ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

–––––– Oh well, if I really wanted to betray the Mercenary here, my helmet would have exploded right here and right now.

Right about now, I feel like an Elementary School student who managed to successfully pull off a prank on some high and mighty government official. Maybe not the Emperor himself, but someone close to that position for sure.

He may think that he is immortal, but a bullet straight to the face is a bullet straight to the face. It was absolutely indispensable that he was to be hit by that bullet even if it was not really going to kill him. …… And while his body is busy with being blown away backwards, together with Python we are already on the move.

「NOW! FINISH THIS!」

「You don’t have to tell us that!」

「We would do it even if you were not ordering us to!」

「Oh, wait, the recovery……」

「Ah, yes, that’s right.」

However, before we were able to do anything to finish this fight, G Cup Breast Meat managed to regain his composure after being headshot and began to move onto the offensive as well.

「Launch all of the drones!」

「Say what!?」

Well, well, now! Someone in here is awfully prepared for every eventuality, huh? Anyways, it seems that the target is extremely hostile and does not intend to back down. This means that we need to finish this chicken off while we have the advantage in here……!!

「Oh, now you’ve done it, I’ll grant you that! …… But still! The explosion on the deck of the Great Wall should be able to bring this conflict to a close! So your efforts are all in vein!!」

「Well, I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Sure, we happened to take some damage, but it was all calculated.」

「Two cannons are left, huh……? Does that mean that this whole war is more or less decided now……?」

「So? How about it? Want to raise the white flag while you still can?」

Even though he was offered a way out of this mess, G Cup Breast Meat only smiled in a really nasty way while holding onto his captain chair. I don’t know why, but seeing that smile has made me feel like something really bad was about to happen. Like a premonition.

That smile was giving me a really nasty feeling of déjà vu. Specifically, I have seen that smile numerous times before. It was that kind of smile that a potential victim would wear shortly after making some asspull move and turning the tide of the battle, usually thanks to the third party intervention. And honestly, I have worn that very same kind of smile on a numerous occasions.

This guy, the shape of his mouth, barely resembling a smile but being a smile nonetheless, and the glare of his eyes, so reverse proportionate to his mouth. No way, he couldn’t possibly……

「Ah, I see. Yes, I understand. Then, this means that we are all going to die, together.」

–––––– It’s the smile of a psychopath who is hell-bent on taking his opponents with him to the afterlife, no matter what.

「What the hell is this shaking all about!?」

Recovering in a flash and rushing towards his chair, G Cup Breast Meat opened some sort of a console and started to operate it in a hurry. Right after that, there was a huge tremor that was way far from being natural, and it started to make the entire Terraton-Class ship tremble.

While this really unpleasant feeling kept on creeping its way up my spine, I start shooting down the drones that started to appear with my handgun, while also directing a question at the Mercenary over the comms. I mean, he surely must have a different perspective, so he might know what’s going on.

「Listen, man! Whatever it is that is happening right now, I sure as hell don’t want it to be what I think it is!」

「I’m afraid that it is exactly what you think it is, the worst possible scenario…… He must have overloaded the core of the ship! So, he’s aiming for a suicide attack!?」

「Yeah, that’s right! That’s exactly right! We are all going straight to hell now! I hope that once we all restart back on Earth, we can get along just fine!」

God fucking damn it! I was thinking about doing the same thing, so don’t you dare to steal my strategies away from me! This is exactly like that situation when the dude who is about to fall off a cliff grabs the one who pushed him down in order to make them fall to their deaths as well! This might be the game, but I guess that no matter where you go, people still act in the same way, huh!?

「Is there anything that you can do to stop this!?」

「Sorry, but no can do. If we were to compare the time needed to kill a deadbeat Whale player and the time needed to stop an enemy ship from self-destructing, which action would be faster here!?」

What should I do!? We have come so far, so being killed by a mad suicide bomber would be really anti—climactic! I have come here to be able to come back to ShanFro with a good mood, so I need to find a way out of this mess, and find it quick!

「Python! Do you have any ideas!?」

「Yeah! Let’s just leave handling Terraton-Class ship to another Terraton-Class ship! Aiban—san, what do you say!?」

「I could try to knock this ship out with a slightly less powerful reproduction of a Big Crunch laser, but our ships are way too close for that! Even if we were able to bring this ship down, we might get destroyed in the aftermath as well!」

「Alright! Fine! Just give me about ten seconds to summarize this whole mess of a situation!」

We can’t bring this ship down because of the distance problems. This could have been easily done, but I can understand the hesitation to do it and the pain of losing something that you have worked so long and hard to obtain. Therefore we are not going to go with that plan.

We don’t know the exact way in which G Cup Breast Meat is intending to self-destruct in here. It might be a collision, or maybe overloading the central engine, but he would need time for that second option. But the current situation is not a checkmate quite yet, but it should be said that it is just before the checkmate, mere millimeters from it……!

「…… In short, what we need right now is both “distance” and “time”…… is that right!?」

「In a very big nutshell, yes! But why do you ask!? Do you really have some way of turning this thing around!?」

「If I can manage to go outside to do it, then yes! I think I do!」

The conditions for using this thing are that the player needs to go directly to outer space, if I can somehow get out…… But it is clear that Terraton-Class armor platings are not going to be easily breached, even if we were trying to break them from the inside. And I don’t think the current G-Cup Breast Meat will open the exit obediently. No, seriously!? What should I do here!?

「…… You really want to go outside!?」

「Yeah!」

「Then I wonder if we are going to have enough time for that, Machogamine-kun!!」

Who!? Oh, you mean your mini-Machogamine-kun! Until now, I thought it had stopped functioning because I didn’t make a slight movement behind out there, but apparently it was just saved by Python to be used as a last ditch effort if we ever needed it!

Perhaps it felt the imminent danger we were in because the lone battle drone stood up while squeaking. Then, the drones that were targeting us until now changed their target, but if it was indeed a mini-Machogamine, then it should be just fine here.

「Alright! Let’s do it!」

When it comes to another space game Cosmo Buster, hip shooting is an essential skill if you want to survive. And if you are a master-class TA who wants ot be the best of the best, you can even do acrobatics such as sniping with a hip machine gun fire…… I can only do hips with an assault rifles, and even that is not something that is one hundred percent foolproof. I could never hope to snipe someone with hip fire. There are non-human players in every game, I think.

「Go! Go! Go! Go! I can’t stop it for such a long time!」

「Thank you for your continued support here…… Oh, that’s right. I almost forgot.」

「WHAT!?」

Turning around I can see a barely visible gap in the currently ongoing onslaught. There is Python clinging to battle drone’s back. She turns towards me and utters just a single sentence.

「Keep up the good work in ShanFro, Tsuchinoko-san.」

「Huh!?」

What the fuck…… What in the FUCK busted me out, huh!?

Shortly after I questioned myself that it, mini-Machogamine starts running with his whole body filled with artificial muscles while scattering sparks from his whole body.

Its aim is not G Cup Breast Meat…… but the wall of this room, strictly speaking, a glass-walled place where you can see the outside, about the thinnest armored place in this entire Terraton-Class ship……!!

With one hand the drone was waving goodbye at us. And with the other hand…… It was holding onto one of the bombs that we were given right before starting this mission. And then……

「Uwah!!!」

For a moment out there, I felt like I heard a terrible screaming voice, but it was wiped out by the explosion that occurred right after that. And the drone that was here and the wind pressure that blew me off reversed, being so powerful that it was basically sucking me in. I realized that Python’s suicide bomb had achieved its purpose.

「……!!!!!!」