Chapter 253: The sudden appearance of the bewildered Kikyo...
The suddenly appearing Cherbelos became the referees of this "Choice" game. When Sawada Tsunayoshi and the others were about to enter the battlefield, the players and others walked towards the rest area designated for the Vongola family.
"Although I knew there were people inside, I didn't expect it was you and him hiding there, Reborn."
The player looked at Reborn and Squalo as they emerged from the mobile base built by Irie Shoichi and Spana, and asked with some concern, "How are you feeling now?"
"Ah, I'm fine. Byakuran didn't lie. There is indeed no non-73 radiation here." The agile Reborn nodded, his dark eyes staring at the surveillance screen in the rest area. Only after seeing that Sawada Tsunayoshi and the others were making smooth progress did he slightly curl the corners of his lips.
Reborn, feeling relieved for the moment, asked, "Speaking of which, where are Marco and Chiara?"
Although they were not among the people designated by Bai Lan, he didn't believe that those two people had no way to sneak in.
"Ah, don't worry. They're not here because they have other things to do." The player waved his fan and said, "While Bai Lan and Liu Diao Hua are here, I asked them to do me a little favor."
The player watched Sawada Tsunayoshi, who was battling Wolfsbane, the Guardian of the Mist, on the large surveillance screen, with a gloomy gaze: "Go help me save a princess—"
"Voi——, why are you talking so vaguely?" the silver-haired swordsman shouted impatiently.
"Because this has nothing to do with the current battlefield, Mr. Squalo." The player watched Sawada Tsunayoshi fall into the wolfsbane trap. "Let's focus on Tsunayoshi's battle first. He seems to be in some trouble."
Bajir looked at the enormous number of sea snakes and said in shock, "Is that... an illusion? But it seems to be real?"
"You don't even know this, you little brat?" Squalo explained, though impatient. "Powerful illusions are enough to deceive machines, and this guy called Wolfsbane..."
This level of illusion is enough to prove that he is a very skilled sorcerer.
Player: "There are only a handful of sorcerers in the other world who can achieve this level, such as Tsunayoshi's other companion, Rokudo Mukuro, Viper, and Chiara who uses the box weapon. However..."
Even though it is a tangible illusion, it is not difficult for someone like Tsunayoshi who has the special ability of super intuition to identify it clearly.
"Lion, is that Tsunayoshi-kun's box weapon? I finally see its true form." The player chuckled and said, "Using the harmony of the sky's attributes? Not a bad idea."
"Tsuna's training is more than just this, Aurora." Reborn, who had an excellent view and had been paying attention to the battle, praised.
Sure enough, although he was caught off guard from the beginning, Sawada Tsunayoshi quickly recovered, ran across the building, and punched Lang Du's head to the ground.
The flames of death in the hearts of the central figures of both sides have not been extinguished, and the 'Choice' game continues.
"There seems to be new movement at Lord Yamamoto's place!" Bajir suddenly discovered something and pointed in the direction of the surveillance camera.
"His opponent is... the warlock named Ape. No, it's more than that..." The player straightened up and sat upright.
Reborn turned sideways, looked at the suddenly perky black-haired girl, and asked, "What's the problem, Aurora?"
"Sophia, open the box—"
Under everyone's astonished gaze, the player summoned the box weapon. The raven hummed softly, carrying the flames of the sky, and stood gracefully on the shoulder of the black-haired girl.
"Lady Aurora, what are you doing?" Bagir was a little confused.
"Oh, what a cute little bird." Kyoko praised while holding Ippei in her arms.
"Xiaochun thinks it's very elegant!" Xiaochun nodded in agreement.
"This is... the extremely rare intelligent large empty box that the Fantasy Family commissioned someone to build. I didn't expect it to be a raven." Squalo looked at the raven with an inclusive look and thought to himself.
Player: "Sophia, resonance—"
Sophia hummed softly, and the sky flame on her body surged fully, and her clear and transparent eyes also glowed with a faint golden color.
Ravens have excellent eyesight, are well-matched with players, and are extremely intelligent. Therefore, players can have a brief resonance with ravens when there is enough Death Flame, gaining their superior eyesight. The downside is that their sense of smell will also be weakened.
Coupled with the player's transparent eyes...
"...Wow." The player observing the battle between Ape and Yamamoto Takeshi from another perspective blinked sharply. "The warlock named Ape's true form is a stitched-together man with a pair of bull horns."
"A man who stitched together a pair of bull horns..." Reborn lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
Could it be that he was the man who wielded the Hell Ring and who had fought against Tsuna before?
He remembered that when the man's spirit was devoured by the Hell Ring, he would become what Aurora described...
"Yamamoto Takeshi seems to be handling it well," Dino exclaimed. "Yamamoto Takeshi, who has mastered the weapons in the Vongola box, has made tremendous progress in strength."
