Chapter 40: Passers-by who enter the protagonist mode
Bang!
"It hurts ——!"
The small body rolled on the ground several times, and the originally clean yukata was also stained with a lot of dust, and a slight redness and swelling slowly appeared on the boy's immature face.
"What are you doing! Violent BBA! ”
"It's not BBA, it's my sister, right?"
A thump hit the boy on the head, and the black-haired shrine maiden dressed in red and white mercilessly knocked the boy's newly raised head to the ground.
"You guy...... Obviously an adult! I even got into a fight with a child! ”
"It's not a fight, it's education!"
The shrine maiden reached out to the corner of the boy's cheek, pinched it, and pulled it hard.
"It hurts, it hurts——! Hurry, stop it! ”
"Heh~ Stop? Didn't you say it was a dream? Is all this fake? How dare a little ghost think about it? ”
"That's how it is!"
Breaking free from the witch's clutches, tears welled up in the corners of the boy's eyes, and he covered his reddened cheeks with one hand and met the shrine maiden's fierce expression in anger.
"I can't use my abilities outside of my dreams! I'm just human! You're all just imaginary ones of my dreams! Whether it's a youkai or a shrine maiden! No one will believe me at all! ”
"Haha."
Laughing and slamming her fist on the boy's head, the shrine maiden looked at the little boy who was squatting on the ground with his head in his arms and crying with great interest, and said:
"I thought you took the wrong medicine today, but it turned out that your ability was too inconspicuous."
"Not really!"
The boy retorted with a red face.
"Humph! Don't get too carried away, imp! ”
One hand pressed on the boy's head, and the huge force made him unable to raise his head at all, and the shrine maiden couldn't help but break up and rub his hair into a mess:
"Listen to me! Whether Gensokyo exists or not, whether your ability is strong or weak, if you want others to be recognized, it is not these things to be recognized by others! If you want to be a hero, don't always restrain yourself with the ideas of ordinary people! ”
"Woo......"
"For me, a stone can be used as a weapon, and you, hey, it's useless to give you the strongest power in the world, right?"
"You, you!"
"Nonsense? Just a little kid like you, you don't even have the courage to face yourself, and you're laughed at? Alienated? Being regarded as a secondary school disease that can only 'dream'? Ha, I'm laughing to death! ”
The shrine maiden crouched down and faced the boy's face, which was covered by bangs.
"If you have to blame all your problems on the so-called 'dreams', then use your fists to break all these 'dreams', right? That way, you'll be able to go back to what you call 'reality', won't you? ”
“......”
The slender arm trembled, and the boy clenched his fists, but did not move.
Touching the boy's head, the shrine maiden gently touched the boy's head with her forehead:
"A guy who doesn't even have the courage to 'fight' has the right to complain here, and a guy who doesn't even have the courage to take a step has the right to complain."
"Don't, don't underestimate my ......"
"In the final analysis, I just don't know that the cowards there dare not turn back because they are being bullied, and they only have the ability to vent at home, to such an extent?"
"Don't underestimate my ......!"
"If you want to be the hero, don't put on a shameful passerby for me all day long, little ghost."
"Don't underestimate me!!"
The boy shook off the shrine maiden's hand and rushed at her with a fist.
......
The picture of the memory is frozen in this moment, and the pain in the body makes consciousness gradually return.
"Hurt ......"
The pain like a tear in his right shoulder is probably the most serious thing Wu has suffered since that memory, but what is more serious is that he has not "woken up" yet.
"Tsk, it hurts, I can't remember if I hit that guy in the end...... Is this what is called a marquee? I'm not 'dead' yet, bastard......"
Lying on the ground, Wu Ye barely opened his eyes, and as far as he could see, there was the familiar starry night sky, as well as the big false moon, and the dizzying wall of spiritual power.
After a slight struggle, Takeya tried to touch the arrow that had gone deep into his shoulder with his other, uninjured arm.
"Hiss......"
The sensation of an electric shock instantly spread throughout his body, a real pain he had never felt before.
