Chapter 1000: Shooting Technique

In the bustling night market street, Broly silently observed the three people, gradually discovering their different preferences.

Erina liked pretty accessories, but compared to pretty accessories, she seemed to like knowledge more.

Broly noticed her gaze glancing multiple times toward a bookstore located in the center of the night market street.

Hisako Arato was a practical sort; she was not interested in pretty accessories.

Among the many accessories, she only picked an unremarkable black hairband.

She said wearing a hairband while cooking should make cooking much more convenient.

Ikumi Mito's preferences were relatively in line with her gyaru appearance.

Although she also paid attention to some pretty accessories, she seemed to care more about a stall operating a Qi gun shooting game next to the accessory stall.

"Miss Mito, you look quite interested in this. Why not give it a try?"

Ikumi Mito, who was staring blankly at a plush bear doll on the prize stand, was suddenly addressed by Broly and jumped in fright.

"No, I'm not interested in shooting games—"

She was about to deny her interest in shooting games, but suddenly reacted.

【If I can shoot down the plush bear, wouldn't I be able to justifiably take that plush bear home?】

The moment this thought emerged, Ikumi Mito temporarily changed her tune: "Hmm, I am somewhat interested."

Hearing this, the shooting stall's boss immediately stood up and called out: "Customer, want to play? Our stall's prizes are quite good, we have all kinds of large plushies.

As long as you can knock them off the shelf, any prize knocked down belongs to the customer; you can take them directly home."

"How much?"

"500 yen per set, three cork bullets per set. Buy two sets, I'll throw in one extra cork bullet."

The shooting game stall boss rubbed his hands introducing the price, giving off a smooth, shrewd merchant vibe.

"Shi Nature Lao Shi, Hisako-sensei, do you want to play together?"

Broly turned back and asked the other two girls.

"Sure, then I'll give it a try too."

Nakiri Erina did not refuse.

"Okay."

Hisako Arato likewise had no objection.

"Boss, four sets to start."

"Right away, 2000 yen even."

After paying, the boss handed over four Qi guns.

Broly took one and felt it was very light, like a toy.

Well, this is a toy.

Of course, even if it were a real gun in his hand, it would probably be no different from a toy.

Broly stuffed a gun into each person's hand, then asked the boss: "How do you play this?"

"Simple, load the cork bullet into the muzzle, aim at the target you want to hit, and pull the trigger."

Broly nodded, distributing the Qi guns and bullets to the girls beside him.

Four sets, twelve bullets, plus the two gifted by the boss, totaling fourteen shots.

He gave four bullets each to Nakiri Erina and the other two, keeping two for himself.

"Why did you take fewer?"

Nakiri Erina saw this and asked in confusion.

"I'm not too interested in this; I'll just play around with the two the boss gifted."

Broly spoke the truth.

"Who among you knows shooting?"

After receiving the Qi gun, Ikumi Mito's anticipation of getting the plush bear rose, but she worried she couldn't hit it, so she asked.

"I do. This thing isn't hard; just keep your eye, the sight, and the target you want to shoot in a straight line, then pull the trigger."

Hisako Arato answered.

"Hisako, when did you learn shooting?"

Nakiri Erina beside her asked with some surprise.

"When I was twelve, my family took me to Africa to experience a hunting project. This is the shooting technique the local guide taught at the time."

"Hmm~"

Nakiri Erina drew out the sound, not expecting her childhood friend secretary to actually have this kind of play experience, and comparing her own situation to the other's, she actually felt a bit of jealousy.

"Did you bag anything back then?"

However, Nakiri Erina quickly dispelled the little emotion in her heart, turning to ask with some curiosity.

"I hit an antelope."

Hisako Arato nodded in answer, then raised the Qi gun in her hand, aimed at the grand prize plushie, and pulled the trigger.

The cork bullet flew out with a pop, hitting the target very precisely, but the force was a bit soft, only making the large plushie sway slightly.

Nakiri Erina widened her eyes, an eager-to-try expression surfacing on her face, and she also raised her Qi gun to shoot, but unfortunately, the cork bullet flew straight through the gap between the goods on the shelf.

"Erina-sama, for a newbie, aiming with one eye closed will be a bit more precise."

Hisako Arato reminded from the side.

"I see."

Erina realized, tried again, and this time the cork bullet hit.

However, the target hit was also the grand prize plushie; it likewise only swayed slightly on the shelf, with absolutely no intention of falling off.

