Pluto's Banquet - Allies of Shadows

"Hello viewers, thank you for watching the second episode of the pre-heating program for this year's Blood Cherry Blossom Festival. It will still be hosted by me, Alante."

Dark blue short hair, dark yellow pupils.Pluto's eldest son, Allante, is wearing a red checked shirt with dark blue slacks today.

Behind a large round table are two high-backed chairs of the same white color, and there are drinks and many snacks on the table.Alante sat on one of the chairs, but the other chair was empty.

"In addition, there is still only one guest today, but today's content is richer than last time, and it is the first time to announce the content. Then, please introduce yourself to our guest today~"

"...Hi everyone, I'm Yuzra. Although there are still two people hosting this program today, just like what my brother said just now, the audience must not miss the following content."

Yuzra who was sitting on Alante's lap said.

"Will you continue to sit on my lap, little sister?"

"...Mmmm, hey! Don't put your face too close!"

Alante tilted his head and looked at Yuzra, but Yuzra turned into a group of bats because of his shyness, flew to the chair next to him, and then turned into a human again.

"Okay, and finally thank you for this sponsor: dark liquid, the most complete variety of liquids in the entire underworld can be bought here."

"Brother, you are wrong. Only the drinks are sold by the agent of Hades Illusion, and the rest are sold by the dark juice itself."

"Okay, thanks for the correction. I really don't know much about this stuff."

"Hurry up and get to the point, don't you have a lot to say today, and there's something even I don't know what it is."

Uzra urged.

"First of all, let me talk about the major event that happened in the underworld not long ago, that is, the movement of the underworld land. Starting tomorrow, the latest and most complete map of the underworld will be distributed to all parts of the underworld. Get the data version, the physical version may be a little later."

"In addition, although the land movement is relatively sudden this time, the casualty rate is smaller than expected. Here we also cherish the memory of those who died. Although this kind of thing should not be done by a member of the underworld thing."

"Okay, let's stop here for the time being. Due to time constraints, we won't show you the map of the new underworld. Since this program is a warm-up program for the Blood Cherry Blossom Festival, of course we have to talk about topics related to it. Speaking of the Blood Cherry Blossom Festival, Yuzra, what is the first thing that comes to your mind?"

"Well, when it comes to the Blood Cherry Blossom Festival, I can think of many things at once, such as the finals in the arena, the eve festival, and the limited edition gifts at the festival, but the first thing that reminds me is the concert .”

Yuzra said.

"Sure enough, you will say this. If you buy the special video of the Blood Sakura Festival concert these years, you will know that my sister will appear in various places backstage every year."

"Hehehe, after all, in a sense, I'm very busy!"

"Yes, yes, everyone knows this. But some people ask you to come on stage and sing more songs."

"No, how can you say that you can sing as many songs as you want in this kind of thing~"

"Speaking of singing, I told Sakuya in the first episode about having our general, Mr. Sendenori, sing..."

"Yes, let me tell you this!"

Yuzra interrupted.

"Hey, audience, after hard work, your wishes have finally come true. This year, Mr. Sendenori has decided to sing, but the specific title of the song is not known yet, so please stay tuned! Uh... ..Why do you feel a chill down your back after saying these words?"

"Would you like to come over and hug you to keep you warm?"

Alante asked.

"Okay...uh, I feel like I've been tricked by my brother again, woohoo."

Although Yuzra said so, he still sat back on his brother's lap.

"The following content is related to the entire Blood Cherry Blossom Festival. This year is the 20th year of the Blood Cherry Blossom Festival, so this time I decided to make a special plan. The specific content is up to you~"

"That is a blood cherry festival documentary series called 'Tomorrow With You, Common Memory'. It is expected to be broadcast within 5 days of the blood cherry festival. Let's take a look at its promotional video first."

After Yuzra finished speaking, the image on the screen changed.

In the promotional video, there appeared one after another the Celebration Valley of the Underworld, the fireworks at night, some laughing people in the celebration, the competition in the arena, the audience at the concert and the singers on stage, some people who seemed to be staff members, and some people from the Underworld. Officials, the royal family and Hades, and even the people of the heavens.Echoing these flashing images is a simple girls' monologue, and it can be heard that it is Heluka's voice.

"We were born in different worlds, with different languages, different scripts, different clothes, and different diets. We didn't actually meet in the past, but now it brings us together here, and it is our common celebration"

After the video ended, they returned to Alante and Yuzra again, and the two were silent for a few seconds.