"That's right, and the extent to which his swordsmanship has improved is astonishing." Reborn put his thoughts aside and continued Dino's words.
The fellow swordsman released the resonance state, allowing Miss Raven to move freely. Then he raised his hand and said loudly, "I'm curious too!"
"Hmph, there's only one reason why Yamamoto is like this..." He folded his arms. With his eyes closed, Squalo raised his head and looked at the four-sword style master, Yamamoto Takeshi, and said, "That's his determination to fight with the sword."
The player looked at the man who had obviously become Yamamoto Takeshi's teacher and asked, "Are you saying... that he's not concentrating? Because of his other hobby?"
"As a fellow swordsman, your senses are quite sharp." Squalo snorted coldly, confronting the black-haired girl in front of him. "That's right, between sword and baseball, he must make a choice."
"What you mean... is it Lord Yamamoto?!" Bajir asked in disbelief.
Did Takeshi Yamamoto, who loves baseball so much, choose to give up baseball?
"Haha, how could that be? Yamamoto is incredibly persistent in what he believes in, whether it's baseball, swords, or his friends." The player smiled as he watched Yamamoto Takeshi defeat the Phantom Knight with his familiar Shigure Sogan Ryu. "So he definitely won't give up on baseball, but...critical moments require critical treatment."
"Tsk." Squalo, who was correctly pointed out, snorted in dissatisfaction, "That Yamamoto Takeshi guy..."
This woman was right. That guy, Yamamoto Takeshi, really set a limit for himself in his wholehearted study of swordsmanship. This was simply unacceptable to him!!!
"However, the most difficult person to deal with on the Milufiore family side is the man with the cloud attribute."
The player looked at Irie Shoichi's anxious face on the surveillance screen, suppressed his smile, and continued, "The bait is almost all used up. It's time to release those illusion butterflies."
But, Irie Shoichi, can the Death Flame in you still hold out until then...
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"There was an accident at Gokudera's place, and Tsunayoshi-kun was also affected by the illusion. We have to adopt plan B."
Irie Masaru didn't even bother wiping the sweat off his face as he barked out orders one after another: "Tsunayoshi-kun, use the radar I gave you Aurora and set the picture of Pomegranate in it. It will be immune to some illusions!"
"Spanner, activate all the mechanical butterflies that have been infused with my Death Flame from the beginning to delay Kikyo."
"Vongola! If you can hear me..." Spanna, who had been operating the base, shouted as he released the mechanical butterfly, "Then use the move that amazed me!"
The force that attacked Wolf Poison just now reached 300,000 flame pressures. If that was the case, it would definitely be possible to blast open the illusion space!
Kikyo, who had escaped from Gokudera Hayato's clutches, saw the yellow light on the radar and raised an eyebrow: "Hahem, another bait?"
"I don't have that much time to waste with you—"
Kikyo used cloud-attribute flames to rapidly increase the size of the vines growing on her hands, and then shot them out at a rapid speed.
but……
"Huh? Why are there three more spots of light?" The originally confident Kikyo was a little stunned, but after hearing the extremely bored voice of Pomegranate in the headset, she smiled and then chose a direction among the three routes of left, middle and right.
"Great!" Irie Shoichi said in surprise, "Kikyo's signal has moved away. The surviving mechanical butterfly successfully confused him."
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"Great, well done!" Bagir clenched his fists and waved them vigorously.
"That's great!" The logistics team members who saw that their side had the advantage also smiled brightly.
"This mechanical butterfly, a combination of Miss Aurora's technology and Ms. Chiara's illusion, not only moves faster and more flexibly than ordinary bait, but can also briefly transform into Irie-kun's appearance."
Johnny-Two's cheerful voice echoed through the rest area. He explained to the bewildered crowd, "Miss Chrom and I have conducted numerous tests before, and we've found that people with low resistance to illusions can't be detected in a short period of time."
"Hmm..." Chlorum beside him nodded cautiously.
"That's it—" The player snapped his fingers, pointed at his eyes, and continued, "Because of the special nature of my eyes, and because I've learned a lot from the lessons everyone else has suffered from illusions, many of the products I make are more or less immune to illusions."
The player looked at the surveillance screen that had lost Tsunayoshi's presence and said, "But there's nothing we can do about that level of illusion space."
"The mechanical butterfly successfully confused Kikyo and delayed her," Dino said with a smile. "Although we still can't see Tsuna, fortunately, Yamamoto Takeshi has found the location of the pomegranate."
"As long as Lord Yamamoto gets rid of that pomegranate, we will win!" Bajir stared at the surveillance screen showing Yamamoto Takeshi's presence, full of anticipation.
Squalo just watched Yamamoto Takeshi's actions without saying anything.
"The pomegranate with the Mist attribute, the man who remained unscathed even after being submerged in lava..." Reborn's eyes were filled with meaning. "That guy is not that easy to deal with."
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