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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 513 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 513: Shouting Out the Direct Marketing Into the World Part 1

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Once I finally open my eyes, I can see the canopy of the Chair VR System right in front of me.

Crawling my way out of the blasted thing was a real challenge at the current moment, since for some inexplicable reason my whole body felt extremely weak and fragile. And what was the very first thing that greeted me once I got myself out? It was Katzo with a rather bitter smile on his lips.

「Hey there, congratulations on your win. And on application of that thing from Great Venus, I suppose.」

「Yeah, you can congratulate me all you want, but I feel like this was nothing more of a Luck-based game. Especially that second half of this match.」

Also, it seems that the rules of Triangle Trinity were a huge help there, and it doesn’t really matter if we are talking about the good rules or the bad rules. One thing I know for sure: if we were fighting under the normal set of rules, there is no way I would be able to fight nearly twice as fiercely as I did just now.

「And for you to bring up so many relics of the past, do you have any idea what that did to the comment section? It was pure chaos. Chaos and the picture of hell itself, I tell you.」

「Yeah, go figure. But are you really that surprised that I did that? You know me. Dreams, romances and caffeine are the main driving forces behind my actions, so you should always be ready to expect the unexpected.」

Now, I know that some people may say that this is a huge over-exaggeration on my end, but that’s actually the truth. Dreams, romance and caffeine are always needed if you want to make your dreams come true. Alright, alright…… Caffeine and dreams are not always one hundred percent necessary, but the explosive force called “romance” is a must have every time.

Alright, and what about Sasa…… hara? And what was her name there? Eight or something else like that? I cannot be all that sure and I actually happened to forget, because that’s how unimportant it was to me, but either way, it seems that this woman was approaching me at this very moment.

Geh, don’t tell me…… No, there’s no doubt about it! It’s the boss battle! The boss battle is incoming fast! And what’s worse, it’s that kind of thing that you cannot really escape from, no matter how much you would like that to happen!

「First of all, congratulations on your well-earned victory! And then, thank you for all of your hard work out there! I do realize that this battle must have been an exhausting and grueling experience, but care to share with us a word of commentary while the experience is still fresh?」

「O-Oh, y-yeah, right.」

I am a naturally shy and unobtrusive man, so at least get those blasted cameras out of my face! I can’t do anything or say anything when they are getting so in my face and you are staring at me like that to boot……! B-But still…… Yeah, I have to do it. I agreed to come here in the first place, so this is the fate that I have agreed to subject myself to of my own free will. No use in trying to avoid it now!

「The final deciding factor of this match? Was that all part of your strategy to begin with? Or maybe there was so element of luck or surprise to that that just happened to be there at the right place at the right time?」

「Ah…… No, to be perfectly honest, it was just a great opportunity that happened to have presented itself to me at that time. I certainly did not plan ahead that much. Originally, everything that had happened until the moment when we fell off that last building was according to my plans. After that, it was mainly me being lucky or just happening to go with the flow. I can tell you that for sure: if it was not for that NPC girl crying and stalling Xenoselgus for that single moment, I would not be able to win. And that’s a fact, and not just me being humble or anything. Without that, I would have never been able to assimilate the Valkyrie into me the way I did.」

Those are some honest words coming right from the very bottom of my heart here, so there is no way that any of them are a mistake. I was able to win only because the tension happened to rise all the time in there, but originally I was not all that hell-bent on winning. I just wanted to make some flashy actions or two to make the match exciting, and that’s about it.

No, truth to be told, my success rate was never all that great to begin with, and it only managed to go up because of the various circumstances and compromises that just fortunately kept on happening one after another. …… So yeah, without that last moment tension I would have been toasted for sure.

「Yes! That’s right! While we are still on the subject! That strange technique that you have happened to use! When you did that, the comment section happened to literally explode! They were saying stuff like this attack being a perfect reproduction of the “Master Sky” and all that……!」

「If others are saying that this was a perfect reproduction, then I can only say that it was well worth a try trying to replicate it here. Because let me tell, there are a whole lot of things you have to consider when you want to try that. The height of the building, the speed of the freefall, the distance and other measure that must be made by eye instantly……」

「So in other words, are you saying that you were actually having a hard time there? Even though you looked so confident?」

That’s right, Katzo. In the case of “Sky Fall”, the last throwing heel drop, or Universe Tail as I like to call it, is by its nature something that must be done while falling. Therefore, if you misunderstand the distance, you will land after throwing, and it can be a pitiful thing to run on the ground on foot and go for a kick from there.

In fact, even if the “Sky Fall” happens to look like a clean hit, it means that you just managed to fit into that ten or twenty percent chance of it actually connecting the way it was supposed to connect. …… That being said, that’s not something that looks all that good, even for the Galaia Heroes: Chaos’s version of “Sky Fall”.

However, since it keeps blocking the movement with a small stun, if there is no ordinary mistake that you happen to make on your own, it will surely take a percentage damage no matter what. And that is the Galaxia Heroes: Chaos’s version of “Sky Fall”, for better or for worse.

Oh? And what’s this? Some kind of window popped out right in front of me. Oh, could it be some sort of message from the director, something like the system windows in video games? Talk about being needlessly high tech here for no particular reason…… So? What’s this? While Eight-san is busy interviewing Masked Hannya, wouldn’t it be too much trouble for you to answer some of the questions from the comment section into the separate camera?

「………… (For a moment out there I keep on watching different comments that happen to scroll right in front of my face, being a mixture of Japanese, broken Japanese, English and other languages that look like total gibberish to me. And the speed at which they scroll down reminds me of slot machines at casinos for some reason.)」