ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 542 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 542: An Orchestra Just For You PART 22 Part 1
「Oi, you stupid piece of scrap! In times like this I do not expect you to act based on Intelligence at all, but the least you could do here is to try to explain with Intelligence the best you can!」
「I-Intelli…… Intelligence……?」
「Yes, that’s right. Intelligence. That thing that you usually won’t shut up about and about which you keep on babbling on and on and on! Do you even understand what I’m saying here? Intelligence may be muffled at times, but the Intelligence would never allow itself to be snuffed out like that! Intelligence is always going to provide the answers! Hell, one day Intelligence is bound to find a cure for cancer, god damn it!」
Yeah, that’s right. It seems that nowadays there are a whole lot more ways to fight cancer than in the past, and it’s all thanks to human Intelligence and the research of medicine. So that statement of mine was by no means a hot take or a mistake of any kind.
「…… Okay, listen up! Or at least try to listen! The significance of existence! The desire for self-approval that we just can’t help but to crave for, even if we know that it’s wrong! As long as we have that, something like Orchestra can never possibly take that away from us! So fight it, god damn it……!」
「That was…… Yeah! That was certainly one way to put it……!」
However, even though the situation here might be extremely bleak, I think that I’m finally able to see something. It might be blurred, it might be like only its contours are visible to me for now. It might only be a sixty percent certainty…… But I feel like I am finally starting to see it.
「I might not be as intelligent as you and I might not be able to understand anything clearly, but there is one thing I know! One thing that I am absolutely certain of! Even with all of my vague understanding!」
「And that thing is……?」
Alright, question time: how is it possible to be able to give someone an answer to the question that you couldn’t be absolutely certain about? Especially when the question and the problem hiding behind it seem to be extremely suspicious at best?
「The answer for the question that you are so desperately looking for…… This shit’s not even here! Of that you can be sure!」
「…… WHAT!?」
Right, and the answer is: Let’s say that you remember seeing something really similar to the thing that you are seeing right before you, but its memory is like looking at something through the frosted glass window or mosaic. Then go and find a place where that frosted glass is no more! And get rid of that useless mosaic! Why the fuck is it even there!? With this shit still on, you really expect all those great AVs to sell!? Get real!
「…… What? No! Shut up! Shut the fuck up, my inner Deepslaughter! Leave my pure and innocent brain alone!」
God fucking damn it, Deepslaughter! You hopeless, bottom left pervert! Just because you are not here in person does not give you the right to try and drag my mind into the gutter! And now to exorcise you properly! Ei! Evil spirits are gone! Be gone from this house! Evil spirits be gone from this house!
「…… Tsk, all that motivational speech and still nothing, huh? I honestly expected you to finally snap out of it by now, Sigma. Alright, listen up now…… “Though your anguish may seem like the bottomless darkness of the night, remember that no darkness lasts forever and that the dawn is bound to come”.」
「Those words…… What are they even supposed to mean……?」
「Those are the words that finally helped the young and frustrated hero to push away the despair and darkness that were surrounding him in his most desperate moment. There was a whole lot more of a backstory to it, with the fate of the world being at stake and all that, but you’ll have to excuse me here that we are cutting corners!」
That’s right, because that is the story from an entirely different game! An entirely different world whatsoever! Even though the night may seem long to us all and it is definitely full of terrors that want to hurt us, those things are only temporary and not here to stay! So eat shit and die, darkness and its terrors! Drop dead and get the fuck out of here!
「Alright, here we go! Critical Raise!」
Critical Raise. That is the name of the skill that I activated right now. And I am sure that it is also the same skill that the other “me” activated at that very moment as well.
The thin dual blades collide with one another. And with each consecutive hit like that, the faint light that was wrapped around our blades was growing brighter and brighter.
「Critical Raise! Times sixteen!」
For a moment out there both me and the other “me” just continue to strike at one another, adding more and more stacks to our Critical Raise. However, there will come a time when all of tha slowly accumulating power will have to finally confront the power that the opponent holds.
The Blue Whale Moon Sword then disappears from my hands and I can see the other “me” doing the same action. As expected. Yes, that’s right. Get rid of that Anti-Blade Sword. Otherwise, when it comes to Rock, Paper and Scissors, you are bound to lose, and then……
「What the!?」
I honestly thought that the other “me” would bust out the same weapon type as I did here. However, while I was wearing Regalex Cestus gauntlets on my hands, the other “me” took out a huge oversized sword from thin air…… What the hell? Oh well ,not that it matters right now! Change of strategy! We are going to do it Bakumatsu-style! Ready or not, here I come!」
「Imitation Technique: “Rust-Killing Strikes”!」
This technique was supposed to be reserved as a trump card for the inevitable battle against the Raid Boss in that world that was bound to come at some point in time, and the probability of its success sits at around fifty percent! This actually makes it a Master level for sure! You can’t actually do better than that!
With that being said, I hit the gauntlet into the side of the oversized sword, half-playing around and half-seriously. The Critical Hit judgment can be intentionally shifted that way. Did the AI over there watch out for a fist attack? Next U pretended to assume the guarding stance…… Oh? Won’t you look at that? It seems that I even managed to win here in the meta aspect.
「Surely you did not think that I can go around all of a sudden like that, did you!?」
Who said that you cannot aim for something else than weapons even if you look like you are aiming exactly for weapons, huh!?
Anyway, the techniques I can use in Bakumatsu Online can be used over here as well, maybe not exactly like over there, but the translation is pretty decent. Now, even if I decide to throw away Critical Raise, which is a skill reserved for swords exclusively, rather than aiming at the main body and earning damage that cannot be thrown away that way, I can find other ways to get what I want.
「Now better clench your teeth, you absolute bastard! You might lose them otherwise!」
Activating the skill Hundredth God’s Arm –Sawil Dahana – right now. Then I hit the underside of the oversized sword to throw it away to the side, and then I make a step forward, decreasing the distance between myself and the other “me”.
If I try to meta-hit the other “me”, then I am sure that the other “me” is going to try to do the same and meta-hit me in retaliation! Trying to become me in the process…… Kuh, I need to be strong here! I am myself because I am playable like that! And if I keep thinking like that…… Wouldn’t that basically throw me in an infinite loop of sorts?
「Completion Rate at twenty percent!」
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