213 Monster Territory

Many people actually think that the Kanto Monster are taking things too seriously.

Originally, only the core experts knew about the Kansai, but as training began, more and more Monster learned about it.

They got fired up and stopped treating training like play.

The Monster's morale is rising daily. They take turns training every day. Although each group only trains one or two days a week, the Monster are full of energy and can maintain high-intensity training, so their efficiency is still very high.

Shuya didn't participate in training very often. To outsiders, his relationship with those Monster was just a cooperative one, and being too close would seem strange.

Apart from a few internal Monster, no outsiders know that he is the Alliance Leader.

Instead, the police kept sending people to inquire about him, Shuya pretended to be polite to them, saying that nothing had happened.

In November, the Monster were busy with training.

Shuya's focus is more on work.

He hasn't taken on any new jobs recently; they're all jobs he already had.

He had planned ahead and was certain to launch a counterattack against the Kansai Monster next year, so he turned down many jobs to avoid breaking his promise.

But now, the liver still needs to be used.

And having to go to school and show my face occasionally is really troublesome.

Shizuka Hiratsuka and the others were quite relaxed; they had returned to normal life since Shuya need to hunt anymore.

Previously, Tsuruko had been asked by Shuya to help host Y File and film videos, and she frequently traveled between Tokyo Kyoto.

Now she and Motoko only come over occasionally to check on things, and sometimes they join in the practice with the Monster.

Shizuka Hiratsuka and the Yukinoshita Sisters visited more frequently, especially Shizuka Hiratsuka, who often hung out with yokai, drinking and Monster, living an incredibly carefree life.

Yukino went to the Snow Woman in Hokkaido to learn Strange Arts, while Haruno consulted the Fox Demon.

The great Monster were unaware of the true relationship between the Yukinoshita Sisters and Shuya, secretly guessing that they were the wives of the Alliance Leader, so they dared not keep anything from them and diligently taught the two of them.

Shuya worries about the development of niconico in his spare time from studying and working.

By December, Niconico had over 50 million registered users, including those outside of Japan.

The variety of videos on the Surface and Hidden Website has also begun to increase.

Some people even started making parodies and videos.

Inoue Hikoo has joined the Ghost Animal All-Stars group and become one of the first victims.

However, the concept of professional content creators has not yet emerged, and Niconico currently does not have a rule of paying based on the number of views; everyone is truly creating content out of passion.

In retrospect, this must have been the best of times.

Although there are no professional content creators, there are still popular ones.

The most popular Surface Website is Shuya.

The first video on the entire site was posted by him; it was a video explaining martial arts training.

To build his popularity, he later released cover songs, performance videos, gaming videos, fashion videos, and anime recommendation videos, exploring various genres.

But his most popular videos are actually snapshots of his daily life that he casually filmed while working.

This video features so many celebrities; there's no reason it shouldn't be popular.

There are especially many beautiful women there.

The beautiful girls featured in this video are led by Mai- chan, Little Senior Sister, Hyakka -chan, and Haruno.

It's a rare opportunity to see what these beautiful girls are like in private.

Shuya didn't mean it. He was filming with Mai- chan at the time, and he casually recorded some interactions with her and posted them online. Somehow, they went viral.

Perhaps it's because of the hype surrounding the pairing back then, but fans get incredibly excited when they see Shuya and Mai interacting.

Those fans can always find countless fantasies from Mai- chan and other girls' attitudes toward Shuya, and then start to arrange who is his main girlfriend and who is his cult member.

There's nothing more to say about Shuya.

That's some seriously creative ideas.

Shuya the most popular content creator, but Mai- chan isn't second; she's only fourth.

Mai- chan didn't have time to upload any videos, so she just copied Shuya's lifestyle videos, casually filming everyday scenery and occasionally capturing interactions with Shuya.

She updates rather slowly, and her popularity ranking is only fourth.

The second most popular content creator is Little Senior Sister, who frequently posts piano videos, showing only her hands and not her face.

The Little Senior Sister doesn't like being in front of the camera, but she enjoys sharing her music with everyone and hopes to convey the beauty of music to people.

She updates a long video every one or two days.

She even went to learn how to make videos specifically for this purpose.

My Little Senior Sister is also very popular in real life. She is a genius who has won many international music awards. Her submissions instantly raised the status of Nico Nico Douga.

Third on the list is Inoue Hikoo, who makes good use of Nico Nico Douga for promotion, sharing many behind-the-scenes stories of animation production. Recently, he has also been posting videos of the Sakura production process online, attracting a large number of fans.

His actions made other companies realize the promotional potential of niconico.

However, Inoue Hikoo has no plans to accept advertisements for the time being. He will only put advertisements in front of the videos when people are more thoroughly hooked and can no longer live without them.

Then, we'll launch a paid membership system that allows users to skip ads, so that only paid members can watch all the videos in the future.

Paid membership systems are actually necessary, since they spend a lot of money buying online streaming rights to things like animation, movies, TV series, and stage plays.

