41 I Power Up Outside the Area

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/44/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Suzusaki Suzuhi◇◆

 

I’m Suzusaki Suzuhi. I learned a shocking fact.
Special-Authority Striders can also come outside the zones opened to players.

I was taught by the receptionist onee-san.

“Getting strong in a place only you can go is the basics of cheats, huh.”

While saying that, I munch some kind of skewer.
Currently I’m in a stall street, eating as I walk.

“What meat is this?”

If you ask my gourmet enjoyment, it’s meals.

On the paper wrapping the skewer, there was an illustration.
An amorphous gel-like……

“Slime.”

……I see, slime, huh……

I’ll eat it all so I don’t leave any, but I won’t buy it again.

“Ah, that skewer over there is…… a roc bird?”

The super-dangerous bird that lifts elephants and such and flies and feeds its chicks, right.
Something outrageous came out.

Kraken, roc bird, the universe’s food situation is bold, huh.
But that one I could probably eat without much discomfort.

Approaching the stall I discovered there are also paella and pizza and such.
The paella looked extremely delicious so I ordered.

Being served a few seconds after ordering, as expected of a stall.

I sat in a white chair set under a parasol and decided to settle in and eat properly.
I wonder why. Because it’s another planet, even being a loner doesn’t bother me. Is it the phenomenon of being able to enter shops boldly at a travel destination.
Anyway, I smack my lips at the meal.

Fluffy saffron rice, fatty bird meat moist, this makes both the fluffy faction and the moist faction smile.
Furthermore colorful vegetables, fragrant baked cheese on top———.

“Nnnn!”

I grip the spoon in my right hand and bang the table with my left.

“Oishii!”

By Suzu Run Guide, three stars!
This girl is a high-schooler, currently an appetite monster.

I shovel rice in all at once and wash it down with the carbonated lemonade I bought with it.
Crisp Sparkling makes it perfect.

I enjoyed the meal as much as I thought, and finished in a blink.

“Puhaa! Satisfied!”

Having satisfied my stomach, I resume strolling.
Incidentally that I’m a player is hidden from the townspeople.

Because I got shot last time, when entering no-entry zones, it became okay to hide that you’re a player, apparently.
Galactic Union, flexible, huh.
However, filming in no-entry zones is forbidden. Of course I can’t stream either.

I can’t bring Alice and such either.
While thinking that and walking, a home center called Ultimart entered my eyes.
A future home center……?

Thinking (home centers have everything, huh) I enter.
Going in, products that make you doubt your eyes in rows.

A flying board using a gravity-control device.
Screws that absolutely never loosen, this might exist in modern Japan too.
VR implants.
Pilot suits.
A staff for quantum magic. Instruction booklet included.
Guns.

“Eh, they sell guns too?”
“Even in America’s time of Master’s era, home centers sell guns.”

Incidentally current Ill-san is a spherical drone.
I see, then is the Galactic Union a gun society too?——Well, it’s a world with monster-like things, huh.

Let’s look a bit.
And I was shocked.

“Eh———. This is”

New Game 249X was being sold.

“This, we can only buy with merit points!”

Weapons players can originally only buy with merit points are lined up here and there.

“Ill-san, is it okay for me to buy this!?”
“Of course. Master has special authority permitted to enter this area.”
“It really started smelling like a cheat. Or rather this New Game is only 10,000 credits!? With merit points it cost 50,000!”

Incidentally I currently have 1,390,000 Galaxy credits and 2,450,000 merit points.
I can buy lots of New Games.
Or rather I can do “from here to here in the showcase, all of it please.”

“Yes, New Game is originally a 10,000-credit item. In Japanese yen that is approximately 100,000 yen. Buying with merit points becomes approximately 500,000,000 yen in Japanese yen.”

I stared at the guns in the showcase, dumbfounded.
Not even at the level of a bargain. Calling it price destruction is lukewarm.
I started wanting this and that too.
Anyway I call a clerk-san.
A woman clerk-san came right away.

