[Comprehensive] The Light Chaser

At the same time as the game ended, Yukimura, who was in Kanagawa General Hospital, received a call.

"Really?" He showed a surprised expression, "I see."

He hung up the phone, tucked in the quilt, and put the phone on the bedside.

Nioh and Yagyu...argued?

After finishing the phone call, Liu ignored Sanada's subtle look beside him, put away his phone and turned the pages of his notebook.

When he finished the summary of the game with a calm demeanor, Yagyu just walked down from the audience, his body was still under pressure.

Marui, who was about to go on stage, glanced at him sideways, and said half-comfortably, "Nioh has always been like this, so don't worry too much about it."

"I know." Liu Sheng pushed his glasses, his tone was a bit stiff.

Marui also had no choice but to shrug his shoulders and say nothing more.

The match between him and Cilang was the beginning and the focus of today's practice match. He really didn't have the mood to worry about the "love and hatred" between his two companions.

Anyway, King Ni has a way to persuade Yagyu, that guy is full of lies.

Marui thought so.

He turned his head to look at the curly-haired boy who had already excitedly ran into the arena, and took off the weight on his wrist with a breath.

The weight on the waist and legs has been removed in advance, and he also did the most basic adaptation exercises during the morning training.He decided to face Akutagawa Jiro with the most serious attitude.Not only did the boy show a rare "worship" attitude towards him, but it was more for this long-lost singles match.

My ambition...he walked onto the court with a big smile that concealed all the turmoil in his heart.

Net volley, court control ability, game rhythm.

Nioh did not go down from the auditorium, but watched the game from a condescending angle.

Marui, who is going all out, and Akutagawa, who has really become a "fan" on the opposite side.

They look so happy.

Niwang thought so, and then froze.

……happy?

Playing tennis is always fun.What am I thinking.

He exhaled and straightened up, intending to walk to his teammates.Something flashed past him as he took a step.

Ok?

He lowered his head and caught sight of the "something" squatting on the auditorium chair beside him.

"...dog?" He tilted his head hesitantly.

What kind of breed does this look like?Samoyed?

"Who brought the pet to the field?" Nioh whispered.

But he seemed to see this dog flying over just now... Was he dazzled?How can a dog fly?

But maybe the dog is as much a monster as the talking beckoning cat?

Nioh took another look at the white "dog" who was winking at him, and finally turned around and walked away.

"Yo, are you back?" Marui waved to him when he walked to the sidelines, looking in a good mood.

Nioh nodded.

"You..." Marui winked, "Don't you want to say something?"

King Ni followed his gaze and saw Liu Sheng standing beside Liu.He quickly looked away and walked to Marui: "It's over."

Marui blinked, and put the wristband received from Akutagawa into the tennis bag: "Whatever you want, don't come to complain to me when the time comes."

King Ni: "...When did I vomit bitterness to you? Isn't it you who always vomit bitterness to me?"

"Whispering." Marui zipped up the tennis bag, turned his head and ignored Nioh, and went to cheer on their elementary school boy who was playing for the first time (let's call it an official game), "Come on, Kirihara! This is your first show !"

"Oh! I'll crush them all!" Kirihara said loudly.

"Don't talk big!" Ice Emperor's second singles player is Shishido, who has always been a bit irritable and raised his racket, "I will win!"

The game started with Shishido's high-speed serve.

As for Kirihara, after more than half a year of special training, his strength has also made great progress.

Nioh just played against Kirihara in the main selection competition a few days ago. Although he is "Yukimura", it is not easy to deal with it.However, his final selection match with Kirihara might have been more difficult, after all, he was just a normal and ordinary middle school student at that time.According to this logical comparison, as Yukimura once said, it is not completely unreasonable to feel that Kirihara's progress is not fast enough.

Ah, what are you talking about is not normal or ordinary... I am also very normal and ordinary now.

Nioh put his hands on the armrest in front of him.

"Do you usually play practice games with Kirihara?" He turned his head and asked Chi Yan and Hasegawa who were watching with the team.

"Practice?" Chi Yan shook his head, "No. Kirihara-kun's training has always been in charge of the seniors."

"Kirhara-kun will have a practice match with the OB members of the high school." Hasegawa added.

OB?

But OB...

"I thought our school's OB system was a decoration." Nioh said in a low voice.

The competition on the field has reached a fever pitch.

Shishido, a second-year student, is a "veteran member" who entered the main election after he challenged his seniors to win the position of minister in the first grade of Atobe, and is also one of the subjects of Rikkai University's research.

A backcourt player whose strength is stamina and who is better at defending than attacking.

Quite different from Kirihara.

