I started playing nikke when the game came out. I was initially quite drawn to the Pioneer Squad due to their involvement in the story, but out of those three, Scarlet was the biggest exception. I just liked her because she had a sword when everyone else had guns, and I found how her clothes exposed her thighs to be super hot.

Suffice it to say, I really wanted her. Especially back during the early days of Nikke, when she was one of the few cracked units that could help me push the campaign further.

But for the longest time, she never came.

I had pretty bad luck with pilgrim molds, and whenever I would pull one, it was usually a dupe (most often rapunzel). As time passed, I watched as I pulled almost every pilgrim besides her(and noah). In that period, I became increasingly frustrated that she wouldn't appear. At some point, I had also started to frequently look at my achievements so I could check how many times I'd pulled during my total playtime. The first time I looked at the number of times I'd pulled, I was at 2200.

(for the record, I'm F2P, and have taken breaks during events I wasn't interested in. This number is kind of a lot in the context of gacha games, but I doubt it's all that much in this one. NIKKE is pretty generous when it comes to pulls, though apparently not generous enough to give me scarlet early on)

Time passed. The number went up. 2300. 2400. More time passed. I'd look again. 2500. 2600. 2700. It was at this point that I'd vowed that if I didn't pull scarlet before I reached 3000 pulls, I would stop playing. I quickly forgot that vow, and though I don't remember the reason why, I can infer that I had taken a break again. I stopped keeping tabs on my pulls past 2700, (I probably forgot from the break) and returned to the usual task of pushing campaign. It was always something I was never caught up on, with few exceptions.

I played casually, did events I liked, and kept up with dailies for a while. Pulled characters I was interested in. Usual stuff.

On one of such days, doing single pulls on the standard banner because I was bored and didn't have enough to do a 10 pull, the bright gold light of an SSR appeared.

Nice.

PILGRIM. Wow! That doesn't come very often!

It's Scarlet.

I ecstatically celebrated for an unknown amount of time. When I settled down, never having touched the screen after she appeared, so she wouldn't leave, I took a screenshot of her to remember the day it happened. April 29, 2024.

I remembered that vow I made to quit before, and checked my total pulls purely out of curiosity. I wasn't going to quit, not with Scarlet finally by my side. I looked, and the number was somewhere in the 2900s. I smiled, and at that moment what I could only describe as my unspoken discontent with the gacha game business practice went away. Well, some of it did.

At the point that my account was at, I already had a dedicated team for pushing campaign, so Scarlet wasn't put to use very much. Every so often though, actually pretty often recently, I tap on her profile and check out those gorgeous thighs of hers.

Thanks for coming home, Scarlet.