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…… Continue reading →

40 I Fight Outside the Area

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/43/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“〖Psychokinesis〗!!”

Between Suu-san and the transparent enemy, space warped.

The enemy’s name is mutant Spirit-type Remnant Wight.

An incorporeal astral-type MoB that attacks with poltergeist.
Physical attacks almost do not work, the worst MoB.
The Star Cluster Empire also had considerable trouble with this type of MoB, they say, and it became a large cause of humanity’s defeat.

Remnant Wights, when they grip an enemy, only the gripping part materializes, which is at least better.
Further higher species do not materialize at all.
But even if a single lower-species Remnant Wight appears, Nevercity is almost in a devastated state.

All the military could do was evacuate citizens and make the town unmanned.

Attack helicopters waiting in the sky, Union soldiers around with guns raised, could do nothing, only watch over Suu-san.

“——!! Receptionist-san, take that child and run while you can!!”

Suu-san indicated a cat-eared girl who had lost consciousness near me.

“Y-yes!!” Continue reading →

39 I’m Asked a Favor

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/42/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Third person◇◆

 

My name is Lime. I am an Animanoid.

Currently, on the southern continent of Highlane named “World Cradle,” I work as a Strider Association receptionist.
This World Cradle is a continent for the game, opened to player-sans invited from a parallel world.

“Receptionist-san, appraise this~!”

A large male Strider with a somewhat scary-feeling face, and a slender woman Strider-san, brought in some kind of fur and machine parts.
These two are sometimes mistaken for lovers, but they are siblings.
And the person with the scary-feeling face is a very kind person.

Basically, player-sans are often good people.
Dangerous people are easy to screen out in review. Continue reading →

38 The Accounting-Cheat Man

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/41/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

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A man named Eto Keiri is a twenty-eight-year-old salaryman involved in accounting at a certain company.

“Window dressing again……?”

Looking at accounts that estimated costs far too low, Eto held his hazy head.

Eto has not been sleeping lately. Under the name of cost-cutting, accounting-department people got laid off, and they are completely short on staff.
That is not all. People who fear getting involved in the many fraudulent accounts and quit on their own never stop either.
So overtime continues, and he can barely get sleep time.

“What, you got a complaint? The company’s working hard to keep hiring you people. I could fire you and actually make costs cheaper!!”

His boss slammed a fist on the desk. Eto’s back jumped with a start.

“A company that’ll hire a human like you is about us, aaahn!?”

There the boss looked at the wall clock.

“More than that, you, did you punch the time card!!”
“———N-not yet……”
“I told you to punch it before overtime!!” Continue reading →

37 I Don’t Know What to Do

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/40/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Alice and I gladly accept Furi’s proposal.

Ah, right. I try asking Alice.

“Hey, can we put a lot of money into my current family?”
“Current…… ah, yes. You’ll get a lot of salary.”
“If I get a salary, I want you to put it in my parents’ account. Stepmom manages it. My living expenses come from there.”
“——For now, understood.”

Just as Alice is about to ask me something.

“Year 1 Class 3, Suzusaki Suzuhi-san. Please come to the staff room——I repeat. Year 1 Class 3, Suzusaki Suzuhi-san. Please come to the staff room.”

I hear my homeroom teacher, a male teacher’s voice.

“What is it……”
“Did Victor-san come again?”
“Hmmm?”

Continue reading →

36 We Eat Bento as Girls

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/39/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

“Seriously, it is Kyo-in Suu.”
“Just like the video. Even Alice-san is here, and I’m in the same class as Alice-san though.”
“N-nice to meet you——I’m Kyo-in Suu——no wait Suzusaki Suzuhi.”
“Hello, Yachimata.”

Dangerous, I almost introduced myself as Kyo-in Suu. If I get called that name over and over at school I’ll die.
Every time I’m called once, my HP is getting ground down.

At lunch, Alice and I become a “bento event” on the roof with Chigu’s friends.
Incidentally, Chigu told me beforehand that her friends are “both gals.”

When I hear Chigu’s words I freeze like a marmot startled by a loud noise, and she laughs “it’s okay, they’re not scary.”

Chigu is plenty gal-ish too, huh.

So now I am scared, terribly frightened.
Because gals are like the personification of sun-types, right.
I said this before, but shade-types can do nothing to sun-types. They can only disappear like a shadow lit by a flashlight……
Even so I’m here because Chigu is a mother-goddess. While praying to god that Chigu’s friends might one-chance…… be otaku-friendly gals.
Mother-goddess-sama, please grant my wish……

“Ahshi is Yuihama Karen.”

The one who introduces herself first is a person with splendid blonde hair bleached out. Perm on the tips, pale skin.
Pastel makeup that looks good precisely because she’s pale, overall a cute doll-san feeling.
And she’s wearing accessories that look expensive.
I think keeping this look takes considerable management. A person whose drive toward fashion is different from someone like me.

