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Squad Jam 1 (Volume 1/Episodes 1 - 5)

• The first time we get to see LLENN fighting during the Squad Jam event. She's able to get the drop on a pro team by using her small size to hide in an old suitcase, then uses her incredible speed to outmaneuver the squad before picking them off one by one. She even uses one of the enemy player corpses as a human shield against gunfire, before finishing off the remaining members. The last guy standing can only ask in awe if she's even human before being killed by her.
  • This scene was so awesome that they opted to show it three times in the anime, first during the end of the Flash Forward of Episode 1, a second time as the Cold Open for Episode 4, and a third time in Episode 5.5.
• During a monster hunt in the desert, LLENN discovering her all pink attire offered perfect camouflage. The enemy squad is unable to see her at all, allowing for her to get up close and kill all of them before they can even get a visual on her. She proceeds to do this many times, earning her the moniker the "Pink Devil" among other players.
• M assessing LLENN's abilities is both awesome and funny, where we get to see how far LLENN has come since the tutorial. She can now flawlessly hit targets from a distance using P-Chan, as well as showing the first signs of her Super-Speed that we saw in Episode 1.
• We finally get to see M in action in Episode 4. After being ambushed by an opposing team with hovercrafts, M takes out a bulletproof shield Made of Indestructium that keeps him safe from enemy fire. While the other players target LLENN, M is able to snipe every single one of them out. He does so by aiming with his sniper rifle without touching the trigger, hence preventing the Bullet Prediction Line from appearing. However touching the trigger is required for the Bullet Circle to appear, but LLENN realizes that M doesn't need it as he's just that good. When it's down to one hovercraft left, he takes it out using a special grenade that hones in on the boat and blows it sky high.
• After LLENN gets hit by a sniper, M hoists the girl in his arm and flees the scene, shrugging off a hit to the leg himself, then gets them into a hovercraft where they ride off to safety.
• Just when M is about to betray LLENN, holding her at gunpoint. LLENN dodges the bullet point blank, only resulting in her hat getting shot off. She then gets close enough to M and manages to put the safety clip onto his pistol without him noticing. LLENN grins as M tries to shoot her and the gun doesn't fire. Now LLENN is the one to hold M at gunpoint while thanking him for teaching her how to put the safety clip back on earlier.
• The final fight against SHINC is full of these:
  • LLENN's first showdown with Tanya, a Team SHINC member. Being sniped by her, LLENN shrugs off the first shot and uses her speed to evade any further hits, with the two of them constantly exchanging fire, while LLENN darts and weaves behind rocks to make it harder. LLENN then shoots Tanya's assault rifle out of her hand, and just as Tanya radios for backup, LLENN leaps from above Tanya with the prediction line beaming over her like a cross section, before the line gets replaced with a series of digital bullet holes as LLENN took fire.
  • LLENN is taking cover behind a boulder, which is sustaining heavy fire from Team SHINC and won't last for much longer. LLENN remembers she has a plasma grenade, and throws it to the other side of the boulder. Once the grenade explodes, she uses the blast as a cover to flee from her assailants.
  • LLENN's entire battle against Eva:
    • Eva has LLENN pinned down on the ground (her feet planted on both her arms) and fires at her heart pointblank, but after several shots LLENN is still alive. Eva wonders if LLENN is immortal, only for the "Immortal Object" system message to popup, revealing that Eva had been shooting the Satellite Scan Terminal in LLENN's chest pocket. Eva then switches to shooting LLENN's head, but LLENN continues moving her head out of the way, until Eva realizes she's run out of bullets.
    • To escape Eva's clutches, LLENN pulls out her spare magazines and throws them at Eva's head, the impact distracting Eva enough to allow LLENN to wiggle out of the large woman's grasp. She then fires back at Eva, only for Eva to grab onto P-chan and push the fire away from her, with the two of them struggling. Eva taunts LLENN that she's out of ammo, but LLENN retorts back that she is as well.
    • Eva herself has one, when her teammate throws a magazine at her and it slips into her gun. For such a feat, the aiming skills of both parties need to be extraordinarily high, to both throw the magazine such a distance and to catch it in the gun. Even LLENN is incredulous.
    • Just as Eva resumes shooting, LLENN hears P-chan's voice declaring she would protect LLENN and shields LLENN from the gunfire. Once the smoke clears, P-chan disintegrates from taking the damage. LLENN goes into a Heroic Second Wind, furious at P-chan being destroyed, with her eyes glowing pink (much like how Kirito's turn gold) and a Chunky Updraft blowing around her, as she takes out the knife M gave her and starts slashing at Eva. At the climax of the battle, Eva slams LLENN with the gun at her knife hand. Eva grins in triumph, before the knife falls through the air and she realizes LLENN had let go of the knife. LLENN catches the knife with her other hand, then leaps upwards and lands a killing slash right on Eva's neck.
      LLENN: How dare you? HOW DARE YOU SHOOT P-CHAN!?
  • M gets one too. When Eva and LLENN are locked in a close quarters battle, Eva tells her teammate to shoot the both of them. But just as she's about to fire, M gets over his fear of dying and pulls a Big Damn Heroes, sniping out LLENN's would be killers, hitting the grenade at her belt and killing her.
• Episode 5.5 has the OP modded to have SFX coming from actual small arms mixed in the production.

Squad Jam 2 (Volumes 2 - 3/Episodes 6 - 12)

• The nod to Yuuki when Karen and Miyu meet up IRL is pretty nostalgic, where it's revealed Fuka fought against Zekken in ALO.
• Miyu jumps at the call when LLENN asks for her help in the life or death situation.
• For SJ2, LLENN has now changed her mindset, as the game has stopped being a game and is now about saving Pito's life. She drops her giddy persona and is a serious soldier now, giving debriefings and formulating plans for Fuka just as M did for her.
• LLENN shows the first team they come across why she's the Squad Jam champion. Leaping out of the second floor of a house, while throwing a sheet in front to obscure vision. She then proceeds to slaughter the team with her Super-Speed much like she does in the first Squad Jam, once again using one of the players she killed as a Bulletproof Human Shield. Only this time she integrates her knife skills, by slashing a guy in the crotch as she slips under his legs. Fuka even gets in the last kill by blowing open a guy's head with her grenade launcher.
• Fuka gets a chance to shine, using a co-op effort with LLENN in firing off her grenades. LLENN gets in close and reports the enemy position along with where the grenade hit, and Fuka uses this to adjust her trajectory, perfectly landing her grenades on the enemies. She takes out the whole squadron using 12 grenades without even looking. Fuka has introduced artillery to GGO.
• Pitohui singlehandedly slaughters over twenty players on her own in an ambush attack, bashing heads in with her brute force, stealing enemy assault rifles and gunning their teammates down, and decapitating players with shotgun headshots. She's so brutal that it overlaps with Nightmare Fuel. After she prolongs the lives of the last two survivors, she finishes them off by walking away then throwing a grenade behind her, where she, M, and two of their hired muscle do an Unflinching Walk from the explosion.
• LLENN and Fuka are revealed to have devised a strategy to exploit LLENN's pink outfit, where Fuka fires off gas canisters containing pink smoke which allows LLENN to stay camouflaged as she ambushes enemies. LLENN intended to use it against Pito, but was forced to reveal it early after walking into a trap in a Savanna.
  • While LLENN deals with the remaining enemies, Fuka goes full Pervert Revenge Mode on a creep who wants to violate her avatar's corpse. She knocks him in the head with her empty pistol, picks up the assault rifle he just dropped and uses it as a club to bludgeon his head in until the "Dead" message come up.
• After hearing LLENN's situation, Eva is unhesitant in aiding LLENN, in order to save Pitohui from dying in real life. Team SHINC also get to show off the M countermeasure they devised: charging M while using evasive maneuvers to make it harder for him to snipe them. Then they reveal they have procured a Degtyaryov anti-tank rifle intended to counter M's bulletproof shield. But since it's too heavy to carry, Sophie voluntarily let's herself get team killed so her corpse can become an Immortal Object and serve as an indestructible pedestal for the rifle as well as a bulletproof shield. They successfully punch right through M's shield which was previously meant to be his trump card.
• For being a bunch of Faceless Goons, the four mercenaries from PM4 turn out to really show their worth. The sniper working with M manages to use his Bullet Line to successfully feint Anna into dodging right into M's sights and he only dies because a piece of M's shield goes flying at his face after it's damaged. After Pitohui is severely injured by Shirley, the remaining three mercs respect M's love for her so much they all end up doing everything they can to slow down Team MMTM during the cabin siege with epic movie-style music playing in the background.
• Shirley gets a moment to shine. Originally depicted as a passive player who has trouble shooting other in-game, but she then sees Pitohui gun her entire team in coldblood after promising seconds ago she wouldn't do so. Shirley goes on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge determined to avenge her team, and actually manages to land a headshot on Pitohui. In any other circumstance, Shirley could easily be a sympathetic heroine, rather than an enemy.
• Equally chilling as it is awesome, Pitohui reenacts the Darth Vader scene from Rogue One, by cutting down Team MMTM with the equivalent of red lightsaber, though it varies between adaptations.
  • In the Light Novel, she preemptively stabs hole into the wall using her Photon Sword to shoot through. The moment they come up the stairs, Pito immediately fills Summon with lead, and Bold attempts to shoot back in only to send wood and splinters instead. After Kenta barely avoid a shotgun blast through the wall, Bold notices the hole and tries to shoot through it to get her, only to get stabbed in the eye. She then cuts a hole into the wall and kicks a circular piece of wood at Kenta, knocking him down and leaving him susceptible to a grenade, blowing him up. When Lax and David attempt to fire into the hole, they're greeted by a Grand Grenade, and larger more powerful Plasma Grenade, that Lax attempts to jump on top of to prevent it from killing David, only for it to turn out to be inactvie, and just served to leave Lax open for a decapitation by Pitohui after she exits the room.
  • In the anime, Pito starts off by shooting Summon In the Back through the wall with her shotgun, before doing the same to Lax through the door while avoiding Bold's rapid gunfire. When Bold attempts to shoot at her through hole she made in the wall, he's awarded with a Photon Sword blade to the eye before Kenta is then cut in half through the wall. And this all happens so quickly, that all of their death tags pop up at around the same time.
  • Either way, Pitohui charges David and Jake after exiting the room, disarming them and pinning them against the wall with a section of M's shield before trying to finish them with her Photon Sword, only for David to grab her fists to stop her, boasting that it's only a toy. Pito reveals her Photon Sword can project the blade from either end, switching modes to kill David and Jake.
• While LLENN starts having doubts, Team SHINC and Fuka charge M and Pitohui on their own, which gives LLENN the confidence to launch an attack herself.
• LLENN baits Team PM4 to chase her in a car. Pitohui is on the roof and forces M to drive faster, to which LLENN ducks under the humvee and then starts shooting from the rear side. Only then do M and Pito realize they got lured into a trap and plummet over a ledge. Unfortunately for LLENN the water underneath is quite shallow and the humvee drives back out. Now driving towards LLENN intending to ram her over, LLENN leaps over the car and shoots downwards at the occupants as she passes overhead.
• Fuka pulls a Big Damn Heroes just as Pito prepares to finish LLENN off. Turns out Pito leaving her alive was a bad idea, as she drives in with her own Humvee, fires a grenade to distract Pito and M, then picks LLENN up from the water. And invites LLENN into the Humvee with a sassy pickup line.

