Chapter 290 — Three Thousand Miles in Search of the Half-Naked
I was endlessly practicing Black and Black RX transformation poses, so the chapter ended up late.
【Talking Rabbit】Sunraku Search Board part 1【Double Curse】
Basashi Musashi [1]: This board started for kind of sketchy reasons, but the idea is to track down the player "Sunraku," who travels with a talking Vorpal Bunny, and somehow get him to tell us his secrets.
Basashi Musashi [1]: He may be monopolizing information, but this whole thing started with someone secretly taking pictures, so be careful about making contact.
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Basashi Musashi [523]: This place has gotten pretty dead.
Add [524]: Well, everyone's focusing on the New Land now. Can't really blame them.
Basashi Musashi [525]: Honestly, making a dedicated thread for someone who doesn't stand out the way Psyger-100 or Orcelott do might've been overkill in the first place.
Deep Throater [526]: Sunraku? Sunraku... I feel like I've heard that name before.
Add [527]: Oh? A new development this late in the game?
Deep Throater [528]: Not quite. I merely had a little history with someone using the same name in a game I played before.
Deep Throater [529]: Though maybe I was the only one who thought of him as a rival, y'knowww.
Basashi Musashi [530]: At least keep your character consistent...
Super Alloy Tofu [531]: Well, someone entertaining showed up.
Deep Throater [532]: It's a game, after all. I want to play all kinds of characters... that's simply how I feel.
Add [533]: Anyway, back to the point. You know him?
Deep Throater [534]: I wonder. It could just be someone else with the same name, after all.
Basashi Musashi [535]: You're even ignoring gender now?
Basashi Musashi [535]: Still, I guess it isn't such an original name that we can rule out two people using it.
Add [536]: HUH!? A Unique Monster!?
Super Alloy Tofu [537]: Talk about speaking of the devil!
Rudowar [538]: That hit so hard I opened this thread without thinking. What the hell is that guy doing?
Deep Throater [539]: Found you.
Indrew [540]: Arthur Pencilgon!? So THAT'S why that bastard wasn't there when the base got raided!
Basashi Musashi [541]: What? Seriously? Wasn't the inTora Gang the one that launched the surprise attack?
Thunder Nut [542]: Knew this thread would start moving again.
Indrew [543]: Ah, shit! Thinking back, I DID wonder why those leaks kept showing up at such convenient times! She leaked them on purpose!?
Add [544]: Forget that—what the hell is Wethermon the Tombguard? I've never even heard of it.
Rudowar [545]: The vice leader disappearing during the Ashura Kai raid. A Unique Monster getting defeated somewhere else. Conveniently planted leaks about Ashura Kai.
Basashi Musashi [546]: I just got chills. Was all of this in the palm of the Giant Killer's hand?
Curry Jones [547]: I wasn't gonna join a dedicated thread just to help hunt down one guy, but this changes things.
Beat Van [548]: Wait, this guy already had a dedicated board? Looking at the date on >>1, did he do something even earlier?
Basashi Musashi [549]: • Has Lycagon's "curse" carved into him in two places.
Basashi Musashi [549]: • Travels with a talking Vorpal Bunny.
Basashi Musashi [549]: • Defeated the Unique Monster "Wethermon the Tombguard" → NEW!
Super Alloy Tofu [550]: Yeah, they're seriously gonna organize a search party now...
【Eyewitness Testimony?】Sunraku Search Board part 5【Fake or Real】
Basashi Musashi [1]: This USED to be a board for trying to track down the player "Sunraku," who travels with a talking Vorpal Bunny, and somehow get him to tell us his secrets.
Basashi Musashi [1]: We can't find him at all, so forget making contact—for now, let's just find the guy by any means necessary.
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Basashi Musashi [723]: Sighting report.
Basashi Musashi [723]: Someone says he was spotted in Eidort!
Dasai Fifty [724]: That's nearby. Heading there now.
Add [725]: From Fifticia... yeah, no way I'd make it in time.
Minstrel Wind [726]: This reminds me of a fixed-symbol enemy from an old game. The second it entered battle mode it'd run away, then randomly respawn on the opposite side of the field map.
Kokuryu [727]: I might've played that too. Wait a second—you an old guy?
