Chapter 151: Character Gas In a Nutshell Part 2
Best thing about this technique is that there is no motion blur alongside its duration. Another one of Ranzo’s techniques that required the gauge to be filled to so extent was “Amatsukaze Tairanzan”, which lets him use a cross-slash-like attack, with each slash being approximately ten ters long. There was also one more thing: the feeling of defying the laws of physics was simply great! All because it was a character based on Arican comic books!
You see, I’m not stupid enough to just rush head-first into the opponent I just t and don’t know anything about it. Yes…… That’s because there is always this feeling of “Let’s wait and see what he does for the ti being” stuck inside my chest.
Surely she didn’t expect this attack of hers to be perfect, but judging from the startled way in which Natsu-san started to manipulate the vines and roots around her to minimize the damage of my slashes was proving just that. And the way she used her resources and changed their use on the spot was a mark of a true professional gar.
But in this situation completely negating all the damage would be impossible, the only way to go about it was to accept at least part of it. That way she could give a false sense of security while creating a counterattack of her own…… But unfortunately the way she was going about it was worth only sixty five points at best.
Since she is a counter-based character, she prepares herself for intercepting my incoming attack. It wasn’t that much of a problem in and of itself, but it would be such a waste to just let an attack opportunity like that pass by. After all, the only way for to beat her right now is to reduce her Hit Points to zero.
After all, this battle is supposed to be proof that I’m indeed soone who can hold a forty percent win-rate against Uomi Kei. So in other words, I must achieve a flawless victory over her right now, otherwise she’ll think it was nothing more than a fluke as well. Realizing that, the path towards victory starts to open one by one.
If she dares to intercept , I’m not going to push my luck. And when I try to attack her, she just backs away to safety.
For a while a certain stagnation is created, with none of us daring to attack the other one. It is like playing Rock-Paper-Scissors and getting a draw all the ti. In my opinion Natsu-san was a little bit overly cautious, putting up her own safety in front of utilizing her character’s abilities to their full potential.
Sohow, from all of that I ca to understand Natsu-san’s battle style a little. That is, she is creating her own rhythm.
There are players like Rei or I who…… don’t do well when it cos to battle rhythm at all. Regardless of who we are and what we do, we can accomplish everything we set our minds to. If an opponent takes the initiative we might well lose, but we will always work on getting the upper hand and doing the sa to our opponents.
That being said, Katsu, Pencilgton and Natsu seem to be the kind of players that create a certain rhythm to their actions. They anticipate their opponent’s actions and work on turning it into a flow that works best for them. At first it seems really haphazard, putting the urge to win before the safety or getting the initiative.
Both of those thods have their rits and derits…… But from that fact alone, at least the concept of defeating Natsu-san started to shape in my mind.
If my guess is correct…… She’s the type that is not all that good at taking defeat with grace.
「So, gu, it looks like you fought with Sanraku…… How did it go?」
「…… I lost. What the hell is wrong with this guy!? His movents got so ssed up halfway through the fight that it was difficult to follow! What the hell is that all about!?」
Katsu…… Kei asked his teammate about her experience with fighting Gasmask Sanraku, who was now back at testing various characters.
From her reaction it looks like she fell victim to the sa type of strategy that cornered him at that ti, and realizing that he couldn’t help but to smile in a bitter way.
「Told you? He’s the sa type of player as Silvia Goldberg. He tends to adapt and change his battlestyle every ten seconds, so you must always take that into account and act accordingly on your own.」
According to Kei’s words, that Sanraku-guy is like a Swiss Army Knife, always hiding so kind of Ace up his sleeve. And by using all of those tools and combining them as needed, he could achieve results otherwise impossible to achieve for anyone else. It was a true double edged sword, for if you were able to see through all of his tricks, it was pretty much possible to respond accordingly and counter him.
「I get it that he’s strong, but his thought pattern makes him extrely unstable in my opinion. It’s as though his mind is driven by so kind of ridiculous romantic ideas or sothing like that……」
The ideas such like: let’s play it by ear and not think of any strategy in advance, and see if it is going to be enough to defeat a professional gar! Things like that tend to turn people off their ga and Kei fell victim to that logic before just like Natsu did not so long ago.
Following the path of romance instead of a foolproof strategy can more often than not lead you down the path of utter defeat, but at the sa ti it can produce so interesting results that are worth witnessing with your own eyes.
「But it is precisely because of that that I think we might be able to beat Star Rain.」
「…… So, does that an this Towa Amane is as strong as well?」
「No, her case is sowhat different. When it cos to her, she’s just pure evil.」
If Sanraku was to be compared to a tuna that swims freely and is unpredictable because of that, Pencil Warrior is more of a spider that weaves its net all around you only to trap you inside it before you even realize what’s going on.
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