Chapter 1 When a Useless Man is Serious, Even a King Will Kneel

When that speechless technique concluded, the two figures locked in combat simultaneously transformed into white light, returning to their respective viewing spaces.

"Ha!" Seeing Oda Ai being teleported back, Takeda Chi, who usually loved to bicker with her, immediately gave a dry laugh and said, "How many times have I told you, don't be reckless… don't be reckless… you've fallen again, haven't you? Heh..." She stuck out her tongue at the end, making a face.

Normally, after hearing such lines, Oda Ai would leap forward without hesitation...and put a headlock on Takeda, who was a head shorter than her, and roar in her ear through gritted teeth: "Shut up, you midget!"

But today, Oda's reaction was...

"Ah..." She replied with a lifeless expression and a weak tone, "Yeah... I've fallen again..." Saying that, she walked to the corner alone, squatted down silently, and started drawing circles on the ground with her finger. "Anyway, I'm just a useless musclehead... about the same as that idiot... just let me turn into dust in the corner..."

Seeing her in this state, Takeda Chi felt awkward instead: "W-well... you don't have to put it so harshly..."

"Looks like she took a big hit this time..." Akechi Shin interjected from the side, narrowing his eyes.

"Yeah... could it be because she died from a particularly embarrassing technique?" The blunt Uesugi Jin poked at Oda's sore spot with precision.

"Ugh..." Hearing this, Oda lowered her head even further, her flushed face almost buried between her knees.

...

On the other hand, in the viewing space of the [Loser Alliance].

"Hahaha... everyone, I'm back!" Tenma Koku, upon his return to the team, was still as high-spirited as ever, no different from before the match.

"I really admire you, you know..." Kōkaku said, "You can still laugh at a time like this..."

"Huh?" Koma asked, "What's wrong? Aren't we at a big advantage?"

"Advantage?" Shichisha, who was standing closer to him, turned around in confusion.

"Yeah." Koma still widened his innocent eyes and continued, "After I took out Oda, the other side only has Imagawa Gi from the second team left... With Bi-sensei's legendary super strength, he should be able to win easily, right?"

As soon as his voice fell, everyone in the viewing space suddenly turned their heads and looked at him with various expressions, all exclaiming in unison: "Huh?"

For the first two seconds, they genuinely thought they had misheard.

But after a few seconds, they gradually realized a very shocking fact—Koma, who had been in the team for more than a week and had played many scenarios with everyone, hadn't realized that Bi-sensei's true strength was actually very weak.

"Say..." After thinking for a few seconds, Shichisha walked quickly to the others and lowered his voice, "Should we tell him..."

"No, no, no..." Kōkaku adjusted his glasses and interrupted, "I want to observe... how long it takes him to figure it out on his own..."

...

At the same time, on the battlefield.

"Are you kidding me!" Imagawa Gi roared inwardly, watching his teammate disappear into light, "Why did it turn into this situation!"

As he thought, he mechanically turned around and looked at the enemy in the distance...

At this moment, Bi-sensei was still standing in the position he was in at the start of the match, striking the pose he was striking at the start of the match, holding the expression he was holding at the start of the match... unmoving as if frozen.

"Are you kidding me!" Bi-sensei was also roaring inwardly, watching his teammate disappear into light, "Why did it turn into this situation!"

At least psychologically, the thoughts of the two people were similar, both thinking that they were already in dire straits.

"Hmph..." After a few seconds, Imagawa Gi made a decision—pretend to be calm, bluff, and provoke, "What a heartless man, your teammate fought so hard, yet you can still stand there and watch coldly."

He snorted and said this sentence, trying his best to keep his voice from trembling; even so, his lines still revealed a feeling of lacking confidence.

"Watching?" Hearing this, Bi-sensei's gaze shifted slightly, looking at his opponent, and replied, "I wouldn't say that..." He paused for half a second, then continued, "I didn't see anything..."

As soon as these words came out, Imagawa Gi gasped.

"Ba... bastard..." Imagawa Gi exclaimed in his heart, "Does this guy mean... that the previous battle was worthless in his eyes?"

"Indeed... Oda's fighting style is reckless and lacks rationality; Tenma Koku's tactics are also very simple... But in any case, the strength, speed, and combat intuition of these two people are top-notch, and the level of their back-and-forth battle is also extremely rare...

"Even so... in the eyes of this man... all of that was 'worthless' and therefore 'unseen' by him..."

Imagawa had many thoughts in that instant, but Bi-sensei's intention was not as complicated as he thought—Old Bi simply didn't see the fight clearly from beginning to end, so he just said that he didn't see anything.

"D-damn it!" Suddenly, Imagawa Gi shouted as if to embolden himself, "Just because you're a little stronger, you think everyone else is an idiot, huh!"

Bi-sensei didn't know how to respond to this unwarranted accusation, so he remained silent.

"Even if your strength is far superior to mine, I won't run away without a fight!" Seeing that Old Bi didn't reply, Imagawa Gi took the opportunity to adopt a stance ready to charge, and then shouted, "I will do everything in my power to make your composure disappear!"

Although his opponent seemed to be ready to fight, Bi-sensei was still expressionless, and after a while, he squeezed out a sentence: "Oh, is that so..."

