ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 484 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 484: Bomb Fishing! A Shitty Game-Eating Fish!! Part 1
「Eat shit and die, you asshole! There!!」
「What!? You want some, too, you bitch! Bring it on!!」
「Yes, yes, just like that, just like that. Talk about pretty satisfying.」
It took us quite a while, but after some time both Katsu and I finally stopped trying to cut one another into minced meat and just resolved to glare at one another from a safe distance. The place that we were right now was the inside of the Inventoria, where various items kept on floating in the air like space debris or stars.
「Hmm…… I guess asking for my attacks to just go though was a little bit much here, wasn’t it?」
「That won’t be a problem. For you see, this machine’s intelligence can solve about any problem that you might have.」
「Whoa, the character of this one seems to be all over the place…… Alright, I shall back off for now. But are you one of those Conquest Dolls? The one that signed a contract with Sanraku?」
「Affirmation: my name is Elma=317, and at the current moment I am designated to intelligently assist My Master in his endeavors.」
「Sanraku—kun, could you give us any tips on how to contact one of those things? It looks mighty fun, I won’t lie.」
「If you are asking for conditions, then I do not know any. I just happened to stumble across her by complete accident. What about it?」
Yes, that’s right. The fourth person in here was Saina. As a matter of fact she just sat in one corner of the Inventoria, as if claiming that space for herself, and then she continued speaking after looking at Pencilgon and pointing her finger at her.
「The standard rules for formulating the contract may differ greatly depending on both the Conquest Doll and the potential Master candidate, but there are all types of Conquest Dolls out there, and every potential Master is bound to find a good fit for themselves. But looking at that person, I would estimate that she is more of a Ririel Type rather than anything else.」
「Ririel, huh……? Who’s that? Ahh, could it be…… the one that seemed to have radiate that aura of pointless brutality?」
「You seem to have a good memory. That’s exactly right.」
「I’m just good at remembering people’s faces and connecting them with their characters. And games make it a really good place to train such an ability.」
Oh, if we look at it like that, then I guess that I am not all that good at remembering people’s faces and characters, in games as well as in real life. It’s because I tend to see various tropes and similarities in NPCs in various games. Troublesome quirk, but what can you do, huh……?
「Ah, which reminds me. It may be a different subject than our current affairs at hand, but Pencilgon…… I guess that it is going to be impossible for you to participate in the upcoming event, right?」
「Upcoming event? Ahh, that one…… The TV Station that is located right in the center of Tokyo’s metropolitan area? Yugatta TV? Unfortunately, I have to go to Kasai for a while on that exact date.」
「Ah, so it really is impossible, since it is in the opposite direction and all that……」
After all, isn’t that a little bit strange? Why was Deepslaughter so focused on the broadcast? Oh well, I guess that roping two of the three players who made such a big of a commotion at this year’s GGC is more than enough in this situation. Or at least way more than she actually deserved in this situation……
Apparently here, Pencilgon must have been thinking something really similar to my own thoughts, because she then turned towards Katso with a nasty glare in her eye.
「Say, Katso-kun…… Is there something you are trying to hide from us? Because you know, if we learn that you deliberately hid some crucial information from us, then……」
「No, no, no! No, no, no, no, no! Why would I even want to do something like that? …… I’m not hiding anything from you! Please, trust me on this!」
…… Yeah, like, that’s not suspicious. Not suspicious at all, my dear sir.
「Oh yeah, I guess that there is no way for you to actually weasel your way out of this event, right, Beta Boy? Not with the company that you are going to be having, hmm?」
「Guh…… Actually, if I’m to be honest…… both Silvia and Amelia really want to make an appearance there, yeah.」
「Amelia…… You mean DynasCar’s Bird of Prey?」
What? What’s the deal with those overly cool names? Or perhaps they refer to the same person?
「Honestly, I don’t know all that much about her as a gamer. I just know that he’s way over one hundred and ninety centimeters tall. Apparently she is also a model, but pretty muscular, or should I even say massive, at that……? But I would surely like to know what she’s like from the professional perspective.」
While Pencilgon keeps on talking about that Amelia girl, she occasionally laughs from time to time. I don’t know why, but for some reason she never seemed to have liked Silvia Goldberg all that much. Was that perhaps because she is pretty as well? Is that what this is?
「Huh, I see…… If someone like Amelia is coming as well it makes me want to go by myself just a little bit…… Hm? But much to my knowledge, Amelia Sullivan is one of those whose personal motto is “I absolutely hate losing”, so why would she…… Ahh, so that’s why, huh?」
「What is it now?」
The one to deliver the answer here was not Pencilgon, but Katso of all people.
「Amelia Sullivan. Number Two Professional Gamer in the whole of the United States of America. She is the DynasCar’s Bird of Prey, a player who uses Heavyweight characters exclusively to crush her opponents, especially if they are High-Mobility type. So far she has not suffered defeat even once. Well, with one noticeable exception. And that is……」
–––––– The woman who was thought to be the closest we would ever get to a “Real World’s Cursed Prison”. Or at the very least that was the story up until this Summer.
「But now, here comes the real problem. For you see, it just so happened that at this year’s GGC someone made an appearance. Someone who came in like a freaking meteorite onto the Professional Gaming Stage, forcing an extra round against previously unbeatable Silvia Goldberg, who is thought to be the Real World Meetius through and through. And guess what else? That someone managed to do that while playing as none other than Cursed Prison! And now this Number Two gamer in all of the USA has come to Japan of all places! What could she possibly want in here? You think it’s business or pleasure? Or maybe it’s just her pride is way too damn high she should just learn to chill just a little bit? Huh? HUH!?」
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