ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

was a sudden burst of power emanating from that formation, shining and expanding like a soap bubble would.

And the only difference between that pyramid and a soap bubble was that the pyramid was not a sphere, but was triangular in shape.

「I must make it……!」

Even though she tried to avoid the triangular sword thrust with twisting her body with the assist of the evasive skill, the attacks still managed to hit her.
And with just that one attack, Kyogoku’s overall HP bar went down by a huge twenty percent.

「…… I see.
Well, that much should have been expected from the leader of the top guild of the game, right?」

「Kyogoku-Ultimate, must I remind you that this here is ShangriLa Frontier? This is not a kendo classroom, so playing by the rules will not get you anywhere.」

「Whoa, talk about sounding disgusted here……」

Twenty percent of her HP was gone.
From the pure numerical perspective she was still able to fight, but the feeling accompanying that blow was not pleasant in the least.

(If you receive a lot of damage in short amount of time to one of your body parts, that particular body part will go limp and numb, and you won’t be able to use it for a while…… Now I wonder, just for how long will I need to wait for it to recover……?)

In the world of ShanFro, you don’t feel any pain from weapon attacks.
The sense of pain is converted into the sense of numbness.
Therefore, no matter what horrible manner of things happen to your body, be it stabbing, slashing, crushing or ripping to shreds, you would only feel as though that particular body part had gone to sleep and had trouble waking up properly.

In other words, that particular body part would feel too weak to be used properly.
If you got your leg injured, you could technically still be able to run, but the numbness would hinder your movement considerably.
And it was that sense of numbness that was spreading throughout Kyogoku’s left arm right about now.

When dealing with someone like Saiga-100, the fact that you cannot use one of your arms is something you would rather try to avoid having to deal with.

(Well, also to makes the matters worse……)

I cast a glance towards the audience seat and look at my allies.

If she was to lose here, she was sure that the three original members of the Wolfgang guild would not forget this to her so easily.
And the amount of ways in which they would keep on messing with her was simply unimaginable.

(What is this, this bad feeling that I am getting here!?)

It was the instinctual feeling of dread and refusal.
After all, she needed to win.
She could not let herself to lose here.
And while I do not mean to lose here, I need some more time before my left arm recovers enough for me to use it properly.

Kyogoku’s mind was working on full gear at the moment, looking for a solution.
And it was at that moment, completely all of a sudden.

(………… No, wait, this is……)

It felt as though the Devil himself whispered the idea right into her ear.

That idea contained speaking some words out loud.
And while those words would most certainly upset Saiga-100 enough for her to actually lose focus here, it was also something of a taboo, something that you would not dare to say to other player under any normal circumstances.
It would be like attacking not the player’s avatar, but the real player in the real world.

However,

「By the way, Saiga-100-san?」

「What is it?」

She did not use her weaker left arm.
Instead, she shifted the weight of her whole body so that she would be able to hold her black sword in her right hand alone.

And at the very moment when the three blades were aimed at Kyogoku……

「Wouldn’t it be so much easier for you to move without those two melons being stuck to your chest?」

「Bufuh!!??」

「There, you’re wide open!」

The swords that Saiga-100 used for defense make a slight gap, and Kyo-Timate did not wasted that opportunity.
This time around, her own sword found its way to reach its mark, hitting Saiga-100 across the chest.