Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 456 is about "stand-ins" with the same abilities?
The existence of the three sacred treasures in the King of Fighters universe is rather subtle. Apart from the magatama in Iori's hand, which has never been shown in physical form, Kusanagi's Kusanagi sword and Kagura's Yata Mirror both have corresponding physical forms.

As the current holder of the seal and the Yata Mirror, the power of the mirror has been completely integrated into Chizuru Kagura's fighting style. Creating mirror images that are almost impossible for others to see through, and reflecting other people's moves and spells are all things that Kagura excels at.

For the opponent, summoning a mirror image is an ultimate choice between two options. You have to guess whether the opponent's attack is an illusion or the real body. If you guess wrong even once, you will be hit with a continuous barrage of attacks.

In addition, Chizuru Kagura plays a very important role in the world of "The King of Fighters '97". She is a specific NPC unit with home-field advantage. If it weren't for the huge impact of Goenitz's actions last year, Chizuru Kagura might still be a mid-boss character.

As the holder of the Yata Mirror, Kagura Chizuru doesn't carry the mirror with her at all times. To be more precise, the Yata Mirror is currently kept and guarded in a shrine under the strict protection of the Kagura Foundation. Kagura Chizuru is simply someone who can connect to and mobilize the power of the Yata Mirror at any time.

Unlike Kyo Kusanagi, who stabbed himself in the navel with the Kusanagi Sword. (This is a misconception.)

However, when facing Kagura's mirror image, Izayoi also felt a sense of familiarity.

That mentally unstable second young lady was very skilled at using energy clones that were a level higher than mirror images, but the pressure brought by the two was simply incomparable.

The second young lady was too crazy, while the woman in front of her was too orderly.

Therefore, there's no need to use tactics strong enough to restrain the Second Miss to deal with this woman's mirror image.

Thinking of this, Izayoi fired with both hands in quick succession, launching a large number of silver throwing knives in one go, making Remilia's eyelids twitch as she watched from the sidelines.

Although she herself was quite different from pure Western vampires and didn't care much about silver utensils, the fact that the head maid who served the vampires used silver weapons made her, as the mistress, feel uneasy every time she saw them.

These silver throwing knives flew out in a fan shape directly in front of the target. Not only that, but all the knives also defied the laws of physics and crashed into some kind of "air wall", completing a very smooth bounce.

Whether it was due to the elegant head maid's ingenious calculations or something else, these throwing knives almost instantly covered all the areas that Chizuru Kagura could dodge in a short period of time, including the area behind her that she could dodge using the mirror image.

This situation was indeed beyond Chizuru Kagura's expectations... but it wasn't entirely unmanageable!

Kagura placed her hands loosely in front of her chest, and then, as if the sunlight had shone through the opposite window and reflected back into everyone's eyes, it shone brightly from the area in front of Kagura's chest.

What appeared next was the phantom of an ancient-style bronze mirror, or more accurately, the body of a bronze mirror and the smooth surface of a modern mirror—

A phantom image of a divine artifact! The Yata Mirror!

Obviously, there are no rules against using divine weapons in the tournament, and faced with a barrage of flying knives, Chizuru Kagura's choice was to deflect them all back!
As the illusory image of the divine artifact was projected, a large energy wall resembling ripples appeared in front of Chizuru Kagura, as if Cheng Tian's mental barrier had been magnified to the size of an arena.

All the throwing knives from Izayoi struck the rippling water surface of the mirror, and then all returned!

At the same moment the power of the Yata Mirror was activated, the three members of the Hell Band, who were outside the arena, instinctively looked in the same direction, which was the location of the Kagura Foundation headquarters.

Strictly speaking, Hell Band's match was on the second day of the main event, so today was indeed optional. However, it's quite rare for all three members to be absent, showing no interest in gathering information about other teams. Compared to other teams, Hell Band is indeed a relatively unknown group, only slightly more famous than the previous Scarlet Devil Mansion team. They even have some band fans rather than fighting game fans mixed in, so their presence or absence isn't particularly important to the audience.

But it's a different story for the organizers.

Even after the main competition has started, it is still necessary to record the progress of each team. This kind of documentary-style content is actually very marketable, and sometimes the behind-the-scenes footage is even more interesting than the whole film.

With the idea that even a small amount is still something, the organizers will still follow the team and film their reactions, at least during the daytime.

The Hell Band trio exchanged a glance and then strode towards the Kagura Foundation. Unbeknownst to them, the organizers' paparazzi had been watching and immediately reported it to their superiors.

Meanwhile, a special reporter from a certain Bunshun newspaper seemed to have caught wind of something and appeared silently along with it. After taking a high-definition photo of the three people walking away, the reporter followed them directly.

On the other side, watching the numerous throwing knives he had thrown bounce back, Izayoi, who was always patient with the internal management of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, began to show a strange fluctuation.

Subsequently, at the cost of consuming 4 spirit orbs and 4 card slots, this strange fluctuation spread outwards at the speed of light from Izayoi Sakuya herself, eventually engulfing the entire instance.

The cacophony of sounds in the hall vanished in an instant. Everyone—no, everything—both sound and movement, the breeze and the flowing air, all fell into a state of orderly stillness.

Sakuya's world!
That is, time stops.

Sakuya Izayoi is a human who possesses the ability to manipulate time, typically manifesting as accelerating local time and stopping wide-area time.

The most outrageous thing is that in the original work, there are almost no restrictions or burdens on its use of time-stopping. A certain vampire can stop time for 9 seconds and then conquer the world, but this being who can stop time almost infinitely prefers to use it for maid-like tasks such as cleaning and shopping.

Actually, Sakuya's World originally required 5 card slots, but with the blessing of Kumoten, the cost was reduced by 1 point.

Izayoi is very patient with her own people, but not so much with outsiders. To be more precise, she doesn't care much about anything outside the Scarlet Devil Mansion; they are practically unrelated.

Considering the need to reduce the young lady's exposure to sunlight, the head maid decisively chose to use time stop to quickly eliminate her opponent.

That mirror was indeed interesting, but in the face of time stop, she was nothing more than a lamb to the slaughter.

But at that moment, something that was almost "horrifying" happened to Izayoi.

In the theoretically time-stopped state where only the individual could move, a loud...fart sound suddenly rang out!
Izayoi, looking towards the source of the sound with an almost horrified and incredulous gaze, saw Cheng Tian, ​​protected by an orange-gold humanoid figure with its arms outstretched, scratching his butt as if nothing had happened—

Only users whose time has stopped can move during other times of time stop.

(End of this chapter)