Chapter 172
Although he learned yesterday that the so-called magical boy was just a boy dressed as a magical girl, and felt very resistant to it, Hachiman Hikigaya still had no choice but to continue participating in the training.
After all, even in his second year of high school, he was still a bit of a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur). He was naturally very happy to have mastered extraordinary power for the first time.
Therefore, he is currently in a dual state of resisting and yearning to use the magical girl transformation.
After transforming, the three began a coordinated battle.
Yesterday, they all learned some basic combat techniques. For example, Hachiman Hikigaya learned to build walls of rock and to create stones to smash people. In Li Yue's view, one is a basic attack and the other is an elemental combat technique.
Yui Yuigahama is a wind blade, and her elemental skill is to create a small tornado to pull and cut enemies. Yukino Yukinoshita's ice is the same; shooting ice spikes is her normal attack, while using ice to freeze small areas is her elemental skill.
These three have already mastered the most basic attacks, so today Li Yue is going to teach them how to use Elemental Burst!
Although Li Yue had never seen anyone use Elemental Burst in the world of Teyvat, in Li Yue's eyes, Elemental Burst was a combat method that instantly unleashed the Elemental Power stored in the Vision for a short period of time, greatly increasing the destructive power and explosive force in a short time.
While Li Yue was crafting the Vision, she prepared two spaces within Vision to store Elemental Power. One was for normal attacks and elemental combat skills, while the other was specifically for storing the Elemental Power used for Elemental Burst, so that it wouldn't affect Elemental Burst during normal combat.
"Yesterday's training taught you the most basic combat methods. Today, I will teach you how to unleash explosive power."
Li Yue maintained Aizen's appearance and looked very gentle.
"You should have understood from your battle with me yesterday that although you have mastered a certain level of attack, you cannot have any effect on the much stronger me because your usual attack power is too weak."
"While dealing with ordinary evil spirits is no problem, this kind of attack will be useless if you encounter those evolved and powerful evil spirits, just like when your attack couldn't kill that ordinary evil spirit, Yukino. So you need much stronger power."
Li Yue pointed to the Yukino.
"Therefore, you need to become even stronger, with the power to kill enemies of that level once unleashed."
"Does this mean that we can also possess power as great as yours?"
Yukino Yukinoshita, the chuunibyou (delusional) girl, was quite excited. She was disappointed in her own power because she hadn't been able to kill the evil spirit in the previous battle. Therefore, she really wanted to obtain even greater power.
"That's not the case. My power has been honed over time, while yours has only just awakened. You need enough time to mature before you can become truly powerful."
Li Yue pointed to herself, and then to Yukino Yukinoshita.
"You are all too young. It will take you another hundred years to reach my level."
"This level? Seriously, it takes a hundred years? Living to a hundred years is too difficult!"
Hachiman Hikigaya couldn't help but start complaining.
"You can continue to settle down after you die. Anyway, you will become the Bleach after you die. Once you become the Bleach, you won't have to worry about time anymore. As long as you don't die in battle, living for thousands of years is a piece of cake."
"I'm sorry, I want to live as a human for a while longer and don't want to think about what happens after I die."
"Then we can only try our best to train your awakened power while you are still alive, to the extent that you can reach. Otherwise, once you encounter a powerful evil spirit that has evolved, you will only face death."
"Thank you so much for reminding me. I feel hopeless about the future again."
Having finally forgotten about the powerful enemies that might appear in the future because he was so engrossed in power, Li Yue's kind reminder brought Hachiman Hikigaya back to his senses.
"This is absolutely terrible."
"In short, start studying hard now!"
"Then, Mr. Bleach, how does one learn this?"
Yui Yuigahama her hand to ask a question, just like a good student.
"It's very simple. Imagine you're playing a game right now. The powers you learned to use yesterday are normal attacks and offensive skills. What you need to do now is create a finishing move for yourself. There is a difference between normal skills and finishing moves. A finishing move has to be extremely powerful to be called a finishing move."
Li Yue pointed to Yukino Yukinoshita.
