Dergonu

Chapter 3: Madness The mastermind behind the Fuwanovel death game watched the two screens on the desk before him/her with a wicked smile. "Seven dead already, heh. This is going well." The video from the past two weeks of the battle royale had been playing on the screens in a loop for hours, with the faces of the four picked for the current week displayed on a different monitor above. "Hehe. Now, let's see, what kind of arena should I put these four in?" "Mind if I handle that?" "Huh?!" Taken completely aback by the presence of someone else in the control room, <??> nearly fell out of his/her chair. "How the hell did you get in here?!" "Hmph. You think your weak magic can control me? Please. I was bored, so I figured I'd join in on this weird game you have going on. So, with that said, I'll be taking over for a bit, heh." With that, Clephas devoured <??>, trapping them in one of his stomachs. "Now, let's have some fun. Hmm, these four, huh? Alright. Let's begin." Using his powers to summon the four members from their cells, Clephas devoured them all in an instant. The First Stomach - alden_0023 & Thatcomicguy The first thing Thatcomicguy noticed was the smell of blood. Opening his eyes, he could tell that he was no longer in his cell. "Come on... Was I picked again?" Getting off the floor, he shook his head in frustration. He had fought for his life against another Fuwanovel user in the death game just two weeks before. He was hoping he would be able to avoid being picked again for at least a few more weeks. But, he had no such luck. "Where the hell am I...?" Looking around in confusion, he could tell he was in a classroom. The windows in the room were shattered, and the walls were riddled with holes and cracks. The floor was also badly damaged, covered in claw marks of all things. What on earth had happened there before he woke up? "Hnng..." Noticing some rustling coming from the other side of the classroom, Thatcomicguy gripped his spear and got ready for a possible fight. "Ugh, my head..." Alden_0023 rubbed his forehead, slowly getting to his feet. The moment he spotted Thatcomicguy standing in the other side of the classroom, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Then, in the next moment. "Hah!" Drawing his bow with incredible speed, he sent an arrow flying through the room. Barely managing to block the arrow with his shield, Thatcomicguy started running through the room towards the door, trying to escape. Another arrow flew towards him, barely missing his neck before digging into a nearby desk. Having reached the door, Thatcomicguy kicked it as hard as he could, making the door fly open. His hands were full because of his weapon and shield, and he had no time to spare, as Alden prepared another arrow. But, the moment the door flew open, both men suddenly froze in place. It was a natural reaction. Anyone would be shocked by the sight that waited on the other side of that door. A group of six small figures sat hunched over a corpse, happily chewing at its flesh. They had already eaten a great deal of the corpse, and their small bodies were covered in fresh blood. "Wh-What... the fuck?" The group of small girls suddenly stopped eating, and turned towards the two men in the classroom. While they might have looked like normal young girls at first glance, they had two features that no human child had. First, their teeth. The mouths of the girls were covered in shark like teeth, each tooth about ten centimeter in length. As a result, it was impossible for the girls to even close their mouths. Their eyes were glowing in a bright red color, and their pupils were completely gone. The entire eye was simply covered entirely in the red light. "Cannibal... lolis... Seriously?" Thatcomicguy uttered in a voice dyed in confusion and dread. "..." Realizing the situation was quite dire, Alden lowered his bow, and ran towards one of the broken windows along the classroom wall, then leapt through it. "HEY! ARE YOU LEAVING ME WITH THESE THINGS?!" Ignoring Thatcomicguy, Alden performed a forward flip in the air, then prepared his body for the fall. It seemed like the school they had woken up in was quite big, and they were on the sixth floor. But, contrary to his expectations, Alden's body did not fall at all. Instead, he was pulled up, flying towards the roof of the school. "What in the..." Soaring up past classroom after classroom, Alden reached the roof of the building, but his body showed no signs of stopping. He was literally falling upwards. "Tch." Clicking his tongue, Alden grabbed a hold of the railing covering the school roof, managing to stop his "fall" in the last second. Pulling his body towards the roof, he gripped the railing as he slowly moved towards the fire escape leading back into the school. The moment his foot moved inside the school building, he force pulling him upwards let go. It seemed like moving outside the school was out of the question. The bizarre arena was nothing like the arenas used the previous weeks. "What on earth is going on..." Meanwhile "AHHH, get away, get away, get away, AHHH!" Thatcomicguy screamed, as he ran as fast as he could through the dark hallways of the school. Just a few meters behind him were five of the six small girls, giggling as they chased him. He had managed to kill one of them with his spear in his escape from the classroom. This did not seem to anger the rest at all, as they chased happily after Thatcomicguy. It seemed like the girls had the ability to retract their teeth, and were now humming and laughing. Still, their eyes glowed. It was clear that their eyes were filled with bloodlust. If he stopped for just a moment, they'd probably rip him to shreds. "Tehehe, I love playing tag." "We're gonna get you, we're gonna get you ~~" "GO PLAY WITH SOMEONE ELSE, AHH!" Still screaming, Thatcomicguy kept running at full speed down the hallway, until... "Shit..." He reached a dead end. The stairs leading down to the floor below were blocked by a massive pile of rubble. The roof above had collapsed, also covering the stairs going up in the process. In other words, he was trapped. The small girls were now just half a meter away. "Tag. You're it!" The girls opened their mouths, and their fangs once again sprouted out. Preparing for what would most likely be his final battle, Thatcomicguy took a deep breath. "I'm naked in front of a group of lolis, pointing a spear at them. That's a headline for yah." Crack. A sound coming from above made Thatcomicguy look up towards the roof, and soon after, a big chunk of the ceiling came crashing down, landing on top of two of the girls, squishing them. "WHOA!" Sitting on top of the rubble was Alden, his body covered in small cuts. Or, were they bite marks? "Ah..." Realizing what that meant, Thatcomicguy looked towards the hole in the roof, and sure enough, peeking down from above were even more of the rabid lolis, looking at Alden like he was a delicious looking plate of food. "... Sorry dude, looks like this isn't your day." With that, Thatcomicguy stood completely still, as the hoard of cannibalistic lolis swarmed Alden, biting through his flesh and bones like it was nothing. The sight was horrifying, making Thatcomicguy look away in disgust. Taking advantage of the situation, he quietly snuck past the hoard of killer lolis, covering his eyes the entire time. He then started making his way down the hallway, leaving the little monsters to their dinner. The Second Stomach - xGreyHound & Jazid-Kun A jungle of mysterious plants in all sorts of colors stretched as far as the eye could see. A nearby river was filled not with water, but lava, and the sky was dyed red, not blue. In the middle of this impossible jungle stood Jazid-Kun, looking around him with a