16 I Evolve Myself

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/19/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Suzusaki Suzuhi◇◆

 

I’m Suzusaki Suzuhi. Today is Wednesday, school ended a little early, and I got some time.
So the talk became: let’s go get the storage item that got left hanging.
And——let’s livestream that.
So, stream prep.

“Ohh…… the channel’s at 500,000…… the growth rate is weird.”
“For Suu-san that’s a normal growth rate——there are people even faster. More than that, Crimson Flash Alice got found out, so may I appear too?”
“You’ll come on!? ——Of course! I was lonely alone……!”
“Really!? Then I prepared something nice, will you take it?”
“Eh!? A present!? I’m so happy!”
“Please wait a moment.”

Incidentally Pollux, who came out on her own, is today too going “Mama, fight yet?” while rubbing on Swallow-san. Stop that, the room shakes in space.

Yachimata-san changes into a pilot suit.
As always a pink-like red-like suit——white lines as an accent. It looks sharp and cool.
It’s an outfit that perfectly shows the body lines, but she has the figure so it suits her.

Changed Yachimata-san comes toward me holding some black cloth? vinyl-like thing.

“This is one I designed, a pilot suit with a little gothic-lolita flavor added.”
“————Eh?”
“Today let’s stream together in this, no jacket!”
“———Eh, no, no way, this is like a pervert!”

Yachimata-san made a face like she might cry.

“A-a pervert……”
“S-sorry! But……”
“I went out of my way to make it——you said you’d take it……”

My chest, my chest hurts!

“Well…… Yachimata-san has a good figure, and you appear in swimsuits in front of people so you might be used to it———”
“Suzusaki-san has a good figure too! Used to it is, you just get used to it!”

I wanted to shout “I’m a Japanese build over here!” but I couldn’t.

“———That pilot suit has solid defense too.…… Ballistic and blade resistance that can stop Earth guns and knives…… the look is cute too…… I want to show the viewers……”

Yachimata-san is incredibly dejected.
I couldn’t take the pain in my chest.

“Th-then just today……”

I felt like Yachimata-san “grinned,” but that’s my imagination, right?

I move to the shower room and reluctantly start changing into the pilot suit.
And midway through changing I notice.

“Wait, Yachimata-san! This is transparent in places!!”

Thighs and shoulders and upper arms are made of transparent material; this is basically a risqué swimsuit!
The upper body is like a turtleneck sweater with exposure here and there, pitch-pitch tight.
And the whole-body gloss is intense, so the figure stands out like crazy.

“Ah, it suits you so much!”
“I-I can’t go in front of people in this———”
“Eh, I thought Suu-san liked the virgin-killer type. Your previous clothes were like virgin-killer clothes too.”
“What are you talking about!?”
“Don’t you know the virgin-killer sweater? I made that gothic-lolita swimsuit-style. Named the virgin-killer pilot suit.”
“Again, what are you talking about!?”
“Then I’ll start the stream!”
“H-eh!? Wait, wai————”

Yachimata-san mercilessly starts the camera drone.

I hurriedly put the pilot suit on properly.

Yachimata-sa——Alice pulls my shoulder and draws me close.

I asked from worry before I knew it.

〔Is it okay not hiding your face!?〕
〔I’m using an item that makes the face misrecognized.〕

When I look up at Alice, she had truly become another person’s face.
The Alice who appeared on Snark-san’s stream.
——Yachimata-san really was Crimson Flash Alice.

Or rather,

“……If you have that, tell me, Alice!”

Well I don’t have one so I can’t use it.

When I call Yachimata-san Alice, she covered her nose and mouth at the same time with her hand.

〔Sh-she called my name———! ——No, she just called the ID……〕

I thought she muttered something, then she suddenly went blank-faced.

“I thought Suu-san’s face out would definitely grow the channel. I’m Suu-san’s capable producer after all.”
“Then Alice’s face would——ah, this is the channel I made.”

I dejectedly decided to give up.
I already put my face out, it’s too late.

On the monitor playing the stream for confirmation, we were shown.
The stream seems to have started.
The comment section gets lively all at once.

Whoa…… 25,000 people watching.

❝We’ve been waiting ooooh!❞
❝A stream after so long!!❞
❝Why didn’t you stream for a while❞
❝Who’s the model-figure person next to her?❞
❝Red pilot suit. No way❞
❝Today Suu’s in just a pilot suit too. Wait, eh. Virgin-killer again?❞
❝EHHHHHHHHHH!❞
❝This is enough to awaken to wisdom and become a sage❞

“Ah, please don’t look too much.”

When I hide my body, the comments got even noisier.

❝As always a fresh reaction lmao❞
❝It’s basically a one-piece swimsuit lmao❞
❝A little risqué but lmao❞
❝The embarrassed look hits a kink lmao❞

While I’m troubled Alice reacted to the comments.

“Comment section everyone understands too! I wanted to see this embarrassed look as well!”

