Bang bang bang.

The joystick shakes and the keys rattle.

Under the combination of intentional attempts and unintentional actions, the screen flashed, and the converging electricity concentrated on the punch, blasting the enemy away.

"Ah......h

Naoko herself was a little surprised.

"Thunder Light Fist."

"I pressed the ...... randomly"

"I know." Naruse smiled.

The lethality was staggering, but before it was fatal, the enemy quickly got back on their feet.

"Spring Sea."

Naruse turned his head, and the three people who had suddenly run away before came back.

Hikaru Takikawa was holding a few puppets in his arms, and he barely squeezed out a smile: "It's time to play with the crane machine." ”

Behind her, Morimi and Starfish also have a lot of gains in their hands, and the former still wears the mask of a certain anime character on his face.

"You caught it?"

"yes, that's amazing."

"Awesome."

She walked over, "How's Naoko doing?" ”

"I can already use the Thunder Light Fist of the Second Order."

"Yes."

She looked at the screen, and Naoko stopped when they returned, looking at them as the characters were defenseless from the attack.

"It's a quick learner."

Naoko's gaze turned around her face and smiled, "It's a random press." ”

"I'll show you how to use it."

Hikaru Takikawa stuffed everything he was holding into Naruse's hand, and then lay down behind her as he had instructed Naoko just now.

"Shake the stick twice like this, and then press the light or heavy punch...... It's out. ”

"Ah, it's really released...... Let me see how it is shaken. ”

Naruse looked at the two of them, he had taught Naoko the release method of the Thunder Light Fist before, just playing with it, she would only shake and press it with her feelings.

This is mostly the case for newcomers to fighting games.

He looked at Morimi and the starfish on the other side.

I don't know if it's his delusion, the starfish looked at him with a little impatience.

"What's wrong?"

“…… It's nothing. ”

Looking at each other, she quickly dodged and moved half a step behind Morimi.

Naruse instinctively sensed that she was probably playing some kind of ghost again.

"Give it to me."

Morimi walked over, took the puppet in his hand, and said calmly, "It only took two thousand yen to catch so many things." ”

The mask was over her face, and he couldn't see her expression.

"This magical girl's mask too?"

"Hmm."

"You seem to like it."

"No, I just can't take it in my hand." The smiling magical girl said to him.

"-Isn't Kazuha playing anymore?" Naoko suddenly spoke, "Fighting games." ”

"If you don't play, it's too complicated to learn."

Morimi looked at the figure behind her, "As long as the light can play." ”

“……”

Hikaru Takikawa glanced at her, but through the mask, she couldn't see anything either.

"As long as the light can play...... That's it? Naoko's face was puzzled.

"Nothing."

Morimi sat down, "There are still a lot of coins in the game, are you sure you want to play this game forever?" ”

"You guys go play something else, I'll teach Shangzi." Naruse said.

"I'm a little tired of it, too." Naoko stared at the screen, no operation, her character was repeatedly knocked down, and she had lost the interest in continuing to practice.

"Let's play some light games together." Hikaru Takikawa spoke, and when he said "everyone", he seemed to deliberately bite the accent.

"What can we play with......"

Naruse said, thinking about it too.

"Metal slug?" / "Metal slugs. ”

The two spoke almost at the same time.

"That's only four people going to play."

"So this time Harumi is watching from the side."

“…… All right. ”

Hikaru Takikawa skillfully found the machine that loaded the game, and it happened to be two empty.

"Is this easy?" Naoko turned her head to look at her boyfriend.

"Well, you can get started with it."

There were two machines with four seats, and Hikaru Takikawa pressed Naoko to sit down in front of one of them, and pulled Morimi over and sat next to her.

“……”

The mask was used to cover her crying red eyes, and of course her expression would not change, but she looked at each other, and Hikaru Takikawa could guess what she was thinking.

"I've always wanted to play games with everyone...... It would be nice if I could keep playing. ”

The cold mask turned around, and Morimi didn't say anything after all.

Naoko looked at the villain on the screen, the reflected light flickering in her eyes.

Hikaru Takikawa and Starfish sit in front of the other machine, and all Naruse can do for the excluded Naruse to throw coins at them one by one, and finally stand behind Naoko and press the start button.

