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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 366 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 366: Antimony Concealment List Part 2

Fortunately for the knights, no player would try killing them in fear of lowering the value of their karma. But the knights had no way of knowing that, because of which their options right now were severely limited whilst our were ready for anything. It was a difficult situation for them, one that they needed to be really careful about.

「–––– No then, either you can risk running into the lord of the forest here who is going to exterminate you to the very last man, or you can turn back, go back to your ship without causing any trouble and go back home…… I wonder what kind of a choice you are going to make here, oh wise Third Knight-san?」

「Y-You bastard……!」

Yeah, I know. I totally get how you must feel right about now.

I was not the only one here would have the same kind of feelings, I wager. But it was then that I managed to spot a familiar looking face amongst the crowd, one that could very much belonged to a man or a woman. If it isn’t my pro gamer friend?

He must have noticed that I was looking right at him for he looked at me for about a second…… before he turned his eyes away. What was that just now? Is this bastard pretending that he has no idea who I am?

「Hey, Katsu-kun?」

「I would really appreciate it if you could keep your distance away from me! You’re scary!」

「Don’t tell me…… That’s why you’re acting so distant? And you pretend that we are total strangers? Hm? What is it?」

「Take a look at your own appearance and you tell me.」

Hm?

「I think that it’s really cute.」

「Your description and your actual appearance are a total mismatch here, you dumbass!」

You mean something like a vampire walking outside in broad daylight as if owned the entire place? Something like that? But thinking about it now, the original True Quiet was met during daytime as well, so it’s not like it should have some time restrictions for its activities, wouldn’t you say?

「I don’t know why, but everything about you now gives off a really spicy feeling.」

「Being someone who scatters negative ions just by existing is a really frightening perspective, you know?」

「You say as though everything about you was not already pretty negative.」

「…… It’s life that is negative here, not me.」

「Alright! It’s bidding time! Let’s start with free of charge and move from there!」

「Hey! Cool off , why don’t you! (like, physically!)」

「Hey, you two! Could you stop you pointless bickering for a moment? This scene here is rather serious, so let’s just keep it that way, shall we?」

It’s actually a good thing that someone was wise enough to step in and stop us, or else we might have escalate this situation into something that would result in lots of possible collateral damage. And since we talk about the current situation, those are some nice choices they have there. They can either risk getting decimated by the king of the forest or go back home empty handed. But when you think about it, no matter what they chooses here they are pretty much dead anyways.

「Gee, what a stupid buzzkill.」

「Yeah, I’ll have to agree with you on that one.」

「And what do you propose we do here?」

「Well, we could first take all of their equipment and then throw them into the harbor. Fish will eat them whole, so there is no evidence. And if everyone present here shut up about it and won’t mention it ever again, it’s going to be the perfect crime.」

「Or maybe we can turn them all into infinite punching bags. They would be more than perfect for the purposes of leveling fast…… Wait a second, can you even cast resurrection magic onto NPCs?」

「But wouldn’t that made them even lower in the hierarchy than the livestock?」

As far as I am concerned, dealing with the knights in such a way seems reasonable enough, and it even goes into the natural circle of life. So everyone wins in this scenario…… but of course it is only a joke. No one is going to feed anyone to the fishes today.

「Personally, I would advise you to haul ass back home. You might want to take your chances with the dino in the woods, but I doubt that you are going to survive.」

「Hmm? Wait, wasn’t the boss monster of this forest called “Dracarus Tyrannocerberus” or something like that?」

「…… SEMANTICS. PLEASE DON’T CONCERN YOURSELF WITH THAT.」

「Oi, lads! Sezie him! We need to interrogate him further!」

「Gueeeh!?」

Hey, stop it! Fuck right off! I only have one HP left here! If you are not careful here, I’m going to die on the spot!

「This time around you are not going anywhere! You are going to spill all the beans about you know what!」

「You know what……? But which you know what are you talking about……?」

「Oh? So now we have multiple study cases? That’s nice. You are going to sing us a song about every single one of them!」

Well, there are certainly are lot of information that I am hogging all to myself at this point in time. Rabbitz should be a common knowledge at this point, and I don’t think that I can keep the existence of raid bosses a secret, so that’s about it.

However,

「How about we discuss all of that like civilized people? With some tea and apple pie to boot? Hmm?」

It’s not really all that good-looking when you hold someone in a Nelson hold and demand information from them, right?

I’m not really complaining here, but if I am to give out my own information here, then we might as well do this in the environment that is friendly and non-threatening.

「Okay. Okay! Alright! Alright! I’ll talk! What do you want to know!? This beautiful girl named Sanrako is going to answer your every question!」

Yes, I’ll do it. All in order to honor that you have raised your hands against me first, even though I don’t really know who you guys are.

「So? A raid monster, huh? What kind of raid monster was that?」

Hmm, that’s a surprisingly sharp question…… is that perhaps the wit of the players who are qualified to reach the new continent? Or is that maybe…… pure malice? Nah, this can’t be it, right? Can it……? Because if it is, then…… Ah well, no use thinking about it too much.

Also, something about the movements of their lips was weird, their words seemed to be slightly out of synch here…… A lag, perhaps?

「Raid…… A raid monster, huh……? It is Great Red Devourer, a creature similar in nature to the Crazy Horde “Blue”…… Ah, thinking about it now, could it be that this burning broccoli was also a raid monster? I get a feeling that it could very well be under those circumstances……」

「–––– Hee, now that sounds rather interesting, wouldn’t you say……?」

The player who said that, his lips were closed. The sound of his voice echoed from the void around him. But with each and every consecutive word, the quality of that voice was changing from the one that was unfamiliar to me to the one that I knew all too well.

「D-Deepslaughter, you absolute bitch!」

「As sweet as ever with your words, I see. Huh, Sanraku-kun……?」

No way! Could it be that…..!? She was hiding behind him all this time, copying his tone of voice and mannerism!?

「No, I might have said “Stupid” by accident here, but it was just a slip. However, you would have no problems saying something like that to someone else, right, Sanraku-kun?」

「Haah!?」

Well then, how are we going to get out of here, I wonder? Because if we do get caught in here, I highly doubt that we are going to be let go with a half a day worth of detention and a slap on our wrist.