11 The Rank-1 Man Talks
Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/14/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA
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【Suu-tan is】 not human (an angel) 【my wife】
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Did you see? Suu’s first stream.
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Couldn’t take my eyes off it the whole time
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Because she was cute.
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And because it was hair-raising.
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That “even I could drop her, she looks easy” vibe is good.
Oops, it was packed with highlights.
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Being friends with Crimson Flash Alice, I was seriously shook.
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She went and saved the top clan Knights of the Stars (Aster Ritter), so does that mean she’s stronger than Knights of the Stars.
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Come on, their main force wasn’t there
Don’t say Alice was there.
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Anyway dodge, hit, piloting, all superhuman-class.
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She’s got talent too, but the effort is insane.
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That last roar was amazing.
A scream you couldn’t think belonged to a timid girl.
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Why was she that desperate? You don’t die, right?
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Even if you don’t die, if you get burned it hurts like dying.
When you come back you remember the pain from when you died, apparently.
The kid in a pinch was about middle-school age too.
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No, there’s talk that FateLege’s revival method is dangerous.
The method admin published is kinda…… scary.
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Suu-tan is kind.
Usually she’s timid and jumpy, but when it’s someone else she just cuts loose.
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If a girl let out a roar that low I’d normally back away, but I liked her more.
Thought it was runaway E○a lmao
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And yet with the stick she’s so innocent I don’t even have a comparison.
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Meanwhile Crimson Flash Alice totally got what the stick meant lmao Waro Waro Waro lmao
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Crimson Flash Alice felt used to dirty talk in daily life.
Didn’t flinch at all.
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Felt grown-up.
And that was definitely a sun-type.
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A gal who’s nice to otaku?
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Don’t pin hopes on a UMA whose existence is shakier than a tsuchinoko.
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So tsuchinoko is a UMA.
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Then I’ll pin hopes on a little sister who loves her oniichan.
I don’t have a little sister though.
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Suu got a little sister lmao
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Suu’s face when she got hugged lmao
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Little sisters are an urban legend.
Gals nice to otaku are UMA
Lovers are Santa Claus
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Even lovers became UMA.
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Don’t make Santa-san a UMA!
He exists, Santa-san exists!
I saw him!
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Speaking of lovers, the streamer who cleared Insanity Death Road before Suu-tan.
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Ah, that one’s blowing up too apparently. Thanks to Suu, though.
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Right, what was the name, Akakiba?
On yesterday’s stream he was criticizing Suu-chan as “second brew” and “thanks for copy-pasting the strat,” but he doesn’t get that Akakiba’s stream buzzed because viewers came from Suu.
Besides 〈Insanity〉 Death Road isn’t a strat you can copy in a few days.
And the barrage is random near the end, right?
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Suu’s existence is discovered via consecutive 〈Delirium Atlas〉 kills
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A video some UMA apparently uploaded gets excavated
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Shocking development that on a live stream the UMA was the same person as this not-human (angel) called Suu-tan, and she even knows Crimson Flash Alice
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Excited viewers pile onto the fact that someone else cleared the same 〈Insanity〉 Death Road.
Until Suu-tan blew up his videos were like 20k views, right?
Now it’s 500k.
Suu-tan’s about to hit 2 million though.
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Clearing in an old-gen mass-prod Swallowtail and clearing in a special-model Swallowtail are obviously different difficulties.
Suu-san basically cleared a most-most-highest difficulty on top of the highest.
If you’re going to brag you cleared a crazy-hard quest, Suu-san’s above.
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In actual combat Suu-chan’s technique is clearly higher too.
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Like Akakiba doesn’t even reach Suu’s feet. Comparing is rude.
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So why is Akakiba in the lover topic?
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That Akakiba guy’s been bothering girl streamers for a while.
Channel grew from this buzz so he’s even more carried away hitting on girl streamers.
He even started something called the Akakiba Corps gathering female streamers.
Unicorns screaming all over.
Vampire
Hope Suu doesn’t get hit too.
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But that Akakiba guy’s attitude clearly changed once he knew Suu was a girl.
He was slamming her, then suddenly “let’s collab and check her skill and hear her side.”
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Suu-san has nowhere she needs to make excuses to you.
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Akakiba said at the end of yesterday’s stream he “really wants a 1-on-1.”
And “if she’s excellent I want her as a sub-pilot.”
Is his head boiling?
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I played Air Maverick 3 and Suu taking a 1-on is way too reckless lmao
Suu is probably the same player as Suu from Air Ma.
If Suu is that Suu, how many top players that middle-school Suu made cry, timeline-wise lmao
If they do it, it’ll be a show.
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Then I’ll bet as many Japanese yen as 100 trillion old Zimbabwe dollars on Akakiba’s win.