Carefully avoiding the wound that he could know was gushing with blood even if he didn't have to look at it, Wu also supported the ground with his other hand and slowly propped up half of his body.
"Takeya!"
In her ears was the cry of surprise from Reimu, she was still in the restraint of Bayi Yonglin, and it seemed that time had not passed too long.
"Good job, Wu Ye! That's the momentum! Knock her out of me! ”
"Tell me more, this guy ......"
Gritting his teeth to endure the pain in his shoulder, Wu Ye didn't understand what Reimu thought he had done well, but he soon knew......
"Huh?"
When.
There was the sound of something falling to the ground from the side, and Wu Ye subconsciously followed the voice, and his expression instantly became stunned.
"This is...... Gungnir?! ”
The blood-colored spear, which had lost its luster, was now like a lighthouse in the night, flickering beside him.
Reaching out to hold Gungnir, with the strength that came from nowhere, Takeya stood up with his gun low on the ground and endured the pain, and even gradually, he felt that the pain in his body seemed to be weakening.
"Huh?"
It was Yayi Yonglin who made this doubt, it only took a few seconds from her arrow knocking Takeya down to Takeya getting back on his feet, but she always felt that something seemed to be wrong.
"Stood up? It wasn't fatal, but it was enough for a human of your level, and what was that...... Why, as a human being, you, actually have a ...... on your body Demonic power? ”
Frowning in confusion, Bayi Yonglin unconsciously stretched his bow and pulled the arrow again.
"Wu Yejun, why are you still standing, and the one in your hand is...... What the hell are you ......? ”
"Hehe, hehe, I don't know about this kind of thing."
Although the physical pain was gradually decreasing, Takeya, who had never been so seriously injured, could not simply ignore it completely.
Looking at Ganganir in his hand, Takeya's expression was indescribably complicated.
Ironically, I was going to surrender before, but now I suddenly feel that I have the strength to fight, how ugly is it enough, I ...... Still, it helped a lot.
Seeing that Wu Ye held the gun in his hand and put on a throwing posture, Bayi Yonglin was slightly surprised:
"Do you want to keep fighting?"
"Of course......"
Xu was seriously injured, and Wu Ye's gasp at the end of his words was much heavier.
"Thanks to you, it reminds me of a very unpleasant memory......
"Really?"
"In return, I can't end the fight so easily."
"It's a good thing to be enlightened, but, Wu Yejun, you're almost at your limit, right? Can you continue to fight? ”
"How do you know ......if you don't try?"
Although Takeya's face turned pale, he still tried to maintain the smile on his face to the end, just like the man said, since you want to be the hero, don't put on a shameful passerby...... But—
"If you're the hero.,It's not okay if you don't appear last.,That would be too troublesome.。
"Huh?"
In the face of Wu Ye's sudden strange words, Bayi Yonglin didn't understand it very much, but he didn't have time to give her an understanding, because the other party had already moved.
"For me, it's better to play the role of a passerby, right?"
Muttering to himself something that others couldn't understand, Takeya struggled to throw Gangnir forward.
"Go ahead! Gungnir! ”
Buzz——!
The red spear turned into a streamer of light, and went straight to Bayi Yonglin, the power contained in that spear even she had to pay attention to, but-
"Huh?"
The pupils of his eyes opened slightly, and he watched as the hair that Gangernir was wiping against his ear flew by, completely off track.
"Missed?"
"No, I shot."
With that triumphant smile on his face, Wu Ye shouted in the direction behind Bayi Yonglin:
"It's now! Remilia! ”
"What's ......?!"
Bayi Yonglin turned around in shock, only to see a young vampire emerge behind her at some point, and the demonic power on her body was like a spark burning in the prairie and instantly skyrocketed from nothing to the level of a big monster.
A hint of pride flashed in the other party's blood-colored pupils, and the red spear in his hand turned into a streamer again, piercing through his shoulder fiercely-
"Spear the Gungnir ——!!"