Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Player VS Second Stage Blood Lock Demonization...
"Game Yagi Kei VS Kirihara Akaya——!"
“Beep—start now!”
Kirihara Akaya serves.
Inoue Mamoru looked intently at the field.
With a high toss, the tennis ball was hit quickly with a "bang".
The player ran and fought back, counting his stamina while watching the health bar that popped up above Kirihara Akaya's head once the official match began.
Although the Kelp Head NPC also has 100 HP, why is the health bar below 40 points gray?
The players were puzzled and responded with one ball after another, following the rhythm.
"Akagi is holding Kei's hand tightly, and I can't score with my serve at all..."
"Ah! Akaya's been cornered!"
"Akaye used a single-legged trot! He managed to catch up—!"
"...Wait, Yagi can actually take small steps on one foot?!"
After Kirihara Akaya used a single-legged step to receive the ball half a step ahead and counterattack, the first-year student on the other side of the net had already used the same steps in sync and waited for the landing point of the return ball to swing the racket and pull it back.
The yellow ball shot out diagonally, and Kirihara Aka missed.
“0:15!”
"Did Aka also teach Yagi the one-legged short steps?"
"I don't know... I haven't seen him use it before. Is it only today?"
"But the two people's movements are exactly the same..."
The noise outside the court gradually subsided, and the player picked up the racket and hit the ball again.
“0:30!”
“0:40!”
"15:40!"
"Game, 0-1!"
It took 15 hits to win the first game, and the opponent's health bar was also reduced a little.
The player cheered up and swung his racket again to meet the challenge.
Players move flexibly throughout the game, calculate their physical strength while maximizing their attack value, and continuously attack the weak areas on the kelp-headed NPC in an effort to achieve critical hits.
Finally, I fought back and attacked all the way, successfully grinding the NPC's health bar to a precarious 41.
"Game, 0-4!"
"Uh ah...Akaye didn't even win a single game against Yagi..."
"Not only did he fail to win, but even compared to Yagi, the extent of Akagi's exhaustion was... a bit excessive."
The club members watching the game were talking to each other, but Sanada, with his arms crossed, remained silent.
Liu flipped open the notebook that recorded Yagi Kei's data. "Yagi's data has improved again. His speed, power, and return angle are improving rapidly."
Sanada looked at Kirihara, who was panting while leaning on his racket, and at Kei Yagi, who was standing across the net, bouncing the ball twice without blushing or breathing, then kneeling down and jumping up to serve.
He pulled his hat down. "...It's so unbecoming."
Swinging the racket to hit the ball again, the player finally reduced the NPC's health bar to the gray 40. When he was about to attack, he was shocked to find that the NPC's health bar was not moving!
The person on the other side of the net seemed to have changed, and the surrounding NPCs were mumbling something in panic.
Players don't care about that, players now just want to report,
——Someone here actually unlocked the health cheat!
The appearance of the NPC with the blood lock activated also changes. The whites of his eyes become bloodshot and red, his face becomes pale and red, and the aura around him becomes evil.
Isn’t this the form of the mini-BOSS that appeared in the dungeon before!
The outsiders started to chatter again:
"He actually forced out Akaya's demon form again... Is Yagi really okay?"
"This isn't just a minor fight like before. Chiye is in this state and can't come out on his own initiative!"
"Yagi, alas...Yagi..."
BOSS·Kirihara Akaya: "I will crush you!"
As he spoke, the gray health bar that locked his health suddenly filled up, and turned back to 100.
Yagi Kei: "..."
Yagi Kei: "?"
What is this? What do you say this is?
How can I still reach the second stage?!
The world is silent, listening to the sound of players breaking through defense.
Players not only have to report NPCs for using the health lock cheat, but they even have automatic health recovery enabled!
That’s too much!
The angry player who did not forget to complain rushed forward and started beating him violently.
"Game, 1-5!"
