Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 457 Every strike draws blood, but none are fatal.

The dashing head maid, Sakuya Izayoi, is a human living in the Scarlet Devil Mansion in Gensokyo, surrounded by a group of youkai. However, due to her innate ability to manipulate time, the head maid's relationship with her fellow youkai is actually quite ordinary.

After focusing all her attention on the young lady, the head maid gradually stopped caring much about how humans viewed her.

But this doesn't mean she's unaware of just how rare and precious her abilities are; she truly is an anomaly among humans.

However, since she followed the young lady to the mortal world a few days ago and was inexplicably chosen to participate in the main competition, she has felt power fluctuations that are extremely similar to her own abilities more than once, namely, time stop has occurred.

Only the caster and other users of the same time-stopping technique can move within the time stop.

However, after entering the real world, the head maid's time-stopping ability was inevitably limited in its use, and she could no longer achieve the near-unlimited time-stopping ability she had in the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Therefore, she temporarily abandoned the idea of ​​finding the source of that power.

To her utter surprise, the user of the same power was right next to her!
What was this man's name again?

That's right! It's Orange! It shares the same name as the cat in the Yakumo family!

The head maid, who hadn't known why the young lady had suddenly sent her out, suddenly realized that this was the main reason.

But now is clearly not the time to ask questions. Under the influence of the rules, the head maid's time stop has changed from infinite to finite.

With an almost scanning gaze, the head maid spent two precious seconds imprinting Cheng Tian and the world into her mind simultaneously. Then, under Cheng Tian's gaze, she rushed towards Kagura Chizuru, who was in a completely still state.

Cheng Tian didn't know at first that Izayoi would use Zawarudo so decisively, since it was a time stop, and normal people would never be able to detect it.

However, the moment the opponent released the time stop, the Stand World, which is the carrier of the time stop power, automatically appeared and began to resist. This is an automatically triggered self-protective behavior.

In a world where all beings are users of time-stopping, one cannot allow their own body to be powerless to resist when faced with time-stopping.

Since it was only a resistance rather than a direct caster, the mana consumption rate did not reach 300 MP per second, but 100 MP per second was still enough to make Cheng, who had consumed a lot in the previous match, prepare to exchange his health bar for mana.

Not only that, Cheng Tian even had a very dangerous idea at this moment.

If we had used that 30-second Miqi Windmill spell here, wouldn't that have been equivalent to ruining the entire instance?
Of course, this is all on the premise that the subsequent time stop doesn't require me to bear the mental burden; otherwise, I might die in the corrupted save file created by the time stop...

I really envy the head maid who can work by stopping time!
Ah, speaking of which, in a time-stopped environment, will the original lifespan of the original body be consumed?

With a fearful look, as if watching someone else get a shot, Cheng Tian watched from afar as the head maid mercilessly plunged the silver dagger, imbued with power, into various parts of Kagura Chizuru's body.

Izayoi can kill, but she doesn't like to kill indiscriminately, especially since this is just a fighting tournament.

However, there are no off-court countdowns or other defeat rules here.

If time could be stopped indefinitely, Kagura Chizuru could simply be moved a few kilometers away from the developed area and dumped there, but this is clearly not enough; the only option is to first disable the opponent's ability to continue fighting.

Looking at Kagura Chizuru, who was clearly being penetrated but seemed like a puppet being manipulated at will, Cheng Tian suddenly remembered that news story, the veracity of which was unknown—

The girlfriend stabbed her boyfriend more than a dozen times, but because she was a medical student, she avoided vital organs with each stab.

Cheng Tian wasn't sure if the medical student in that joke could do it, but the phantom killer in the night fog in front of him definitely could.

"Then time began to flow."

In an instant, the stillness turned into turmoil, and the noise returned. The elegant maid was now standing more than ten meters behind Kagura Chizuru, who was still holding the illusion of the Yata Mirror at her chest.

As for Chizuru Kagura herself, her body seemed to have suffered a dozen or more physical impacts, and her facial features were visibly contorted in pain.

Then, a large amount of blood mist burst out from the top and bottom!
Apart from Cheng, who witnessed the head maid's actions firsthand, everyone was stunned. Although time did not stop, the entire arena suddenly fell silent, and even breathing was subconsciously held.

what's going on? !

What's going on with Chizuru Kagura?! What did that maid do?!
Numerous questions filled the minds of those present, while those who could provide answers clearly did not intend to tell them the reasons behind it.

Oh right, Iori Yagami, who had a rest area all to himself, was also frozen in time, but he vaguely sensed something discordant, as if some scene that should have been running smoothly had experienced a barely perceptible lag.

Kagura Chizuru! A humanoid fountain of blood!
However, thanks to her martial arts prowess and mastery of energy, the fountain of blood on Chizuru Kagura's body only sprayed for two seconds before being forcibly shut down by her taut muscles.

This is actually thanks to the head maid's exquisite skills. She can almost stitch up the wounds on Kagura's body without correction. In fact, if left unattended to heal on its own, it will almost never leave a scar.

Therefore, Kagura's current state looks far more miserable than it actually is. The head maid, who showed mercy, didn't damage any of her internal organs, otherwise Kagura would be spitting blood from her mouth by now.

But that was all she could do. Having stopped the bleeding by tensing her muscles and blocking energy, she was no longer able to move normally. Pain was a minor issue; if even one muscle failed to hold its position, she would become a moving fountain of blood.

The audience couldn't understand what had happened, but Chizuru Kagura's white shrine maiden outfit, almost soaked in blood, said it all.

Let alone them, Chizuru Kagura herself is the most confused, but the pain on her body cannot be faked.

"I surrender!"

After a quick comparison between her inner martial artist's dignity and her responsibility as the inheritor of the divine weapon, Kagura Chizuru, with difficulty, raised her hand and said, trembling with pain.

"The winner! Izayoi! Let's congratulate Team Scarlet Devil Mansion on advancing!"

"Medical team! Quickly!"

As the host made the very professional announcement, Kyo Kusanagi, who had a family connection and a good personal relationship with Kagura, rushed onto the ring before everyone else and called for the medical team to help immediately.

But when faced with Kagura, who was covered in blood, he was like an insect on a heated brick bed, standing there jumping up and down, not daring to make a move.

Buzz~ Buzz buzz buzz~
Meanwhile, some inconspicuous mosquitoes seized the opportunity to dart past, linger, suck up food, and fly away, before landing in Cheng Tian's vicinity.

As the mosquitoes landed in Cheng Tian's palm, the percentage display for "Kagura Chizuru Blood Material" in his portable laboratory's gene collection began to slowly increase by about 0.1% per jump.

Cheng Tian's promise to Nero the cat is still in progress.

Looking at Kyo Kusanagi beside her, Chizuru Kagura finally succumbed to the combined effects of blood loss and pain, closed her eyes, and fainted.

This caused the halo around the Yata no Kagami (Eight-Span Mirror) enshrined within the conglomerate to dim noticeably.

Meanwhile, the trio from the Hell Band had already appeared near the shrine that the Kagura Foundation was constantly guarding.

(End of this chapter)