Am I really from the future?

Chapter 166 Hiratsuka Shizuka: What? Yukinoshita is in Kengankai?

"Mr. Norred? I was introduced by teacher Otto..."

"My name is Horikita Manabu."

"Hey, hey, I get it."

Horikita Manabu contacted Norred, but Norred did not choose a normal place to meet him, but chose a place that looked a bit abnormal.

Academy City——Kengankai Arena.

Kengankai, a means of quelling conflicts among merchants, began in the mid-Edo period and has been passed down to the present day.

Things that should have been eliminated in history were once again brought out in a dignified manner in Academy City.

This is a very typical way of resolving conflicts using fists rather than brains.

But now, that place is the Valkyries' arena, and many Valkyries like to earn some extra money there.

The place is big enough and the fighting is exciting enough.

There are many social practice places in Academy City. For example, Horikita Manabu originally attended a high-level training high school, which is known as a school established based on the principle of strength supremacy.

Then, just a few days after school started, a large-scale student poisoning incident occurred. The suspect did not run away and even accepted the arrest very calmly.

Manabu Horikita has a very vivid memory of the interrogation scene at that time because he was also one of the people who suffered from food poisoning.

[…Since this is a school that values ​​strength above all else, if I can poison someone without being discovered, that will be considered a testament to my ability…]

[…As long as we eliminate the other people in the school, theoretically this group of people in the school will be eliminated by their strength…]

What she said makes sense, but it’s better not to put such principles into practice anymore.

Thanks to Academy City's powerful biotechnology capabilities, these students were not killed by poisoning by those who believe in the supremacy of strength.

Then, the school rules were changed in the third week of its establishment.

The school where Horikita Manabu is now located has abolished the insane educational ideology. Apparently, many teachers have also been infected.

Who would have thought that some students actually believe that being able to poison without being discovered is also a sign of strength?

Teachers have also become one of the targets of these power-oriented people.

It seems that the teachers in this school are not strong enough.

Horikita Manabu was thinking about all the messy things about his school, and finally arrived at the Kengankai Arena at the border wall of the Academy City.

The crowds shouted, yelled, and all kinds of noisy sounds echoed in the arena.

This place is simply like a battlefield for venting chaos, and has completely become the most spectacular place in Academy City.

There are hawking stalls and various shops around, with a constant stream of people.

The place that Horikita Manabu was going to was the highest point of the Kengan Arena, which was also the best place to watch the fight.

Nored looked at the students fighting in the field. He would come here for a stroll when he had nothing to do during this period.

Norred studied the art of ruling in this era and found that people in this era are not unacceptable to crude ways of resolving conflicts. What they cannot accept is often an opaque, unfair, and unreversible way of resolving conflicts.

The conditions that the future will hate are completely rare products in this era.

The inexplicable things like the Kengan Society can be used directly. The primitive fist-to-fist fight until the last person cannot stand up has become the best way to stimulate the secretion of dopamine in humans.

The two sides fighting today are...

Huh? It's a student competition? There are teachers participating?

Horikita Manabu saw the fighters in the field. He silently looked at those high school girls who looked very thin.

"What a ridiculous scene..."

He sighed, but his eyes subconsciously looked at the list of people appearing.

Hiratsuka Shizuka VS Yukinoshita Yukino

It was a woman I didn’t know.

It's strange to say, I don't know if it's because there are too many Valkyries in Academy City. This place has a feeling that women are more female than male, especially the desire of women to fight has become even stronger after the appearance of characters like Valkyries.

They quickly adapted to the Kengankai's fighting style and applied it to various troubles in life.

Horikita Manabu walked all the way up.

In such a large venue, he naturally couldn't hear what the two women were saying. The battle hadn't even started yet, and only the sound collection devices embedded in their combat armor could hear their conversation.

This thing was originally used to ensure that the voice message of "surrender" was conveyed accurately.

