ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 566 Part 2
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 566: Kick Away All Morals And Let the Developers Worry About the Rest Part 2
「Huh? Sanraku-kun, what about me?」
「Hmm, gee, I wonder?」
「Oh my? Oh my, oh my? Do I sense some strange sexual tension between the two of you? Oh and Rei-chan! Long time no see, girl~!」
「Eh? Umm? Ah? Ehh? Y-Yes? It’s been a while?」
Long time no see? For a moment out there a huge question mark started to hover above my head, but then when I started to calmly think about all of it, a possible explanation surfaced in my mind: Rei-san’s older sister, Saiga-100…… If I remember correctly, Pencilgton always refers to her by “Momo—chan”, which means that they must be on a first name basis with one another. So, thinking that Pencilgton and Saiga-100 are friends or acquaintances, it would not be all that strange if Pencilgton and Saiga-0 met one another in the past at least once, right? For the time being, Pencilgton just makes herself comfortable and starts to slurp on her ramen like it was the most natural thing in the world to do.
「Hey now, have you no manners? Eating before anyone else manages to get their meal? Peak of culture, ladies and gentlemen! Peak of culture!」
「I bought it just now! And I must eat it before it manages to get all cold and soggy!」
「Hmm, you know what? Forget about it. I’m not even going to bother with that. This is hardly even worth my time!」
But yeah, maybe it would be about time for us to order our food as well?
「Wait a moment, Ama…… I mean, Towa-san! You could have at least told me where you were going before you left like that all of a sudden! …… Oh? And who might you be?」
「Natsume-san………………」
The one to appear now was none other than Natsume-san, also wearing a very poorly-chosen disguise. She seemed to be in a relatively good mood as she was carrying a large plate of piping hot French fries with her. And let me say, that is a HUGE platter of French fries? Are you really going to eat it all up, Natsume-san? If so, then I am really sorry for your waistline afterwards.
「No, no, no! You see, half of my reason for coming here was purely because of the social reasons and me wanting to greet you all, but other, that more important half is related to ShangriLa Frontier. So how about that? Let’s just sit down and have a nice little chat, shall we?」
「No way, you absolute bitch! Don’t tell me that you also invited Rust and Mold into this!?」
「Hmm, I most certainly did. I did invite them, but they seem to be the ones with a normal ticket, so that might be a little bit of a problem……」
「Ahh.」
I take a short glance at the queues that form up all around us and I arrive at a conclusion right away: yeah, there is no way that they will be able to join us here even if they wanted to. Now with the queues being so huge and them having to wait.
「…… Say, Amane-san? Do you know these people?」
「This here is…… Umm? Ramen Knight? The glasses girl is my friend’s sister. And this right here Cinnamon-chan? I do believe that you have already met before. But he was wearing a gas mask at the time.」
「………………」
「………………」
Seriously now!? I can see that Natsume-san is looking towards me, but I do everything in my power to avert my gaze as gently as possible. Maybe I should wear that emoji helmet to at least have some semblance of security and inner peace? …… Oh yeah, but then I would be unable to eat my ramen properly.
「………… Kei, you are going to have some explaining to do」
「Yeah, believe me, you are not the only one. So get yourself in line for that. But there will come a time when we will grill him really well. In real time.」
「Huh? That sounds like a fun little activity? Can I join in on that?」
Oh wow, I never would have thought that this day would come. Here I am, a light of hope slowly disappearing from my eyes, as I let the miasma produced by the demon lord slowly overtake me and twist me into the same kind of monster that she is. However, in my case there is no malice or cruelty to be felt. It’s just pure awkwardness.
「I think that our dear Cinnamon is slowly starting to accumulate the humanity he collects on a daily basis, don’t you all think?」
「No, it’s fine. I’m fine. You don’t have to worry about me.」
「Ah…… Umm, yes……」
If you compare me to a color right now, it would be black for sure. At the current moment Natsume-san took out her mobile device and started to browse through it with great interest, most probably because she did not want to look me in the eye right now. At the same time, Pencilgton helped herself to one of the hot dogs that Natsume-san bought with her here. While taking a bite from it, she turned towards Rei and I.
「If you so prefer, we can talk about stuff using our mobile terminals. However, it will take a whole lot longer than any of us would have liked. But with that being said…… How about we discuss some ShangriLa Frontier……?」
「Even though that sounds kind of impressive, I don’t think it’s something I should be praising out loud.」
If we were to put a moral cap on this act, it would be something that can be clearly classified as evil, hands down. And that’s a lot coming from someone with a grey morality like mine, filled to the brim with Takeda-san’s teachings. And that being said, offline meetings are not my strongest suit. However, Takeda-san also said that in the past both games and offline meetings were a whole lot more chaotic and sometimes bloody, so what we have here right now is not so bad after all. To think that people could throw fists over a video game in the past…… That’s actually sad to hear.
「As for how I know you were here, you can thank your sister for that. She was the one who filled me in.」
「……………… My sister?」
「Ahh, you see, I’m a big fan of her, your sister. I have made a surprise call to her once in the past, and we also happened to exchange e-mail addresses at the time.」
「Does that mean………… with the whole family as well?」
「Alright, Rei-chan. I will stop you right there. Let’s just say that I am a friend of one of his family members. And let’s just leave it at that.」
「Y-Yeah, that’s right. Let’s just do that. Let’s just…… do that.」
For some strange reason, I feel like the temperature of my ramen has become lukewarm.
「So? What is it that you wanted to talk about? Is it really that important that you need to spoil it before the official afternoon presentation?」
「Ahh, yeah. Well, I guess that when you put it that way…… This topic is basically endless, so we could talk about it all day and we would still be unable to get to the point, so if we are to start somewhere, it might as well be here……」
Pencilgton took yet another bite of her hot dog, and then she said while a nasty smile has crept its way onto her face:
「Then why don’t we all stage a coup together?」
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