[Comprehensive] The Light Chaser

The so-called Dark Martial Arts Tournament is a martial arts battle that is described as "the worst in history" in which five contestants are assembled by rich people with wealth, dark power and evil hearts in human society, and powerful people in their own dark world. .

In the period of rapid development of human society, social organizations have found their place in the development and decline of the economy, and more and more people are doing all kinds of evil in order to accumulate wealth.At that time, half of it was for venting, and half of it was for deeper accumulation of wealth and digging rights, and the competition started like this.And during the most famous period of the Dark Martial Arts Conference, those who are an eyesore to the people of the dark world are often forced to be invited as participating guests.Refusal to participate means the death of yourself and the people you care about, and the only way to survive is to win the game.

"But that was all about ten years ago." The white fox's semi-scientific commentary said, "The Asian economic crisis has caused a big reshuffle, not only for ordinary people, but also for a large part of those who used to be rich. Overnight, all wealth was reduced to nothing. Since then, in order to maintain order, the bright side of human society has also imposed constraints on the people of the dark world. This is the same as the ups and downs.”

"Hmph, but the initial trigger was not an economic crisis." Byodoin folded his arms, "Everyone is a person who has one foot in that world, and you know something about the opening of the Demon World, right?"

"Is it one of the stupid things that stupid humans do?" Nioh asked.

Byodoin glanced at King Ni: "But the humans who opened the door first did not do so for stupid reasons."

Sensui Shinobu, who fell into the inner vortex because of the dark heart of human beings, and Zuo Jing, who has always had a clear goal and almost became a god in the dark world of human beings.These are two names that can be seen in history books.It is not a history book that ordinary humans can read, but a history that psykers need to learn.

The so-called famous people in history are part of the historical torrent, not representing themselves but representing that era.But there are always people who violate this rule.They themselves represent a group of people, an era.

"Fate?" King Ren narrowed his eyes and whispered.

Byodoin looked at King Ni with some surprise.

The sound of the ship's whistle interrupted their conversation, and the short captain yelled at the bow for everyone to get on board.

There are not as many monsters hiding in human society as before.The big event ten years ago caused a major cleansing of the human world and the world of monsters, and the entrance to the re-sealed Demon World was stricter than before.

The Dark Martial Arts Conference was once also lonely for this reason, until the registration channel for human beings was opened in the past two years.Nioh stood at the gathering place for these hours, saw the priestess and the monk, and some guys of unknown race wearing strange cloaks.The grotesque monsters and the participating humans stood on opposite sides, both with gloomy looks on their faces.

If this continues, the so-called dark world, the traces of monsters will gradually decrease.

But compared with monsters, humans may be the darker group.

The location of the game is set at Thanshou Island as before, and it takes two hours by boat.The humans and monsters who participated in the competition boarded the boat on guard against each other.

The boat is very big, even if dozens of people stand on it, it looks empty.The wooden ship looks like a pirate ship, and the captain also wears the classic pirate hat in the movie.

After boarding the ship, the monsters let go a little, probably thinking that they would have an advantage over humans in an independent place.

"Look, that witch is my favorite type!"

"Hee hee hee, have you really got the witch before?"

"Damn it, don't doubt my strength!"

"You're definitely not going to be able to attract a witch when you're prototyping."

……

There are many such arguments.And similarly, there is——

"Those human beings look thin and tender."

"I know, humans call them sports boys. Can these thin arms and legs really fight?"

"The infancy that was thrown into the competition? How pitiful hehehehe."

"No, no, no, although there are three thin skins and tender meat, isn't there another one that looks good?"

"I like his golden hair, you said I killed him and cut off his hair and scalp to make a wig?"

"You are not suitable for blond hair, I recommend the white one."

"My old lady has dark skin and you want me to use white hair?!"

"Then the dark green one! That color looks good."

Listening to the chatter of these monsters, Nioh looked up at Byodoin's blond hair, and then at Echizen Ryuya who followed them on the boat but had an inexplicable temperament.

Seriously, they are not familiar with them at all, is it okay to form a team like this?

King Ni took a look at Guanyue, who was frowning and walking around, and looked at Hiji who was obedient and quiet on the other side.

I always feel like we're just a bunch of mobs.

He thought so.

After the boat sailed for a while, the monsters finally let go.

They began to ask why there was no food on board, such as wine and meat.

And the captain who had been standing on the bow like a sculpture finally turned around: "Ah, about this, we have prepared a banquet."

