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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 405 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 405: Cynical Installation Intelligence Part 1

You see, right here and right in this situation, a butt is the key factor for resolving this crisis and reconciliation. And if you were to ask me what the hell am I saying here, I would have to tell you that I have no idea myself and that asking me that is pretty much pointless. However, it was a good thing that it was not a snake such as Sammy-chan over there, their hair does not seem to be white as well, so like I was saying here: the butt is going to be the key to resolving this crisis and reconciliation.

「Alright, I don’t know if you are ready or not, but on my three I’m going to pull you out, okay?」

「R-Right! I will leave it to you! Do what you must!」

「Alright, here goes nothing! And a one! And a two! And a…… THREE!!!」

The wall that this new arrival has pierced was not all that thick, so getting them out should not really be that much of a problem here. Unless they managed to get stuck in some kind of weird way, then it would be increasingly hard to do so. But hopefully that was not the case in here.

With that being said, I approached that person, grabbed them by the thighs just slightly above their torn spats and began to pull towards myself. Thinking about it now, isn’t that actually kind of strange? That I was so quick to approach them when just a moment ago I was so hesitant about letting that new Goldunine to approach me too close? But anyways, I had a job right in front of me that needed to be done here.

「Abnormal conditions successfully resolved…… Thank you so much for your assistance. I don’t even know how I’m going to repay you for your kindness here.」

「You can shove that gratitude of yours. I don’t want to be involved with you in any way, and I don’t want you to be grateful to me as well.」

「So, this basically means that we have one for one situation here…… I guess that the rule of equivalent exchange does not apply in here much, huh?」

What the hell am I supposed to do in this situation? Is this the kind of NPC that you cannot come to agreement with, no matter what you say or do? Is this some Shit Chronicles Online all over again? Oh no, I can already feel it! My stomach is trying to violently revolt! Better to resolve this situation quickly, unless I want to suffer some sort of a brain damage here.

「Goodness gracious, enough already! Why do we have to do something like this here all of a sudden!? For a while now it was nice and peaceful here, but you had to fuck it up, didn’t you!? You couldn’t help yourself!?」

「Negative, Non-Non: sleep mode is, after all, a mechanism that was implemented for the sake of the organic beings meant to recover from accumulated fatigue. Non-organic beings do not need it, for they have other means of recovering from fatigue.」

「Yeah, that’s cool and all but…… could you be a little more specific here?」

「Usually, about eighty percent of my external equipment is being placed under a non-operational state. As for the internal processes, they are all mostly intact, but my thinking capacities and intellectual abilities are set to perform at extremely low output in order to save energy. …… In other words, for the sake of saving needless energy consumption, I am held as kind of an idiot at most of the time.」

「Look, you remind me of a certain celebrity here, so let me illuminate you in a certain matter: using big words you don’t yourself understand in order to sound cool does not make you look cool. Quite the opposite, actually.」

「Huh? What could you possibly be talking about?」

No, seriously. I’m not at the level when I am about to lose it quite yet, but I am definitely getting there…… And not to mention that the artificial, doll-like features of this new NPC do not make it any easier for me. Quite the opposite actually. For some reason I find them to be extremely aggravating. Not to mention that there is a whole lot of things that beg to be pointed out in the words that this NPC is saying.

This thing that constitutes of its body is supposed to be some sort of metal frame, right? But more than a robot, I would dare to call this thing a machine doll at best. I mean, you can clearly see it. The body of this NPC looks organic at first glance, but slightly below the torn-up spats you can see cables, wires and other mechanical components glimpsing through the outer layer resembling a skin. So this thing is surely a result of combination of both fantasy and science-fiction.

However, it was honestly quite disappointing that the AI installed in such impressive-looking body would be so stupid. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the design was cool and all, but if they were aiming to maximize the coolness factor, they might have gone with making the character mute instead.

「Ah…… Somehow, I really get a strong Edamame Sainan-san vibes from this?」

「Need of clarification here: are you asking me about my name? Or are you asking id the name you have spoken just now is my name? Confirming the serious deficit in the memory capacity of the current generation of the human race. Or are you simply asking about our creator?」

「I’m starting to get angry here…… You should really think carefully about who you take as your friends here, Goldunine.」

「I told you, we are not friends yet! Besides, it’s not like that! I was kidnapped by this chump! That is why I am in a situation like that in the first place here! One moment its here, and in another moment its going to take off to the sky just like that! I would keep an eye on it the whole time if I were you!」

「Protest: wait a minute here. For a next generation of primitive humans, that description just now was surely misleading.」

「I guess so. But I also guess that it was a mistake to call you creepy in the first place…… Unless someone is a little bit touched to the head, that is.」

「You asked me about my individual name? It’s Elma Type, serial number three one seven. Otherwise known as Elma Three One Seven Sigma. Now that I have stated my name, I would like to get to know yours as well.」

「Ah? So, it really something that is related to Daruma dolls, or is it only my imagination here? Oh well, like that even matters now. My name is Sanraku, I hope that we can get along from now on.」

「Hey! Don’t you just get all buddy-buddy with one another! Don’t shake your hands like that! Hnnngh! Hey, you hear me!? Stop it! I said stop it……!!」

Even though it was just a simple snake, I could have sworn that Sammy-chan’s eyes were all like: “I’m terribly sorry for my Mistress’s behavior”. Well, that’s an image.