Chapter 117: Answer Check
"Siren, let’s hurry."
"Yes! After all, it’d be meaningless if I beat Onii-chan only to get overtaken by the others!"
As I tumbled down from the Safe Area, I caught sight of Kirishi-tan and Kyoka sprinting toward the goal.
Top Chat: 【Sad News】Elf fell
Top Chat: Aaaaaah
Top Chat: Respawn point is the previous Safe Area?
Top Chat: Yeah, Elf-san hasn’t hit this checkpoint yet
Top Chat: She’s dropping to last place
Top Chat: But if it’s Elf-san…!
Top Chat: No way, that’s impossible…
"Not necessarily."
Top Chat: Elf-san?
Top Chat: Hm?
Top Chat: Hmmm?
Top Chat: What’s going on
Top Chat: …Elf-san, where are you right now?
"Down the cliff."
Top Chat: Isn’t that respawn too slow?
Top Chat: It is slow, right?
Top Chat: Still not back yet?
"I’m already running."
To make it easier for the viewers to understand, I adjusted the camera angle a little, showing myself running along the cliffside path—leading straight to the waterfall.
Top Chat: Eh
Top Chat: Huh?
Top Chat: What?
Top Chat: What is this
Top Chat: Wait, what’s this path!?
Top Chat: Never seen this before!
Top Chat: Seriously, what the heck?
Top Chat: Elf-san!
"Because I lost to the pirate ship."
This path had no real traps. It seemed to exist solely to lead toward the waterfall ahead.
Top Chat: Are you talking about a previous stage?
Top Chat: Um, could you explain that in a little more detail…?
"If the fight against the pirate ship ends quickly, the merchant vessel wins. It reaches port safely, and the goods are displayed at the storefront."
Top Chat: Oh, you mean the setup for the semifinal and final stages if it ends quickly
Top Chat: Now that you mention it, Elf-san predicted the stage would be something like an inlet or a cave if it dragged on
Top Chat: What did you mean by that?
"If you lose to the pirate ship, you get captured and dragged off to the pirate hideout. The player has to aim to escape from the prison."
Top Chat: So this was the pirate hideout!?
Top Chat: That’s why the stage leads out from inside a cave to the surface
Top Chat: Then what’s with that path?
"If the motif is a pirate hideout, it’s missing something important, don’t you think?"
Top Chat: What’s important in a pirate hideout?
Top Chat: Booze!
Top Chat: Women!
Top Chat: Food!
Top Chat: Elf!
Top Chat: Someone’s mixing in their desires lol
"It’s missing treasure."
Top Chat: Now that you say it
Top Chat: They would be hoarding gold and silver
Top Chat: And if pirates are hiding treasure, that means…
"Behind the waterfall."
I stopped in front of the waterfall. With the torrent crashing down into the basin, I couldn’t see the other side from here.
Top Chat: Is it really there…?
Top Chat: Treasure?
Top Chat: If it’s there, it has to be the goal, right?
Top Chat: Did Ochirite ever have multiple goals?
Top Chat: Nope
Top Chat: Never confirmed
Top Chat: So probably not
Top Chat: It shouldn’t exist, but…
Top Chat: If there’s a path, there has to be something
"Elf."
"Onii-chan."
Kirishi-tan and Kyoka, who had already finished first, were watching me closely.
If there really was a goal here, I could slip into the finals. That would be a bitter outcome for them.
But their faces weren’t painted with the anxiety of "we might lose." Instead, they were lit up with the excitement of "what could be waiting there?"
"Well then, let’s see."
Top Chat: Elf-san doesn’t hesitate
Top Chat: This is where the commercials would cut in!
Top Chat: Oh
Top Chat: Oh
Top Chat: Oh
Top Chat: Oh
Top Chat: Oooh
Top Chat: Ooooohhh
Top Chat: Whoaaa!
Top Chat: Treasure!
Top Chat: They stashed a crazy amount!
Top Chat: Wait, there’s a goal too!
"Can’t take it."
Top Chat: Elf-san lol
Top Chat: Elf blinded by treasure
Top Chat: Hurry up and finish the goal already lol
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