ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 394 Part 2
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 394: The Assistant Sword Is a Heavenly Machine Part 2
However, if Saiga-san twists her body just like that, it is only natural that the part that I was going to grab when trying to assist her would be her back.
「…………」
「…………」
The umbrella falls to the ground.
Indeed, this position that we are currently in can be said to be one step away from going into the territory of the genuine Princess Carrying.
If we take the current circumstances into consideration, I guess that holding a woman’s back like that and preventing her from falling to the ground is even bolder and more intimate than going for a Wall Slam.
However, this is reality, not fiction. So even if a thing like that was happening here right now, there is no way that I would get the results that the heroes in fiction would get.
「……Kuh, nuuuooohhh……!!」
I do realize that making comments about a woman’s weight are extremely rude and in poor taste, but right about now there are quite a lot of things I wanted to say about it.
I know that this should not be a problem for someone my age, but supporting a weight of a high school girl all of a sudden like that…… Yeah. Umm, what I was going to say here was basically……
–– That my freaking waist was about to give up here.
「You have got to be kidding me……」
I should be the in the time of my life where I should be basically the youth incarnate! The spring of my life, before reaching the twenty years-old mark! Now, I know that I do not train my body in any sort of significant way, but…… Why does my back hurt so much here? Could it be because I’m holding onto something really heavy? Are you fucking kidding me in here!?
「Umm, Saiga-san…… Look, this is really hard for me to say this to you, but if you would be so kind as to please stand up now? It would really be great, since my back does not feel so good in here……」
「Hueh……?」
「Umm, Saiga-san? Please? Would you kindly? Otherwise it’s going to be really bad really soon……」
「Ah, I don’t actually think that I have any strength left in my legs right now……」
Say what now?
Looking down below, I can see that Saiga-san’s legs are indeed trembling. Actually, they were quivering so much that I dare say that even a newborn deer was more stable on those wobbly legs of theirs. But wait, that’s not good……! This is bad! This is seriously bad here! The behavior! The behavior is all buggy!
「Whoa there, Saiga-san! Your legs are shaking so much! Are you sure that you are alright!?」
「I-If I am to perish right here and right now, I would say that my life was full of regrets…… But the greatest of them all is the fact that I was unable to fulfill my greatest ambition of them all…… Aaahh, but I also guess that I can die happy and join the Buddha……」
It was only a minute or so later that I have had a flash of insight: if only I was to place my knees on the wet ground and use them as support, everything would have been alright. If only I have not been so needlessly stubborn, that is…… I wonder if I should start training my body or something like that?
Never before in my life I would think that I would go the drug store and buy a waist compress at my age.
And since I was already sad enough from looking at compresses at the drug store, I also decided to go to the drink corner and see what sort of items they were offering there as well.
It’s not that I have developed a sudden craving for buying nutritional supplements. However, I have heard that recently Blood Riot Tonight would be released in Japan, so for the time being…… Ooh, yeah, that’s it!
「The effect is the increase of both fructose and glucose…… and the effect should be about seventy percent increase.」
For now, I have bought a set of four such drinks…… However, I wonder? What happened to the predecessor of the “Tonight” brand, the Revolving Lantern? No matter how you look at it, their effects seem to be entirely different from one another…… Oh well, it’s probably some sort of legal stuff, anyway.
The most important thing is that the tests did not discovered any substances that may have been potentially hazardous to one’s health…… Muh?
「Huh? Iwamaki-san?」
「Huh? Hizutome-kun? Fancy meeting you here of all places.」
I happened to run into Iwamaki-san at the drug store. I see, so Iwamaki-san also has normal, day-to-day life as well. I guess that it’s easy to forget that shop clerks have normal lives as well sometimes.
Seeing that I was holding onto a box of energy drinks Iwamaki-san nodded his head as if he understood something, but then his expression changed to that of puzzlement when he saw the compress I was holding in my hand as well.
「Poultice? What gives all of a sudden like that?」
「Well, I guess that there are a whole lot of reasons behind it, but to put it simply…… I felt that I did not have enough Strength.」
I cannot say that I have strained my back while trying to save a woman from an impending fall. That would literally destroy any pride that I had left in me.
「Hmm…… Well, breaking your body at such a young age only goes to show that you are not taking proper care of yourself. And you mustn’t do that now, you hear me? You need to take care of yourself!」
「Yes, sir.」
It was at this exact moment that someone butted in on the conversation I had with Iwamaki-san.
「Oh my, Mana…… Is this someone you know?」
「Oh, have you actually found it? The stomach medicine?」
「Oh, why, yes. I am always on the lookout for the new products of this company. Next time I have a stomachache I should use it and see how it works.」
Is this person a sommelier of stomach medicine, or something like that……? But now, why would that person even join in on the conversation like that?
「I have heard rumors, but I see that you have finally managed to conquer an otome game called life, huh…… Ubeh.」
「Isn’t marriage a natural result of two people being mutually in love with one another?」
「…… Love, huh?」
Now it was all starting to make sense to me. So, this is the rumored Mrs. Iwamaki, huh……? I have heard rumors through the grapevine, but it was hard to know if they are true, since Iwamaki-san never actually talks about himself. But now I see that he actually managed to do it.
I have heard stories about her, that apparently her job is so demanding of her that the only thing that keeps her going is her husband’s bento and stomach medicine, but to actually meet the woman in question in person……
「Tsu…… No, I mean, my name is Iwamaki Sakai.」
「Eh? Ah, m-my name is Hizutome Rakuro. I always go shopping at Rock Roll.」
It’s actually quite amazing. She was wearing plain clothes right now, but I guess that if she were to wear a suit, she would be a top class businesswoman. Not to mention that she is also drop-dead gorgeous…… is this what it feels like to capture a heroine in real world? Just how crazy of Otome Game conqueror’s skills you would need to have to pull it off?
After exchanging a few polite words I have parted ways from the Iwamaki couple and was on my way back home, still rubbing my hurting back…… God damn it! It hurts so much that I will most probably need to lie down. Which means that no VR for me! What a waste!
kinda confusing the gender of mana Iwamaki, in anime she is a girl, but this one I am not sure if i misread it or what. so one of the founder / secretary of ShanFro is Sakai