Chapter 95: Ownership
"Let me explain for the elves and the little lambs who haven’t played yet. The controls only use six keys: forward, backward, left, right, jump, and grab."
"Simple."
Top Chat: Wow, that really is a small number of keys
Top Chat: At least you won’t mess up the controls (dives straight into the void trying to grab a barrel)
Top Chat: Probably one reason it caught on—anyone can play it (tries to throw someone off but jumps into the abyss with them)
Top Chat: lmao you guys
Top Chat: Like mixing up the brake and accelerator, huh
Top Chat: Yeah, you’re not getting a gold driver’s license with that
"If you press the jump key in midair, you’ll dive forward with momentum."
"Hm."
"When you press grab without holding anything, you’ll pick up the item or person in front of you. Press again to throw it forward. Press grab in midair, and you’ll grab onto a ledge. While hanging, press jump to climb up, or press grab again to let go and fall. Try it out."
"Mm."
Top Chat: A little tricky to follow just by words
Top Chat: Basically you can grab items or people to throw them, and you can cling to ledges and climb up
Top Chat: Just mash buttons and you’ll figure it out (falls from a ledge after choosing the wrong option)
Top Chat: Please forgive me, I always mess up that ledge choice
"I got it."
"Then let’s do at least one practice round."
"Kyo—Siren, are you fine with that too?"
"Yeah. I think it’s a good idea."
Top Chat: Practice round
Top Chat: Huh
Top Chat: Is that really okay? With Elf?
Top Chat: Who knows what she’ll ‘learn’ this time…
Top Chat: Oh, right
Top Chat: What’s up?
"A 40-player free-for-all with no rank restriction. That sound good?"
"Yeah!"
"I’m good to go anytime too."
Top Chat: These two don’t realize how terrifying Elf’s ‘I learned it’ gets when it’s in a game
Top Chat: Siren hasn’t gone against her yet, so fine, but Kirishi-tan… wait
Top Chat: Bow, perfect timing, hidden route discovery, throwing enemies down wells
Top Chat: She’s always doing weird stuff, but you’re right—she never actually said ‘I learned it’!
"I haven’t been doing weird stuff!"
Top Chat: And she doesn’t even realize it herself
Top Chat: Oh, matchmaking’s done
Top Chat: Yup, all three are in. Perfect!
"Whoa, there’s so many of them!"
In front of the starting line, forty chibi-style human characters were lined up in three rows.
Slightly toward the front center, above a lime-green completely naked character, floated a ▽ icon. That was apparently my player character.
Kyoka’s was a dark-brown body with a pirate hat and bird feathers. Kirishi-tan’s was a bluish nun’s habit. Both probably modeled their avatars after their usual image.
Top Chat: Elf is losing her mind with excitement
Top Chat: First time seeing so many, huh
Top Chat: She’s so fidgety, lol
"Alright, charge!"
"Let’s go, little lambs!"
"Uh, ah, um, here I go!"
Top Chat: Just from their opening lines you can see their personalities
Top Chat: Elf rushes in without thinking
Top Chat: Kirishi-tan smoothly rallies her lambs before heading out
Top Chat: Siren realizes she should probably say something only after the game starts
Top Chat: Not like you have to say anything, though lol
"Clock?"
At the top of the first short hill appeared an area with multiple massive clock hands, each several times larger than the characters.
What could that possibly—
"Whoa!?"
Top Chat: Tamaya! (festival firework!)
Top Chat: Elf dodged it, huh
Top Chat: Even with a trap this obvious, a lot of people still fall
As the lead group stepped onto the area, the massive clock hands suddenly spun with force. About 20% of them couldn’t dodge and were swept right off to the edges.
"This is fun!"
Top Chat: Elf’s loving it
Top Chat: Like four just fell off—are they out already?
Top Chat: On this course, even if you fall off, you respawn at the last checkpoint
Top Chat: But in survival courses, you can get eliminated instantly at the start
"Seesaw?"
Past the clock-hand zone stretched a wide pit filled with seesaws.
"Elf, this is where you use the barrels!"
Kirishi-tan carried a barrel onto one side of a seesaw and—
"I’ll go on ahead!"
She hurled the barrel onto the other side, catapulting herself high into the air.
Top Chat: Smooth, Kirishi-tan
Top Chat: She’s aiming for the fastest route—she clearly knows this course
Top Chat: And what does Elf think about that?
"I’m doing that too! I’m doing it too!"
Top Chat: Uh-oh, she’s turned into a kid
Top Chat: What is this creature, she’s too cute
Top Chat: Sorry, but no barrels left on that side
"It’s fine, there’s still one left—"
"Ah."
"Mm."
Top Chat: The siblings lock eyes over the very last barrel…
Top Chat: Will they fight for it?
Top Chat: Nope, Elf gave up
"Big brother’s taking it, okay!"
Top Chat: Wait, Elf, you could’ve fought for it
Top Chat: You had a chance, didn’t you?
"If your little sister wants it, the big brother has no ownership rights."
Top Chat: Bow, perfect timing, hidden routes, throwing enemies into wells, and giving barrels to his sister
Top Chat: Don’t mix those together lol
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