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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 525 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 525: An Orchestra Just For You PART 7 Part 2

「This is……」

The words that come to my mind at that moment are simple and clean.

–––––– Is that what you would call an impossible game?

「No, stop it! Don’t do it! Don’t think that you are about to lose! Because once you start thinking like that, then it means that you have already lost!」

Yes, it’s not that I have lost yet! It’s one hell of a paradox, but since Orchestra managed to copy me perfectly, it means that I can understand what it is going to do and what possible tricks it might have up its sleeve. It’s basically a mirror match here right now, and of the worst kind. Because who can be your worst possible enemy if not you yourself?

「What to do…… What to do now……?」

Do I aim for a short-term decisive battle? Because the sheer difference in our strengths works to my disadvantage here.

Or maybe I should aim for a long-term war of attrition? But no matter what kind of a plan I manage to come up with, the sheer difference in stats is going to make it hard for me to actually win.

Seriously now, whatever should I do with all this……? Fuck, at the current moment if feels as though I have made a wrong choice somewhere alongside the road and now I am being locked onto a bad end route where there is no way of actually coming back from it. If I choose to do this, only the bad end awaits me. If I choose to do that, it’s the same kind of deal: nothing but a bad end. …… When was the last time that I made a manual save? But unfortunately for me, with a real time progress system the save data is constantly being updated, so that I won’t be able to cheat my way out of this.

「Shit! What the hell is this!? God damn you, Amachi Ritsu! Expect some e-mail with complaints from me later! I want to be able to do my rematch!!!」

So if that’s what this is going to be, then I have no other choice but to bet all of my chips on that one chance! There is simply no other way for me to do this now!

It doesn’t really matter if it is going to be fast or slow, but I must take this guy down with a single blow! There’s no other way around it!

「You’ll see, you freaking impostor! I’m going to massacre you so fast that there won’t be anything left out of you beside a wet stain on the wall!

Like that I activate Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand, almost right after that throwing Quantum Gaze into the mix!

However, not letting my eyes off of the other “me”, I can see that it responded with the exact same actions. After all, I can’t win when it comes to speed, but I can take the initiative here, depending on the way in which the other “me” is going to respond!

「……!!!!!!」

Before I shot forward, I put the Dis Pater shield right in front of me and also put my current sword on the ground.

Then I could see something blinking right in front of me. Could it be that the other “me’s” attack was so fast that I couldn’t exactly see it? Or maybe it was that the attack prediction was only visible for a short moment before eventually fading away? But that’s actually good. If I can force it to act passively, it won’t be able to win. So this means that I have to move forward at all times here!

The golden swords shine once again in both of our hands, and before long we ready one of them and are about to engage. Just like that, the two identical swords collide with one another, scattering sparks all over the place. Since they are hitting each other with a critical aim, it has a metallic sound that can be said to be a pleasant sound.

However, just hitting one another like that is ineffective, because we are unable to score a blow or even put some much needed distance between ourselves.

We swing with only one hand at each other and hit the swords. They keep fighting while hiding one hand from each other. And just like that, ten seconds pass ––––––

「……!!!」

「…………」

At exactly the same time, the other hand that I was hiding behind me is revealed…… and in it there is Aguacate, a firearm with which I already have my finger on the trigger, and then I just fire it off indiscriminately.

And the two triggers were pulled without any hesitation, and the released magic bullets flew right at the face of me and the other “me”.

「Kuh!」

「…………」

God fucking damn it, that stupid piece of junk!

I moved my body at the last possible moment and avoided the bullet, while the other side simply summoned a longsword and knocked the bullet away. Just like that, the initiative was once again on its side!

「Don’t…… Underestimate me, you asshole!!」

If this thing managed to completely replicate my build, items and accessories included, it must also include this thing…… The Arcana of the “Fool”. And if so, this should also mean that currently its HP should be around one, due to the disadvantage that the “Fool” bestows upon the player. In other words, if I and the other “me” eat even one gun shot, we are going to die on the spot.

Bullets start to fly around. Just one shot. I only need one shot to connect! It doesn’t matter where! It can be an arm. It can be a leg. Hell, it can even be dead in between the eyes…… But at the same time, if I am not careful here, I am going to be the one who is going to die a miserable death.

While constantly moving around, the distance between us remains the same, only bullets reach and pass us by.

「Shit! Out of bullets!!」

What do I do here!? Do I change my gun, or what!?

However, this was the moment when the actions taken by me and the other “me” started to change.

「What……?」

The other “me” over there also turned out to have run out of bullets to shoot, but it wasn’t a substitute gun that it took out. Reproduced red crystal blade … Lumeridian!? The Jewel Sword of the Boundary Light?

But I don’t have time to get distracted by it! Not until I manage to figure out what the AI is going to do next!

The sound of the shots echo throughout the theater and the four bullets fired went straight toward the other “me” ……… and slipped right through it.

「–––––– Huh?」

Oh, so now you are trying to be original, huh!? Or could it be that it’s not that those bullets slipped through it, and it just managed to avoid them? But how? Could it be that it shook its body from side to side at such tremendous speed? No, no way! There is just no way in hell that this would be it!

「It jumped sideways repeatedly thanks to the effect of Critical Speed – Bradion –!?」

Now that’s just downright retarded! Like a freaking fighter doing a bull blown handstand in a full set of armor! All four shots! Four times! It managed to avoid it four times in a row……!? Ah!

「………………」

Strictly speaking, it may be something that was complemented by my brain. Certainly I saw it ready for the Iai strike before taking the fifth step. The fastest step combined with the Overflow effect of Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand and then added Critical Speed – Bradion –…… The Iai strike that came as a combination of all of that was a strike that was surely to cleave the heavens in half.

Secret Technique “Todoroki Todorokaze”.

The sensation of a mixture of coldness and numbness overcomes my sides, and let me tell you, it was a pretty horrifying experience. And even though the blade pierced me on one side and came out the other side, I was not dead. I managed to endure.

The last thing I heard was the sound of a shot, and then my vision went dark once again.