In VR games, including GGO, if one inappropriately touched the body of a person of the opposite s.e.x (or even same s.e.x if the person disliked it), a hara.s.sment warning would come up.

A penalty would be imposed; if these added up over time but such actions still continued, the account would be permanently suspended. No matter how developed it was, the ID would not be usable on any VR game. Starting over from scratch… the worst conceivable situation for a gamer.

However, combat was an exception to the hara.s.sment regulation. If that were not the case, contact-based attacks such as using knives or blows would not be possible.

Normally in GGO, a corpse immediately turned into small polygons and scattered, but a body would lie in place until the end of the game in BoB and for 10 minutes in SJ.

That is to say, the theory that one could touch all over someone’s body as much as they wanted by feigning it to be an attack came into existence. The broadcast cameras would not come if it were not an actual battle, so it would not be seen by the audience either.

“Hehhehhe……”

In other words, this man was thinking of killing the cute and tiny avatar that is f.u.kaziroh, then touching her corpse to no end and committing lewd deeds,

“Bah── Why you f.u.c.king pervert-lowlife-b.a.s.t.a.r.d-degenerate-sc.u.mbag-savage-beast! Doncha screw around with me or I’ll kill ya, y’know?”

Having realised this, f.u.kaziroh began glaring at him with a sharp glint in her eyes and hurled merciless jeers at him.

“Heh! How? Don’t start regretting that a f.u.c.king amateur like you, who can’t even hit someone at this range, came to GGO and nonchalantly partic.i.p.ated in SJ!”

While shouting this, the man brought his hands in front of him and darted at f.u.kaziroh.

This was an action no longer related to either GGO or SJ, it was just the action of a pure degenerate.

“Doncha make light of me!”

f.u.kaziroh threw her beloved M&P, which had run out of bullets, with all her force,

“Gafuh!”

And despite not being able to hit him with her shooting, she managed a splendid bullseye on the man’s forehead with her gun while he was charging at her.

However, that alone was not enough to stop the abnormal force of the man driven by his libido.

f.u.kaziroh found the man’s gun, the SG510, at her feet, though out of bullets, put her left foot underneath it,

“Hun!”

And stepped on its stock with her right foot.

*Guwah*, using the principle of leverage, f.u.kaziroh raised the long and narrow rod-like barrel and firmly grasped it with her hands.

“And what can──”

‘You do?’

Just as the man was about to say this,

“Doryaa!”

f.u.kaziroh struck his chin from directly below.

“Gyahan!”

The man fell on his back and his chin was── not shot, but a red damage effect light s.h.i.+ned on it. His hit points had decreased by about ten percent.

“Wha……?”

What the man saw after raising his head,

“Like h.e.l.l I’m lettin’ ya!”

Was a small girl grasping his own gun.

f.u.kaziroh was firmly grasping the barrel of the man’s SG510 and holding that heavy thing like it were a two-handed sword.

“Haah?”

“Do-donncha mess with me!”

The shaven-headed man stood up, then squatted and began his tackle.

Right now, driving him was──

But one wish.

‘I wanna push that chibi girl down, strangle her to death and, after that, do something lewd.’

“Fuh!”

f.u.kaziroh moved her right foot one step laterally and turned around clockwise.

Turning around was the motion for swinging a long, heavy weapon like a bat.

“Houryaaaaaa!”

With an audacious scream, f.u.kaziroh swung the SG510 diagonally downwards at a tremendous speed while pulling her left foot backwards and twisting her body counter-clockwise.

“Eh?”

With unprecedented timing, a diagonal slash was dealt to the man’s left shoulder as he charged in.

Exerting herself, she dealt her strongest blow, with all of her power and speed riding on it.

The upper part of the SG510’s stock literally smashed she man’s collarbone into small pieces. As her strike continued, his ribs and breastbone broke into pieces.

“Bugyaaaa!”

As a long damage effect gleamed from the man’s shoulder to his stomach, he collapsed forward.

While feeling a pain from his chest and stomach, the man looked up and saw a small silhouette, holding its sword above its head, covering the sky,

“I’ll hand down the divine punishment on the enemy of womankind! Chest!”

“Heh?”

With such tremendous speed that an afterimage was created, the 〝sword〟 swung down.

“f.u.ka? Where are you? You safe?”

In the world now cleared of pink smoke, the pink LLENN looked for her partner while holding her P90 in one hand,

“Ah, over here! Can you see a black gun?”

Along with that voice, a black stock appeared above the jungle gra.s.s.

‘Huh?’

That did not appear to be f.u.kaziroh’s MGL-140. For the time being, LLENN pushed her way through the gra.s.s while being on alert,

“Urya!”

“Gefuh!”