smile. "What a fitting stage for bloodbath. Heh." Striking a cool pose, Jazid spoke in a dramatic tone of voice. Wearing a black school uniform and with an eye patch covering his left eye, Jazid did not exactly look like he belonged in the strange jungle. If not for the two large swords in crossed sheathes on his back, he would have just looked like any other high-school student. "Chaos shall rain! Today, we dine with death himself!" "... The hell are you on kid?" xGreyHound sent Jazid a confused look, gripping his AK-47 firmly. He was on guard, prepared for the worst. The arena he had been placed in seemed even crazier than any of the previous ones. GreyHound did not have it in him to kill a kid like Jazid, so he had approached Jazid with the suggestion of an alliance. Jazid accepted, though now he was going on some kind of chuunibyou rant, which made GreyHound instantly regret his decision. "Please kid, be quiet..." "Let the curtain fall on this blood drenched play! Let the games begin!" Jazid shouted, stretching his arms up towards the red sky. "... I swear, I will smack you over the head if you don't quiet down." "Hah! A mere mortal like yourself? You wouldn't be able to lay a finger on me." Rustle. "?!" A nearby plant started stirring. GreyHound quickly pointed his gun in the direction of the sound. Another plant started to move, then another. Before long, every single plant in their vicinity had started to move. At first, GreyHound thought the movement was caused by something moving through the plants, but... that wasn't it. The plants themselves were moving. Clearly a little weirded out by the moving plants, Jazid moved a few steps closer to GreyHound. "I, uh... I shall protect you, mortal!" "Yeah, whatever, just draw your weapons at least." "Kukuku. You mean these?" Jazid gestured towards his swords. "I cannot simply draw them out of their sheathe without the proper chant. They are sealed by a powerful—" "Get down!" GreyHound pushed Jazid to the side, as a giant vine shot out from one of the strange flowers. The vine was covered in strange spikes, reminiscent of teeth. It slammed into the ground mercilessly, making its sharp spikes dig into the dirt. "Y-You cannot scare me, for I am... I am..." "Shut up and run!" GreyHound turned around and darted into a clearing, as several more giant plant monsters approached the two. "Y-Yes sir!" Following suit, Jazid ran as fast as he could after his teammate. Just a second after, five more giant veins slammed into the place he had been standing. "Wh-What are those thin—" "Duck!" Interrupting Jazid once again, GreyHound shouted a command and pointed his gun toward Jazid's face. Doing as he was told Jazid quickly ducked down, and the massive mouth of a bizarre plant closed right above him, catching some of his hair in its massive jaws. "Dieee!" GreyHound fired several rounds into the head of the strange plant, making green goo fly everywhere. The plant let out a deafening screech and backed up a few steps, hissing at the two. It's mouth was layered with more teeth than a shark, each one at least five centimeters long. In addition to its killer bite, it also had several long vines covered in spikes sprouting from its body. It was the height of a human man, and moved incredibly fast. "Over there! Run to the lava!" "L-Lava? Are you crazy? I-I mean, lava would have no power over my immortal body, of course, but you are just a normal human, so it would surely be in trouble." "Just shut up and run." Turning back towards the way they had come, the two started running towards the strange lava stream, about fifty meters away. The stream was no more than one meter in width, but if GreyHound's theory was right, it would do. "We're jumping over that. Get ready." Not waiting for his ally to reply, GreyHound leapt across the lava stream. The intense heat from just being in the vicinity of the lava made even just breathing hurt, but it was better than being devoured by flesh eating plants the size of humans. Jazid made it across the lava soon after GreyHound. "Kuku. Looks like our plant friends were not so smart after all." At least twenty of the killer plants tried to follow them, but they all let out loud shrieks as they approached the lava, and took several swift steps back. They were clearly not fond of the heat. "We have no time to waste here. There could be more. Come on." "Look out!" As GreyHound turned his back on the plants and started to walk in the other direction, several of the strange creatures sent their vines flying towards the two humans. It seemed like there was no real limit to how far the vines could stretch, and they approached GreyHound's back with great speed. "Hah!" But, just moments before they were about to tear GreyHound to shreds, the vines themselves got cut into tiny pieces. "Hmph. To think you'd make me take off my eye patch. I'm surprised you'd push me this far." GreyHound turned around to see what had happened. Sure enough, Jazid's eye patch was gone, revealing an eye with a different color from the other. He had also drawn his swords, which were covered in green goo from cutting apart the vines. Jazid had somehow managed to remove his eye patch, draw his swords, then cut several vines within a matter of seconds. GreyHound could not help but be amazed at the spectacle, and thanked his teammate for saving his life. Rustle. Rustle. Something started moving in the leaves behind the killer plants, and Jazid stood rooted in place, watching whatever it was intently. "Come on kid, more of those things are coming from the looks of things. We gotta go." GreyHound did not wait for a reply, and started to walk away from the lava and the plants. But, Jazid did not move. "Kid, I will leave you, I swear! What are you even... looking... at..." GreyHound's voice began to falter, as he too laid eyes on the creature on the other side of the lava. It took the form of the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his life. She wasn't wearing a thing, and on top of her head were two pretty cat ears. Wagging back and forth behind her legs was a fuzzy tail. It was, without a doubt, a catgirl. An incredibly beautiful one, too. Being fans of visual novels and the likes, both men knew very well what she was. While she appeared harmless, the fact that the plants were not killing her was a clear warning sign in GreyHound's mind. "We gotta get the hell out of here, now!" Jazid did not respond, but instead started to move slowly towards the catgirl, dropping his swords on the ground. "Wait, what the hell are you doing!" Jazid showed no interest in GreyHound, and kept on slowly approaching the catgirl, who looked back at them with an enchanting smile. "Dude, this is not the time for your weird ass fantasies! We have to get out of here. Guh?!" GreyHound tried to reach out for Jazid's hand, but he had gotten so close to the lava, the heat made GreyHound jump back in reflex. There was nothing GreyHound could do but watch, as Jazid slowly walked into the scorching heat of the lava, seemingly under some kind of spell cast by the mysterious catgirl. He did not even blink at the pain from having his foot melted by the incredible heat. All he did was watch the catgirl on the other side of the lava stream, with a smile on his face. After a few seconds, Jazid's body had been completely consumed by the lava. "Y-You bitch, what did you do to him?!" Pointing his gun at the catgirl in anger, GreyHound's body shook in terror. The creature simply returned a brilliant smile, and started to walk back into the depths of the strange jungle. The flesh eating plants followed suit, leaving GreyHound alone with nothing but the smell of burning flesh, and a sense of dread. Wildcards This Week? No Dead This Week: Still Alive:

