Chapter 100 - King of Fighters Showdown

“Take this!”

“Hadoken!”

Zhou Yan and Lu Zhai were using a PS5 connected to the TV, completely engrossed in playing 'King of Fighters'.

The living room was filled with the 'click-clack' sounds of the two of them furiously mashing their controllers to execute special moves, mixed with their shouts.

Lu Zhai was calm and composed, unhurriedly controlling his character to block every one of Zhou Yan's attacks, before countering with a silky-smooth combo into a super move to finish him off.

“K.O.!”

With the sound of the knockout, the game was over.

Unsurprisingly, Zhou Yan had lost the one-on-one match again.

“Nine-game winning streak~”

Lu Zhai pushed up his glasses and announced the latest result of their match triumphantly.

“Again!”

Zhou Yan said, refusing to accept defeat, and immediately demanded another round.

“You two... if you wanted to play games, why did you have to come to my house to do it?”

Lin Fan asked, sitting behind them, speechless.

These two had taken to coming over to his place whenever they had nothing better to do. This time, they had even brought the PS5 right over and were actually playing games in his home.

“Can't be helped. Who told us we don't have girlfriends to keep us company.”

“Unlike a certain someone, who doesn't want to hang out with his bros anymore after getting a girlfriend. Sigh... the bond has faded…”

With his back to Lin Fan, Zhou Yan muttered as he played, every word laced with passive-aggressive sarcasm, his entire body visibly radiating resentment.

“Don't drag me into this. I have a wife to keep me company, okay.”

“You were the one who insisted on dragging me over here to play games with you.”

Lu Zhai retorted while mashing his controller.

Amidst their banter, he took his tenth consecutive win against Zhou Yan.

“This is boring! I'm done!”

Zhou Yan, so annoyed his teeth were itching, turned to look at Lin Fan and Long Yue behind him, held up his controller, and asked:

“Lin Fan, sister-in-law, you guys want to play?”

Lin Fan turned to look at Long Yue. “Want to give it a try?”

“Then I'll give it a try!”

Long Yue hesitated for a moment, then walked forward and took the controller from Zhou Yan, sitting down to take his place.

“I think I'm a little tired of playing too.”

Lu Zhai stretched, stood up, and tossed his controller to Lin Fan.

“Brother Fan, you play. I'll take a break too.”

“Alright then.”

Lin Fan caught the controller and took Lu Zhai's place. The matchup changed from Zhou Yan versus Lu Zhai to him versus Long Yue.

“Hmph, This Empress won't go easy on you!”

Long Yue turned to look at Lin Fan beside her, the corners of her mouth turning up slightly, her pretty face brimming with confidence.

“Then I'll wait and see.”

Lin Fan smiled slightly and decisively chose his favorite character—Kyo Kusanagi.

Long Yue seriously went through the characters one by one. When she saw the hot-bodied and scantily-clad Mai Shiranui, her pretty face instantly flushed red. She couldn't help but narrow her eyes and look a little more closely.

'Although she knew this was just a game character, how could this woman dress so provocatively and sparsely? Wouldn't any slight movement cause a wardrobe malfunction?!'

'No, this character looks like one of those female cultivators from a Hehuan Sect who bewitches men. She's not suitable for me…'

'There are so many other characters, I have no idea which one to choose…'

Looking at the dazzling array of characters, Long Yue's delicate brows furrowed slightly as she was once again faced with the difficulty of choosing.

As it was her first time playing 'King of Fighters', she had no idea which character was good, so just like the first time she played ‘Honor of Kings’, she had to choose based purely on her gut feeling.

Soon, among the crowd of characters, her eyes fell upon a man with short silver hair, a bare upper body, and demonic-looking tattoos.

This character looked like a member of the Demon Race. Although he didn't have black hair like the Demon Sovereign, his physique was very similar...

“Oh? You picked Orochi. Not bad taste.”

“Why did you decide to pick him?”