Ehh———……
What shade-types hate most is shame play, you know……??

❝I get it!❞
❝I get it lmao❞
❝By the way, who are you?❞

“Ah, me? Some of you have a vague idea, but nice to meet you, I’m Alice, called things like Crimson Flash.”

Comments increase like exploding.

❝Ooooooooooooooooooooo!!!❞
❝This person is Crimson Flash Alice!?❞
❝So tall! Face so small!❞
❝Insane figure❞
❝But the face is a little unexpected. Against the hair color and figure, a Japanese-style beauty?❞
❝I knew from seeing Crimson Flash Alice a few times on Snark’s stream❞

The face-recognition block seems to be working properly.
I explain today’s purpose to everyone.

“Today I want to clear a standing quest and go get an item.”

When I say that, a comment that gives a realization flowed.

❝Aren’t you going to use the merit points you got? For the future too, shouldn’t you use them soon❞

“Ah, right. Shall I try using them?”

When I talk to comments, honorifics after all.

❝Use them, use them❞
❝How many points do you have?❞

“The first one I got 1 million, the next 400,000 points. Together with what I got from old giveaways I have 1.6 million. Please tell me how I should use them, please spoil as much as you want.”

❝1 million from one quest?!❞
❝Wait lmao 1.6 million you can buy a carrier lmao❞
❝I finally got to 980,000 points after two years lmao❞

Yachimata-san is surprised like “you got 1 million in one go!?”
Apparently it increased because I beat a lot of Delirium Atlas.
And there was a bonus from Ivy-san too.

❝Then first you should put them in stats! You lose weapons❞
❝But stats have low effect so watch out❞
❝Not buying a better fighter?❞
❝Remodel the room❞
❝Buy a resort planet with Union credits, a planet❞
❝You don’t have that kind of money❞
❝Buy a resource satellite❞

I was taught by the comments so I answer.

“S-stats is good, huh. I won’t replace the fighter, I don’t feel like using anyone but Swallow-san. The room, if it transforms or G hits it apparently becomes ‘a complete mess,’ so I don’t want to put much stuff. I want a planet.”

❝She’s gonna buy a planet lmao❞
❝If you buy it properly you need umpteen trillion Union credits, good luck lmao❞
❝Resource planets near galactic center with no owner are free❞
❝MoB are stuck all over them though❞

Eh, planets are that expensive? Then maybe I should turn Union credits into gold or silver——but there are planets with no owner?

Incidentally the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*, and monsters come from inside this black hole, and the closer to Sagittarius A* the stronger the monsters get, apparently.

Sagittarius A*’s danger space has a radius of 10,000 light-years and is split into floors every 100 light-years for 100 floors, and clearing has stopped at Floor 30 and 31 on is untrodden for players, they say.

Hearing “untrodden” makes me excited; I hate my mental structure.

Alice teaches me how to raise stats and such.

“You open a window, go to the Union site from there, and exchange rewards and merit points there.”
“I see.”

I open a window by moving my fingers in an L like the pretty receptionist at the Stratos Association did.

When I search “Galactic Union” in the window it displayed at the top.
At the rewards lined up I get a little hyped.
There are lots of guns and stuff.

“Lots of rewards!”
“For now you should have one set of weapons and armor. After that you can turn them into stats——normally you buy a Versus Frame, but you don’t seem to feel like buying a Versus Frame. But please leave Swallow-chan’s repair costs.”
“Got it, thanks!”

Then I’ll turn 1 million points into rewards. Remaining is maybe 600,000 points.

Military tent sets, military grapple wire, rations, my eyes wander various ways.

Self-proclaimed gourmet me is curious about the taste of galactic rations too.

“Grapple wire is pretty useful so you might buy it, but tents and food you can buy with Galactic credits so you should probably stop. Merit points are precious.”

Alice’s words are really useful.

“Then first, weapons——”

When I search, an amazing number of weapons display.
When Alice operates my window, windows increase and lined up like display shelves in the one-room.

“Whoa…… convenient.”
“Which will you buy?”
“There are so many, my eyes wander.”

I head for the weapon shelves.

When I come in front of a shelf, the other shelves vanish and weapon windows surround me in a sphere.
As expected of galactic shopping, super-science even here.

“Really which is good,——or rather they look like Earth weapon shapes.”
“They do. They’re things humans use, so the shapes probably don’t differ that much.”

Just, sometimes there are shapes that couldn’t exist in real life. For example things you put on your arm, SF-ish like empty○ cannons or Sa○ko guns.
But most look like weapons that existed on Earth.

“Ah, this looks like a Colt Government!”
“Col…… what is that?”

Apparently Alice isn’t that detailed about guns.
But I know Colt Government because it appears in a lot of anime.

