The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

"I don't know."

"This ball has been played more than a dozen times already, why is it still going?"

At this moment, Lin Dade also noticed Ishihara Sho's unusual behavior. He frowned and sensed that something was wrong. When the ball flew towards him again, he jumped up and returned it with his signature powerful smash.

"Sigh, it's not tennis after all, there's no way to defend against a smash." Ishihara Sho sighed as he ran to the ball and smashed it back before it even hit the ground.

Lin Da-de saved the ball, but Ishihara Shou, just like Lin Da-de had done at the beginning, continued to smash back.

Lin Da-de continued to save the ball, and Ishihara Sho smashed it. Finally, after four attacks, Ishihara Sho broke through Lin Da-de's defense and tied the score at 1-1.

Then possession of the ball fell into Lin Dade's hands.

Lin Dade held the ball and stared at Ishihara Akira for a while before finally hitting it.

Clearly, they were very wary of the Ishihara Domain he had just created.

……

3:5.

9:8.

11:11.

18:17.

20:20.

The game went back and forth, with the score alternating and rising, even reaching a crucial point in the match. They continued to fight for points until Ishihara Akira finally won the first game of the final at 27-24.

Then the two sides switched sides, rested, and began the second round of the competition.

At this point, the difference between the two became apparent. Compared to Lin Dade, who was drenched in sweat and looked like he had just finished a vigorous workout, Ishihara Akira appeared completely calm and collected, as if the previous intense sparring was nothing out of the ordinary. He walked onto the court with composure and calmly dealt with Lin Dade's serve.

So, after a while, Lin Dade lost his initial threat and gradually fell into a disadvantageous position with Ishihara Akira.

After a 45-minute battle, they lost two consecutive matches and the final of the World Championship, finishing as runners-up.

"yeah!"

Chapter 278 Temporary Departure

"Have you completed your mission?" After everyone had left, leaving only him, Reiko Shiota, and Sayaka Takahashi, Ishihara asked.

"No, what about you?" Shiota Reiko looked at the interface in front of her and shook her head.

"No, but it did suggest that I could temporarily leave this world (reality) for a day and then re-enter to continue the mission," Ishihara Akira replied.

"Take a day off (from reality)?" Shiota Reiko asked strangely.

“I’m not sure either, but since we’ve mentioned that this day is real time, is it possible that there’s a difference between the flow of time in this world and in reality? For example, one day in reality might be many days here.” Ishihara Akira speculated, pretending to be conjecturing.

“Very likely,” Shiota Reiko agreed. “If that’s the case, you really should go back and confirm the flow of time in reality and this world, so that we can be prepared.”

"If there really is a difference in the flow of time, then what do you think would happen to our bodies in the real world? Would we fall into a coma?" Takahashi Sayaka chimed in.

“Very likely.” Ishihara Akira and Shiota Reiko exchanged a glance and agreed.

"That would be troublesome."

To reiterate, one or two days is fine, as the body's physiological functions shouldn't cause any life-threatening problems. But what about three days later? If the person hasn't been discovered and taken to the hospital by then, the outcome could be dangerous.

Speaking of this, Sayaka Takahashi wasn't worried. After all, she was now a formal athlete and had entered the training phase, so she lived with her teammates. Therefore, even if a problem did occur, she wouldn't be left without help.

But Reiko Shiota is in a different situation. She is single and retired from the military. Now she is all alone in Tokyo. If no one takes care of her, she might starve to death in her apartment.

Therefore, from this perspective, it is even more appropriate to let Ishihara Sho go back.

At least we can help get her to the hospital so that she doesn't get any health problems.

"However, judging from the results of this World Championships, the world champion mentioned in our mission should refer to the Olympic champion. If it is the Olympic champion, then we will have to stay in this world for at least two and a half years. Also, regarding the way to achieve results, are you confident that you can beat Wang Xiaoli?" Ishihara Akira skipped over the issue of the flow of time and turned the topic back to the mission.

