Chapter 1415 The Setting Sun Part 2 Part 1

The Player known as August…… Originally, Ayaori Mao was purely acting.

Yes, that’s right. She was just acting in order to make the developments that she really liked come true.

She is nowhere near as vicious and sophisticated as any Thirdrema’s Special Counselor or Anti-Royal Resistance Leader who puts everything on her palm and manipulates it to her liking. She believes for no reason that she will develop her own taste if she acts and behaves strictly on her “hobbies”, then everything will actually play out exactly as she would like it to go. But it was just something childish or pure wishful thinking on her part.

Ayaori Mao loves Western movies. Strictly speaking, she especially loves action movies that end up portraying macho characters, lots of explosions, and use of heavy weapons. And as she uses the muscular avatar of August in Full Dive VR, she’s a player who has reached the New Continent through a playstyle that imitates her longing Hollywood star (the character after whom she named her avatar) in the game.

For someone like August, who was a huge Hollywood movies nut, the scenario where she would join forces with other mighty players in order to fight a mighty enemy who might be coming after a small and defenseless girl was actually a dream come true. Or actually something that she would never think that would come true, not in a million years.

It doesn’t matter if they are similar to her, how many of them there is, or what their levels and equipment might be. For as long as it creates a scenario that can be called movie-like, August was sure that everything would eventually work itself out.

「In other words, now is time to do some preparations before the big climax battle!]

「Again you say some things I do not quite understand……]

What does she think when she sees August in such a state? Does she think she’s a “Bad Character”?

Or maybe that she’s foolish? Or that perhaps her pride got the better of her? Or that she was merely careless?

The answer to that question is actually quite simple.

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「Amphi, the time to finally get rid of them all is close at hand.]

At the very least, she don’t feel like trusting her entirely. Goldunine’s “Lady” gave a simple conditional slaughter order to her two-headed snake, someone that was her ally. So it would be plausible to think that she could easily dispose of her own allies if she wanted to do so.

Other than that, there was also the matter of the temporary truce between the Goldunines and their allies that Sanraku proposed. However, in addition to the fact that Sanraku, who should currently be considered their ally, was hardly logged in because he was studying for the Final Exams, he was optimistic about their cooperation and did not wanted to engage in battle. And the way he was going about it was contagious that it basically wanted you to do precisely as he was proposing.

But it can be said that it is out of the question for the “Lady” to trust someone else, especially since she didn’t even fully trust her own companion, Shuu.

「My Lady, I have secured an escape route for us. Even if the situation develops into that of a battle, if I gain enough time, you should be able to escape with the help of Amphi’s mobility.]

「Good.]

「Ahh, I’m really sorry, my Lady. But right about now, it’s a little bit……]

This apology was directed at the heel of his “Lady” that was digging into his shin, which meant that he was probably about to approach his limit (her new shoes were purchased at the front line base, which was already pretty rare for a snake to accept wearing something human-made). Speaking of which, even though August was probably at the age of Middle School or maybe even lower, she was still impressed by the amount of emotions that even the human NPCs in this game were exhibiting. But that being say, being constantly kicked was not a behavior that a young and impressionable person should be subjected to on a constant basis.

「Oh well, it doesn’t really matter. So……? Umm…… Are those humans really going to show up?]

「A-Apparently so…… No, but even so, no one was even trying to get in touch with us until now……]

But then, Shuu remembered something that he happened to hear from August, all the while keeping a close eye on his Lady’s high heels.

「It would seem that yet another pair has been discovered.]

「Took you long enough to get to the point.]

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–––––– Someone here is awfully late.

It’s been fifteen minutes since they received the “Move out” email from Sanraku. And fifteen minutes worth of time is something that would be unacceptable in real life, no matter the social situation. Inside of the game it was not all that bad, but making others wait is also considered to be pretty rude.

Sure enough, the patience of August was about to reach its limit…… but it was not because she was angry. She knew she had to be patient.

「Nine-chan!]

「What?]

「I’m going to pick you up now!]

「Huh!?]

I see, if you think about it carefully, it’s quite natural that you’ll be a little late because you’re meeting inside of an area like the Sea of Trees, where navigation is already pretty hard. And since this was a pretty much a social gathering in the middle of the forest like this, if they wanted to take the lead during this event, they had to act accordingly.

Spraking of which…… Right now I happen to be the “group leader” of the Goldunine group, or something more akin to the “Class President” of this Goldunine group.

「A-Are you insane!? You should have done nothing!]

But she doesn’t know.

Even if she’s fluent in action movies, she doesn’t know about the “promise” because she only sees the flashiness of the films and the successes of the leading actors. It’s okay if she thinks of herself as a protagonist of an action movie, because if they do it, it’s even better to get into the mindset of the “one-man army.”

─── As she was walking near the meeting place to look for Sanraku and others, she noticed that the grass was shaking.

「…… Huh?]

「Oh? And you are……]

As for August, I don’t really know.

I mean, acting carelessly, even when done by one person can lead to the downfall of the whole group. This is basically what we call a “Death Flag”.

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「So, are you saying that you’re not the one who called us all here?]

「No, we just came here looking for you.]

「Is such a situation even possible? That everyone got here completely on accident……?]

I could let Wimp show here in the clothes that she was wearing in the store, so I had to force her to change. Not only that, she didn’t really wanted to go in the first place, so I had to force her to submit and then tie her up and drag her alongside me……