Started playing my first TLed VN in like, over a year, (Kikokugai) thanks to @Zenophilious bugging me about it until I finally caved. (/ω＼) Played a couple of hours so far, and man, I'm loving this. Might end up just reading it all today. We'll see.

Reworked the list: - Changed the order of some of the VNs, bumping some pure nukige down to the "honourable mentions" list (I feel like the old list was too nukige heavy) - Added three new VNs, (Yourou, Mugen Renkan, Beat Valkyrie Ixseal) - Added info on whether or not a game is translated, and how difficult the Japanese in the game is, should it not be.

I have had my eyes on the Venus Blood series for quite some time, but never got around to playing any of them. I decided to finally add one to my backlog, but there are so many, so I'm not sure which one I should pick. I love good art, so I'd prefer one of the newer installments. Though, I'd also like to play one of the better games in the series, if I'm going to play one. So, I guess what I'm looking for is the best of the more recent Venus Blood games. ("Recent" = preferably released no later than 2014 ) Also, if possible, could someone explain the relation between the games? Do they share plot/ characters? Do you need to read them in any particular order, or can you pick and choose freely? @Clephas you have played a lot of these, right?

I have had a serious man crush on Yuuji since I played the first Grisaia game.

How dare you not give me credit for helping you, grr! Best of luck guys. Wish I could do more for the project, like TLC, but I have my hands full with other projects for now. Hopefully you find a second translator fast.