Nakiri Erina was somewhat pleased, but also somewhat dissatisfied: "Boss, using this thing, can we really knock down those prizes on your shelf?"

The girl was pleased that she had hit her target, but dissatisfied that the thing she hit showed no sign of falling.

"Of course, but the grand prize dolls are heavier; they need several shots to come down."

The shooting game stall boss replied with a smiling face.

【The doll bear I want isn't a grand prize; it can only count as a secondary prize, so it should be easier to knock down————】

Ikumi Mito thought this in her heart, then raised her Qi Gun, aimed carefully, and pulled the trigger; one bullet hit its mark.

But unfortunately, the doll bear, which was somewhat like the one her father had broken when she was a child, merely swayed on the shelf and showed no sign of falling.

down.

"Customer, your marksmanship is good, but unfortunately you still need to keep working hard!"

The shooting game stall boss showed a regretful expression.

"No, this Qi Gun's power is a bit small; we have to aim at one target together to possibly knock it down."

Hisako Arato stopped the two people beside her from raising their guns to shoot again, and proposed.

"Good idea, then let's pick one and knock it down together."

"Fine, but how do we divide the ones we knock down together?"

"Very simple, each person picks the prize they want."

After Hisako Arato spoke, Ikumi Mito pointed to the doll bear she had her eye on: "Then I want that one."

"Fine, I want this big one."

Nakiri Erina pointed to the tuba-sized doll in the grand prize row and said.

"Erina-sama, the big ones are probably hard for us few to knock down; we should choose smaller ones."

Hisako Arato said as she leaned close to Erina's ear and whispered softly: "The Qi Gun's power is small, and the grand prize dolls are big."

"That grand prize is probably just a gimmick of this shooting game stall; the possibility of knocking down the grand prize is not great————"

"Ah, isn't that deceiving people?!"

Nakiri Erina exclaimed.

", this little girl, you can eat food haphazardly, but you can't speak haphazardly; as long as the number of shots is enough, the grand prize can still be ground down from the shelf bit by bit."

After hearing this, the shooting stall boss immediately spoke up to refute.

"Then how many shots does it take to knock it down?"

Nakiri Erina raised an eyebrow and retorted.

"That depends on your shooting skills, customers."

The shooting stall boss didn't answer directly and shifted it to shooting skills.

"Hey, you few, this stall boss is very shrewd; for the prizes on the shelf, you'd best choose small prizes to shoot at, as for the big prizes, don't touch them at all; I shot over a hundred rounds here earlier, but couldn't knock any down————"

Beside them, a passerby who had fallen for this stall before, however, kindly gave Nakiri Erina and the others a piece of advice.

"No wonder; the prizes at this stall are clearly not bad, but just now there weren't many people playing here!"

The three girls only then realized the reason why business here was slow, but since they had spent money on the number of bullets, they couldn't just leave without shooting.

The three discussed for a while and decided to shoot at the smaller doll bear first; and indeed, Hisako Arato's proposal was not bad; the bullets shot out together hit simultaneously, and indeed made that doll bear lean backward on the shelf.

But unfortunately, the leaning doll bear didn't fall, but instead fell back onto the shelf; even after the three of them fired all their cork bullets, they just watched that doll bear lean back again and again, then fall back to its original position on the shelf.

Looking closely, that shelf also had a trick; behind it there was a barely perceptible, but indeed certain anti-backward-falling curved slope.

Looking normally, if you didn't observe carefully, you couldn't see it at all.

"Customer, do you want to keep playing?"

The boss said with a smiling face.

"Forget it, a waste of money."

Nakiri Erina had money, but wasn't stupid; continuing to play a shooting game that obviously had a problem would be pure brain problem.

Even though Broly said he would treat tonight, she still didn't want to be this sucker; Nakiri Erina directly put down the gun.

Ikumi Mito was somewhat unwilling, but couldn't show it; her father had once told her that as the future Heir of the Mizuko Family, she shouldn't show the weak side of a normal girl; things like cute dolls, she shouldn't even touch, let alone look at.

"Boss, do the things that fall from the shelf all belong to me?"

And at this time, Broly asked.

"Of course."

The shooting game stall boss saw that the few people seemed to want to leave, so naturally he tried his best to retain this hard-to-get sucker——cough cough, good customer.

"No matter how many prizes fall from one shot, do they all count as mine?"

Broly pursued the question.

"Haha, this little brother, as long as you have the skill, even if you knock down all the prizes above in one shot, I'll give them to you, what's the harm."