As for Yuzaki Chinatsu, she has already retired. Although she is still active in the badminton world, she is a free agent. She can play in five-star tournaments or register for the World Championships through other channels, but playing in the Olympics?

Unless she returns to the national team, she has absolutely no chance of stepping onto that stage.

Because that's a stage that only the government, in the name of the state, can enter.

Even if it weren't for the fact that Ishihara Akira had already made contact with the Japanese national team and could have easily sent Shiota Reiko and Takahashi Sayaka over if needed without worrying about the quota, this task would have been just as troublesome for them.

Reiko Shiota and Sayaka Takahashi exchanged a glance and shook their heads together.

The world's number one is the world's number one. It's not like they can easily close the gap and put both sides on the same starting line just because they used some immature cheat codes.

The gap in awareness, experience, and skills cannot be ignored just because you have a cheat.

Otherwise, when Ishihara Sho beat Hayashi Daitoku, it wouldn't have been as difficult as it was at the beginning.

“If all else fails, you two should team up as a doubles team and compete in the Olympics. With your combined strength, I don’t think any doubles team in the world could be your match,” Ishihara Akira suggested after thinking for a moment.

"Perhaps this is the only way." Shiota and Takahashi exchanged another glance and sighed helplessly.

……

Having left the world of Light Feather Flying Alone, Ishihara Shoto, who had temporarily returned, began to examine the various shortcomings of this world strategy, which served as a test.

First, there's the issue of guidance in the Nightmare World. As mentioned before, this can be addressed by providing action guidance directly during the information infusion process. Combined with the Alice he left in the mission hall, this can be considered somewhat resolved.

However, I made some assumptions when choosing which mission world to enter.

After all, the nightmare space you create isn't like the super-powerful nightmare space in novels that can freeze the real world, meaning the time when a participant leaves is the same time when they return. Therefore, when it comes to world strategy or tasks assigned to newcomers entering the world, you should consider the circumstances rather than giving them big tasks like winning the world championship right away that go straight to the core of the story world.

Moreover, even if tasks are to be given, they should be tailored to the specific circumstances, or designed as phased tasks that allow testers to achieve their goals by gradually increasing the difficulty.

As for the resulting excessive time commitment and the potential for physical death in the real world...

It's also easy to solve. When each test subject is pulled into the nightmare world, a strange entity can be left inside their real-world body. This strange entity can then connect to the dream world and maintain the test subject's life by extracting and releasing spiritual energy.

If that doesn't work, we can go to a more complicated place and send members of the Illuminati to various parts of Japan to find private hospitals with good facilities and scale. Then we can notify him so that he can use his supernatural powers to go there and take over all the people in the hospital, turning the hospital into a clandestine property of the Illuminati. This can be combined with the Nightmare Space – which is where test subjects are told after completing their beginner missions that they can place their bodies in a hospital for care and preservation when participating in missions. This can also achieve the purpose of physical maintenance in reality.

Besides that, there are some issues regarding the Nightmare Space feature.

For example, when it comes to treatment, although with his medical ninjutsu and spiritual power, he can take care of the physical bodies of all the test subjects, he can only do so on healthy people. If he encounters someone with a disability or congenital blindness, his medical ninjutsu is somewhat inadequate.

Therefore, if he wants Nightmare Space to be like the one in the novel, where even if someone is missing a limb, they can fully recover, he still needs to improve his abilities in this area.

For example, getting a pair of double-handed weapons or something.

Another issue is the cultivation techniques. That's simple. When he brings the Chinese people into the Nightmare Space, he can just send them into the martial arts world through a mission and collect them. It's not difficult.

As for medicines and such, Ishihara Sho felt that the people in the Naruto world could be fully utilized. It would be perfectly reasonable to arrange for a few of them to work in the Nightmare Space as pharmacy clerks, selling things like the Red and Blue Double Bottles and soldier ration pills.

Anyway, the Naruto world is now his, plus the five great ninja villages, Ishihara Sho has plenty of manpower and resources to draw upon if things really get going.