He is now. As fun as it would be having zombie kaguyas running around, this was just a typo. Maybe next week though, who knows

Haha, whops, fixed Schrödinger's Poltroon.

Chapter 2 is done! Read it here:

Chapter 2: Death In The City Members in this chapter: “Tch. Where did that little worm go?” VirginSmasher came to a halt as he scanned the area. The blazing sun made the asphalt below his feet feel like liquid magma, and the light from the sun reflected in the countless windows around him, making it even harder to spot his target. VirginSmasher had been one of the Fuwanovel members picked for the second week of the death game, and he had already been caught in a fight with another user. But, after a few minutes of battle, his opponent had fled, and VirginSmasher lost sight of him. “I was this close, too…” Kicking the ground in frustration, VirginSmasher made the asphalt below his feet explode into a million pieces, sending rubble and dust flying around the area. His powers were quite simple. His strength and agility had been increased tenfold, essentially making him a human wrecking ball. Problem was, the person he had been chasing had some kind of teleportation ability, making it impossible for VirginSmasher to land a hit. “Ugh… What’s with this arena though?” VirginSmasher looked up at the sky. He was standing in the centre of a massive city, in the middle of summer. It had to be at least thirty degrees in the sun, so all the moving around made him feel like he was melting. “Last week they got a nice and cool forest, yet we’re stuck in this hellhole. What a jok— Huh?!” Sensing something approaching from above, VirginSmasher sidestepped and turned to face whatever it was. Two arrows graced his throat, and slammed into the ground behind him, producing two large holes in the concrete. A thin trail of blood ran down VirginSmasher’s neck. Had he moved just a fraction of a second later, he’d be dead. “Heh. Looks like I got some new pray.” VirginSmasher said with a smile, as he looked up at his new opponent. “...” Sitting on the top of a nearby telephone pole was Alden_0023, pointing a strung bow at VirginSmasher. Alden wore a grey cloak, with a quiver on his back and a range of different throwing knives stuck to his belt. “I won’t miss a second time.” Alden stated in an indifferent tone, and before VirginSmasher could even move an inch, Alden sent another arrow towards his target. The arrow soared through the air with incredible velocity. VirginSmasher barely managed to react in time, slamming the arrow out of the air with his palm. The arrowtip dug into his hand, ripping through the flesh like it was butter. “Hmph!” Not bothered by the pain one bit, VirginSmasher slammed his right hand into the ground, and a large crack in the concrete moved towards the telephone pole, which started to collapse moments later. Alden leapt in the air, and after a graceful backlip, he reached for another two arrows, and fired them both at his target, before landing on another telephone pole about ten meters away from the previous one. This time VirginSmasher managed to dodge the arrows completely, and jumped towards his opponent. It was an impossible leap for a normal human. The ground below his foot cracked, and VirginSmasher’s body shot forward. In the air, he thrust his healthy hand towards Alden’s chest, then, before hitting his opponent, he twisted his arm sideways and opened his palm, producing a shockwave which pushed Alden off the telephone pole. “Kuh…” Alden groaned in pain, but still managed to fire another arrow at VirginSmasher before he landed on the ground. While the arrow did not hit VirginSmasher, it distracted him for long enough to keep him off Alden’s tail for another second. That second was all Alden needed. With incredible speed, he sprinted towards a nearby building, and jumped up on the wall. As if his feet were layered with glue, Alden ran straight up the wall, firing several arrows at VirginSmasher in the process. “Tch, the hell is with this guy?!” Dodging the arrows by a hair's breadth every time, VirginSmasher danced around on the ground below as the barrage of arrows rained down from above. “Guess I’m switching to long range attacks as well. Hmph!” Grabbing a nearby piece of rubble, VirginSmasher threw it up at Alden as hard as he could. The concrete block split up into several smaller pieces as it moved towards its target, smashing into the building with a loud bang. Broken glass and rubble fell towards the street below, as a large chunk of the building was torn apart from the impact. “Did I get him?” VirginSmasher squinted, trying to find Alden in the middle of the chaos. He soon spotted the shadow of a person rushing out from the rubble, and right after, several small objects flew towards him at great speeds. “Tch, more arrows?!” VirginSmasher prepared for another volley of arrows, but what was thrown at him was in fact just some rubble from the building. “Shit!” Realizing the attack was just a distraction, VirginSmasher spun around. “Got you.” Alden released the bowstring, and sent an arrow flying towards VirginSmasher’s exposed back. Although he did notice Alden’s trick in time for him to turn around, he did not manage to dodge the arrow, which dug into VirginSmasher’s chest. “Guaah!” VirginSmasher reached for the arrow, and snapped it in half. Then, he grabbed the arrowhead which was sticking out of his back, and ripped the arrow out of his torso. Meanwhile, Alden landed on the ground about twenty meters away. Although his physical abilities were heightened, he had still fallen about ten meters, so he needed a second to collect himself after the landing. “You little bastard!” VirginSmasher rushed towards Alden, filled with rage. The pain from the wound in his chest only fueled his anger. Putting all of his remaining strength into one last attack, VirginSmasher charged his enemy. “You don’t… give up, do you?” Scrambling to his feet, Alden reached for another arrow. While he had not been injured from the fall, it had knocked the air out of him, making it difficult for him to avoid VirginSmasher’s sudden charge. “Haah!” VirginSmasher lunged at Alden with everything he had. Alden barely managed to throw himself to the side, dropping his bow in the process. VirginSmasher’s hand collided with the wooden bow, smashing it into a million pieces. “Heh, what are you going to do now?” VirginSmasher spat out, as he watched the pieces of Alden’s weapon fall to the ground before him. “This.” A sharp pain spread through VirginSmasher’s body, as Alden seemingly threw something in his direction. “Huh…?” Looking down at his own body, he saw three throwing knives buried into his chest. “Well, fuck…” The world around VirginSmasher grew cloudy, but he did not collapse right away. “I’ll at least… take you with me…” Raising his trembling arm into the air, VirginSmasher tried to charge at Alden one last time, but before he could move, another set of throwing knives dug into his torso. “...” As the life left VirginSmasher’s body, he managed to flip off Alden before his dead body collided with the ground below. Meanwhile, on the top of the tallest building in the city: Two figures stood face to face on the roof of a skyscraper, located in the centre of town. They were too high