SECT.13 - Battle to the Death
“Sorry, LLENN. I failed to take down the sniper.”
“That’s alright!”
LLENN stood up as she answered to M. She pulled the sling and brought her P90 in front of her body.
She did not have the time to talk leisurely. There was still an enemy in the shade of a rock about 30 metres in front of here, and the enemy should be heading towards her. Because that is what she would do.
No longer minding the other two who were nearby, LLENN broke into a run.
It was an extreme dash towards the enemy, with the resolution of colliding into them. As she ran, the rocks kept moving to the back of her vision as if they were soaring, and what came out from the shade of one of the rocks,
“Uooooooooo!”
Was a large woman with a shouting expression who was aiming a pistol at her.
Squeezing the P90’s trigger, LLENN continued her a.s.sault. By drawing near, she kept moving below the bullets and thus kept dodging her opponent’s line of fire.
She saw her own bullets heading for the huge woman’s legs, but this woman was not a weak opponent that could be taken down that easily.
‘In that case, I’ll shoot you up even if I have to run into you!’
LLENN, who continued charging while dodging bullets,
“Don’t make light of me!”
Saw that the huge woman was raising her big and long leg. And, that it was heading for her like a slanting log.
“Guhya!”
Giving a tiny scream, LLENN was kicked up. While soaring in the sky——
‘I can’t let her go that easily!’
LLENN put all of her energy solely into the hand grasping her P90.
And then, the small body that flew in the air,
“Boheh!”
Landed on one of the rocks.
What LLENN had fallen on with her back was a flat and wide rock that was at least 2 metreshigh. ‘Just how far was I blown away?’
“Ugaah……”
She did not feel any sharp pain, but due to the feeling of her back being pressed with a thump, she couldn’t help but be in agony for about 2 seconds.
When LLENN finally tried standing up, her right hand,
*Gorih*.
Was stepped on by a big leg.
The right leg of the huge woman that ran up to the top of the rock, and still had hit effectsshown——
Pinned down her arm with the P90.
LLENN’s hand and P90 were fixed onto her stomach as if held in a vise. Her right hand could not be moved, and her stomach hurt. As if she had overeaten.
“I have you now!”
As the roaring huge woman was backlit, LLENN could not see her face, but——
‘I’m glad that I can’t see her It’s probably scary Probably like an Asura. (2)’
She was able to think calmly.
“The finishing move!”
The huge woman’s right arm had turned towards her.
It was grasping a black pistol. She saw a red Line coming from it, and it was fixed on her left breast, exactly where her heart was.
*Dadadan*
Three, consecutive, merciless and high-speed shots.
‘Even though you didn’t need to shoot that much, I would have died from 1 shot. A waste of bullets.’
With such a thought, LLENN felt the impact shaking her body.
And, ‘It’s less painful than I thought’, she had this thought as well.
It was an attack on her heart, and yet it only felt as if her chest was knocked on with a *tontonton*. ‘Perhaps the pain is no longer being reproduced since I died from the first bullet?’
That was not it.
Looking at her hit point gauge, she saw that although it was red, it was still the same as it was moments ago. She had been hit by 3 bullets, and yet it hadn’t decreased at all. Speaking of which, she did see any hit effects either.
‘How?’
“Aah?”
It seemed that her enemy-san was more surprised than her,
*Dan*, *dan*, *dan*, *dan*.
This time, she slowly fired four times consecutively, at her chest of course. LLENN clearly saw how the slide quickly made round trips, and each time an empty sh.e.l.l was thrown out and glittered.
And still, she did not die.
“Is this guy invulnerable? A cheat?”
‘That can’t be the case you know?’
LLENN tried answering to the question, but——
Before she did, she realised. She remembered. What was in the left chest pocket of her combat uniform.
It was the satellite scan terminal——. An indestructible object.
“Shhit! What, a protector!”
‘No, that is not it, though the result is the same.’
“Then——”
The Bullet Line rose from her chest. It was fixed on her right eye, and the world was dyed in deep red,
“Hyah!
LLENN twist her neck to the left. A 9mm bullet that grazed her right ear pierced the rock behind her.
Another Line. This time, she twisted her neck to the right. She heard the sound of impact right next to her left ear.
And then, the huge woman drew her pistol closer. At LLENN’s forehead, merely about 20 cmaway.
She avoided those 2 bullets, but she was done for with the next.
LLENN’s resolution to die for the umpteenth time today,
“Wh—— s.h.i.t!”
Was once again wiped out by the huge woman’s surprised words, and by the disappearance of theBullet Lines.
The pistol thrust at her, specifically, its slide stopped at the back.
When an automatic pistol is in such a state, it means that that a common phenomenon around the world has occurred. Namely, either a load failure, or the gun has run out of ammo.
