Chapter 290: Three Thousand Leagues in Search of a Half-Naked Man

Author's Preface
I was endlessly practicing the transformation poses for Black and Black RX, so the update is late.

【Talking Rabbit】Sunraku-shi Search Board part1【Double Curse】

1 Basashi Musashi
The origin of this might have been a bit much, but this is a board where we try to track down the player "Sunraku"—who is accompanied by a talking Vorpal Bunny—and do whatever we can to get him to spill his secrets.
Even though he's monopolizing the information, the origin of this was a voyeuristic screenshot, so let's be careful when making contact.

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523 Basashi Musashi
It's gotten pretty dead in here.

524 Add
Well, everyone is focusing mainly on the New Continent right now, so it can't be helped.

525 Basashi Musashi
To be fair, he wasn't standing out in a flashy way like Psyger-100 or Orcelott, so making a dedicated thread for him might have been jumping the gun anyway.

526 Deep Slaughter
Sunraku? Sunraku......... Now that's a name I remember hearing.

527 Add
Oh, a new development this late in the game?

528 Deep Slaughter
No, no. I just had a bit of a history with someone by the same name in a game I used to play, you see.

529 Deep Slaughter
Well, it might just be a case of me unilaterally treating him as a rival, thouuuugh.

530 Basashi Musashi
Look, at the very least keep your character consistent...

531 Super Alloy Tofu
Looks like an amusing one just showed up.

532 Deep Slaughter
It's a game, after all. I want to try playing all sorts of different characters... That's what I believe.

533 Add
Anyway, getting back on topic, are you acquaintances?

534 Deep Slaughter
Who knows? It could just be a complete stranger who happens to have the exact same name.

535 Basashi Musashi
You're not even keeping the gender consistent now?
Well, to be fair, it's not exactly such an original name that you can entirely rule out name overlap.

536 Add
Hah!? A Unique Monster!?

537 Super Alloy Tofu
Wait, talk about speak of the devil!

538 Rudowar
That was just a bit too shocking, so I ended up opening this thread. What the hell is that guy doing?

539 Deep Slaughter
I found him.

540 Indoru
Arthur Pencilgon!? So that's why that bastard wasn't there during the base assault!

541 Basashi Musashi
Hah? Seriously? Didn't she launch a surprise attack on the Tigers of In?

542 Thunder Nut
Looks like this thread is finally getting some traction again.

543 Indoru
Ah, damn it! Looking back on it now, I was wondering why we were getting leaks that were way too convenient! She leaked it on purpose!

544 Add
Wait, before we even get to that, what the hell is Wethermon the Tombguard? I've never even heard of it.

545 Rudowar
The sub-leader vanishing during the Ashura-kai assault. A Unique Monster being defeated in a completely different location. The conveniently orchestrated information leak regarding Ashura-kai.

546 Basashi Musashi
I just got goosebumps. Was this all dancing on the palm of the Giant Killing?

547 Curry's Jones
I had no intention of participating in a dedicated thread to hunt someone down, but the flag's color just changed.

548 Beethoven
Wait, he already has a dedicated board? Looking at the date >>1 was posted, did this guy do something else way before this?

549 Basashi Musashi

• Has Lycaon's "Curse" carved into him in two different places.

• Is accompanied by a talking Vorpal Bunny.

• Defeated the Unique Monster "Wethermon the Tombguard" -> NEW!

550 Super Alloy Tofu
Looks like we're going to have a full-scale search party organized now...

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【Eyewitness Report?】Sunraku-shi Search Board part5【Fake or Real】

1 Basashi Musashi
The origin of this might have been a bit much, but this was a board where we try to track down the player "Sunraku"—who is accompanied by a talking Vorpal Bunny—and do whatever we can to get him to spill his secrets.
Even if we want to make contact, we can't find him at all, so for now, let's just find him no matter what it takes.

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723 Basashi Musashi
Eyewitness report!
We've got a report of a sighting in Eighthold!

724 Dasai Fifty
That's close! Rushing over now!

725 Add
From Fifticia... I probably won't make it in time.

726 Minstrel Wind
For some reason, this reminds me of those fixed-symbol enemies in old games where even if you entered combat mode, they'd immediately run away and randomly respawn on the complete opposite side of the field map.

727 Kokuryuu
I might have played that game too. Wait, are you an old geezer?

728 Minstrel Wind
N-N-N-No I'm not! I j-just secretly played the one my d-dad carefully kept in storage!!
...Wait, are you from the generation that lined up to buy Armadillo?