up to see or hear the commotion happening below. “Heh, so you finally caught up to me, huh? I was hoping I could avoid fighting...” Mr Poltroon paused and eyed his opponent, adjusting one of his white gloves. “I’d especially like to avoid fighting you of all people.” With a wry smile, Mr Poltroon took a step back, moving towards the ledge of the skyscraper. “... Sorry.” Snapping his fingers, Kaguya created a force field around the roof, trapping the two of them inside. “*Sigh*... That’s what I thought. Well, I guess only one of us gets out of this thing.” Mr Poltroon tilted his head to the side, and smiled wryly once again. “I don’t suppose I could talk you out of this?” Kaguya didn’t respond, and instead brought his hands together. His entire figure was drowned in a bright white light, and the outline of a moon appeared above his head. "<蓬莱の薬>" <Hourai elixir> A small flask appeared in Kaguya’s hands, and he quickly brought it to his mouth, emptying the bottle in a second. Hourai elixir, also known as the elixir of life. Those who drinks from it are, in short, immortal for a set period of time. Even if Poltroon destroyed Kaguya’s body while he was under the effect of the potion, he would just regenerate. In other words, Poltroon had to stall until the potion wore off if he wanted to win. Summoning his trusty cane into his hands, Poltroon struck a cool pose and prepared for battle. “I suppose it would be rude to attack first, so I’ll wait for you, kind sir.” “You’re fighting with that?” Kaguya looked at Poltroon’s cane. “What, is it not to your liking? I find it quite dashing, personally.” Kaguya shook his head, and jumped towards Poltroon, and unleashed a flurry of punches at an impossible speed. Poltroon blocked each punch with the back of his cane, deflecting the attacks with ease. “Not bad. I expected nothing less from one of my underlings.” A smile spread across Kaguya’s face. It would not be such a short battle after all. Kaguya attacked again, but this time he conjured two blades of pure moonlight in his hands, slashing at Poltroon’s body. Still, Poltroon deflected the attacks with his cane. The blades did not leave a single scratch in the wood. Needless to say, it was no ordinary stick. With each attack Poltroon stopped, Kaguya unleashed another. Realizing he would eventually get hit if he didn’t do something, Poltroon leapt backwards, distancing himself from Kaguya. As Kaguya was about to give chase, Poltroon thrust the tip of his cane into the ground, creating four large circles before him. Kaguya was not sure what they were, but did not really care, because of his immortality. Even if it did end up hurting him, he’d just heal right back anyways. Ignoring the suspicious circles, Kaguya rushed towards Poltroon. The moment Kaguya’s foot grazed one of the circles, a powerful force puashed Kaguya’s body to the ground, pinning him down. A gravity trap. “Kuh… You think this will hold me?” Kaguya’s body started shaking, as he used everything he had to force himself onto his feet. With sluggish movements, he moved off the circle, and was released from the magic infused in the trap. “Guess it won’t be that simple.” Poltroon raised his cane, and prepared for another one of Kaguya’s onslaughts. The two moderators were caught in an intense fight for over twenty minutes. Kaguya was on the offensive the entire time, while Poltroon deflected most of the attacks coming his way. He did get a few hits in himself, too. But, each attack that hit Kaguya was useless as long as the elixir was in effect. The roof they were standing on had been all but destroyed, and the barrier kaguya had raised was long gone. “Haah, haah, haah…” “Haah… Haah…” The two were catching their breath, taking a short break from the intense fight. “It doesn’t look like I’ll be able to finish you like this.” Kaguya raised his arm above his head, and the sky above grew cloudy. Thick clouds moved in front of the sun, leaving the city covered in darkness. “I have to praise you for pushing me this far. But, this is where it ends.” “<満月>” <Full Moon> Kaguya started hovering above the ground, and slowly floated up into the sky. Above him, the clouds began to disperse, but the sun was nowhere in sight. In its place was the moon, dyed in an ominous shade of red. Large spheres of moon energy formed around Kaguya’s body, and with a snap of his fingers, Kaguya sent the spheres raining down onto Poltroon. “Hmph!” Poltroon knocked the first two out of the air, sending them crashing into the adjacent buildings. But, he could not stop them all. Eventually, one of the spheres hit Poltroon’s body, knocking him through the roof, hurling him down into the floor below. “Ouch…” Lifting his body up from the rubble, Poltroon tried to come up with a plan. If he didn’t do something, Kaguya would turn him into dust within a few minutes. Poltroon made his way towards a nearby window, where he had a clear view of Kaguya, who was sending more spheres into the building. Explosions erupted all around Poltroon. It was only a matter of time before one of them hit him. Looking up at Kaguya, then down towards the street below, Poltroon made up his mind. He had no choice but to flee. “Well, here goes nothing.” Poltroon brushed some rubble off his shoulder, then jumped forward, crashing through the window before him. Tumbling towards the asphalt below, Poltroon knocked down another sphere, which Kaguya shot after him. “Running, are we?” Kaguya gave chase, flying after Poltroon, sending several spheres towards him. Poltroon kept knocking them out of the air, as he approached the ground below. “I won’t let you get away.” Kaguya kept on firing sphere after sphere towards Poltroon. Meanwhile, the street below was growing closer and closer. The situation was dire. Even if Poltroon slowed his fall and landed safely, he would simply not be able to run away from Kaguya. In a desperate attempt to slow him down, Poltroon conjured several magic circles along the wall of the skyscraper beside them. Kaguya saw Poltroon’s trick coming, and easily avoided the traps by simply stopping his fall before he reached them, hovering about thirty meters above the ground. But what Kaguya did not expect was that the spheres he fired towards Poltroon were also affected by the traps. They were pulled in by the magical circle, and large explosions erupted all over the bottom part of the building, making the already damaged skyscraper collapse completely. Hundreds of tons of rubble, steel and glass tumbled towards the two moderators. Poltroon, who had somehow managed to brace his fall with a spell, just barely managed to move away from the rubble before it crashed into the ground. But, since Kaguya was thirty meters above, he did not have as much time, and the rubble pulled him down with it, pinning him below the massive pile of debris. Kaguya's immortality potion was still in effect, but even someone as strong as him would not be able to lift the hundreds of tons that rested on top of his body. Once the elixir’s effect ran out, he would be crushed to death by the rubble. “... Phew.” Mr Poltroon let out a sigh, and started to walk along the street, his entire body aching from the exhausting battle. As Kaguya’s power began to vanish, the clouds he had conjured dispersed