Sword Art Online 6: Phantom Bullet by Reki Kawahara and abec

Author:Reki Kawahara and abec [Kawahara, Reki / abec]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2017-06-06T00:00:00+00:00

Her eyes traveled from his watch to his face. She slowly shook her head. “I don’t think I can just keep hiding in here. Pretty soon, the other players will realize that we’re hiding in the desert caves. There aren’t that many to choose from, so they could toss in a grenade at any time. In fact, we’re pretty lucky to have survived nearly half an hour in here.”

“Oh, I see…” Kirito murmured, biting his lip and glancing at the mouth of the cave.

She told him, “We’ve been working as a team for this long. Might as well fight together to the end.”

“But…what if he shoots you with the pistol…?”

“It’s just an old-fashioned single-action handgun,” Sinon claimed, surprised at how easily the statement slipped out of her mouth. For years, the Type 54 Black Star had been The Gun—the very image of terror that plagued Shino.

But it wasn’t that the fear was gone. If it was coincidence that Death Gun had chosen the Black Star to be his symbol, then The Gun really was the very curse that haunted Shino’s life. But the one thing that she could say was that as an item in this game, the Type 54 was not very powerful. If she feared the gun more than the threat it actually represented, she would be passing up her chance to fight back.

“Even if he shoots it at me, you can use that sword of yours to knock it away with ease, right? Its firing rate is barely a tenth of a proper assault rifle, after all,” she noted, suppressing the trembling of her voice.

Kirito grinned, a combination of worry and relief. “Yeah… I won’t let him shoot you. But in order to ensure that, I think it’s best if you don’t expose yourself to him.”

She started to argue, but he held up a hand. “Trust me, I’m grateful that you’re offering to fight alongside me. But you’re a sniper, Sinon. Long-distance shooting is the entire basis of your style, isn’t it?”

“Well, yes, but…”

“Tell you what. When the next scan comes, I’ll jump out into the map to expose my location and draw Death Gun’s interest. My guess is that he’ll hide in the distance and try to shoot me with his rifle. You use that information to detect his location, and shoot him back. Deal?”

“…So you’re going to act as a decoy and spotter?” she asked, shocked by the reckless bravado of his plan, but based on the combination of their builds, that was probably the most effective plan they had. It was clear that in a combination of extreme close-range and long-range fighters, one of the two would be ineffective.

She took a deep breath and nodded. “Deal. Let’s do it. But you’d better not die on his very first shot.”

“I-I’ll try…but his rifle is silent, and there’s no bullet line to detect.”

“And who was it that bragged about predicting the prediction line?”

Sinon noticed that the fear hanging over her back was fading as they teased each other, still holding each other tight.

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