Chapter 100: Barrel Talk
"Survival."
Top Chat: That’s the type of stage where you clear it by surviving until the required number of players is left.
Top Chat: Careful—if you fall, it’s game over right there.
Top Chat: It’s simple, just a paint-bridge with wind and barrel cannons, but the rate of fire keeps increasing.
"Mm."
"You could at least hold a proper conversation, you know…"
Top Chat: lol.
Top Chat: Elf: “Food. Bath. Sleep.”
Top Chat: We’ve all been completely trained by Elf-san at this point.
"Then I’ll talk."
Top Chat: No, the game’s starting though.
Top Chat: What are you even gonna talk about?
"Fried eggs—do you guys go soy sauce? Sauce? Salt?"
Top Chat: Has nothing to do with the game! Soy sauce.
Top Chat: Sauce here. What are you, checking Japanese-ness quotas, Elf? lol
Top Chat: If you stick too close to the edge you’re shaky—soy sauce.
Top Chat: Those barrel cannons are nasty—soy sauce.
Top Chat: More ketchup, please.
"What kind of conversation is that supposed to be…?"
"About fried eggs?"
"I know that!"
"Uh, um, I’m a salt person."
"Siren, talk about barrels too!"
A few player-lengths ahead, across the bridge, was a shore lined with multiple barrel cannons. Even as she talked with Kirishi-tan, the pace of the incoming barrels kept rising. Not impossible to dodge, but on a crowded suspension bridge like this, accidents could happen fast.
Top Chat: “Talk about barrels too”—lol.
Top Chat: The barrels in Ochirite are so realistic, even the hoops look legit.
Top Chat: Hoops? What’s that?
Top Chat: The metal rings that hold the wooden planks tight.
Top Chat: I don’t get this barrel talk!
"I was thinking…"
Top Chat: Thinking what?
Top Chat: That words alone aren’t enough to say “I love you”? Yeah, I feel the same.
Top Chat: Hello, police? Suspicious person here.
"If we get across and destroy the cannons, wouldn’t that solve it?"
Top Chat: That’s one heck of a thought.
Top Chat: “I want to hold you so tight you’ll break”—what passion! I feel the same.
Top Chat: Hello, police? Destruction maniac here.
Top Chat: If you destroy them, wouldn’t everyone rush into that safe zone?
"…Fair point."
Top Chat: Anyway, it’s too far to jump.
Top Chat: Also, the cannons are indestructible objects.
Top Chat: Hm? Elf-san, what are you gonna do?
"Soy sauce."
Top Chat: No, not that!
Top Chat: We mean the barrel you picked up—what are you gonna do with it? lol
Top Chat: Ketchup is tasty, btw!
"Use it."
Top Chat: Use it for what!?
Top Chat: You don’t put ketchup on fried eggs, do you?
Top Chat: No way it’s ketchup.
Top Chat: Impossible.
Top Chat: …Ketchup?
"Ei."
Top Chat: She threw the barrel into an incoming one!
Top Chat: Is this just for fun?
"Bit higher this time."
Top Chat: She threw another one!
Top Chat: Like we said, the cannons can’t be destroyed.
Top Chat: They’re unbreakable objects.
"Going in."
Top Chat: Going where?
Top Chat: She threw.
Top Chat: She hit it.
Top Chat: She ran.
Top Chat: WHY?????
"Toh!"
You can’t reach the shore with a simple jump—but if you leap onto a barrel that’s slowed down after colliding with one I threw, you can.
Top Chat: …Huh?
Top Chat: …Eh?
Top Chat: Wait, what?
Top Chat: She rode the barrel!?
Top Chat: SHE JUMPED AGAIIIIIN!?
"Made it."
Top Chat: No no no no no.
Top Chat: Don’t just say “Made it.”
Top Chat: Doing a mid-air double jump by riding a barrel is dangerous!
"Now I won’t get caught up in it."
Top Chat: Well yeah, ‘cause nobody else can get there lol.
Top Chat: Great, now the game’s basically changed.
Top Chat: Elf-san looks like the stage boss now lol.
Top Chat: Elf: “FIRE!!”
Top Chat: Dying of laughter.
Top Chat: And of course, a few copycats already fell trying to imitate her.
Top Chat: Guess their hoops came loose too.
Top Chat: Still don’t get the barrel talk!
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