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==Prologue: Shining Force== |
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''Our arrival brings disaster |
''Our arrival brings disaster |
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This seemed like a lot of trouble to me. |
This seemed like a lot of trouble to me. |
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“Man, they just don’t learn, do they!?” |
“Man, they just don’t learn, do they!?” |
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There was a bit of a siege going on at that field. The sky was as dark as night and a table-like plateau rose up 300m from the lava like Mt. Fuji. That was our space, so there was only really one thing for us to do. |
There was a bit of a siege going on at that field. The sky was as dark as night and a table-like plateau rose up 300m from the lava like Mt. Fuji. That was our space, so there was only really one thing for us to do. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_raidou.png]] |
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“I’m already fighting back, you know!?” |
“I’m already fighting back, you know!?” |
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The dragons were forceful. They had been serpentine before and I had thought the plateau would make this easy, but now they had these leg-like flippers and… |
The dragons were forceful. They had been serpentine before and I had thought the plateau would make this easy, but now they had these leg-like flippers and… |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shinobu.png]] |
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“A prominence is coming from above!” |
“A prominence is coming from above!” |
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It looked beautiful at first glance and it showed just how far the dragons were willing to take this, but… |
It looked beautiful at first glance and it showed just how far the dragons were willing to take this, but… |
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| − | [[Image:godless_gil.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]] |
“We will deal with that.” |
“We will deal with that.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_ki.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]] |
“We’ll go on ahead! You take care of the rest!” |
“We’ll go on ahead! You take care of the rest!” |
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It felt like a video game. |
It felt like a video game. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“Since I can’t fight, does that make me the commander!? Yahoo! I’m in charge! And my overall command has to be something like ‘throw your lives away’, right!?” |
“Since I can’t fight, does that make me the commander!? Yahoo! I’m in charge! And my overall command has to be something like ‘throw your lives away’, right!?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shinobu.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]] |
“I really hope you meant to add a ‘do not’ at the start there.” |
“I really hope you meant to add a ‘do not’ at the start there.” |
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We have fought them several times before, but… |
We have fought them several times before, but… |
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| − | [[Image:godless_raidou.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]] |
“I’m used to it now, but they sure can be persistent!” |
“I’m used to it now, but they sure can be persistent!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_balancer.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]] |
<nowiki><I</nowiki> have been restraining them with my security system for the past few days, but they seem to be in a bit of a frenzy now that you are here.> |
<nowiki><I</nowiki> have been restraining them with my security system for the past few days, but they seem to be in a bit of a frenzy now that you are here.> |
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“Is that so?” everyone said while readying their weapons. |
“Is that so?” everyone said while readying their weapons. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_raidou.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]] |
“Thunder God Sword!” |
“Thunder God Sword!” |
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The dragons who had just crawled on up were hit and destroyed by the horizontal slash of lightning, but the flames forming them continued forward. |
The dragons who had just crawled on up were hit and destroyed by the horizontal slash of lightning, but the flames forming them continued forward. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_gil.png]] |
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“White Sword!” |
“White Sword!” |
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But the enemy did not quit. |
But the enemy did not quit. |
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“The second wave is coming!” |
“The second wave is coming!” |
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''That doesn’t look good,'' I thought just before hearing a voice. |
''That doesn’t look good,'' I thought just before hearing a voice. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]] |
“Um, sorry! I lost track of time working on some homework!” |
“Um, sorry! I lost track of time working on some homework!” |
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I turned back toward Senpai and everyone else did the same. |
I turned back toward Senpai and everyone else did the same. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]] |
“Wow, not a care in the world from you, huh?” |
“Wow, not a care in the world from you, huh?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]] |
“No, no, no, no. Thanks to everything that happened before, I hadn’t kept up with the summer homework I was supposed to be doing every day! Anyway, I’ve already activated my Auth Spell!” |
“No, no, no, no. Thanks to everything that happened before, I hadn’t kept up with the summer homework I was supposed to be doing every day! Anyway, I’ve already activated my Auth Spell!” |
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It spread out like a blizzard and reached the dragons. |
It spread out like a blizzard and reached the dragons. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
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“Senpai Lovey-Dovey Annihilation Storm!!” |
“Senpai Lovey-Dovey Annihilation Storm!!” |
