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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 501 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 501: Inflationary Winds Are Always Fast to Come Part 2

And this here TQC shows its true value when it can be operated in three dimensions freely, and it’s even more ideal if the range between me and my opponent is one meter or even less!

「TWINKLE DIET! Maybe that will help you lose all those unnecessary flab of your body, ya block of fat! ☆」

「Why you little……! Stop moving around so much, you stupid rat……!!」

「Right, and here’s your prescribed medicine! Minced into powder so that you can ingest it better!」

His opponent might have been a Professional Gamer, but even so, Sanraku was managing to lead her by the nose for the time being, making her say some things that are unbecoming of a Professional Gamer of her caliber.

Twinkle Picie hit, jump kicked, stepped all over her opponent, twisted in the air, and utilized the whole of her body to dance around her opponent, not giving it the chance to strike back. And then to add a little bit of a finishing touch, she delivered a mighty knee kick to its neck!

「TQC, Completely Normal Twinkle Light Magic……!」

「And now it all started to look like a genuine fighting game!」

「Flashy Magic: Shining Wizard……!!!」

Landing on the ground, preparing another portion of Pixie Dust to stun her opponent once more, slamming her wand against the sturdy armor with all of her might behind every swing. There was no way that a wand such as this would have been able to break Cursed Prison’s armor, but that’s not what it was all about in here.

「God damn it!!!」

Twinkle Pixie manages to destroy one of the machine guns that were mounted onto the Cursed Prison, but she was unable to do anything more before Cursed Prison went on the offensive and countered with bullet blasting with all of the other machine guns.

After all, Sanraku is also a player who is familiar with Cursed Prison, so he knows exactly how Cursed Prison likes to play and what grinds its gears the most.

For a small character like Twinkle Pixie, it is important to make an appropriate gap when dealing with an enemy who is larger than her. And then it’s pretty much a smooth sailing from there.

「What……!?」

However, the follow up to that was something different, not something people had expected. A small character goes into the pocket of a large character, and the only thing that thinks about the advantages and disadvantages here is the battle one, and in this case, the general public will receive that “the bigger one caught the smaller one”.

It’s not a fighting move. IT was…… a fighting grapple! !! But what could possibly be accomplished by grabbing such a huge machine? But it was all good. After all, this was yet another step in making TQC even more advantageous than ever before!

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「And just like that, all of a sudden we have the situation on the battlefield moving forward! And what an action that is! This looks like some state-of-the-art martial arts moves that you could have only witnessed in live-action movies up until now! But just how is this situation going to develop from this point onwards……!?」

「Yes, it may be so, but it is still our duty as commentators to explain to the viewers what is going on, correct? So let’s do just that. And it would seem that right about now No Face is leaning more towards the throwing strategy rather than anything else.」

「Eh? Throwing strategy? What does that even mean?」

「Strictly speaking, it is the kind of a strategy where you abandon any other form of attacks and just go for the throwing moves exclusively. But such an approach demands the player to think and act fast, at least to such an extent that you can be faster than your opponent. And once you start to lose that momentum that you have managed to gain, you will just be getting pushed out more and more up to the point that you will be completely overwhelmed. So the question is: is this a part of some greater strategy? Or maybe not at all……?」

The bullets get scattered across the field and the fairy dances to avoid them. Every time a short wand is struck skillfully towards the cursed armor, sparks are scattered, and a phantom pinch chasing the fairy scoops the asphalt.

And because the Twinkle Pixie was always staying so close to Cursed Prison, there was no way for it to actually take a proper aim with its weapons, which as a result looked like the two were performing the most bizarre of dances within the cloud of Pixie Dust. But also looked as if the small Pixie was the one overwhelming the cursed suit of armor. At this moment it was hard to say who is the Hero and who is the Villain in here.

「Is it just me, or does it look like No Face is prioritizing the destruction of the additional armaments that Cursed Prison installed all over itself? Because I think that for the past while the overall HP of Cursed Prison did not decrease all that much, if anything at all.」

「Yes, it would certainly seem that way. After all, those leg gun can appear seemingly out of nowhere and they seem to be power-type specific. This means that as a weapon, it is the natural enemy of characters such as Twinkle Pixie. At first glance it may seem that Twinkle Pixie has the advantage right now, but the initiative is still on the Cursed Prison’s side. Also, I do believe that about half of those extra armaments are just for the sake of fending off the potential attacker at close distance.」

「And if you stop even for a moment, there is always a risk involved that you are going to get grabbed. So if you want for your legs to be out of the harm’s way at all times, you need to keep on moving. And this can make potential attacks problematic to perform accurately.」

Yes, the sight of a fairy playing with a giant monster and throwing it around like some sort of a toy or a worm might give you an entirely different impression here, but in reality it was all a mechanism to prevent Cursed Prison from doing anything that would have resulted in Twinkle Pixi’s imminent and crushing defeat. It was only a matter of changing one’s perspective to be able to see it.

Twinkle Pixie is a character that was designed to have a small body frame, but be able to throw her opponents around with ease. However, having a petite and small body can instantly be turned into a disadvantage if you are not careful with what you are doing.

「And even though the Pixie Powder stun may be a powerful technique, there is a clear and crippling weakness to it. Even though you can stop the enemy player from moving around for a period of time and cripple their effectiveness, you cannot stop their firearms and bullets from moving once they are set into motion.」

「So, does that mean that even though Cursed Prison cannot move inside of the Pixie Powder cloud, it can still aim and shoot its guns without being affected by it?」

「Apparently so. I think that is exactly the reason why No Face prioritizes destroying all of her guns rather than inflicting direct damage upon her. Because if he won’t do that, then Masked Hannya will still hold a tremendous advantage over him.」

Kei opened up his mouth to say something…… But then the Silver Mask beat him to the punch and opened up her mouth first.

「They have spent way too much time focused on one another! Or was it perhaps their goal all along? You see, both players already have their Super Hidden Techniques gauges filled up and ready to be used!」

Not everyone was able to see this, but both the Twinkle Pixie and the Cursed Prison were able to meet the requirements they have set for themselves.

And just like that, just like the name of this place suggests, the situation inside of Chaos City, which was already pretty hectic and chaotic to begin with, moves even further towards absolute chaos.