Episode 8 "Goblin of Revenge"
It will be the story of the GGO edition climax.
It will be the longest story in the GGO edition, where the identity of the Death Gun and the mysteries of its unrivaled attack are revealed one after another.
Please enjoy!
Then go ahead!
*There is some anti-hate against the original characters. Please be careful.
"How was it?"
Sinon asked Kirito who had returned after completing the scan.
"...there are probably seven people left, but one didn't show up in the scan. They may be hiding in caves like us. The rest are us, Yamikaze, Death Guns..."
"And... seven people."
“…It’s been 1 hour and 45 minutes since the tournament started.”
"The last tournament was over in a little over two hours, so it's a reasonable number of people."
Sinon supplemented my words.
"It's strange that no one threw a grenade..."
"Perhaps they were killed by Death Guns while roaming the desert."
"...if that's the case, the Maxkill Prize goes to either Death Gun."
Sinon agreed with Kirito's words. That sniper rifle and the mysterious grenade bombardment with unparalleled accuracy... Certainly, a normal player wouldn't stand a chance.
"That's right, the problem is the dark wind..."
""eh···?""
"The display on his terminal is Kirito... you're the only one, so he'll definitely come closer."
“…Are you strong?” “…Are you strong?”
“Last year’s runner-up! It’s an AGI unipolar build, and it’s called Rangan’s demon.”
"La, Langan...?"
"... Run & Gun, Kirito... in short, run, shoot, run... A fighting style where you don't let the enemy set their sights and quickly approach."
"...Last time I lost to Zekushido's rare weapon and rare armor,
There are many people who say that Yamikaze is superior if it's just ability."
(...Isn't that the strongest player in Japanese GGO...)
Instinctively, I looked at Kirito.
Not only Death Gun, but also aiming for such a top player...
"...Well, if your guesses are correct, then I'm the only one the Death Gun can kill right now, right?"
"Oh, oh..."
"Then, at this time, I feel sorry for him... but why don't you explain the situation and have him act as a decoy? Well, I'm doing the same thing..."
"So strong, Sinon..."
"...Huh?...I'm just trying not to think about it. I've always been good at closing my eyes when things are scary."
""Hahaha...""
Kirito and I couldn't help but laugh at those words.
"Anyway, how is the current strategy?"
"Yeah, basically I agree, but there's just one thing that bothers me..."
"...another survivor who doesn't show up in the scan?"
"Yeah. When I checked the number of people during the scan earlier, there was one person missing... I thought it was because I was hiding in a cave..."
"...Could it be that Death Gun also survived...?
"Oh, it's going to be strange... the accomplice in the real world is in Sinon's real world... wait?"
"... Oh. I thought that was weird too, so I thought about it."
When I tried to respond to Sinon's words, I felt a sense of incongruity. Apparently it was the same with Kirito.
“…After shooting Pale Rider, it took only 30 minutes before he tried to shoot Sinon. …”
"...if the accomplice in the real world also took care of the survivors, it would mean that the three houses were in close proximity...anything is too convenient... ”
“B-but… that’s the only way you can think of it!?”
Sinon's words made me think of the worst.
"·····accomplice···"
"Ah...just like this BoB, if there are multiple accomplices in the real world, even if one person is waiting at Sinon's house, another accomplice can invade another player's house."
"...that's the worst pattern."
In other words, we cannot deny the possibility that even Yamikaze is the target of Death Gun.
"That's right...! Does that mean that a large number of people might be complicit in such a terrifying criminal?!"
"...There are more than 10 SAO survivors from 'Laughing Coffin'."
"If all of them... no, even half of them participated, then mass murder would be possible...!"
I was so angry that my hands became so strong that my nails involuntarily bit into me.
"...you said you were a player killer, but..."
""yes···?""
"I'll withdraw that word... There are many people in this game who play PKs, and I was in that kind of Squadron, but... PKs should have their own sense of pride...
To kill an unconscious human being on a full dive with poison...! That's not a PK... it's just a cowardly crime... it's just a murder...!
If that's the case, I can't lose to those guys! ”
"Oh... we can't let them do as they please...!"
“Among them, SAO… if they say they can’t stop being Red Players, then we have no choice but to end them…!”
(Protecting Sinon, defeating Yamikaze, defeating the Death Guns...it's quite a challenge, but...we'll definitely do it!)
Kirito and I also responded strongly to Sinon's words.
After that, I confirmed the plan of action. In order to avoid being targeted during the battle, Sinon decided to snipe Yamikaze, and Kirito and I focused on defeating the Death Guns.
"Well then···"
"Yeah...? Ah, I see."
