ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 477
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 477: Nostalgia
At first it was nothing else but screams and horrors.
When I was only just starting out, I was getting killed over and over again without mercy.
After some time I gradually started to get used to it, and then the desire to defend myself started to rise inside of me.
When exactly was that? I don’t really remember all that well, but it was most probably somewhere around the end…… And then the time has come that when I saw someone unfortunate enough to get devoured alive by the monsters, I could only laugh at it like a crazy lunatic.
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I turn my neck around and I immediately regret doing that. I should have turned my whole body instead. I have felt all the signs of danger incoming but I chose to act against those feelings, which resulted in me not moving away right away. Next thing I know there is a bullet passing right next to my nose bridge, opening a hole in my temple and passing through my eyeball, brushing the left side of my field of vision.
「Ahh! Gah! Guh……!!!」
But at least I managed to catch up.
This body may be small, but is capable of things other than just hiding. Even though it may be counterproductive here to abandon all muscles, it was capable of nimble and agile movements that in an environment of a jungle were way better than simply powering through it. That’s why my build is more like that of an athlete rather than a bodybuilder.
「Finally, found… you……!!」
Almost at the same time there was a sound of another shot being fired, and when I managed to dodge that I could hear my opponent clicking their tongue in disappointment. It was a little girl who was holding onto a small handgun, looking all normal but being anything but.
「Used that as, a shield……!」
「Even though it is supposed to be a rare item……!!」
Didn’t you know, you moron? Not that I care either way, so you can just drop dead on the spot and die for all that I care. But for the sake of future experience, the bows of your eyes can act like ballistic shields under the right set of circumstances!
But when it comes to those guys, it’s always about guns with them! Guns, guns, guns! Nothing but guns! I know that they go on expeditions all the time, but give me a break here! This is getting downright annoying!
I came here in order to kill them all with some buddies, but as luck would have they are all dead beside me. And it was all due to the sniping techniques from afar. Because muskets in this island were second only to cannons in terms of the raw damage they were able to provide. And the ones wielding them were always guaranteed to take your head once they have taken it for their mark.
「Scary! You’re so scary, μ-Sky! That’s why do me a favor and drop dead……!!」
I was carrying a shotgun on my back, but in this situation it was pretty much useless. My opponent tries to flank me, but that’s alright. I can still do this, no problem.
「Tsk…… Why does the target has to be so small……?」
And fire. There goes a red mist of blood and flesh being torn to shreds, indicating damage. Then, I can see my opponent’s teeth through the hole that were blown in their cheeks. The sight was so realistic that it almost made me want to gag there for a moment.
Dillinger is that kind of weapon that has the least firepower to it, but also has little to no recoil. So while firing straight in front of me I reach out with my right hand and brandish a survival knife in it at the same time.
「Gueuh!?」
「Amashing!」
T-This bastard……! Seeing that his flank was unguarded, I slammed my fist in there with all of my might. He might have looked like a small child, but his resilience and stamina must have been that of an adult alright. Otherwise he would have dropped dead a long time ago from all of that.
「You little, shit……!」
「Hyu, hyufuh…… I may look….. .a kid, but……!」
It seems that there is a whole lot of heat coming from both of my flanks. I guess that we don’t have all that much time left here. It’s really hard to believe that this guy was able to hold his ground so well, not with those kinds of wounds all over his body.
「…………」
「…………」
A muddy blood-damaging effect was shed from one of the crushed eyes and blood drip down the side of my head like tears. Pulling out the knife and aiming it at his throat, I can see a barrage of bullets coming my way. I manage to deflect some of them, but all the others hit their mark and pass through my left shoulder. Literally destroyed, my left arm hangs down my side unable to move even an inch.
But still, we are able to smile at one another. I can see that his remaining eye is also shining happily, even though his face is pretty much gone. It was amazing that he was able to act that way now.
For now I have used up all of my usual tricks, and tactics and weapons that would otherwise drop fifty people dead does not seem to be working against that at all. It is frustrating. It is irritating. But more than that…… It feels so much fun!
I don’t even care about the pain anymore. It’s not the safest approach here, but it seems that my brain is able to mute it to some extent to let me give it my best right now.
How should I go about killing him? One of my eyes is out of the picture already, and so is one of my arms. I have a huge hole in my side and a portion of my throat that was almost entirely ripped out before. No matter how you look at it, I’m going to be dead here before long…… But for now I can still do this. I can still fight. I can still kill. I can still enjoy this!
Two more bullets left. I brandish my bun in one arm and the knife in the other, lean forward and start charging fast, utilizing all of the will to fight that I have left.
My opponent uses a pistol, so if I allow him to fire in a straight line, I am going to be dead on the spot. It does not matter if it will be prolonged or quick and simple. If I stop moving to the sides, it will be my loss. That monster-like aim cannot be underestimated. So I have to keep on moving.
「Four, three, two……」
「Hyu, hyuhaah…… What? Not trying to run…… are you……?」
Oh shit, I need to reload, and do it fast! But the same should be true for him…… Wait, what? What the hell? What kind of cryptic acrobatic reload is that!? Grabbing a bullet from the holster with just one finger? Are you kidding me!? How many did he manage to load!?
At least one bullet, but no more than five, huh? Geez, I might not be able to do much against that…… At this rate I might even need to throw my knife, hoping that it will be more than enough to settle this.
「Die……!」
「…………」
「…………」
There was silence for a brief moment out there. It was a slight break, a moment for us to catch our breaths that we have decided to take at roughly the same time. That’s why there was a brief pause out there…… and then roughly at the same time everything started to move once more.
There was the sound of shots being fired. I fire two shots from my revolver why my opponent feints by dashing both left and right time after time.
And then it fires two shots of its own.
I managed to dodge at the last possible moment, and the bullets came flying towards the places where my left foot and right eye were just a moment ago. And now there is only about two meters of distance left in between us.
Once again two shots are fired, we still run towards ourselves, shortening the distance.
And once again the two shots miss, and now there is only one meter of distance left in between us.
「–––––– GUH!」
But now something goes horribly wrong, and as a result of that there is now a hole in my side. My vision goes cloudy and hazy for a moment, and when my eyes regain their focus I can feel my entire body becoming weakened thanks to the accumulated damage. And the next thing that I know is that my enemy is right next to me……
「Guh, puoh……!」
「Hyuhaha!」
My toes stick to my dovetail. In the next moment my whole body is being blown away with the feeling of intense pain and nausea shaking me all over.
「Got you…… now!」
「Gyah!?」
When I was about to lose my consciousness, I could feel it being forced back into me thanks to the severe pain at the back of my head and the suffocating pressure inside of my chest. Apparently I was being trampled on and unable to move as a result.
「Hyu, hyu……」
Apparently, the monster must have been in a hurry as well. Could it be that its oxygen supply was running low? I mean, that’s the feeling I am getting from the simple fact that its complexion was turning dark blue right about now.
I try to swing my knife with my right hand, but both my arm and the knife are too short and the attack is unable to reach because of that. And although my arms are no longer fully operational and able to do anything, there is still some amount of strength left in them, allowing me for one last try at scoring a victory for myself here.
「Die.」
「Dwai.」
Because I was distracted by my right hand, I failed to hear that the monster was drawing ever so close to me, and before I even knew it we were facing against one another with literal centimeters separating our faces at the same time.
At this point in time everything that I am able to do here is to just put all of my strength into the finger resting upon the trigger, pulling it as if my life depended on it. Now, let us both enjoy this moment to the fullest. Killing, being killed, fighting to keep ourselves alive ––––––
And then everything turned to black.
In the end…… Which one of us managed to win……?
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