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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 491 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 491: Great Bunny Judgement Part 1

When it comes to video games, there are some characters who just can’t act logically no matter how much you would like them to do just that. And there are also characters who you are bound to not like from the very first moment you lay your eyes on them. It’s just how it is with video games, so there is nothing that can be done about it.

So that’s that. If you don’t like someone then you don’t like them. But if you are indifferent towards someone, then it can be said that you don’t really need a reason to like them. Same with wanting to get angry with them. You just go with it without a single care in the world.

To put it simply, I don’t know what it was exactly that made me react the way I did, but nonetheless, here we are! If I were to leave things alone as they were, I would certainly come to regret it somewhere down the line. Therefore instead of letting life decide for me I decided to take the initiative in my own hands and act before anyone would suspect anything!

「Oi, oi, oi, oi! There’s a party going on and for some reason I was not invited? What gives? I don’t know if that guy is a mercenary or what, but it surely looks to me that you guys could use some help here? So how about it? Would you like to help yourself to some of my services? Hmm?」

This whole Darunyata guy is the only high quality jeweler that I am aware of at the moment, so it goes without saying that his life is of a great value to me.

It also goes without saying that if something were to happen to him here, it would be simply disastrous to me: I would certainly lose the help and services of the great accessory maker. And accessories are the things that are giving me so much edge over everyone else at the current moment.

「Huh? You, who the fuck are you, hmm!? Are ya lookin’ for a fight, huh!? Because if it’s a fight ya want, I can give ya one just fine!」

「Did you honestly think that I would give the jewels to someone without knowing their true worth first? Or did you honestly think that I would give them all away without having a few of them prepared as spares, just in case I needed them?」

Sometimes it just so happens that certain gestures can evoke even better reactions from other people than mere words alone. After all, body language is the universally understood language, something that transcends any form of spoken or written language. And there are no people around the world who can say that they do not understand at least some form of very basic gestures like that. And sometimes even a single finger can convey the most intricate of messages. Ah, what a pity that gestures and body language was not a thing when the Tower of Babel was still around. Maybe they would have been able to finish its construction like that without the damned thing collapsing.

And because gestures do not require words to convey their meaning, it can be said that you can convey even the most intricate messages that way, and there is a very high probability that the other side is going to more or less understand what you are going on about. I even heard that in the early days of Full Dive games or even before that time gestures were used more commonly than language for players all over the world to be able to communicate between one another.

「Think, you stupid bunny! You have your head on your shoulders, so make use of it! Say, Ewel-kun? You might not even realize that, but everything in here is already well within the palm of my hand……!」

All of a sudden I crouch down and deliver a mighty and deadly combo attack: at first I delivered a blow to the side of the bunny’s head, with one of my fingers slightly sticking forward from the rest of them. And then I followed that with a powerful uppercut to his jaw. Kukuku…… normally I would be opposed to using excessive amounts of violence in a place like this, but since Vysache is here, I guess that I might as well use some flashy moves in order to show off.

However, right in the moment when the corners of Ewel’s mouth were lifted in a nasty smile I have come to realize that this duel was far from being settled for the current moment.

「Hah! I must admit, the fact that you are a Bird Person made me lower my guard just a little bit! However, now I see that you are someone who is indeed worth of being called one of the residents in here, eh!?」

「Huh? The hell is that supposed to mean!?」

It was not my loss here, but for some reason the Bunny was yet to make a counterattack on his own.

「What the hell happened to the palm of your hand, asshole? Playing dirty, aren’t we? Well unfortunately for you, I don’t like fuckery like that! Doing something like that would only smear the good name of all Vorpal Bunnies!」

「Muh.」

Tsk…… I don’t know why, but for some reason those words happened to cut surprisingly deep. It may be true that I am an outsider here for biological reasons, but at the same time I happened to be accepted by the community as a citizen of Rabbitz. Which means that to some extent I am a Vorpal Bunny as well. So it can be said that any sort of notoriety or infamy that I gather towards myself is the notoriety and infamy that can be gathered towards Rabbitz as well.

Okay, so what should I do now? From the political point of view the best course of action here would be to call Edward here and have him resolve the situation peacefully. However, by doing that I would risk Break getting caught in the cross-fire, since she was the one who introduced me to the Caith Seith in the first place. And that is something that I would like to avoid at all cost if I could help it.

And it should be needless to say, but I absolutely cannot have Vysache intervene here, either. So as much I would love for him to just step in and straighten things out, allowing him to do so would only damage his reputation! And damaging their boss’s reputation is something that a grunt can never allow themselves to do!

「B-Besides, why are you even quarreling with one another in the first place……!? I don’t get it! I try to understand your reasons behind it, but I just can’t seem to get it! Like, at all!」