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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 422 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 422: When Someone Tries To Punch You, Make Them Eat a Flashy Counter Part 2

Subject: Vocabulary Explosion
From: Sanraku
To: Takeda Green Beans
Body: Kazegumo President…… It was good

Subject: Re: Vocabulary Explosion
From: Takeda Green Beans
To: Sanraku
Body: Good to hear that…… I’m glad.
That being said, I’m not sure if this game is going to be something I would like to keep on display on my shelf even after clearing the game!

Subject: Re: Re: Vocabulary explosion
From: Sanraku
To: Takeda Green Beans
Body: No, I’m really grateful to Takeda-san for sending me this all the way from Zimbabwe.

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Vocabulary Explosion
From: Takeda Green Beans
To: Sanraku
Body: No, think nothing of it. It was no big deal. When I’ll be on my way to Australia sometime in the future, maybe I’ll pay a visit to Japan as well.

Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vocabulary Explosion
From: Sanraku
To: Takeda Green Beans
Body: Takeda-san! Making remarks like that before even boarding the plane can lead to setting up some potentially dangerous flags out there, you know!?

「No, really, I honestly think that this is really cool……」

I would like to say that this kind of line falls perfectly with Takeda-san’s character, but talking about flying over to the Southern Hemisphere…… It seems that his work keeps him extremely busy, so how does he find the time for gaming amidst all that work? No matter how you look at it, Takeda-san is a one heck of a mysterious person, indeed.

By the way, I also defeated the hidden boss of this game, “The Elder Goddess”, so it means that I can go back to playing ShanFro with no hesitation, right? What about Galaxia Heroes: Chaos? I’d say that the game is pretty good, and that I am definitely going to play it some more in the future. But when would that future even be? That remains to be seen.

Now then, it’s time to go to school, time for school!

“Huh? Seriously? Someone managed to set the flag for the decisive battle against the Dragons? And it’s going to take place in about a week from now on?」

「Ah…… T-That’s right, but…… That is all that we actually know……」

「Oh, now that you are mentioning it, weren’t you guys talking about that some time ago……? No, were you? Yeah, I think that you did. I mean, yeah, that’s what you get from sitting isolated from the Internet and social media for about two days in a row.」

Even after clearing Kazegumo President, I was busy e-mailingTakeda-san and sleeping my fatigue away. If you want to use the Full Dive system for a prolonged periods of time, you need to be sure that you are ready for it and that you get enough sleep. It would be a shame if you were to be forcefully logged out of the game during an important quest due to something as trivial as sleep depravation.

First-Class gamers are required to have the skill to get enough of sleep even from the shortest of naps out there. This is all so that their brains can get some rest and be ready for yet another prolonged gaming session…… During gaming, the brain is working full throttle even if the body is resting, so if the system detects that there is too big of a strain being put on your brain, you will be forcefully logged out and you won’t be able to log back in for the next twenty four hours. It may sound harsh, but thanks to that method there is yet to be a case of someone dying from exhaustion while gaming within the Full Dive reality.

「Hmm? So, in other words, does that mean that every Colored Dragon is going to be present on the battlefield as well? That, plus Siegwurm and Noirlind are going to be there? Talk about an overkill.」

…… No, but isn’t that a little bit strange? It would make much more sense if the Dragons took their turns in attacking the frontline base, since they certainly possess the strength necessary to destroy it. There is little sense and point for them to attack it all at once.

Even Boss Rushes throw boss characters your way one after another, not all at once. If any game tried to put all the bosses against the player without any kind of a handicap, it would be just a shitty game or something even worse than that. No, but could it be that such a tall tale is really a thing that the developers intended? No, it is far more plausible to think that the original shape of some quest got distorted for some reason?

「If the butterfly effect exists in this world, meaning that even the smallest flap of the butterfly’s wings can change the outcome of the future, could it be that something went wrong alongside the way and the original path branched out from its original course……?

「…… Huh? Umm…… What?」

「Ah, oh, it’s nothing, really, nothing at all. Just thinking out loud, is all. But rather than that…… I would like to go and see Vash before that battle begins in earnest. It’s a sort of a tradition of mine, and who knows, maybe I will even receive some sort of a clue or important information? Those conversations tend to work like that.」

「Really now?」

It’s just an assumption on my part, but I do believe that the further I managed to push the World Quest, the more detailed information Vash is going to give me.

Besides, Sanraku, Saiga-0 and Akitsu Akane may have arrived at the same point…… But the process of getting there and the events alongside the way surely were greatly different.

Vash’s guessing power is a bit unusual, I mean his guesses and hunches always seem to be on the spot. I don’t know the principle around the Wimp-related matters, but I feel that this ability of his might actually be connected with being able to either see or read player’s action log.

In Rei’s case it might be something related to her current status or the way she took to achieve it, and Akitsu Akane is bound to have some troublesome story behind him as well. Not to say that I’m not having a pretty complicated and troublesome past in this game, but…… I would like to collect the conversations that everyone involved with Vash had up to this point. But with Noirlind being on the way towards the frontline base that might be a little bit…… I just hope that we can do this while I will get to be logged in. It would suck to miss an event of such scale.

「…… Not good, I don’t have nearly enough information on my own to be able to deduce anything.」

「It seems that all the other players are moving forward in their own unique ways as well……」

Well then, I wonder how I should move in order to prepare for the decisive battle?

Now that Emul is with me again, I can go anywhere I want, anytime I want: the Crystal Crown villa, Tier Platen, frontline base…… You name it, I can go there in a matter of seconds. So with that being said, what would be the most important direction that I need to take?