Chapter 48: [EDen] Do you like Rin-sama who is strong even though her special attack is not a ranged attack but a double attack? [Yuki/Rin/Lunaverse] (4)

[Main Quest – Retrieve the Tesseract]

[Content: The Neo City base was completely destroyed by the Seven Deadly Sins. To rebuild it, the ‘Tesseract,’ the main source of energy, is needed. Go to the coordinates Greed told you, retrieve the Tesseract, and transport it to the Neo City base.]

Completing the quest wasn’t very difficult.

All I had to do was follow the drone’s guidance to the designated coordinates, so I just needed to chat with the viewers a bit on the way.

“For reference, that drone’s name is ‘Orb,’ and in modern terms, it’s like a mobile phone.”

“I see.”

“Only a few people in Neo City, which is mainly middle class, have it, and most people in Sky Plaza, who are high-income earners, have it, according to the setting…”

“I see.”

“…If someone is talking, at least listen!!”

-Kekeke

-Yuki-chan is enlightened now.

-Seyana~

-Kekekekekeke

-Why the Kansai dialect?

-Seyana~~~

-I see~

(Kansai-ben: Kansai regional dialect of Japanese)

(Seyana, seyana: “Is that so?” or “Yeah, right” in Kansai dialect)

I couldn’t listen to all of Rin’s explanations, so I just let her words flow by.

After retrieving the cube-shaped Tesseract that emitted a blue light from the sewer.

We headed back to the Resistance base.

‘A little time has probably passed, so construction work should be underway.’

‘Perhaps some of the buildings have been rebuilt?’

[HaksikSmatRamen has donated 1,000 won!]
-But if they build in the same place, won’t they just get attacked again?

And to that viewer’s question, Rin kindly replied.

“In the first place, Deus Ex Machina knows the Resistance’s location, so they can be attacked at any time. However, since the Resistance has been purifying the bandits of the Hood and the delinquents of Neo City, they’ve been intentionally left alone.”

“Hee~ I see.”

“That’s precisely why Deus Ex Machina doesn’t step in even though they have an asymmetrical power like the Seven Deadly Sins. It costs less to leave the bandits and delinquents to the Resistance than to build more security robots.”

“I see~”

“Well, seeing as the Seven Deadly Sins are starting to make their move, it seems they’ve decided not to just stand by anymore… No, more importantly, why are you leaning on me while I’m explaining!!”

“Sleepy. Gonna sleep.”

“My shoulder is not a pillow!!”

-Kekekeke

-Yuki is cute.

-Kekeke

-Kekekekekeke

-Kawaiiiiiii

However, the time I could lean on Rin wasn’t very long.

Not long after, Rin flicked my forehead, and I had no choice but to clutch my head and return to my original posture.

“Ouch!”

“You reap what you sow. Who told you to lean on someone else’s shoulder?”

“But Rin-sama is kind… I thought you’d indulge my whining…”

“…Do it after the stream is over, after the stream.”

[RinSamaTsundere has donated 10,000 won!]
-Rin-sama acts tsuntsun but still indulges her.

-Fr keke

-This is true yuri.

-YukiRin is the true pairing!!!!!!!!

-Heueung

“It’s a misunderstanding. Hurry up and proceed with the game.”

“Okay okay!”

Excited at the thought of being able to lean on her again after the stream, I immediately resumed the game.

Had a lot of time passed while we were chatting?

It didn’t feel like much time had passed, but we had already reached the doorstep of the Resistance base.

Entering the narrow alley between the buildings, a hidden, wide vacant lot unfolded.

What came into view were uncleaned debris scattered everywhere.

And an overwhelmingly large amount of blood puddles.

“Hey, yabe…”

“What in the world…”

-???????

-What happened?

-Why is everyone dead?

Everything was red.

The blood-stained ground was littered with the dismembered corpses of people.

Prosthetic arms and legs, sporadically visible, were attached to the people.

They were all smashed somewhere, emitting faint sparks, their internal wires and joints clearly visible.