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Unexpected 0.3 yen lmao
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Odds that low, Akakiba’s odds are too low lmao
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Why isn’t it allowed to clear in a special model.
Akakiba-san is clearly above.
Suu just buzzed from lucky piloting.
Akakiba-san blew up first so of course Suu blew up too.
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You the guy himself?
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“Yo, number-one player.”
Planet Orsedeus, a full 13,000 light-years from planet Highlane.
One of the Galactic Union’s five primaries.
Earth-origin players, of the five primaries, only know this Orsedeus and Highlane so far.
A space station the US military built, floating in Orsedeus space.
There, among the top players, the true top.
United States Space Force First Lieutenant Alex Birmingham spoke teasingly to the “boy” with cumulative merit points ranked 1.
Rank 1——Miles Humor lifted his face from the Japanese game console he was playing, glanced at Alex with glasses over panda-dark eyes, then went back to the game screen.
“As standoffish as ever.”
Laughing, Alex sat down next to Miles.
The sofa waved from the momentum and shook Miles’s body and the game screen.
But Miles didn’t seem to care at all and kept shooting down enemies on-screen.
——A 3D shooter.
What Miles was fighting now was this game’s last boss——Alex had deliberately gotten in Miles’s way aiming for this moment.
But Miles cleared it easily.
“Even with this much shake, dead accurate, huh.”
“Shake doesn’t change anything.”
“Yes yes, genius-sama is different.”
This boy skipped grades and graduated military school on the president’s recommendation; a genius in the true sense.
While saying that, Alex ruffled Miles’s head around and around.
Miles brushed Alex’s hand off like it was a hassle and, still looking at the screen, moved to another sofa.
“I hate you hanging on me. How many times do I have to say it?”
Miles complains to Alex without taking his eyes off the game screen.
Alex answers that Miles with a fearless smile.
“That so. I brought info on a player even you, who hate me like that, might get interested in.”
“Me, interested in a player? ——Joke. No one can affect me. Their ability is too small; they just get swallowed by my wave.”
“Heh, can you still say that after seeing this one?”
While speaking Alex opened a window in midair, put on a certain livestream archive, and threw it into the center of the room.
Miles didn’t care and kept his gaze on the game screen.
The footage in the window just kept playing some battle scene.
Watching that footage, Alex laughs.
“Oh, amazing. Split the Grand Harpy mothership in two with 〈Excitation Wings〉.”
At the words, Miles involuntarily looked at the screen from under his brows.
At first he didn’t seem that interested, but his eyes gradually opened as if waking.
————And he shouted.
“What——is this person!!”
The top player with the highest merit points shouted and froze, unmoving.
“See, you get how amazing ‘this’ is.”
“Don’t screw with me, don’t screw with me! 〈Excitation Wings〉 in space——who is this!!”
“Apparently a Japanese high-school girl.”
“Japan!? Peace-addled, and a high-school girl!?”
On the apparently livestream screen, a girl in some fetishy outfit with no light in her eyes was definitely piloting.
Apparently when this girl concentrates, the light leaves her eyes.
He notices a further abnormality.
“Th-this one’s triad boost…… is insane. What’s with this short boost time……”
“Hm? Boost? ——”
But Alex didn’t seem to notice. Alex asks the shocked Miles.
“——How about it, number-one player. Can you beat this high-school girl?”
“——I can win. This one’s skill and stat allocation is bad.”
Alex laughs.
“Well of course. This girl hasn’t taken any skills or raised any stats at all.”
“!?”
Miles turned to Alex and stared for a while.
Gradually, as if wanting to say something, his mouth opened and closed like a fish on land.
Miles wanted to say “you’re lying,” but he doesn’t. If it were a lie, Alex wouldn’t bring a livestream like this.
And if he asked something like “you’re lying,” this guy would only get happier. Wanting to ask and not asking was the wise move.
“Not a lie, yeah?”
At the see-through way of putting it, red-faced Miles stood, turned off the console, and set it on the desk.
Even angry, to Miles a game console is treasure, so he doesn’t treat it roughly.
Anything else he would have slammed into the sofa.
Miles casually took off his hoodie and pants and became a short tank top and spats.
Eventually he leaves the room. A mean voice lands on that Miles’s back.
“Hey hey, Miles, where are you going.”
“The training room!”
Miles’s figure disappeared from the room, and after a while Alex stretched on the sofa, then muttered with a serious face.
“No, for real. I thought Miles would say ‘I can win’…… for real……”
“He can’t win……?” Alex held his head and looked down.
From the back a loud voice landed on that Alex.
“Help with training, Alex!”
Miles was calling. Alex answers like it’s a hassle.
“Why.”
“If it isn’t you, you can’t keep up with me! Come already!”
“Don’t you hate me,” Alex grumbled, slowly got up, bought a sports drink from the room’s vending machine, and headed for the training room.