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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 519 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 519: An Orchestra Just For You PART 1 Part 2

When I press the power button, which looks like a vertical bar stuck in a circle, a holographic display window is created from the music player.

There is only one item that you can select here. And it looks awfully like a modern day playlist. And the name of that playlist is……

「Elise Jitter Doll…… Hm? Jitter Doll? Now, where have I heard that name before?」

Yes, I am pretty much sure that I have heard that name somewhere before. But this thing right here looks obviously man-made, no matter how you look at it….. so is that the name of its creator? …… Hmm?

「Oh well, I guess that taking the nature of this place into account it would be foolish to expect that over the years the User’s Interface would change all that much.」

If you don’t press the button, then you are going to be unable to proceed forward. So I do just that. And opening up the “Elize Jitter Doll” playlist, it seems to contain only one song inside of it.

「Your Orchestra? Hmm, let’s see……」

Your Orchestra? An Orchestra just for you? Hmm, oh, here it is! I can already hear the sound of a flag springing up! So, does that mean that playing this song is going to cause the battle to start? Also, playing the song titled “Your Orchestra” in an empty and silent theatre like that surely has a horror vibe to it…… No, but, there is little to no point just sitting around in an empty theatre like that forever, is there?

「Okay, playing that song right now…… Uwoah!?」

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! All of a sudden, my whole body is being by the lights of the spotlights shining on me from all directions. Hey! You stop that, whoever it is that is doing that! Won’t you give me some time to prepare, at least!? I’m still half-naked here, you know!? Do you want to cause a scandal so much!?

However, the music from the song has already started playing, and no matter what I try to do now, I will be able to stop it from going further. Not even pressing the button again or trying to get away from it seemed to work. In other words, there is no way to stop this even once it has been sprang into action! Now that it started, there are only two possible outcomes: either I clear it or I die trying!

「Alright! Fine by me! Come on out! What’s it going to be!? A beast!? A humanoid!? It doesn’t really matter to me all that much, I am still going to beat your ass until there is nothing left out of it! I’m pretty good with fighting games, after all!!」

And what seemed to appear alongside the music that started playing was…… a woman. What’s more, she did not appear in the center of the stage, but rather somewhere amongst the audience seats. I mean, it was pretty hard for me to tell because of all of those dim lights, but does the plan of this place is that three of its sides are filled with audience seats and the stage is the fourth side? It seems that way to me.

「…… And just what are you supposed to be?」

It is not your usual physical entity like a usual NPC. If anything, this woman seems to be more like Setsuna of the Distant Past, a wraith that has a pseudo-physical form but does not possess any normal flesh to speak of. You could even call her a holographic image, almost the same as the Isana the Brave Fish from not all that long ago.

Also, you would really think that something like that would have appeared on the center of the stage, where it could instantly become the center of attention.

To be perfectly honest, I expected here for a young man and a woman to appear out of nowhere, about ready to start singing. Though I suppose that if they are supposed to be monsters, then their features would be more…… Well, monstrous. Needless to say, that man and a woman would have shared the name of the Unique Monster, and a few other things besides that. But nothing of the sort happened.

Instead, a whole lot of them appeared. Many men and many women, all having facial features so monstrous that you would never be able to forget them after a night or two. They were not especially ugly, but they were also not beautiful either. If I were to describe their features then they looked like a lumberjack’s wife or someone who’s been basically fed up with the entire world and its affairs.

Now then, what’s it going to be? Are they even going to say anything? Or is it going to be skipped straight towards the part where we fight to the death? Honestly, that’s a little bit rude, but it’s not that I haven’t seen behavior like that before. It would certainly be nothing all that new.

First of all, the “female” part of the crew…… they were probably humanoid monsters mimicking the appearance of some human from a long time ago. With the exception that their facial features all looked the same and there was hardly any real distinction to them.

At first I thought that it was brandishing its weapon in its arms…… But no, that’s not it. It was not a weapon. It was a mere violin.

Then, the humanoid violinists who appeared began to play the instrument in their hands…… Then there was a lonely diva that emerged from somewhere, and with a beautiful soprano voice emitted from her opened mouth she started singing.

It was a terrifyingly and elaborately reproduced singing voice, not a mechanical voice, but a fully organic one. And it was singing so naturally that it was almost scary.

Furthermore, more and more humanoids join in on the effort as if pulled by the song of the diva and the melody of the violinists. Some humanoids have huge contrabasses, and some humanoids have cymbals. A chorus appears, a flute, a viola, a horn, a trumpet … And before you know it, the melody, which was only a song and a violin, turns into a full orchestra.

And finally, IT made an appearance.

「…… Huh?」

I can see that my current opponent is a humanoid.

I know for a fact that it is armed with a weapon.

I realize that even though this is supposed to be a medieval fantasy, this monster is wearing a foreign-looking armor, bearing a striking resemblance to the ones that Japanese Samurai used to wear.

And what’s most infuriating here is the fact that…… Instead of appearing right on the stage, it emerged from the Colosseum part of the arena, from somewhere right in the middle of the audience’s seats!

「“THE HEROIC STORY OF SANRAKU. CHAPTER ONE: PUTTING THE GRAVEKEEPER TO REST”.」

「Hey, what the fuck……!? Where did Weathermon came from!? Don’t you think that’s a little bit bullshit here……!?」

As a matter of fact, the memory of that armor-wearing, samurai-looking boss was still vivid inside of my mind, just like a photograph or a holographic image. We may have fought only once before, but it was one time too many in my opinion. The memory was not exactly trauma-level, but it was cutting it dangerously close.

Or rather…… No, wait a minute! The thing that is about to happen…… I don’t know why, but I have a really bad feeling about this……!

A song for your ears only. The story that I, Sanraku, has woven across my time spent in this game. The very first chapter of that story. Achievements praised by the bards and minstrels in their songs all over the land. The epic tale of a great Hero……

And the answer that could be calculated from all of the above bits and pieces could only leave you at one possible conclusion……

「Please don’t tell me…… Does that mean that I’ll have to face off against every single enemy that I have managed to defeat up until this point in time ––––––」

「TACHIKAZE」

And then my consciousness blacked out once more and I was unable to see or perceive anything, leaving me drifting through the warm and sticky darkness.