“Are you seeking a gun?”
“Ah, yes.”
“Do you have a qualification?”

Qualification——right, it’s a gun, you need a qualification to use it.

“Ah…… Ill-san, what’s my qualification like.”
“Clerk-sama, please look at this.”

Something was displayed in the clerk-san’s VR, she opened her eyes and caught her breath.

“S-Special-Authority Str——”

The clerk-san started to say, so I hurriedly stopped her.

“Ah——please keep it secret! ……Because of that, I got shot a bit!”
“I-I see! I’m sorry! Understood———!”

Even so, even if it’s a gun society, is it okay to sell assault rifles and such at a home center? Well the enemies are too strong……
Anyway, the clerk-san was convinced, so I tell her the guns I want.

“Then that Luger-like one, and the Beretta-like one, and the S&W M19 4-inch-like one, and the Colt Python .357 Magnum 4-inch-like one, and the L85-like one, and——”

As I keep pointing at guns, the clerk-san who at first was like “you’re buying a lot” gradually gets a worse complexion.

“——the M4A1-like one, and the Tavor-like one, and the Type 20-like one, and the Type 89-like one, and the UZI-like one, and the MP9-like one, and the Ingram-like one——”

Around here the clerk-san started saying “um——that.”

“——the Kriss Vector-like one, and the Jatimatic-like one, and the Calico M950-like one, and the Mosin-Nagant-like one——”

When I still tried to point, Ill-san blocked my vision.

“Please stop for a moment, Master! Dopamine and serotonin are showing abnormal values! You are too happy! Please select only what you need!”
“No way……”
“Please do not make a face crushed by despair. I am saying this thinking of My Master.”
“……Uu.”

Then let’s narrow to what I want…… no, what I need.

First I want one more pistol. Because I want a spare, or rather I also want to try dual-wielding.
I have 〖Super Strength〗 so I think dual-wielding is doable.

And I want two high-reliability revolvers too.
Then a bullpup that can be a spare for the Housekeeper I use indoors.
Furthermore I want two high-reliability assault rifles that won’t break no matter how I handle them.

And two machine guns, I guess.
Then last a sniper rifle and a shotgun.

These two aren’t things you dual-wield with both hands so one each is fine. No, maybe I can use multiple at once with 〖Psychokinesis〗. Snipers have no point if you don’t look through the scope so 〖Psychokinesis〗 shooting is meaningless.

If I’m firing lots of shotguns at once, substituting with other guns is also fine. Shotguns apparently really have high power at close range, though.
The machine guns and assault rifles I’m about to buy now could probably substitute plenty.

So what I’m buying is,

Semi-auto pistol: Luger-like one (product name: Smuk).

Revolver pistols: S&W M19-like one (product name: Autoregar BG18). .357 Magnum-like one (product name: Stalman .714).

Bullpup: L85-like one (product name: Rigald A1).

Machine guns: two Ingram M11-like ones (product name: Brebis 15).
Why only this one two of the same.
Because the name Ingram is cool, and this gun originally has insanely fast fire rate so recoil is strong and it’s like assuming you put a suppressor on, but I could probably control it with 〖Super Strength〗.
And from the look the construction is simple and reliability seems high.

Sniper rifle: Howa 1500-like one (product name: Artist A1). I fell for the rugged craftsman-like look.

Shotgun: Remington M870-like one (product name: Vandal A860). After all when you say shotgun it’s Remington, right.

Well they’re all “-like,” and even the looks are a bit different.
Only, when I ask Ill-san, the performance doesn’t seem that far off.

Now the high-reliability assault rifles, I’ll probably use them a lot so I have to ask properly.

“Ill-san, among these, which assault rifles have especially high reliability——that don’t have jams and such?”
“Savage TYPE II. Validus AFV. Grimm G6. Any of them can fire even buried in sand, sunk in the sea, or in outer space.”
“Eh——they can fire in space……?”