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Everyone but Senpai ignored me, but that was pretty normal. It was important not to let it get to me. I wasn’t gonna stop doing this! Just you watch! Meanwhile, Senpai tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face. |
Everyone but Senpai ignored me, but that was pretty normal. It was important not to let it get to me. I wasn’t gonna stop doing this! Just you watch! Meanwhile, Senpai tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
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“Senpai! What’s wrong!?” |
“Senpai! What’s wrong!?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]] |
“Well, um, my Auth Spell doesn’t seem to be working.” |
“Well, um, my Auth Spell doesn’t seem to be working.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_gil.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]] |
“Hm?” |
“Hm?” |
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This was strange. |
This was strange. |
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“Is it just me or is Senpai-san’s flower mist not doing anything?” |
“Is it just me or is Senpai-san’s flower mist not doing anything?” |
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The white flower petals scattered around the dragons, but they had no effect. Everyone focused on that while fighting. |
The white flower petals scattered around the dragons, but they had no effect. Everyone focused on that while fighting. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png]] |
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“Did it bug out?” |
“Did it bug out?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_balancer.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]] |
<How rude! That will never happen under my management!> |
<How rude! That will never happen under my management!> |
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Then what was this? |
Then what was this? |
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“Did I get the name of the move or the pose wrong!?” |
“Did I get the name of the move or the pose wrong!?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_balancer.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]] |
<You actually noticed, ape? Yes, the proper effects require shouting the proper name. So are you ready? Spread your arms and then hold them out in front of you while shouting '''Heart-Pounding Flower Blizzard! Lovey Dovey Senpai Lovestruck Storm! Here we go!!''' That should trigger the effect after the fact.> |
<You actually noticed, ape? Yes, the proper effects require shouting the proper name. So are you ready? Spread your arms and then hold them out in front of you while shouting '''Heart-Pounding Flower Blizzard! Lovey Dovey Senpai Lovestruck Storm! Here we go!!''' That should trigger the effect after the fact.> |
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I spread my arms to the side and then held them out in front of me and shouted the required words. |
I spread my arms to the side and then held them out in front of me and shouted the required words. |
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“'''Heart-Pounding Flower Blizzard! Lovey Dovey Senpai Lovestruck Storm! Here we go!!'''” |
“'''Heart-Pounding Flower Blizzard! Lovey Dovey Senpai Lovestruck Storm! Here we go!!'''” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_balancer.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]] |
<span style="font-size:200%"><'''Just kidding.'''></span> |
<span style="font-size:200%"><'''Just kidding.'''></span> |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“You! You!!” |
“You! You!!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]] |
“Why did I turn to watch that?” |
“Why did I turn to watch that?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“Thank you so much! Thank you so much! I intend to work hard to improve my technique!” |
“Thank you so much! Thank you so much! I intend to work hard to improve my technique!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]] |
“Anyway, why didn’t my Auth Spell work?” |
“Anyway, why didn’t my Auth Spell work?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_ki.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_ki.png|50px]] |
“Were you too specific about the target in the last battle?” |
“Were you too specific about the target in the last battle?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]] |
“Yeah, she did make that whole announcement.” |
“Yeah, she did make that whole announcement.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]] |
“Ehh!? Is that how it works!? This Auth Spell is starting to sound kind of useless.” |
“Ehh!? Is that how it works!? This Auth Spell is starting to sound kind of useless.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_shifu_akire.png|50px]] |
“You don’t have to say that yourself.” |
“You don’t have to say that yourself.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_balancer.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]] |
<You could have said it wasn’t true.> |
<You could have said it wasn’t true.> |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“No, this is perfectly fine, Senpai! I love that careless side of you! And the rest of us will support you, so it’s all good! I can only provide moral support, though!” |
“No, this is perfectly fine, Senpai! I love that careless side of you! And the rest of us will support you, so it’s all good! I can only provide moral support, though!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_tere.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_tere.png|50px]] |
“Well, um…I can be a klutz at times. But if you say so, Sumeragi-kun.” |
“Well, um…I can be a klutz at times. But if you say so, Sumeragi-kun.” |
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Embarrassed Senpai was a wonderful thing. And a bunch of level up Revelation Boards appeared around her. |
Embarrassed Senpai was a wonderful thing. And a bunch of level up Revelation Boards appeared around her. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
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“Yahoo! Senpai’s level is skyrocketing!” |
“Yahoo! Senpai’s level is skyrocketing!” |
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And the next thing I knew, several flame dragons had arrived in the sky. They gave a roar. |
And the next thing I knew, several flame dragons had arrived in the sky. They gave a roar. |
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“–––––!” |
“–––––!” |
