Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 352
Defense Specialization and Overcoming
After finishing the dungeon with Maple, Sally returned to the guild ho and sat deeply on the sofa with her eyes closed. Her face looked very serious and she seed to be thinking about sothing.
“What is it? It’s rare to see you so deeply in thought.”
“Kanade? Ah, well, yes. Sort of…”
“Are you thinking about the next PvP battle? You know, since you got your new skills.”
Not just Maple and Sally, but Mai and Yui had also gained new powers. Mai and Yui were happily swinging their eight great hamrs on the field today as well. They wanted to get accustod to their weapons while also increasing their kill count.
“By the way, how are things going with you and the others?”
“I’m saving up on magic books while observing the other guilds. Just like you said, I wasn’t able to find any information about the tad monsters for those two ‘thunder storm’ players.”
Kanade’s battle ability changed through the use of single-use magic books. Aside from them, he didn’t have any special skills, so repeatedly fighting in order to raise his level was not sothing he was suited for. Because of this, he spent a lot of his ti observing other players.
“I see. We’d be able to plan on how to deal with them if we only knew.”
“But they sure are interesting people. And since their style is so flashy, we’ll easily know when they are close by.”
If Velvet and Hinata were around, the area would be filled with lightning, there would be cold winds, and objects would likely be levitating in the air. They stuck just as much as Maple did.
“I think that I’ll go look at ‘Rapid Fire’ next.”
“Yes. It would help if you can learn about them.”
“Well, just keep your expectations in check.”
However, even as they talked, it was clear to Kanade that sothing was bothering Sally. And he wondered what it could be.
“Hmmm. If you’re troubled over sothing, why don’t you talk to Maple about it? Anyway, see you later.”
Kanade said with a wave of his hand, and then he left the guild ho.
“Talk to Maple, huh…”
Sally thought about it for a mont and then jumped to her feet as if she had made a decision.
The next day. In the real world after school. As Risa prepared to go ho, she closed her eyes and sighed. It was just then that Kaede ran up to her.
“Risa. Let’s go!”
“I was thinking about stopping by at the ga store today.”
“Oh! Was a new ga released?”
“No, that’s not it…”
Kaede saw how hesitant Risa was, and she tilted her head in puzzlent.
“Would you mind…coming with ?”
“…? Of course, not!”
She saw that Risa was not her usual self, and was a little worried as the two walked to their destination.
“I’ve gone a few tis now, so I know the way!”
“Huh. Well, you should visit soti. There’s lots of interesting things to see.”
“Ahaha. But I don’t know what is good, so I’ll probably just look.”
“Well, that’s one way to enjoy it, you know?”
The packaging was like the face of the ga, and just by seeing it and reading the description, you’d know if it interested you or not. And so it was quite fun to just browse the store and look at things that looked good.
And so they found themselves walking towards the store. However, while Risa would usually quicken her pace when they got closer, her feet seed to be heavier than usual.
“Risa. Are you okay?”
“Uh, yes…I’m fine.”
But she didn’t look fine. But even though Kaede suggested that they could go back, Risa stubbornly insisted that they keep going. And so while Kaede was still worried, they entered the ga store together.
“What did you want to see today?”
“Yes, about that…”
Risa walked slowly and then stopped in front of a certain shelf.
“What!?”
Kaede looked towards it in shock. The packaging made it very obvious what kind of gas they were. They were horror gas.
“A-are you sure?”
“Yes. I-I think that it’s about ti I got over it.”
Recently, she had found herself useless during battle, and unable to explore the 6th layer. Even on the other layers, she had to avoid places that had such monsters. And so she had decided that she wanted to overco her fear.
“I don’t think you should do that. You might not be able to sleep at night!”
“Oh…”
There was a difference between a scary area in a normal ga and a full on horror ga. Soone who ended up so weak in the forr would not survive. Kaede had seen Risa make decisions like this in the past during their long friendship, but it was always defeat after defeat.
“I won’t stop you if you really an it…but…ummm…”
As they had only been on the 7th later the other day, Maple had guessed that sothing like this would happen.
Risa thought about it for a mont and considered different things before making her decision.
“I-I’ll do it! I already decided that I would do it this ti!”
“Do you know which ga?”
Kaede asked, and Risa picked up one of the gas.
“V-VR? A-are you sure?”
Seeing things appear on screen was a lot different than going inside and actually experiencing them. But Risa was so adamant about doing it this ti. It was like she had beco high on the idea, which was almost convincing. However, Kaede had seen her like this before. Clearly, there needed to be so other added elent that allowed Rise to maintain that high tension until the very end.
“And this ga can be played by two people…”
“Huh? Ah!? You’re pulling into this…”
“Of-of course, I intend to finish it by myself, okay? But…um…you…know?”
“You… Oh, fine. I do wonder if you can really play until the end.”
“Just between the New World Online events.”
“I hope things go smoothly. It says right here that it’s really scary.”
Kaede didn’t exactly dislike horror, and so she took the package from Risa and read the details on the back.
“Alright, I’m going to buy it now… Phew…yes.”
Risa said as she cald herself down and then marched off to the counter.
“You can do it!”
“Y-yes.”
She had said that she would finish the ga by herself, and so she could no longer suddenly ask for help. And with that, Risa returned with the ga in a bag and a renewed eagerness.
“Let know when you beat it!”
“Yes. I’ll just start playing it.”
Even if she didn’t finish the whole ga, she should be able to advance a little in the story. And while it was possible for two people to play it, it was mainly a single player ga.
As they would et again at school tomorrow, she could tell Kaede about how much progress she made.
They walked back towards their houses and separated where they always did. After a while, Risa looked at the bag she was carrying and her expression beca worried again.
“I can do it. I can do it… I decided that now is the ti to overco it…”
As she had decided to start the ga as soon as she got ho, she did not rush back like she usually did in order to play a ga. If anything, her feet trudged along heavily.
“I’m back.”
Risa went to her room and put her things away before getting changed. Then she took out the horror ga and put it on her desk.
“I guess…I’ll play it after dinner.”
As it was a ga that would take so ti to finish, Risa decided that she wouldn’t play it yet. First, she would finish whatever she had to finish that day.
“It’s not that hard once you figure it out.”
As long as she could concentrate, her howork wasn’t very hard, and so Risa went through it very quickly.
She had an idea about why she was able to concentrate so well, but pretended not to know as the ti passed.
As she finished one thing after another, the sky beca dark outside, and she heard a voice from the first floor saying that dinner was ready. As Risa had just finished her work, she left her room and went downstairs.
After she had eaten and taken a bath, Risa returned to her room. This was the ti that she usually played gas. But just as she was about to start playing, she noticed that there was sothing else in the room.
“…Uh, I will play it…I will…”
However, she only picked it up to put it back down again. And more ti passed without playing it.
“Well, I can’t play it at night… I’ll play it when I get back tomorrow. Yes.”
Risa decided. And with that, she gave up and played a completely different ga.
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