  Fuka: Hey, girl! Y'all want a ride in my stylin' supercar? Don't think you're going home tonight!

• Team LF and Team PM4 in a high speed chase, through a geyser field! Both teams shoot and throw grenades at each other
• The fight we've all been waiting for: LLENN vs Pitohui!
  • Pitohui shoots at LLENN with guns in both hands, LLENN uses P-chan as a shield from the gunfire as she charges. Once she gets closer enough, LLENN jumps up and plants a kick on Pito's face, then kicks both guns out of Pito's hands. Pitohui looks on proudly at her LLENN and considers this girl to be her true Worthy Opponent. LLENN narrows her eyes and prepares for battle.
  • LLENN riles up Pitohui by insulting Sword Art Online, allowing her to slide underneath her legs and slice at her thigh. Pitohui compliments LLENN and notes that since LLENN managed to let her emotions get the better of her she still had a long way to go.
  • P-chan the second might not be just a hallucination. When Pitohui tries to use LLENN's own beloved gun to kill her, P-chan protects LLENN on its own, preventing from firing and instead explodes in Pitohui's hand and knocks her back. Pitohui is thoroughly impressed that LLENN's own gun protected her.
  • Pitohui holds LLENN up by her wrists and has taken her last weapon, her knife, throwing it away. So how does she escape and defeat Pitohui? LLENN keeps Pitohui distracted, while Fuka uses her trench knife to free her bound hands then charges at Pito, who tries to use LLENN as a Human Shield. So instead LLENN has Fuka slice off her hands to escape Pitohui's hold and then lunges at her neck, sinking her teeth into Pitohui's throat and depleting the last of her HP.
• Karen correctly deducing that Pitohui and Elza Kanzaki are the same person, and she does this despite Elza setting up a ruse to deceive her.

Squad Jam 3 (Volumes 4 - 5)

• Squad Jam 3 literally begins with seven teams ganging up on Team LPFM, having decided that they are the biggest threat on the battlefield. But the squad comes up with their own strategy to survive: after taking up position in a trainyard, M orders LLENN to run around like a maniac to draw the enemy fire while he, Pito, and Fuka secure a good staging area. Said area turns out to be an empty freight car with an open top that also happens to be Made of Iron (quite literally!). After Pito fools the enemies into wasting a ton of their ammo shooting the freight car fruitlessly, LPFM then returns fire through small holes drilled through the freight car's walls by Pito's lightsword, meaning LPFM has total free reign to fire while being completely safe from the enemies' bullets. In a matter of seconds, 30 out of 42 enemies are dead.
  • The 12 remaining survivors soon get reinforcements when another 12 players arrive to back them up. Too bad for them that it's now Fuka's turn to get in on the fun and she peppers the area with an entire cylinder's worth of grenades from her MGL-140. Again, in another matter of seconds, 14 out of 24 enemies are dead.
• Clarence and her reluctant teammate Sam are able to score a bunch of kills with a good bit of deception. First, she approaches the remaining fourteen players from the above attack and gives them a competent strategy to deal with LPFM by suggesting they surround the crate they hide in and wait for the water level to rise and shoot them when they're forced to leave, gaining their trust. Then, as everyone gets into position, Clarence and a regretful Sam break formation and shoot one pair from behind, then repeat the process with another pair. Then, when four who heard the commotion show up to investigate, Clarence lies and claims another group ambushed them, dropping their guard and allowing the duo to get the drop on them. Then she has the (purely metaphorical) balls to actually consider challenging LPFM. And all this [[ItAmusedMe because she thought it'd be fun.
• the multiple levels in Badass that Shirley took is extremely commendable. She went from a Technical Pacifist who decided to be The Load to her team to a One-Woman Army Blood Knight who devises an admittedly clever strategy that's similar to how M utilized LLENN in the first Squad Jam, and has basically given her regular old Sniper Rifle the destructive power of a mini Anti-Material Rifle just by customizing the ammo.
  • Keen-eyed audience members noticed how she basically mastered the Snap Shot, a gun-firing technique where the wielder quickly fires in a split second upon encountering an enemy, something noted to be Difficult, but Awesome to do with a Sniper Rifle.
• The fight between Shirley and Clarence. Both happen to bump into each other after everyone else is killed, and the two immediately shoot at each other, with Shirley being quicker and managing to disarm Clarence of her AR-57, but she's able to whip out her FN-57 and fire again, hitting Shirley's shoulder and causing her next shot to miss. Upon seeing that Shirley's a woman, the two enter a tense stand-off during which Clarance casually makes conversation and poorly attempts to speak English before going for another shot, only for Shirley to dodge to the side and shoot again, but Clarence is able save herself from getting killed by shooting her rifle, redirecting the shot from her stomach to her knee, and repeatedly fires at Shirley to damage her rifle. The both of them now on their knees but with Clarence holding the advantage due to her opponent's lack of a sidearm, Shirley dodges her shots and goes for the kill with her ken-nata knife, managing to get on top of Clarence and stab her. However, with the last of her strength, Clarence is able to activate a Plasma Grenade, killing Shirley shortly after she dies.
• While LPFM were destroying the competition, the other major teams were having some awesome moments of their own.
  • SHINC are the ones to invoke the first casualty of SJ3, with Anna climbing up a pillar using her experience in taking part in her parents' bouldering hobby, then scoring a headshot on the first team she saw. They then wipe out the rest by shooting at them with their machine guns, scaring them into running away and right into Eva and Tanya's range, allowing them to finish the team off. However, they're then targeted when RGB, a team of all Optical Gun wielders, send a signal flare to warn the other teams of their presence. Their response to is to then charge the Ray Gun Boys and they are able to wipe them out thanks to the fact that their Optical guns aren't able to harm them significantly, before proceeding to to take their flares and use them to draw as many teams as possible to one area, so they can ambush and kill all of them.
  • Memento Mori display more of their skill. Hiding out in a forest and luring any teams in after them, intentionally or unintentionally preventing the other teams from using their flares David proceeds to draw attention to himself by firing his Grenade Launcher at them and leading them on a chase, at which point his teammates, who are wearing forest camo, sneak up on them and kill them with their knives. At that point, it's just rinse and repeat. The audience honestly find the whole thing Creepy Awesome.
  • Surprisingly enough, ZEMAL manage to be one of the last surviving teams. Spawning in an abandoned town, the team stumbles an abandoned DIY shop and find an assortment of items in there, such as shopping carts, metal pipes, and tape, which they combine with their machine guns to create shopping cart machine gun turrets, with the carts held their backbacks of ammo while the pipes were taped around the cart to act as bullet-proof shields. This not only makes them defensive powerhouses, but it gives them a massive mobility boost that allows them to easily mow down any other teams they come across.
• Ervin, thanks to his armour, is able to survive a Headshot from M.
• In the race to board the There Is Still Time, both Sophie of SHINC and Lax of MMTM make Heroic Sacrifices to allow their teams get on board the ship, with Sophie staying behind to using the PTRD to blow a new hole in the ship for her team to get into, while Lax lays down covering fire on David while the others rush for the ship without being harassed. David even commends Lax for his action.
• In order to prevent M from drowning, LLENN comes up with the quick idea have Fuka fire two of her Plasma Warheads right behind M, creating a crater to take in most of the water and give M enough time to catch up and enter the ship with them.
• The Brief scuffle between M and Tanya; after surviving Fuka's accidental Plasma Grenade while her team died, she moves to shoot M only to find that she's missing her magazine, and so resorts to jumping onto his back and trying to strangle him with the gun's sling. While initially in a tough spot, M is quickly able to turn the tables by getting on his knees and repeatedly jumping, crushing Tanya between the cieling and his shield-holding backpack, forcing her to let go. And when she tries to use a grenade to finish the job, M punts her across the corridor!
• David vs Pitohui; When David bursts in only to find "Ervin's" body, said body suddenly gets and grabs his rifle, forcing him to let go and use his pistol on them to no avail. Then, after the armour is removed to reveal Pito, the two draw their respective Photon Swords, with David striking first with a fast swing that Pito is able to block. After deflecting another strike, she goes to stab him only for David to nearly stab her in the head by switching his sword into a backhand position. Once their swords start to run low on charge, David opts to charge Pito and strike repeatedly, actually managing to break her guard and slash for her face, with her only surviving thanks to the Muramasa F9's ability to switch sides that she used to kill him last time. Now stuck in a Blade Lock with 8 inch energy swords, Pito finishes the battle after they're forced to discard them by pulling out two spares she had hidden and slicing him into pieces.
  • Despite being a complete beginner, David shows himself to be a surprisingly adept swordsman, being able to match the more experience Pitohui, to the point where she's forced to pull out a second Photon Sword to beat her. Pito even takes note that he must have had some practice.
  • Props to Pitohui for being Crazy-Prepared. She figured that David would try and kill her at some point(can't imagine why), so she put the both of them of entrance blocking duty earlier for the purpose of having his sword run out of charge quicker before that happened.
• Compared to in Squad Jam 2 where she mostly came off as The Brute, Pito's time as the Big Bad in SJ3 makes her come off as much more dangerous just by her using her head. When the traitor rule is announced, she immediately came up with the idea to make everyone think she was her team's traitor in hopes of of putting the actual traitor, who she quickly deduced was LLENN based on how the traitors were chosen pre-emptively for balancing purposes, in a scenario where they'd have to go up against her and the other two members, which no matter who the real traitor was would be an unwinnable scenario under normal circumstances. The only reason this plan fails is because Eva saved LLENN using some flares she found and the two teamed up.
  • When she's made The Leader of Team BTRY, she comes up with the admittedly clever idea of using the ship's life boats to block off all the entrance holes to prevent the teams from getting in. And while three teams, LPFM, MMTM and SHINC, are able to make it on, the latter two are only able to do so because one of their members were forced to make a Heroic Sacrifice. This then becomes doubly awesome during her fight with David, revealing she had him help with dropping the boats down with his new Photon Sword in hopes of lowering it's charge in case she tried to kill him.
  • Then there's the way she took out Memento Mori from a separate room. Knowing they'd enter the ship's amusement park area, she activates the sprinklers to litter the room with water and to make make MMTM all wet. Then, after they shrug it off and keep off, she activates the ship's broken generator to make the following drops carry an electrical charge, which quickly spread throughout the wet room and kill all of them.
• In response to Pito's Evil Plan, LLENN gets pissed, and gets more pissed when Pito tries says it's LLENN's fault for getting tricked. At that point, LLENN snaps and viciously vows to kill Pito.
• Following the previous point, Eva pulls a Big Damn Heroes and fires a smoke grenade she pilfered at the group, giving LLENN a chance to escape while the others are disoriented.
• LLENN. Kicking. A grenade. That is all.
• Eva eliminating Fuka by jumping off the platform she was, falling to the ground upside down, and shooting her with Guns Akimbo, like something right out of an action movie. And it works, with Eva managing to score a headshot on the boasting and overconfident Fuka.
• The Final Fight between LLENN and Pitohui:
  • After LLENN deals with Fuka, Pito gives chase to LLENN, pinning LLENN down. LLENN, forced to take cover behind the outdoor theatre's chairs to avoid Pito's gunfire, is able to get the upper hand when the Plasma Grenades she planted explode, causing the ship to start sinking and tilt, knocking Pito down and giving LLENN a chance to shoot at her, knocking her off. Pito, undeterred, manages to use her KTR to shoot into the wall and jam the muzzle inside the resulting hole, using it to climb back up and continue the pursuit.
  • Once Pito is able to climb back up, LLENN tries to shoot at her only for Pito to shoot first with her XDM pistol, making her lose her hold of P-Chan. When Pito goes for another shot at LLENN's eye, P-Chan makes her usual Heroic Sacrifice by way of the bullet hitting the muzzle instead, breaking the metal clasp and causing her to fall.
  • In the final stretch, both Pito and LLENN are standing atop the upward facing stern for a final showdown, Pito with her Dual Photon Swords and LLENN with her knife, now dubbed Kni-chan, ready to draw. LLENN makes the first move, dashing at Pito and swinging the knife at Pito's face, to which Pito swings at it and destroys it with her Photon Sword... exactly what LLENN wanted, since it's causes Pito to lower her guard, thinking she left LLENN defenceless, giving the Pink Devil the chance to cut off Pito's hand and stab her shoulder with the knife she borrowed from Eva and hid in her magazine pouch. Pito, not giving up and still having her other hand, cuts off both her and LLENN's legs, causing them to fall down, and goes for another swing, only for LLENN to twist the knife to force Pito to drop the sword. When LLENN then straddles Pito and tries stabbing her to death, Pito is able to grab her wrist to keep her from doing so. Unable to stab or lean down to bite her neck like last time, LLENN resorts to mercilessly headbutting Pito, distorting Pito and allowing LLENN to break from her grasp. With Pito suffering a concussion, all that's left for LLENN to do at the end is to simply push her opponent off the platform and into the ship's propellers, finally finishing her off.

