ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 328 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 328: The Dark History Appears Once More Wearing Good Intentions Part 1
「!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?」
Swing! With a Mach speed I was turning my head back and forth, thinking intensely and trying to comprehend what I just saw. That, and there were also beads of sweat coming down my face under the bird mask.
Why? Just why? This is ShanFro, right? Not some other game, right? So why!?
「…………!? …………!?!?!?!?」
Calm down, just calm down, me…… No, no, no, no, this must be Shir Chronicles Online, right? That Shit Chronicles Online, right!? This cannot be just a coincidence that the design is almost identical, right!? Yes, that’s right! Upon closer inspection, there are some differences that can be seen here! The ears, for example! The Princess from Shit Chronicles Online has elf ears, and this Princess here has human ears! But that’s it! The hair color and hair style may be different, but everything is just copy / pasted here! Those eyes! Their shape! They even have the mole in the exact same place!
I mean, is this supposed to be the First Princess that I am supposed to protect and escort!? This!? Woman!? Right!? Here!? Are you kidding me!?
「Calm down, just try to calm down, Sanraku…… Be strong. Positive thoughts! You’ve been over this, you have put that chapter of your life behind you……」
Ugh, it started to all come back to me…… Those dark days when I used to love this pretty face…… The days of doing sub quest that were so broken and unbalanced that it should have been a crime against nature and the world itself…… The days of being constantly thrown into disadvantage just because the developers made a fuck up after fuck up…… The days of traversing the maps that would all of a sudden collapse right under your feet because of a bug in the map’s texture……
「I thought that I have put all that behind me…… But I guess that it might not actually be the case here……」
The muffler Emul wrapped around my neck trembled heavily, and I am sure that it was not due to the cold night. Emul does not know just how bad news Shit Chronicles Online are, but he is definitely going to find out! You’ll see! The moment when the Princess starts shooting Shit Chronicles Online lines every five seconds.
Fuck me, could it be because I have strayed too far from true shitty games for so long? My mentality is getting dull and my mind starts playing trick on me for no reason…… But no! Not anymore! I’m not going to run away from those hellish days! I’m going to look them straight in the eyes and turn those experiences into raw energy! You can do it, me! You can do it! You must do it! Otherwise you will never be able to move on……!
「Fuh…… Guess I’ll be the one to attack first.」
「What was that……?」
「The one who attacks first is always guaranteed to laugh in the end, no matter the hellish landscape that you had to traverse in the meantime. It does not matter if the numbers are with you or against you, the one who attacks first…… Is always guaranteed to have the upper hand.」
I mean, yeah, but is it not a joke when the side who says that is the one who actually holds a numerical advantage? However, I have the carved wounds on my body to help me out here. Adding the list of my accomplishments and title to the mix, I can create enough pressure to intimidate almost any NPC out there, be it a knight or not.
Honestly, the situation here does not look too good for me. The only thing they need to do is to surround me and attack all at once, and I would be dead. However, it seems that the game’s system was at my side tonight, for he knights were yet to take that kind of action.
「Hmm…… So it seems that I am intimidating enough that the knights are cautious with their approach…… Okay, so this means that I should just pick them out one by one when they will try to approach me separately.」
「P-Please be extremely careful! Julian may not look like it, but he is a very strong swordfighter!」
Shut the fuck up, no one asked for your opinion. I’m just going to beat that guy into a bloody pulp and be done with it.
I really had to use all of my strength and willpower there to not say those things to the Princess out loud. But since she looks so similar, I get a bad feeling that I may have more such slip-ups in the future. This is not good. That being said, trying my best to forget about Shit Chronicles Online I jumped off Memento Mori with my arms folded on my chest.
I then stroke my chin just a little bit, but it was only a pretense to tap on my muffler secretly. After a second the muffler tapped me back, giving a sign of approval. Alright, so far the flow of this situation is just within the limits of my expectations.
「Third Knight of the Kingdom…… Sword of Desperation, Julian. I have given you my name, knave. Now give me yours.」
「The sword of vengeance has no name to call itself. Anything else would be preposterous.」
Drawing a rapier with a suspiciously long blade, Julian asks me for my name. I answered the way I did because I wanted to remain anonymous here. I do not wish to kill anyone in here, at least not as long as I can help it. Making the enemies in the kingdom would not be wise of me, so I needed to make sure to avoid doing that no matter what. However, the proud knight must have taken my words for a mere provocation.
「Hmph…… Then die like a nameless dog you are!」
Julian brandishes his rapier and takes the initiative here. It was a thrusting attack directed exactly at my neck, and if you do not avoid something like that you can’t possibly prevent suffering heavy damage.
I also happened to notice that his stance was a little bit unusual. However, it was working in his favor here, Even if I were to evade the attack aiming at my neck and move to the side or backwards, he would easily be able to launch another attack as a follow up to that. It was a great stance, one that would allow the warrior to either go on the offensive or defensive, depending on what the current situation would demand from him.
(Well, if need be, I can always use Moment’s Sight or Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand to escape, but that’s an ultimate solution.)
The moment I announced my anonymity to the knights, it was Julian who was on the move first. However, from the broader tactical perspective, I was the one who had the advantage even before that!
And besides, there is one basic thing here that Mister Sword of Desperation seemed to have misunderstood.
I know that it is bad to deceive others like that, but the fact that Memento Mori is a combination of two different weapons does not mean that it was going to stay that way forever. Yes, the two weapons could actually go back to the way they used to be at any given time!
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