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Sword Art Online Volume 5 – Phantom Bullet

With his camouflage cloak’s hood pulled down to his eyebrows and his lower face covered by a thick cloth, he coldly surveyed the shop interior. He hated not only the man on the screen with his nose in the air, but was also displeased with the dumb looks of the players watching the TV. Everyone booing and howling like wolves, but still enjoying the festival-like disturbances. Why were they so mindless, «he» could not understand. The man in the TV became the strongest in the world only by pure luck, and at the same time became the biggest exploiter. In front of all the players who paid connection fees, he was a strutting gamer. Like «him», all the players should envy and hate that guy. If that feeling was ugly, so be it : to hide it by just laughing with a mixture of ugliness, it wasn’t funny at all. «He» was very tense under his cloak, and he breathed out from between tightly clenched teeth. It was not yet time, and pulling the trigger would come just a bit later. He returned his gaze to the holo-panel, as the camera zoomed-out, the show’s host to the speaker’s right and another guest sitting to his left came into the frame. The hostess of the show, a girl dressed in a full body techno-pop style outfit, said sweetly : “Truly, as a top player in one of the hardest of all the VRMMO games, «Gun Gale Online», what you just told us is a bit extreme.”

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