"banquet?"

"Then get out the food quickly."

"There's also wine. I can't be happy without wine."

"Quiet." The captain said coldly.

When he raised his hand, a circular stone platform suddenly rose from the center of the ship.

"Next, on this ship, there will be a qualifying match. Let's treat this as a banquet."

"……what?!"

"Fifteen of the sixteen teams participating in the knockout round have already arrived on the island. Now there is only this ship left—" The captain smiled coldly, "There is only one team left to participate in the conference! That is to say, Only one team can reach the island, and the rest, all disembark!"

disembark?

it's here? !

Not counting the sea, but the water potential, and the distance to the shore——

"Although the competition was lonely for a while, the rules have not changed." The white fox got off Nioh's shoulder, "I remember you can swim?"

"I won't." King Ren said.

White Fox: "...how did you pass swimming class?"

"Puri~"

The captain ignored the chattering people and monsters below: "Please choose the strongest person in the team and stand on the fighting ring. The team of the person who persists until the end on the fighting ring has the right to go to the island." .”

Multiplayer fighting, melee.

"The strongest one?"

This is really difficult.

Is it possible to really play tennis on that stage?

It's not impossible, but...

King Ni raised his head to look at Byodoin, and met the eyes of Upper Byodoin.

"Senior, you are the strongest." King Ni stretched out his hand to signal naturally.

Byodoin: "...you figure out the situation, I came here only after accepting the entrustment."

Delegate?

King Ren didn't believe it.

For something like a "mission", the Byodoin Council came to participate in a competition that he himself was not willing to do and would cause danger?

"The one who accepted the entrustment must be Echizen-kun." King Ni tilted his head, "Senior, you must have a reason to come."

Byodoin: "...repetitious."

"Ah, seniors, all the other groups are going up." Hiji reminded, "If you still don't decide, I'll go..."

"No."/"You don't move."

It's very tacit at this time...

Riji tilted his head and felt helpless: "So, who will go?"

Byodoin hugged its arms and snorted.He looked at Niwang: "The strongest person here is not me. Don't forget, you are not alone."

I'm not alone what am I?

King Ni squinted his eyes, followed the line of sight of Byodoin, and saw the white fox squatting beside him.

Nioh: "..."

Oops, can't argue with that.

He stretched out his hand to the white fox, and the white fox followed his hand and climbed onto his shoulder.

Now there is really no excuse.

Who is the strongest here?

Of course not him.

But let's just think it's the "pet" on his shoulder.

What does an S-rank monster mean?This is a question I would rather not know the answer to.

"By the way, have we decided on our team name? Or did you write it down when you signed up?" He asked as he walked up the stairs.

"If not, what name do you plan to take?"

"Long live the fraudster?"

"How old are you."

"Fourteen." King Ni stood on the fighting stage, facing other monsters and some strangely dressed humans like psykers and exorcists, "If I evolve into an antisocial personality disorder, I will It's all your fault."

"No, don't overestimate yourself. Compared with those people, you are not smart enough." White Fox said.

It jumped up, but did not land, but was suspended in mid-air.

"Is this a foul?!"

A monster said loudly.

The captain narrowed his eyes: "Huh? No, it's not a foul."

"That's a monster!"

"It's registered as a pet." The captain spread his hands, "We can't prevent a pet from boarding, can we?"

"...You self-willed depraved fellow..." After hearing the word "pet", the breath of many monsters changed.

Anger, and resentment.

I am a disaster.

Nioh thought.

He was still carrying a tennis bag, but when he raised his arm, a tennis racket suddenly appeared in his hand.

Snapped!

The ball was hit with spiritual power, and the swinging arm became an afterimage.

It is a technique of hitting the ball many times, and the subtle movements are beyond the scope of what Newton's law can explain when the spiritual power is running rapidly.

But no matter how superb the technique is, isn't it against the law to see a tennis racket on this occasion? !

Hiyoshi and Kanyue below both showed surprised expressions, while Byodoin and Echizen frowned calmly.

Contrary to their imagination, the "tennis" with spiritual power has a different attack effect after being hit.

Faster than sight and hearing, yellow lightning struck the humans and monsters who were surrounding Nioh.

Can't even dodge.

The slow-reacting monster had already been knocked off the fighting ring, and quickly dodged it, but was hit on the back of the head by a suddenly turning tennis ball and fell to the ground.

"Just one ball..." Hiyoshi opened his eyes wide in surprise, "Can Nioh-senpai's tennis achieve this effect?"