And under the feet of Rin, who was wearing a mechanical suit, was the head of Commander Erik, who had died with a pained expression.

His face, contorted like a demon’s, seemed to be screaming at us to run away immediately.

A scene that truly deserved to be called a massacre.

And in the midst of that carnage.

There was an old man, still trapped under the debris, wearing a broken monocle.

[Greed: My, my, I didn’t expect you back so soon.]

[Greed: I didn’t anticipate being discovered this quickly.]

[Me: ……]

[Me: …Was this your doing?]

[Greed: And if it was?]

[Me: I thought you were suspicious from the start.]

[Me: For someone who claimed to have fought the Seven Deadly Sins, you had no injuries except for being trapped under debris.]

[Greed: Heh heh heh…]

Hearing my words, Greed chuckled as if amused.

Then, the four mechanical arms that had been pinned under the debris revealed themselves, lifting the old man’s body into the air like spider legs.

[Greed: Correct.]

[Greed: It feels like I’m participating in a quiz, this is enjoyable.]

[Greed: Anything else? Nothing more?]

[Me: ……]

Greed’s smile deepened, as if he was repeatedly amused.

After a moment of silence, I finally spoke.

[Me: Didn’t you say it yourself? That Greed, the Seven Deadly Sins with mechanical arms, attacked the base.]

[Greed: Indeed.]

[Me: Well, Greed probably never withdrew in the first place.]

[Me: It must have stayed here all along, intending to wipe out the incoming Resistance support all at once.]

At my answer, Greed, no, Tamyok, let out a disgusting ‘keh keh’ laugh.

[Greed: Correct!! Brat!!!]

[Greed: And farewell.]

[Greed: Since you are also Resistance, I have no choice but to dispose of you. Keh keh…]

[!!-ELITE BOSS ENCOUNTER-!!]

[Lv.73 Seven Deadly Sins, Greed (Tamyok)]

Then, Tamyok’s level appeared along with the warning message.

At that level, well over 70, I unknowingly let out a gasp.

“Level 70? Can we even beat that at our level?”

“It’s not impossible. This game doesn’t have levels in the first place, so as long as our weapons and skills are up to par, we should be able to clear it.”

“Our weapons are trash!”

We were currently equipped with weapons received from the Resistance headquarters on the 1st floor.

To put it in RPG terms, it was like a rusty iron sword from the starting village.

To think we had to fight an elite boss nearing level 70 with such low-level equipment.

I could already picture getting a game over and high-fiving Miss You-Die-Here. (TL Note: “You-Die-Here” (유다희양 – Yudahui Yang) is a Korean meme personifying the “You Died” screen in difficult games like Dark Souls.)

However, Rin’s answer was different.

“It’s fine. A true artisan does not blame their tools.”

“B-but still…”

“I will manage somehow, so just prepare to fight quickly.”

-Rin-sama’s line, what was that? Am I the only one who fell for her?

-So charismatic.

-Rin-sama! Rin-sama!

-Heueung… Rin-sama…

‘Somehow…’

‘This is a seduction, right?’

‘People don’t usually say things like they’ll protect you, do they?’

“Marry me, Rin.”

“…Here we go again. We don’t have time. I’m starting the boss fight right away.”

Rin ignored my words, using the boss fight as an excuse, and immediately plunged into battle.

Rider… no, a neon light glowed faintly from the sword Rin held.

Pat!

Then, her afterimage stretched long, and her dashed body shot forward.

SHWEEEEEEEK!!!

And rushing towards her was a cross-shaped hand connected to a tentacle-like joint.

That hand, looking as if it would scrape up everything in the world, shot its sharp tip straight towards Rin.

But Rin didn’t even dash; she simply moved to the side.

The attack hit the ground, leaving a hair’s breadth of space.

Leaving the scattering stone fragments behind, Rin continued to run forward.

Pyew, pyew!!

Pink light shot from the pistol towards the front.

A normal attack thrown in as a poke when I saw an opening.

However, my attack never reached Tamyok’s body.