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They all rushed at us in something like a charge. The others prepared for a fight as that considerable pressure approached, but… |
They all rushed at us in something like a charge. The others prepared for a fight as that considerable pressure approached, but… |
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| − | [[Image:godless_dareka.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_dareka.png|50px]] |
“What are you weaklings doing?” |
“What are you weaklings doing?” |
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This was thanks to the girl who had appeared behind us at some point. She was munching on a bag of Karamucho. |
This was thanks to the girl who had appeared behind us at some point. She was munching on a bag of Karamucho. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_eshita_warai.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_eshita_warai.png|50px]] |
“Heh heh. Did you all see how badass I am!?” |
“Heh heh. Did you all see how badass I am!?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“Where have you been, Mucho!? You’re late!” |
“Where have you been, Mucho!? You’re late!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_eshita_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_eshita_awate.png|50px]] |
“Don’t call me that! C’mon, everyone, shape up!” |
“Don’t call me that! C’mon, everyone, shape up!” |
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Those upperclassmen slipped past their opponents’ movements to get some solid footing, and… |
Those upperclassmen slipped past their opponents’ movements to get some solid footing, and… |
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| − | [[Image:godless_raidou.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_raidou.png|50px]] |
“…!” |
“…!” |
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One of them made a strike that scattered a dragon as fragments of fire. And another… |
One of them made a strike that scattered a dragon as fragments of fire. And another… |
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| − | [[Image:godless_gil.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_gil.png|50px]] |
“It is time we moved ahead.” |
“It is time we moved ahead.” |
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He attacked with the giant white sword he summoned. |
He attacked with the giant white sword he summoned. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_gil.png]] |
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“Red Line Shield.” |
“Red Line Shield.” |
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They were destroyed. |
They were destroyed. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_raidou.png]] |
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“Ohh! …Well, this is more our usual style anyway, don’t you think?” |
“Ohh! …Well, this is more our usual style anyway, don’t you think?” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_shinobu.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_shinobu.png|50px]] |
“Senpai-chaaan! You and Sumeragi-chan go make some tea and wait in the stone hut! Yomoji-chan should be here later, so let’s get started on the next stage!” |
“Senpai-chaaan! You and Sumeragi-chan go make some tea and wait in the stone hut! Yomoji-chan should be here later, so let’s get started on the next stage!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_awate.png|50px]] |
“S-sorry about all this! And thank you!” |
“S-sorry about all this! And thank you!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
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“Okay, let’s get to that stone hut!” |
“Okay, let’s get to that stone hut!” |
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She sped up to move alongside me and then sighed. |
She sped up to move alongside me and then sighed. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai_komari.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai_komari.png|50px]] |
“Now I’m just as useless as I used to be.” |
“Now I’m just as useless as I used to be.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“Don’t worry! Fighting was never your thing, so you have a lot of learning to do! You just have to come up with a different type of Auth Spell for next time, so let’s work at it together!” |
“Don’t worry! Fighting was never your thing, so you have a lot of learning to do! You just have to come up with a different type of Auth Spell for next time, so let’s work at it together!” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_senpai.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_senpai.png|50px]] |
“You really are a…strong person.” |
“You really are a…strong person.” |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“No, I’m a weakling that dies at the drop of a hat, so I’m not strong at all! I’ve already caused you all tons of trouble by dying over and over, so I need to help out where I can!” |
“No, I’m a weakling that dies at the drop of a hat, so I’m not strong at all! I’ve already caused you all tons of trouble by dying over and over, so I need to help out where I can!” |
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<You’ve got that right,> cut in the “screen”. |
<You’ve got that right,> cut in the “screen”. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_balancer.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_balancer.png|50px]] |
<You have died far too much even for a video game.> |
<You have died far too much even for a video game.> |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“Yeah, but I’ve got infinite lives.” |
“Yeah, but I’ve got infinite lives.” |
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But anyway. |
But anyway. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“I need to make sure I forget as little as possible! I’m remembering a lot now, but I’ve still forgotten far too much!” |
“I need to make sure I forget as little as possible! I’m remembering a lot now, but I’ve still forgotten far too much!” |
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It had all taken this turn just a few days before. |
It had all taken this turn just a few days before. |
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| − | [[Image:godless_boku.png]] |
+ | [[Image:godless_boku.png|50px]] |
“It started when I died in a game, didn’t it?” |
“It started when I died in a game, didn’t it?” |
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 30 August 2019
Prologue: Shining Force[edit]
Our arrival brings disaster
Our arrival brings subjugation
This seemed like a lot of trouble to me.