Later, it became an important medium for audiences to watch dialogue and quarrels, so a more powerful protection design was implemented to prevent the voice system from being damaged during combat.

But these requirements do not exist in Valkyrie battles.

Among the Valkyries, there are two who are always on the list.

These two Valkyries are Theresa and Wendy.

The main challenger is Wendy.

At this time, Norred was at the highest point, eating potato chips while watching the two teachers and students prepare to start fighting.

The interesting thing is that they actually started chatting.

Perhaps because of the good sound collection effect, Nored was even able to hear some complex emotions in the voice of teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka.

Hiratsuka Shizuka: "Yukino, I know you've been bullied, but isn't it a little too strange to join the Kengankai competition?"

Yukinoshita Yukino looked at the teacher in confusion and asked, "I should be the one who feels strange. Why can the teacher also participate in the Kengankai and even be two levels higher than me? Teacher, that is the general-purpose stigmata armor, right? I just barely got the trial armor..."

Students and teachers are confused.

"It seems that this girl has committed the same unfortunate thing as Raiden Mei. Are you so weak in bullying and fighting? You either fight in the campus bathroom or in the corners of the alley. Even though I opened the boxing arena for you, many of you dare not come."

Nored was somewhat disappointed. He was speechless about Jidong's irresponsible attitude.

How could it be possible that most of the students only dared to bully the minority with their numbers, instead of simply fighting between the strong and the weak?

Isn't this just raising people like sheep? Aren't we all huddled together and pointing our butts at the wolves outside?

Teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka scratched her head awkwardly and said, "Me too, I was just itching to show off my skills. I didn't expect those temporary Valkyrie coaches to be so awesome."

Yukinoshita Yukino hesitated for a long time, but still advised: "Teacher, I suggest you leave early. I heard that many Valkyries have a hard time finding a partner. You know... you don't have much luck with men."

She wasn't kidding, most people actually have a hard time accepting someone who drinks, is hungover, and lives a sloppy life.

If it were a two-dimensional screen, you would feel a bit of contrast.

But in reality, people will only think that this person is hypocritical and can pretend.

Yukinoshita Yukino's move directly poked teacher Shizuka Hiratsuka's lung.

"Okay, okay, you're going to play like this, right?! It seems like I have to let you, Yukino, understand the dignity of a teacher!"

Veins bulged on Shizuka Hiratsuka's forehead. Now that he was in the Kengankai arena, how could there be any difference between a student and a teacher?

Yukinoshita Yukino had no choice but to follow suit and defend herself.

Chapter 167 Hiratsuka Shizuka: We must strike hard at the students!

"Hit! Good! Punch! Don't worry about getting hurt, use your head! Great job! I knocked her teeth out!"

Horikita Manabu looked at the scene in front of him in silence.

He still underestimated what Teacher Otto said was strange.

Most of the people watching the student match were young people, and they joined in the cheering, making the fighting atmosphere in the arena even more intense.

And what about Norred?

'He looked like a high school kid, but he was watching two women fighting each other.'

I saw the teacher on the big screen punching his student hard on the head, and then with a snap, the student's face and nose were crooked, teeth and blood foam flew everywhere, blood and emotions were the same color!

Although he had known that the battles of Kengankai were bloody, Horikita Manabu still underestimated the extent of the bloodiness.

"I already know what you are talking about. Don't worry about it. Let's finish watching the game first."

What Norred likes to watch is not how fierce the battle is, but the kind of battle where there is a small but significant gap in strength, and a chance of a comeback with enough skills, patience, and a little bit of luck.

This type of battle is the most likely to provide enough emotional value.

A high school girl who was once bullied decided to follow the Valkyrie in order to become more correct and stronger.

As for the teacher? The teacher's purity is even higher. She simply likes the feeling of punching.

The fight between this teacher and student was really bloody.

Horikita Manabu looked at the enthusiastic Norred and also watched the battle in silence.