"... good luck"
Sinon and I hit our fists against Kirito's protruding right hand, and prepared ourselves.
"Okay, let's go...!"
Kirito's words set us into action.
A different direction from Kirito... the northwest point...
Among the scattered ruins, I held my breath.
In the previous scan, the Death Guns captured Kirito's position, and if they were thinking of a pincer attack, they set up a net to come from this direction.
If the prediction is wrong, a signal should come from Sinon who is at the sniping point.
The right hand holding the machine gun involuntarily holds power. Just like in SAO, people's lives are at stake in this battle.
(Suu... Calm down...!
I don't know what method he'll use to attack me, but in order to protect Sinon, I can't afford to lose...!
Even Kirito is trying his best to face the past...! )
I took a deep breath, held my breath, focused, and closed my eyes.
(...that's right...that Death Gun homicidal thirst...somewhere I've felt...a battlefield?...no, somewhere else...that's …?)
Just when I was about to grab something...
Zugan! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
(Wha...has it started!?)
Along with the loud noise, I could see part of the monument crumbling down. After that, I heard the sound of Sinon's Hekat gunfire... It seems that the plan is going according to plan. and···
"... have you come?"
It seems that I was able to catch one as well... The death gun imitation appeared majestically and was walking towards me. I jumped out of my hiding place and faced him.
"... I'm sorry, but I won't let you go from here, Death Gun."
「・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・」
He remained silent, but his eerieness remained the same.
"It's over. Kirito and I will defeat you and that Death Gun... You guys, this is the end of the 'Laughing Coffin' game...!"
"...fufu...kukukuku...ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
He started laughing with a high pitched voice, probably using voice effects.
"... what's wrong!?"
"... what... you don't know who I am?"
"...a former member of 'Laughing Coffin', right?!"
"... Haa... from now on, kids... can only say things based on their own guesses."
(Kansai dialect···?)
The way he spoke suddenly changed, and at the same time, he remembered that way of speaking.
"You still can't remember? Then how about this voice...!"
"! That voice...!? No way... you!?!?"
"... it's been a while... 'Phantom War Demon'!!!"
"... Kibaou...!!"
It was... the person I hated in SAO, and the remote cause that drove Kirito to Beater... Kibaou, the former leader of the Aincrad Liberation Army.
"Why are you...!?"
"...you are all at fault!"
"···me···?"
Kibaou glared at me with hateful eyes and muttered a curse.
Kibaou's words left me perplexed.
"You... you took everything from me!
Without you, there would be no army, no power, no wealth...
I didn't lose everything! ? As long as you don't put me down! ? ”
“Wow! Are you saying that…?!”
Those words reminded me of that SAO incident...
That's right, it was triggered by Diavel's consultation.
A little while after the 73rd floor was conquered, I was summoned by Diabel one day.
It was a secret meeting in a secluded place so that no one would listen.
The content of the consultation was that they wanted to somehow get Kibaou out of the army. Even before, when the ``Liberation Group'' and the ``Liberation Army'' were separated, I cooperated...
It seems that Kibaou's recent actions are unremarkable. It seems that Diabel, who is familiar with the first layer and acts as an intermediary, is somehow trying to reprimand him... but it seems to be the limit.
At this rate, there might be problems with the strategy...that was Diabel's concern.
It was when I was receiving such consultation. I don't know how she stole the information, but Kibaou came in. It seems that he learned of Diabel's betrayal and came to denounce him.
Furthermore, Kibaou was terribly furious because the person he was consulting with was me, whom he disliked.
In the end, he made an unreasonable request to Diavel to settle the bill with his life. And I was the one who reached the limit first in the action that came from that personal grudge.
"Then I will take responsibility."
"·····law?"
"... you and I will settle the duel... of course, it's fine if it's a total loss."
"... Hmm, I'm going to win anyway, so even a total loss doesn't mean I can afford it!!
In such a match, who said, "Of course, I'll add a handicap"... what? ”
"... I don't have any armor... I don't care if it's the default equipment. The use of sword skills is also prohibited... How about that?"
"... is that condition real?"
"Yes...or do you think you can't win even with this handicap?"
“…………Yes, let’s do it! Then, right now, duel!!!”
...and the result is...
Just as I expected...it ended with my overwhelming victory.
Certainly, I'm the default equipment, sword skills are prohibited... I turned off all battle skills such as auto healing as an additional request.
When the duel started, he had an ugly smile on his face. It was to the point where he couldn't help but wonder if being able to erase the eyesore of me would make him so happy.
But... the victory was fleeting.
