ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 504 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 504: Legal / Backwater Camp Part 1
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「Umm, Miss Silver Mask? Is everything okay?」
「Ahh…… Oh, y-yeah, you see, it appears that Silver Mask-san has entered a state where she’s deeply in thought about something. She is going to come back to us in a bit, so I’d say that the best thing we can do right now is to just leave her to her own devices. Yeah.」
「I-I see, I never would have thought…… But I must say, what we witnessed right now was nothing short of amazing…… All of that running around, slipping right through the enemy, and all that just to end up having to catch a punch straight to the face like that…… Umm, I am literally quite speechless right now, if I’ll have to be completely honest.」
「Kicking the ground like that to accelerate, utilizing Twinkle Pixie’s ability to float in the most genuine way possible, jumping in the air, moving around the enemy’s body as if you were doing some pole dancing, and finally locking Cursed Prison’s movements just so she could shoot it to the exposed head.」
「Huh?」
「Ah…… Ahh, terribly sorry about that just now. I seemed to have slipped into my own little world for a moment out there. It seems that some of my own blabbering also managed to slip out…… I do believe that everything will unveil itself at a later date, so for now let us just proceed with the commentary, shall we?」
「Y-Yes, let’s do…… Let’s do just that……」
What happened to that amiability he used to show up until that point? Where did it go? But it was then that Silver Mask, after having been quiet for a while and just squirting her eyes at the display, opened up her mouth. She also pointed to the gauge displayed on the screen and started with her explanation:
「The sudden invasion of the target enemies, the showdown between the Super Finishing Moves, and the ultimate result is the Twinkle Pixie’s dropping out of the battle like that…… If you were to look at it at face value, it may seem that No Face is in the losing position here, having suffered more losses, but in reality I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Or at the very least it would be prudent to just wait and see how the situation is going to unfold from now on.」
「Huh? What do you mean by that?」
「First of all, let’s briefly talk about the Targeted Enemy. The sudden appearance of the “colonel” must have been something that Masked Hannya prepared in advance, because once it showed up and after the defeat of the Twinkle Pixie she hardly even moved around or changed her location. If you were to ask me for opinion, I’d say that she must have somewhat predicted the route that the Colonel was about to take and took the showdown location to the place where the two paths were about to cross.」
「So, what you are trying to say is…… No Face has been caught in an elaborate trap from the very beginning of that round? Without actually even realizing it?」
「It would certainly seem that way. Twinkle Pixie certainly is one of the most agile characters out there when it comes to mobility. However, even if you keep on avoiding and evading them all the time, the fact that Mechanitian can produce more and more machines and repair them, as well as the fact that “Colonel” can boost their AI, makes them into obstacles that are to be reckoned with. What’s more…… Ah, we seem to have some influx of the comments on the display. Hmm, yes, I see…… Well, I don’t know about Amelia, but judging from what we could see from Masked Hannya here, I wouldn’t put it past her that she would actually try to defeat and absorb the “Colonel” into her Cursed Prison.」
「So, if I understand this correctly, the aim of Masked Hannya here was to take down both Twinkle Pixie and the Targeted Enemy at the same time? Is that right?」
「Yes, or that is certainly the feeling I am getting from her actions on the field thus far. However, this is most certainly the place where No Face’s ambitions and his own strategy can enter the stage and foil Masked Hannya’s plans. And once again, this is only my personal speculation, but…… I think that the endgame goal of No Face here is to increase the maximum numbers of Super Finishing Move activation to four.」
「Huh? Only four? Wouldn’t it be better to have the maximum amount of activations possible? Which is five, in this case?」
「It may very well be so, but such a scenario is highly unrealistic. Because you see, Masked Hannya may not look like it, but she is a highly rational gamer. She seems like the type who likes to have control over as many elements of the battlefield as possible, and that also includes eliminating the uncertain elements. And since she is aware of what kind of a player No Face is, she might try to snatch the Ult Crystals right from before his nose to prevent him from realizing his own strategy.
If you manage to get one of those, your Super Finishing Move gauge gets filled to maximum value on the spot. Now, the only catches to this are the conditions under which the crystals are spawning, as well as the places where they are going to appear. Those are other additions to the already complicated net of conditions and dependencies when it comes to this Triangle Trinity match. But it can be said that the result is well worth it.
「When it comes to Super Finishing Moves, Twinkle Pixie’s “Pixie Phantom” is pretty high up on the troublesome scale, but the biggest question mark here is going to be Cursed Prison in the hands of No Face. And I can tell you that when he was fighting against me…… Whoah!? I mean…… When he was fighting against Silvia Goldberg, it was something that was extremely dangerous. So Masked Hannya would do best to not let him do as he please once the “Prison Break” starts.」
「So in other words, it would be plausible to assume that No Face aims for settling the match with the help of continuous Super Finishing Moves?」
「I am sure that Masked Hannya was well aware of that fact. But since both “Valkyrie” and the “Colonel” made an appearance, it meant that she was forced to break out her “Prison Break” prematurely. You can say that it was one of those unexpected factors that Masked Hannya would hate to deal with without prior preparations.」
Perhaps the original aim of Masked Hannya here was to bring it to the three-way battle by the invasion of the machine group while responding to Twinkle Pixie’s attacks with her Cursed Prison. However it seems that Kei had some doubts about the machine group fight and he voiced them out loud just now.
「However, Twinkle Pixie turned out to be much bigger of a nuisance than she initially expected, and she managed to even corner her up to the point where the sheer amount of Pixie Dust covering the field was more than enough to nullify any advantage that Cursed Prison may have had. Of course, she was still able to use her weapons normally, but their effectiveness was made to be much weaker while inside of the Pixie Dust’s cloud. Also, please take a look at the amount of HP that Masked Hannya’s Cursed Prison has left. It means that Cursed Prison is currently at the death’s door, and this amount of HP is simply not enough for it to be able to confidently take on “Colonel” in hopes of defeating and absorbing it.」
「Ah! Of course! …… Because No Face’s final character is going to be Cursed Prison as well!」
「That’s right. And if you leave the” Colonel” to someone else for the taking, you are setting yourself to be robbed of the precious Target Enemy Defeat Bonus, as well as the chance to absorb the Colonel into yourself. So there is no other sensible option but to leave the Colonel for the taking. However, because of the HP that Masked Hannya has left, she won’t be taking the Colonel down, because that would only mean that when she’s going to be defeated the Target Enemy Bonus would simply go to waste here.」
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