It took only two sentences for the girl named Yukinoshita Yukino to seize the opportunity and punched the teacher in the eye again, directly bursting the eyeball.

'The power of the stigmata armor is truly amazing. Strength and endurance have both been greatly increased. I heard that some Valkyries will undergo stigmata body transformation, and some Valkyries are born with stigmata awakening. I wonder what level of combat power these people will reach.'

Horikita Manabu did not regard the battle of Kengankai as a reflection of the full combat power of the Valkyrie.

The main reason was that the battle with the Honkai beast was seen by many people. The light that streaked across the sky was completely in the form of strangulation, which was completely different from the human melee in the field.

At that level, he is basically a walking nuclear bomb.

"That girl is about to lose. Her will to fight is shaken."

Norred sighed, it was a pity that Yukinoshita Yukino couldn't withstand more blows from the teacher's fists.

"Age is an important indicator of willpower. Humans' ability to remember pain determines the upper and lower limits of willpower. The young girl still lacks some sophistication. She couldn't help herself after the teacher exposed a few flaws. After several failed assaults, she became a little shaken."

He sat down to see if the girl had any chance of making a comeback.

Although her will to fight was shaken, she still hadn't given up. It was just a few missing teeth and a crooked mouth and nose. It would be almost healed in two days of treatment.

Even without Norred's help, relying on the healing system of destiny and anti-entropy is enough.

"Indeed, she should be hesitant and a little hesitant."

Horikita Manabu also noticed the problem with Yukinoshita Yukino, but he just made a brief comment and didn't say anything more.

"It's a stalemate now. There's nothing interesting to see. You said Otto asked you to come to me for help. What do you need help with?"

Nored didn't care what Otto was going to do. Whether he would help or not depended entirely on the current situation.

"There are many deviations in the management of Academy City, especially many inadequate executions that waste a lot of resources. We need more fresh blood to join in. We can also bring together some local schools and tie both new and old schools to the research institute's scientific research and education."

The waste that Horikita Manabu mentioned is the situation where research institutes spend a lot of money but have no results. If there were not many people working, I am afraid that the flow of funds will become a problem.

"It is very dangerous to keep relying on input without output. The education industry takes decades to produce results. This impatience will affect the interests of many people."

Horikita Manabu doesn't want Academy City to collapse like this. Not only is it a huge waste of resources, but it will also put Far East on the spot.

Nored agreed with his statement.

But the problem is that it is never him who is impatient, but the people he has circled.

“There are always people who think that they can use the development of technology to solve the problems in development. In fact, this is just wishful thinking. It seems that people will not feel pain if they advance to the next era. But in fact, as long as life is moving, pain will not stop. If you cannot admit the pain, then the future will be very sad for you.”

"But these problems are not really big. People will suffer to death if they keep suffering."

Hearing Norred's cold joke, Horikita Manabu just pushed his glasses.

'You are so humorous.'

Horikita Manabu said: "There is no turning back in this world, and any pain is only a temporary experience. What I want to know is how to advance the preservation of Academy City."

Horikita Manabu doesn't care about the issue of development or not. All he wants to do is preserve this place.

Norred said nonchalantly, "This place has only been established for six months. Its existence is not completely necessary. There are even better places than the port. There is no point in keeping this small place conservative."

Norred's tone made Horikita Manabu more certain of his thoughts.

"This seemingly young man doesn't take Academy City seriously at all. It's as if everything here is just a matter of course..."

'It doesn't even have to be Academy City.'

But what Horikita Manabu values ​​is not this at all. What he values ​​is the new technology and new style brought by Academy City. Academy City is full of vitality. Although it is so rough and unsightly, it is full of upward vitality and full of expectations of more people.

Unlike the lifeless outside world, what Horikita Manabu values ​​is the changes that this place brings to the world. He will never give up such a good historical opportunity.

“I like it here so much that I want to try to do something.”