It's easy. I kicked Kibaou's weapon with the martial arts skill <Tsurutsuki>, which was not prohibited to use. Matching his big swing, I kicked his two-handed sword into the air and grabbed the weapon in the air.
He also didn't know what had happened, and was blown away by my two-handed sword blow from the air.
“…Do you want to continue like this?…until your HP reaches zero.”
He was blown away and crashed into the ground, thrusting his sword between the eyebrows of Kibaou whose HP turned red and asked.
This incident and the military rampage in the boss battle on the 74th floor overlapped, and Kibaou was completely defeated.
It was said that when he lost to a player with his initial equipment, his reputation fell apart and he disappeared.
"...that's right...! I lost everything because you set up such a cowardly fight!!!"
"... Selfish! Originally, it's the result of you inviting me!"
It was a complete resentment...it's true that he used a cowardly plan...but sooner or later, Kibaou would have been driven out of the army. It would be wrong to shift the blame.
"... At that time... there was someone who called out to me when I was in the depths of despair... and he said... 'Take revenge on those who drove you away. Don't you want to do it!!!"
"... no way!?"
"Yeah...the boss of 'Laughing Coffin', PoH...that person taught me a lot...that labyrinth where the sinker was trapped, the PK using paralyzing poison...・!!”
(I got the point...!...Did you have a relationship with "Laughing Coffin" during SAO...!?)
"...So? Why did you take part in this incident!?"
"...because you participated in this tournament..."
"what···!?"
I couldn't help but freeze at those words... am I the cause...?
"At first, I was also planning to become a criminal in the real world...
However, I was told that you will be participating in the finals as the "Black Swordsman"...
That "'Red-Eyed Zaza' huh?" When I unilaterally tortured you in that city, my heart felt soothed... Kuhahahahaha! ! ! ”
(... well... it's all my fault...)
When I think about it, I have to make a settlement with this man even more so.
"...then I'll stop you here! That's my responsibility...!"
I held up my machine gun and pointed it at him.
"Have you forgotten what happened in that town?"
"That's right... you didn't even use optical camouflage, you came out proudly... did you think you could beat me with a gun?"
"Kukuku... of course!"
"...Then, let's do it!!!"
I was worried about his strange confidence, but I didn't care and rushed into him.
At that moment, he took out something from behind.
The moment I pulled the trigger... it appeared.
"Wh-what...!?"
"What... did you think you were the only one using a shield...?
Well, the shield I use isn't a toy like the one you're using! ! ! ”
An armor plate was deployed to cover his front, blocking all my machine guns. Moreover, all the bullets had been abducted, and on the contrary, his shield remained intact.
"Well, this time it's my turn!"
In preparation for his counterattack, I took some distance...but...!
"Useless! Wasteful! Your position is in full view!!!"
Along with those words, a predictive line attacked me without going crazy. Grenades were released one after another.
Even if I managed to avoid it, the blast attacked at the same time as the bullet hit, so I barely managed to avoid it and didn't have time to counterattack.
(You didn't look at me...why can you aim so accurately!?)
I saw him in the midst of the onslaught...he didn't stick his head out of the barrier at all...but he was firing accurate shots at me.
(...No way, are you aiming for the sound of the sand?! Then...!)
In the desert, I'll keep being targeted... I thought so, and jumped inside through what looked like a window in order to hide myself in the ruins. Here, I can buy time... That's when I thought.
...the line of prediction hit me again.
(Why...!?)
I was so upset that my reaction was delayed for a moment.
I managed to fly back, but the grenade exploded in front of me.
"Guuuu!?!?!...Gah!?"
I held up my shield and managed to reduce the damage to a minimum, but I was blown away and slammed into the wall of the ruins... with only 60% of my HP remaining.
(Oops... dropped the machine gun...!?
I tried to pick up the dropped machine gun, but the prediction line flew again, so I hurried away from the spot. A few seconds later, it landed where it was and the machine gun exploded.
"Goho! Goho! Shit!? The explosion just now started a fire...!?
I lost one weapon, and I didn't know how to attack the enemy. It was time to think of a way to counterattack.
“No matter where you run away, it’s useless…where is it!?”
(...Has the attack stopped?)
The grenades that hit like rain just now stopped. Kibaou also seemed to have lost sight of me and was screaming.
(Until a little while ago, they attacked with such accuracy... Come to think of it, the first time they were attacked, they stopped halfway through...why...?)
I thought about it while moving around the ruins to escape from the fire and smoke.
(... That's right. At that time, when the attack stopped, the car exploded... no way!?)
I remembered the raid on the city, and a certain hypothesis came to my mind.