completely, and the sun once again began to shine down on the city. A few minutes later, across town: Weiterfechten was walking through a back alley, lifting up his top hat as he wiped som sweat from his brow with the cuff of his victorian tuxedo. His attire did not exactly help against the scorching heat. He had seen a battle unfold a few blocks away some minutes ago, and chose to get away from them as quickly as he could, not wanting to be caught in the crossfire. While a battle between two members could mean a possible easy kill for him if he snuck up on them, it was apparent from a mile away that the two fighting were not normal members. Weiterfechten had fled as soon as the giant balls of energy began raining from the sky. “Hm?” Noticing something stir in the darkness a few meters in front of him, Weiterfechten came to a stop, and reached for his fencing sword, which was resting in a hilt over his left hip. “Who’s there?” A small girl walked out from the shadows of the dark alley, gazing at Weiterfechten with an emotionless expression. Had he not watched last week’s game, Weiterfechten might have thought of the little girl as a defenseless bystander. But, he knew better. He had seen the little girl stab her “ally” in the back in cold blood, laughing. “Funny I should run into you here, little girl. The person you killed last week happened to be a good friend of mine. I shall take this opportunity to avenge him.” Kiriririri opened her small hand, and a beautiful sword with a silver blade and a golden hilt appeared out of thin air. She then brought the blade behind her head, and took a swing at Weiterfechten, who quickly drew his own sword and blocked the attack. Despite being a little girl, she was strong. The impact of her attack made Weiterfechten take a step back, and a dull pain ran down his arm. She was no ordinary girl, that much was obvious. “初ノ型〈紫電〉” <First strike: Purple Lightning> Kiriririri whispered and closed her eyes. Then, her blade glowed in a purple light, and she cut at the place Weiterfechten had been standing. Being a skilled fencer, Weiterfechten jumped out of the way on instinct, which was smart of him, as a deep cut ran through the ground where he had been standing just moments before. The light that erupted from the girl’s sword looked like lava melting its way through steel, as steam rose from the cut in the ground. While the girl seemed to lack technical skills with her sword, she made up for it in brute strength. If Weiterfechten was going to win, he had to wait for the right opportunity, preferably right after the girl used one of her attacks. Testing her out a bit, Weiterfechten thrust his blade at the girl. Like he thought, she moved awkwardly, and barely managed to deflect his attack. But, as he tried to move in for another thrust, the girl’s blade began to glow once again, and she unleashed another purple ray of light from her sword. The light grazed Weiterfechten’s jacket, setting it on fire. He ripped off the jacket in a fluster, and threw it onto the ground. “Careful with that thing. You’ll poke someone’s eye out.” Weiterfechten pointed at Kiriririri’s sword. “You know, I really liked that jacket. Now I’m even more angrier.” Weiterfechten sent several precise attacks Kiriririri’s way, trying to prevent her from unleashing more of her pesky attacks. He focused on stabbing at her right side, forcing her to keep her dominant arm back, which in turn, meant she couldn’t raise her sword. “二ノ型〈流星〉” <Second strike - Meteor> Pushed back by Weiterfechten’s onslaught, Kiriririri whispered the name of a different attack. Thinking he’d be fine as long as she couldn’t use her sword, Weiterfechten kept pushing forward. Then… “Whoa!” Barely managing to notice before it was to late, Weiterfechten jumped awkwardly to the side, as a purple circle started forming around his legs. Right as he jumped out of the circle, a rock dyed in the same color as the circle crashed into the ground, digging about a meter into the dirt before it came to a stop. Thick smoke rose from the small crater, making Weiterfechten cover his mouth with his arm. “What the hell… Hm?” Looking at the girl again, Weiterfechten noticed that she was breathing heavier than before. While that could just have been because she was dodging his attacks, another idea popped into his mind. Could it be that the special attacks she was using tired her out? If that was the case, all he had to do was keep avoiding her strikes, and he should be able to land a killing blow. “Phew… Hmph!” After catching calming his own breathing, Weiterfechten stepped forward, once again resuming his attacks. Kiriririri did not even try to deflect his attacks with her sword, and dodged them the best she could instead. Although her movements were awkward, they were really fast, so landing a hit became quite challenging, even for someone as skilled as Weiterfechten. Her small build made the task even harder, as his target was much smaller than he was used to. Kiriririri suddenly took a step back, and her blade began to glow again. “Here it comes.” Weiterfechten thought to himself, and prepared for another one of Kiriririri’s attacks. Kiriririri brought her blade above her head, and sent the biggest ray of light yet flying towards Weiterfechten. It moved faster than the previous attacks, too, making it even harder to dodge. Moving out of its way by a hair’s breadth, Weiterfechten felt the heat of the purple light searing his skin as it rushed past him. “Guh…” Staggering for a second due to the incredible heat, Weiterfechten took a moment to regain his balance, then moved in for a counterattack while Kiriririri herself was recovering from the powerful attack. “Hmph!” Weiterfechten thrust his fencing sword towards the little girl’s chest. The blade moved towards Kiriririri at high speed, and for the first time in the entire fight, Kiriririri’s expression was filled with emotion, as her eyes shot open in fear. The sudden resistance of human flesh made Weiterfechten’s arm come to a halt. But, he had not hit the target he expected. Kiriririri had moved her left arm in front of the blade in the last second, and the tip of Weiterfechten’s sword had been stopped a few inches from Kiriririri’s body. Fresh blood ran down her arm, and her expression twisted in pain. Nevertheless, she raised her right arm high above her head, gripping the hilt of her sword firmly. 終ノ型〈天絶閃衝(ラスト・ パフェ)〉 <Final strike - The last Parfait > After she stated the attack’s ludicrous name, her blade lit up in a brilliant purple light, and Kiriririri cut at Weiterfechten’s body. Weiterfechten jumped back, letting go of his own sword, to at least avoid the attack, but it was no use. The glowing blade grew longer, like it was chasing him, and even though he jumped a good meter and a half back, the blade reached his body with ease, carving into his flesh, making fresh blood sprout from his chest. “Graaagh!” Letting out a primal scream, Weiterfechten collapsed. "Hehe." Kiriririri looked down at Weiterfechten's corpse, and chuckled. Wildcards This Week? Yes (A user has recieved a second life. Read details about wildcards here.) Dead This Week: Still Alive: Hope you enjoyed! See you again next week! (Let me know if you find any issues/ inconsistencies!)

