Chapter 882 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 478: A Whale Swallowing Both Heaven and the Earth Part 1

「………… Fugah!」

For some strange reason I had a very nostalgic dream, one that involved both Player γan player μfor some reason. We were fighting one another on the uninhabited island, but…… In the end, which one of us managed to win? The correct answer here would be “none”, since we were both like armadillos back there: very tanky from the front, but approach us from the side and we would literally fall to pieces.

「Ugh, great, and now I’m starting to have a headache for some reason……」

I know that I game on a day to day basis, but truth to be told, all-night marathons like that are quite rare, even for me…… It’s a good thing that I do not feel any side effects of a prolonged use of the system, but seeing just for how long that battle dragged on it was also a miracle that I was not forced to be logged out right in the middle of it. But that being said, I was far from feeling fine and I was sure that my body would keep reminding me of that fact for another day or two.

To be perfectly honest, I wanted to log in right away to see what would happen next, but I also knew that logging in right away was not the best course of action you could take. I don’t want to risk becoming sick because of gaming too much. You have one health and you need to take care of it, but more importantly…… being sick means that you cannot log in, and that would be the real waste here. In that regard the VR technology is a cruel mistress that is hard to satisfy.

Oh well, falling ill is like the worst of the worst possible scenarios that can happen to you, unlikely, but it can happen…… thinking about it, it’s like an RNG with a ten percent chances of actually occurring. And let me tell you, even though you have ninety percent chance of it not actually happening, I am not going to try Lady Luck and tempt her to prove me otherwise. Not to mention that in real life not everything always goes according to the percentage chance, so there you have it. The rates might look good, but they might actually be shit. So no thank you.

「Good morning, Mom.」

「Good morning, Rakuro. Let me guess: all-night gaming session? Want some breakfast now? We have toasts fresh out of the toaster.」

Toaster? But we don’t have a toaster here at our…… Oh, you went and bought one? Hmm, but that’s strange. It’s a wheat bread, but it is burned in such a weird and strange way……

CHA-CHING! (At that cue both the piece of bread and a small mackerel popped out of the toaster’s insides)

「Your dad bought this thing, and guess what? It can even toast smaller fish! Turns out that you could even bake some of them in here if you’d like.」

「……??? …… Huh??????」

Wait a second…… Please forgive me, but at the current moment I am not all that good at putting too much of a mental strain on my brain first thing in the morning. Or at least not today.

We are putting mackerel on a piece of bread now? Mackerel bread? Huh? But how are you even supposed to eat this thing properly? With your hands? With your chopsticks? And what about the bread? Do you eat that with chopsticks as well?

「Ogogogogogogogo……」

「Oh, that reminds me. We seem to be running out of rice. I guess that we should prepare a nice little stockpile of it before Winter comes around.」

It just so happens that my Mother, a person who is very passionate about things like cooking and collecting various insects, is the number one electricity user in our household. And it just so happens that I am the number two user of electricity. Imagine that?

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「…… Goodh… mohning……」

「Morning, Saiga-san. I knew it, after what happened yesterday, I think everyone’s exhausted……」

「I really thought that…… today I might just…… doze off like that……」

「Saiga-san? …… Saiga-san!? Earth to Saiga-san!」

Needless to say, because the both of us went to school while being terribly sleep-depraved, I was caught during the break and interrogated by the usual individuals. Fuck off, you guys! I have done nothing wrong here!

But with that being said, the very first thing I did after coming back home was to go straight to bed.

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Umm, let’s put the right phone number and……

「–––––– Hello?」

「Do you think that Katsu-kun has a third hole that exists even though it should not even be there? Just wondering.」

「Can you please not begin the conversation with the kind of humor that might give the other party a heart attack?」

Even though I have a history of dealing with Deepslaughter’s stupidity and innuendos, there is just a level of dumb and pervertedness that even someone like me won’t be able to easily handle. Like that analogy with a cave and the evil dragon guarding a stockpile of treasure. Plus, when a conversation like that takes place roughly at two in the morning, it’s just that…… Yeah, but nope. Not gonna deal with this.

「Oh well, that’s not what I wanted to talk about. I know that it’s going to just be an example event, but its schedule has been already officially decided, right?」

「And I happened to hear that a certain Professional Gaming team sent you an email?」

「And guess what? They were even kind enough to add a map with that email as well!」

When I looked up that email and the map, it was showing to be a TV Station, but what does that even have to do with me, hmm? You want me to just sing and dance there? Or what? Do you want me to just play you a game?

「Alright, so out with it: what is it that you want?」

「Huh? Ahh…… You see, I don’t know that many details myself, but I am sure that they will want you to play a game. At minimum. Oh, but rest assured, no one is going to ask the rumored Masked Gamer to suddenly take his mask off and reveal his identity. That much I can promise you.」

「……? I see.」

It should be a given here, but I have never taken part in an event like that. So it should be obvious that I know next to nothing about things like that. But I wonder if there are instances where the organizers intentionally keep the contents of the program away from the participants. Like that idol live show that was held during the GGC. So it would stand to reason that there would be a surprise waiting for me here as well.

「Will there be any surprises?」

「Hmm, ah! Oh yeah, oh yeah! I don’t know if you could call it a surprise, but apparently we won’t know what we are going to be playing until the day of the actual performance.」

「I see. So, is there any place specifically where I’m supposed to go?」

「I told you already, the building of the Yugata TV…… Ah, sorry! I forgot that you’ve never done this before! But no worries! If you show the guys at the entrance the code that was sent to your mobile terminal, you will receive a navigation app that will take you where you are supposed to go.」

「Hmph, is that so……?」

Oh well, it seems that I have more than a week until the event’s time, so maybe I should do some research just in case……?