"The younger generation is the younger generation. When your strength has not reached the standard, don't talk big!" His ponytail tied behind his head swung a sweaty arc, and the tennis ball drew a smooth arc.

"Ahhhhh!" Kirihara's small steps allowed him to catch up with the ball, and he fully counterattacked, but——

Shishido, who had already guarded the landing point in advance, made a precise half-court slam.

"Gamewonby Shishido, 4-3!"

"Damned!" he said.

"Damn it!" Kirihara opened his eyes wide and straightened up.

Swap venues, exchange right to serve.

Standing on the serving line, Kirihara was holding the tennis ball, with a look of emotional loss visible to the naked eye: "I'm not talking big! Defeat you!"

Niwang opened his eyes wide.

That red light... what is it?

The competition intensified.

Kirihara's return of the ball has become a bit out of order, but the speed and strength have been greatly improved. It seems that the attack power has been exchanged for control power.But Shishido is the best at fighting back.

He is not a type with outstanding physical fitness and outstanding talent, and it is not skills but game reading and perseverance that can gain a foothold in the main selection sequence with Bingdi.

In the final analysis, tennis is just a game of returning the ball that others have hit.

If you do this every time, you will be invincible!

"15-0!"

"Ahh! Damn it, damn it!" Kirihara swung his racket vigorously.

He glared at Shishido opposite, his eyes became fierce.

I don't know if it's because of staying up late to play games or because of being too excited, the bloodshot eyes became obvious.

And the king stared behind him.

The red light just now appeared again!

And in the red light... what is it?

Again!

On top of Kirihara's head is also... a black trident? !

He squinted his eyes to see clearly, but suddenly felt dizzy.

and many more?

"Nio?" Marui asked beside him.

Nioh supported the railing in front of him and waved his hands: "I'm a little dizzy, maybe it's hypoglycemia or hypotension... I'll take a rest."

After he finished speaking, he simply arched up and lay down on the armrest, burying his face in his arms.The black and white flickering of his vision was not as fast as the paralysis of his limbs. Before he lost consciousness, he tightened his fingers to keep his body balanced, lest he suddenly fall down and scare his teammates when he lost control for a while.

Why did you get sick at this time... Hasn't it been a long time since you got sick?Are those doctors saying they are getting better?

This time, he quickly entered the black space he had felt before.

The huge white fox was lying in the middle of the space, its eyes still closed in the same posture as before.

According to the plots of those comics, is this the consciousness space that belongs to me?

and so……

As soon as King Ni thought about it, he moved to the side of the white fox.

This time he chose the front.

He was startled when the huge fox face came into view.

Wow, this is really...

Huh?

I previously thought this white "creature" was a fox, but from a positive perspective...

dog?

Wait, so to speak, the one in the auditorium just now...

"... Nioh? Are you really alright?"

When he heard Wentai's voice, he responded, and regained consciousness after a while.He breathed a sigh of relief and straightened up, raising his hands to rub his temples.

Then a bar of chocolate appeared in front of him.

"If you have low blood sugar, bring some snacks with you. You won't come to the game without breakfast, right?" Marui said while stuffing chocolate into Nioh's hand.

King Ni touched his nose and raised his hand to take it: "Puri."

It's not hypoglycemia, it's not hypotension, but...

He glanced at the score on the field and thought it was only 10 minutes this time?Still not there?

"How's the game going?" he asked.

"Aka will win too." Marui said, "But just now he was emotionally unstable and mentally violent, and Shishido seized the opportunity to catch up with the score. He will probably be reprimanded by Sanada when he goes back."

"... Mental power out of control?"

"He seems to have practiced some tricks but can't control them on his own." Marui shrugged his shoulders after speaking, "I summed up what Liu said, you can ask."

So that black trident and red light, is it a sign that the tricks were intended to be used but failed?

"As for the tricks of spiritual power, does it mean that Sanada wants Chiya to learn the 'Selfless Realm'?" Wentai guessed to himself, "It's not impossible, the selfless realm also needs spiritual power, right?"

"...If the state of no-self can be taught by teaching, then Echizen Nanjiro would have become the best coach in the world long ago." Nioh complained.

There was no tie-break in the practice match, so the score stayed at 6-6.

Kirihara returned angrily.He could have won the last game, but the game dragged on for too long and he was exhausted, so Shishido took the opportunity.Holding the racket, he shook his messy hair, and couldn't help shrinking his neck when he looked up and saw Sanada: "...Deputy Minister..."

Nioh was still thinking about the strange white fox in his conscious world, but the abnormal silence around him made him more vigilant.

what happened?

He saw that everyone was staring at Kirihara who walked in, and glanced at Sanada intermittently.

Not far away, the two juniors began to tremble with their breathing.

