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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 498 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 498: One Two Bullet Knuckle Part 2

Respond to the offense with the offense of my own without the fear of being hit. That is what I must do here. But I also click my tongue under the mask.

In fact, if you were to compare Dust and TV-Head from the tactical standpoint, they are about the same. But it is the TV-Head who can fight more freely here, since she has the mental advantage here. And above all else, the one controlling the TV-Head is a Professional Gamer, which makes that character insanely strong. Almost like a demon, if I were to describe it.

「Is that gun of yours a toy or something!? If it jams like that when you need it the most, then it’s better to just throw it away!」

「Pulling out!」

「Guh!?」

Let’s stop worrying about wasting bullets for now and focus on what we can do. So I fire a shot that shatters the TV display of the TV-Head.

Yeah, let’s not worry about it. Just shoot a bullet when you feel like shooting and hold back when you feel like holding back. Two more bullets are shot at the TV-Head, one being blocked by her arm and other managing to go through and hit its mark, lodging itself into her torso.

「Try to move away, and I’ll pummel you to death as gently as possible!」

「You weak bastard! What do you possibly hope to accomplish with those weak-ass DPS punches!?」

「Precisely that! One-two! One-two! Just like boxing!」

「Those are bullets! Not punches!」

After pondering it for a moment, I adjusted the chart inside of my head. I have decided to scratch the original “Muscle-Brain Fighter Operation” and decided to go on a fully-blown offensive for once. No matter what, that TV-Head needs to go to hell here and now.

Poverty is a virtue, but thanks to accumulating various resources because of it, you can eventually get rid of it and advance in the social ladder.

Perhaps she did not expect the bullets to come at her like that just from fanning them lightly. But I can also see that rather than trying to avoid the Good and Bad Bullets, this TV-Head would rather try to block them, like a Heavyweight character would. But when faced with a situation like that, not moving away is going to be your undoing!

「Missile-like Intrusion Uppercut!」

「Where the hell, you get…… missiles!? Guh!?」

Go complain to Valkyrie if you don’t like it. There was a missile coming our way, aiming at taking both me and Amelia Sullivan out at the same time. The rocket hit the ground near us and even though the TV-Head’s guarding stance was pretty solid, she was blown away with ease as if she was not guarded in the first place. I was also knocked back a little bit, but I think that the damage I received was far less than what she suffered.

「Good Bullets: Three…… Evil Bullets: Zero. Tsk, is it time to go shopping……?」

I have too few bullets left for them to be used effectively during the fight. Also, the Evil Bullets are accumulating way slower than I would have expected. However, as long as I have some of them I can still do something. But once I run out of all of them, it’s going to be essentially over.

「Whoa! What a great timing!」

Hi there, mister policeman! Could you please lend me some of your tools of justice for a moment? Because you see, I am not having nearly enough of my own!

Utilizing the smoke screen created by the missile blast, I jump towards the group of police cars that arrived on the scene while the Valkyrie went to pursue the TV-Head in the meantime.

「Y-You! What the hell do you think you’re doing, you bastard!?」

「A lonely citizen who is just concerned with the safety of this city and the well-being of its fellow citizens? That’s admirable, but do you honestly think that you could win against me with a mere pea shooter like that? You’d better forfeit! Forfeit while you still have the chance, I tell you!」

「Guha!?」

I grab the policeman by the uniform around his chest and draw him closer to me, head-butting him in order for him to release the gun he’s been holding onto as if his entire life depended on it. Needless to say, the power of my head-butt was so strong that the policeman fainted on the spot.

「A good piece of advice for the future: if you want to join in on the fun where you know that you absolutely cannot lose, be sure to bring something more than just a plain and ordinary handgun. A rocket launcher should be a bare minimum, but even that might not actually be enough!」

Oh, won’t you look at that? Looks like the Evil Bullet was charged up to the maximum level with that one action alone. Maybe I should beat up another five people just like that, just to be on the safe side? Assuming that I am going to have the free time required to do so, that is.

A visualized sonic boom hits the taxi that I was hiding behind and blows it away. Its metal body squeaked with an unpleasant noise. Sensing what’s about to come I try to throw the policeman’s body in the direction of the attack while at the same time jumping away, but it seems that I was too late with that. Another explosion happens right next to me and I am knocked back by it.

「Come on out, No Face! Quit hiding and face me like a man!」

「Gee, talk about impatience…… But very well. You want a fight? Then let’s do this!」

The first condition is cleared: I have managed to obtain four handguns. That pesky Valkyrie is still getting in the way, but…… Is this going to work out? No, no, there is nothing for me to be afraid of at the current moment! Right now, with the guidance of the Gods of the Energy Drinks I think that I can pull off even the craziest of acrobatic actions! All thanks to the energy concoction that I brewed up earlier!

「Hey, whoa there! Say, Hawkeye! I thought that I already told you that I do not care about this whole victory thing nearly as much as you are!」

「Huh?」

What was that thing just now? A stammer? I am currently in no position to either deny or confirm that theory of mine, but I guess that what’s important is this: I am still standing here, in one piece. It might have been a little bit passive on my side, but let’s just keep on raising the tension bar higher and higher! That way I will know that I have done all that I possibly could and I will have no reason to complain at all!

「Rather than worrying myself over such things like winning or losing, I just want to do what I want to do right here and right now……」

And that is exactly why I do not intend to die before I get to do just that.

「Now, here’s a question just for you: have you ever see Dust’s Dancing Guns technique? Because if not, then prepare yourself! It’s on!」

「Dancing Guns? What the hell is that even supposed to be……?」

Oh yeah? I see. Well, it’s a concept coined in a Japanese game, so small wonder that she never even heard about it before.

「Well, in that case…… You’d better look forward to seeing one with your own eyes for the very first time! I assure you, it’s quite the spectacle!」

When it comes to the origins of this concept, it goes all the way back to the shooter fighting game Dance Guns Duels that came out a while back. The main characteristic of this game was that every single character appearing in it used some sort of a firearm in order to fight! And right now I am going to show her the pinnacle of the fighting style that I managed to develop during my time with that game! Here it goes! Four Handguns Martial Arts! Quad Bullet Dance!