And there, she found an excessively pitiful scene.

f.u.kaziroh, grasping the barrel of a long rifle she had never seen before with both hands and swinging it down on the enemy, a shaven-headed man, who was about to burst into tears, collapsed with his face looking up in front of her.

With a heavy impact, she hit the man’s right hand, then quickly brandished it again, and hit the left hand next. Then, the right ankle and then the left ankle.

“──Gyah! ──Gyah! ──Gyah! ──Gyah!”

Although the man was at her mercy, the damage from the blows to the tips of his limbs was not that high, thus it only caused minor effects. There was a decrease in hit points, but it was far from nearing death. However, the struck part of the body would become numb and definitely hurt. This was practically torture.

“Yo LLENN, glad you’re okay.”

f.u.kaziroh once again brandished it overhead as she said this, while LLENN, who did not understand the situation other than the fact that f.u.kaziroh was safe and lively,

“W-what happened……?”

“Well, I figured that I’d help out by killing at least one myself!”

f.u.kaziroh answered with a refres.h.i.+ng smile. Then, she glared at the man,

“C’mon c’mon! Try and touch me!”

And then attacked again. The rifle swung down on his left hand.

*Bakin*, with this unpleasant sound, his fingers s.h.i.+ned red due to the damage effect. If this was RL, the man’s fingers would probably have been smashed and fractured.

The shaven-headed man looked at LLENN with a tear-stained face, and in a frail voice,

“P-please save me…… I wish… to log out… but my left hand… is nu… mb… I can’t call out… the window…… P-please…… kill me……”

And appealed to her in keigo.

“Quit screwin’ around, punk! Don’t think I’d let an enemy of womankind like you die easily, you b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”

At f.u.kaziroh’s tremendously threatening att.i.tude,

“I’m sorry I won’t do it again I won’t do it again I won’t do it again I won’t do it again!”

The shaven-headed man shouted as large tears welled from his eyes.

“…………”

LLENN made eye-contact with f.u.kaziroh,

“ Okay. That’s enough. Ah, that was refres.h.i.+ng!”

f.u.kaziroh lowered the SG510 from her overhead stance and tossed it aside. The heavy-looking rifle flew through the air while turning, and disappeared into the jungle.

LLENN aimed the tip of her P90’s suppressor at the man’s temple, and

“Aah…… I’m saved…… Kami-sama, th……”

LLENN put the man, who let out words of relief and called on G.o.d, out of his misery with just 1 shot.

“I think we’ve wiped all of them out right now, but let’s count!”

Saying this, LLENN began counting the corpses in the area. The smoke had cleared up entirely and the jungle returned to being green. With the vegetation mowed down by the numerous bullets flying about, it looked much more open than before.

LLENN nimbly wandered from one corpse to another, scattered about,

“Eight, nine, ten──”

Counting the 【Ｄｅａｄ】markers.

“Thirteen……”

As LLENN counted this far, f.u.kaziroh, who had retrieved her thrown M&P and hung her MGL-140s on her shoulders, said.

“Yeah. That’s not a wipeout?”

“Considering that there could be a maximum of fourteen of them, it’s natural, but……”

After saying this, LLENN,

“Ah! So that’s it……”

Made a stern expression and turned around.

LLENN readied her P90 and walked slowly. Her goal was a spot 10 metres ahead where some corpses had piled up.

“Hmmmm?

f.u.kaziroh followed after her and LLENN, when she was only 4 metres away from the corpses, suddenly fired.

3 bullets towards the collapsed corpses.

Corpses become indestructible objects, thus nothing would change by shooting them. It was just a mysterious wall that absorbed the force of the bullets── or something like that.

However, this 〝corpse〟 was different.

“Youch!”

It shouted this right after being shot and jumped up, then fell on its backside with a thump.

It was the black combat uniform wearing ikemen character── Clarence.

“I knew it!”

“Ooh! So he was planning to play dead!”

Shouted LLENN and f.u.kaziroh. This fellow had been lying face-down on someone’s corpse, thus faking the marker.

While sitting, Clarence raised both hands with a brand new hit effect s.h.i.+ning on them,

“So you got me, oh well. Okay, I give up, I give u~p!”

The ikemen said with a smile.

“Look, as you can see, I’ve got no weapon. My main arm was shot away by someone during that melee just now. I have a pistol on my waist, but you’ll shoot me if I try to take it out, right?”

“Of course!”

Said LLENN while aligning her Bullet Circle on Clarence’s face,

“I want to save my bullets, so I don’t want to fire a single bullet anymore. I’d like you to resign.”

“Well, what can you do. But y’know, if you don’t mind, why don’t we talk a bit? You two are cute. I really really really love strong and cute girls like you two!”

