--"die".
This is not something unfamiliar to Shino.
It's not that Shino has experienced death, but death is always by her side.
At first it was the father.
Shino had never seen her father's face.
When Shino was two years old, her father died in a traffic accident.
That day, her father and mother took Shino and the family of three to her mother's hometown to celebrate the New Year. They were driving on the border of a certain county in the northeast. However, while the car was driving on an old single-lane road extending along the slope of a hillside, it drove from the opposite lane. The big truck came and didn't have time to turn, but it hit him directly.
At that time, the truck driver broke through the windshield and fell to the road. He died immediately.
The small car that Shino was sitting in, which was hit by a truck on the right side, jumped over the guardrail and fell down the hillside. It was finally stopped by two trees before it stopped falling.
At this time, although the father driving the car was seriously injured and unconscious, he was not dead immediately. The mother in the passenger seat only had a simple fracture of her left thigh. The young Shino was almost injured due to the safety belt of the infant safety seat in the back seat. Being unscathed is not despair.
Unfortunately, that road was so infrequently used, especially late at night, that even the phone in the car was broken from the impact, until a car passing the old road the next morning noticed the accident. It was only discovered when it happened.
But that was already six hours later.
During these six hours, Shino's mother could only watch from the side as her father's body gradually became cold due to internal bleeding, and eventually died as a result. He eventually suffered a mental breakdown and his mental age returned to the teenage years before she met her father.
At that time, Shino experienced the first death closest to him in his life.
The second death closest to Sinon occurred five years ago.
At that time, her mother and Shino had already left Tokyo and returned to her mother's family, living a simple life in the countryside.
Fifteen years have passed since the accident. The mentally disturbed mother may only regard Shino as a younger sister, but luckily she still loves Shino deeply and reads picture books and sings lullabies to her every night. She listened, so the mother in Shino's memory always looked like a fragile girl who was easily hurt. From the time she was sensible, Shino always told herself that she must be stronger and protect her mother.
For Shino at that time, the outside world was full of various elements that disturbed her mother's peaceful life, making her always think that she must protect her mother.
However, this idea ultimately made Shino what she is today.
Shino will never forget that day.
That day, Shino and her mother went to the post office, but encountered a robber who broke into the post office.
At that time, the robber was holding a black star.
That was in 1932, an imitation of the "Tokarev TT33" officially adopted by the Soviet Army. It used a 30-caliber, or 7.62 mm, steel-core bullet. It had a large amount of gunpowder. The muzzle velocity of the bullet could exceed the speed of sound. It had a pistol. The most powerful penetrating force among them, but due to excessive recoil, it was replaced by the Soviet Union in the 1950s with the "Makarov" that used miniaturized 9 mm bullets. Its full name is - "May 4th Style Black" Star Pistol>.
The prisoner was armed with such a gun and shot a postal employee who tried to call the police. Then he became angry and pointed the gun at others.
Unfortunately, Shino's mother was nearby, overwhelmed by fear, and eventually screamed uncontrollably.
Hearing her mother's scream, Shino almost subconsciously rushed forward, bit the prisoner's arm, grabbed the prisoner's pistol during the struggle, and in the end - "shot the prisoner."
Yes.
This is death created by Shino's own hands.
Even though at that time, Shino's mind was completely blank and she had a strong desire to protect her mother, which led to such action, but Shino did face the prisoner when he rushed towards her angrily, The trigger was pulled again, again, and again.
Afterwards, reports stated that the prisoner died because the gun's chamber exploded.
As for Shino, apart from two broken teeth, two sprained wrists, a bruised back and a dislocated right shoulder, there were no other external injuries.
These injuries were quickly healed.
However, there are also injuries that cannot be cured.
From then on, Sinon would vomit or faint whenever she saw a gun, even if she saw a gun on TV, in a comic, or even imitated it with her hands.
As soon as she saw the gun, Sinon felt like she could see the face of the man when he was killed by it, and saw the man with his eyebrows pierced by bullets, covered in blood, smiling at her, and his eyes wide open.
In other words, Shino suffered from mental illness.
Post-traumatic stress disorder.
This was the incurable injury that Shino suffered from.
Shino did not regret choosing to shoot at that time.
However, her body, heart and spirit are not under her control, and she can't stand seeing guns and things related to them.
This made Shino feel that her "no regrets" were just high-sounding words. In fact, she had always regretted it, and she shouldn't have become like this in order to protect her mother.
The psychiatrists could only say "We understand you", but they couldn't make Shino feel relieved.
Therefore, Shino wanted to become stronger and gain the courage to say, "Under that situation, it was natural for me to do that."
Under such circumstances, Shino met Kyouji by chance, and under Kyouji's introduction, he entered GGO and was able to come into contact with guns again.
The amazing thing is that maybe the body in the virtual world is virtual, or the feeling when touching the gun cannot be completely reproduced after all. In this world, when Shino touches the gun, not only does she not have a seizure, but she also likes it. Several types of firearms.
From that moment on, Sinon felt that as long as she became the strongest player in the world, she would also become stronger in the real world.
"As long as I continue to defeat enemies stronger than that bandit, come into contact with guns more powerful than that Black Star, get used to them, and surpass them, then my experience in this world will definitely become a strengthening agent for my heart and spirit. , so that I can be above them in the real world and become stronger."
With this idea in mind, Shino pursues powerful enemies with an almost paranoid attitude, using anti-material sniper rifles as a powerful weapon to make her heart and spirit stronger, and one day, it will affect the real world. of myself.
but now...
"Dong dong - dong dong - dong dong -"
Sinon's heartbeat accelerated as if without any limit, causing her to breathe rapidly, break out in cold sweat, twitch her whole body, her head went blank, and she was completely unable to control herself.
This feeling is exactly the same as when you come into contact with a gun in the real world.
However, this time, it was not because Sinon came into contact with the gun, but because she felt the arrival of the third death.
Do you have to face it again
Could it be that, after the previous two times, he would eventually have to die again
But the first time, she was lucky enough to survive and let her father die. The second time, she tried her best to kill others and let herself survive. This time, who has to sacrifice
alone
Or is it the young man who came to save him
If he could escape death this time, would the young man in front of him die
Killed by yourself
"No! Never!"
Then, fear rose up in her heart, causing Shino to cry out.
"You... you go away...! Go away...!"
It's a pity that Luo Zhen turned a deaf ear. When the durability was only twelve points, he raised the dagger in his hand high, bursting out with more power than ever before, and struck down resolutely.
"Snapped!"
With a crisp sound, the dagger cut off the chain.
"boom!"
The durability of the severed chain completely returned to zero, and it exploded into polygonal fragments and disappeared.
"drop!"
At this time, the countdown is - "0:02".
Luo Zhen hugged Shino without any hesitation.
Not long after...
"Boom—!"
In Warehouse Street, explosions resounded, sending waves of fire into the sky that lasted for a long time.