Funny you should mention that. I rolled for the wildcards this week, and there WILL be one this time. The way the wildcards work: I will make it a 1/4 chance of rolling on a wildcard each week, so it doesn't happen too often. If there is to be a wildcard that week, I'll roll once, and the user picked gets a second life. If that person had died previously, they will be revived instead. A user cannot have more than two lives. Should it land on a user that already has an extra life, I will roll again, until someone who doesn't have one is picked. I will NOT announce who gets these, so it will be a surprise if a user has a second life, or if a user is brought back. (If a user is brought back, you won't know until you see them in a chapter again.) I will say if there was a wildcard picked that week, though, so people can keep track of the amount of extra lives in the game. But, you won't know who has them until it is revealed in the chapters.

1: I mean, you will be losing out on the original intent of the writer, and great aspects of the work. This is pretty self explanitory, really. 2: A great translation is both accurate, and reads nice and fluently in the language it was translated into. When you're reading a good translation, you should feel like what you're reading could just as well have been written natively in the language it was translated into. You should not "feel" the source language lingering in the line. (Something you will see lots of when the translation is very literal.) 3: In terms of textual accuracy, it becomes impossible for people without Japanese knowledge to know when a translation is bad. You can't gauge the accuracy of a translation if you don't understand the source material, after all. In cases where there are big issues with accuracy, (like If my heart had wings,) you'll generally see a big outrage on any kind of VN related forum/ website, so just scanning Fuwanovel or similar sites will be enough to find out if TLs are "bad" in that regard. As for translations that are technically accurate, but are just bad in terms of English writing/ have incredibly literal translations that create a hot mess of crap, (Libra,) you should be able to tell yourself, really. Like, just read some of these examples from Libra. It should be fairly obvious that this is a bad translation. Example 1, example 2, example 3.