“Man, they just don’t learn, do they!?”
I meant the dragons. The dragons made of fire. They were trying to crawl up onto the field of bedrock we were standing on.
There was a bit of a siege going on at that field. The sky was as dark as night and a table-like plateau rose up 300m from the lava like Mt. Fuji. That was our space, so there was only really one thing for us to do.
“I’m already fighting back, you know!?”
The dragons were forceful. They had been serpentine before and I had thought the plateau would make this easy, but now they had these leg-like flippers and…
“A prominence is coming from above!”
An arch of flames erupted from the lava and transformed into a dragon midflight to arrive up on the plateau.
It looked beautiful at first glance and it showed just how far the dragons were willing to take this, but…
“We will deal with that.”
“We’ll go on ahead! You take care of the rest!”
The more physical upperclassmen ran off to intercept the arriving dragons.
It felt like a video game.
“Since I can’t fight, does that make me the commander!? Yahoo! I’m in charge! And my overall command has to be something like ‘throw your lives away’, right!?”
“I really hope you meant to add a ‘do not’ at the start there.”
Meanwhile, my upperclassmen dealt with the dragons.
We have fought them several times before, but…
“I’m used to it now, but they sure can be persistent!”
<I have been restraining them with my security system for the past few days, but they seem to be in a bit of a frenzy now that you are here.>
“Is that so?” everyone said while readying their weapons.
“Thunder God Sword!”
Lightning strikes fell from all across the dark sky and a white glowing sword stabbed down across the few hundred meters in the center.
The lightning sword spun around and slashed along the path my upperclassman’s hand took.
He swung the lightning all around, so there was no dodging that wide-range attack.
The dragons who had just crawled on up were hit and destroyed by the horizontal slash of lightning, but the flames forming them continued forward.
“White Sword!”
A blade of ether several hundred meters long “split” things rather than piercing them.
The white sword tore through it all.
But the enemy did not quit.
“The second wave is coming!”
She was right. As if to say the previous attack had been a practice run, more than double that number of flame dragons pushed in from below and crimson arches flew through the sky.
That doesn’t look good, I thought just before hearing a voice.
“Um, sorry! I lost track of time working on some homework!”
It was Senpai.
I turned back toward Senpai and everyone else did the same.
“Wow, not a care in the world from you, huh?”
“No, no, no, no. Thanks to everything that happened before, I hadn’t kept up with the summer homework I was supposed to be doing every day! Anyway, I’ve already activated my Auth Spell!”
“Ohh!” someone shouted. Senpai’s Auth Spell was the perfect option at times like this.
It could annihilate the enemy.
So we all watched the white mist of flower petals scattering around her.
It spread out like a blizzard and reached the dragons.
“Senpai Lovey-Dovey Annihilation Storm!!”
Everyone but Senpai ignored me, but that was pretty normal. It was important not to let it get to me. I wasn’t gonna stop doing this! Just you watch! Meanwhile, Senpai tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face.
“Senpai! What’s wrong!?”
“Well, um, my Auth Spell doesn’t seem to be working.”
“Hm?”
Everyone else noticed as well.
This was strange.