In this case, it was the latter. The huge woman had fired too much.
Having accustomed to the backlighting, LLENN saw the body of the huge woman. While pinning her down with her right foot, the woman reached for the pouch on her left thigh with her left hand as she removed the empty magazine from the pistol with her right.
It was obvious that she was trying to take out a spare magazine for her pistol and reload it, and if this was allowed, 10 bullets or more would probably descend on her face this time.
‘Yeah. I won’t let you.’
‘But, what do I do? What can I do?’
LLENN used the weapon that she could use.
She moved her sole free, left hand and swiftly pulled out a long P90’s magazine from her left thigh pouch, and,
“Taah!”
With a yell, she threw it with all her might.
The ma.s.sive magazine filled with bullets collided with the huge woman’s left hand,
“Wh!”
And sent the pistol magazine in it flying below the rock.
“Another one.”
LLENN pulled out a second magazine, and threw it at the huge woman’s face this time . The longmagazine that turned sideways collided with the woman’s eye,
“Kyah.”
And forced a cute scream, which reminded LLENN that the player was female, out of her.
As expected, the force in her right leg loosened. LLENN put all her might into swinging her right hand, forcing the large figured to sway, and fall backwards——
“Sh-”
However, by only stumbling a step or two, she stopped.
Using this gap, LLENN rolled to the left to escape, then got up to jump, and then she extended her right hand and thrust the muzzle of her P90 towards the huge woman who was about 2 metresin front of her.
“Taah!”
She fired all the remaining bullets in full auto.
Burarararararararararararararara.
The ten-odd bullets that remained in the magazine were immediately fired out.
Meanwhile, only the first 5 bullets landed a hit. On the huge woman’s left arm and hand.
“Haah?”
LLENN was shocked.
Even in her dreams she wouldn’t have thought that person who would do such a thing existed.
The huge woman discerned that she would not be able to dodge the attack, thus she made her own attack. And so, she extended her left arm towards the P90 muzzle.
And, she tightly grasped the tip of the barrel that was spewing out flames as the gun fired, and forcibly shifted the line of fire to the left. The P90 discharge continued, but all the remaining bullets were soaked up by the ground below the rock.
On the same rock, LLENN who had extended her left arm with her P90, and the huge woman who grasped its tip with her left hand——
Stood still in that posture.
“D-doesn’t it hurt a bit?”
LLENN reflexively enquired. Even though it did not hurt as much as in RL, it should have been considerably hard on her senses when that many holes were opened in her left arm.
The woman with her left arm and hand dyed in bright red by the hit effects,
“Well, I forgot over the excitement. Though I’m not at all filled with strength.”
With a rough face, she answered in a feminine tone. And then,
Aiming at the abdomen of the small body right in front of her, Boss pulled the trigger of herStrizh.
She no longer went easy.
She unleashed all 16 bullets at the stomach rather than the chest without restraint. The sound of discharge, that reverberated as if it was made by a submachine gun, resounded, and empty sh.e.l.ls shined in midair in short intervals.
“How’s this!”
Boss was confident in her victory this time.
The pink chibi slipped into the smoke from the discharge of her gun, and disappeared.
But nevertheless, she did not let her guard down, and as she dropped the used up magazine, her left hand had took out the spare magazine that she was unable to get moments ago, and attempted to insert it into her Strizh,
“Eeh?”
At the sight of a human figure slowly swaying, she stopped her action.
“How dare you——”
The pink chibi… was alive.
Even though she bombarded her „stomach“ that much.
“How dare you——”
Hearing a voice that sounded like it was rising from the bottom of h.e.l.l,
“HOW DARE YOOOOOU——”
Boss saw.
That her opponent had not died yet, and that the pink P90 that she was holding in her arms had become a tattered wreck.
And she heard a yell.
“DO THAT TO P-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAN!”
She did not understand what that meant.
Boss was overwhelmed by the chibi’s bloodshot eyes glaring at her, and just as she was about to insert the magazine into her Strizh, she stopped her hand.
The P90’s wreckage fell and scattered on the rock,
“I see…… So you used it to guard yourself, how magnificent!”
She expressed her honest words of admiration.
And then, she finished inserting the magazine to the end, and shut the slide.
The moment that Boss fixed the pistol’s aim on her,
LLENN kicked up the earth while keeping an eye on the Bullet Line.
Their battle with the top of the rock as the stage,
‘s.h.i.tt!”
Was continuously observed by Tohma for some time now.
She was lying on her stomach on a rock that was merely about 50 metres away, and had herDragunov at the ready.
There was no scope on that Dragunov.
It was removed, dropped at the side of the rock, and had its objective lens smashed.
