Chapter 79: Character Introductions, Part Two

Name: Kuon Amane Player Name: Orcelott Age: 15 Sex: Male Special Skill: Acting tough Likes: Crushing everyone as an unstoppable force Dislikes: Not being able to crush everyone, girls who approach him just to get closer to his sister Favorite Game Genres: Action games Most Disliked Game Genres: FPS Playstyle: “I’m OP.” Overlevels and crushes opponents through sheer stat gaps — in a sense, a genuinely correct and proper playstyle for gaming. It's not that he's bad at games per se, but he is terrible at games that require you to die multiple times as a core premise. What's more, he hates playing a supporting role, so in FPS games he's the type to charge in first. The full set includes getting sniped and then verbally abused by his teammates. The type who gets caught in a Rainmaker explosion and dies. Details: Towa Amane's little brother. Since his sister is famous, he has the common complex of being compared to her, but even more than that, his sister is such a monster that he holds complicated feelings — somewhere between envy and a firm resolve never to turn out like her. Fundamentally unsuited for online gaming, he's bounced from one online game to the next: casually trying each one, then quitting the moment he couldn’t “I’m OP” his way through. With FPS games, he was cursed out so badly it became genuine trauma — he hates them enough to spit on the ground and swear never to touch one again. Well, if you go 0 kills, 20 deaths by yourself, you're gonna get flamed. Eventually, his sister Towa — who could no longer stand watching her little brother fail to enjoy Shangri-La Frontier and on the verge of quitting entirely — stepped in to help, despite having no intention of joining the same clan herself. The result: Ashura Kai was born. At first, things went fairly well — wins and losses trading back and forth. But after he acquired the Unique Weapon Magical Blade of the Slaughterer «Slaughter Bringer» through repeated player-killing... things spiraled. He never realized that the other members were enjoying "the process of PK" rather than "the results of PK," and as he maneuvered to protect those results, the veteran PKers who'd once belonged to Ashura Kai dropped out one by one, until the clan became a nest of low-quality landmine players.

Name: ??????? Player Name: Animalia Age: ?? Sex: Female Special Skill: Identifying the breeds of both parents of a mixed-breed dog just by looking Likes: Animals, animals Dislikes: Her own body Favorite Game Genres: Fantasy, games where you can interact with animals Most Disliked Game Genres: Games that reek of iron, games with no animals in them Playstyle: Specializes in incapacitation rather than killing. She has acquired a massive library of curses and binding spells that restrict and limit an opponent's actions. Her raw combat power itself is low, but when it comes to neutralizing monsters, Animalia alone possesses skills that surpass even Schwarz Vulf’s first team. Details: The female player known as the leader — or "Zoo Director" — of the monster-photography clan SF-Zoo. Gets disturbingly excited when animals are involved. In real life, she's actually a quiet and gentle woman, but she suffers from a severe congenital animal allergy; even playing with a dog for just a few minutes triggers a terrible asthma attack. That's what brought her to the world of gaming — a place where she can interact with animals without triggering her allergies. Lately, she's been pouring her energy into the newly added Rider job, seeing infinite potential in it. But she's also steeled herself to prostrate herself before Sunraku if necessary — all for the sake of returning to that heaven, Rabituza, the place she once resolved to live in forever, only to learn it was impossible and leave in genuine tears.

Name: Mana Iwamaki Player Name: ?????? Age: 26 Sex: Female Special Skill: Filling out strategy sites Likes: Fictional romance Dislikes: Real-life romance Favorite Game Genres: Otome games Most Disliked Game Genres: Horror games (not a fan of love born from the suspension-bridge effect) Playstyle: A completionist who thoroughly clears every last corner of every last box. Full trophy completion is a given — she'll dig and dig until she's unearthed every hidden CG and every secret route. Details: The woman who runs GAME-SHOP RockRoll. A die-hard otome game fanatic who periodically closes the shop for brief hiatuses. She's actually married — her husband may or may not appear in this story? She gravitates toward otome games because "when a happy ending is guaranteed," she can enjoy romance with peace of mind; she's thoroughly fed up with real-life romantic entanglements. Specifically, it seems the road to the altar with her husband was... eventful. But when it comes to a certain idiot who's burned through nearly all his brain's usable capacity on trash games, and the hopelessly romance-incompetent girl who's earnestly trying her hardest to get closer to him, she's cheering them on.

Name: ??? Player Name: Dragonfly Age: ?? Sex: Female Special Skill: Never giving up Likes: The moment a game is cleared Dislikes: Giving up Favorite Game Genres: All types Most Disliked Game Genres: Puzzle games Playstyle: An RTA-type at heart, who reaches the optimal solution through endless trial and error. Charges in first, experiments first, and only thinks about the correct answer after failing. Since her playstyle is rooted in trial-and-error while her mindset is intuitive, the two don't quite mesh. Details: A precious new player who descended upon a desolate game — the player who, when Sunraku visited Constipation to prep for Wethermon, was searching for opponents with a ridiculously buff, bearded old-man avatar. The junior energy radiating from her entire being gives other players an instinctive "can't leave her alone" feeling. However, her character-creation sensibilities are... unique, making her a walking contradiction: a female-voiced scruffy old man who radiates junior aura.

Name: ??? (Former Ashura Kai Rank Three) Player Name: ??? Age: ?? Sex: Male Special Skill: ??? Likes: Little girls Dislikes: Old men Favorite Game Genres: Games with cute girls Most Disliked Game Genres: Games where you keep triggering flags with old men Playstyle: PvP specialist. Possesses enough player skill to simultaneously evade and manage equipment against bounty hunters whose movements are nearly TAS-perfect. If limited purely to one-on-one combat, he likely has the ability to go toe-to-toe with Sunraku, Oikatzo, and Psyger-0. Details: A hero (Braver) whose name is etched into the history of Shangri-La Frontier — a man who threw away absolutely everything for one single purpose: to put Tias-chan the bounty hunter in a bikini-armor outfit. He currently serves as the leader of the pervert group "Dress-Up Tias-chan Squad," which stands shoulder to shoulder with the "Saint’s Divine Guard" as twin pillars of degeneracy. Every day, he wanders the streets both killing and being killed by his comrades, all in pursuit of the RNG roll that will give them Tias-chan.

I was on a roll, so I slapped in some character introductions for the non-main cast too.

Huh? Haven’t I ended up updating every day after all...?