Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 2] by Shouji Gatou

Author:Shouji Gatou
Language: eng
Format: epub

Shinji and Kaname soon left the city of Pinckney and began to walk down the main road toward the Ramage Plains. She’d heard it was an area for advanced players, but Shinji insisted it was a perfect place for beginners.

Barren hills stretched out all around her. Even the sky, which had been so beautiful and blue in the city, took on an ominous hue here. “A-Are you sure about this?” she asked.

“Don’t worry. I’m with you,” Shinji said reassuringly.

Just then, three trolls emerged from the brush. They were violent, burly, copper-skinned man-eaters, each about three meters tall. The lead enemy let out a river of drool, raised its log-like club, and charged straight at her. Graaaah! it roared.

It was so intimidating that Kaname let out a shriek, genuinely stunned.

“Chidori-san! Don’t move!” called Shinji, brandishing his staff behind her. His black cape flapped in the wind and the air around him distorted. A white flash rushed out of the staff, and there was a powerful roar of thunder.

“Go!” Shinji shouted. A blinding electric shock ran through the three trolls, charring their flesh as they each let out a throaty roar.

“Yikes!” Kaname shouted in panic.

Meanwhile, Shinji slowly relaxed. “You’re safe now, Chidori-san. They’re paralyzed.”

“What?”

The trolls weren’t dead yet, but they also couldn’t move.

“Attack,” he prompted her.

“Um... sure,” said Kaname, swinging the weapon Shinji had given her earlier. The troll’s HP ran out in one shot and just like that, it died. The first troll’s figure burned away like a bit of scrap paper on fire, followed by the second, and then the third.

Kaname’s level skyrocketed, and her gold increased twenty-fold. “Wow,” she said, “awesome.”

“Right? lol,” said Shinji with a smile. “Power leveling like this is sort of against the game’s rules of etiquette, but there’s really a lot of exploits like that. You can get pretty high level in just an hour, but then you run into diminishing returns.”

“Really?”

“It’s more fun to play as a fencer after you’ve gained a couple levels,” he commented. “It might not seem interesting now, but hang in there a while.”

“Ah... right,” said Kaname. “Thanks.”

“You’re welcome. Now, let’s keep going,” Shinji responded merrily, and once more resumed his walk through the wasteland.

Is this really the Kazama Shinji I know? wondered Kaname. From this angle, his silhouette was strangely noble and reassuring.

While she was preparing for this adventure, the tavern master of the Arleigh Burke had told her that Shinji’s character was nicknamed ‘Zama the Gale’, and that he was a fairly well-known adventurer among the regulars. He was a powerful fighter, with smooth navigation of the game commands and clear-headed judgment. It was easy to understand why his girlfriend, a girl named Cia, had fallen for him so easily.

“Do I just have a weakness for this sort of thing?” Kaname asked herself. She’d have to reevaluate her ambiguous feelings for Sousuke at some point, if so. After all, at school, he was utterly useless. And here in the game, he’d run away and then gone no-contact...

It’s not like I’m actually going to fall for him like this.

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