My wife is the stand-in.

Tears and snot streamed down his face; the sweet despair whetted the lizardman's appetite.

Then the lizardman felt dizzy as his view swept over his prey's head, rolled around, and saw four claws, skin with alternating old and new scales like a mangy dog, and a body spitting out a high jet of blood.

He opened his mouth, belatedly realizing that it was his own body.

But his vocal cords remained in the corpse, so he could no longer speak and could only stare blankly.

His head, like Master Tang's buttocks, no longer hurts.

Watching the beautiful woman, whose body was covered in countless pixels that spun like air currents, lightly tap the back of the headless corpse's neck with her knuckles, knocking three times like knocking on a door, the spine, meridians, blood vessels, and flesh swelled and broke.

The principle of overcoming strength with softness is the essence of Tai Chi.

Amanosaki, panting, left the headless corpse, Hinata floating silently behind him. He still kept his eyes closed, moving swiftly. Judging from his breathing, it seemed he might faint from lack of oxygen due to excessive exercise at any moment, yet his speed was astonishing; he moved with incredible agility, panting heavily as if flying.

Weakness and strength, two contradictory yet unified qualities emanated from him.

"Superpower awakening?! Damn it, how unlucky! The only one who didn't escape is a born superhuman!"

Crane Master spat out a wet, matted mass of clothes and trousers, with several outstretched handprints faintly visible on his belly. The handprints disappeared with a clench of his muscles. Seeing Amanosaki's strange actions, Crane Master suddenly yanked off his own beard with the webbed hand that was pinching it.

Amanosaki's Stand ability is naturally attributed to his special ability.

With her Stand ability activated, Hinata Hyuga floated like Star Platinum from the anime. Amanosaki, whose Stand ability was fully activated, also received feedback from the Stand, making him more agile and his physical abilities leap to a higher level in a short period of time.

It wasn't until then that Amanosaki realized that the main characters and extras in JoJo who were unharmed by being stabbed, hit by cars, or beaten by fists traveling at 50 or 60 kilometers per hour were not only physically strong, but also had the amplification provided by their Stand users.

Courage surged up!

"Ouch! Ouch! My goodness! You guys are still eating, eating, eating! How come you're even more greedy than me?!" Crane Daoist snapped out of his daze in pain, only to see his fellow demons still greedily devouring negative emotions, which made him furious.

He kicked over a worm-like demon with several hands and feet, cursing, "The Wise Octopus is dead! If we don't deal with that Outcast and the Eastern Leaf Knight soon, we won't even be able to leave the training ground!! Kill them first, then grab ten or so people and retreat, otherwise the branch leaders will drive us out and wipe us out!"

The worm stared blankly at the fiery Crane Master, and after a while, it reacted and then pounced on Asahi Nozaki amidst a series of "oh oh" responses.

As Crane Taoist cursed, he moved his fat catfish body, kicking over the demons above him one by one, urging everyone to join the attack.

Thus, the Eastern Leaf Knight realized that with Amanosaki's awakening, the balance of power in the martial arts arena had shifted. The evil forces could no longer ignore him, and out of self-preservation and distrust, they chose to attack him.

In short, his plan to passively avoid the battle and delay had failed.

What's worse, when he was alone, whether he adopted an aggressive tactic or avoided battle, public opinion could not criticize him.

However, Amanosaki's high-profile actions and the killing of two demons overshadowed his own image...

"The attack on the branch meeting venue is a national news story, no less serious than the burning of Wuyi Mountain... I can't afford to make a mistake here."

Seeing that the camera lens had already turned away, Dongfang Shuyexia had a plan in mind.

Thus, this chivalrous figure, who possessed the skills of a branch leader and was, in other words, renowned throughout a province on Earth, finally changed his mindset.

What is evident is that the numerous, but weak, feathers suddenly retracted most of their force, while the remaining feathers, no longer limp, began to whistle and whistle as they swirled through the air.

The Eastern Leaf Knight had arrived in front of Crane Daoist, holding five Wuyi Mountain Feathers that shimmered with a metallic sheen. He looked at Crane Daoist with a gloomy face: "Of all these people, you're the only one with a brain. Judging from your attire and your ability to swallow people whole, you're not a demon, but an outsider, right?"

