The Lone Sniper: I Was Just Minding My Own Business Sniping Players, and I Ended Up Becoming a Raid Boss

Chapter 22

Sheena-san is a balancer. The balancer's default stats are:

Armor: C (60)

Thruster Output: B (80)

Thruster Capacity: C (60)

Precision: C (60)

Radar: C (60)

Stealth: C+ (70)

EN Capacity: C+ (70)

As the name suggests, they're balanced stats.

As far as I can confirm, Sheena-san's weapons are dual handguns in both hands, and a flower-like shield attached to her right shoulder. Shield Pieces probably take up one slot with 50 pieces. She also wears a white cloak at regular intervals. It's probably a cloak that boosts stealth like my Dust Mirage. I can also see saber terminals on holsters at her waist. Six in total. The remaining two slots are unknown.

"......"

I want to ask Chacha-san about that shoulder shield, but it's hard to ask with Niko-san here. I'm getting used to one-on-one conversations with Chacha-san, but one-on-two conversations are still impossible......

"Ahh, this is bad."

Six... eight Space Girls appear on Sheena-san's radar. They're already surrounded.

"Why so many......"

"Because you're marked."

"Sheena-cchi is kind of famous, so she gets targeted first. Even without a briefing, other teams naturally coordinate to take Sheena-cchi down. When it turns into this formation......"

This is already......

'Well, I didn't think I could win against Crimson Wings alone anyway, so I figured there was no chance of victory to begin with.'

Sheena-san says calmly.

"Why don't you just go down quietly? There's no need to show your hand meaninglessly."

'No, this is a good opportunity to show my abilities to Shiki-san.'

"Eh, ah, me......!?"

'Yes. Then first, let me show you my secret weapon—the strongest weapon.'

A secret weapon out of nowhere!?

"You can't be......!"

'Activating railgun.'

Ra-railgun!?

"Uwawawa......!?"

Sheena-san puts away her handguns and materializes a certain weapon from data into physical form.

"That shape, it really is—"

—A railgun, an electromagnetic cannon.

The electromagnetic cannon's barrel is about 1 meter long, with a rectangular muzzle.

When you say railgun, it's a cannon that fires electromagnetic force at high speed. For gun otaku, it's the kind of romantic weapon......!

'Effective range: 200m. Muzzle velocity—'

She runs electricity through the railgun and points its muzzle at a nearby apartment building. Two seconds later—the electromagnetic round is fired.

An intense firing sound and flash of light. The electromagnetic bullet pierces through the apartment building and erases one enemy icon beyond it.

'Can't be dodged by sight. Power is excellent.'

It's strong. Too fast. There's no way to dodge that by reflex.

"However, it has drawbacks: once fired, it needs 1 minute 20 seconds to charge. Furthermore, the firing sound and flash are terrible, so—"

In no time, Sheena-san's encirclement is complete. From all directions, completely sealed off.

"The enemies will close in at once."

Space Girls attack Sheena-san. While fending off their attacks, Sheena-san continues her explanation.

'My basic style is dual handguns. The red-colored one on the right is a semi-auto focused on single shots, the blue-colored one on the left is full-auto focused on rapid fire. Next is this flower-like weapon on my shoulder.'

"It's amazing how you can keep talking while handling this fierce attack......"

"......Yeah, really......"

All of Sheena-san's movements are high level. Definitely a tier above Kurenai-san and Niko-san.

'This shoulder weapon is a derivative of Shield Pieces called 'Attack Pieces'. The weapon name is 'Rikka'.'

The flower on Sheena-san's shoulder scatters into six petals. Those petals stride through the air like Shield Pieces and attack enemy units. The tips of the petals are sharply pointed, with enough power to pierce Space Girl armor.

(It's like six remotely controlled sabers, I guess. They don't have much reach or speed, but it must be hard to deal with them while also handling Sheena-san's shooting.)

If it were me, I'd probably accept taking some damage to shoot down Rikka first. With this much of a numbers advantage, someone should focus on eliminating Rikka. But I guess this hastily formed group has clumsy coordination.

'This is essentially an offensive Shield Piece. It can be used for guarding too, but its defense isn't that strong. With these two handguns, Rikka, and depending on the situation sabers, shields, and sniper rifles—'

In other words, handguns, handguns, sniper rifle, sabers, shield, cloak, Rikka, Shield Pieces......railgun?

(Nine weapons......?)

'Well, I'm about at my limit.'

"If you got five kills in this encirclement, that's amazing."

"You're overdoing it! Such high pride!"

Sheena-san has already lost her right arm and left leg. The match is already decided.

Watching Sheena-san being gradually cornered......it hurts. I'm the one who created this situation. Because of me, Sheena-san is being bullied.

Niko-san took down three units, Sheena-san took down five. But me......zero kills.

(Ahh, I'm just baggage......we lost because of me......because of me......)

Sheena-san was helplessly deleted.

――――――Afterword――――――

The railgun and Rikka are special weapons like the G-AGE.

Shiki describes Rikka as having 'nothing special speed-wise', but it's actually fast. Plus it's small and its movements are complex (depending on Sheena's skill), so it's impossible for ordinary Space Girls to shoot it down. I might write this somewhere, but Piece-type weapons have a limit of 2 slots. Shield Pieces 3 slots or Shield Pieces 2 slots + Attack Pieces 1 slot is impossible. The reason for slot limits is that Piece-type weapons are frankly powerful. Rikka's biggest weakness is that it reduces Shield Piece slots by one.