Test Play (Volume 6)

• Team ZEMAL officially graduate from their status as Joke Characters and into Lethal Joke Characters after they manage to ambush both LPFM and SHINC with their new Machine Gun Belt backpacks and force them on the defensive, with them only escaping because both teams are forced to give up one of their lives. It's to the point that both LPFM and SHINC acknowledge that they've grown into Worthy Opponents.
  • The strategy M came up with to escape this is also quite clever. Knowing that if one of them died, they would spawn at the end of a ring surrounding their team, he has Pito, and Tanya who SHINC offered to do the same, kill themselves so that they'd spawn at the circle's edge and sneak up on ZEMAL from behind, killing them with their silenced weapons.
• The Test-Play Team establish themselves as a massive threat by delivering a series of Curb Stomp Battles on the other to establish just how dangerous they are.
  • First, as seen in the prologue and re-visited later, only two of them, Vodka and Rock, are needed to take down LLENN, all by pinning her down and forcing her to flee her cover by progressively destroying it with Rock's GM6 Lynx, then filling her with lead from Vodka's PKP Pecheng.
  • Then later, when MMTM and SHINC launch their own assaults, the latter planning to use the former as a distraction, they take out four of MMTM with a pre-planted explosive and then finishing the other two with a grenade. Then when SHINC make their move, thinking they're still fighting MMTM, The NPCs take out their four frontliners with an impressive dispay of duck and cover play, before Rock take out Tohma and Anna who were hiding in the trees.
  • This becomes doubly awesome when it's revealed that they're real people as opposed to A.I.s, meaning their ability to deliver Curb Stomp Battles to GGO's top squadrons is from pure skill and experience as opposed to programming.
• After Pito convinces all the other remaining squadrons to work together to take out the NPCs, they manage to get LLENN, Tanya and Kenta in by delivering covering fire on the fortress while in a centipede formation with members of T-S at the lead using sections of M's shield for cover, with them even being strong enough to withstand the Lynx's bullets. Meanwhile, Tohma and Anna keep an eye for the Lynx's muzzle and fire on it's position, destroying the gun in the process. Then, while this distraction in place, the three Fragile Speedsters charge the entrance to the fort, with LLENN in the lead, who jumps over the rubble created by MMTM's earlier defeat and slipping through the thin gap between that and the gateway arch, before promptly rushing in and killing Cain, scoring the first NPC in the event.
• Tanya taking out Vodka. Or more accurately, she uses her last life to ambush him and, when he notices her and returns fire, she's able to shoot back and hit the gun's rail feeding, preventing him from firing, and destroying the scope to limit his sight. This forces Vodka to resign, scoring Tanya technical kill.
• After getting captured by NPC team, LLENN is able to escape with a rather creative method; by running full speed into the wall headfirst, causing her neck to snap and kill, and respawning her outside the castle.
• Outside the castle, T-S leads the charge against the SCAR wielding Hassan, managing to survive getting struck by a hail of bullets, with Ervin detonating the mine intentionally to give his team an opening to charge, which would have worked if Hassan didn't bust out the RPG-7s. Even ZEMAL, who have established themselves at this point as firm Machine Gun Nuts, are impressed by the armour's defensive power, with Shinohara even admitting he'd try and get his hands on a set if it didn't mean giving up his machine gun.
• After Pito busts out the Bazooka, both Peter and David, the latter with the use of his Grenade Launcher, serve as distractions for Hassan while Pito aims and fires at him, blowing him and all his RPG ammo to kingdom come.
• David is one the players to score a kill against an NPC Enemy, discovering Roy in the hidden door he was shooting at them from and the both of them shooting each other in the head.
• Shirley, who with Clarence entered the Test Play only to find themselves having to hide and settle on a Kill Steal strategy, is able to shoot Rock before he can take out the remainder of MMTM with an RPG.
• LLENN, in the span of a minute after respawning after the above, is able to run all the way back to the castle, enter, take out Doc when she discovers him and Jacob transporting the nuclear warhead and then, after her P90 is damaged trying to kill him, enters a close ranged fight with Jacob that ends in her winning just in the nick of time.
  • During her fight with Jacob, where they disarm each other of their primary weapons, LLENN pulls out Kni-chan while Jacob takes out his handgun. LLENN dodges the first shot and kicks him to the floor, but he's able to roll away from her stab and point his gun at her. LLENN responds to this by jamming her knife into the barrel to prevent him from firing. Then, after re-affirming her love for GGO, she takes him by surprise yanking the knife out and spinning around to slash his throat and, when the cut proves too shallow, jamming it into his eye to finish him off.

Squad Jam 4 (Volumes 7 - 9)