Minstrel Wind [728]: N-n-n-n-no I'm not! I j-j-just secretly played a copy my dad had carefully stored away!!
Minstrel Wind [728]: ...Wait. Are you from the generation that lined up to buy Armadillo?
Kokuryu [729]: Kamerad...!
South Beauty [730]: Compagno...!
Kubotta [731]: Tongzhi...!
Camo Fountain [732]: Tovarishch...!
Basashi Musashi [733]: Stop contaminating the board with old-man stink!
Add [734]: What's Armadillo...?
Camo Fountain [735]: It's short for "Arcana Magician 6"—"Ar" + "Magi" + the ro from six (roku): Ar-maji-ro, "Armadillo." Among VR games from the generation right before full-dive, it's legendary.
Minstrel Wind [736]: Man, I seriously spent a chunk of my life obsessed with that game...
South Beauty [737]: The heroine dies halfway through, but the whole story leading up to her revival near the end is perfect...
Kubotta [738]: The fact that even the game system itself was foreshadowing blew my mind...
Deep Throater [739]: This conversation feels like it's sucking the life out of meee...
Add [740]: Yo, DeepSlo-san.
【Ctarnidd】Sunraku Search Board part 8【Where the Hell Is That Bastard】
Deep Throater [1]: This is a board for somehow cornering and capturing Sunraku-kun, who never shows so much as a shadow no matter how hard we search, yet casually went and defeated a second Unique Monster. Share information, and if someone spots him nearby, rush over right away, okay?
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Deep Throater [324]: Ooh, I got myself a useful spell.
Add [325]: You really do just cut into the conversation out of nowhere every time...
Deep Throater [326]: No, seriously, this one's useful. It's the fast travel I've always wanted.
Basashi Musashi [327]: Being on the New Land means there's nothing we can do to look for Sunraku, even if we want to.
Basashi Musashi [328]: Wait. What did you just say?
Deep Throater [329]: Yeah, fast travel. It's a higher-tier spell called [Teleport Gate]. Unlike [Teleport], which limits you to the last town you saved in, this lets you jump to any place you've visited before.
Add [330]: WHAAAAAT!?
Deep Throater [331]: The unlock requirement was so brutal I laughed my ass off, but I powered through and learned it, de gozaru.
Belmot [332]: For future reference, may I ask what the unlock requirement was...?
Deep Throater [333]: Sureee. For an innocent little junior like you, I'll teach you nice and thoroughly...
Deep Throater [334]: A combined total of 1,000 uses of [Teleport] and [Apport].
Belmot [335]: That's... sooooo painful.
Kokuryu [336]: Just pure mindless-grind suffering, huh... And before that you've gotta raise your affinity with that horny old man. That's rough for an old guy like me...
Deep Throater [337]: Just put hypnosis audio on heavy rotation right next to Grandpa's ear and it's easy-peasy, you know?
Deep Throater [338]: My read is that the old man gets turned on by women who are self-conscious about having small breasts.
Rudowar [339]: Why the hell do I have to burn useless information about some horny NPC grandpa's fetishes into my brain...?
Deep Throater [340]: Let's violate the brains of everyone reading this board together...
Deep Throater [341]: Oh, and I'm happy to handle intercontinental travel for a minimum of 500,000 Mani, okay?
Belmot [342]: What a ripoff... but yeah, you'd probably make a fortune...
Zenith Guevara [343]: Can I pay afterward?
Deep Throater [344]: Twenty percent extra.
Zenith Guevara [345]: Cheap! I'll have you send me back later!
Add [346]: Oh, look who it is—the guy running the ripoff shop!
Zenith Guevara [347]: Shut up! If you're happy with the shitty selection in NPC stores, then you don't need to buy anything from MY shop, do you!?
Deep Throater [348]: Everyone, pleeease rely on me more and more... hehehe.
A net of encirclement born from old ties spreads across the New Land.
Pencilgon talks people around while giving them enough bait to accept the deal, turning them into "pawns." This one is more troublesome: solidarity and dependence get used to turn people into "allies."
If I say "the man with the hooked claws," you can probably tell how troublesome that makes him.
The easiest way to catch a fish is to set the trap somewhere it absolutely has to pass through... though the fish they're after here is basically a salmon with a jet engine strapped to it.