Sky World

Chapter 1: The Raid

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VOLUME 2

Chapter 1: The Raid
Part 11

A few minutes later, when everybody settled down and reseated themselves, they drank some tea brewed for them by the shopkeeper.

“Hey, Jun. Did you really make a pa.s.s at her?” Yukaria pretended to be surprised yet again.

“You were there, so you should know.”

“I’m just trying to make sure.”

“Sheesh. How should I interpret your actions?”

“Shall we go over it in detail?”

“No, it’s fine.”

“You’re really a good-for-nothing shy kiddo.”

Yukaria seemed happy to tease him. Jun smiled wryly in response.

“That’s how you are. You two should realize the misunderstanding and change your mindset now.”

“Ugh, I’ve been ridiculed in such a way&h.e.l.lip; this is truly a failure of a lifetime.” Eri, while shaking her head, collapsed onto the table. “Well, we were deceived because we didn’t know much about her personality yet. By nature, I’m a monk type! Fine, please continue!”

“Well, well, someone’s a sore loser.”

“Shut up, you idioooot! Dammit! Daaamn it!!!” Soaking the table with her tears, Eri drew circles with her finger. “Ughh, I know that you’re not the bad one here, and I’m okay!”

“Uh, uhh, I think it’s fine too.” For some reason, Kasumi’s face turned bright red as she fidgeted restlessly.

“Well&h.e.l.lip; so that means you’re suitable for our team.”

“How optimistic. &h.e.l.lip;But that’s besides the point.” Putting on a serious look, she looked at the three of them one by one. “This is a serious answer, but for the time being, why don’t we think of me as a provisional member.”

“Then we’ll have a test. Is that okay? I, as the healer, really want you to join us.” With those words, Eri lifted her face, and stared at Yukaria’s chest. “I also want those b.o.o.bs of yours.”

“Eri’s still just a middle schooler. So, how about after this?”

“By the way, Yukaria-san, how was middle school?”

”Recently, I haven’t thought much about the years past.”

Eri dropped her shoulders disappointedly while Yukaria avoided her gaze. “Well, aren’t those b.o.o.bs lovely&h.e.l.lip;”

“I’m a girl going through p.u.b.erty. You know, Jun really loves b.o.o.bs.”

“Hey, Yukaria! That’s enough&h.e.l.lip;”

“Gee, Jun, you did before.”

“Just as I thought, you should be kicked out.”

“&h.e.l.lip;What a comeback.”

Jun looked over at Kasumi and then at Yukaria with an annoyed expression on his face.

“Putting that aside, this is what we’re going to do. &h.e.l.lip;Yukaria, let’s all get along from now on.”

“Same for you. Though I don’t like being a controller in rough, unorganized groups, gunslingers really can’t do anything on their own.”

“What do you mean by that?” Kasumi tilted her head.

“Controllers are just like that. They are only effective in groups&h.e.l.lip;”

“Hold up. I haven’t really explained the concept of controllers to Kasumi.”

“Then shall I do the honors?” Yukaria offered her hand.

“Yes, please do!”

“For starters, there are fifteen cla.s.ses in Sky World, which are separated into five different roles, one of which being the attacker. There are front line and rear line attackers, with three cla.s.ses in each category. Kasumi, can you tell me the other roles?”

“Yes. Tank, healer, and also, controller, right?”

“Right. You, a light warrior, are a tank. Eri, a white magician, is a healer, and Jun, a magic swordsman, is a front line attacker. Gunslinger, my cla.s.s, is a controller. Though there are also three cla.s.ses that are controllers, gunslingers can deal a bit more damage than the others. Though it’s not as much as Jun can do, they can deal more damage than you, Kasumi.”

Having given that brief introduction, Yukaria proceeded to talk about the main topic of this discourse.

“So, just like how tanks protect their teammates, healers heal the wounded and attackers devote themselves to killing enemies, controllers control enemies. They are most useful when there are many enemies approaching at once.”

“Many&h.e.l.lip; so like during that raid two days ago?”

“Yes, in those situations it’s even normal for individual groups to take on three or four monsters at a time. When that happens, what do we do?”

“When it gets troublesome, I’ll just take care of it myself.”

“Well, that’s Jun we’re talking about.”

If Jun were alone, he would know all about the enemies’ attack patterns, so he would be able to precisely avoid their attacks all the while attacking them back. In a group, when enmity is involved, it would be much more difficult to hold on to the enemies.

“If I can’t handle it, then we won’t be able to do it.”

“What a doting father&h.e.l.lip;” groaned Yukaria, her hand on her forehead in annoyance.

“If you die, Jun, then we can’t do anything. It takes ten days for the battery to recharge. It’s a long time. The day before yesterday, Kasumi-san already died, so I was thinking we should take extra care for a while,” Eri chimed in.

“&h.e.l.lip;If that’s what you mean, then with my addition to the group, the way you’ve been handling battles will change completely.”

“Yukaria-san, during that raid, you held down so many monsters at the same time,” Kasumi said.

Opening her eyes, Yukaria responded, “How very observant of you.”

“Uh, well, but you were shouting some pretty weird stuff while fighting&h.e.l.lip;”

“When I get excited, I unconsciously blurt out obscene things.”

“That’s a letdown for a beautiful person like you&h.e.l.lip; How did you let that happen to yourself?” Eri put her hand on her forehead, disappointed. “Even so, you’re so much better than at first glance&h.e.l.lip; The bard guy next to me was really amazed.”

“Like then, for example, when four monsters came our way, I stopped three of them so that the others in the group would only need to deal with one enemy at a time, though that’s just our job as controllers. Knowing the proper situations to use sleep bullet, bind bullet, and snare bullet just shows the difference in our skill levels. Though we can’t heal or buff like bards and we don’t have the defense of skullswords.”

Jun followed up on her final comment, “For what it’s worth, gunslingers have regular and special bullets that can deal damage. They won’t let even a single enemy attack.”

Practically speaking, there were many newbies who chose to be gunslingers just because they wanted to be gun-users with lots of damage.

“Uh. Though I would say that when soloing, it’s hard to do much with just special effect bullets.”

Gunslingers used two types of guns, handguns and a.s.sault rifles, both of which had the problem of reloading. Though Yukaria usually used two guns at once, each able to hold up to six bullets, she sacrificed a lot of damage in order to use bullets that inflict abnormal effects.

In groups, just doing what her role entailed was enough.

“When soloing, moving around efficiently is essential, but since gunslingers don’t have utility spells like the magic swordsman’s Long Walk, it’s really hard for us. &h.e.l.lip;Anyways, any questions?”

Eri raised her hand.

“Please explain, in detail, Jun’s love for big b.o.o.bs.”

Kasumi leaned forward. Jun greeted the desk with his face.

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