Urgent recruitment‼ How to Save the Ending World ▚ I'm a certain NPC girl from a discontinued VRMMO service, but somehow managing to survive again today - Chapter 19

Episode 19: The Otaku Rule of Being Talkative Only in Favorite Fields

“Whoa!?”

Leaving only a surprised voice behind, Black Iron, amidst the heavy debris, gracefully jumps down from the precarious footing that could collapse at any moment due to the aftermath. With swift movements, he steps on the struggling Sword User, along with the concrete fragments, and casually raises the enlarged claws back to their original size.

“With the back covered, let me quickly hunt them down.”

“Hey, wait…”

Without letting anyone else speak, the thrust-out claws pierce the blue-toned mask. The enemy machine, whose head was damaged, receives a death judgment, turning into quantum light and disappearing.

Slightly delayed, the Spear User, trying to conceal their agitation, thrusts a long object into the floor, causing various spearheads to appear diagonally from the blind spot. However, to close the distance between them, Black Dog, who had started running, outmaneuvers the Spear User’s delayed action. It ends with tearing the armor on the calf and nothing more.

“Tch!”

With a click of the tongue, the iron spear is pulled back. The opponent, resembling a samurai in armor, reinforces their defense, but they can’t avoid the kicking attack released while floating, getting sent flying with the inertia.

Being knocked down to a kneeling position and trying to cling to the kneecap, the Black Iron is stepped on by the approaching Black Dog, and finally, a powerful right knee kick is delivered to the chin.

“Ugh?! Flash Shining… the Wizard of Magic…”

The Spear User, who uttered a groan that seemed to say, “Don’t use dangerous techniques for real,” was shaken, suffering from a mild concussion, leaving them dazed.

Meanwhile, Black Dog, who slipped diagonally behind, swings the large claws in synchronization with the reversal, tearing the enemy machine’s body from the back and reducing it to faint quantum light.

“…Master, you’re also into pro wrestling, huh?”

“Of course, because it has romance.”

“Well, but in match videos, it looked like you deliberately took the moves and fell spectacularly, didn’t it?”

“That’s called the ‘Art of Receiving.’…”

Sharing the opponent’s disappearance as quantum dust and absorbing it into the shared vision, the golden-haired, crimson-eyed girl fused with Black Iron makes some mundane remarks, but in the end, it seems like posturing. Even though it looks like a staged performance, Shiro explains that it’s a defensive move to mitigate the damage of the technique.

Crim, with a “fulfilling personality,” smiles while letting various passionate explanations be water off a duck’s back.

(In the end, when you’re passionate about something, you become talkative. Truly an otaku trait.)

Although he inwardly sighs, her Master, an enthusiast of martial arts who frequents the gym, has become a system engineer with a needlessly well-trained physique. Thus, it cannot be definitively labeled as a bad habit.

As for the current love rival, Satsuko Nakajō, she had exhibited behaviors in the past that suggested a muscle fetish. Therefore, she would probably respond positively rather than negatively.

The electronic fairy, engaging in the conversation with appropriate nods, subtly guides the conversation back to its original purpose, prompting Black Dog to head towards the virtual city where players gather.