Infinite Anime Strategy Guide

"Alastor, may I kill him?"

Shana's eyes twitched slightly as she looked down at the necklace on her chest.

"Oh, so your name is Alastor? Hello, hello. I've known you for so long and I didn't even know your name. How rude of me."

Although Lin Yu said that, he still withdrew his hand. He didn't dare to gamble on whether the little girl in front of him would really cut him. Moreover, if he didn't handle the favorability he was trying to gain well, it would be a tragedy if it went down instead of up.

"coming!"

Before Lin Yu could finish greeting the pendant Arathitoru, Shana, who had been sitting calmly in her seat, suddenly stood up. At the same time, Lin Yu also sensed a familiar aura.

"Sealed off! At this very moment!"

Lin Yu's playful face instantly turned serious, while Shana summoned her black trench coat, her long, dark hair gleaming with a crimson luster, and in the blink of an eye, she drew her katana, 'Nie-dono Shana'!

"We must change the location!"

He had already witnessed the special abilities of the Crimson World Disciples. If a battle were to break out here, the students who had not yet left the school would definitely not be spared.

"It's too late!"

Before Lin Yu could make any move, Shana loudly reminded him.

"Ace of Spades?"

A playing card suddenly appeared in front of Lin Yu, splitting into two, then four, and soon countless playing cards appeared densely in front of Lin Yu, shooting towards him like arrows.

"Get out of the way!" Shana flashed in front of Lin Yu, her black trench coat billowing as she scattered the menacing playing cards.

The scattered playing cards gathered together like a tornado, shooting sharp blades at Shana. The petite girl neither dodged nor evaded, but leaped high into the air and slashed out with her sword, accompanied by a shrill scream.

A violent explosion occurred in the classroom. Lin Yu was unharmed thanks to Xia Na's special protection, but the students around him fell one by one into pools of blood.

Damn it!

Lin Yu clenched his fists tightly, a sense of powerlessness filling his heart once again. He was too weak at this moment, so weak that he had to be protected by a little girl like Xia Na.

"It's the same phosphorus as last time. Who is your master?" Shana walked to the doll that had fallen to the ground like a discarded doll, grabbed its head, and lifted it up.

"That bizarre doll from last time?"

Lin Yu still has a deep impression of the doll in Shana's hands. After all, she was originally a beautiful mature woman, and in the blink of an eye she turned into a doll, which is just too much to bear.

"Do you think I'd say that?" The little doll, though held in Shana's hands, showed no intention of backing down.

"No, just to confirm, since that person only keeps making useless moves."

Hey girl, don't you know you look more like a villain right now?

Seeing that the crisis seemed to have passed, Lin Yu had time to complain. Shana, with an evil smile on her lips, was holding a doll's head in her hand. It was obvious who the villain was and who the good guys had fallen into the clutches of evil.

"That's why it's so difficult to win over the strong-willed loli. You can't even use the head pat. Do you have to use lollipops to increase her affection? Or maybe a melon bun would be easier."

As Lin Yu's thoughts drifted far away, blue flames reignited outside the window, and the playing cards that Shana had shattered returned to their original state. A strange man dressed in a white suit with white ribbons floating around his body appeared before Lin Yu and Shana.

"Hello, Miss Kid."

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008. An existence on par with Shana

"They actually managed to reduce my prized Noble Phantasm 'Regular Sharp' to this extent with a single strike." The man with short blue hair floated in mid-air above the classroom, the playing cards that had returned to their original state disappearing into his palm.

"You are the master?" Shana frowned slightly.

“That’s right, ‘Hunter Friagra’ is my name.”

Even when facing a powerful Flame Haze like Shana, the hunter in the white suit still casually gave his name.

"The Hunter... so he's the 'Flame Haze Slayer'."

In his pendant form, Alastor uttered the title of Hunter in a deep voice. Lin Yu had always thought that Crimson Denizens were beings hunted by Flame Haze, but now it seemed that the gap between the two sides was not as great as he had imagined.

Lin Yu's ideas were flawed largely because he had never encountered a truly powerful being among the Crimson Denizens. Since arriving in this world, all he had seen were Phosphorus-level grunts. This, coupled with Shana's formidable strength, gave him the illusion that the Crimson Denizens were easily defeated.

This illusion was completely shattered when Shana saw the eerie, powerful Crimson Lord floating in mid-air, a sight that even Shana had to be on high alert for.

"I don't really like being called that."

Despite being given the title of 'Flame Haze Slayer,' the hunter himself doesn't seem to like it much.

"Originally, I was called a Hunter to collect the treasures scattered throughout this world. But you, the 'Heavenly Blaze of Calamity - Alastor' whose name resounds throughout our Crimson World?"

The hunter recognized Shana's contractor the moment he saw the pendant on her chest—a being revered even in the Crimson World.

"This must be the first time we've met, although I heard you're here too."

With a tone as casual as if greeting someone he had heard of before, Alastor, who appeared in this world in the form of a pendant, warned in a slightly heavy tone: "Don't be deceived by his appearance. He is a powerful Crimson Lord who wields numerous Noble Phantasms and has buried countless Flame Haze warriors!"

Shana's little face was full of seriousness. This was the first time Lin Yu had ever seen this violent little girl so wary of someone.

"Is this the Crimson Lord? His strength is probably at least on par with Shana's."

Lin Yu frowned. Today was only his second day in this world. Even a single phosphorus particle could easily kill him, let alone the Crimson World King, who was countless times stronger than a phosphorus particle. No matter how he thought about it, his battle with the two of them was something he could not interfere with without any leverage.