"This section is a tutorial, but you don't need to watch it, you will learn it after entering the game, and you can choose the character directly."

Hikaru Takikawa also instructed Morimi and Starfish on the left and right, "Kazuha chose this role, and he also wears glasses." ”

"Are different characters only different in image?"

"Are different characters only different in image?"

"Hmm."

Each chooses a character, and the game begins quickly.

"Parachute...... It looks like it's in the desert. ”

"What are you going to do?"

"Let's move on."

"A man with a knife appeared...... Is it a robber? ”

"Yes, kill him!"

Da Da -

Just like Naruse said before, this game is simple to operate, and the three girls who are in contact with it for the first time get started with it and quickly devote themselves to it.

"Ah, don't get too close, he'll cut people......"

With a swing of the knife and a scream, the starfish character fell to the ground.

And Takikawa Hikaru only cares about reminding her that she was accidentally hit by a stray bullet and flickered and reborn.

"I'm dead too...... However, each coin has three lives, and we still have a lot of in-game coins, so let's relax and play. ”

The second half of the sentence was said to Morimi next to him.

"Hmm."

She was still tense, as was Naoko, who was sitting on the other side.

The two only died a few more times during the initial acclimatization phase, and then quickly became proficient.

Dodge, shoot, throw grenades, and after getting started, the two kill quickly and die very rarely.

The saved game currency was all consumed by the machine next to it.

"You made a bit of a mistake today." Naruse said to Hikaru Takikawa.

"Aha, mistakes are also one of the joys of playing games...... I was able to make it to the fourth level with one life. ”

"I can do that then."

"Can't react now?"

"No, it's a lot of things that are easy to lose."

As he spoke, the starfish suffered a loss.

And in this game, the main manifestation of loss is death.

Boom, another game coin was stuffed in, and the starfish was reborn shinyly.

A game that can be cleared by one person, played by four people, the difficulty naturally becomes lower, but the fun does not decrease.

It's just that not everyone can devote themselves to enjoying the game, and some people are silently competing.

"Let me play with my life." Naruse leaned behind Naoko.

"Okay." She let go of the joystick and leaned back.

Morimi glanced to the side, but could only see the mask on his own face.

“……”

The openings in the eyes are small, so if you want to see the side, you have to turn your head away.

But that would be too obvious.

She gripped the joystick and continued to look at her character on the screen.

A conspicuous orange bullet flew over, and she stared at it, and with her previous experience, she already knew that jumping too early was dangerous.

And just as the bullet was approaching, she was about to jump up and dodge, when her arm was suddenly hit.

Yikes-

The screams of the bespectacled heroine when she dies are not noticeable in the continuous gunfire and exotic music, but everyone hears them.

"Sorry for the accident." Naruse said.

"Hmm."

Her character has been resurrected and continues to keep up with her companions who have already run to the front.

Da Da -

"Ahh

Another collision at a critical moment, another human life.

“……”

The mask turned, and Naruse looked at the eyes in the hole.

"I'm sorry, it's mine."

He stuffed her with an in-game coin.

"What do you want to do?"

"I want to use up these game coins as soon as possible, but you are so saving, I look very anxious." Naruse said.

“……”

Naruse had already looked away and looked down at his girlfriend in his arms.

"So is Naoko."

"It's also fun to challenge and clear the level with minimal attrition." Naoko looked up at him.

"Then you don't have to die to be sad."

“…… Nothing. ”

Hikaru Takikawa watched from the side, and quickly understood what Naruse meant, and suddenly stuffed the game currency into the coin mouth of the two.

"If you don't use up all these in-game coins, the game will be wasted as soon as it's over."

"Light ......"

The two of them couldn't stop it, so they could only watch their stored coins get more and more.

"That's enough." It was Naruse who stopped her, "It's a waste to stuff it again." ”

"OK, Shangzi has ten coins, one leaf has eleven coins, it should be no problem to clear the customs, right?"

The two glanced at each other.

Naoko smiles, and the mask always smiles.

"No problem."

It's the end of the month, ask for a monthly pass

(End of chapter)