You can't run a business at a loss, can you?

The current free viewing is just a tactic used by the newly launched website to lure people in.

Niconico has developed to its current level in less than half a year, and its future prospects are limitless.

December has arrived in a rush.

Rena has been hospitalized again.

Shuya is currently at a critical stage and simply cannot find the time to visit her, so he can only send the Little Fox over to transfer Demon Power.

The Monster entered the four-part joint training phase and officially began recording the program. He Shizuka Hiratsuka were among those participating.

Shuya goes over whenever he has time, but he hasn't even been home lately.

When Rena was admitted to the hospital, Ichika called Shuya, but they only chatted for a few words Shuya hung up.

He thought about it and realized it wasn't a good idea, so he had his men send over some ridiculously expensive designer clothes, toys, snacks, and the like.

Shuya never received another call from the Quintuplets after that.

Shuya quickly realized they were throwing a tantrum.

... Perhaps she felt he only spent money on gifts and lacked genuine care.

Shuya understood their thoughts.

But he didn't try to fix anything; he didn't have time to waste.

If time is spent comforting the Quintuplets, or even spending more time developing a bond with them, resulting in insufficient training and the Kanto Monster being no match for the Kansai Monster, then the consequences will be very serious.

Shuya's current busyness is connected to Rena's life and death.

There is absolutely no possibility that the plan will be changed because of the Quintuplets' little mood.

His mental state has been very unstable lately.

He was under a lot of pressure.

Shuya simply thought the Quintuplets were being willful and immature.

But he also understood that the Quintuplets were unaware of the truth, which was why they acted this way.

This clash between emotion and reason made Shuya even more upset.

Consequently, he became even more ruthless in his battles against his subordinate Monster.

Chapter 229, 213 Monster Domain

After Christmas, it's New Year's Day again.

It's 2005.

Shuya spent both holidays with Monster and didn't celebrate with anyone else.

I didn't go to the New Year's shrine visit; I just had a meal with the Monster before entering the final, intense training.

The video streaming service has been online for almost half a year, and the power of the great Monster is increasing at an unreasonable pace.

The Cultivation Method of Monsters, which had already fallen out of favor, have been revived.

Besides the significant improvement in power for Monster, some Half-Monster also had their bloodlines purified, thus becoming true Monster.

The strength of the Monster in Kanto has increased several times over, and they are almost catching up with the Monster in Kansai.

The Kansai Monster have been living off their past achievements, while the Kanto Monster have successfully expanded their resources, gaining a large amount of awe-inspiring power.

With this shift in power, the difference in strength between the two sides is now minimal.

It's about time to begin.

By January, Niconico had become famous worldwide, and many language versions had been launched.

Thanks to Shuya Great Hua, a large number of Great Hua users flocked to Nico Nico Douga after the Chinese version was launched. To date, the total number of registered users worldwide has exceeded 500 million, and the number of people visiting the Hidden Website has exceeded 40 million.

It's only a matter of time before the Monster find out Kansai the rapidly expanding Niconico.

There are limits to intelligence blocking.

The current peace will be shattered sooner or later.

Shuya took advantage of this quiet time to handle his affairs.

He finished all his work and did not take on any new jobs.

Sakura's recording is complete, and with Sakura recent airing of episode 57, Syaoran realizes his feelings for Sakura, officially establishing the legendary Sakura-Syaoran, which has once again achieved great popularity.

But Shuya watched the plot unfold and compared it to his own situation, he felt increasingly uneasy.

Why am I so unlucky? Am I not the main character?

Shuya fell into deep thought.

His ideas were irrelevant to the bigger picture.

After the Kanto Monster Sports Festival concluded, the Monster entered into practical training, but the training ground was still rented and would be used again later.

The so-called real combat was when they formed their own teams and went out to hunt those strange creatures born from the Power of Will.

This strange creature is the third type of Monster mentioned before (not the kind that transforms).

After listening to the Monster's protest, Shuya realized that they didn't like calling this kind of Monster.

Instead, it was described as eerie.

In Shuya's view, they were not much different, but the Monster were very particular, so Shuya followed their naming conventions and called the strange "weiyi".

The Monster of Kanto use these ubiquitous eerie creatures as practical training to improve the squad's combat capabilities.

This also gives the Monster below a chance to become stronger.

After the monster is killed, it will turn into pure Power of Will, which can be absorbed.

It's just like leveling up by defeating monsters in a game.

The great Monster did not attempt to steal the monsters; instead, they allowed their subordinate Monster to scatter and hunt freely in the Kanto region.

This large-scale operation naturally alarmed the higher-ups, but the Monster claimed it was a voluntary cleanup operation they were giving back to society, successfully fooling them.

This is a good thing; those in power are happy to have some relief.

The Monster below entered into actual combat, Shuya and the others were not idle either.

That day, they held a meeting to discuss tactics.

"What's there to think about? Just go for it."

Shuten Gozaburo said.