"This is not tennis." Guan Yue answered with a complicated expression.

He looked at Nioh holding the "racket": "This is not tennis."

"...What is that?" Hiji asked puzzled.

Byodoin snorted: "That's how it is."

Nioh wins fast.

Probably because everyone and the monster couldn't help being stunned when they saw the tennis racket.

The reaction was half a beat slow, and naturally he was at a disadvantage everywhere.

The captain stretched out his hands: "The winner of this qualifier is the White Fox team."

Nioh was shocked.

He turned his head to the white fox's face that seemed to be smiling all the time: "You actually use your own name as the team name?"

"No, my name is MASA."

"Is it because if you don't make it clear that you are a white fox, you will be mistaken for a Samoyed?" Nioh ignored the white fox's defense, "Is it sad to be misunderstood by race?"

White Fox: "...you shut up."

Nio kept moving while they were joking.

He knows how to measure, and he also knows how to be vigilant.The continuous swinging and hitting made the fallen people unable to stand up and fight back, and those who still had strength were forced to the edge of the fighting ring and fell helplessly.

The humans all showed unwilling expressions, but the monster reacted faster.

"Kill them! Get the quota on the island!"

They headed towards Byodoin and the others almost without thinking.

"Do you think we are soft persimmons?" Echizen Ryuya took a bite of the orange with interest, "Such a bad temper? I thought I could be lazy."

"Humph."

The Court of Justice was the first to react.

The pirate behind him appeared in an instant.

Unlike the pirates on the tennis court, the ferocious aura in the "shadow" with a strong and dark aura is pressing down like a mountain. The red eyes of the pirates and the hand that draws out the Western sword have a taste that makes monsters frighten .

It was clearly bloody and vicious, but the monster that was hit disappeared in an instant, leaving only the half-spoken words.

"How?! It's purification..."

Purify?

"Amitabha." The monk not far away held back his unwilling expression, "The first heir of the Byodoin family, the Byodoin Phoenix, is better known than meeting him."

His voice was not loud, but the Byodoin Court heard it anyway.

Glancing at the monk indifferently, Byodoin twitched the corners of its mouth mockingly, "Famous? Famous or notorious?"

"Amitabha."

When Byodoin started, Hiyoshi also Hiyoshi also put on a posture.

Ancient martial arts are more human abilities, but they fit the theme of "fighting".

In comparison, his coping style is a standard that can be written into textbooks.It is the fighting style of "righteousness" and "samurai" that everyone imagines.

"Quite interesting?" Echizen Ryuya raised his eyebrows looking at Hiyoshi and Byodoin whose styles were almost completely opposite.

He had just eaten half of the orange, but there were no monsters around him that could get close.

Without hesitation, the light shining all over his body is almost exactly the same as that of the selfless state.But that halo has a larger scope.The youkai stained with light disappeared without even screaming.Occasionally, one or two struggled to escape the range of the white light.They glanced at Echizen in horror, turned around and jumped off the boat.

Quickly dealt with the monster attacking him, Echizen Ryuya ate the last bite of the orange.

He took out a new one from his pocket, tossed it in his hand, and took two steps.

"Aren't you going to move?" He asked Guanyue, "If you need help, you can ask for a price. I'm good and cheap."

"I can't afford the price of 'Wandering Samurai'." Guan Yue took two deep breaths.

He frowned, unable to adapt to the current scene.

Forget about Hiyoshi and Byodoin around him, Nioh who used a tennis racket in the fighting ring——

Did that guy distinguish between the normal world and the dark world? !

Guanyue gritted her teeth.

He closed his eyes and opened them again.After stretching out his hands, a magic wand suddenly appeared in the empty palms.

More than one meter long, the magic wand was shrouded in light and could not see its shape clearly.

The sound of the spell was suppressed by Guanyue, but the magic power had already played a role with the waving of the wand.The monster who had gotten very close and thought he was about to succeed turned into ashes before he could get complacent.

Guanyue pursed her lips unnaturally in this scene.

Hate unnatural abilities?

How interesting.

Looking at such a scene, Echizen Ryuya raised his lips and picked up the orange and took a bite.

The commotion ended quickly.

There were also human mages who wanted to sneak attack, and the few who were let go beat back.

Occasionally, someone noticed that King Ni, who hadn't come down from the fighting ring, planned to sneak behind him, but was bitten by the white fox and thrown directly from the fighting ring into the boat.