Going even further, turning ninjas who know nothing but fighting into test subjects and throwing them into the Nightmare Space isn't out of the question.

As for him personally, he will probably act as a guide, a veteran player, accompanying waves of test subjects into various worlds to collect information about those worlds and to work on strategy guides.

"Now, let's go see Reiko Shiota first." With that, Ishihara Akira took a step and crossed through many spaces to arrive at Reiko Shiota's house, where he saw Reiko Shiota, who was still unconscious.

Chapter 279 Expanding the Scale

Instead of taking Shiota Reiko to the hospital, Ishihara Sho went to a pharmacy himself, bought some glucose, saline solution, vitamin solution, and some syringes, and then returned to Shiota Reiko's house with the items. Using the medical knowledge he had acquired while learning medical ninjutsu, he helped Shiota Reiko get an IV drip...

Of course, she didn't have to get the injection. It had only been a day, and there was still a long time before she really needed to replenish her body fluids. But since she had already bought it, there was no harm in getting the injection, and it would also help replenish Shiota Reiko's body fluids. So she got the injection anyway.

Then Ishihara Sho started thinking about when to pull other people into the nightmare space.

After all, if you spend a whole day outside and don't make good use of it, you'll be doing yourself a disservice.

However, they did not intend to let Ai Fukuhara and the others go in and suffer.

Because he had other plans for them, he decided to start by recruiting ordinary people this time.

For example, high school students, office workers, housewives, and white-collar professionals.

Selecting people is simple. Just open your senses, scan your surroundings, and then select a few people who look about the same quality and put them into the Nightmare Space, turning them into players in the Nightmare Space.

Then came the second batch, the third batch, the fourth batch...

After gathering a hundred people, Ishihara Akira stopped again, pondering their whereabouts while searching for information on his phone.

It mainly involves Japanese films, TV dramas, anime, and manga. We do research, make positioning decisions, and then send the previously selected people there.

For example, the first few people were simply thrown into the world of Resident Evil by Ishihara Sho. The mission was also very simple: survive in it for 30 days, and then they could complete the mission, return to the Nightmare Space, and receive the reward.

Yes, 2000 initial points, and one real-world physical treatment.

Then came Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Seven Samurai, Taikou Risshiden, and The Tale of Genji. These stories either depicted a world in the apocalypse, a world in turmoil, or a society in ancient times where people were treated worse than dogs, forcing them to struggle for survival. This served as a trial to make these players recognize reality and accept that they had become players in Nightmare Space.

As for whether or not I'll die...

Since it's named after a nightmare space, people will naturally die there. It just manifests outwardly as a vegetative state, stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, or brain death. Countless people in this society become like this every day for various reasons, and even if they are discovered, it won't have any impact.

It is unlikely to attract public attention in the short term.

Moreover, Ishihara Sho will later impose restrictions on these players, preventing them from revealing the existence of the Nightmare Space to the outside world in any way.

So unless he deliberately creates some battlefield scenes that cause a large number of player deaths and create a social anomaly, it is very likely that even after Ishihara Sho has taken over the whole world, the official authorities may not know about the existence of the Nightmare Space.

……

And so, Ishihara Akira spent a day quietly in reality before entering his dream again, entering the world of light feathers, and finding Shiota Reiko and Takahashi Sayaka who had been waiting for him for many days.

"Phew, you're finally back." Reiko Shiota breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing Ishihara Akira again, speaking with a mix of excitement and relief.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Ishihara Akira asked the two of them curiously.

"No, but do you know how long you've been gone this time?" Sayaka Takahashi shook her head and asked in return.

"I don't know. How long?" Ishihara Akira asked curiously.

“14 months!” Takahashi exclaimed, feigning surprise.

"14 months? That's a pretty high percentage," Ishihara Akira remarked.

A ratio of 1 to 420 days is indeed quite exaggerated.

"Doesn't that mean the Olympics are just one year away?" Ishihara Akira asked in surprise, as if remembering something.