Seeing that Daoist He stroked his beard and remained silent, Dongfang Shuye Xia sneered, "I knew it! How could a bunch of low-class demons dare to attack the Yushan branch, and even time it so perfectly? It turns out that it was someone like you who was behind it all... What? You've gone too far in practicing heretical magic, and you can't even maintain your human form and humanity anymore? You've become just like a catfish in a cesspool."

Hearing someone call him a fish that had fallen from human form to a cesspool, Crane Taoist finally couldn't hold back and roared, "I'll kill you!"

Then he stretched out his neck, opened his blood-red mouth wide, and his upper body really looked like a catfish as he lunged at the Eastern Leaf Knight. The slime on his body and the saliva in his mouth flew everywhere, making him look quite disgusting.

The Eastern Leaf Knight controlled his feathers, turned around and flew up, loudly relaying his message: "Young friend, please hold off those evil spirits. Leave this villainous heretic to me."

However, Amanosaki did not reply.

Or perhaps Amanosaki simply didn't notice the changes in the training ground.

He was confronting the worm-like demon.

He focused all his attention on communicating with Hinata.

Just as Hinata used her Gentle Fist technique to penetrate the lizardman's tough skin and kill him from the inside out, Hinata, who was closely observing the demon absorbing negative emotions, began to stick close to Amanosaki like a substitute. Hinata's voice automatically sounded in his mind:

"Nozaki, I know how to explain it."

Amanosaki, who was doing parkour, crouched down and unfastened his Stand. Hinata transformed into a large cluster of pixels.

He narrowly avoided the worm's arching charge, and the pixels bypassed the worm's body, gathering on Amanosaki's back. Hinata's image reappeared, pushing him forward, and the worm's downward attack was also dodged with this agile tactic.

Now, Amanosaki and Hinata are facing the back of the worm. The Eight Trigrams appear in their Byakugan eyes. Amanosaki asks quietly, "What do you know?"

With the back of his hand pressed against the soft muscles of the worm, the power of the Soft Fist Technique - Bagua Thirty-Two Palms was fully displayed for the first time.

The worm-like body, composed entirely of muscle and fat and of enormous size, rippled as Hinata struck it with her palm, and its position began to shift as Hinata's palm strikes became faster and faster.

The rippling fat clumps began to collide with each other. Each collision was a clash of two gentle forces. In the process of colliding and oscillating, the contact points of these ripples cracked, like a riverbed after a dry day.

"Take a look at my data."

Hinata said this as she withdrew her hand.

Amanosaki obediently opened his eyes, and at the bottom of his field of vision, the data from the morning floated quietly.

The only difference is that a progress bar hangs leisurely after a string of characters:

[Current popularity: Obscure (60%)]

Amanosaki was certain that the "60%" progress bar wasn't there in the morning.

As he was observing, the number slowly rose from 60 to 64, and continued to increase.

"This is what I wanted to tell you: popularity." Hinata hugged Amanosaki, her chakra imbuing the soles of her shoes, and leaped three zhang high, dodging the attacks of the demons that were coming one after another.

"I suspect this involves the origin of superpowers in this world and the reason you gained your superpowers."

Hinata spoke earnestly. She had been sweating, but after going through the process of being turned into pixels, her appearance seemed to have been reset, and she returned to her refreshed state.

Even the aroma has been reset.

Amanosaki, held in his arms, tried to calm himself, but the softness of the breasts pressing against his arms was impossible to ignore.

He is a normal man and has been a virgin for over twenty years.

He's really suffering...

"Don't think nonsense, you're leading me astray." Hinata flicked her finger on Amanosaki's forehead, and the romantic thoughts in his mind vanished.

What could be more humiliating than having a YY girl's fantasies broadcast live to the person in question?

At least Amanosaki's brain was in a malfunction at this moment and he couldn't say anything.

Seeing that Nozaki stopped sending those strange thoughts, Hinata, whose cheeks were burning, took a few deep breaths, forced herself to calm down, and activated her Byakugan again to share her vision.

"Look, these monsters, or rather, the evil spirits they talk about, all inhale negative emotions like black smoke and black mist."