“Is it just me or is Senpai-san’s flower mist not doing anything?”
It was not just her.
The white flower petals scattered around the dragons, but they had no effect. Everyone focused on that while fighting.
“Did it bug out?”
<How rude! That will never happen under my management!>
Then what was this?
“Did I get the name of the move or the pose wrong!?”
<You actually noticed, ape? Yes, the proper effects require shouting the proper name. So are you ready? Spread your arms and then hold them out in front of you while shouting Heart-Pounding Flower Blizzard! Lovey Dovey Senpai Lovestruck Storm! Here we go!! That should trigger the effect after the fact.>
I spread my arms to the side and then held them out in front of me and shouted the required words.
“Heart-Pounding Flower Blizzard! Lovey Dovey Senpai Lovestruck Storm! Here we go!!”
<Just kidding.>
“You! You!!”
“Why did I turn to watch that?”
“Thank you so much! Thank you so much! I intend to work hard to improve my technique!”
“Anyway, why didn’t my Auth Spell work?”
“Were you too specific about the target in the last battle?”
“Yeah, she did make that whole announcement.”
“Ehh!? Is that how it works!? This Auth Spell is starting to sound kind of useless.”
“You don’t have to say that yourself.”
<You could have said it wasn’t true.>
“No, this is perfectly fine, Senpai! I love that careless side of you! And the rest of us will support you, so it’s all good! I can only provide moral support, though!”
“Well, um…I can be a klutz at times. But if you say so, Sumeragi-kun.”
Embarrassed Senpai was a wonderful thing. And a bunch of level up Revelation Boards appeared around her.
“Yahoo! Senpai’s level is skyrocketing!”
Everyone gave me a serious look, but I ignored them.
And the next thing I knew, several flame dragons had arrived in the sky. They gave a roar.
“–––––!”
They all rushed at us in something like a charge. The others prepared for a fight as that considerable pressure approached, but…
“What are you weaklings doing?”
A light suddenly appeared in the sky and blew them all away.
They were all hit by a direct attack.
A flash of bright light scorched and dried out the flame dragons until they turned to dust.
This was thanks to the girl who had appeared behind us at some point. She was munching on a bag of Karamucho.
“Heh heh. Did you all see how badass I am!?”
“Where have you been, Mucho!? You’re late!”
“Don’t call me that! C’mon, everyone, shape up!”
They didn’t need to be told that. After a quick wave in lieu of a response, they began fighting back against the flame dragons.
Those upperclassmen slipped past their opponents’ movements to get some solid footing, and…
“…!”
One of them made a strike that scattered a dragon as fragments of fire. And another…
“It is time we moved ahead.”
He attacked with the giant white sword he summoned.
“Red Line Shield.”
A shield measuring a few hundred meters crashed into the wall of dragons.
They were destroyed.
“Ohh! …Well, this is more our usual style anyway, don’t you think?”
“Senpai-chaaan! You and Sumeragi-chan go make some tea and wait in the stone hut! Yomoji-chan should be here later, so let’s get started on the next stage!”
“S-sorry about all this! And thank you!”
We looked to the center of the plateau. There was a stone hut there that acted as a shelter.
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“Okay, let’s get to that stone hut!”
I grabbed Senpai’s hand and started running.
She sped up to move alongside me and then sighed.
“Now I’m just as useless as I used to be.”
“Don’t worry! Fighting was never your thing, so you have a lot of learning to do! You just have to come up with a different type of Auth Spell for next time, so let’s work at it together!”
“You really are a…strong person.”
“No, I’m a weakling that dies at the drop of a hat, so I’m not strong at all! I’ve already caused you all tons of trouble by dying over and over, so I need to help out where I can!”
<You’ve got that right,> cut in the “screen”.
<You have died far too much even for a video game.>
“Yeah, but I’ve got infinite lives.”
But anyway.
“I need to make sure I forget as little as possible! I’m remembering a lot now, but I’ve still forgotten far too much!”
Yes.
A lot had happened and things were getting pretty exciting, but it was summer break outside. We could head to school and chat there too.
It had all taken this turn just a few days before.
“It started when I died in a game, didn’t it?”
Let’s think back on all that for a bit.
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