I'm sorry, the ... surreal title made me not even read the contents of your post. You should honestly change it if you want the thread to be taken seriously. (Something like "roleplaying thread?") perhaps. I know there are users who like to roleplay together in PMs, though I don't see the harm in having a roleplaying thread in The Coliseum of Chatter, so if your question is if you can use this thread for roleplaying, the answer is yes; go nuts.

For future refrence, silly jokes and meme threads all go in The Coliseum of Chatter. Definitely not in the community feedback section.

Heh, I said I'd get the chapter out on time this week, but I'm afraid I'll have to postpone this one to Monday as well. Been out with my family all weekend celebrating my Mom's birthday, so I did not have a lot of time to write. I think this chapter will be one worth the wait, though! Not only has a user been picked two weeks in a row, but we'll also be seeing two moderators dish it out this week! Look forward to it ~~

To me it does the opposite. If I want to feel like I'm in control of the protagonist's choices, I need to see an actual response to that choice. Just changing one piece of dialogue in that one scene doesn't make an overall change to how the characters look at the protagnist overall. It just changes that one line, then they go back to normal. So, in turn, nothing actually changed. For me to enjoy the effect of choices, they need to actually have lasting repercussions, or else they are just pointless. So, even if they don't lead to an ending, they should show some kind of change beyond just a singular line of dialogue.

I mean choices that have absolutely no reason to be there, maybe changing one or two lines of dialogue, but not changing the route/ outcome in any way. A good example of this is Katahane. The game is full of choices, but 90% have absolutely no use, and only make tiny changes to the dialogue. Choices are there to change the outcome of the story, so pointless ones rubs me the wrong way.

Less meaningless choices. I want the choices I pick to make a difference. Meaningless choices are my biggest pet peeve in VNs. Like, why are they even there?! Grrr...

*Sigh* Let's try to keep things on topic, shall we? Because many comments were half and half between serious points and derailing comments about all sorts of unrelated things, I had to hide a decent chunk of the most recent comments. If you want to continue the discussion, please do so without derailing the thread into oblivion. On the topic of MoeNovel's censorship. While it is understandable that they want to market their games for Steam, (something most companies do,) this doesn't excuse the lack of any form of 18+ version of their games, either in the form of patches, or separate games sold on different stores. (The dumb part being, they actually DO sell their games on other stores, for example on Mangagamer, but this version is still censored.) This is especially silly, seeing as every single game they have ever localized has been an eroge originally. (Even Love Kami, as it was discovered that, while the games were released first in the west as all-ages games, the original still had the 18+ content written into them, but it was simply sold later in Japan, most likely to avoid the eyes of western fans complaining about censorship.) In Cross Channel's case, they do have a console version they can use, (this still bothers me personally, as the original release was an eroge, and the console port came later, so I'd want the original version localized, and not the console version,) but it is at the very least a bit more defendable. The terrible translation is not, though.

I hate it. Let me choose the heroine I want, grrrr! I have never dropped a VN because of it though, but I have installed 100% save files to get around it several times. (It's a good trick if the enforced playing order rubs you the wrong way.)

Welcome!

He was such an inspiration to so many people, and will be missed. RIP

Yeah, true. I was expecting nothing but fluff, but got a whole lot of feels I wasn't expecting in the mix of the fluff instead. Man, I want a season 2 of this.

I think he was just joking, seeing as his sources are anime tiddies, and that the teaser for the TL was only released earlier today, (and that didn't even officially announce the title.)

The source just links me to a pic of a girl saying she didn't fap. Did you link the wrong thing, or is this whole post a meme?