• Pitohui, with the help of M and his drone, being able to track down and sneak up on Clarence and Shirley, the latter being an IRL hunter.
• When the tournament begins, Pito shows herself to possess some manner of Spider-Sense, being able to anticipate the monster coming despite being unaware of the rule. She then, after having LLENN kill the monster that grabbed Clarence with a knife, realizes that the monsters will appear in droves in the event that you killed the first one to appear with a gun, based on how they're hearing large amounts of gunfire from neighbouring teams. She's able to get into the author's head and states the rules he imposed almost word for word.
• For their first kill, LPFM take out team ZAT, who have just finished dealing with their own monsters. Taking them by surprise, Shirley snipes Thane with with one of her special bullets, while M takes out Case shortly after. While three of them duck behind cover, LLENN gets the drop on them, shooting two and stabbing the third. And when Benjamin looks like he's about to get away, Pito ambushes him and decapitates him with her Photon Sword.
  • Props to ZAT, their encounter with the monsters gives them a chance to show off their skill; while they do make the mistake of shooting the first monster, they are able to efficiently defend themselves from the ones that get summoned, forming a defensive circle, with Benjamin, their SMG, quickly realizing they only take three shots to kill in close-range, and are able to keep them at a thirty feet distance. Thane himself even displays his skill as an Assault Rifle user by setting up his Howa Type 89's bipod and take a prone position for added stability. In the end, they're able to defeat the wave with no casualties, their only mistake being not accounting for the possibility drawing enemy players over.
• The fight against Team DOOM, a team of Suicide Bombers who armed themselves with enough explosives that even the shockwave has the potential to harm a player, is an incredibly tense match for LFPM.
  • The moment M realizes what DOOM is planning, he orders everyone off the tractor and and proceeds to drive it forward, intentionally veering off the bridge in a manner that would put him in the moat while knocking the cargo off to act as cover for the others from the oncoming shockwave, while also protecting himself. Thus, the first member's death proves All for Nothing.
  • When the second bomber sets out, Fuka attempts to take them out with her grenades, only for the guy to use the team's collective experience playing bike racing games to dodge them and keep going. Then when Shirley tries shooting at him, he starts zig-zagging to make it harder for her. Finally, Pito is able to finally get him by sending a burst of automatic fire at him, doing nothing to him thanks to his armour, but hitting his bike's front tire and knocking him off. After he gets up and tries continuing on foot, only for Shirley to easily take him out.
  • After losing two members for nothing, DOOM decides to go all out to finish LPFM off, all of them driving down to create a truly massive explosion. After thinking desperately, LLENN and Pito come up with a good plan to deal with; as DOOM are driving down, they notice LLENN running up to meet them unarmed, much to their surprise. Deciding that it'd be more worthwhile to take out the rest of them, The Leader orders the others to ignore LLENN... exactly as planned. LLENN then proceeds to go to town on them with the Photon Sword she borrowed from Pito, catching them by surprise and slicing through their otherwise impenetrable armour, decapitating their leader and another member. Noticing this, the last two come up with the plan for one of them to slip past her while the other blows her up, only for the one to get past to be blown up by Fuka's grenade. Then when the last decides to stick to the plan and at least take out LLENN, she jumps down to the swamp beneath the bridge, providing her the cover from the final explosion
• After defeating DOOM, Shirley and Clarence are able to pull off a masterful act of betrayal; the moment they get to the other side of the bridge, the team notice some scout monsters coming towards them and, as LLENN prepares to slash them, Shirley shoots one of them and makes a beeline for one of DOOM's discarded motorcycles, while Clarence grabs a still intact backpack of explosives and hops on. They then proceed to drive off while LLENN and the others get distracted by the resulting monster spawn. It's later revealed that the monsters were also to serve as a diversion while Shirley sets herself up to snipe Pito, though that gets ruined by them using the plates of M's shield for cover as they move.
• Like in SJ3, we are given a look at what the other big name teams did during the tournament before jumping back to LPFM.
  • David displays his strategic genius when his team first spawns, giving everyone orders to properly survey, opting to not use the active locomotive due to the massive target it'd paint on them for grenades and explosives but being Crazy-Prepared enough to booby trap it for anyone who does use it, which ends up killing Cole and eliminating TOMS from the tournament down the line, and choosing to kill the scout monster with his Photon Sword instead of creating noise by shooting, and almost immediately figuring out the new rule based on the sound of a nearby teams dealing with the monsters. Then, he decides to take advantage of the neighbouring teams' carelessness in a similar manner to LPFM, only with more precise timing to prioritize killing them before the ammo refill.
  • Vivi is able to first display her credentials as a tactician with even the usually Dumb Muscle ZEMAL, effectively directing them in taking out the monster hoards, allowing them to take them out before the next scan.
  • The Ray Gun Boys, the same idiots who SHINC trounced in SJ3 for stubbornly using Optical Guns despite pretty much every player using a defence field, actually get a chance to shine on account on how well-suited their guns are against the monsters, allowing them to wipe them out before the next scan like ZEMAL above. This actually gets them recruited into Fire's alliance of squadrons.
• To avoid a encounter with MMTM so they can be at full strength to fight LLENN, SHINC rigs a airstairs truck to drive on it's own by duct-taping some plasma grenade with one of Rosa's spare machine gun barrels sticking out to give off the impression that she's watching the group's six. This tricks MMTM into targeting the truck while they make a clean get-away. And as the cherry on top, they also rigged it to explode with their entire collection of Plasma Grenades, knowing they would get them back from the ammo refill, which had a good chance of killing them with the debris if they didn't duck down.
• When SHINC find themselves being charged by three Humvees, Eva decides that the best move would be for her, Tohma and Tanya to stay behind and take them out with Grand Grenades while the others go after LLENN. Thankfully, the Humvees weren't coming to kill them.
  • Also, while they're being transported by the drivers, Eva admits that in the event that LPFM was wiped out by DOOM, then she'd kill their abductors with her bare hands.
• The trike-mounted fight between LPFM and MMTM, the former having all four members on two trikes at the expense of speed, and the latter having a man per trike for faster speed but less firepower per trike;
  • In a moment to shine, Fuka causes the first casualty while removing an extra person from the battle, by tricking Lax and Kenta into crashing by aiming her Grenade Launchers to the left and right respectively, with the appearing Bullet Lines compelling them to try and dodge to the side and cause them to crash into each other, destroying Kenta's trike and killing Lax while destroying his rifle.
  • Fuka tries firing her grenades at the remaining four, only for them to swerve out of the way. When Summon manages to get behind Pito and LLENN and fire at them, his bullets end up missing due to him not aiming with their movement while on the trikes in mind. Then Pito gives LLENN a chance to show him how it's done, performing a fast, skidding turn that puts them right behind him and darts right past him, allowing LLENN to fill him with lead.
  • Ordering Jake to stop driving and take up a firing postion, David and Bold charge Pito and LLENN and engage them in what's basically a race, making sure to stay outside of LLENN's effective range. To make up for this, Pito takes out a Grand Grenade and hands it to her to use. David sees LLENN drop and he and Bold swerve to avoid... only for it to not explode, since in reality it was a bluff to force them to make some space to slip behind them, with LLENN shooting at Bold and killing him with three shots to the head.
  • After Bold's death, David is able to turn the tables by stabbing his knife into the accelerator grip to keep it driving straight, allowing him to fire at the both of them with both hands and get some shots on Pito, taking her leg and damaging the trike with a grenade, forcing them to stop. He then orders Jake to lay covering fire on them while he makes his way over in a pincer attack, prompting Pito to make a Heroic Sacrifice and order LLENN to leave, banking that David's prioritising killing her over anything and will therefore leave LLENN be. David does exactly that, and it looks like he's finally going to be able to kill Pito... only for Shirley, in a The Only One Allowed to Defeat You motivated Big Damn Heroes, to snipe Jake's trike and blows it up from an three hundred feet tall air tower twelve hundred yards away^note  that's just 167 yards short of the 20th longest sniper kill to save Pitohui from his and David's pincer attack. It's at this point that David, with some encouragment from the surviving Kenta, decides to make a tactical retreat.
• M's masoch- mapping abilities, which took a backseat after SJ2, return in glorious fashion in the rematch against SHINC. Knowing they're hiding out in the town and likely waiting in ambush, he has LLENN run around the area and announce the turns she's made to determine their location based on where she wasn't shot. This allows him to figure out where they're waiting and order Fuka to launch grenades there once he pinpoints their location and sends LLENN there.
• While the fight between LLENN and SHINC in it's entirety is sadly cut short by Fire's betrayal, we do still get a rather intense fight between LLENN and Tanya, who could be considered the member aside from Eva with the greatest sense of Rivalry with her, considering their encounter in the first Squad Jam.
  • To start off, while LLENN is enacting M's above plan, Tanya is able to silently follow LLENN without notice by riding a bicycle, planning on telling the others when she approaches one of their designated ambush spots. When the ambush is foiled thanks to Fuka's grenades, Tanya's unnoticed pursuit gives her the chance to get the drop on LLENN, but LLENN's luck combined with the smokescreen Fuka's grenade created allows to survive, with Tanya's full-auto fire only yielding a bullet to the shoulder.
  • While the both of them hide behind cover, waiting to strike, LLENN contacts Fuka and has her fire another Plasma Grenade at the top of the building they're in, destroying the already crumbling building and creating a new smokescreen. Using the cover of the smoke, LLENN sets up P-Chan to fire on it's own with a string, luring Tanya over thinking she made a fatal mistake and giving LLENN a chance to sneak up from behind and slash her neck. Fortunately for Tanya, her natural reflexes allow her to just barely duck beneath the slash.