Long ago I also resolved myself and went blonde once.
But the roots immediately became pudding, and my hair became like it ate the Gum-Gum Fruit——I couldn’t keep a doll-san appearance like that.
On top of that I, if I’m going to buy accessories and makeup I’d rather buy manga and games……

While I’m terrified of too-pretty gals, Chigu’s other friend greets me too.

“Okinokoji Furi.” Continue reading →

35 I Become a School Rumor

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/38/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

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Before I notice it’s past 7:30, and I hurry back to the apartment.

While getting a little sarcasm from my stepmom and stepsister I change into uniform, thinking (oh no, late late~★) I run out of the apartment with bread in my mouth.
Thinking there’s no way I’ll have an anime-like meeting, I really collide with a boy.
Eh, I really bump? I think, but after all I’m comms-disordered. The words that come out are “ah, sorry,” “I-I’m sorry,” “yes, I’ll be careful from now on” and such. There is no way love happens. After apologizing thoroughly I get on the monorail.

In the end at the usual time, swaying on the Shonan Monorail.

“Huh?”

Alice is there.
Alice finds me too and talks to me.

“Suzuhi, good morning!”
“Morning, Alice. Isn’t the monorail scary?”
“If I’m with Suzuhi, I’ve been getting okay.”
“Is that so……?”

At this rate she’ll overcome her acrophobia soon, won’t she?

“More than that, please look at this!”

Alice beckons me next to her so I timidly sit beside her, and she points at her phone screen and shows me.
(What is it?) I think, peeking——

“800,000 subscribers!?”
“Yes!”

When I lift my gaze from the phone, Alice’s face is full of joy. Continue reading →

34 I Experiment

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/37/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

So no one hears, I flee into the playground equipment, cry for a while, and crawl out.

“This skill really isn’t something you use carelessly…… you don’t know what’s going to be there……”

It suddenly occurs to me and I look at the pilot suit’s residual thoughts, and memories like Alice’s (Suu-san’s embarrassed face is surely cute) get dug up.

A sadist, that person.
And I also see a wish, (please let there be no injuries or anything for Suu-san).
——I can’t say anything anymore.
Actually it protected me from bullets too. And it’s still protecting me.

While thanking Alice, I probe the distance 〖Psychometry〗 can read, head for the iron bar, and try reading residual thoughts.

“A memory of succeeding at a kip-up and being happy,” “a memory of dangling and talking lazily,” “a memory of walking on top like a tightrope, falling, and hitting the crotch.”

Various memories flow in. Continue reading →

33 I Have a Dream

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/36/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

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Starlight covering the sky.
A rain of stars falling.
A bouquet of shooting stars.
For Kanagawa’s night sky, the stars are awfully clear.
The Milky Way towering in the heavens is also dazzling, like seeing it in outer space.

I am in the park under the apartment, overwhelmed by a starry sky that looks like it might fall.
While I stand there dazed, eventually the morning sun begins to color the world.
Sunlight erases the stars.

The town wakes.
——But there, for some reason, it is a town missing the sound of people.

Suddenly I feel like I am called. A forgotten-looking hill, I turn my feet there.

When I come to the hill——suddenly time and date change as if the world is being flipped. As if flipping a calendar, the world is flipped.

Suddenly a gust of wind runs through. Waving, shining foxtail grass——the smell of summer.
Looking up, white cumulonimbus.
Lowering my gaze, on the green grass——a little girl sleeping as if nuzzling a pastel-colored vinyl sheet.
A white one-piece.
A pure-white world, an innocent world.
In a basket that smells kind, handmade pancakes.
Beside it, orange juice in a sweating glass cup.
But the world does not look at her. The trees swaying in the summer wind seem to whisper so.
The girl’s sleeping face is innocent, with nothing imprisoning it.
The hourglass beside her remains stopped.

No one remembers the girl——so her figure is terribly vague, hazy like a bleeding watercolor.
“I see,” I think.
That is why——because she is hazy, I know who she is.

“Iris-san——” Continue reading →

32 I Start Chapter 3

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/35/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Suzusaki Suzuhi◇◆

 

When I return from the VR space to real space, gooon, gooon, a bell that even feels solemn is ringing.
And from Ill-san drone, a broadcast is made in an unknown woman’s voice.

“Notice to all players. Just now, 〈Critical Quest〉 “Inori (prayer)” has been cleared by player ID Suu. Fate Link: Legendia Online will now begin Chapter 3, “This Will Surely Be the Beginning of a Miracle.” In thanks for your continued patronage, we have prepared a present campaign for everyone. Please continue to enjoy Fate Link: Legendia.”

Here my vision displays “Obtained 250,000 Union credits, 250,000 merit points.”

“Suu-san!”

Yachimata-san hugs me.
The headgears collide and my neck goes guki.
I took the headgear off in the VR world, but yeah, in real I haven’t taken it off.

“Ah———sorry!”
“I-I’m fine. I’m glad Alice is okay too.” Continue reading →