Risa Shiramine

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, though she has a thin body. She has a flat chest, but seems to not mind about it. 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. One may speculate that Sally greatly enjoys sports in general, as she has great reflexes and is a good swimmer, even 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.

Physical Skills

 * Status Abnormal Attack III (alt. Affliction III)undefined
 * Sword Fencing II
 * Slashundefined
 * Slashes an enemy with a single swing of her daggers.
 * Double Slashundefined
 * Shoots energy-shaped slashes twice.
 * Triple Slashundefined
 * Quintuple Slashundefined
 * Gale Slash
 * Down Attack (alt. Knockdown)undefined
 * Power Attackundefined
 * A power-infused attack that inflicts high damage.
 * Switch Attack
 * Addition Blade (alt. Pursuing Blade)
 * Adds an extra attack with ⅓ weapon power on successful attacks.
 * Obtained by Sally with medals during the second event.
 * Defense Break
 * A penetrating attack.
 * Taijutsu V
 * Shoulder Throwundefined
 * Impact Fistundefined
 * Great Eruptionundefined
 * A move that causes lava to come from the ground and create a field of fixed damage for 1 minute. MP cost: 50. Cooldown: 3 minutes.
 * Pinpoint Attack

Magic Skills

 * Ancient Seaundefined
 * Can summon fish cover with blue light from the Sea King fight. The water effect decreases AGI by 10.
 * Obtained by Sally in the second event as a loot from the Sea King.
 * Fire Magic I
 * Fire Ballundefined
 * Summons and shoots a ball made up entirely of flame.
 * Water Magic II
 * Water Ballundefined
 * Summons and shoots a ball of water.
 * Water Wall
 * Creates a wall entirely out of water.
 * Wind Magic III
 * Wind Cutterundefined
 * Shoots out a razor-sharp slash of green wind.
 * Wind Wall
 * Cyclone Cutter
 * Earth Magic II
 * Sand Cutter
 * Sand Wallundefined
 * Dark Magic I
 * Dark Ball
 * Light Magic II
 * Refresh
 * Healundefined
 * Heals the target.
 * Phantom Worldundefined
 * Creates three clones of the target for 3 minutes.
 * Icicleundefined
 * Consume 3 MP to create indestructible icicles. Lasts 1 minute. Maximum 5 at once.
 * Ice Pillarundefined
 * Iron Water Cannon (鉄砲水, alt. Flash Flood)
 * Path of Water (水の道) : The skill creates gravity defying pillar of water and the user can use it like a movement skill.

Defensive Skills

 * Poison Resistance (Small)

Support Skills

 * Sword Danceundefined
 * Each attack grants STR+1% (max +100%). Boost resets when damaged.
 * Acquire: The acquisition condition is not to be inflicted any damage until reaching level 25.
 * Super Acceleration (alt. Super Speed)undefined
 * AGI +50. Cooldown: 30 minutes.
 * Encouragement
 * Raises nearby party member's [STR][AGI] by 20%. Radius: 15 meters. Duration: 1 minute. This boost does not affect the skill user.
 * MP Enhancement (Small): MP +10.
 * MP Cut (Small)
 * MP cost of skills reduced by 7%.
 * MP Recovery Speed Enhancement (Small)
 * MP recovery rate +5%.
 * Muscle Strengthening (Small)
 * STR +5%.
 * Consecutive Attack Strengthening (Small)
 * On consecutive attacks, power increases to a maximum of STR +10%.
 * Knowledge of Daggers II
 * Jack of All Trades
 * AGI +10. DEX +10. Damage is reduced by 30%. MP consumption is reduced by 10%.
 * Knowledge of Magic II (alt. Magic Proficiency II)undefined
 * Leap IIIundefined
 * Can jump higher.
 * Stealthy Steps II (alt. Shinobi Foot II)
 * Hiding Presence II (alt. Sensory Blocking II)undefined
 * Sense Presence II (alt. Sensory Awareness II)undefined
 * Mining Speed Enhancement (Small) (alt. Harvesting Speed Boost (Small))undefined
 * Fishingundefined
 * The chance of catching fish with a fishing rod is raised.
 * Swimming Xundefined
 * Diving Xundefined
 * Dive underwater for up to 40 minutes.
 * Cooking I
 * Empty Shellundefined
 * If an attack would cause you to go from full health to 0, the damage is nullified and gain [AGI + 50%]. Only can use once per day.
 * Acquire: The acquisition condition was no damage until reaching level 35.
 * Freezing Areaundefined
 * For 10 minutes after using a water-type skill, you can use this skill. You can freeze magic and objects, but not players or monsters. The magic or objects frozen gain the ice attribute regardless of friend or foe.
 * Web User Iundefined
 * Use to activate or deactivate. The user controls webs and can shoot them from their hands and feet. The firing distance is 5-meters. After skill level 5, the webs can be stretched.
 * Connection to the Underworldundefined
 * Doubles the effects of items.
 * Water Manipulation (水操術)undefined
 * Allows the user to control water.
 * Illusion (幻影, alt. Phantom):
 * A spell that creates clones similar to Mirage. They are just decoys and deal no damage. Between Oboro's Shadow Clone and Sally's Illusion, Sally can have 10 copies of herself up at once (herself, 4 shadow clones, 5 illusion clones).

Fake Skills
Sally created fake skills in her duel against Frederica, a powerful member of the Congregation of the Holy Swords, in order to spread false information to her and her guild mates in their next battle.
 * Attack Incitement: (alt. Coax Attack)undefined
 * A skill that supposedly manipulate the trajectory of the enemies' attacks.
 * Stream (alt. Cascade)undefined 
 * A skill that supposedly evade attacks with physical forms.

Equipped Skills

 * Mirage
 * Confuses target‘s sense of vision so that it sees a mirage of the user in a different location. Effective against anyone other than user. Should an attack hit [Mirage] it will dissolve. Maximum usage is 10 times per day. Effect duration is 5 seconds.
 * Ocean (大海, alt. Oceania, Torrent)
 * Creates a shallow pool of water in a 10-meter radius within user. Contact with this water decreases AGI by 20%. Caster is unaffected by [Ocean]. Cannot be activated in mid-air. Maximum usage is 3 times per day. Effect duration is 10 seconds.
 * A Step Towards the Underworldundefined
 * When using this skill, your stats decrease by 5 and you can make footholds in the air. The footholds last 10 seconds and the stat reduction lasts 20 minutes.

Equipment
Risa acquired a new set of equipment, a unique series, after defeating an underwater monster boss that bears resemblance to an orca or killer whale (Underground Lake Labyrinth).undefined Also, this set of armor does not have Skill Slots.

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.