"After absorbing it, their bodies changed immediately. Take the lizardman for example, his scales became harder. I just struck the same spot three times in a row, using Gentle Fist to inject chakra into his body, and the internal and external resonance was enough to kill him. If it were a direct confrontation, it would take me much longer."

Amanosaki nodded repeatedly, a certain guess echoing in his mind. Unfortunately, Hinata spoke succinctly, like a true ninja who doesn't waste any time on the battlefield:

"I am Hinata and yet not Hinata, and you know why, Nozaki." As she said this, there was an indescribable regret in her tone, like that of a true young girl.

Yes, your inner self is my ideal type, and you are my substitute. Hinata is just your appearance and abilities today.

Amanosaki mentally added that the two heads, one above the other, were communicating through the spinal cord via electric current, and both became listless.

"Getting back to the main topic," Hinata quickly perked up. "You should have noticed by now that I haven't used Gentle Fist: Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, Gentle Step Lion Fist, or any ninjutsu yet."

"Because I simply don't know how now."

As expected, Amanosaki's heart tightened.

Hinata stepped onto the seats in the training ground, leaping across a distance of ten meters with each step, circling around those demons who were not as clever as Tsurudo.

An occasional turnback or confusing maneuver can make the demon roar in anger.

"I doubt myself, I mean my true self, that Stand's abilities are limited."

"Just as demons need human negative emotions to strengthen themselves, I'm afraid I also need human emotions to become stronger. This popularity might be positively correlated with the abilities of the original characters that I can use."

Having said that, Amanosaki understood, and he immediately took over the conversation, quickly organizing his thoughts:

"So, if I want Hinata to become stronger and defeat these demons faster, I need to acquire more emotions... How about these negative emotions?"

The next second he denied it himself: "No, although I don't know if I accepted it, the appearance of these demons that feed on negative emotions makes me feel that it can't be a good thing... But where did you get all this popularity from?"

Hinata nodded: "Your line of thinking is correct. Next, I'm going to talk about my second conjecture."

"All the superpowers and other abilities in this world are related to human emotions."

"As the popularity of the song started to rise, I felt that I was also growing. I am much stronger now than I was in the morning, as if I had been training for a long time."

"The superhumans in this world are clearly stronger than ordinary people and governments, but both domestically and internationally, they all have to form organizations and try every means to restrain them with rules, etiquette, and interests. Whether it's domestic heroes or foreign knights, they all have a lot of retro and cumbersome etiquette. The government is also very tolerant of them, with official agencies and offices all over the country."

"This is not the attitude a government should have toward an organization that could overthrow the country at any time."

"Therefore, I suspect that human emotions, or rather certain emotions, are so beneficial to those with superpowers that they are eager to play the role of heroes to maintain world peace."

So this world is a place where materialism and idealism coexist, I understand.

The successor to socialism quickly used concepts from his high school political classes to understand the meaning behind Hinata's words.

"Does increased popularity make you feel more free and unrestrained?" Amanosaki suddenly asked a completely unrelated question.

Hinata Hyuga was taken aback by the question, and her jumping movements became chaotic. She quickly adjusted her posture and cleaved away a flying spike spat out by a demon with a palm strike. A rare hint of panic appeared on her usually composed face.

Her jade-like face creased with fine lines like ripples in a spring pond, her face twisted with a hint of shyness, but her ninja instincts required her to remain serious on the battlefield, so the two emotions were thus intertwined.

This contradictory emotion makes Hinata appear to have the charm that a young girl should have.

She spoke hesitantly, a hint of something else flickering deep in her eyes:

"No, I don't know. Maybe? Perhaps."

These emotions are like electric currents; although they are similar to the brain's bioelectricity, they cannot be read by thought.

Amanosaki felt a jolt throughout his body, as if he had been electrocuted, and then he became alert.

"understood."

Then, Amanosaki took over the conversation, speaking rapidly:

“I took a look from your panoramic view. There are sixteen cameras in this training ground. If the popularity of a song stems from people’s emotions, then I think it is very likely to be admiration or respect.”

"We need to find a way to fight the demons in front of a camera. Don't eliminate them too quickly; finish them off with actions that the audience will find cool!"

Amanosaki, who was talking to himself with his head down, failed to appreciate Hinata's wonderful expression. He was unaware of what he had missed.