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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 389 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 389: Side Story 8 – Star Slashing Swallow – Part 1

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There are bullets flying all around.

The two revolvers that Raid Boss: Yura was holding in his hands keep on firing bullets our way without a moment of break. The bullets make a loud roar as they escape the barrel and fly our way, with a clearly murderous intent propelling them forward.

「Alright! Here it comes, you bastard!」

「Fuhn!」

However, just because we are at a disadvantage here, this does not mean that the two of us intend to be the Raid Boss’s punching bags. He may be the strongest, but we are not some random weaklings, either!

「Ooohhh!! I see! So you can attack in unison if you want to, huh!?」

「I wonder how will you respond to that, huh!?」

「Can you do something like this!?」

「Very well, there is nothing in this world that I would be unable to do…… But I would say that there is a seventy percent chance that I am going to do precisely the thing I imagine in my head?」

「When you are a part of Shinsengumi’s forces, there is literally nothing that you cannot do! And slashing speeding bullets in half? Please! That’s a child’s play! Witness the technique that many people envy!」

「Well, I guess that a Raid Boss does not have to envy you anything, since he can probably do the same thing with ease.」

「Well, as expected of Mister Raid Boss, I guess.」

Two bullets speeding towards us were cut in half, and a total of four iron pebbles cut into the wall of the teahouse. At the same time, both I, Matsuribayashi, and the Hero, Tousen, we started to run forward.

Right now there was only one thing that they could do, and that thing was to slash forward. They had to take advantage of the fact that their enemy switched over to guns and that his defenses would be somewhat limited for the current moment.

「Divine!」

「Punishment!」

Sanraku makes two slashes from top to bottom, and Tousen makes a single slash from the bottom to the top. Faced with two opponents aiming at him all at once, ready to die with no regrets as long as it means the job would be all but done, Yura had only two possible choice of action here.

No, or maybe not.

Two guns, one in each hand. And the one who controls them is the most powerful player in the entire world of Bakumatsu Online, someone equivalent to a raid boss, or a literal monstrosity. So if it’s going to be like that, there would be a need for the third option here.

「Reload.」

「「!?」」

When both of your hands are occupied, the solution here should be nothing but obvious: you only need to operate the inventory windows with your little fingers! Then, after throwing your revolvers into the air directly above you, you take out new ones from your inventory. With that, you get a new pair of weapons that are ready to be fired almost instantaneously, with little to no time lag in between your actions…… That is exactly what the Raid Boss here did. And now he had new set of revolvers ready in his hands.

Roaring sounds echo one after another in rapid succession. Aiming at each of his opponents, four deadly projectiles are expelled from the guns’ barrels and travel forward.

「Oh yeah, I guess this means that we are pretty much dead here……」

「Oi, what the fuck, man!? If you are going to die here like that, then what the hell am I supposed to do!?」

「Ahh, Divine……」

「I like the sound of that……」

「I don’t know what the hell there is to like about a situation like that……!?」

「I mean, instead of talking, why don’t we focus our energy on dodging that rapid fire bullet storm, huh!?」

「But the festival music was soon to be erased, and our Heroes would find themselves struggling for survival…… Who would have thought that the advantage of numbers would be overturned here so fast and with so much ease?」

Indeed, I am pretty much sure that from the outsider’s perspective our situation looks pretty much grim here. Since this here is a Full Dive game, there is no way for us to avoid the incoming hail of bullets by means other than falling flat onto the ground thanks to the skill “Fall on Your Own”. However, even though we have managed to avoid the immiediate death, this does not mean that we were in the clear and the danger would come to a stop.

However, in turn-based games bosses are often allowed multiple actions per their turn, and this here Yura was no exception to that rule. His attack was clearly not over.

「Reload?」

「Tsk……!」

「Is this what they tend to call collateral……?」

The Raid Boss then abandoned the revolvers that were already emptied and threw his hands towards the revolvers that he previously threw in the air…… with bullets waiting in his hands. …… Of course, the guns fell right on top of the bullets which loaded them instantly, and with his guns ready to attack, he pointed them towards us without a moment of hesitation. And since we were still on the ground here, we would have a hard time to actually dodge that attack.

It is impossible for us to dodge that attack, and in this position we are unable to make use of our own weapons. However, there was still something that we could do here. And I am sure that we have arrived at that conclusion way faster than any of the spectating ghosts.

「Hey, hey, isn’t it a bad idea to allow someone as dangerous as the Raid Boss to be so mobile!?」

「Idiot, says someone who is mainly a dual wielder but for some reason uses only one sword? Isn’t that a way worse situation?」

「Isn’t that what people usually call a balance? Or a handicap?」

「「No comment here.」」

With a new rusty sword in his right hand and a revolver in his left hand, the Raid Boss Yura is once more on the move. The aim here was probably to spread the possible damage as wide as possible. However, instead of firing another shot at the two of us who were still on the ground, Yura jumped off the ground and twisted her body, swinging Rust Light behind his back.

「Gah, niih……!?」

「Oversized meat shield!」

「Gubaaah!?」

The body of Tousen, who interrupted the improvisational cooperation without collusion, splits perfectly in half in the waist. However, the event-limited weapon “Catfish Obire” pops out as if to break through the upper body, and Sanraku, who has lost power from his left arm, jumps into Yura, using the upper part of the body as a shield.

「Can you see what’s right in front of you?」

「Now is the time to open your eyes……!」

「No, it’s time to get stabbed!?」

「LET’S GOOO!!!」

Continuing the assault in such a way, Kyogoku was wondering if perhaps Sanraku was not playing right into the Raid Boss’s hands, but apparently it was not like that at all.

「Daagh! I shall leave the rest to you!」

「Thanks a bunch!」

Tosen managed to avoid the blade coming to pierce him by sliding across the floor, and then he pressed the dull part of his sword against the meat shield, pushing it forward and making it look like a mighty baseball swing.

Without trying to resist, Sanraku steps back in order to avoid the incoming sword, avoiding the imminent decapitation by a skin of his teeth.