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 →

31 I Get Lost in a Special Quest

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/34/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Third person◇◆

 

Collapsed in reality, having lost consciousness, Suzuhi is walking a pitch-black space with nothing in it.

“〖Night Vision〗〖Super Night Vision〗——no good, I can’t see anything.”

Even using skills, the darkness does not change.
Is there no light or temperature here.
But her own hands and body are clearly visible——if there is no light they should not be visible. A space that does not feel like reality.

“The quest didn’t show a ‘yes, no’ choice…… a forced event?”

And she does not understand how to get out of here——the anxiety “or rather, am I even alive?” crosses her mind.

“Alice not here? Ill-san! Viewers, can someone comment!”

No reaction at all.
In this pitch-black space there is no figure of Yachimata Alice, no Swallowtail drone, and the viewers’ comments have completely vanished from her vision.

“〖Sixth Sense〗——no reaction.” Continue reading →

30 The Reason of Life 4

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/33/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Narita Inori◇◆

 

“Look, it’s Narita.”
“Gross…… you’ll catch the virus, so stay away and eat?”

Datanoid soldiers moving away from This unit.
But This unit feels nothing. This unit keeps carrying food to its mouth.

Silently, scoop soup, carry to mouth, scoop soup, carry to mouth. Repeating that, a square tray is set in front of its eyes.

“Is here okay?”

When This unit looks up, there is a blonde girl.
Probably not a Datanoid, a Homo sapiens.
Someone who belongs to the military and still has not become a Datanoid, and is still surviving.
Either outstanding, or a rookie. One or the other.
But it is rare for a Homo sapiens to come here, a Datanoid cafeteria.

Surely this person does not know who This unit is. That is why she is trying to sit close.
This unit introduces itself as usual.

“This unit’s name is Inori.”
“I’m Iris.” Continue reading →

29 The Reason of Life 3

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/32/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Orkan’s company and Inori’s Darmas Division rush to Planet Leens, but——because of Darmas’s graft they cannot get decent resupply, and they end up almost wiped out.

Before Inori’s eyes, 〈Atlas〉’s laser punches through Orkan’s torso.

“Orkan-taicho!”

Orkan is a Datanoid. But in the earlier battle, his data has been lost from the database.
Inori looks around.
The scene around her is truly corpses piled on corpses. Countless bodies of Datanoids who can no longer move. Scattered on the snow.
In the center of that, only Inori’s breath floats, blinking white against the night sky.

“Remaining troop count, ten…… comms cut——desperate.” Continue reading →

28 The Reason of Life 2

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/31/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

Orkan’s voice comes from above Inori’s bowed head.
When Inori lifts her face, a huge back is there. Muscle so packed it is stretching the military uniform.

At the captain’s sudden appearance, Inori looks up, eyes wide.

“O-Orkan-taicho……?”

A person who should not be in this place. Inori never met Orkan in middle school.
So Inori thinks. (Why is Orkan-taicho here?) There is no reason for the hacker to place Orkan here. If the hacker’s goal is to keep her from waking, he would never let her meet someone who would tell her “wake up.”
Then did Orkan himself hack her?
But Orkan is a man who does not understand programs, let alone hacking. So Orkan cannot appear in this place.

“Why are you here……”
“Fighting spirit.” Continue reading →

27 The Reason of Life 1

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/30/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Side: A certain person who became a Datanoid 1,100 years ago◇◆

 

“Hey, supply goods and letters came!”

From a cargo hatch on a space battleship crossing space, a large carry wagon is brought in.
Space battleships on mission become isolated islands in space. To such islands, space freighters occasionally deliver goods and mail.
For the soldiers riding the battleship, one of the great pleasures.
Soldiers cluster on the carry wagon, and a field officer starts distributing to the people they should reach.
Distributing packages isn’t a delivery person’s job; it’s a field officer’s.

“Oh, Sergeant Harold Kinoshita, from the usual Hekaterina-san!”

A still-young soldier with hope-filled eyes takes the letter and gets poked and teased by the people around.

“This is Second Lieutenant Narita Inori, from the usual Iris-san, another fairly large box!”
“Ah, yes! That’s me!”

Narita Inori takes the box from the field officer’s hands and jumps up looking happy. But in zero-G space she jumped with all her strength, hit her head on the ceiling, let out a goose-like groan “gueh,” and gets laughed at by the surroundings.
The field officer asks Inori while laughing. Continue reading →

26 I Get Caught in a Special Quest

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/29/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

While I’m damaging the sea ecosystem,

“Ah, I got hit!”

The underwater went pitch black.
I got inked.
I was reading comments and my hands slipped.

Tentacles extend from the ink.

“Ill-san, flight form!”

Butler-clothes Ill-san spreads his wings.

“Flight form, yes, My Master.”

Instantly transformed Swallow-san flees up.
Then Alice slashes the approaching tentacles with knives in both hands. Continue reading →

25 We Arrive at the Ruins

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/28/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Suzusaki Suzuhi◇◆

 

We let Otoko-san get away and leave the hotel.
Then we were flying south in Swallow-san and Shogun.

Ill-san, dressed like an old-time bank teller, sits in a chair pounding a calculator and tells me.

“My Master, 1.5 million Union credits and 3 million merit points have been deposited. The hotel staff seem to have contacted the Union.”

❝3 million merit points in one go!?❞
❝That’s what beating Domio is worth❞

What’s Domio, Dominant Ogre maybe?

❝Too crazy, as expected of a Domio Slayer❞

“P-please don’t make weird titles.”

While putting a nail in it I was happy inside.

Yes, I got a lot of merit points.
Can I buy a tanker? Continue reading →

24 A Professor Talks

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/27/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

◆◇Sight: Third Person◇◆

 

In Fate Link: Legendia there is a system called a “clan” that makes it easy for people to make groups and communities.

In MMOs they’re often called clans or guilds.

In Fate Link too, without exception, people gather around clans.

Such clans sometimes have a theme or purpose set.
The reason is that if people with the same purpose gather, cooperating is easy.

For example there are rough purposes like “let’s have fun,” combat-purpose clans, exploration-purpose clans.

There are also clans with the special purpose of doting on animals or characters.

There are even clans whose purpose is roleplay.

If the game system allows it, clans whose purpose is crime are often made too.
Just, if you commit a crime in Fate Link it’s an instant BAN, so they don’t exist.

Here too there is a clan where people gathered for one purpose.
The clan name is “Biblio Vivre.”
The purpose of the players who gather in this clan is research. Continue reading →

23 I Overhunt

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/26/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

We and Swallow-san take a slight G and leap into the sky.
From behind, Alice and Shogun follow too.

I move over the hotel while piloting Swallow-san.
Hover and look down.

“There.”

The ogre is climbing the hotel wall.

“It isn’t even bug-type, how is it climbing——”

Punching fists into the hotel wall while climbing……
I let my true feelings slip in a mutter.

“You can fight that thing properly…… idiot……”
“Suu, when I saw you stream before you seemed quiet, but you’ve got a pretty foul mouth……”
“Ah…… sorry…… my true nature comes out rarely, so if it’s scary I’m sorry.”
“That quiet feel, and a foul mouth is the true nature?”

Somehow Otoko-san laughed looking like she was having fun. Continue reading →