Sniper Is a Loner ~On How I Was Quietly Enjoying Some Solo Player-Sniping and Wound Up a Raid Boss~
That loner high-school girl? Turns out she's a raid boss.
"Ugh… there's a player coming this way… I hate this… I don't want to talk to anyone… guess I'll shoot them before they can say hi…"
Koshiki Rei is a gun-loving high-school girl who's gloomy to the bone and can't talk to people to save her life.
Because she can't hold a conversation, Rei gravitates to dead games nobody else plays. That's how she ended up happily alone in Gun Fight On-line, a deserted VRMMO built around guns. Then one day, while she was clearing a high-difficulty dungeon, a party wandered in her direction. Rather than risk having to talk to them, she annihilated the whole party with her sniper rifle.
The next day, for some reason, fourteen players showed up at her hunting ground.
Wanting nothing more than to be left alone, Rei shot them all down. So the day after that, an even bigger group came. She killed that one too. And the day after that. And the day after that. Every time, the raiding parties came back bigger.
By the time she had wiped out every group that came for her, the playerbase had given her a name, Abyss Hawk, and classified her as a raid boss.
Having drawn exactly the attention she never wanted, Rei retired from Gun Fight On-line. She was still agonizing over what to play next when her little sister recommended the wildly popular god-tier game Infinity-Space. Thirty-five million registered players. It was not a dead game but a horribly overcrowded one, the exact opposite of everything she looks for. The game itself is too good to pass up, though, so she logs in anyway, terrified.
She can't talk to people. Put her in front of a crowd and she seizes up. And she is monumentally unlucky. Handicapped by all of it, the gloomy high-school girl tramples her enemies anyway, carried by the raw sniping skill that made her a raid boss in the first place. God-tier game or not, Abyss Hawk keeps shooting until she's the winner: the last loner standing.
