Sally

Risa Shiramine (白峯理沙, lit. Shiramine Risa), also known as Sally (サリ, 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 wasn't able to play with her that time due to being not 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 guild master.

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

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

Sally, her 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.undefined

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

Under the breastplate. the turtleneck is extended until her jeans, noticeably cut in the sides, which exposes her body curves.

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

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

Risa is one of the more younger and shorter members of Maple Tree, only taller than Kaede by one inch.

Personality
Sally is extroverted, cautious, and practical, a reflection of 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 when it comes to 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 in 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 and guilds 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 in numerous times.

History
Primarily responsible for Maples introduction to this new online game, Risa was able to persuade her to play, even though she herself 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 into the game and had chosen 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 can possibly 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 friends in real life.
 * Oboro: Monster companion.
 * Kanade:
 * Kasumi:
 * Mai & Yui
 * Iz
 * Chrome
 * Frederica: A friend and rival who she needs to be on her toes for.

Trivia

 * Her username Sally (サリ, 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.undefined
 * On the official website, Shiramine's last name was spelt as Shiromine.
 * Sally explained that NewWorld Online translated her IRL reflexes into the game; meaning her incredible speed is natural.