"What you need to do is imagine the moves that will consume all your strength to attack the enemy. Don't think about anything else. You need to consider this situation with your current strength, because if you don't use all your strength, you simply won't be able to fight against some powerful enemies."
"So, a full-force attack?"
"That's right, you understand perfectly. You need that kind of all-out attack, no matter the cost."
"At all costs, indeed."
Yukino Yukinoshita agreed with Li Yue's statement.
"If we can't kill the enemy this way, then we have no chance of survival either, so we might as well go all out."
"So, start using your imagination. I'll come back in an hour to check your work."
As Li Yue spoke, she turned and left, arriving at Shizuka Hiratsuka's side, who had been hiding in the shadows.
At this moment, Shizuka Hiratsuka was already stunned as she watched the three students who had turned into magical girls.
She had only one thought in her mind: I thought you guys came here to have an impart, but it turns out you're acting like magical girls?
293. A magical girl nearing thirty
My student is actually a magical girl?
Shizuka Hiratsuka never expected that the students she thought were undergoing an impart were actually transforming into magical girls!
From the moment Yukino Yukinoshita transformed, Shizuka Hiratsuka had been watching. She thought Yukino Yukinoshita be the first to go, but she was the first to complete the transformation. Shizuka Hiratsuka was completely dumbfounded when she saw Yukino Yukinoshita's transformed appearance. After that, Yui Yuigahama and Hachiman Hikigaya's transformations shocked Shizuka Hiratsuka even more.
I was all ready to step in and make you stop this nonsense, but instead you started playing magical girl games?
However, this way, there's no need to worry about them causing a series of problems due to impart.
No, that's not the problem. The problem is you guys are magical girls?! Magical girls are something from anime, and they're actually real?! And it's one thing for Yukino and Yui to be able to transform, but why can you, a man, transform too, and in women's clothing at Hachiman?! You're disgusting!
However, what bothered Shizuka Hiratsuka even more after that was that her three students, who had transformed into magical girls, were talking to each other in the air in the same direction. It sounded like they were exchanging ideas or even learning the fighting style of magical girls. Could it be that they had someone in their eyes that they could see but she couldn't?
"Is it that mysterious? Communicating with magical girls, no, I should say teaching magical girls, could it be that they are the seniors of magical girls? The seniors of magical girls are their teachers?"
"Damn it, I can't see it."
"What, do you want to see me?"
"Huh!"
The sudden sound from behind startled Shizuka Hiratsuka, who was almost thirty years old. She immediately turned around and threw a punch at the person behind her, but unfortunately, she missed.
"Attack right off the bat, human. You're quite dangerous."
After throwing the punch, Shizuka Hiratsuka realized that her opponent was a full 2 meters away, making it impossible for the punch to hit her.
"Haha, sorry, it's just a conditioned reflex."
Upon realizing that she had made a move and missed, Shizuka Hiratsuka quickly apologized.
"May I ask who you are...?"
"I am the magical girl senior you just mentioned."
"Huh? It's you?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka glanced at Li Yue, then looked at the three people outside who were deep in thought.
"Them, you..."
"But you're dressed differently from them."
The three students outside were all dressed as magical girls, but the man in front of them was wearing a Japanese kimono. They were completely different.
"No one stipulates that the person who teaches magical girls must be a magical girl."
So who are you?
"My name is Aizen Sousuke Bleach)."
Li Yue pushed up her black-rimmed glasses and introduced herself with a smile.
"Huh? Bleach?"
Next, it will be time for another explanation.
"So, my three students are currently training to strengthen themselves so that they can fight against an evil spirit called the Void in the future?"
"That's right. After all, they can be attacked by Hollows as soon as they see them, so they have no choice but to either continue being ordinary people and wait to be killed by Hollows, or become magical girls and take the initiative to fight against Hollows."
"Wait, what about me?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka pointed to herself.
"So what if I can see you? Do I also see souls and possess the same ability to see ghosts as they do?"
"Does that mean I'll also be detected and attacked by the Hollow?"
Originally, she was just gossiping about her students, but as she continued, she found herself becoming the gossip herself, Shizuka Hiratsuka completely dumbfounded.
