Question: How does a person block a bullet with a blade? Perhaps in Japan, those swordsmanship 9-dan masters could, if prepared, slice open a bullet fixed in a specific position. But how could one achieve that on the battlefield?
The answer was: they couldn't. Even Raiden Mei, one of the future protagonists, could not suddenly power up and cut open a bullet.
The pitch-black bullet shot into Raiden Mei's abdomen in a flash of lightning. A pain that life could not endure nearly caused Raiden Mei's vision to darken as she collapsed to the ground.
But she still held on while her chuunibyou soul burned fiercely. One could only say she truly deserved to be called a person from Japan who lived quite comfortably.
However… Shun was not some trashy villain in an anime who would wait for the protagonist to recover. He knew very well how to kick someone when they were down. Besides, right now he was the Ashina Style Sword Saint.
"Whoosh!" The sound of the spear slicing through the air rang out beside Raiden Mei once again. She could only use one hand to press her wound while hastily responding with the other.
But, did you know the famous ultimate technique of attacking the groin the slow-fast blade?
The seemingly heavy sweeping strike was merely a feint. Shun's real target was Mei's left arm that was holding her wound.
The jumonji yari drew a crescent-like arc in the air and at the same time took away one of Raiden Mei's arms.
This time Raiden Mei truly could no longer hold on. Having lost the "Power of the King," she fell into shock from the intense pain and collapsed onto the tatami of the tenshu keep's top floor.
Blood soaked the beige tatami. The Homu Sword Saint before her shook the blood off his spear. Although he did not open his mouth, an old and cold voice still came from within the doll costume.
"Is a ninja only at this level? I'll be taking the Divine Child with me."
What ninja? Wasn't I a samurai? Why did I suddenly become a ninja? And who is the Divine Child? They came to kill me to steal the Divine Child? Why steal her?
Before losing consciousness, Raiden Mei glanced around and caught a glimpse of a familiar white-haired figure from the corner of her eye.
That was… Kiana? Although she looked very young, it was indeed Kiana. It was just… she was way too cute!!!
Was Kiana this adorable when she was little? If she weren't about to faint right now, she really wanted to pull this adorable creature into her arms and ruffle her like crazy.
Come to think of it, she hadn't run into her today. If it was someone as pure and silly as Kiana, perhaps she wouldn't despise her because of that incident…
Raiden Mei fainted on the floor of the tenshu keep. Only then did Shun remove the ridiculous headpiece and take a breath of fresh air.
Well, next he should install a prosthetic arm on Mei… But since this was a hasty decision, the world was still full of messy code, and running it further would be difficult.
Forget it. Let's end it here for today… Shun stopped the world bubble's operation and transferred Raiden Mei's consciousness out.
They returned to the large washitsu in the Raiden family dojo, which was covered with tatami.
Raiden Mei, still wearing her Senba Academy uniform, had collapsed at the entrance. Her consciousness had been transferred by Shun the instant she opened the door.
Shun dragged her to the center of the washitsu and laid her down properly. Then, using Fenghuang Down, he left some information in advance and fused the "key" to enter the Sekiro world bubble into Raiden Mei's arm.
With that, the task was complete. He wondered whether "Raiden Mei Who Returned from Sekiro" could influence the outcome of the Third Eruption.
Well, this could also be considered the youth version of the Elysian Realm. The youthful Raiden Mei should naturally enter the youthful version of the Elysian Realm.
It was not until the stars filled the night sky that Raiden Mei finally woke up from her coma.
"Where… is this?" Raiden Mei looked around and realized this was not the tenshu keep, but her own family dojo.
Was that all a dream? Raiden Mei thought while touching her perfectly intact left arm, but then why did she occasionally feel phantom pain coming from her left arm?
Was everything really fake? Raiden Mei found it hard to accept. It couldn't be that she had fainted the moment she entered the door due to too much stress and then had such a dream, right?
At that moment, she suddenly noticed a red seal of the character "Wolf" on the back of the left hand she had lost in the "dream."
The instant she saw it, information flowed into her brain. Raiden Mei immediately knew how to use it.
Could she use this to enter that world? Then she had to try it. In that world, her arm had just been cut off by that Homu Sword Saint, and the Divine Child who looked exactly like young Kiana had also been taken away.
She was really too curious about the subsequent developments. It definitely wasn't because she had taken a fancy to that fleeting glimpse of little Kiana! Absolutely not!
But when Mei silently chanted "Lincoln die big head," she still couldn't enter that world. What was going on? In some games you couldn't log out, but here you couldn't even log in?
Damn it! Refund!
Emmm… it seemed she hadn't paid anything either… At that moment, another piece of information entered Raiden Mei's brain.
Underage anti-addiction system? Why was it that she recognized every single word when they were separate, but when put together she couldn't understand them at all?
Just kidding. Shun was still fixing the code. He didn't have time to let Mei play the game content right away. He wasn't some Zhou Emperor who couldn't even play a sandbox properly yet wanted to play the Dream of Taiyi.
Forget it. It seemed she could enter that world tomorrow… As expected, I, Raiden Mei, really am the protagonist!
Falling from a wealthy family yet unexpectedly awakening a special ability weren't protagonists always like this? Her father's imprisonment was probably just a trial given to her by the world.
As her chuunibyou soul burned once again, the so-called imprisonment of her father and the alienation of her friends were thrown to the back of her mind. If as the protagonist she couldn't even withstand this little pressure, how could she shoulder the task of saving the world?
Raiden Mei suddenly recalled a famous saying: "Therefore, when Heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on a person, it will first make their heart and mind suffer…"
Since she had nothing to do right now, she might as well take the time to practice her swordsmanship and prepare to face further challenges tomorrow.
"Shun, what's wrong with you? You look so tired?" When she returned home, Kiana noticed that today's Shun seemed different from before, full of exhaustion.
"You wouldn't understand. Fixing bugs and stuff… I never want to do it a second time in my life…" Although he had the Cosmic Juggernaut's assistance, many things still needed Shun to finalize. After all, this was a real world. Making it vivid and lifelike was extremely difficult.
"Fixing bugs? What bugs?" Kiana asked in confusion.
"Sigh, never mind. Just eat your food." Shun casually picked up a dish from the table and stuffed it into Kiana's mouth.