"I've watched this promotional video dozens of times since I got it. My psychological feeling... how should I put it, I feel that although I have participated in several blood cherry festivals, it is not perfect. Integrate into it. So this time I was entrusted with the job of making a documentary, and I was very nervous.”

Yuzra said so.

"Don't worry, all of us will fully cooperate with you, and I also believe that you can do a good job. After all, you are the coordinator. I think you will be able to give full play to this advantage."

"Thank you brother for your encouragement. Speaking of the coordinator, in fact, I can't coordinate everything."

"Like?"

"For example, the pricing of goods..."

"Hey, can you continue to unfold it?"

Alante asked.

"Yeah~ Last time I helped Skysilk House to make some photos for the new season's clothing advertisement. Then Miss Fudish gave me some clothes. Later, I accidentally saw the actual selling price in the store, which made me a little unacceptable."

"What kind of clothes?"

"Underwear... there is only such a small piece of cloth, but is it really okay to ask for that price?"

"Uh, I think that's the end of the discussion on this topic, but maybe the price of that dress will increase again after you finish talking today?"

"Huh? Really? Brother, don't lie to me!"

"I didn't lie to you. If you sell the clothes that Miss Fudish gave you before, the price will probably be beyond your imagination."

"I won't take it out and sell it, but if brother wants to see it, I can wear it for you~"

"Okay, back to the topic again. There is another news to be released today. The third batch of tickets for the 5-day Blood Sakura Festival will start selling this weekend. People who buy tickets can still get the commemoration of this year's Blood Sakura Festival The picture book and a collection of staff or long swords that contain 10% shadow crystal content can be selected. In addition, tickets for the concert and the arena finals are now on sale. "

"There are only 500 copies left after selling out this time, everyone, come on!"

"Finally, we have an exclusive news to tell everyone."

Alante said.

"It's also the first time I've heard the news."

"Well, first of all, Yuzra, you sit back in your chair."

"Hi!"

After finishing speaking, two game controllers appeared in Alante's hand.

"Brother, could it be that..."

"Well, I think you guessed right."

After taking one of the handles, Yuzra looked at the screen generated by the dark mist stone.

"We will launch a fighting game "Sakura Fallen Smash Bros" during this year's Blood Sakura Festival, and now we are showing you the latest beta version."

Alante explained that the game also entered the selection screen.

"Oh~ The picture is better than last time, but the characters seem to be less."

Yuzra said.

"Because this time it is mainly to test the mechanism and balance of the game, so there are not so many characters for the time being, and even in the future, the characters will be unlocked slowly."

"This feeling, does the professor want to sell this game in the mortal world?"

"There is indeed a plan."

"Then I suggest that it is better to make an original story and put all the characters in the game. But the relationship between the characters cannot be the same as in reality."

"I also agree, because when I got this game, I saw that we didn't use our own nicknames, but replaced them with new ones like 'prefixes'. The professor said that this setting is for adding celestial characters in the future. You don’t have to worry about their nicknames being exposed.”

"Actually, brother, regarding the issue of the nicknames of people in the heavens, I have always felt that those who know about it will basically not mention it in person, and those who don't know will not mention it in person when they know it, so it is basically impossible to talk about any nicknames that are revealed. The question... what makes me want to complain is, what are these new titles?"

Yuzra looked at the "prefix" of each person's name in the character selection interface and said.

Shadow of the Dream: Chikali; Princess of the Ice Garden: Kunaka; and Yuzra's prefix is ​​Bloodstain Eyewitness Report.

"Wow, I don't want to use myself at all."

"Then let me use it~"

Alante said.

"Idiot brother is not allowed to use me!"

"Okay, okay. Then I can use myself. But when I actually got this game, I felt like complaining, why don't I even have a nickname in the game!"

"Hey hey, then I'll use sister Sakuya to deal with my brother."

In the game, Sakuya's prefix is ​​End of Worlds.The image is barefoot, wearing the previous set of black tube top, black shorts, dark red cape and a dark red hat with two upward standing pointed horns.In addition, there are two giant swords floating on both sides of the cloak.

It's like inserting a whole piece of diamond-shaped shadow crystal on the hilt, and decorating it with many small pieces of crystal like church glass.Although the two epees have the same shape, they use sky blue and cherry pink crystals respectively, and the decorative crystals are purple and green.