What do you think?
Li Yue hadn't expected Shizuka Hiratsuka to come. He had been planning to play with the three members of the Service Club, and after today's learning session, he was going back to prepare for the dungeon. But Shizuka Hiratsuka showed up, so at first, she couldn't see Li Yue. After discovering Shizuka Hiratsuka Li Yue made sure she could see him, Shizuka Hiratsuka to bring her in as well.
"No way! I just wanted to see what my students were doing, and suddenly I've become a gossipmonger. This is too outrageous!"
"So, do you want to be one?"
"When what?"
"Magical girl."
Li Yue took a transformation device out of her pocket.
"I want to be a magical girl too!?"
Shizuka Hiratsuka stared in astonishment at the transformation device in Li Yue's hand. She was almost thirty years old; was she really going to become a magical girl?!
"Wait, am I going to end up like them?"
"No way, am I going to have to dress like them too?"
If it were a teenager, it would be one thing, but she's almost thirty, and if someone saw her wearing a magical girl outfit, they'd laugh themselves to death!
"Oysters, oysters, oysters~~"
This older single woman shook her head like a broken wave drum.
"If you don't want to be a magical girl, then if you encounter a Hollow, you'll have to rely on your own luck."
Seeing that Shizuka Hiratsuka refused, Li Yue nonchalantly put away her Vision.
"Oh no, no, no, I'm still willing to do it."
Although it's shameful, compared to life, life is definitely more important. My life is more important.
"Then let's continue."
Li Yue once again took out the Vision and tossed it to Shizuka Hiratsuka.
"As for how to transform, you should have just watched the whole process of the three of them transforming, so you can just transform like them."
"Um, do I have to undergo transformation training here like them?"
Having obtained the Vision, Shizuka Hiratsuka found herself in a similar dilemma to her three students. She wanted to try out new powers, but she also felt ashamed of transforming in front of others, entering a complex state of mind.
"If you find it troublesome, you can go back and train alone."
"Huh? Can I train alone? Without having to train with them?"
Li Yue's answer surprised and delighted Shizuka Hiratsuka.
"That's right. You can go back and train on your own because you are a mature adult and your body has obviously undergone a long period of training. Unlike Yukino, who has trained but is physically weak, you have plenty of stamina. So I only need to tell you how to train, and the rest is up to you."
"That's wonderful!"
The fact that Shizuka Hiratsuka has become a magical girl must not be known to those three people. It is precisely because they do not know that they will be even more surprised when they meet her as a magical girl.
With that, the Service Club trio, along with their teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka, all four magical girls were ready. The next step was to prepare them to appear before the public as magical girls!
I'm really looking forward to their performance.
294. Hachiman Hikigaya's First Battle
My name is Hachiman Hikigaya, and I am an ordinary high school boy. Or rather, until the day before yesterday, I was an ordinary high school boy. Until the evening of the day before yesterday, everything changed.
I've become a magical boy! Seriously, what was the guy who invented this transformation device thinking? What kind of magical girl outfit combined with a boy makes him a magical boy? He's clearly just a pervert dressed as a magical girl!
What if someone sees this? Will they say I, Hachiman Hikigaya, am a cross-dressing pervert?! This is going to be a disaster, my friend!
But there was no other way; it was all to save my own life. After all, before the day before yesterday, I never imagined that there would be evil spirits in this world. The world I had lived in for more than ten years suddenly became so unfamiliar in a single day.
So even if people might see me and think I'm a pervert, I'm going to be a magical girl! Pshaw, I should say a magical boy! No matter what, I'll stick to the idea that I'm a boy!
After two days of training, I have temporarily mastered the power of a magical girl. Although I haven't encountered any more evil spirits yet, according to what that Bleach Reaper said, I should now be able to fight them.
Hachiman Hikigaya has this idea now, and as usual, he walks to Sobu High School in the morning.
However, unlike usual, Hachiman Hikigaya is now more focused on observing his surroundings on his way to school, not for any other reason than to prevent himself from being attacked by special evil spirits that may appear from nowhere.