Due to excessive tension, Old Bi was not only stiff in body and face, but also slow to react... but this scene, in the eyes of others, became a "kingly demeanor that completely disregarded the opponent."

"N-no... that won't do..." Imagawa Gi, who had originally intended to rush up, saw how calm Bi-sensei was and immediately suppressed that urge to fight desperately. "Phew..." He quickly adjusted his breathing and thought to himself, "That was close, I almost made the same mistake as Oda... being dragged into the opponent's rhythm. At a time like this, I should calmly consider the offensive strategy..."

"Hmm?" Bi-sensei saw that Imagawa Gi was about to attack but didn't, so he asked, "What's wrong? Weren't you going to come over?"

"As expected! He's waiting for me to take the bait!" Imagawa Gi thought with lingering fear, thinking he had escaped a disaster, "Come to think of it... there's almost no information about Bi-sensei from the outside world, his fighting style, specialized type, skills, equipment, etc... are all unknown, the only thing that's certain is that he has 'unbelievable strength'... God knows what secrets he's hiding, if I go up without considering anything, I'll definitely die without knowing how."

"Heh..." Thinking of this, Imagawa Gi replied with a cold smile, "I almost fell for your trick..." As he spoke, he had imperceptibly changed his stance and quietly made preparations for a long-range sneak attack.

What Imagawa Gi was going to use was none other than the two *shuriken* he had thrown at Tenma Koku's back earlier.

Only the people of [Sengoku] knew that his two hidden weapons were not ordinary consumables, but reusable [Qi-infused Shuriken] with power at least on par with B-level skills.

Right now, because Koma had already transformed into light and teleported away, the two shuriken that were originally stuck in his back had fallen to the ground in the distance, mixed with a pile of broken soil and rocks crushed by [Tenma Revolving Shattering Hurricane Wheel]; even the audience, who could observe the battlefield from various angles, would not pay attention to these two flying objects that had already been "used," let alone the players on the field.

Imagawa Gi planned to take advantage of this, using himself to attract Bi-sensei's attention while silently using "Qi" to control the "swords," launching a long-range surprise attack from an angle that the enemy would never expect.

Unexpectedly!

"So..." Just as Imagawa Gi was about to make a move, Bi-sensei spoke again, "You want me to go over there?"

"Wha... what!" Imagawa Gi was shocked when he heard this, and thoughts flashed through his mind, "Th-that's a lie, right! He actually saw through my intentions in an instant?"

"The subtext of 'You want me to go over there' is... 'I've already noticed that you're going to use flying weapons to sneak attack me, save your boring tricks, it's easy for me to get close to you with my speed, it's impossible for you to hit me with your half-baked long-range abilities.'

"This man... his tentacles have already extended to every corner of the battlefield, and even the trembling of a small stone on the ground at the farthest distance... is all within his grasp...

"Even when facing an ability he's seeing for the first time, he can preempt the enemy before they even make a move... It seems that the moment I established communication between 'Qi' and the shuriken, he discovered...

"N-no... wait! It's not the 'first time' anymore!

"I see... when I attacked Tenma Koku earlier, he already saw that my method of using the shuriken was not an ordinary 'throw,' but using Qi to 'control' them.

"Heh... heh heh... even as an opponent, one can't help but admire him... Bi-sensei, a man worthy of the word 'legend', now I understand why you said you 'didn't see anything', because in your realm... the scenery you see is completely different from what we see...

"No wonder even the arrogant Oda showed that almost fearful expression... someone of my level doesn't even have the qualification to feel that fear..."

Imagawa Gi's inner monologues continued, while Bi-sensei had already moved.

Old Bi did what he said, he "went over there"—at the speed of a "walk," he "walked over."

It wasn't that he didn't want to walk faster, it was just that his body was too stiff... it was already good enough that he could muster the courage and determination to approach the enemy.

"The opponent looks pretty strong..." Bi-sensei was also thinking as he advanced, "But come to think of it... even if he's not very strong, I can't win either... I, who only managed to get into the competition by relying on my teammates' average score, probably can't even beat non-professional players. Sigh... if it wasn't for the system prompting me that I would be considered passively gaming if I didn't move, I wouldn't want to go up there!"

He just walked forward unhurriedly, and no matter what he thought, in the eyes of others... this scene was like the king of beasts slowly approaching prey that had run out of road—more of an execution than an attack.

"Is he coming..." Looking at the approaching majestic figure, Imagawa Gi's face was covered in cold sweat and even his vision had begun to blur, but at this moment, his heart calmed down instead, "In the end... I still can't shake your composure..." He took another deep breath, made a final decision, and thought to himself, "Hmph... there's no helping it... I admit, you are a true overlord, but because of that... you will die today!"

Thinking of this, Imagawa Gi's hand had already reached his bag.

"The forbidden trump card—[Scroll of Sealed Murderous Intent]...

"Although it's a secret weapon that was originally intended to be used on Gui Xiao, no one above can say anything if I use it on you...

"No matter how strong you are, you can't possibly guess that this item would be carried by me, the 'weakest on the team'.

"After all, even I didn't expect the team to arrange for me to carry this... but that's exactly the most brilliant part of this plan.

"The released [Scroll of Sealed Murderous Intent] will sense and capture the target with the strongest murderous intent and aura nearby, and instantly devour it...

"Hehe... you can only underestimate me now, the moment you attack me will be your death!"