"You're not affected at all by Akaya, Yagi..."
"Too terrifying! This guy's strength, even the demonized Akagi can..."
I started over again, grinding the health bar down to 60, attacking and defending one after another, and it took half of my stamina to grind the health bar of the dungeon boss to 60.
Players deeply feel the difficulty of NPCs.
Everyone outside the field felt deeply how difficult Yagi Kei was.
Marui: "I can't take it anymore... I got goosebumps just watching Kei and Akaya fight. These two guys fight so fiercely."
Kuwahara: "But... even if Akaya activated his demonic form, he still couldn't suppress Yagi's score."
Niou: "But the next game will be Akaya's serve, right? Puri~"
What did they think of? Their expressions changed.
Marui's face was filled with worry, "It shouldn't be a problem... Kei."
The serve was transferred, and the demonized Kirihara Akaya clenched the tennis ball tightly.
Players were forced to watch a serve animation.
Accompanied by the NPCs outside the field shouting "--Here it comes!" "It's a knuckle serve--!"
And the dungeon boss's "I'm going to completely crush you!"
Players finally know what the health bar that has always been hanging next to the stamina bar is for.
Because the player lost half of his health to a single shot.
The player fell to the ground with blood spurting out of his body: "..."
Is this a real attack value?
Is this a beaver? ! !
The player got up from the ground while doubting the game mechanism, and found that the NPCs around him started chattering again.
"Hey, Kei! Kei—are you okay? Don't force yourself—"
Everyone's heart was in their throat as they watched the first-year junior catch Akaya's knuckle serve with his body.
Kei Yagi was almost hit hard by the ball and was knocked flying. Although he adjusted his body flexibly in the air, he barely landed safely.
But when he got up, everyone's pupils shrank, and they were shocked by the blood gushing out of his face, arms, and legs, and their hearts skipped a beat.
No, no... Why is there so much blood?!
“Ouch!”
The third-year referee blew the whistle urgently, "Game suspended!!"
The people outside the court were about to push open the door and rush in.
Yagi Kei stood there in a daze for a moment, then quickly picked up a wild onion and said to the referee, "Continue."
The third-year referee said, "Hey... Yagi, we know you're eager to win, but safety is the most important thing right now. Let's go check..."
Kei Yagi: Why are the cutscene NPCs so long-winded?
Yagi Kei: “Continue.”
The dungeon BOSS opposite the net has been reduced to 40 health by players. If we don’t continue now, when will we be able to continue?
After chewing a piece of chewy biscuit to replenish his stamina and health, the player picked up the racket and went forward again.
The referee looked at him, then looked at Akaya on the other side of the net, and when his eyes met with Sanada and Yanagi outside the court, he felt a bit embarrassed.
Sanada was silent for a while as he looked at the junior on the court, whose dark eyes were calm and who was leaning on his racket and chewing a biscuit.
Sanada: "...Continue."
The deputy minister spoke, and the referee quickly returned to his chair, feeling relieved.
"Game on!"
“15:0!”
Marui and Kuwabara looked at Sanada with disapproval, and Niou's words became rarer.
Yagyu pushed his glasses and said nothing.
"…The probability of Yagi breaking Akaya's knuckle serve on the next ball is 87.91%."
After Liu finished recording with the pen in his hand, he looked towards the field.
“15:15!”
“30:15!”
“30:30!”
“30:40!”
As he said, the knuckle serve from the second time onwards had no effect on Yagi Kei.
Every time he lands, he can always accurately capture the direction of the ejection to avoid the body and hit back with his backhand.
"The knuckle serve...was actually broken so easily..."
"Even though I only showed up once and only met you once, you already knew everything about me, Yagi..."
The last ball cut the health bar of the leader BOSS, successfully knocking him out of the second stage of demonization. The player finally entered the settlement page.
"Game, 1-6!"
"—Yagi wins!"
