioneering~

Bucket Helm: Lily’.
There were quite a few stalkers trying to find out about the method I used to create the item, which was a bother, but was manageable.

The problem, however, was that some people thought that I had used some cheat to make the item… Or rather, a decently large number of people sent official queries to the management team of ‘Frontiers’ about this matter.

And since they investigate any sort of activity if they get enough in-game reports, though they only count one report per person, I ended up being the target of an official investigation by the management team.

I had done nothing wrong though, so I wasn’t worried in the slightest… And before long, the management team came to this exact conclusion.
I was clean.

However, since I was the target of the investigation, they ended up letting me decide if my character name should be revealed when making the announcement of the conclusion of the investigation, and they also let me decide when the announcement would be released, though I, of course, couldn’t just tell them to wait forever.

But in this meantime, the stalkers started getting really annoying, and I wasn’t using a disguise yet.
The result was that one particularly troublesome person started being really loud and shouted in the middle of the street about how I was a cheater and was ruining things for everyone and whatnot… He pissed me off, so I decided to answer the e-mail, telling the management that they could publish the investigation results right away, and that they could release my name in it.

I didn’t expect the management to see my reply as soon as I sent it, but they actually did.
They saw the reply and released the announcement a few seconds after I had sent the e-mail to them… And then, the announcement was delivered to all players by the word of the god NPC, with a guarantee that I had not done anything unfair when creating my products.

When this happened, everyone in the surroundings started giving strange looks to the annoying complainer, who eventually realized that something weird was happening, so he checked the announcement too… But by then, it was too late.
He was arrested for the crime of accusing me, who was deemed innocent by this world’s god… It was quite the heavy crime, apparently.

Due to this, there aren’t people that try calling me a cheater anymore, but that didn’t really stop stalkers from annoying me, hence why I started wearing a disguise.

After I explained all this to Hime, she said, “I see… You worked hard.”

“It was only because of some really annoying people though… That said, you have it rougher yourself, don’t you?” I asked her.

“Eh? Hime does?” Lolita seemed to be surprised by my statement.

But yeah, Hime is a celebrity of sorts in ‘Frontiers’.
There’s even a dedicated thread in the forums for her.

Also, differently from me who stays all day in the ‘Rental Production Facility’, she actually goes out and meets up with players all the time.
There’s no way she doesn’t have trouble with stalkers.

Though well, seems like I was overworrying.
Hime told us that she actually handles those issues in a bit more direct way than me.
She doesn’t quite attack them, as she could get penalties from attacking other players, so instead, she uses her threads to sneakily change the targeting and movement patterns of nearby enemies, to make them ‘accidentally’ move closer to the stalkers.

… I don’t think there is anyone other than her that can do this kind of thing with her threads, but it’s still a totally valid way of getting rid of stalkers, I suppose.
You only get the penalty from attacking other players if you deal damage to them or use harmful skills aimed at them, so… Pushing mobs their way is fair game, apparently.

And because of this, some rumors about Hime stalkers having a natural mob-attracting aura started surfacing.

“Oh, so there was some truth to those rumors after all…” Lolita commented after Hime finished her explanation.

“You’re really amazing, Hime.” I told her.

“Ehe.” Was her reply.

I really meant it when I said that Hime and Lolita were amazing people, and I honestly don’t think that I compare that well with them, but I’m sure they’d just deny this claim if I made it, so I kept it to myself.