What's going on here?

"Too slack!" Sanada exclaimed.

Ok?

Nioh suddenly realized something, "What are you waiting for?"

No one answered him.

It wasn't until Kirihara lowered his head and let out a dissatisfied voice that Sanada picked up his racket and walked onto the court.

Then everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

King Ni: "... Didn't you lose?"

"Oh, the 6-6 draw is not good, and Sanada has always been so strict with Kirihara." Marui explained in a low voice, "I want to see if Sanada will beat someone in this situation. Didn't you forget the other day? Sanada said that if you lose the game, there will be a 'punishment', right?"

"But Kirihara didn't lose." Nioh took two steps back and simply sat on the chair in the auditorium, "He won't do anything. Sanada is a man who keeps his word."

After he finished speaking, he found that his teammates looked at him very delicately.

"There's a feeling of hearing praise for Sanada from your mouth." Marui coughed.

Nioh: "..."

He tore open the wrapper of the chocolate Marui gave him, broke off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.

A few hours later, he sat by Yukimura's hospital bed and talked about this incident, and also mentioned that he and Yagyu had had a little conflict recently.

"So, you didn't talk to Yagyu again?" Yukimura put down the fruit knife in his hand.He took a bite of the apple he had peeled for himself, and looked at King Ni who came to "visit sick": "Then why did you ask me to talk about this?"

King Ren turned his head: "I feel that Liu will sue you."

Yukimura couldn't help laughing.

Originally, everyone planned to visit the hospital together after the game, but it took longer than expected.After another tug-of-war between Atobe and Sanada ended, it was almost dark.

Liu Suo and Sanada said that they would send the first year home respectively, and they would visit the hospital tomorrow.Sanada agreed.

King Ni sent Hasegawa home, and he didn't understand why this tall junior was always too shy to say a few words to him.But fortunately, the atmosphere was not too awkward, and he had enough time to think about some issues.

So he came to the hospital again after saying goodbye to Hasegawa.

"What do you think?" Yukimura asked.

King Ren said directly, "I don't know."

"do not know?"

"Yeah." Nioh nodded, with a calm expression on his face, "Anyway, it won't affect the game."

"But I heard that you and Yagyu said that you want to practice 'coordination'? If you want to enter the realm of 'coordination', you can't do it without solving the problem." Yukimura said.

Niwang shook his head: "I don't think so."

"Oh?"

"The official explanation of co-tune is spiritual connection? But isn't this kind of statement very mysterious? Neither Yagyu nor I can do such a thing as completely opening up to another person." King Ni also thought about it for a while, "But I I still feel that it is impossible to have only one way to achieve 'coherence'."

"for example?"

"For example, 'Non-Self State', there are also three extremes in the 'Non-Self State', and different directions can lead to the same end point. What about 'Synchronism'? Mind-to-heart communication is at the same pace, and it can also be achieved in another way." Nioh described his vision, "It's like Yukimura's 'dream', which can induce the opponent to see the scene he wants to see and then make the opponent act according to your script."

"...Using mental power on your partner?" Yukimura raised his eyebrows, "If I understand correctly, you plan to do this, right?"

"There's no rule that says it's wrong, right?"

This is true.

But Yukimura weighed Nioh's current strength, and thought of this person's consistent style and personality, and felt that this method was very feasible.

"It's a good idea," he said, "but if you want to try it, you'd better tell Yagyu in advance. Otherwise, I'm afraid that after you finish a game, you won't be able to be partners again. Or you can change someone try."

"...Is it not possible?" King Ren tilted his head.

Yukimura smiled and shook his head: "I just gave the worst possible ending."

To be dominated by spiritual power, this is tantamount to turning faces in person for people with high self-esteem.

Nioh was thinking about what Yukimura said on the way home.

Will it be that serious?

Isn't it natural to make that choice in order to win?

He can understand Liu Sheng's anger now, but if he enters "Synchronism", he will turn his face... Really?

Brush pull.

The wind blows through the street trees on the side of the road, and the street lamps tilt their shadows.Nioh stared at the black shadow that suddenly appeared on the road and stopped.He looked up and saw the familiar white "creature" on the fence.

"Are you a monster?" With a distance of five or six meters, King Ni said to himself, "Isn't it a dog? Is it really a fox?"

Of course no one answered him.

The hand holding the tennis strap gradually tightened, and a tennis ball appeared in the empty palm.King Ni saw that the white "creature" lowered its head slightly as if it was licking its fur, so he quickly threw the tennis ball out.

brush--

despair.

The tennis ball split the swaying branches and leaves, but the white "creature" jumped up and landed on the ground lightly.

The ears on the top of its head moved: "It's too rude."