WEEEEEEEK!!!

Mechanical arms shot out, splitting into three.

The laser, blocked in front, lost its power and turned into embers, and the mechanical arms continued to shoot forward as if nothing had happened.

Three lines intertwined chaotically, each moving as if alive.

Then, the mechanical arms pressed in on Rin from all sides, as if constricting her like snakes.

Pabat!

-Wow, crazy.

-She’s breaking right through that.

-Insane.

-She dodged that?

With two consecutive dashes, Rin broke through Tamyok’s attack head-on.

An afterimage bent like some kind of joint.

That afterimage brushed past the curve of the wandering mechanical arms and continued straight to Tamyok’s face.

[Strong Attack – Excision]

Pajijijijik!!!

Then, Rin slammed down the strong attack she had prepared from the start.

A sword engulfed in sparks, swung in three directions.

However, that sword ultimately failed to reach Tamyok.

KAGAGAGAGAK!!!

The first arm, retrieved at some point.

The hand of the mechanical arm, rotating like a saw blade, had blocked her sword.

Whack!!

The next moment, Rin’s body was sent flying by a direct hit from the swung mechanical arm.

Rin, slammed into the building wall, lost half her HP in an instant and seemed to be stunned and unable to move further.

-Rin-sama!!!!

-Yabe

-No way we’re losing like this?

-Don’t give up!! Fight back!!

-The moment you give up is when the match ends?!

-SB kekekekeke

-Moyase!!! Kokoro wo moyase!!!!! (Burn!!! Burn your heart!!!!! – Rengoku from Demon Slayer)

-Chat is going crazy.

-My drill is!!!! The drill that will pierce the heavens!!! (Gurren Lagann)

-Kekekeke

-You-Die-Here angle?

The chat window started going crazy at Rin’s crisis.

While various otaku jokes were flying around, some were worried that we would get a game over like this.

However, I hadn’t been idle during that time either.

[Strong Attack – Photon Cannon]

The strong attack I had been preparing since Rin rushed out.

The ‘Yuki-beam’ was fired towards Tamyok’s head.

“Yuki-beeeeeeeam!!!”

-Kekeke

-Yuki-beeeeeeeam!!!!

-Cute kekeke

-Yuki-beeee||||eam!!!

A pink beam spewed out in a straight line from the pistol.

The so-called ‘Yuki-beam’ hit Tamyok right where its monocle was.

[HP ■■■□□ 54%]

Tamyok’s HP was cut in half.

“Eh? Why is its HP half gone already…”

“It seems its defense is weaker than it looks.”

“Aha.”

-Its health… is gone?

-This is totally Yuki.

-Weak~ Health is weak~

-So that’s why it was blocking attacks with its mechanical arms.

“It’s not Yuki! Can you stop comparing a fresh, young, pretty girl to an old geezer like that?”

While the Yukidan were teasing me as usual, Tamyok, perhaps because the damage was quite severe, stood there unable to move.

Where it was hit, the skin was half peeled off, revealing a deformed face patched together with robot parts.

[Greed: D*mn it, d*mn it, d*mn it!!!]

[Greed: I didn’t expect things to turn out like this….]

Tamyok spat out, its expression contorted.

Then, it hung its head low and put its hand in its pocket.

[Greed: I didn’t want to use this if possible, but I have no choice.]

In its wrinkled hand, which came out of the pocket, was a blue hexahedron.

An antimatter cube emitting a strange blue light.

It was the Tesseract he had first stolen from the Resistance base.

Crunch!

He embedded the cube-shaped Tesseract near his heart.

Then, the outer part, covered in something like skin, burned away, revealing a robot body made of steel and wires.

Woooooong!!

A ringing sound that made my ears ache.

Intense blue light from the Tesseract leaked out from between the robot’s body parts.

Then, with a Kkwadeuk! sound, two more arms sprouted from its back.

[Greed: I’ll take everything.]

[Greed: Everything you possess.]

With truly greedy words.

The second phase of the boss battle began.