ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 464 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 464: Dragon, Oh Dragon! PART 41 Part 1
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Oh, I have done it! Kukuku, oh now I have really done it here!
「Look! Cast your gaze upon it! See those markers!? See just how carefully displayed they all are!? This is power! This is the power in the true sense of the word!」
「I can say one thing for sure: it certainly does look like fun from this perspective.」
「But of course it is fun! That is what PVP is all about when you get down to it! It’s all about having fun! And as the time goes on, it is even increasingly more fun to just add to the challenge and see if you will be able to overcome it! The more clearing conditions the better!」
What’s wrong, what’s wrong my friend!? You were so eager before about aiming at my back, right!? So why would you stop now!? Well, unfortunately for you, I will refrain from killing you like that for now. Professional reasons and all that stuff, but…… then tension just keeps on going up and up in here, and I really like that.
「I wonder, just how far can I take this power of Awakening……? I think that some verification is needed here…… Especially since the sky is starting to slowly change from dark to light, so it would be about time right now…… But here’s the question: am I going to make it in time?」
「O-Oi!? H—Hey, what’s wrong!?」
「Nothing. It’s just about a soliloquy. You know, when you voice your thoughts out loud, it just seems that they come together more easily that way…… Tsk, I guess that the balance between the firepower and convenience is really shitty for some strange reason. What is this, absorption? No, maybe the term masochistic capacity is a better description here? If this thing is going to get me killed here I am seriously going to laugh at it.」
「Don’t just use words such as this “soliloquy” so casually like that here! This is just going to give me an anxiety attack!」
No, you see, I’m not doing that on purpose here. I’m really not. I’m just trying to think about things logically. It’s like thinking about solving only the main issues at hand, you don’t really think about any other nuances that come along the way.
「I would like to say that it is not a big deal, that we could most probably take care of that on the go here, but just as I suspected, those horns really do seem suspicious. Not to mention that their placement seems to be really weird and irregular for some strange reason. Could it be that there is some hidden meaning behind it?」
「I don’t think that aiming at those things is going to be so easy as I might have thought previously……」
「No, I do believe that this is not going to be the case here. Oh, if it isn’t Rust! You have come at just the right timing here!」
「…… Say what now?」
「I would like for you to pass a certain message for me. Can you do that? See that boat over there? It’s our boat. And there is a certain player inside of it, the one who is giving us this support fire. …… Ah, you might be a little bit confused here, but bear with it for a moment, will you? I want you to go to that guy and tell him: middle right, bottom left. And if you could bust out Suzaku for this, that would be really swell, you know?」
「…… I mean, I don’t really mind doing all that, but do you really think that we have any real chance of winning this thing?」
「I could tell you that just to reassure you. But in reality, there is no such thing as certainty when the battle is involved. In battle, the only real thing that can be taken for certain is……」
My job here is to just make sure that all of Siegwurm’s horns are going to end up broken and in pieces. And when it comes to “winning” this battle, it is something that is no longer dependent on me.
The thing about the Unique Scenarios is that they always tell someone’s story, even if everything about a scenario like that may seem like an extra in the beginning. Or to put it in different words, everything in here, including the Golden Dragon King, is but a stage. And where there is a stage, there is a story to be played and a main character to push said story forward. So who is the narrator in this thing? At least I can say with certainty that we are all but supporting actors.
「Yeah, that sounds about right to me…… Umm, you are Rei, correct?」
「Eh? A-Ah, yes! That’s right!」
「What happened to you, Rei? Did some monster happen to eat you for breakfast and now it is possessing your body or something? Because that’s exactly what it looks like to me here.」
「Hey, you asshole! Stop making my sister into some kind of zombie or whatever!」
「Ehh, ahh…… Umm, this is, you might not want to believe it, but…… This is actually the kind of armor that I am wearing right now……」
Uwah, did that helmet just blinked at me or something? And what’s with that mouth? It looks totally gross! If you could, Rei, I would like you to stay away from me with that thing as much as possible!
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Akitsu Akane does not play video games like Joset, who completely immerses herself in the fictional world and roleplays at all times to her heart’s content.
Akitsu Akane does not play video games like Sanraku does, always being aware of her surroundings and doing things in such a way that the result would always be maximum with a minimum of effort being put into it.
Akitsu Akane does not play video games like Deepslaughter does, treating the game world like its plaything, a series of zeroes and ones with which she could do as she saw fit.
「…………」
But if so, then just what kind of gamer Akitsu Akane really is?
「Noirlind-san.」
「WHAT!?」
「The thing I would like to talk to you about is very important to me, so please listen…… I think that what is about to happen in the next few moments is going to be really important for us all.」
「NUH?」
There was not a single thread of dramatization in Akitsu Akane’s words. Those words were Akitsu Akane’s honest feelings coming from the bottom of his heart, and he decided to earnestly convey them to his Black Dragon companion.
「You are just yourself, Noirlind—san. And you fight in order to surpass Siegwurm-san…… Longing for him and chasing after him for so long…… But right now, I think that you are getting closer to finally fulfilling that goal of yours.」
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