729 Kokuryuu
Kamerad...! (Comrade)

730 South Beauty
Compagno...! (Comrade)

731 Kubotta
Tongzhi...! (Comrade)

732 Kamo Fountain
Tovarishch...! (Comrade)

733 Basashi Musashi
Stop polluting the board with the smell of old men!

734 Add
What's an Armadillo...

735 Kamo Fountain
It's an abbreviation for "Arcana Magician 6" (Aru-Maji-Ro). It's an absolute legend among VR games from the generation before Full-Dive VR.

736 Minstrel Wind
I seriously devoted a significant percentage of my life to obsessing over that game...

737 South Beauty
The heroine dies in the mid-game, but the story progression leading up to her revival in the endgame is absolutely perfect...

738 Kubotta
The way they even used the game system itself as foreshadowing seriously blew my mind...

739 Deep Slaughter
This is a conversation that feels like it's going to suck the life energy right out of me...

740 Add
Yo, DeepThro-san.

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【Ctarrnid】Sunraku-shi Search Board part8【Where the Hell is that Bastard】

1 Deep Slaughter
This is a board dedicated to cornering and capturing Sunraku-kuuun, who completely vanishes without a trace no matter how hard we look, yet casually goes and defeats a second Unique Monster. Let's exchange info and rush over if there's an eyewitness report nearby, okay?

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324 Deep Slaughter
Waaah, I just got my hands on a suuuper convenient spell!

325 Add
As usual, abruptly cutting right through the flow of the conversation...

326 Deep Slaughter
No, seriously, this is insanely convenient. I mean, it's the fast travel I've always dreamed of!

327 Basashi Musashi
Since we're on the New Continent, it's not like we can do anything even if we wanted to search for Sunraku.

328 Basashi Musashi
Wait, what did you just say?

329 Deep Slaughter
Yup, so, fast travel. It's a high-tier magic called 【Teleport Gate】. Unlike 【Teleport】, it's not restricted to just the last town you saved at—you can fly to literally anywhere you've been before!

330 Add
Whhaaaat!?

331 Deep Slaughter
The learning conditions were so demonic I laughed my ass off, but I managed to learn it through sheer willpower, yes indeed.

332 Vermouth
Just for future reference, could we ask what the learning conditions are...

333 Deep Slaughter
Sure thing~? For the sake of my innocent juniors, I'll teach you step-by-step~...

334 Deep Slaughter
A combined total of 1000 casts between 【Teleport】 and 【Apport】.

335 Vermouth
Eh, that's bruuuutal.

336 Kokuryuu
So it's just a pure agony grinding task, huh... And as a prerequisite for that, you have to farm affection with that pervy old man. That's going to be tough for an old guy like me...

337 Deep Slaughter
If you just put some hypnosis audio on heavy rotation right by the old man's ear, it's a piece of cake, you know?

338 Deep Slaughter
From what I observed, that geezer gets sexually aroused by women who are insecure about having small breasts.

339 Rudowar
Why the hell do I have to input useless, depressing information like an NPC pervy old man's sexual fetishes into my brain...

340 Deep Slaughter
I'm going to violate the brains of everyone reading this board, you see...

341 Deep Slaughter
Ah, I'd be willing to take on intercontinental transport requests for a minimum of 500,000 Mani, if you'd like?

342 Vermouth
Ugh, what a rip-off... But I bet you'll make a killing off it...

343 Zenith Guevara
Do you accept post-payment?

344 Deep Slaughter
With a 20% markup.

345 Zenith Guevara
Cheap! I'll ask for a send-back later!

346 Add
I was wondering who it was, but it's the guy running the rip-off business!

347 Zenith Guevara
Shut up! If you're satisfied with the NPC shops that only carry a trash lineup of items, then you don't need to buy from me either, right!?

348 Deep Slaughter
Everyone, make sure you rely on me more, and more, and moooore... Fufufu.

Author's Afterword
An encircling net originating from past history is being cast across the New Continent.

Pencilgon gives people just enough bait to convince them while skillfully talking them down, turning them into "pawns," but what's troublesome about this person is that they use a sense of solidarity and dependency to turn people into "allies."
If I mention the Man with the Claw, you'll understand just how troublesome it is.

The easiest way to catch a fish is to "set a trap in a place it absolutely has to pass through," after all... Well, the target fish in question happens to be a salmon equipped with a jet engine, though.