And then, from the collapsed part, I went up to the roof of the ruins.
There...
"...! That's right...!"
As the smoke rises, the empty space... No, something seems to divide the smoke unnaturally. Heading there, I held up my shotgun and pulled the trigger.
Gang! ! !
A dull metallic sound resounded, and the empty space was distorted for a moment...just like that, something there swayed...
"... Fall!"
I pulled the trigger on the reloaded shotgun again. and,
Gaan... Dogaaan! ! !
A metallic sound echoed again, and an explosion occurred. Protect yourself with a cloak in the aftermath of the explosion.
From the explosion... the wreckage of a small reconnaissance plane fell apart.
"...you did it...!"
"I'm sorry, but... your magic-like attacks won't work anymore... A reconnaissance plane that uses optical camouflage... I made it a heat sensor so that it can find obstacles. It's your fault that you didn't think about the compatibility with the weapon!"
When I approached Kibaou while hiding behind a rock, I heard his frustrated voice.
I replied while laughing at those words.
"... But as long as you have this shield... you won't be able to attack me!
If you get close, it's grenade prey! ”
"To be scared and unable to do anything without hiding behind such an iron shield,
I can only hear your words as bravado! ”
"Why don't you try it!!"
"...Let me do it!"
I jumped out from behind the rock and ran full speed towards him. The gap between the shields... He held up a launcher from the gunport and started shooting.
While avoiding it by relying on the projection line, I pulled the trigger when I was within range of the shotgun... but...
"Damn it!?"
Not even a shotgun bullet left his shield intact.
"What's wrong, what's wrong!! Is that so!?"
"Goo... this!?"
Load the shotgun, hold the handgun in your left hand, and shoot wildly...
His shield didn't budge... on the contrary, his grenades steadily slashed my HP. Due to the fierce attack, it was close to him, so the grenade hit earlier than before, and it was impossible to completely avoid it.
In the end, the bullets of the shotgun also hit the bottom, and I took some distance to regain my posture.
"...isn't it too hard...!! You can't even get a scratch!?"
"Gahahahaha!!! I told you! This shield is not your toy!
It's made of the hardest material in the world! ...Let's put an end to hide-and-seek! ”
(... Remaining HP is 40%, handgun remaining 2 shots left... and then...)
While confirming the shield fixed to his left arm, he was devising a plan.
... To reverse this situation ... It's a high-stakes gamble, but this is the only way.
Switching the handgun to my left hand, I made up my mind.
"...Let's go!!!"
I approached him at once as fast as I could.
"Die Yaaaa!!!"
A grenade will attack you, but you can run through it with minimal damage.
(Still·····!)
Run through the blast and get close to handgun range.
(···Still···!!)
In the aftermath of the grenade, while my HP was gradually decreasing, I fired all the remaining bullets from my handgun into the only hole, the gun port, in rapid succession.
...but all the bullets missed.
(······Still!!!)
"...the end yaaaaaaa!!!!"
Along with those words, Kibaou released a large number of grenade launchers. Prediction lines hit all around me.
"...here it is!!!!!"
In response to that, I flew forward... the handgun I was holding in my left hand, and my right hand
Throw it back with the shotgun it held.
Immediately after that, the grenade landed, and along with the explosion of the induced gun, the blast blew me forward.
"Woooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!"
As it was, it was equipped on the back side of the shield... I kept it... Equipped the light blue light sword "Photon Sword" in my right hand and unleashed a technique.
In that world, dozens of times, hundreds of times the technique...
I fired a one-handed sword heavy single-shot sword skill <Vorpal Strike> at the gunport.
“Haa……!?”
(more... more!!!)
“……Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!”
The light sword that pierced Kibaou's chest is inserted deeper into the gunport.
Even though the circuits in my brain were about to burn out, I pushed the light sword with all my might.
and···
Dogaaan! ! ! ! !
"Kuh...!...Uuu...!"
His HP was reduced to zero, and the grenade launcher that was piercing with him exploded,
I was blown away. When I looked at him, his proud shield was shattered, and Kibaou, whose body had been scattered, was lying on the ground.
"Ha, ha, ha... ha... ha...!"
"...not yet...!"
"Huh...!?"
"... it's not over yet...! Someday, that person... you guys...!"
Saying that, he was out of business.
"...No, at least you're done... this isn't SAO, you're not one of the Red Players anymore...you're just a silly criminal...your game is... ···This is the end···"
Towards his throwaway lines, I said so to him and left the place.
As I walked in the direction Kirito was, I could see the battered Kirito also walking towards me.
And then I noticed that Sinon was also walking towards us from the sniping point.
