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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 447 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 447: Dragon, Oh Dragon! PART 24 Part 2

If that thing could seriously block everything and everyone straight from the front, it would have been truly an invincible shield out there…… except for the raid boss, of course.

「Alright then, I guess I’ll be heading back now.」

But I must say, it is pretty inconvenient to have to use extra magic scroll for teleportation just because Emul is not here. I guess he’s just TOO convenient of a transportation tool.

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「Okay, alright! I guess it’s time to lay some waste on Siegwurm while also cheering for Akitsu Akane at the same time! Yeah, that sounds good!」

「–––––– Could it be, Sanraku-sama?」

Someone called my name from behind my back. It was not a shout, it was not a yell. Just your casual call. However, when I “heard” it, it seemed to have grabbed a hold of my consciousness.

When I turned around, it was as if there was an illusion wrapped in an unrealistic glow standing right there. A picture of a woman that would only be allowed to exist in this virtual space, looking at me with a slight embarrassment visible in her eyes.

「Whoa there, well if it isn’t the Lady Saint.」

「Ahh, good, I’m glad, you see, actually……」

「WOULD YOU LIKE TO START THE QUEST “THE BLADE OF THE SAINT”? “YES” “NO”」

「–––––– There is something that I would like to ask of you.」

…… A new quest at this exact timing? And judging from the fact that the contents of the previous quest from the Saint that started from “Rescue the King” and evolved into “Rescue the Kind and the Princess and bring them back to safety”, it is safe to assume that this quest will be subject to sudden changes as well. …… I mean, that the sort of a person that the Lady Saint was.

「Abnormal Illegal Reaction: Precise Scrutiny…… Interruption Provisional Error. Analysis Complete. Destruction Required. Class X Zane Armaments Armed…… Denial, Target Next Generation…… Denial. Denial. Denial. No way, the Previous Generation, not Next……? No, but still…………」

「Universal Home Appliences Fixing Technique! Hit It With Your Fist And It Will Start Working Properly no Jutsu!」

「Hogyuh!? Warning! Strong Blunt Force Trauma To the Head Detected! Temporary Interrupting All Thinking Processes –––––– Hah!」

「Great. Not only you are a buggy piece of scrap, but of all the people to bug out in front of, it had to be the Lady Saint.」

And it seems to be a bug that causes smoke to emit from her head like crazy. I may have to take a look at it…… But I’m going to do that later. Much later.

「Alright, alright. It doesn’t matter all that much to me, anyways. As long as it is the request from the Lady Saint……」

There can be only one kind of answer that you can grant to the request of the Lady Saint. And that answer is to press the button with the characters “Yes” written on it. Needless to say, only a few seconds after I pressed that button the Lady Saint started to speak, and those words turned out to be actually pretty unbelievable.

「To tell you the truth…… I have ran away from home.」

「Huuuh……?」

Whoa there, wait just a freaking second! This may come as a little rude and Joset might not like me for this, but doesn’t that mean that since you have come to me with this, I’m going to be the one who will have to take responsibility for you!? Isn’t that a little selfish from you!?

「Well, normally I would have asked if this is some kind of a joke…… But I can see that this is not the case here, right?」

「No, I’m afraid not……」

「But you see, I thought that it might be a little bit fun to pull a prank like that…… Coming here in secret, without letting Joset and the rest of the knights know about this.」

「Huuuh……? (For the second time here)」

Umm, is that really alright? Is that something a Lady Saint should do? Forget about Joset and her fanatics for a moment, I’m talking about all the other religious NPCs out there? Because this sounds kinda bad, I won’t lie!

「Master, maybe there is actually no real cause for concern here?」

「Say what now?」

「Given the information I currently have stored in my database, there is no a single soul in this world that can hurt this person and endanger her life…… except for one.」

「Seriously now?」

Was that perhaps a miss on my part to assume that the Saint was actually weak? Could it be that she’s like…… crazy overpowered or something? Won’t that be a cause for concern in the nearby future?

「That’s impossible…… Is what I would like to say here, but…… I guess that there is also no way for me to deny it.」

「…… We can talk about possible explanations and hypotheses later. Much later…… But still, people who already seem to be overpowered being even more overpowered? What the hell is this? Don’t you realize that this is exactly what makes people dislike them in the first place……」

「I, I guess that you are right…… It’s like a bird that dreams of eventually being able of leaving her birdcage, but is actually scared of looking out the window into the world that awaits her there…… Fufu, well in that case, the only possible answer here is to take the birdcage out with you outside, don’t you think?」

…………?

「Don’t you think it would be a whole lot better to just destroy the birdcage and let the bird do whatever it want to do?」

「I’m sure that’s the correct answer here, but I have the feeling that this is not the proper way of responding to the feeling of those who look up to me.」

I’m here, but it’s like I’m not really here. It seems that the other side is talking about something important, but I’m just answering here purely on reflex. There is little to no intelligence in my words.

「Alright, so let’s change the subject here for a moment: where do you want to go from here, Lady Saint? And without the Holy Shield’s Territory knowing about it?」

「Fufufu, I think that you know that place oh so very well…… It is a place that you approach with your head held high, while Joset and her like avoid it like a plague……」

Whoa? What’s this? Alarm flags popping left and right before the quest even begins for good? But wait, wait, wait…… Someplace where I can go, but the Holy Shield’s Territory refuses to go…… If we take that into consideration, the conditions reveal just a few possible places……

「Oh Brave Swordsman who has forged a relationship with the land of Vorpal Bunnies, please take me in front of Siegwurm, the Heavenly Emperor.」

「…… For your own sake, I really do hope that you are going to be there with me when Joset is going to be grilling me for explanation.」

I mean sure, it is quite the revelation here…… But I like it this way. It’s because things like that that life has that spice to it, don’t you think? And if my guess is correct here…… this quest could be the trump card in this battle that we so desperately need.