Chapter 1328 Who Is That? Part 1

「Nuoooooohhh!!! Nuuuoooooohhhhhh!!!??」

Not that I was not expecting it, but I should have known that the price for doing something overly cool in this particular situation is going to be a death sentence, and the way in which the sentence would be carried out would be falling to my death! And now that I think about it, if I happen to die in here as a result of this “cool” action, this video is going to be stored by the “Library”, right? Because there is no way that at least one of those guys is not recording this stream, right? So this means more or less that my fuck up is going to be preserved for posterity and everyone else to see and laugh at, right!?

「Aaaaaahhhhhh!!! No, please, I’m begging you! This is the final battle, so don’t do this to me! Not now!!! I didn’t wanted to do this, but I guess I have no other choice……!!!」

This is the last fail safe that I happened to get from all of the members of the “Library” who voiced their support for my Orchestra endeavors! And even though I was secretly hoping that there would be no need for me to use this thing, this is the final battle, after all! So if I were to not use it here, then where could I possibly use it!? At this point in time I have literally no other alternative, but nothing else to lose!

Now, then, please do your thing and please! Don’t fail me! Not here! Not now! Oh, the great Disposable Magic Scroll! I implore you!

「“Air Cushion”!!」

BOMUN!

With that particular sound roaring in my ears, I can feel the strange kind of pressure being applied to me, as if my whole body first became very loose and then there was a strange kind of force that was trying to crush it all at once. Please, just do you job correctly in here, Anti—Shock Mitigation Magic! I have heard that you can be used in order to reduce any sort of fall damage that this game has to offer, so I sincerely hope that this is the truth! Because if it is not, then someone is going to pay dearly for leading me by the nose like that!

BOMUN!!! (The sound of me crashing into a collapsing highway pillar.)

「OGUH!」

BOBOBOBOBON!!! (The sound of various forms of rubble and grains reducing the durability of the air cushion with each passing second.)

「Wait! What the hell is this!!! Wait, wait, wait, wait!!!」

BESHAN!!!!!! (The sound of me basically hitting the ground like a portion of a used slime or modeling clay.)

「BUGEH!」

Alive…… Holy shit, I’m actually alive!? HP! What’s my current HP…… Uwah, are you shitting me here!? I still have a little bit more than ten percent of it left! Isn’t this thing actually amazing!? Air cushion, I mean!? Isn’t it secretly OP!? I would say that in my eyes it has been instantly elevated into the “Must Buy” category!

GON!!!!!!

「PUEBEH!?」

There is a huge blow that completely pierces through the emptiness of the night sky, with myriads of stars scattering all over my field of view. And then a fist-sized piece of asphalt road comes flying right towards me, and with the air cushion having used up all of it durability to shield me from the incoming danger and reduce the damage I would take, this blow that I suffer to my head has not been enough to kill me on the spot, but the shock was more than enough to leave me stunned for a moment or two.

「Kuooh……」

Come on, come on, come on, COME ON!!! Why is this taking so long! Just end already, just end already!!! Was the Stun in this game always taking so long to come off!? …… Hyiiih!? Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, OH SHIT! I don’t want to! I don’t want to go out like this! I don’t want to be crushed to death after coming this far!

「N-Namu Amida Butsu…… Namu Amida Butsu…… NAMU AMIDA BUTSU……!!!」

However, it would seem that my prayers have been answered, because I just so happened to receive the help of the God of Salvation from the most unexpected side ever! Just moments before a huge highway pillar was about to crush me, the world that was leading me towards the deadly collapse suddenly disappeared.

It’s was not at the level of burning out or turning to ashes or anything else like that. Literally everything disappeared cleanly without any warning or lingering sound, just like that. As if someone pressed the “Delete” button.

The shattered sky, the bare ground, the skyscrapers, the highways, and also…… Yes, the other “Sanraku” was nowhere to be found as well.

In this completely bleached world there are only four things that still remained: myself, Sigma, Iron Meteorrite Mirror…… and that strange mask that the other “Sanraku” was wearing. It was lying on the ground as if it was abandoned all of a sudden.

「Ooohhh, ooohhh…… Huh! Looks like the Stun has finally decided to let go!」

「Master.」

「Yo, Sigma…… It sure looks like this time around there was no need for the Enviornmental Guard after all. Ain’t that just grand?」

The “Diva”… Sakishima Elma is also nowhere to be seen. Could it be that she disappeared together with that world, or could it be that she disappeared alongside the defeat of the other “Sanraku”? At the very least the songs that were so exciting to hear up until that point were no longer echoing in the background. What replaced them was a complete and utter silence.

「Question: is it just me, or did the landscape just transformed into something that differs drastically from its initial state?」

「Hmm, that’s right…… What is this place even? It looks like…… it looks like a bar, of all things.」

Hmm, I see. So that’s how it is, huh? The last mystery…… The last piece of the puzzle seemed to have finally fallen into the right place, where it rightfully belonged.

This place was not nearly as spacious as the theater-type Coliseum was when we first entered the Orchestra’s territory, and of course it is not the first night view that spread as a result of the song battle. This dimly lit place with no lights is like a closed or abandoned bar.

「Alright then. Since we have nothing better to do, we might as well sit down. You hear me, Sigma? Sit down. You can take whatever seat you want. I highly doubt that it’s going to matter to anyone.」

「…… No, I mean, but still…… What about that mask?」

「Oh well, wait a second out there, don’t just get your panties in a twist, okay? Let’s not jump to unnecessary conclusions. The easy-to-understand shortcuts are usually dead ends according to my personal experience, and the market price is always rigged from the start. There is no workaround for things like that.」

There is a line-up of some good-looking drinks here, but I wonder…… will I really be able to drink any of those? Ahh, I can grab and open them, that’s something. Alright, Sanraku-san! It’s time to make for yourself some delicious cocktail!