"Sure enough, you can talk." King Ni said.

He took a few steps forward, then squatted down again: "Vixen?"

"It's so rude." The white fox shook his ears again, "Are all the little ghosts with spiritual power so rude now?"

"It's you who have been following me."

"Treat people who are older than you with respect."

"...Why should I use honorifics to a monster?" King Ni narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the ears of the white fox in front of him, "Are you really not a dog?"

The bright yellow eyes of the white fox also narrowed.

Nioh and it looked at each other for a while, then stood up feeling a little numb in the feet.He decided to ignore the inexplicable monster—if it was malicious, why not attack himself?But if there is no malice, then why...

Ah, sure enough, I followed up.

"Pets are not allowed at home." King Ni turned his head to the fox walking on the fence and said, "I haven't given you anything to eat if you follow me."

The fox only squinted: "Little devil, I saw the tennis ball in that hand. It's too weak to only throw the ball. At least you need a tennis racket. Without a tennis racket, how far can you throw your ball?"

"Then I can't help it." Nioh still held the tennis ball but didn't throw it out. "Using spiritual power to condense a tennis racket, I still can't do it. I'm not a 3D printer."

"So you are too weak." The fox said bluntly.

Nioh shrugged: "I'm just a normal middle school student, and I'm not a policeman. It's enough to have the ability to protect myself."

"You think tennis can protect itself?"

"...So what do you want from me?" King Ren glared at the fox.

"Zangma asked me to come," said the fox. "You haven't forgotten what you promised, have you?"

What did I promise?

Ah, that contract...

The match between Spiritual Detective and more than half a year later... I didn't ask what the match was, it seemed like I was bewitched that day.How did it cause it and didn't even think about going to investigate?

Strange...what the hell am I...

"Spiritual detectives are much more dangerous than policemen. The game is not your middle school tennis match." The white fox said bluntly, "I have possessed spiritual power for so long, but I still only know how to pinch tennis balls out of thin air. You What did you learn?"

Nioh reached out and threw the tennis ball out of his hand.

The fox jumped to avoid the tennis ball: "Because you're angry when you're talking about something central? You're still a child."

"I was just a middle school student. So Kurama-san asked you to come here for induction training?" Nioh turned a corner.

In front of him was his home, and he thought if the white fox really followed him home, how would he explain it to his family?

Thinking of getting a dog?

I obviously like cats, dogs... Foxes are also canines, right?No wonder he hates Honmaru's red fox, and this white fox also hates it——

"Aren't you going to follow?" King Ni turned his head and looked at the white fox that stopped at the corner.

"I'm not here for induction training, and I don't intend to be your pet." The white fox jumped onto the tree by the fence, "Little rascal, if you continue to be so careless, you might die."

"...Gossip."

When Niwang saw the white fox disappearing among the branches, his calm mood became worse again.

He decided to call the lucky cat.

"Huh? Did you really go to a detective from the spirit world? Hahahaha I just listened to other people chatting casually, and I didn't ask for confirmation." The lucky cat sounded like it was eating buns. After a while, Natsume's voice came from the receiver, "No Sorry Nioh-kun! Mr. Kitty, he..."

"Speaking of which, I also saw a monster today who looks a bit like your cat teacher, Senior." Nioh said.

"Eh? It looks a bit like Teacher Cat?"

"He can talk, and he looks quite cute... Although the beckoning cat is cuter. It should be a fox." Niwang changed his hand to hold the phone, "He still used a preaching tone. But fortunately, he didn't let me Call him 'Teacher Fox'."

"Hahaha. Nioh-sama, Mr. Kitty is the one who..."

"What! You little brat! How can I be so cute!" the voice of the beckoning cat came faintly.

After a period of chaos, Natsume finally regained control of the phone.

He glanced at the cat rolling on the bed, and walked to the window: "It sounds like Nioh-sama, your troubles have been solved, it's really great."

"It's sort of..." Of course, there are still many troubles.

"What's it like raising a monster?" King Ni asked, "Does your beckoning cat eat a lot? Does it sleep with you at night? Will it become a big, big monster?"

"Eh—?! Nioh-kun, you want to raise..." Natsume quickly switched the phone side, "Well, it's not particularly necessary or not?"

"...That's right. Pets are not allowed at home." Nioh sighed.

Did he think the fox would show up again?

If it happens again...

Will it be willing to go home with him?Although it is not as cute as a cat, its coat color is really beautiful and fluffy.

As for the rule of not being allowed to raise at home, if you really take it home and don't let you raise it, you can raise it.

"It's still okay to raise a monster with my pocket money... right?" Thinking of Yahara's lucky cat who loves to eat steamed buns, Nioh thought uncertainly.