Chapter 174: An Out-of-Place Challenger
"This feels out of place…"
Shutou Youki often felt a sense of alienation.
Ever since childhood, she had been noticeably smaller than other kids her age. To her, people were always something to look up to.
While she clung on desperately in academics, she could never keep up in physical activities.
"Haa, haa… Why am I even here…?"
Once she began skipping gym classes she hated, things only worsened. Her studies started to suffer, conversations with her few friends dwindled, and eventually she fell into a vicious cycle of skipping school altogether.
"That’s why 'Sky High' is the best. This is something worth mastering!"
She was a challenger—just one who found her challenge in a place she had fled to.
"Ahh! I lost! I can’t believe Elf-san got sealed up so easily!"
"Doremi Sora-senpai, you’re the werewolf, right…?"
"That’s beside the point! I just wanted to be the one to take down Elf-san!"
Top Chat: Reverse God-sama absolutely wants to beat Elf.
Top Chat: A werewolf complaining about a villager who sealed the madman—nothing wrong with that.
Top Chat: What’s wrong is the content of the complaint though lol.
"Looks like Misora got fired up nicely."
"Strange for me to say this when we hardly know each other, but even you care about stuff like that?"
"Yes. Because it makes for entertaining, over-the-top footage."
"…Makes me truly grateful to be an only child."
"Jokes aside, I also declared I’d 'borrow Elf-san’s chest,' so I don’t plan to end things here."
"Heh! So you can make that kind of face too. Fine by me—fight me as well!"
Top Chat: Note: We can’t see faces.
Top Chat: Note: They’re avatars this time.
Top Chat: Note: Entarou just says cool-sounding things on impulse.
Top Chat: Enmin lol.
Top Chat: I heard there’s a VTuber most out of place on their own channel, so I rushed over.
"Ahh. Aaah. Aaahh. Aah. Ahhh."
Top Chat: Kyoka-chan turned into a machine that endlessly says “ahh.”
Top Chat: Wait, that’s all her own voice?
Top Chat: I thought the whole group was saying it together lol.
Top Chat: She came fully prepared.
Top Chat: With Elf, you can just go “Well, she’s Elf,” but Kyoka-chan is a straight-up wonder of nature.
Top Chat: Call her amazing at least, not just weird lol.
Elf. Elf. Elf.
Every participant was burning to defeat Elf and her outrageous fighting style—everyone, except one.
"This feels out of place…"
"Hm? Drunk Loli, did you say something?"
"Boss? Did I say something?"
"No… might’ve been my imagination."
Top Chat: She muttered something under her breath, right?
Top Chat: Couldn’t hear the words, but something came out.
"As I thought… you’re like Misora."
Top Chat: Elf-san?
"Youki."
"What is it, Elf?"
"I just pulled off an amazing play, didn’t I?"
"Wait, I’ve heard that line before!?"
"If you’re not going to challenge, then stop calling yourself an RTA runner."
"Do you think that fixes everything!?"
Top Chat: Occasionally Elf drops these half-baked 'deep lines,' lol.
Top Chat: At least it’s clear she’s trying to fire her up.
"Besides, I’m a runner for games like 'Sky High.' I don’t know this game."
"I see."
"And here you are, coming up with bizarre strategies, countering them, and fighting in such ways. This isn’t my battlefield!"
"I see."
"I… I can only do what I can. I don’t want to challenge…"
Youki clenched her teeth, lowered her head, and looked up ahead, as if staring at a towering wall before her. Yes—
"Youki."
"—With that face, you can’t say you don’t want to challenge."
The corners of her mouth curved upward, and with a ferocious grin—as if licking her lips at the thought of a climb worth the effort—she laughed wildly.
Top Chat: Note: We can’t see her face.
Top Chat: Note: They’re avatars this time.
Top Chat: Note: But it’s Elf, so…
Top Chat: Exactly.
"Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Top Chat: The loli!
Top Chat: She’s laughing like a villain!
Top Chat: What do you mean 'laughing like a villain' lol.
Top Chat: This is a villain-laughing loli.
"Elf."
"Mm."
"…You were the one who got me fired up, you know?"
"Yep."
"Then let’s fight! I’ll crush you flat!"
"Bring it on!"
Top Chat: Here we go! This flow!
Top Chat: Uooooo! The loli’s back! The loli’s joining the fight!
Top Chat: Loli! Loli!
Top Chat: Loli! Loli!
Top Chat: The world’s fastest! Booze-drinking loli!
"There’s nothing I can’t do!"
The girl who once fled from battles she couldn’t win now, before the far stronger Elf, became a true "Challenger."
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