“Colt Government is a nickname, the official name is M1911. A pistol made by America’s Colt’s Manufacturing Company, adopted by the US military in 1911. High reliability, it was the US military’s official pistol for 70 years. The secret of the reliability is the tilt-barrel short-recoil system John Browning designed. The barrel tilts a little to eject the casing! Even fine parts like this are reproduced in anime!! The Colt Government appears in various anime, for example Fullmetal Alche——” “Wai…… wait, wait, Suu-san!”

❝Insane fast talk lmao❞
❝She likes guns lmao❞
❝Too detailed lmao❞

I notice my own blunder and crouch.

“Aaaaaaa! That’s not it! Please forget!! Everyone please get amnesiaaaaa!!”

❝It’s fine, I felt kinship lmao❞
❝I could drink good sake with you❞
❝Suu-tan desperately explaining her hobby is cute❞

“Ki……ll me.”

I relaxed as if melting again.

❝Don’t get summoned, Suu-tan!❞
❝Too early for you!❞
❝‘Zaorik’!❞

Encouraged by comments I somehow stand.

“C-come on Suu-san, let’s look at other products.”
“Un.”

Prompted by Alice I look around at guns and such, and Alice went “ah” and stopped her eyes on a certain product.

“They reprinted the Saber series! I wanted a Hotarumaru Bringer!”
“Ho-Hotarumaru Bringer?”

Looking where Alice is looking, a sword shaped like a huge Japanese katana.

“This is a high-frequency blade in the shape of a Japanese odachi. It’s modeled on a sword called Hotarumaru, and like the anecdote it has self-regeneration. And when you swing it, light like fireflies scatters. Ah, Hotarumaru is an odachi said to have been made in the Kamakura period, but at present it’s missing——sadly. The blade is bluely shining jigane and the hamon is suguha——” “Wait wait, Alice!”

❝This one too insane fast talk lmao❞
❝Like-minded couple lmao❞
❝She likes swords lmao❞

Alice noticed what she did, froze, and sucked in a breath “——Ssu.”
Then she ordered the Hotarumaru Bringer at outrageous speed and started browsing guns.

“This gun has an interesting shape.”
“Ah, it looks like a Walther P. Walther P is——”

I start to explain and cover my own mouth.

“——The one a famous phantom thief has.”
“Yes, I know. Ahaha.”

❝That was close❞
❝About to get summoned again❞

I glance through other guns too.
There are guns that look very SF.

Ones that look like they’d appear in Star○ars, ones like tin-toy laser guns.

“This one looks flintlock-shaped. A grenade launcher maybe.”

Flintlock is the short musket old pirates would have.

“You can tell that gun is a grenade launcher well……”
“Eh…… yeah. I wonder why I can tell.”

❝Even she doesn’t know why lmao❞
❝Too detailed about firearms lmao❞

“Wh-which should I get.”

I vaguely dodged.

❝If you become a player you can shoot guns like that?❞
❝Can’t use them on Earth❞
❝Even if you bring them to Earth a safety locks and you can’t unlock it❞
❝Fighters too, safety locks and you can’t fight❞
❝Some country tried to use space fighters in a war and they vanished❞
❝I want to use them even if it’s the far side of space❞
❝Merit points don’t come as easy as Suu-tan so watch out❞
❝Normal humans lose their fighter in the first battle and can’t be players. Source: me❞

“After all maybe I’ll buy a cute Colt Government——Colts are often used by cute girls. A cool Beretta is good too, but those are often used by cool characters. I like cute so……”

The M1911 is a “large-caliber and also practical” gun that feels like a pro, though.

“——Calling a gun cool aside, I don’t get the sensibility of calling it cute. If it’s the look of a Colt gun, New Game 249X is good. This has a thing called a recoil damper that suppresses recoil.”
“New Game?”

I looked at the specs of the gun Alice recommended.

“Eh. Fairly large-caliber rounds in the magazine——25 rounds!? What’s with a magazine that holds that many……”

——Ah, the casings are small. What’s this.

“……I see, the gun got tougher and it has a damper so they could raise the powder power——so the magazine volume you freed by making casings smaller can be used freely. Warheads are small, after all.”

Alice was looking at muttering me with eyes like she was observing.

“——You really are detailed. Normally girls our age can’t chatter about guns like that……?”
“Eh, i-is that so!? Well anyway put New Game in the cart. Next is armor, I guess!?”

Incidentally, New Game 249X = 50,000 merit points.

I go to the armor place a little fast, imagining something like a bulletproof vest, and there were things like belts and things like bracelets lined up.

“Eh, what’s this, different from what I imagined——”
“An energy field protects you.”
“More super-science than I thought.”
“The bulletproof-vest-like ones are cheap. Incidentally this energy field can be used on Earth too. Ah, the pilot suit I gave you has defense as well.”
“I-I heard that.”
“Defense items can be used on Earth, so you don’t have to take that pilot suit off anymore.”
“I’m taking it off though……”
“It’s the Aliceuutsu Alice sent Suu-san, you know?”
“I don’t get what that means.”