We silently approached each other and bumped our fists into each other. There were many things I wanted to talk about, but that was enough for now.
"...it's over"
"... yeah" "that's right..."
While looking up at the sky, Sinon and I responded with satisfaction to Kirito's words.
"It's time for the tournament to end..."
"Yeah, that's right."
"With the death guns falling, the accomplices who were aiming for you should also have disappeared."
"(Cock)"
Sinon quietly nodded at Kirito's warning.
"So, even if you log out, there shouldn't be any danger... but just in case, you should call the police immediately."
"But what should I explain when I call 911?"
"...For example, there's a suspicious person with a weapon hanging around, so you're suspicious. If this happens, should I ask Mr. Kikuoka?"
"That's right. Our client is a civil servant, so... let him move...
Ah...but I can't ask for your address here..."
"Okay, I'll tell you..."
""eh···?""
Sinon's words made us cry out involuntarily.
Are you saying that you trust us...
"Okay, my name is Shino Asada... and my address is..."
Saying that, Sinon whispered her personal information. But when he heard the address,
"Wait a minute... over there..."
"What a surprise... it's close to where we're diving."
"Eh!? Is that so...?"
We are surprised by the unexpected fact. There is such a thing...
"Then shall we go there?"
"Eh, come here... No, it's okay. I have friends I can trust living nearby."
"I see... well then, after we've logged in, we'll tell the client what happened."
“Don’t worry, the police will also act immediately.”
"Yeah... got it"
Sinon nodded in relief at me and Kirito's words.
"By the way... just let me disclose my personal information, and that's it...?"
"···bad"
"...That's right, I'm sorry. My name is Kazuto Kirigaya."
"My name is Otomiren"
"Kazuto Kirigaya... So, Kirito. It's certainly an easy name. Take the example of Fon..."
"I-I don't want you to tell me..."
"Ah... fufufu"
""Fufufufufufufufu""
...that's deja vu...? Same thing with SAO...
Or rather, forget me and become a world of two people...?
"Ohon!"
「「Huh!?」」
"... you can't log out unless you finish the tournament, can't you?"
Kirito and Sinon came to their senses after hearing my words with a quizzical look.
"Y-yeah... then, Sinon. How are you going to settle this?
Dueling style like yesterday... Ah, but if that happens, Huong will be at a disadvantage."
"...I can't afford to play a battle royale anymore. What should I do..."
Come to think of it, I didn't think about what happened after defeating Death Gun... Kirito and I were racking our brains over how to settle things...
"Haa...you guys are all in tatters...even if you beat those people, you won't be proud at all."
「「A, AHAHAHA……」」
At Sinon's point, Kirito and I looked at each other's bodies with wry smiles.
Kirito's entire body was covered in sword strikes received from Zaza, and I had burnt parts of my body due to Kibaou's grenade launcher, and the exposed skin was stained with soot.
"...I'll leave the settlement to the next BoB."
"A, ahaha...haa"
"... do your best, Kirito."
"You too, Fong."
"Ah, as expected...?"
...Unfortunately, it seems that I was also a target of Sinon and got locked on. Just like Kirito, I dropped my shoulders involuntarily.
"Well then, let's finish it soon...?"
"Yeah...? But how?"
"BoB won't end until one person survives, won't it?"
Kirito and I involuntarily questioned Sinon's proposal.
"The first BoB was won by two people at the same time.
The reason is that the person who was supposed to win was hit by a souvenir grenade."
““Souvenir grenade…?””
Sinon's words had a very bad feeling... Kirito didn't realize that, and obediently accepted what Sinon had handed to him. Yes, a souvenir grenade...
Sinon pressed the grenade switch without hesitation.
"Eh...? Ah, ah! Huh, ah!?
"Ki, Kirito! Hurry up and throw it away...!?"
"Fufu... Yay!!!"
Kirito, who noticed the grenade, was so confused that he was at a loss how to dispose of the grenade like a beanbag. He immediately tried to advise Kirito to throw the grenade away, but Sinon hugged Kirito and me with a smile as if the prank had been successful.
"Hi..." "Ahahahaha..."
“Fufun!!”
We were caught in the explosion, and we were blown away cleanly... Before we lost consciousness, what we saw was...
It was the characters of "The 3rd Bullet of Bullets WINNER Sinon Kirito Phone".
The final scene with the light sword is something I really wanted to include.
That's why I made Ori throw away all his guns.
My apologies to gun lovers.
In the end, as a swordsman, I wanted to represent Fong, who put an end to his past, and this is the result.
The next episode will be the final episode of the GGO arc.
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