At the magnificent nanpa(1) line that came out from the refres.h.i.+ng ikemen smiling face,

“Ugh……”

LLENN made a truly unpleasant expression,

“Woah, this guy’s amusing. You’d want at least one of this type in a joint party.”

On the other hand, f.u.kaziroh said this with a cheerful smile. And then,

“But since he’s so amusing, let’s shoot him. We’re not in a joint party right now.”

LLENN sighed,

“Then, I’m gonna shoot him, so don’t get a bad impre──”

And stopped midway on her remark.

“Oh? What’s up?”

f.u.kaziroh,

“Hmm?”

And Clarence let out their curious voices. LLENN,

“He── th-that pouch──”

Asked while looking at the extensive, long, and narrow pouch, which was of course black, on Clarence’s black combat uniform.

“What’s in it?”

“Huh? Ah, this? May I move my right hand?”

Clarence asked in return and LLENN answered by slightly nodding with her head and P90.

“Then, if you’ll excuse me……”

Clarence’s right hand slowly moved down, then, once it had descended below the shoulders, suddenly gained speed, extended towards the pistol on the right side of the waist, pulled it out──

*Shupaan!*

LLENN’s P90 spouted fired. A high-pitched, suppressed gunshot resounded.

“Yoooooouch!”

It was a rather speedy quick draw, but LLENN, who was already armed, naturally won. An 《FN Five-SeveN》 automatic pistol was shot out of of Clarence’s hand with a 5.7 mm bullet and fell down.

With the last counterattack method sealed,

“Oh geez! Fine! Just kill me! Humph!”

Clarence had a childish tantrum.

“Before that, what’s inside your pouch! If you continue toying with me, your ears are gonna be shot next!”

“Arencha a scary girl…… Look.”

Clarence pulled off the pouch’s flap and took out its contents.

Which was a long and narrow magazine made of plastic, with clearly visible bullets packed inside. And, aside from the tint, it was the exact same as the one in LLENN’s beloved gun that she was using right now.

LLENN’s eyes suddenly opened wide.

“I knew it! You! You’re using a P90?”

“No. My gun is an 《AR-57》... but I guess you don’t know about it? It uses an M16-type lower receiver, but the upper one is exactly the same as the P90’s, and it uses the same mag──”

Interrupting Clarence’s speech,

“Hand over your magazines!”

Was LLENN’s shout.

“Excuse me?”

“All the ones that you have! Hand over your magazines!”

“Excuse me? ──Ah, I get it! The pink ochibi-chan has shot quite a lot in this battle, right. So, you’re uneasy about the future with the ones you have left. Which means that you want my magazines that you can use for your P90.”

‘Ah, I see’, f.u.kaziroh, who was behind LLENN, nodded.

“But, even I had quite a shootout just now, so this is all I’ve got left in my pouch, y’know.”

Clarence tapped on the stomach pouch with the hand that held the magazine and it collapsed entirely. Proof that there was nothing inside.

“H-how about your storage?”

“Well, I do have──”

“Take it out!”

“Eh, why?”

The ikemen gave an expression of amazement,

“Why do I have to do so much for the enemy that defeated us? Though I am already going to resign.”

‘Hmm, that’s true’, before f.u.kaziroh could share her thoughts,

“I’ll win! Using your magazines!”

LLENN answered. With a serious look.

“Buhah! And what benefit do I have out of it? Buhahahahah!”

In front of Clarence, who burst into a cackle, LLENN said to her partner without facing her.

“f.u.ka…… I’ll be shooting this guy's limbs, so in the meantime, can you pin him down from the back and manipulate his left hand?”

“Ah,  okay. I can do that.”

f.u.kaziroh understood everything and nodded.

Since there was a system for bringing out the window with a specific movement of the left hand, the fact that it did not matter whether the hand was moved intentionally to activate it was a scary part about VR games.

There have been actual cases where someone materialised and then stole items or accepted duels in essentially safe areas like towns by manipulating a person’s arm and fingers while they were having a pleasant nap. Good grief, one could not carelessly take a nap.

“He── hey, wait wait!”

Naturally, Clarence was also shocked.

“You two show no mercy while making those cute expressions, really now! If someone saw you doing something like that, what do you think people would think of you? You do know that this whole thing has been broadcast for a while now? Although they can’t hear this conversation, they’ll surely figure it out if they see your actions you know? You’ll go down in GGO history as lowlife b.a.s.t.a.r.ds── well, since you’re women, you’d be 〝lowlife b.i.t.c.hes〟 who breach etiquette, y’know? Are you okay with that? Really?”

“Is that all you wanted to say?”

LLENN answered in an emotionless monotone,

“…………Uhi. Okay okay. I’ll give you them. At any rate, they’ll return to me once the tournament is over, so I don’t mind.”

