NOVEL NEXT WORLD The Strongest Solo Gamer with Terrible Social Skills Reincarnates as a Hated NPC in a VRMMO Chapter 112
112: The Battle Ends
――SIDE: Feng Hongyu――
What just happened!?
The attacks from each class leader’s ultimate skills created a tremendous shockwave and explosion, causing the smoke to rise and obscuring the view inside the room on the live broadcast.
The surrounding crowd was stunned.
It wasn’t just the D class; even the students in the audience were left speechless by the intensity of the battle.
Shōma was—
What happened to him…?
“Shirō… did he die…?”
“Idiot Suzuki! Don’t say such unlucky things!!”
“What’s wrong with saying that…?”
Suzuki’s careless comment was rebuked by Hayaki.
“Such… Shōma…”
“Beautiful Onee-san…”
Her concerned expression as she worried about Shōma’s safety was unlike the usual way she treated a mere classmate.
Perhaps Beautiful Onee-san—
“Wait! Something’s moving inside the image!!”
“!?!”
“The smoke is… clearing up…!?”
“No way…”
As everyone held their breath, gazing at the portal screen, the figure hidden in the smoke gradually took shape, revealing itself before our eyes. That annoyingly long bangs that obstructed my view. A hobbit-like short stature of under 170cm, with a scrawny body devoid of any muscle. Those eyes that seemed to exude malice—
It was undoubtedly my childhood friend, Shōma!
“Woah! Shirō!!”
“He’s… safe…!!”
“Wait! Then what about the other class leaders!?”
My question was quickly resolved.
As the smoke cleared, the three class leaders—Tōtenkyū, Yūranting, and Harikōji—were lying on the ground, battered and bruised.
It seemed they had lost consciousness too.
“No way… did they really end up in a mutual destruction?”
Ubuyashi-kun was stunned, making an educated guess. The situation suggested that the three class leaders had each unleashed their strongest techniques and ended up in a stalemate.
But that left one question unanswered.
“What about Shōma? How did he manage to escape unscathed?”
“Maybe… it was thanks to that thing?”
“Huh? That thing is—”
The object that Moriya-kun pointed to was a red iron plate-like object lying on the ground. …Come to think of it, Shōma had pulled out that object just as their techniques clashed. —No way, did he use it to defend himself?!
“That’s it! That’s what happened!!”
“U, Ubuyashi!?”
“He had predicted everything…! The enemy would target him and form an alliance. When cornered, they would break their agreement and launch a counterattack using their strongest techniques…!! He had anticipated this and prepared a countermeasure, allowing him to avoid their attacks and turn the tables on them!!”
“What… what is this…!?”
“What a strategist…” Ubuyashi-kun praised Shōma’s tactics. …But, to be honest, it seemed like a coincidence to me. Could it really be that he had planned everything out so perfectly?
“Is everything in Shiru’s hands, you say…? Amazing… He’s way too amazing, Shiru…!!”
“OHOHOHO!! Finally, everyone understands, don’t they!? The Shiru Shouma I acknowledge is a prodigy with exceptional bravery and strategic thinking!!”
Mikako-san looks delighted… What’s with her, always so fond of Shouma? Is it because of the class president election? I think he has changed a bit recently, but…
“What are you doing?”
The guy in the video is slapping the unconscious Pinjiang’s cheek with a pitiful face.
…Is he trying to provoke him or something?
He’s surprisingly merciless, isn’t he? Well, Pinjiang (that guy) has a memory of being beaten up by us, so I won’t sympathize with him.
“…Hmm. You’ve really gotten stronger, haven’t you…?”
It’s frustrating, but I can’t deny it.
But I won’t lose either.
“――The match is over!!”
The judge announces the end of the class competition. The RP earned by each classroom is as follows:
A Class……+140RP
B Class……+130RP
C Class……+150RP
D Class……+740RP
The result is a landslide victory for D Class.
However, we can’t just celebrate. On our side, there are many severely injured, including Soushi. Except for Shouma, no one else earned any RP. In terms of classroom units, we’re overwhelmingly defeated by other classrooms.
The problem still remains, piling up…
…And yet, these guys are!!
“It’s here!! The hero’s triumphant return!!”
“What? Eh?――Ahhh!!”
“You did it! Shiru♪”
“It’s unfair that you shone alone…”
“That was amazing, really!!”
“You looked cool!!”
“What’s going on!? Did everything go according to your plan, just like Kubou said!?”
“I believed in you from the start!!”
“You really…―!? Shouma! The one who really believed in you from the start is me, Takechi――”
“Wooo!! Let’s do a hero’s welcome!!”
“oooh!!”
“W-wait, listen to me――!!”
“Gyaahhh!! It’s too high, too high, too high!!? Stop, gyaahhh――!!”
“…Sigh”
I’m exhausted from watching everyone’s foolishness. It’s not even at the level of a calm discussion, is it?
The song sound taps my exhausted shoulder with a “pon”.
The ones who should be holding on are our comrades.
I have reaffirmed it――