3 Leaving VR

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/4/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

There is a communication-impaired person at Souha Municipal High School.
Who else: me, Suzusaki Suzuhi.

“Ah, it’s the new-student representative.”

“Hih——”

“What’s her name again, Suzu…”
“Suzu……”
“Right, Suzumori-san.”
“Yeah, yeah, Suzumori-san!”

Pointed at by girls in my year, I flee into the classroom and sit in my seat—my territory—like I’m flinching.
Hello, it’s Suzusaki.

“Scary. Why are high school girls that scary? I have no idea what they’re thinking.”

No, not just high school girls—high school boys, middle school girls, middle school boys—actually all humans are scary. Continue reading →

2-2 Going All-Out 2

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/3/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

From near the moon’s surface, straight into space.

“Fourth wave, incoming! Danger! Danger! 〈Gorgon〉 approaching!”

A pulsar-type neutron star comes into view in the background.
The neutron star spits flashes from above and below like a raging spinning top.

And before that top appears——a sphere with something like eight tentacles.

From the ends of those rope-like tentacles, as always, it scatters shots in a raging torrent.

Why this stage is called the human graduation exam.
Because the patterns start disappearing.

Of the eight tentacles, six still have patterns, but two move completely at random.
Those random patterns sometimes take a terrifying shape.

——Someone said, “The scariest bullets in a shooting game are the ones that home in on you.” Continue reading →

2 Going All-Out

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/2/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

——Three years.
My uniform has changed.——I had become a high schooler.

From three years ago——nine years in VR time—I have been doing “that quest” the entire time.
Total flight hours: 24,324. Add the time I spent on fighter FPS games and total flight time is over 36,000 hours.

They say a pilot needs about 2,000 flight hours to be called a veteran, so 36,000 is something I can brag about a little.

By the “10,000-hour rule” that says 10,000 hours of anything makes you first-rate, that’s three first-rates?

“Swallow, come!”

I stand in front of the apartment I live in and “shout in a small voice.” Continue reading →