"How could this be!?"
Bloodshot veins appeared in Gilgamesh's eyes with rage as he stared at the game screen in disbelief.
His character was already lying on the ground, while the character controlled by that clownish mongrel Assassin still had over half his health bar left and was even striking a victory pose.
Calling this so-called "battle" Gilgamesh being ground into the dirt by Sakumura would not have been an exaggeration.
"Yay."
Sakumura expressionlessly held up two peace signs beside his face.
Gilgamesh instantly turned red with rage, his eyes widening as if his blood pressure were about to hit three hundred.
"Damn it—again!"
This time, he chose [Blanka].
Sakumura curled his lip but did not refuse, once again choosing [Ryu].
A few minutes later.
"No, th-this is impossible! There must be something wrong with this machine!"
Gilgamesh angrily rose to his feet and glared at the arcade machine in frustration.
"Then let's switch machines."
Looking at his character, which had taken even less damage than before, Sakumura merely smiled.
The two moved to another arcade machine beside them, and the surrounding spectators moved along with them.
For the third round, Sakumura chose [Chun-Li], while Gilgamesh chose [Guile].
Without question, it was another brutal slaughter. Sakumura shook his head.
"You really suck."
He had merely stated a fact.
"You mongrel—!?"
"Ooh! So you two are here!"
Just as Gilgamesh's emotions were about to erupt, a voice came from nearby. The two turned at once and found Rider Alexander running over with his timid Master. His towering body forced a path through the crowd.
"Rider! Are you mongrel here to interfere with me as well!?"
Gilgamesh roared at Alexander.
Alexander: ???
"Interfere with what? I just came to see what was going on! You're playing games!"
Alexander's eyes lit up as