"Oh? This time the version of the weapon is directly with you?"

Yuzra asked.

"Yes, a lot of operations have been simplified this time. Each person has only one weapon system, and the skills have also been simplified to only three nirvana and one finishing move per person. Both attacking and being attacked can accumulate anger gauges, a total of 4 stages .The damage will be increased with each additional stage. Or you can consume these anger gauges to interrupt an opponent's attack. The final technique can only be launched when there are at least two anger gauges. If it is not activated for a long time, it will start to be deducted own blood."

Allante explained.

"Well, after all, as my brother said just now, if we really want to buy the game in the mortal world, we have never tried the effect of releasing those skills at the same time. The game mechanism should be a little simpler."

"Okay, now let's get started. Do you want to see the move list?"

"Let's take a look... I don't know how it feels this time. When I played last time, I felt that the skills were relatively easy to rub out."

Then officially enter the game, in the battle list, Sakuya used by Yuzra stands on the left, and Alante stands on the right.The background is randomly selected in a cemetery surrounded by tall iron fences at night.

"Torture Ridge! Sa~ku~ya~yes! Ah~lan~te!"

"Ah, the ecstasy voice is composed by the professor himself, right?"

Yuzra laughed.

Then came the character display animation. Sakuya flew over from afar and stood on the ground with two giant swords floating on the outside of the cloak.

"Truth, justice, everything you desire is gone now..."

After Sakuya made a monologue with an unwavering voice, it was Alante's appearance animation.

A set of light gray-black knight armor, holding a light blue light in his hand, a giant sword with a horned skull decoration on the hilt, and a rune in the middle of the sword.But Alante simply walked over and swung the sword.

"...not even a word?"

Even Alante himself started to complain.

At the beginning of the battle, after a few simple attacks, the blood volume of both of them dropped. Yuzra chose to let the Sakuya controlled by him retreat a certain distance, and then one of the giant swords on his back suddenly disappeared Then he appeared beside Alante, and then made a half-moon-shaped slash, slightly separating the blood volume of the two.

Alante then immediately approached Sakuya, made a set of 4 combos, and used the game's unique flying skill to knock Sakuya into the air. He wanted to continue to attack, but Yuzra also used the energy consumption bar to interrupt Alan. special.Immediately after falling, make a vertical slash with another giant sword beside you.Alante did not defend in time and was repelled.Yuzra continued to instruct another epee to fly out, and this time he made a horizontal slash, which was blocked by Alante.

Next, although Yuzra wanted to continue to use the two swords to open the distance, but because the attack speed of the epee was slow, he was interrupted by Alante when he wanted to attack, and soon Yuzra's blood volume exceeded half.Yuzra had no choice but to draw back his two swords and do a melee attack by his side.But in fact, Alante also has long-range attack moves. He jumped backwards, spread out a magic circle in mid-air, and shot out several swords made of lightning that were the same as his own weapons. Although Yuzra defended, but Trapped by the paralysis from the attack.This is the game prompt to shake the joystick to touch the paralysis, but it was too late. Alante rushed over to add a few light slashes and then ended the first round with a heavy slash.

"...Uh, brother, I want revenge."

Yuzra said.

At the beginning of the second round, Yuzra did not send out the two epees this time, but used the epee to make additional attacks of horizontal and vertical slashes during close combat.The anger gauges of both of them were constantly rising. After Alante successfully defended against the attack, Yuzra immediately dodged to prevent Alante from getting close.

"Let me try the finishing move."

Alante said.

"what?"

After consuming only two anger gauges, Alante performed the finishing move.Sakuya was suddenly bound by the chains formed by several lightning bolts and couldn't move. Alante made a slashing movement and then disappeared, reappearing behind Sakuya.And Sakuya was struck by the light blue lightning and fell to the ground.

"This... isn't this the end of this, hello!"

Yuzra had a hard time accepting this fact.

"Why did my brother come up with the finishing move casually? I managed to gain the upper hand."

"Fighting games, no one can tell the outcome until the last moment. And today's show should be over, so let's end the game here first."

Alante said with a smile.

"Uh! No, let's play another game~"

"Okay, but let's continue after the show is over."

"...Woo, thank you for watching the second episode of Jimonogatari, and see you next time, viewers~"

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Yuzra: "For the next episode, please watch Chapter 14 of "Pluto's Dinner: Shadow Alliance"