ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 372 Part 2
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 372: The Fastest Man In the World Part 2
「The fastest Bounty Hunters out there…… I want to see just how I can compete with that and if I will be able to keep up with them……I want to test myself.」
「…… Good answer. This is a nice goal to have.」
Nice, it seems that I have this conversation in the bag now. I was worried that I might be forced to use some of my trump cards here, but it seems that the cake bribe was more than enough to get the job done.
「Master, please give us another cake, would you kindly?」
「Understood. Coming right up.」
…… Hm? Why are we getting another cake here? And wait, why are you drawing your sword? It’s true that I wanted a demonstration here, but why do something like that to poor cake? Surely, you wouldn’t……!
「Sanraku, you’d better take a step back for a moment.」
「Huh? Oh, y-yeah, right」
I was not all too sure about this, but I stood up nonetheless. Oh, also, we have been talking for more than three minutes here, so all my clothes were gone and I was once again half-naked. Let’s fix that really quickly, shall we?
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「ATAAAH!!」
「UWOAH!? What the hell!?」
A man who was changed into a woman and wearing clothes that could only be described as a business suit…… This sudden change made some of the other patrons here fall from their chairs.
I noticed that they were staring at me for quite a while now, but since I was a man at heart I knew how they felt, so I was holding myself back from doing anything…… By the way, master was still serving other costumers like nothing even happened. This kind of strength…… It’s something completely different from the raw fighting power. Is this perhaps the strength of one’s character?
「Huh? Oh my, you have some cream left on your cheek.」
Huh? Oh, yeah, you’re right. Strange for a cream to stick to the place that was this far from the mouth, but oh well…… Hmm, yeah, it’s sweet alright.
「………… I guess that there is no helping it, then.」
「Huh? What do you mean by that?」
「Sanraku, I am going to go at ‘full power’. Your job is to use all of the skills in your possession in order to try and catch me.」
「Huh? Y-You mean we are doing this right here and right now?」
「Yes, that’s right. Don’t hesitate, not even for a moment. Even if it means destroyin this place, just do what must be done without holding anything back.」
Sensei declares that while the corners of her mouth raise up slightly in a smile.
「Not that you are even going to be able to catch up to me. I am going to just leave you behind and that’s it.」
Alright, if that is the way you want to do it, have it your way…… I shall humor you for a while! But don’t you come crying to me later when I catch you! I have skills right now that can make me go really fast, just to let you know!
Exceed Gravity. Kurama’s Heavenly Secret. Space Charge. Hermes’ Boots. Wolfate Sign. Bloodburn Burst. And the Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand. Add the Quantum Gaze into the concoction, and you have a recipe for going really fast. If I wanted to, I could easily run through the sky now and no one would be able to hold me back.
「The duel is on……!」
Do not lounge at her from the front. Instead, go slightly to the side, approach from the right and gently place your hand on the little girl’s head. That’s the way to do it!
So I put the strength in my legs, think of a route that I was going to take with the help of the Quantum Gaze, and then I start moving forward……
「Tachyon.」
(…… Umm, what is going on?)
For some reason, I just can’t move my body.
The very first thing I think of is that something happened to my VR device and that it caused a freeze. However, if that was the case, I would have been kicked out of the game by the safety mechanism.
Also, if it was a problem on the VR side, there would have been a system window popping up right now with the appropriate message. In other words, this is something on ShanFro’s side, something that was supposed to happen.
Then, after a moment of confusion, I notice it. It’s not that my body is not moving…… It is moving, but very slowly. Yes…… It’s as if your thoughts accelerated so fast that your body was left behind, unable to keep up.
「………… Wha!?」
I also noticed something else. My perception works as per usual, so the only thing that is slowing down is my body. Also, the world is slowing down as well…… Until it eventually came to a full stop.
Could it be……? Could it be……?
Tias-chan-sensei is sitting at the table, eating cake as if nothing ever happened.
「So, you can actually see me……? Well then」
Instant teleportation……? No, it’s not that. It’s just that Tias accelerated so fast that she was already right in front of me. It was just that my eyes were unable to follow her speed.
「Here, a treat from your Teacher……」
Tias-sensei reaches out her thin arm, holding a fork in her hand. There is a piece of apple topping from the cake at the tip of the fork, and just like that she casually placed it inside of my slightly opened mouth.
And then time begins to move once more.
「Eh? Ah…… FUGYEAH!?」
「Huh!? Why am I…… GYAAAH!?」
Tias-chan-sensei was no longer right in front of me. I have regained the control over my body, which was so sudden that it left my legs wobbly and devoid of strength. Unable to stand up properly, I stumble for a while before eventually falling to the ground face-first. …… What is this, this feeling of deja-vu that I am having here?
I admit here. Together with my Scorpion friends we have played many ball games: football, soccer, basket ball, tennis, pin pong, volleyball, golf and many others. So I have quite a bit of experience when it comes to being thrown around like a ball. But being a bowling pin? That’s actually a first for me.
Rolling around on the floor, I managed to cause a chair and a table to fall over, and I made a miserable sound filled with pain, as if I just smashed my little finger right into the corner of my desk.
「So? What’s your impression here?」
「I promise that I will be able to catch up to you, Tias-sensei.」
That’s the strongest Bounty Hunter for you…… I don’t really think that my three digit skills are going to be of much use here. If anything, they will just cause me to become a punching bag.
I watch as Tias-sensei triumphantly places the last piece of the cake inside of her mouth. I could also see that she was sympathizing with my attempts at growing stronger, but I also figured out that there would be no preferential treatment. Good. I wouldn’t want to have it any other way!
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