ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

「Oh yeah, that’s right. I almost forgot that I have this thing.」

There is still that Meteorite Iron Mirror or whatever occupying one of my accessory slots…… So why not actually use that for something since it is already here? And just like that, before I even knew it, I was already playing around with the settings, positioning the camera in a bird eye’s view of the entire battlefield. Yes, no let’s change some settings here and there, then zoom in just a little bit…… Yes, good boy! Just like that! Perfect!

「Huh, so, my very first opponent after such a long absence is going to be Extraordinary Monster Fossil Miners’ Chrysalis “War Orphan”, hmm? It’s such a shame that there are no armored spiders, hundred-legged centipedes and lasers falling from high above to aid me in this battle, but oh well, you just have to make the most out of a bad situation, I guess!」

Oh well, things might look pretty grim right from the get go, but isn’t that actually just fine? Alright, no use standing around and moping, I just need to get to work already and just do it! Let’s get this reproduction capture underway, pronto! But when it comes to the actual fight itself…… I only remember that I managed to ultimately knock it down using the sheer size and weight of Genbu, but aside from that, I’m pretty much drawing a blank in here. Ah well, I guess that the lyrics are going to be enough of a hint once they start to come around. But until then I’m on my own here!

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In this modern society based on information, various news can spread around with incredible speed, just like a wildfire or tidal wave.

But in most cases, random bits and pieces of information that were started by a single person is never going to reach a broader audience and cause any form of a stir, swallowed up by the tsunami of other information and news and eventually disappear, forgotten and unnoticed by anyone. That’s just the way it is.

However, as with everything else in life, there are exceptions to the rules. And it just so happens that sometimes in life the fire that started it all burns so bright and violently that it manages to become a raging firestorm consuming everything around it before anyone even gets a chance to react properly or notice. And once it starts burning everything around itself, there is no way that other people would not notice. And it just so happens that a certain live stream that just happened to start was just like one such wildfire.

「WHA ––––––––––––!? What the hell is this idiot even doing!? Is he completely out of his god damned mind!?」

In preparation to the great war that was soon to take place inside of ShangriLa Frontier, Towa Amane was busy purchasing various information from various sources that she just so happened to have access to. But it was then that she let out a sigh of disbelief and resignation when she saw a video from a particular stream from a particular streaming site currently being broadcasted.

「Yes! I had a feeling, that this might actually be it!!!!!!」

Seeing a giant Crimson Beast riding on the back of a giant beetle that she had never seen before while laughing like a maniac, it was at that exact moment that Towa Amane decided to take a moment to stop and think about different matter for a moment or two. But that freeze of hers was only momentary, for in the very next moment her brain managed to shift focus from what was happening on the screen to the matters that must have happened behind the scene for sure. And right about now she was only thinking about “Why” at high speed, something no ordinary human would have been able to do so easily.

(There is just no way that our shy and introverted Sanraku suddenly awakened to the world of streaming completely out of the blue like that. But here we are, watching him streaming like it was nobody’s business.)

At least it can be safely assumed that Sanraku did not start his streaming career for the sake of revealing himself to the world in his entire glory just like that. But then again, if it was not because of that, then that begins an entirely new question: why did he even decided to start streaming in the first place? It doesn’t make that much sense, no matter how she was trying to look at it.

「Orche Verification…… Orche Verification…… Why would he even bother using such a specific word as “verification” in the first place……? I don’t really get it.」

If you are going to name the stream in any particular way, then shouldn’t the word “Capture” or “Defeat” be more accurate description to use? This made even less sense because Pencilgton knew Sanraku to some extent, and what she knows led her to believe that Sanraku always prefers to describe things as accurately and on point as possible. So why would he actually abandon that principle of his in this particular case and use such a specific word as “verification” instead of anything else? Unless……

「That sly fox of a geezer……! Did he planned this from the very beginning!? No, this title right there, there is no way that this is a sabotage. Could it be that Sanraku-kun just happened to make a mistake in the stream’s setting? Does that mean that he made it public completely by accident……?」

Towa Amane was unable to know that, but her own deduction and guess-work actually managed to pinpoint about ninety percent of the truth regarding the matter at hand. But once she was done with that particular train of thoughts, she immediately decided to jump onto a completely new and fresh train of new thoughts.

(The number of current viewers has increased beyond the five thousand mark, huh……? At this point in time it’s impossible to hide it anymore. I really wanted to keep all of the details that Sanraku-kun might know a closely guarded secret, but that seems to be impossible right now. So, what should I do now? Operation Tower it is? No, not yet. If we were to start climbing right now, this would only end up in one way: with us getting struck down in a blink of an eye……)

「Haah…… And now I can’t sleep. Great, just go figure that would happen……」

There were simply way too many things that she needed to think about at the current moment. And actually missing out on such a grand spectacle as Sanraku versus the Orchestra was simply out of the question here. Especially since she could witness it all in real time. So at the very least, in order to utilize this time as much as humanly possible here, Pencilgton decided to stand up and put on some hot water for her coffee, she took her mobile terminal, about to make a series of calls to her various friends……