  • After the above fails, LLENN and Tanya get into a more proper, one-on-one fight, with LLENN following up by knocking Tanya to the ground before jumping on top of her and attemtping to bring her knife down, only Tanya to repeteadly block it with her Bizon before trying to knock it away. LLENN however is able to avoid this by faking a stab, and then attempts to disarm Tanya of her Bizon, only for her grip to prove be rather stubborn. LLENN then takes advantage of the opening to get in close and try stabbing at her neck, only for Tanya to save herself at the last minute by pulling the arm holding the bizon around LLENN, blocking the knife and hugging LLENN in place with her superior strength.
• Meanwhile, Pito and M are dealing with the rest of SHINC, with M holding two sections of his shield to block bullets and running with Pito, who's borrowing his EBR. When Rosa, Tohma and Anna's fire at him, he's able to block the bullets and, the moment they stop, Pito fires and manages to disarm Anna. Unable to flank them, Eva takes the reins of PTRD and takes aim, and when Pito notices and fires, Sophie Takes the Bullet, giving Eva the chance to fire at M's shield. Pito's able to dodge in time, but M gets his shield knocked off and his arm broken, prompting Pito to throw a smoke grenade to give him cover to escape SHINC's fire.
• When Fire's alliance enacts their betrayal and ambush, Sophie is able to lift up a concrete wall to block the gunfire and save her and Eva's life.
• After regrouping, SHINC (sans Tanya who's with LLENN), launch a counter-offensive against the Minigun Humvee, thought up by Sophie.
  • First, after stashing their weapons away and Eva grabbing hold of the PTRD, Sophie throws a Grande Grenade attached to a small rope while the others start running, blowing it up and disintegrating the bullets fired at her teammates as they ran. When the gunner attempts to fire again after the blast clears, his bullets are stopped by a similar explosion, only closer to the humvee. As the explosion repeatedly occur and come closer and closer, thanks the rope allowing Sophie to throw like an Olympic hammer thrower. The gunner decides to deal with this by shooting the next coming grenade... though that's what Sophie was counting, running through the explosion and tossing an M67 at the Humvee, dying in the process but allowing the grenade to go over seventy feet and reach the humvee, doing nothing to it's armour but destroying the tires, completely removing it's mobility. This earns Sophie the respect of both the driver and gunner.
  • While the remainder of the group is on the move, they get ambushed by a sniper and Eva gets hit in the thigh. To prevent herself from being made a sitting duck for the next shot, she uses the PTRD as an axle and rolls out of the way, a feat noted to be difficult unless you had a good deal of acrobatic experience. This helps her survive and gives Anna a chance to throw a smoke grenade to cover her.
  • With her leg numb from the bullet and having dropped the PTRD, Eva orders the others to go ahead, planning on trying to reclaim the rifle once her leg recovers, a task she's unlikely to survive. Fortunately, M saves her the trouble by showing up from the smoke and manning the PTRD while setting up his shied. Then, when a guy takes a shot and gives away his location, M fires and creates some debris that takes out 40% of the guy's HP, causing him to realize that M predicted where he was gonna take cover.
• Using her experience flying in Alfheim Online, Fuka takes command of M's drone and effortlessly flies it to knock the drones belonging to V2HG down, removing their bird's eye view and halting their grenade assault, and is able to prevent damage to their own drone by accurately hitting the propellers with the flat body.
  • Then, when told to scout the minigun humvee, she's able to expertly to dodge it's fire by staying close and low.
• In the end, it's Clarence and Shirley that take out V2HG's minigun humvee, putting their respective skills to work.
  • Shirley (literally) blows the gunner's head off from a distance of five hundred meters while hiding in the shadow of a car. And, as Clarence praises, on the first try.
  • Combined with Funny Moments. When Shirley states that she can't kill the drive due to the Humvee's bullet proof glass and they end up chasing him on horseback, Clarence gets an idea of how to deal with him and, after unequipping her weapons, jumps onto the truck. Then, once she's once, she unequips her clothes, distracting him long enough for her to put a bullet in his brain.
    • On a side note, Shirley is able to use her IRL horse riding experience and some in-game practice to expertly ride a mechanical horse and chase Car 2, which as mentioned in the Phantom Bullet Arc of the main series, is very Difficult, but Awesome.
• Pitohui has the team head to locomotive located in town, and realises that David most likely Booby Trapped it to explode, allowing them to disarm the traps and use it to escape.
• LLENN is able to escape her predicament of being sniped to death by the Wrong Lancers from under a bus by, after recounting her team's encounter with SHINC in SJ3 and how Tanya became the Sole Survivor, placing a Plasma Grenade under the boss and using the blast to propel herself away from under it.
• Similarly to how she jumped over Pito's Humvee back in SJ2, LLENN is able to leap into the M134 Humvee by detonating a Plasma Grenade in front of it to force the driver to stop it in it's tracks before darting in front and leaping in through the turret hole.
• After getting motivated by LLENN's claims that teams live together and die together (though in a roundabout way), Shirley starts making a beeline to where the train LPFM, SHINC and T-S are taking is, killing another member of WNGL by slamming it into him as he tries running, this time intentionally.
• In a bit of Laser-Guided Karma, Clarence is able to use the Humvees minigun against both of the teams sent by Fire, killing the remainder of the Wrong Lancers and destroying the machine gun belonging to one of the members of V2HG.
• After they leave the city on train and stolen minigun Humvee, LPFM, SHINC and T-S find themselves pursued by the remainder of Team V2HG in a single, leaving LLENN, Clarence and Shirley to finish them off.
  • Unable to turn the turret around to fire at them, Shirley hits the breaks and make the Humvee do a 180-degree turn. She then goes to the turret and snipes the tires of Humvee, affecting it's mobility.
  • In response to the above, V2HG's leader orders the rest out of the now damaged Humvee and gets out his Sniper Rifle, shooting at Clarence the moment she stopped firing at his comrades and hitting through the tiny gap between the armour and the minigun, which she miraculously survives. Shirley then orders LLENN to shoot the minigun as she gets closer while Clarence lifts her up so she can see, to which she quiclly gets used to the handling and barrages the Humvee with lead to the point that it gets pushed back slightly, before the armour finally gives out and the Humvee explodes with the leader inside.
• After the above fight, the locomotive team ends up in a surprisingly tough fight against Team PORL, one of the alliance teams.
  • A point for PORL is that they come to the fight well-equipped, managing to reach the bridge before the locomotive thanks to a set of ice skates the alliance came upon, and they're quick to go on the attack with RPG-7s like Hassan on the NPC used in the Test Play, which they likely went out of their way to get for the Squad Jam.
  • Props to M in keeping the train moving; despite nearly getting hit by two rockets that hit the front car and ending up slightly disorientated, he's able to maintain control of the train and keep it chugging along.
  • With prodding from LLENN, she, Shirley and Clarence pull a Big Damn Heroes, dashing the Humvee onto the ice while Clarence fires at them with the minigun. Unfortunately, a rocket hits it before they can fire and takes Clarence's arm off, which she also survives, but Shirley is able to avoid the other three. When they then decide to stop and snipe them, they get ambushed by the Ray Gun Boys who's Optical Guns can go through their Humvee's bulletproof glass, which would make escape their only option. However, Clarence is able to come up with an idea; Donning a white camo poncho, she sneaks over to the centre of the lake and uses the backpack of explosives with the fight from DOOM to blow both herself up and destroy the ice covering the lake, causing both PORL and RGB to drown.
  • While LLENN and Shirley are trying to escape the cracking ice in the Humvee, it ends up stopping suddenly due to a tire getting snagged on crack, flinging LLENN from the turret hole and onto dry land but leaving Shirley trapped in the Humvee and stuck on the ice. After briefly contemplating leaving her to die to ensure her survival and prevent Shirley from killing Pito before being convinced by P-Chan, she rushees back to save Shirley, opening the Humvee door and the both of them running back to shore.
• After spending almost the whole tournament seemingly staying put in the crater area, ZEMAL finally makes a move.
  • First, they suddenly open fire as the locomotive passes through the crater zone from the craters using long-distance, machine gun, high angle suppressing fire, firing their bullets into the air so that when they fell they would hit the targets, akin to how one would use a Grenade Launcher, with tripods to steady their aim, and a spotter to tell the others where to fire. Through this, they manage to take out Tohma with a bullet to the throat.
  • For their next trick, they reveal that the other members hid in one of the nearby houses at where the train would stop, firing mercilessly at it and taking out Tanya by riddling her with more holes than necessary. Then When T-S try fleeing, it's revealed that ZEMAL set a Plasma Grenade Booby Trap that kills them all, totalling ZEMAL at six kills.
  • Then after all that, The Leader, Vivi, approaches and simply asks them to surrender. The only way they manage to escape is because Pito of all people, upon learning Fuka knows her from ALO, asks Fuka to negotiate with her to have her and ZEMAL let them go, which Vivi allows under the condition that they leave their primary firearms behind, suspecting they won't survive the mall battle and will at least weaken the remaining teams for them to finish off.
  • As Pito notes after they're let go, Vivi predicted that someone would take the train route leading to the mall and so set up the ambush in advance.
• It turns out David deduced that Pito is most likely to head to the mall for the final battle, as it's where she and LLENN would have the largest advantage, and knowing she would enjoy an all-out handgun fight.
• For the final battle of SJ4, LPFM and SHINC, WEEI and SATOH, and MMTM engage in a pistols-only shootout in the abandoned mall, and the battle starts with a confrontation with SATOH.
  • After setting the building on fire to cover their movements, SATOH split into two groups and enter from the east and west ends of the mall in a pincer attack, driving electric carts with tables on the front to act as bullet proof shields before jumping off.