Clarence's left hand slowly opened, dropping the magazine in it. And then, just before operating the window, Clarence gave a broad grin,

“But, you know, you wouldn’t mind giving me some kind of reward for it, right?”

And proposed such a thing at the last moment.

“LLENN, how about we shoot him already? This is a waste of time, aight?”

Said f.u.kaziroh. Without answering to that, LLENN asked Clarence.

“What exactly?”

“Yeah. Nothing much really── would you give me a kiss?”

“Haaaah?” “Hoa?”

While looking at LLENN’s and f.u.kaziroh’s stunned expressions,

“A kiss a kiss. A kissseppun. A baiser. Both of you would be nice, but I would want at least the pink girl over there to give a kiss as a reward. Of course, it could be on the cheek!”

“…………”

Beside the speechless LLENN,

“Are you f.u.c.king taking advantage of us! Is there nothin’ but lechers in this game! ──LLENN, I’m gonna use a grenade to make him see chickens around his head(2), so in the meantime, you should be able to materialise the magazines by moving his left hand, ‘kay.”

When f.u.kaziroh was about to aim the MGL-140 in her left arm, Clarence twisted while making an *uhya* sound.

And then, LLENN decided.

“Okay. I’m okay, if it’s only that much!”

“Oh? You’re okay? LLENN, are you sane?”

“This guy isn’t right in the head….. but still…… I’m okay if I get those precious magazines. It’s certainly better than 〝mugging〟after all ……”

“Yyyipeee!”

Clarence cheering like a child,

“Well, if you say you’re fine with it, LLENN. I’ve kissed with my mates in game too.”

Was quite the contrast to f.u.kaziroh’s somewhat stunned expression.

“However! Materialise all of your magazines beforehand!”

“‘Kay ‘kay! Be sure to keep your promise, ojou-san!”

And then several high-pitched gunshots could be heard.

The pleasant sound of rapid fire from an 5.56 mm cla.s.s a.s.sault rifle.

Its source was a spot about 50 metres to the north.

The moment they confirmed that, numerous Bullet Lines a.s.sailed them,

“Hyaa!”

“Craap!”

Then, with a roar, numerous bullets flew above the heads of LLENN and f.u.kaziroh, who had bent down to the ground.

‘We’ve been talking too much!’

LLENN once again cursed the mistake in her decision-making.

Seeing as it was an enemy team that had just come from the north, those guys were undoubtedly MMTM. They crossed the jungle without a sound and approached them in secret.

If Clarence, who quickly sensed them, had not pushed her away, LLENN would have probably been shot to death as well.

‘Thanks! Truly, thanks!’

Offering her grat.i.tude in her mind, LLENN,

“The magazines!”

Thought about the more than ten magazines that she had been unable to put away into her storage and thus left beside Clarence’s corpse merely 3 metres ahead. She had no confidence that she could fight properly later on without them. However,

“Let’s get outta here LLENN! Retreat!”

f.u.kaziroh was right. In the current state that did not allow them to even to raise their heads properly, it was only natural to make use of the jungle to creep out to safety.

*Byunbyunbyun*

A diversionary full auto fire pa.s.sed above their heads. They felt the wind it made.

If the enemy moved just a bit, they would probably be able to reach them here. If she took too long to decide, they would be unable to save what had to be saved.

They had to run away.

‘But those magazines──’

After LLENN hesitated for merely 3 seconds, a Bullet Line lit up right on her face.

As if the opponent had climbed up a tree, it came down diagonally from above.

“Aah……”

She had no way of dodging it now.

1. ^ Nanpa (ナンパ) is a type of flirting and seduction popular among j.a.panese teenagers and people in their twenties or thirties, or it can refer to people who take part in this activity.

2. ^ A slang expression for stunning someone or making someone dizzy/lose consciousness. This comes from beat’em games like Final Fight and Street Fighter II where a stunned state was depicted by a ring of chickens or other small birds swirling above the character’s head.

3. ^ The j.a.panese name for Ks.h.i.+tigarbha, a bodhisattva (one who vows to save all beings before becoming a Buddha) who looks over children, travellers and the underworld.

4. ^ h.o.m.o is a common abbreviation of both “h.o.m.os.e.xual” and “h.o.m.ogenised” (e.g., milk) in j.a.panese.

5. ^ Bacon and Lettuce form the initials “BL”, jargon for “boys love”.

6. ^ Takarazuka (寶塚) refers to the Takarazuka Revue - an all-female (women play both the female and male parts) musical theatre troupe based in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, j.a.pan.

7. ^ Clarence has been using the first person p.r.o.noun ore (俺), which is considered to be a rough- or arrogant-sounding masculine p.r.o.noun, to refer to herself.