Episode 14: My Reload Is A Revolutionary Revolution!
Things were looking good earlier, but the atmosphere was completely ruined by our strange voices.
It was simply too early for us. Thinking about it, we had just talked for the first time yesterday, and this was almost our first meeting. For Sana, this was the first time she had recognized me as an individual. For a girl who has never even talked to a guy before, kissing such a person the day after she met him would indeed be a high hurdle. It’s no different for me. I’m not the kind of person who can have anything to do with the saint of St. Joseph’s School.
So, what are we who almost kissed each other skipping class for two days in a row doing…?
“Yay! Did you see my headshot?”
“Holy s**t, you can hit a guy from this distance?”
“Hahahahaha! There’s no one better than me when it comes to using the M24!”
I was playing PIBG, a smartphone FPS game. What I’m playing with her now is PIBG’s pair mode. The goal of the game is to form a team and survive by working together.
I had only played Pair Mode with Kazuharu before, but I was struck by how much the game changes when you change your team. When I play with Kazuharu, we cooperate with each other to defeat the enemies around us, but when I play with Sana, I’m the complete escort and supply guy. She’s the aggressor, and I’m the one who has to look around for ammunition and kill enemy soldiers who approach while she’s sniping.
Rather, this clumsy saint of a woman, who seems to be good at both studies and sports, is also very good at PIBG. Just now, she sniped a headshot at an enemy that I couldn’t even see from my field of vision. What a genius.
But even though she is such a good player, she has a problem with her play style.
“Oh wait. You can’t go out there by yourself like that…..”
“Don’t worry. I’ll take out that idiot standing there, too.” She said, pushing forward to a place I hadn’t checked yet. And then…
“Hey, hey! Why are there enemies here? I’m going to die!”
This is how it was turned into a beehive by the ambushers and the enemy pair who happened to be there. Right now, I’ve run into a pair of them, and I’m avoiding being hit by bullets by jumping around when they’re under concentrated fire.
In a way, it’s amazing that she hasn’t died even though she’s been shot at so much. She was not only a good sniper, but also a good evader. I wondered where she had learned such skills.
“Geez! He’s knocked me out! Kaoru, help me!”
“Oh, you don’t need to tell you that. …..Wait a minute.”
I equipped my favorite revolver-type handgun, the MaganuM-1895, and headed to Sana’s rescue. I sneak up behind the enemy who was trying to finish off the downed Sana, and headshot him with the M-1895 equipped with a silencer. I immediately switched my weapon to a UPM45 submachine gun and put all my bullets into the other enemy, killing him instantly.
“Wow, you’re good! That’s my supporter!”
Sana said admiringly as she watched me fight. I felt a little smug because I thought I had done a good job of getting around.
But still, a supporter is …..completely treated as an assistant. I’m sure it’s fine.
In addition to collecting items while searching for enemies like a supporter, I went to low on heath Sana and used the healing items.
“You’re a big help! Thank you!”
“You know, like I said, you might want to be a little more careful.”
“Ugu… I get it.”
This was the third time in this game that she had almost died in such a situation. If I die, it’s over instantly, this pair.
“Sana, you’ve almost never won a solo game.”
“How do you know?”
“That’s just from watching how you fight…”
“Donkatsu” means to survive to the end in this game, and Donkatsu is the only win in this game. Other than that, it will be in the form of defeat. If you don’t have some caution, you can’t survive to the end.
Sana was indeed very good, but her play style was too specialized in attacking, and she was very vulnerable to attacks from blind spots. In other words, she’s too lazy to keep an eye on her surroundings and is vulnerable to attacks. She had a style of play that was all attack. Not at all like a girl. No, I don’t know what PIBG’s definition of girly play is.
By the way, the origin of Donkatsu is that the English version of PIBG’s victory message says “WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER!”, But in the Japanese version, “Katsu” and “Win” are multiplied to “Win! Win! dinner is a Donkatsu! ” It meant that we should have a Katsudon party because we won. I don’t know what it means, but it’s a game that originated overseas, so don’t worry about the depths.
“Well, that’s true, …but it’s safer with you around, right?”
“What?”
“Because even if I make a mistake, Kaoru-kun will help me.”
She looked at me with a beautiful smile as she said this. I feel a little embarrassed, as if she trusts me.
She doesn’t get nervous and make strange noises like before, but smiles at me naturally and we can have a nice conversation like this. Maybe this is the right pace for us right now. Just being able to have this kind of conversation makes it worthwhile for me to support them.
Of course, I’m well aware that the fact that I’m being relied on like this is only in the game. But even if it was just a game, it made me happy to be relied on by her like this. There’s nothing else I can do to beat her.
“Oh, hey. I’ve been wondering, why is the M-1895 your main weapon? Wouldn’t some other weapon be better?”
“A revolver is a man’s romance.”
She shrugged her shoulders. The romance of the revolver can only be understood by men. The time it takes to reload, and the tension of loading each round, cannot be experienced with a mag change.
“My reload is a revolutionary revolution!”
I loaded the M-1895 with bullets, saying that.
“…. Are you an idiot?”
Seeing me like that, Sana was slightly taken back. Damn, I can’t believe you don’t know this stuff. ….This is why women are no good.
“Revolution is great, but don’t drag me down.”
“You know, you’re forgetting that I saved your life like three times.”
“Oh, look! Look!! We need to kill 3 more and we’ll win!”
“Listen to me!”
“Come on, you little weaklings! I’ll take care of all of you!” And with that, she ran back to the battlefield.
“Atleast, please look around….”
I let out a big sigh and followed her.
I caught a glimpse of her from the side of my eye and saw that she was really enjoying herself. She had an innocent smile on her face, like a schoolgirl playing a game. She was far from her usual ladylike saintly self, but I’m sure this was her true self.
In the end, our pair survived to the end of the game. I was impressed by Sana’s smile as she gave me a happy high-five the moment we won.
Maybe it had been a long time since she had even played with her friends like this …….