  • On SHINC's side, Eva and Rosa split off while the former takes aim at one of them, only to discover he's aiming right back at her, so she jumps backward, causing the bullet go through her aim and barely miss her face, and shoots back, hitting his hand and disarming him. She then jumps to her feet and unloads her Strizh into the man, who raises his arms to block. Eva then jumps at him like a ballerina and finishes him off with a powerful kick to the face. Then Rosa, who got hit by a table knocked by the cart and fell over, taking multiple bullets from two members doing a switch tactic as they move closer, decides to pull a Taking You with Me by pulling the pin of one of her grenades, splitting her in half and killing one of them men attacking her. When the last man turns his gun on Eva, getting her in the shoulder before she dodges the next and returns fire, scoring a headshot.
  • With Pito and M, they're immediately attacked by two SATOH members, but M is able to use his shield to No-Sell the bullets while defending Pito and he charges forward, knocking everything out of the way. Pito then orders M to duck, and she leaps out from behind while firing upon the men before landing between them and putting bullet between one of their eyes and knocking the other, their leader, flat on his ass with an elbow, a neck chop, and finally by stomping on his head, before ordering M to pin him down with his shield.
  • Fuka finds herself getting attacked after emptying her whole mag to no avail, but she's able to duck and avoid two shots. When the man approaches ready to kill her and LLENN prepares to try making a lucky shot, Shirley, who hid the moment the fight started, blows the man's head apart with her Remington XP-100.
• After SATOH is dealt with, the group starts getting sniped by Beralto of WEEI, who's using a Remington XP-100, scoring a shot on M and knocking him down. Shirley, who happened to procure the same gun, returns fire and forces him to fall back. She then orders the others to retreat while she engages Beralto in a Sniper Duel. With Beralto at a disadvantage with Shirley's explosive bullets threatening to destroy his cover, he shoots at a chandelier that's above her head and sends it crashing down on her, knocking her to the ground and damaging her severely, before using a rope to climb up to a higher up higher for a better angle to shoot her from, clutching the rope while shooting at her with his his right hand. However, just as he's about to score a headshot and Shirley seriously considers trying to catch it with her teeth, Fuka returns the favour from earlier by arriving in an electric cart and blocking the bullet with it, before hopping off the get the chandelier off Shirley. Shirley then quickly regains her bearings, grabbing her XP-100 and taking cover behind the cart to return fire. And while her bullet doesn't kill him, it does snap his rope and cause him to fall down to the ground. And while he does miraculously survive this, it leaves him to be finished off by David's knife.
• While Shirley was dealing with Beralto, LPFM plus Eva make their way to the food court, they encounter a member of WEEI armed with a pair of Glock 18Cs with a another man to reload for him. M is able to block the bullets by setting up his shield, and Pito ducks behind it while ordering LLENN and Eva to head elsewhere. To prevent Pito from coming out to return fire, Penebia, the shooter from WEEI, intentionally aims above and at the sides of the shield. To work around this, Pitohui throws up an empty magazine for her XDM, which Penebia targets and gives her a chance to change cover to the inside of a store. When he then tries targeting her, M charges forward and Shield Bashes him while his reloader, Ron, goes after Pito.
  • During his charge, M splits his shield into two with plans to use them like cudgels against Penebia, who catches them. M however simply lets go and shoulder bashes him, causing him to drop the shields. He then grabs M and the two enter a Sumo-like struggle before their stumbling about causes them to crash through a window and down to the second floor, with Penebia suffering more damage when M uses him to cushion his fall. They then fight atop a model of the tournaments arena before it fell into disrepair, with Penebia throwing a punch only to get grabbed and thrown by M, but he jumps in that direction and lands on his feet, allowing him to roundhouse kick M's gun out of his hand when he tries pulling it out. He then proceeds to deliver a knee and a kick to M, who manages to stay standing. Penebia removing his combat armour for a speed advatange, both he and M clash again only for the former to get the upper hand, foiling his attempt at a Judo throw and pinning him to the ground, throwing several punches into his face. When he moves to deliver one last punch, M grabs his backpack, holding his shield plates, and uses it to block the blow, put Penebia proceeds to just keep punching in hopes of crushing M, only for M to use a shrapnel grenade to blow up his own arm while getting Penebia in the torso, killing him.
  • Ron chases Pito into a clothing store and dodges her shots while jumping onto the shoulders on a mannequin and jumping up to grab a railing, displaying impressive acrobatic skill, before firing at her and knocking her HP down to 40%. She then whips out a smoke grenade to obscure his vision, prompting him to quickly use a Plasma Grenade to remove the smoke and continue the offensive. Pito however seemingly vanished while the smoke was up. Ron notices too late that Pito put one of the suits while the smokescreen was up, shooting him in the head while he was still searching for her.
• LLENN and Eva end up being pursued by a member of WEEI armed with a Walther Kampfpistole, which he uses as a Grenade Launcher against the two of them. Even when Fuka and Shirley arrive and provide a hope that the latter can snipe him, they end up getting attack from behind by MMTM, repeatedly shooting Shirley and LLENN in the back. While LLENN is spared death thanks to her armoured backpack, Shirley isn't so lucky but manages to shoot the grenadier's arm off while he's reloading.
• After the above, Fuka tries beckoning LLENN and Eva to stairs heading up so they can escape, they're stopped by another WEEI member, who's armed with a Desert Eagle. The group then decides to flee East, but get ambushed by Kenta along the way, but Fuka is able to drive him in a store by firing wildly in his direction. When all hope seems lost, with LLENN, Fuka and Eva surrounded from the left, right, above and below, Fuka drops the PTRD and makes a made dash to Kenta's position before spinning round to expose her grenade pouches to Eva and LLENN, which Eva shoots the moment Kenta shoots Fuka in the head, blowing it and killing them both.
• Meanwhile upstairs, M shows up and approaches the deagle user, who shoots him dead as Fuka's grenade goes off, but Pito leaps over M's fallen body and goes on the attack. As he's about to recover from his lost balance caused by Fuka's explosion, Pitohui hurls a decoy grenade at him, forcing him to shoot his way into a store to take cover only to realize that he's been tricked by a fake grenade and that Pito's approaching. Thinking on his feet, grabs a water container in the display and scampers further into the shop, and when Pito throws the now active grenade inside and enters the smoking aftermath, he throws the container at her, prompting her to cut it in half with her photon sword and accidentally cause a steam explosion, where a heated object, like a Laser Blade, coming into contact with water would cause it to instantly evaporate and cause an explosion, knocking her back and ripping off her arm. Throwing another at her head to finish her off, Pito backhands and charges at the deagle user, who attempts to shoot her only for her to slip in close and pin him to ground, before popping the lid off a water container and dumping the contest into his throat, killing him in true Pitohui fashion.
• Back with LLENN and Eva, they both recover from the shockwaves caused by Fuka's Heroic Sacrifice while the grenadier didn't. Eva uses the chance to grab an electric cart and, using the PTRD, has it make a beeline for the guy while LLENN follows it. When he rolls out of the way of it, LLENN leaps out from behind the car, predicting he'd roll in the direction of the arm he didn't lose and opening fire. then desperately rolling out of the way of her shots, ducking into a baseball shop that LLENN pursues him into. Grabbing a baseball ball, the man swings at LLENN, who dodges and fires three shots at him, only for him to thrust the bat into her stomach like a rapier and knock her out of the store. She then empties her magazines into him, only for him to still be alive. And just when he's about to finish her by swinging the bat down, Eva shows up and shoots it out of his hand, giving LLENN the chance to reload and finish him off with two bullets to the head.
• Immediately after this, David shows up and fires mercilessly on the two, knocking down Eva before focusing his attention on LLENN, with her only surviving thanks to her backpack, and even then he eventually manages to get her foot and shoulder. Then, Pito drops down from above and stabs David with her Photon Sword just as he tossing aside his gun for one of his APXs. However, David response is to pull off a technique called "Bump firing", which allows him to fire his semi-automatic handgun as if it was a full-auto one, emptying the APX into Pito's chest. In the end, Pito genuinely acknowledges David as a Worthy Opponent as they both die.
  • Just the fact that after three Squad Jams spent trying to kill her and her besting him each time, David finally manages to score a kill against Pitohui. While technically an antagonist, one can't help but cheer as he finally pulls it off.
• With everyone else save for Fire dead and LLENN assuring Eva that she plans to claim she never made a bet with Fire to get out of marrying him, the two of them decide to settle their rematch to a western style quick-draw duel. Taking out a magazine, Eva throws it up in the end, with the both of them to draw the moment it hits the ground. Realizing she's at a disadvantage in regards of reflexes and her relative inexperience with handguns, she gambles and does a rotating jump the moment the magazine hits the ground and Eva draws and fire, with her rotating so Eva's bullet just misses her chest and shoots back, one of the bullet scoring Eva in the brain, winning LLENN the duel.
• Instead of Fire, who takes his team's defeat with grace and surrenders, LLENN's final opponent in SJ4 ends up being a swarm of monsters she summons in an attempt to save Fire's life so they can talk. LLENN proceeds to go One-Woman Army on the army of zombie-like creatures that converge on them, taking out hoards until eventually, she's left with only a single Vorpal Bunny with her magazines pooled around her. And, upon noticing them not attacking Fire due to him being unarmed and still reeling from his anti-climatic surrender, decides that her win or loss will depend on whether she can beat the horde. In the end, she's down to just Kni-Chan as she goes ballistic on the zombies. As they're down to two, she notices them converging on Fire, who realized that they were leaving him alone because he was unarmed and picked up her discarded Vorpal Bunny. She then proceeds to kill one by throwing her knife into it's back, and another by biting into it's neck like she did to Pito in SJ2, at the cost of her life.
• Just the fact that, thanks to Vivi's planning and tactics, ZEMAL were able to score their first victory in Squad Jam, before even the likes of SHINC, MMTM and, technically speaking, LPFM.