[First-year student Yagi Kei VS second-year student Kirihara Akaya has won]
[We are working hard to arrange your opponent... Please wait...]
Seeing that the game was finally over, several people who were waiting outside the court rushed in and started to touch the first-year juniors.
The player who was recovering from chewing a cookie: "?"
What happened?
Even the small dungeon boss that had just been beaten into state 2 by the players came over hesitantly and in a very embarrassed manner.
Kirihara Akaya whispered, "Kui...Kui, are you okay?"
Strange NPC,
The fully replenished player turned around, pushed the door and left.
Kirihara Akaya: "QAQ!! Sure enough, Kei is mad at me!!"
Marui Bunta: "No, compared to that, I think it's more important to take him to the infirmary..."
But the NPCs couldn't catch the player running around with a bloody head and full agility, so they had to rush into the infirmary and capture the school doctor with negative mobility...
Mamoru Inoue witnessed the entire battle between the second-year ace Akaya Kirihara and the first-year freshman Kei Yagi.
...Is this the strength of this year's Rikkai University freshmen?
Inoue Mamoru turned around to interview Yagi Kei who turned around and left.
Looking closely, I saw that the other party had set up a small bucket and a small stool, sat down on the spot and started fishing with a tennis racket.
Inoue Mamoru: "..."
In some ways, it's also... strange in other ways.
The next match was still going on. During this period, the player used up all the fish he needed to fish, ran out and searched through the trash cans of Rikkai University, and when he came back after a round of wandering, he was even surrounded by people from all directions and forcibly escorted to the school doctor for examination.
The results showed that it was just a minor abrasion.
Looking at the youngster covered in blood, everyone looked at him with suspicion.
After being questioned, the school doctor checked again and again, and still showed that it was just a scratch, and even showed that it would heal on its own after further examination.
Everyone: “…”
What does that just mean?
Marui turned around: "Kui, you..."
In the blink of an eye, a careless person is gone.
Everyone: “…Alas.”
After all the operations, it felt like a century had passed and the opponent was still showing as matching.
Player: “…”
The player munched on the green onion out of boredom.
During this time, people kept pretending to pass by casually.
Either "Oh my god, why is my game console placed here?"
Or "Hey, where's my tennis racket? I think I just saw it here."
Or maybe “How come my pocket money fell out by itself? That’s weird…”
Until the Kelp Head NPC walks past the player for the thirteenth time,
The player finally realized his purpose.
It turns out that it’s time to improve NPC’s favorability again.
Wow, it really is an active affection machine.
Mushroom Head, who was nibbling on a green onion while daydreaming, finally looked up.
Kirihara Akaya, who had been walking around and watching his every move with his peripheral vision, coughed nervously and spoke hesitantly.
"Um...Kui, Kei, you..."
The player stared at him and took out his backpack.
Kirihara Akaya watched helplessly as the junior searched his pockets for a long time.
With a "ding" sound, a ball of seaweed was lifted by the mushroom head and pushed towards him.
Kirihara Akaya: "..."
He said with difficulty: "Give it to me?"
Yagi Kei nodded.
Kirihara Akaya: QAQ——Is this the price of reconciliation?
Gritting his teeth and making up his mind, he took the slippery seaweed with shaking hands.
"I'll take it... If you take it, Kei, you can't be angry with me, okay?"
Player: What are you angry about? No matter what, just nod.
Mushroom Head nodded expressionlessly.
Kirihara Akaya was overjoyed, "Kei——!"
He hesitated and felt a little embarrassed, looking at it cautiously again and again.
"So, then...what is our relationship now?"
Player: “…”
The player looked up at the notes.
What's the relationship? Never mind, just answer one.
Yagi Kei: "Goodwill and machine relationship."
Kirihara Akaya: “?”
W-what?
Kirihara Akaya: "——So what exactly is the favorability machine? QAQ!!!"
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*Favorability Machine = A player-specific ATM machine that only withdraws favorability
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