And when everyone got off the boat, this ordinary-looking but special boat picked up speed.

They soon landed on the island.

The island is not particularly lively, but it has all the facilities.For example, the hotel prepared for the contestants is the most luxurious building in the center of the island.King Ren first doubted his eyes when he walked into the gate.

"ATOBE?" He read the word, spelling it letter by letter.

Riji was also surprised: "The minister's house opened?"

"After all, this is a game with a lot of prize money, and it can also attract many people from the dark world to watch the game. You know that the dark world occupies half of the wealth in the human world, and the remaining half is more or less people from the dark world. traces." The white fox was not surprised.

Nioh snorted, "So this is the same as a tennis match, with sponsors and VIP auditoriums for sponsors?"

"That's right."

"...So in the end I won't see Atobe in the game audience?" Nioh narrowed his eyes.

"Who knows?" The white fox walked ahead on catwalks, wagging its tail, "Let's go, I've already booked the room."

The reserved room is a suite with four bedrooms and two living rooms.

Nioh and White Fox are of course in the same room, and Echizen Ryuya, who is a foreign aid, naturally has the treatment of a single room.Byodoin didn't care but no one dared to live with him.Even if the training camp is not in the same group, Hiyoshi and Guanyue have heard too many rumors about Byodoin.No, it's not a rumor. Isn't the person playing with a fox in front of him the "victim" in the rumor?Although these two people seem to be in peace now, they always feel that they are not peaceful secretly.

The double bed in the room was replaced by two single beds. After thanking the waiter, Hiji turned his head to watch the moon.

He is not familiar with Guanyue, and Ice Empress and Saint Rudolph have no chance to fight.

but……

"Since you don't want to come, why don't you refuse?" He was a little puzzled, "There are still many people who want to practice and want this opportunity."

Guanyue hummed and raised her tone.

He also looked at Hiji in confusion: "A chance to practice?"

"Yes." Hiji nodded, "The invitation letters sent to several dojos stated that only one quota was invited, and I got this opportunity only after defeating several senior brothers."

"Isn't it good to be in the world of ordinary people? Why do you have to rack your brains to enter the dark world?" Guan Yue asked with a frown.

"?" Hiji blinked in confusion.

When they were staring at each other in the room, the white fox went out in the pretense of inquiring about news.

Nioh didn't care too much, he put down the tennis bag on his own, opened it and took out the racket inside, and took the tape for routine racket maintenance.

Byodoin originally wanted to leave, but stayed when the white fox went out.

He waited for a while until Nioh finished wrapping a racket.

"Hey, brat," he said, "what did that guy teach you?"

Niwang raised his head, questioning in his eyes.

Byodoin frowned: "You still brought a racket?"

"I can only play tennis." Nioh understood the question from Byodoin, "I can't do anything else."

"...do you think you're playing tennis?"

"Maybe not. Does it matter?"

Byodoin raised an eyebrow.

He felt a little interesting, so he leaned back on the sofa and looked at King Ni: "I don't think you are an obedient child. Why, don't you have the idea of ​​​​resisting the 'manipulator'?"

"Manipulating...?" King Ren raised his lips and smiled, "You can't say that either."

"Oh?"

"To be honest, even if I don't do what I've been asked to do so far, there will be no consequences." King Ni frowned, "But isn't that boring? If you refuse to change, then life can be calculated It looks like it. What to do every day, what can be done every day, written in a table clearly. Life needs fun."

"Fun? It's dangerous, kid."

Is it dangerous?

maybe.

But in the final analysis, if the white fox asks him to do something, or wants him to do something obliquely, or tries his best to guide him to do something, there is no loss whatsoever.

But did it?

There may be great danger, but there may also be great benefit.

That being the case, why choose the stable but boring one?

He likes the feeling that everything is under control, but he hates the same.

It is exciting to speculate on the development of things amid drastic changes, and to regain control of the changes in the situation.

Nioh thought so, and looked up at Byodoin.

"Dangerous is one thing. However, the Dark Martial Arts Conference can be interpreted as an underground tennis match, right?"

Byodoin: "...Are you kidding me?"

"No, I'm serious." Nioh smiled, "The tennis ball that can be used to kill monsters can also be used to score on the court."

"..." Byodoin looked at Nioh in silence for a while, and sneered, "Forget it, you won't be able to tell the difference between a real tennis match and a fight."

"Who knows? Senior, you don't know me too, do you?" Nioh smiled and put the racket back into the tennis bag.