Seeing the character Long Yue locked in, Lin Fan couldn't help but be surprised.

He thought she wouldn't really like this kind of evil-looking male character.

“He just looked pleasing to the eye, that's all. Don't get the wrong idea…”

Long Yue's pretty face blushed slightly as she turned her head away like a tsundere.

Lin Fan was completely baffled.

'Wait, he was just curious why she picked Orochi. What was there to misunderstand…?'

“Ready! GO!”

With the starting announcement, the match officially began.

Long Yue had always used a keyboard and mouse for games before, so the controller felt particularly unfamiliar in her hands.

On top of that, she had never played 'King of Fighters' before and was a complete novice, not even knowing the most basic combos.

Without a doubt, she was immediately hit by one of Lin Fan's silky-smooth combos and was completely disoriented.

The moment she stood up, Lin Fan jumped over and finished her off with another combo. Throughout the entire match, Long Yue didn't land a single hit on him. To be precise, she lost before she could even press an attack button...

“Good game, Your Majesty~”

Having won the match, Lin Fan's lips curved up in a triumphant smile as he looked at Long Yue beside him.

Long Yue puffed out her cheeks, her pretty face a picture of frustration and anger.

Although she had just said she wouldn't go easy on him, that was just a joke... she had thought the Demon Sovereign would definitely go easy on her.

But in the end, this hateful guy, the Demon Sovereign, really didn't show her any mercy at all!

Hateful!

Although it was just a video game match, in a way, it was another form of showdown between the Demon Sovereign and the Empress!

'As the Empress, how could she lose to the Demon Sovereign!'

“You just wait!”

Long Yue didn't rush to start the next round. Instead, she took out her phone and, right then and there, searched for a 'King of Fighters' combo list and video tutorials.

After quickly going over them, she picked up the controller again and began her next match against Lin Fan.

Just like with every other game before, after watching the combo tutorial just once, she was able to replicate it perfectly. With a single string of moves, she successfully won back a round.

“Good game, Demon Sovereign~”

The corners of Long Yue's mouth turned up, and she raised her delicate eyebrows triumphantly.

'Pretty smug, aren't we...'

'Looks like I'll have to bring out my ultimate technique!'

Lin Fan smiled slightly. After the new round began, he seized an opportunity and cornered Long Yue's Orochi.

“Crouching kick! Crouching kick!”

There were no flashy combos, just him constantly controlling his character to repeatedly use the crouching kick.

Long Yue either had to block, or if her defense slipped for a moment, she would get hit by several kicks in a row.

Back in elementary school, relying on this crouching kick and another infinite projectile spam technique, he had defeated every other elementary schooler in the arcade! He was known as a true Little Overlord!

Soon, Long Yue's health bar was chipped away to nothing, and she lost the match in an extremely frustrating manner.

“Damn it! Again!”

Long Yue shouted, gritting her teeth, refusing to accept defeat.

Lin Fan shrugged and got up to leave.

“I'm tired, I'm done playing~”

“Huh!? Don't even think about it!”

Seeing Lin Fan try to win and run just like he did with chess last time, Long Yue of course wouldn't allow it. She grabbed him and wouldn't let him leave.

“We're playing the exact same game, so why is it completely different when two guys play versus when a guy and a girl play…”

Watching Lin Fan and Long Yue flirt, Zhou Yan couldn't help but lament.

When he played with Lu Zhai, besides anger, there was absolutely no sense of joy…

“Who says? I have a great time playing with you.”

Lu Zhai pushed up his glasses and retorted faintly.

Zhou Yan irritably turned and gave him the side-eye.

'You're the one who keeps winning, of course you're happy!'

“Sigh, this is boring…”

Zhou Yan sighed, leaned back on the sofa, and boredly opened his phone.

The moment he turned it on, a trending news push notification caught his attention:

【Shocking! A peerlessly handsome man appears in the Magic Capital!?】

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