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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 395 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 395: Side Story 11 – Laughing Fixer – Part 1

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「…… Now then, would you be so kind as to tell us why you gathered us all here?」

The place is the New Continent Branch of the “Snake’s Apple” Café. There were six brilliant players gathered in this place frequented mostly by the NPCs, wanting to put their taste pallets to the test.

Kyoju, the Professor-Leader of the Guild “Library”.

Saiga-100, the leader of the Guild “Black Sword”.

Karoshi UQ, the Representative Leader of the Guild “10 PM Army”…… is actually absent due to being forced to work overtime, so the deputy leader Jakuzane Jackson was present in his absence.

Animalia, the Leader Director of the Guild “SF-Zoo”.

Joset, the Leader of the Guild “Holy Shield’s Territory”, the guardians of the Saint-chan.

And finally, Arthur Pencilgton, the Leader of the Guild “Wolfgang” as well as the formal mastermind behind this whole Guilds Federation. Right beside her there is a giant of a person standing silently, wearing a full set of strange body armor.

「Well, you see, about that, I was also hoping for Tempura Knights to actually join us, but…… That did not work out quite as well as I was expecting it. …… Actually, it went very hostile very quickly.」

「It’s not that they have turned hostile on you out of the blue, you know? They have been hostile towards you from the very beginning.」

「Oh my, is that what you think? You are so smart, Momo-chan!」

「…… So? Are you going to tell us what it is exactly that you are scheming or not?」

「Well now, why won’t we wait for that a little bit longer? Before that, how about a kind of ridiculous bribe? What do you say?」

It is probably because Saiga-100 seemed to have a long history with Pencilgton that she was able to tell, the kind of face that Pencilgton was making at the current moment was the face of someone who was plotting something nasty and was about to drag a whole lot of people into it as well.

And as to answer to that speculation, Pencilgton smiled even brighter, sensing the festival that was about to come and started to explain everything in detail here.

「First of all…… Here, Animalia-chan, have a look at this screenshot.」

「…… Hmm? A Cat Seith Interesting, I won’t lie……」

「Oh my? Honestly speaking I was expecting some more interesting of a reaction here…… Rather, Animalia-chan? Is it only my imagination, or did something about you has changed recently?」

「Fufufu…… I’m not the same Animalia that I used to be! The meeting with Nightprowler Luukan has changed me! Now I think I can understand animals even better!」

It seems that something strange must have indeed awakened inside of Animalia ever since that incident. However, even though her hands were shaking so much that she had to curl them into fists, her gaze was centered at one and only one thing…… The image of the cat wearing boots and with a fluffy, adorable face.

「This information is actually related to our gunball, but what the hell…… As you may have already known, there are Cat Seith in this game, and it is most probable that they have their own country. Unfortunately, that is all I know. If you want to know more, you would have to grill Sanraku for answers, but I highly doubt that he would tell you much……」

「Nice information…… It will depend on what the specific contents will be, but I am sure to spare no amount of money for that information.」

「Next, we have some piece of information that the 10 P.M Army might find particularly interesting.」

The giant knight wearing a full set of peculiar body armor twitched upon hearing that, and seeing that Pencilgton smiled brightly.

For a short while all the players present thought that they could see something like dark aura oozing out of the body armor. However, it was most probably not anything topic-related, but rather a dark aura resulting from the specifics of the class of that player. It was Dark Crusader, one of the highest possible sub—class for a Knight class. But it might have actually been something else entirely.

「The only reason why I’m here today is because our leader is unavailable, so he chose me to do the honors here. However, I am but a messenger here, I have no power or competence to decide anything on my own.」

「I don’t really care, that works for me just as well…… Fufu, now listen closely and pass that message to your leader, alright? We have managed to acquire the cooperation of “Imron” as of late.」

「The hammer wielder? Seriously now? …… It seems that this is going to be a rough meeting indeed.」

The biggest difference between an NPC blacksmith and the Player blacksmith is the level of real world realism in their creations that may or may not be present there depending on the item.

Plus, there is a factor such as log in frequency and the time of the day when they are available, and various other things that you would have to take into consideration when dealing with them.

In this particular case, the owner of the Holy Hammer Mjolnir, Imron, is a solo-oriented and really peculiar craftsman. In a nutshell, her schedule of log ins is so bizarre and mysterious that it is difficult for other players to know her location and schedule a meeting with her. In that regard, she might be even bigger UMA than Sanraku.

However, even though difficult to find, there are things that speak up in Imron’s favor: the fact that she possesses the Holy Hammer Mjolnir and the fact that she used to belong to “Black Wolves”. Because of that she is someone you would definitely wanted to have a good relationship with.

Now, there is also one more reason here: 10 PM Army wanted to make contact with Imron mostly because she was supposed to be an active office lady in real life. That is why even though our interest may not be all that common, since Pencilgton now possessed information about her and her supposed cooperation, they had no real choice but to cooperate with us.

「Next one on the list, the Library: for you guys, I have prepared something extra special. You could even call it one of my most treasured and prized information.」

「Hmm? So, you still had some information left hidden from us all this time, huh?」

Pencilgton says that to the Professor, and her eyes started to shine with curiosity. She even kept on touching the floral hair accessory that was on her head, unable to contain the excitement.

「Once again, this information comes not exactly from me, but from the bottomless toy box that is Sanraku-kun…… But what if I were to tell that there is more to Gravekeeper Wezemon than what was initially disclosed? Like, way more?」

「In that case, the Library will offer you our full cooperation.」