No, I heard Earth’s guns can fire in space too.
——Ah right, gunpowder generates its own oxygen, so it doesn’t need surrounding oxygen to burn.

Savage had a look like the German army’s official gun G36.

Validus felt like the FN-SCAR adopted in various countries, that almost got adopted in America too.

Grimm G6 looks like the Bushmaster ACR.

All three guns probably have controllability like the famous gun M16, while also obtaining reliability like an AK47.

Especially controllability I understood from the look. The three guns Ill-san recommended, all are a straight line from muzzle to stock so same as M16.

Reliability I can’t check without disassembling, but Ill-san said “even buried in sand, sunk in the sea——” so I think that’s it.

Among those three, what caught my interest was the Grimm G6 that looks like the Bushmaster ACR.

The Bushmaster ACR of our era was like something designed almost as a hobby.
Packed with romance like “I wanted to try making the best assault rifle.”

The Bushmaster ACR. A gun with a design like taking the good parts of our era’s guns. Of course reliability is high too.
Only, the president of the company that designed it really made it on romance alone, so they didn’t actively sell it, and it barely spread at all.

Well whether this Grimm has the same internal mechanism is a mystery, though.
But the point I especially like about this gun is the top of the stock is slanted and easy to put your cheek on.

Only, if you take this method and also try to suppress recoil by making a straight line from muzzle to stock, the offset between muzzle and scope position inevitably gets large and parallax happens, and that becomes difficulty corresponding at various distances.

But you can’t make the part where gunpowder explodes too thin, and there’s distance between a human’s eye position and cheek position so parallax inevitably happens, though.
Regarding the stock, SCAR and Bushmaster are identical so SCAR is also easy to put your cheek on.

Only the Bushmaster’s magazine is curved. With this, when you lie down you can lower your posture even a little.
And when lying down the magazine hits the ground first, so grounding on a line rather than a surface seems better for handling. That’s preference, I guess.

And when reloading, being curved makes front and back of the magazine easier to tell.
Then, being curved apparently jams less.

Information I can tell just looking from outside is about this, huh.

A gun that looks like a gun packed with romance———.
While I’m worrying whether to go Validus or Grimm, the clerk-san talked to me.

“You like guns, don’t you.”
“Ah, yes.”
“Are you torn between Validus and Grimm?”
“That’s right.”
“Then I recommend Grimm, Grimm can be disassembled without tools.”

Then decided!

“Thank you. Okay, I’ll buy the Grimm G6——and I’ll also buy this Kunitomo 21 that looks like the Type 20.”

Type 20 is Japan’s assault rifle. A Japan-made gun, matched to Japanese people. For example the slant on the top of the stock is also gentle.
The Kunitomo 21 that looks like that gun also seems to suit me.
Who’s a flat-faced race?

Type 20 also has parts based on the SCAR, so the look is similar.
Or rather Type 20 takes the good parts of various assault rifles, so this is quite a romance gun too.

I had them let me test-fire too, and bought them all.

“Have to buy ammo too.——This, even in game-use places you can buy with credits so the price is the same.”
“Customer. If you like guns, I recommend showing your face at a weapon shop 200 meters from here. There is a craftsman who makes competition guns.”
“Competition——what kind of thing is it?”
“The precision is on another level.”
“That’s——thank you. I’ll go!”

A gunsmith, maybe.

After that I decided to buy a fridge to put in the 〈inside of the Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉, decided to buy a flying board, put in the shopping basket a heater that can go inside ultra-thin clothes, a radio player that can listen to radio players shouldn’t be able to hear, and wandered the store further.

Incidentally later I notice that inside the warehouse there is no time so a fridge and such is meaningless——inside the warehouse objects don’t change, and even without a fridge if you put in something cooled it stayed cold.
But if I use it outside the warehouse, maybe it’ll help with cooling.