Five Ordeals (Volume 10)

• Goushi finds himself impressed at Elsa's capacity for lying when SHINC ask her fan-questions about her past, with her not even needing to get ideas from her surroundings.
  • On that note, props to Karen and Miyu to picking up on the fact that she was lying the whole time despite lacking the context Goushi was given. Especially Karen, who was currently in a rut over Fire dumping her.
• The first of the Five Ordeals ends up being a seemingly endless swarm of rather weak monsters, that are so large in number that the quest deemed it necessary to give the whole group Bottomless Magazines, the group's task being to escape the city.
  • After some gear and formation re-allocation^note  M serving as Fuka's reloader while Shirley borrows Pito's shotgun deciding on a direction, which Anna chooses based on her lucky colour being blue and there being a blue sign in that direction, the group charges forward after Fuka unloads six grenades onto the enemies ahead of them, Rosa leading them in unloading their guns at the monsters. While slow, this initially goes well until suddenly a group of them spawn from behind for a pincer attack. This forces the group to double down on their forward charge, running and gunning at the monsters in front of him while leaving behind timed Plasma Grenades to slow the monsters behind them.
  • Seeing themselves at a disadvantage, Pito ponders what to do to escape their predicament, casually kicking a half-dead alligator monster while she thinks. It's upon looking at where the Alligator landed that she notices a store window with a pair of pick-up trucks inside. Immediately commandeering them, Pito has the group drive back to retrieve LLENN, Boss and Tanya. Upon picking them up, the group immediately drives in the direction they just came, going pass their starting point and reach their goal in good time.
• The Second Ordeal has the entire group at "infinite HP", making them effectively immortal. The catch? They have to hunt down thirty monsters in 25 minutes.
  • While waiting out the monsters at Pito's suggestion, Shirley is the first to notice them approaching and takes a shot, scoring the first kill in the event. Even better, she managed to take out their enemy's gun, which is revealed to be the actual target.
  • Upon realizing that their actual targets are Johnny Seven OMA guns the robot soldiers are carrying and they start moving faster due to their numbers going down, Pito has LLENN chase after them while using her signature pink ammo as a target for Fuka, who'll shoot her with a Plasma Grenade and catch the robot and Johnny Seven in the blast. With this, the group's able to clear the Ordeal.
    • On that note, Eva taking advantage of her newfound immortality to become walking bomb, running at the robot soldiers and blowing herself up with a Plasma grenade. Props for dedication.
• The Third Ordeal has the group transported to snowy field with buildings growing out of it like trees, their goal to reach the top of the tallest building and go through the door there. There are also monsters, but the group has their weapons and armour confiscated, meaning they have to use weapons and ammo they find laying around to fight back, or even steal weapons from the monsters, prompting LPFM and SHINC to split up.
  • Upon arming themselves, LPFM gets into a gunfight with some bug monsters, who are able to keep them pinned down and inch closer using a desk as a shield. When SHINC meets up with them, with only a collection of grenades, Pito quickly comes up with a plan; Tohma takes the Mosin Nagant Shirley was using and goes further up the building to take out an enemy sniper. Meanwhile, Shirley, using the the skis she used back in SJ2, will take M's backpack loaded with the grenades SHINC found and ski down off their current building before making a beeline for the tallest building, before blowing herself and knocking it down. It works like a charm, with Tohma taking out the sniper and Shirley making it in time to destroy the building's base, knocking it down and killing all the enemies.
    • Props to Shirley for her skiinng ability, being able to dodge the enemy bullets while going down.
  • In the end, the group's able to complete the Ordeal thanks to Pito, who realizes the Exact Words in their goal and redirects LLENN to what was previously the second tallest building, and Fuka, who also realized this and so made LLENN a pair of snow shoes from the office supplies so she can run over there without sinking into the deep snow.
• The Fourth Ordeal tasks the group with taking down a Made of Iron Mechanical Dragon that will attempt to flee from them.
  • Upon engaging the beast and pursuing it, grabbing some buggies and motorcycle along the way, the group fires at it to no avail, and find their Plasma Grenades being unable to go off due to an electromagnetic pulse field surrounding it. Thinking outside the box, they decide that maybe covering it in a liquid would cause it to short circuit like a computer, with LLENN offering her tea thermos, . Not only does this knock it down, but it combined with it's crash landing takes out 50% of it's HP.
  • After the Dragon gets back up and continues fleeing, the group pursues and eventually notice another mechanical dragon in the distance pursued by MMTM and ZEMAL, who themselves teamed up for the quest. This prompts Suuzaburou to reset the countdown, as the two dragons meet and combine themselves into a giant robot crab with dragon heads for pincers. After some discussion, the ZEMAL-MMTM alliance attack first, with ZEMAL using Max's new sights to concentrate their fire on it's head to incapacitate it while MMTM strike at it with grenades to knock it's health down. And when the second head retaliates with an Ice Breath Weapon, Tomtom and Peter are able to reverse out of the way just in time, with Peter managing to upturn his buggy to act as a shield while he and other retreat.
  • Upon witnessing the attack and deducing that the other head attacks if one is attacked, M has Pito ducttape his shiled plates around his buggy to withstand the ice shotgun, and requests a member of ZEMAL to act as a gunner, which Tomtom gladly does. After both teams have a strategy meeting, they begin the assault, the M and Tomtom duo rushing ahead to rain head on the heads while M expert avoids it's legs as it tries crushing them, managing to drop one of the heads to 10% HP.
  • After the Dragon-Crab Turns Red and targets the others at the back, forcing Shinohara to make Heroic Sacrifice, M and Tomtom decide on a way to knock it down for the others to finish off; After Tomtom disembarks, M drives the humvee towards the dragon, dodging and using his duct-taped shields to block it's ice attacks until he's close enough. Tomtom, in an impressive display of marksmanship for ZEMAL, shoots the humvees engine just as M gets close enough and blows it up, killing M in the process and knocking the Dragon-Crab down, leaving the vulnerable to the gunfire of their respective teams.
    • Props for Shinohara's own Heroic Sacrifice. After being knocked off his buggy, instead of fleeing, he opts to shoot at the dragon to draw it's attention while the others flee, before tossing his machine gun to the side to spare it from destruction.
  • To MMTM and ZEMAL's credit, they're able to take out their Mecha-Dragon before LPFM and SHINC can theirs, allowing them to enter the next ordeal and complete the quest first.
  • Tohma, displaying her Fangirl Undying Loyalty for Pito's real-life identity, puts a stop to Shirley's attempt at sniping Pito by aiming the PTRD at her, forcing her to abandon her latest assassination attempt.
• For the Fifth Ordeal, we follow LLENN's perspective as she takes on a Mirror Boss in a hall of mirrors, choosing to do so with her Vorpal Bunnies.
  • Upon realizing that the fight may be a Mirror Boss, LLENN tests her theory by pointing one of her guns at the mirror, picking up on how her "reflection" was both expressionless and holding her pistol at a perfectly vertical angle as opposed to the slight tilt LLENN was doing with hers
  • After both the real and fake LLENN take a bullet to the shoulder from their first shots, LLENN pursues the copy and attempts to fire, only to realize too late that she's firing at an actual mirror, giving her copy a chance to shoot her. Fortunately, LLENN is able to twist her body to avoid being hit and and returns fire, before blocking the retaliation shots with her backpack.
  • Deciding to run around and search around while shooting anything she vaguely suspects could be her copy, LLENN is suddenly set upon by her doppelganger, who gets in a shot at her side and knocking her HP to 50%.
  • In the last stretch of the fight, LLENN's Lucky Girl status finally comes into play. Going for one last assault, LLENN attempts to unload her guns at the imposter, only to realize that she accidentally activated the safety on both of them, leaving her a sitting duck. Only, the LLENN double doesn't fire, which leads to LLENN realizing what makes it tick; it's attacks are limited to being able to mimic what LLENN does, meaning it can't shoot LLENN unless she shoots first. It's from that LLENN deduces how to finish to finish it; tricking it into holding her hand, LLENN grabs at her from it's sheath, knowing the imposter won't be able to do the same with it's hand occupied and can't only grab at empty space with the other, before promptly slashing it's throat before plunging into into it's chest for good measure, killing it and clearing the Ordeal.
  • Upon spawning in the field and log cabin that serves as the final area of the quest, LLENN meets up with Shirley who completed the Ordeal first, saying it only took her thirty seconds. When asked, Shirley details that upon realizing the nature of the boss, she opted out of her rifle to avoid a Mutual Kill and used her Ken-nata, allowing her to realize the copy's attack mimicking early. At this realization, Shirley held back her swing at the last second and stuck out her thigh to take the hit, causing the virtual muscles to lock tightly around the blade and prevent the copy from pulling it out before strangling her to death.
  • When Pito spawns, she details how she opted for a Full-Frontal Assault on her doppleganger and got into a fist-fisted, winning in the end by pulling a feint before pinning her down. The only reason she took so long was because she opted to torture her copy for a bit first.
  • While we don't learn how they won, Fuka, Boss, Tohma and Clarence are also able to beat their dopplegangers and reach the final part of the quest.
• As an impromptu Sixth Ordeal, LLENN, Fuka and Shirley square off against Pito, Boss and Tohma to protect Suuzaburou, who reveals that killing him is required to finish the quest.
  • After the two factions get into position at either side of the cabin and make their plans, we follow Pito's group as they storm in just as Fuka launches all of her plasma grenades over the roof from outside, with the wind scattering them and causing to land randomly in the yard where Pito's group was just situated, utterly annihilating it.
  • When Tohma charges ahead, she sees both LLENN and Fuka split off in two different directions and informs the other two, with Pito ordering Eva to go after Fuka while she pursues LLENN. However, they ended up falling into a trap, as LLENN and Fuka swapped outfits before entering knowing that Pito would want to go after LLENN, giving them the element of surprise and leading to two separate encounters.
    • Pito leaps onto a table that she thinks LLENN is hiding behind, ready to skewer her with her Photon Sword, only to be surprised the to see Fuka, who takes advantage of her surprise to kick the underside of the table towards Pito, who tries to jump away and cut it with her Photon Sword, but only manages to stab it and gets hit, losing her momentum. Fuka then proceeds to empty P-Chan at her while Pito kicks off the table and backflips back onto the ground, with Fuka continue to fire when the table rams into her stomach.
    • Pursuing the Fuka-disguised LLENN, Eva fires at Fuka's helmet and thinks she scored a headshot, only to be greeted by a Vor-chan hiding beneath, which immediately opens fire. Tohma then Takes the Bullet to the head for Eva, dying instantly and enraging Eva. Wanting to reclaim the element of surprise, LLENN shoots a window and jumps through, Eva unloading her Vintorez after her before running out of ammo and switching to her Strizh. Both fire with their respective handguns, but LLENN avoids the bullets with her speed while Eva, who stood firmly in place, gets hit in her thigh and shoulder. Eva then attempts to reload, only for Shirley, who stayed outside before sneaking it in during the chaos, to creep up from behind and stabs her In the Back with her Ken-nata.
  • Pito, winded and cornered against the chimney, attempts to stall for time and asks the other three girls to answer a question. Fuka and Shirley fall for it, but LLENN immediately tries to shoot her in the head. However, Pito is able to quickly to crawl up the chimney and vanish. An enraged Shirley rushes over and attempts to shoot up the chimney at her with Fuka's M&P, only to get stabbed in the arm by a falling Photon Sword and drop the handgun. Pito then emerges from the fireplace, using her other Photon Sword to vertically cut Shirley's head before re-entering the chimney to head outside.
  • Quickly switching their gear back, LLENN and Fuka immediately rush to Pito's previously discard KTR and kick it into one of the holes created by their earlier grenade assault. Suffering a feeling of dread, LLENN immediately leaps into the air and spins like she did against Eva in SJ4, narrowly avoiding two .45-caliber bullets and seeing Pito of the cabin with her own pair of black AM.45s. Unable to get out of the hole, LLENN ends up on the receiving of high ground when Pito jumps down from the roof and stands at the edge of the hole, as they shoot each and LLENN gets knocked back by the force, losing both Vor-Chans in the process. Pito, also having been knocked back but keeping hold of her handguns, gets back up and prepares to finish LLENN off, only to get sent flying through the air by Fuka shooting a grenades into her armoured backpack. Pito, still not giving up prepares to shoot down at LLENN from mid-air, only for LLENN, at the encouragement of Kni-Chan, to grab Pito's KTR that she knocked into the hole earlier, firing it up at her wildly, with one hitting her in the chest and stopping her flight, causing her to fall into the hole with LLENN.
  • With Pito at her mercy, LLENN aims the KTR, who she nicknames K-Chan, at Pito to force her to surrender. Pito however, being Crazy-Prepared, sends Fuka flying into the hole by a Grand Grenade she left in the log cabin and timed to go off, putting them all on the same playing field. At this, LLENN quickly opts to finish, before Pito reveals her next trick; another Grand Grenade, which if shot would kill everyone in the crater, which would kill everyone and prompt Clarence, who's acting as a referee, to call the match a tie and default to killing Suuzaburou to complete the quest. With no way of coming out the winner, LLENN and Fuka are forced to surrender, giving Pito her first ever win over LLENN.

