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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 608: Large Monster Hanratriatama vs Yokai Ishikoro Part 2

「…… Finally, I managed to catch up to you.」

「That’s our Rei-san for you. I guess that this catchphrase summaries you perfectly here, huh?」

It is said that soldiers value speed above all else. Therefore, first-class soldiers can move around both skillfully and quickly. I’m familiar with the effects that scatter from that body, maybe speed-enhancing skills……? Something alongside those lines, at the very least. Could it be that she ran all the way here with nothing else but magical speed buffs on her?

「Think we can do this before the sun rises?」

「Umm, about that…… It might be difficult. Both physically and logically.」

Logically speaking, it feels like a physical skill…… I don’t know, but it seems that the real situation has been resolved for the time being.

「Survival, this is Saiga-0-san. She’s going to be of great help to us.」

「Hey, could you at least not introduce someone to me as though that someone was a freaking foreigners? But hey, were you actually serious about her being a great help?」

「She has a sturdy firepower job and a Tank role with a high DPS counter, so even if she’s not the fastest out there, she is going to be a great addition to our team for sure.」

「Something like the Tap Dance?」

「More like Obon Festival Song.」

「Then the tempo is going to be way too slow!」

No, you can say that the movement of Ryuguin Tomitake isn’t the quickest out there, but it can certainly get the job done. I’m just imitating it from what I was able to learn, but the completely reproduced Trace AI did not need to be fast in order to completely dominate its enemies. The only thing that was terribly fast was the sharpness of the bamboo sword that was swung down over and over again.

「Alright, so, for the time being, are we all satisfied with having a three-member party?」

「I don’t really care about it that much. It doesn’t really matter to me.」

「………???」

Ah, now, one really has to wonder…… could it be that those two “former Ashura-Kai” members have some sort of a history or relationship with the “Person Who Backstabbed the Ashura-Kai”……? Oh well, in the game life, the feud cannot be ignored, but it is something that is basically unrelated to our current goals and endeavors. I need those guys to be able to do their job just right, everything else is unnecessary and will only be a bother. In the first place, I have to divide thing in here so that I don’t have to complain later about PK or PKK.

「I think that you are the only one who is being sentimental here.」

「Keh, young Sanraku…… It’s called being delicate. And it can make you really popular with a certain type of women, you know?」

「But I thought that you are a declared lolicon?」

「Okay, listen here! When it comes to love, age is just a number! It has nothing to do with anything!」

「Nah, I am pretty sure that age and love tend to go hand in hand nowadays. Especially as far as the law is concerned.」

「Why is it that every time I want to do something fun or creative, the law always keeps on getting in my way……!!」

You should be great for the law being there for you at all times! It is thanks to the law that you can be protected from all kinds of loons and creeps that infest this world. So hooray for the rule of law! Well, but about everything else besides that……

「Hey, Akitsu Akane! Let’s play some Rock-Paper-Scissors! Alright, here we go! Rock!」

「Ehh? Huh? Oooh? Huh!? R-Right!」

I went with a Rock. Akitsu Akane chose Scissors..

Okay, that’s all I needed to know here! So theoretically I should be able to fight this thing using only my Agility stats before my Luck stats are going to be taken into account here! I’m gonna win if I fight against AGI before the luck correction catches up.

「I’m sorry to say this, Akitsu Akane, but we will go first and try to take this guy on. I don’t want to have a party that’s too large, since it would negatively affect the loot distribution after the boss is going to be taken care of.」

「Huh? Oh, now I get it! So that’s what the game of Rock-Paper-Scissors was all about!」

The victory should taste sweet, but in this case surely it must have been utterly bitter…… Maybe something like an Aojiru juice? Yeah, I am sure that this is the case in here.

So just like that, after quickly welcoming Rei-san into the party, our group proceeded towards the boss area under the guidance of the Brave Fish……

「Umm, I know that this might be getting old with me asking all of that questions one after another, but there is one last thing I would like to ask you here……」

「Alright, out with it. But just so you know, this is better going to be the last question for real.」

I was just about to stretch out my left hand and hit my chest with it when I came to a stop. The one to ask that question was that Chogokon-san, and for some strange reason or another her cheeks seemed to be strangely flushed, as if she was having a fever or some really similar affliction.

「If you don’t mind me asking here, since we might not be able to do that after the boss fight, when will we be able to meet again…… Tsuchinoko-san?」

No more words were needed to be said here. It’s better to just accept that as it is, instead trying to understand it to dig deeper into this to get to know where did she learned that. Besides, maybe after the boss fight is over there will be a good time for that. Most of the people I meet for the first time I tend to treat like veggies or reptiles, but maybe I should also apply this rule in here, just to buy myself some much needed piece of mind.

「Umm…… You know, if you don’t mind me asking…… Would you be willing to give me a few tips about defeating the Crystal Scorpions on the Crystal Cliffs…… or maybe you don’t want to?」

「Eeehhh……?」

Well, it’s not that I have anything against giving advice to a fellow Guild member, but still…… I am always assaulting that place in my own, really unique way, so I can’t really think of any general tips that I could give to someone else out there…… Oh yeah, how about this, then?

「Try to think about the range of the Crystal Scorpions in that nest of theirs.」

「Huh?」

「Actually, it can be the three times more than you would normally expect in a situation against enemies like that. Because you see, you can easily step on those nice guys and use their crystals like stepping stones if you need some leverage. But the most important thing here is how far those guys can reach and where they cannot reach you. So yeah…… That’s the most useful piece of advice that I can think about for you at the current moment.」

If you are aiming solely for the materials of the Crystal Scorpion, there is no way to cut off the aggro that you are going to generate. But there is no reason to explain it in so much detail to someone who has no way of actually circumventing that. It looks like Akitsu Akane wants to take the gamble of mining some quality materials, so she should be satisfied with the information that I gave her just now. That’s all she will ever need in order to successfully go there and mine.

「Ah, that’s right…… Akitsu Akane.」

「Yes, what is it?」

「It will be a good thing to drop my Firstia in about ten days from now on or so. …… Because there is going to be a great festival held there at that time.」

「A festival…… you say?」

「Yeah, and it’s gonna be one heck of a huge festival, mark my words.」

Yeah, it will be the greatest festival ever. So huge, in fact, that it would be better to give it its own venue and call it a Wonderland instead of the usual festival!