Moments ago, she had leaned out atop of a large rock to confirm the position of the enemysniper, and she saw. That for a mere moment, a figure had fixed its aim exactly on her and fired. For some reason, she could not see the Bullet Line, but she did see the shining muzzle.
The next moment, her scope’s field of vision blacked out. Being pushed by the gun, she tumbled down the rock, and realised the cause. It wasn’t her that was. .h.i.t, but her scope, and it became useless.
Her spine went cold at the opponent’s accuracy and speed, but thanks to this, her life was spared. Tohma quickly detached the scope and the cheek pad for the scope,
“I’m not done yet!”
Stuck her head out from another small rock from a low height, and, using normal metal sights equipped on the Dragunov, she began covering Boss.
When the pink chibi was kicked and sent flying atop a rock, Tohma immediately took aim, but,
“K~!”
She could only stop as Boss ran up there.
50 metres was a distance where she could blow away the target’s fingertips if she had a scope, but with ordinary sights, she could not aim that well.
And so, Tohma continued observing their battle to the death from afar without getting to shoot.
If she carelessly shot, there was the risk that she would hit Boss, who had a far bigger body.
And even if she hit the pink chibi, there was also the possibility that the bullet would pierce her and deal damage to Boss as well.
As she could not allow the Bullet Line to become a hindrance, Tohma took her finger away from the trigger, and the Bullet Circle disappeared from her vision as well.
And so, the moment of not being able to do anything but watch the battle continued——
When Boss got a magazine from a comrade and made the pink chibi eat the pistol’s ferocious rapid-fire, she was confident that they had won.
Having endured that much close-range rapid fire, she probably did not have any hit points left.
However——
‘H-how? Are you a zombieeee!”
Seeing the pink chibi moving once again, Tohma felt fear from the bottom of her heart.
Having slipped under the crotch the second time, LLENN,
‘One more attack! No, however many it takes!’
Turning around, she saw Bullet Lines extending from the pistol in Boss’s right hand.
‘That much I can just dodge.’
‘Unless they touch my body, I won’t be hit.’
With the battle having unfolded thus far, LLENN no longer had any hesitation.
‘I’ll avenge P-chan.”
With just this thought, LLENN held up the knife in her right hand over her head, and began her third a.s.sault,
‘Eeh?’
She saw that Boss transferred the pistol to another hand.
And let go of the grip from her hand, grasping the front of the gun with her left,
“Uraa!”
Followed by the start of a swing towards her.
She was going to strike with the pistol as if it was a hammer.
As LLENN had begun her a.s.sault, she could no longer stop. She did not know where the Bullet Line-less blow would go until the very last moment.
When she realised that the attack was aimed at her right hand, it was already too late to lower the hand or draw it in——
‘If I lose my knife, it’s over.’
LLENN opened her hand with all her strength.
Boss’s pistol blow hit LLENN’s right wrist——
And, *gori*, made a nasty sound of a bone being hit. Her right arm was sent far outward.
The system acknowledged that the damage was enough to break a bone, and made a hit effectflash from her wrist, while her hit point gauge dropped quickly. Ten percent remained.
LLENN firmly grasped the knife in a reverse grip, and lightly jumped.
From left to right, the huge neck of the person giving a smile,
“Taah!”
Was sliced in a straight, horizontal line.
“Drop to the ground!”
At the shout that came to her left ear——
LLENN moved her body before she could even think.
A Dragunov’s bullet roared as it pa.s.sed by, merely 10 cm above LLENN’s body lying close to the ground atop the rock.
“Uhii!
LLENN gave a scream.
Right after she heard the Dragunov’s gunshot,
“I’m right here! Enemy-san!”
She heard this voice, and *dokadokadokan*, three loud and consecutive gunshots. LLENN turned her head and faced the direction that the gunshots came from,
“Eh, M-san?”
Wasn’t that M boldly standing up atop a large rock 150 metres away? She only saw a small figure, but that large build and camouflaged clothes were undoubtedly M’s.
“Hey, M-san! Hide! ——Won’t you end up dying if you die?”
M did not answer her words.
The two snipers,
Glared at each other a short distance of merely 200 metres away,
Both of them prepared their respective guns, and discharged at the same time.
The bullets quickly approached and pa.s.sed by each other——
And hit each other’s abdomens.
The two bodies fell down from the rocks.
LLENN clearly saw how the big one fell.
Match time: 1 hour 28 minutes.
The first Squad Jam was over.
Winning team - 『ＬＭ』.
Bullets fired in total during the tournament: 49,810.
1. ^ Refers to the Apodidae family of birds.
2. ^ Asura (阿修羅) are the lowest ranks of the deities or demiG.o.ds of the Kāmadhātu. The expression "like an Asura" means “with berserker-like fury”.