Sally

## Risa Shiramine

* Anime
* Game

**Risa Shiramine** (白峯理沙*, lit.* **Shiramine Risa**), also known as **Sally** (サリー, **Sarī**) in NewWorld Online, is one of the main characters in BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

Risa is Kaede Honjou's gamer best friend who invited her to the VRMMORPG NewWorld Online, but she couldn't play with her at that time due to not being allowed by her mother to play games.

However, she is a professional gamer, having numerous achievements that certify her capabilities. Taking the swashbuckler class, her reflexes are considered abnormal even with her out-of-standard AGI stat.

Sally is the co-founder of the guild Maple Tree alongside Maple, later giving Maple the role of the guild master.

## Appearance

Risa is a healthy girl. The color of her eyes and hair are the same, ash brown.

 In the real world, Risa is often seen in her sleeping attire, with her hair let down. Her hair is mainly held up with a white ribbon, with bangs framing her face, roughly reaching her shoulders.

Sally's character in-game is completely identical to her appearance in the real world. Before obtaining her current armor set, she wore a beginner outfit, which is quite similar to Maple's in design.

Sally's attire consists of a gray turtleneck, a silver breastplate covering the entirety of her ribs, and her clavicle. This turtleneck is underneath a gray coat with puffy shoulder pads and long, tight sleeves. The coat is mainly colored gray, but has frequent blue accents and highlights, which become apparent in its lower part. The shades of blue range from light to dark. Additionally, she wears a blue scarf covering her entire neck.

Under the breastplate. The turtleneck is extended until her jeans are noticeably cut in the sides, exposing her body curves.

Sally wears extremely short jeans for the lower half of her body, accompanied by a white belt with a golden buckle. She wears a pair of dark grey boots that meets her knees in height and socks striped with blue and black, which reach until her lower thighs.

The design of her clothes implies that they allow for more mobility and endurance. Sally wields two daggers with ornate designs, with occasional gold accents, such as on its handle.

Risa is one of the youngest and shortest members of Maple Tree, only taller than Kaede by one inch.

## Personality

Sally is extroverted, cautious, and practical, reflecting on her past experience with other games. She also has a creative and tricky side to her, evidenced by her choice to become a swashbuckler so that her party with Maple "would never take any damage", as opposed to the more conventional choice of being a mage so she could support Maple from the rear.

While Sally is afraid of ghosts and other horror-related things, she gets fired up and highly aggressive regarding PvP, as she goes out of her way to slaughter many players towards the end of the second event just for a couple of silver medals. Sally also enjoys sports and has great reflexes, and she is a good swimmer both in the game and real life.

## Plot

Compounded by her desire to see Maple succeed and develop, even though at times meta-gaming and broken, she strives to keep up with her, being a veteran gamer herself, and uses her wit and strategic cunning to her own guild's advantage.

## Description

Risa's evasive ability is great and improves the more she concentrates. Her evasion skills have been thoroughly trained in other games where she's been hit and died numerous times.

## History

Primarily responsible for Maple's introduction to this new online game, Risa persuaded her to play, even though she was unable to join Maple at that moment, required to achieve a real-world test before being allowed to play. Also, as evidenced by the clutter of numerous championship awards, Risa is an avid and veteran online game player.

Even before ever playing, Risa brainstormed with Maple about which class she should play to maximize complement with Maple's chosen class of Heavy Shield and Short Sword wielder. They contemplated Risa either choosing Magic User or a Small Shield and Sword user. Ultimately, Risa arrived in the game and chose Twin Blades as her Preferred Weapon.

She was also responsible for the red moon massacre at the 2nd event, terrorizing players on the 2nd to the last day of the event, trying to steal every silver medal that could be stolen from the unsuspecting.

Before the 3rd event, Risa has a duel with Frederica and convinces her *Attack Guidance* (攻撃誘導) and *Running Water* (*Stream*; 流水) are skills.

After a battle with Dread, Risa decides to improve her evasion based on his methods; *instinct* and *fear*.

## Relationships

* Maple: Best real-life friends.
* Oboro: Monster companion.
* Mai & Yui
* Iz
* Chrome
* Frederica: A friend and rival for whom she needs to be on her toes.

## Trivia

* Her username **Sally** (サリー, **Sarī**) is a anagram of her real name, **Risa** (リサ).
* Risa is a veteran gamer. In the anime adaptation, a few trophies with her name related to gaming competitions can be seen briefly.
* On the official website, Shiramine's last name was spelled as **Shiromine.**
* Her date of birth is March 28th.
* Sally explained that NewWorld Online translated her IRL reflexes into the game, meaning her incredible speed is natural.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Web Novel Chapter 1
2. ↑ Anime Episode 1-2
3. ↑ Web Novel chapter 88
4. ↑ Web Novel chapter 96
5. ↑ Anime Episode 1