"This won't do. Alaya and Gaia gave me the task of helping Shana defeat the 'Elegy Chanter,' but with my current strength, I'm completely powerless to do anything about it!"

"The perks and little gifts that Gaia and the others mentioned about time travel now seem to be the first ice-blue flame I saw and the treasure hidden in my body. But I can't use either of them now. The ice-blue flame has appeared at least once, and I still don't know what the treasure I have is."

"What exactly is it? That icy blue flame and the treasure I possess!"

On the other side, the hunter didn't care what a Mystius was thinking and continued to say to himself, "Is this your contractor—the Flame Haze of Nietono Shana?"

"Her beauty is truly legendary, but it seems she can't even control the flames."

The hunter, holding the doll he had rescued from Shana, mocked her in a condescending tone.

"What did you say!"

Shana gripped her katana tightly, ready to strike at any moment.

"Weak? Shana is considered weak?"

Lin Yu frowned even more deeply, realizing that he seemed to have underestimated the world's cutting-edge combat power.

"You only managed to unleash your inner flames by borrowing the power of this sword, didn't you?"

The hunter didn't even give Shana a chance to refute him, and continued, "Heavenly karmic fire, if the contractor is so weak, the power of the Crimson World Demon is truly useless."

"Whether you have a chance to use your skills or not, come and try it yourself!"

Faced with Shana's serious rebuttal, the mockery on the hunter's face became even more obvious. The sight of him wearing a suit and holding a doll made Lin Yu want to kick him in the face, but the difference in their combat power made him give up this tempting idea.

"You're angry already? Well, if we start a war now, it won't do if Mystice's Noble Phantasm gets transferred. I'll let you off the hook today."

"I really want to know what's inside..."

The hunter glanced at Lin Yu meaningfully before disappearing into a blue flame, leaving Lin Yu, the prey, powerless to act as a bystander.

"I must master the ice-blue flame as soon as possible. Although I don't know what that thing is, it must be something that Gaia and Alaya gave it to me as a gift. It should at least be able to improve my weak strength!" Lin Yu made up his mind. He had had enough of this passive situation.

"As expected, he is no ordinary member of the Crimson World."

Alastor breathed a slight sigh of relief, but since the other party was in the city, a battle between the two was inevitable.

"The damaged parts need to be repaired."

Shana seemed unaffected. After the hunters left, she looked around and began to consider the issue of repairs.

"Let's use that guy."

Shana quickly made up her mind, but her words surprised Lin Yu.

"Um, you don't mean you want to use living people to repair the damage here, do you?" Lin Yu said to Shana with a forced smile.

"Yes, since there are no leftover torches from the Crimson Denizens, we can only use the one that's about to die, right? If it were a human, even if he's about to die, one person's share would be enough. As long as we use him as the torch, there shouldn't be any problem."

Shana's almost cold words dispelled Lin Yu's hopes.

"This is a huge problem!"

Lin Yu walked to Xia Na's side, raised his hand as if to strike her, but under her murderous gaze, he raised it again and then lowered it. He himself looked indignant and showed no embarrassment whatsoever.

"This guy is practically a friend of mine, right? And using a living person to repair it is just unacceptable, isn't it?"

"What can we do? Without the power of the source, it can't be repaired. If this guy is your friend, then we can replace him with someone else, like the one over there?" Shana seemed indifferent.

"No, no, no, you've got it wrong. I didn't mean who to use, but that we shouldn't use living people."

After being rejected by Lin Yu time and time again, Xia Na, who already had a bad temper, suddenly lost her temper.

"This won't work, that won't work, are you the one who should fix it?"

"can!"

The calm yet joking reply stunned Shana for a moment. She had only asked the question subconsciously, but to her surprise, Lin Yu agreed so readily.

"Are you crazy? This is repairing it with your very existence. Even if you don't disappear on the spot, the time you can exist will definitely be greatly reduced."

Shana's chest rose and fell slightly. In her heart, all the torches were clinging to their own existence, tiny as sparks, just to continue to exist.

"Perhaps."

Lin Yu shrugged noncommittally.

"Just consider this a gamble."

What Shana found meaningless was actually a true reflection of Lin Yu's inner thoughts. He was gambling, gambling that the icy blue flame hidden within him and that treasure could truly turn everything around. These two were his only trump cards in this world. Only by truly understanding the trump cards he possessed could he have enough confidence to complete the mission; otherwise, he would still face the same fate of annihilation.

The only difference is that the former died earlier, while the latter died later.

"Whether you die sooner or later, you'll die anyway, so why worry about it?"

Lin Yu smiled again, but unlike the smiles that Shana had seen before, which were obviously fake, this was a truly carefree smile.

The two interpreted the same sentence completely differently. Lin Yu was fighting for his own survival, while Xia Na saw it as a carefree attitude of not fearing death. Although the outcome might not have been any different, Lin Yu had finally left a unique mark on Xia Na's heart. Regardless of whether Lin Yu could figure out his own trump card, he had finally taken his first step in this world...

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009. The Lost Child at Midnight

"How could there be something so strange... no, not strange, just annoying! Yes, this annoying guy!"

At night, Shana sat alone on the roof of Lin Yu's house, grumbling in a somewhat frantic voice.

"You used your power quite ruthlessly!" Alastor's deep voice came from the pendant on his chest.

"What can be done? That guy brought it up himself!"