The stall boss laughed heartily; before setting up his stall, he had already tried it; choosing those dolls' weight, and the anti-backward-falling slanted edges arranged on the shelf, but any prize that was a bit bigger basically required spending more than the prize's cost to knock it down.

Setting up a stall here for so many years, during that time he had indeed encountered some experts at this kind of shooting game, but he had his own tricks; once someone knocked down the grand prize in very few shots, he would immediately follow the small print written beside his stall, give the prize, refund the money, not do business a second time, the loss at most being the cost of one or two ten-thousand grand prizes, which he could completely afford to lose.

"Broly, don't waste this kind of unfair money."

Nakiri Erina said beside him, like a butler.

"It's fine, I still have two bullets left unshot."

Broly waved his hand.

"Boss, we agreed; if I knock them all down, if you go back on your word, the consequence will be very serious."

"Uh, how could I regret it, customer, go ahead and shoot."

Looking at Broly's physique, the boss of this shooting stall was a bit timid, but thinking of his stall's clever design, he felt reassured, slapped his chest and said.

"Friend, don't worry, if you have the skill, go ahead; we can all be Witnesses for you."

Bystanders began to gather around, and once they figured out what was happening here, these people watched the excitement without thinking it too much trouble and said.

"Alright, then I'm coming, Boss, are you prepared to bleed heavily tonight?"

Broly's Qi extended to the Qi Gun, and he, holding the gun with one hand, aimed at a corner of the shelf, and after finishing these words, pulled the trigger.

Everyone first heard a *pa* sound, then a *clang* rang out, and then saw the shelf holding the prizes begin to tilt forward.

The slanted curved design at the back, at this moment, instead became a death warrant for the prizes on the shelf to fall; everyone saw the prizes tilt forward one by one, sliding off the shelf, "*pa~*"

Another sound, this time the bullet hit the upper part of the shelf, and the shelf that was about to tilt forward and fall over was actually shot back upright by Broly with one shot.

However, the returned shelf, the medium and large prizes on top, all those with relatively large builds, were now gone.

The shooting stall boss stared dumbfounded, Broly put the Qi Gun back on the table, then patted the other's shoulder.

"You spoke well, technique is indeed very important for this kind of shooting game, fortunately, my shooting technique isn't bad, trouble you, Boss, help pack the prizes I shot down."

The stall boss's lips trembled, wanting to say words denying the debt, but seeing Broly's physique, plus a crowd of onlookers surrounding them, those words got stuck and couldn't come out.

"This customer, the money from just now I'll refund you, the prizes shot down I'll also give you, only hope you don't come again next time, small business, can't withstand the tossing."

"Alright, seeing as you're comparatively sensible, the prizes shot down, I'll just take a few."

The other's attitude was passable, Broly also didn't cling on and not let go.

Turning back, he said to the similarly somewhat dumbfounded Nakiri Erina trio: "You three, what are you still waiting for, go pick prizes you like."

The three people, Nakiri Erina and Arato Hisako both walked away hugging a large plushie, only Mito Ikumi chose that not-so-large plush bear.

"Broly, how on earth did you do it?"

Nakiri Erina looked at him, eyes full of curiosity.

"Nothing much, just put a bit of my own Qi into that Qi Gun."

", you actually carry a Qi cylinder with you?!"

"Can understand it that way too."

Broly was also hugging a rabbit plushie, this was brought for Tadokoro Megumi, and not waiting for Nakiri Erina to continue pursuing the question, pointed at the bookstore and said to the girl: "Erina-sensei, let's go take a look in the bookstore next."

", go to the bookstore to do what?"

【Can I say, it's because I've seen you look at the bookstore many times, therefore I wanted to go to the bookstore?】

"I want to buy books."

Broly thought for a bit, then answered seriously.

"Fine, for the sake of the plushie, then I'll reluctantly, accompany you to walk around the bookstore."

Nakiri Erina didn't know what she thought of, face slightly red, agreed.

The group of four all hugging plushies, walked into the bookstore.

The clerk seeing someone enter, actually came over to actively receive them: "Don't know what the few of you need?"

"Can we walk around the bookstore ourselves first?"

Broly originally wasn't here to buy books, so he said.

"Sure, after selecting books, come over to this side to check out."

"Erina-sensei, let's walk around here randomly first."

"Mm."

Nakiri Erina nodded, gaze subconsciously glancing toward the bookstore interior, the place where comic books were placed.