Squad Jam 5 (Volumes 11 - 13)

• Despite the unexpected circumstances the team find themselves in, that being separated from one another with a thick mist enshrouding the entire area, M is quick to come up with personalised orders for each of the squad, telling Fuka to lay low and wait until she bumps into one of them or SHINC, Shirley to use her skis to move around and snipe whoever she can, Clarence to move cautiously through the mist, and LLENN to get out the Vorpal Bunnies and their backpack for protection from the back and to start running once the scan finishes. The only exception is Pito, who can more than handle herself.
• When LLENN and Vivi first form their alliance, the latter, as LLENN realizes, was able to subtly manipulate things so that she'd have the power advantage by presenting a perfectly reasonable plan that LLENN would wear an infrared light that Vivi can see with her Smart Glasses and serve as the Designated Point Man, forcing her to expose her back to Vivi while exposing her position to anyone from ZEMAL they may run into, with her team and SHINC having no such luxury. Certainly living to her reputation as the woman who turned ZEMAL into winners.
• Shortly after LLENN and Vivi team up, LLENN almost gets run over by a truck, but she's able to avoid it by jumping over the vehicle, Unfortunately, the drivers are able to get a glimpse of her pink fatigues under her camo, and turn the car around in the hopes of running her over to claim the bounty. As LLENN proceeds to make a run for it, the drivers proceed to prevent from dodging to the sides by shooting out of both the rear windows, with LLENN not confident that she could jump over it again. Trapped in what seems like an impossible scenario, Vivi saves her by shooting the driver through the window and killing him, thanks to being able to determine the cars general location from their rapid fire. This causes the car to swerve out of control and crash, killing it's remaining two passengers.
• While traversing through the mist, LLENN and Vivi happen upon 006 of T-S, who's teamed up with two other players to pull off a rather clever tactic; taking advantage of the mist's poor visibility and T-S' trademark armour, 006 walks in front of the small group and yells out numerous insults and profanities towards the author to draw attention to his presence, in order to bait out other competitors into attacking him before his new teammates retaliate in kind. Props also go to Vivi for realising their trick and preventing LLENN for falling for it.
• After surviving the unexpected DOOM suicide attack by crashing through the window of a mansion, LLENN goes to find Vivi only to find her impaled high on the mansions fence. Lacking the strength and tools to get her out, Vivi is quick to tell LLENN to just leave her until the latter gets an idea; using P-Chan, LLENN concentrates fire on the fire bars Vivi is impaled on, causing them to snap one by one before falling over, free Vivi.
• Eva and David, who themselves pulled an Enemy Mine as well and hid out in the mansion, both pull a Big Damn Heroes upon meeting up with LLENN and Vivi; Eva is there to catch Vivi as she falls from the fence after LLENN frees her, preventing her from suffering fall damage and dying. Then, when a random player shows and tries to catch them by surprise to claim LLENN's bounty, David is quick to shoot him in the head and kill him.
• With a large group of players advancing on their position, drawn by LLENN's bounty and Fuka's attempted destruction of Vivi, LLENN tells Eva to go hide while she and Fuka hold them off with their own Alternative Gear; the PM, a trash-can shaped, leg-powered mobile tank.
  • They start off staying still as the allied group starts searching the area, remaining completely undetected as Thane, the former of the alliance, obliviously walks past, with LLENN using the chance to decapitate him before he realizes what's happening. They then proceed to take out two others this way while Thane is suffering an Oh, Crap! in the death lounge.
  • The two then go on the offensive, with LLENN directing Fuka to push the PM towards targets, the armour preventing bullets from injuring them, while LLENN uses her Photon Sword to decapitate them.
  • The killing spree stops when they bump into a member of T-S, their trash can in full view of him and his allies, putting them in a tight stop due to losing the element of surprise and facing an opponent who can advantage of the PMs weakness to Plasma Grenades. Fortunately, LLENN's luck kicks in just as she considers jumping out to deal with them, when an entirely seperate group shows up and ambushes T-S' group. At that point, it just becomes a matter of the two casually waiting while two groups kill each other, before finishing off the last two when they mistake them for a trashcan and rest by it.
• M and Anna's Escape from the City.
  • After spending a better part of the tournament hunkering down until the fog clears, M notices Anna being pursued by two players, whose bullets she's expertly avoiding thanks to her real life athletics training. M then snipes the two guys chasing as soon as they come into view.
  • Needing to move before Anna's Decoy Leader status drew enemies to them, she and M commandeer a Baja Bug and proceed to drive it out of the city, leading to them getting chased by a Ford Mustang. The chase ensues until they run into a member of DOOM, who promptly detonates himself.
  • After Baja finally comes to a halt after being launched by the explosion and Anna and M safely exit the vehicle, the two proceed to prepare for all the players who will target them after the scan, with M using his shield plates to turn the remains of the Baja Bug into a makeshift sniper den. They're able to hold off their assailants until Shirley shows up and unwittingly pulls a Big Damn Heroes.
• Like David before her, Shirley is finally able to achieve the goal she's had since SJ2 and kill Pitohui, in a manner truly befitting her role as a hunter. Forming an alliance with a member of DOOM earlier and learning of the collapsing arena and the castle's nature as the only safe-haven, Shirley orders the DOOM member to ride a snow mobile to the castle as far as he can before detonating. Once he does, the explosion causes a massive smokescreen that prompts Pito's group to throw caution to the wind and make a beeline for the castle, all while Shirley positions herself to get a good angle of the castle. Laying prone on the ground even as the ground threatens to give out beneath her, she waits patiently until Pito reaches the castle and into her sights. She then makes an impressive, half a mile shot in the dusty conditions without the system, scoring a near-perfect headshot that abruptly takes out Pito.
  • Another impressive aspect of Shirley's long-awaited kill is that, whereas Pito is usually able to survive until the final battle before she finally gets eliminated in some manner, this marks the first time in Pito's Squad Jam career where's she's killed before the Final Battle. And while The Reveal of the Back from the Dead rule at the end suggests that she'll be able to participate regardless, it's still a noteworthy achievement to have prevented Pitohui from reaching it through her own merit.
• Sophie, Tohma and Rosa entrance into the castle puts them in a unfortunate position, with them being utterly unprepared for the cursors giving away their location and getting subsequently ambushed by two other players, who drive them back and manage to damage them with a grenade. When Sophie and Rosa seem ready to give up, Tohma comes with the idea to remove their gear and climb above the entryway they came through, meaning that when the two come to check if they're dead, they assume the grenade knocked them out of the castle and to their deaths. Then, once they turn to leave, Sophie and Rosa drop down, sneak up on them, and drag them kicking and screaming to ledge before throwing them off.
• David and Vivi get the devious plan to use LLENN as bait by having Kenta, who's closest to her, go around convincing other players to go after her for her bounty while they make their way to the castle's centre mostly unopposed. They take advantage of the players' greed again later, when they corner LPFM and SHINC in a tower and send other players in the weaken them.
• Suffering a pincer attack as a result of MMTM and ZEMAL's machinations, LPFM and SHINC are left pinned with even M having no idea what to do, with an announcement that the castle will also collapse raising tension and making the Wannabe Millionaires more desperate. An answer presents itself in the form of Fuka, who questions if the invisible barrier on top of the walls preventing players from just hurling grenades and bullets to kill anyone on the other side also prevents players from climbing up there. And so, with M, Eva and Anna forming a human pyramid with M's Alligator as an impromptu ladder, they're able to get Fuka and LLENN atop the walls to safely run to the castle's centre, with the invisible wall preventing anyone down below from shooting at them.
• LLENN and Fuka get pursued by two particularly clever players who manage to get atop the walls themselves, and manage to avoid the girls' return fire by using a shared sling to hang below the edge of the walls for the invisible barrier to protect them, leaving retreat as the only option. The two are fortunately saved thanks to Shirley, who shoots one of their sling arms off and causing them to fall from 180 yards atop the castle's outer wall.
• M makes a Heroic Sacrifice off-screen to help Eva and Anna by taking out a Grand Grenade and charging their attackers with his shield raised, blowing himself up to kill them and clear the way.
• With the remainder of LPFM and SHINC, who have lost Pitohui, M and Sophie and her PTRD, situated in a tower, they end up on the back foot against the combined forces of MMTM, ZEMAL, and the Wannabe Millionaire's they successfully goaded into targeting them.
  • MMTM are quick to claim the advantage by Lax sniping Sophie the moment she spawns, unknowingly removing the PTRD from play, and then preventing them from leaving the building to launch a counter-offensive by firing at Tanya and LLENN as they try to run out, with the former dying pushing the latter back inside.
  • Shirley is able to avenge Sophie by equipping a harness and hanging off the north edge of the towers, out of Lax and MMTM's sights, before shooting his arm off before nailing him in the eye when he recovers and tries returning fire.
  • Vivi proceeds to pull an Enemy Mine with the Wannabe Millionaire's so that she and MMTM can use them as an advance force to invade the tower, with ZEMAL laying covering fire so that they can head inside unhindered. Shirley, briefly taking command, has the group stab holes in the walls of the tower to poke their guns through and shoot the invaders like a fish in a barrel.
  • With MMTM and ZEMAL preparing to destroy the tower, everyone seems ready to call it there, seeing no way out, before LLENN suggests a risky strategy; using Shirley's ropes, they hang off the side of the tower above the bottomless pit while the tower gets destroyed, with Rosa diverting MMTM's rocket fire at her to draw attention away from the others, surviving the tower's destruction before countering with a hail of grenades.
  • Despite the narrow survival, the group ends up back on the back foot due to the rain of grenades failing to eliminate either MMTM and ZEMAL, who double down on the attack, leading to the deaths of Shirley and Clarence and preventing LLENN from attempting a Taking You with Me. When LLENN seems just about ready to give up, Pito and M, as per the unique rule concerning previously eliminated players, show up with an army of ghost players who blindside and disorient MMTM, allowing the group to successfully counter-attack and eliminate them.
• With MMTM dead, the final battle begins. The remnants of LPFM and SHINC and their ghost army conscripted by Pitohui, vs ZEMAL with their own ghost army recruited by the dead Shinohara and Tomtom.
  • With a mix of Pito's savage tenacity and M's expert sharpshooting, Pito's ghost army is able to overwhelm and bypass ZEMAL's to make a charge for the machine Gun Nuts.
  • Having bypassed the enemy ghost army, Pitohui has her ghosts charge Vivi and ZEMAL, which rebounds them and sends them all flying back due to the rule preventing interaction between living and ghost players. While everyone is confused by the purpose of this, they realise too late that the spectacle of the ghosts being knocked was to camouflage the ZEMAL army ghosts being sent flying by LLENN and Fukaziroh charging through them in the PM towards.
  • Fuka, by observing the way she avoided the PM's charges and suddenly jerking in the direction she tried dodging into, is able to crash into Vivi, putting her on top of the PM. What ensues is a fight between LLENN and Vivi on top of the miniature tank, avoiding close-range bullet fire and Vivi even blocking a swing of LLENN's Laser Blade by using her gun to stop it by the hilt.
  • Like David and Shirley before her, Fuka finishes the fight by finally scoring a kill against her Rival by grabbing her the wrist to keep her from getting off the PM, and charging the armoured trashcan off a ledge, causing them both to fall to their deaths.