Persona: Devil Summoner

“…Is it reinforcement? Or is it to help me? — But it doesn’t matter. Go ahead! My half body — [Xiang Yao]! Smash these racist bastards’ so-called [sociality] to pieces!”

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 24: My enemy's friend is my enemy

Xiang Yao, also known as Xiang Liu, is a subordinate monster of the water god Gong Gong in Chinese legend. It is a giant snake monster with nine heads. It is said that it can swallow and spit out poisonous water and cause floods.

Some occult researchers believe that the famous Japanese monster Yamata no Orochi is essentially a revised version of the Chinese legend of Xiangyao that spread to Japan. After all, the stories of the two snake monsters are very similar.

Persona, to a certain extent, is the spiritual embodiment of the holder, and the holder's general personality can be roughly inferred from the persona. For example, a simple-minded person who likes to act rashly will often have a direct and reckless persona ability. On the other hand, a person who is thoughtful and good at planning will have a persona that reflects more magical characteristics.

But, it is a bit strange that, judging from the name, this persona should reflect the attributes of poison, water, etc. But it is obvious that this metal giant relies on his fists to fight!

Moreover, the style of Jiang Tianwei's mask had obviously changed. As he sang and recited Peking Opera, the plain white mask had already shown patterns similar to Peking Opera masks. And the corresponding persona was born, waving his fists with great force... It was just like the legendary hero, the incarnation of Xiang Yu!

With resentment surging in Jiang Tianwei's chest, the metal giant soared into the air, swung his huge iron fist, and aimed at the two bee people flying in the air!

How agile are bees? They are extremely agile in the air. It is very difficult to catch a bee with your bare hands!

Naturally, the punch missed, and the two bee men separated, one on the left and one on the right. The boss bee man was still shouting, "How dare you attack me, the king?! Are you trying to challenge the whole society?"

"Don't flatter yourself, asshole."

Jiang Tianwei cursed mercilessly. Although his punch missed, he was not anxious at all. Pixie, who was flying beside him, waved his hands. Another sharp lightning flashed. The bright yellow light, accompanied by a harsh noise, attacked like a sharp sword! The target was exactly the direction where the bee man with the golden earrings dodged before!

If you often watch robot animations or play robot games, you should understand this concept, the road-blocking cannon.

The significance of attacking is not to hit the target - of course, it is best to hit the target - if you can't hit the target, you can also block the enemy's evasion route! Against highly agile enemies, this move can achieve excellent results.

The bee man's flexible speed was perfectly demonstrated in mid-air. Facing the lightning attack from Pixie's palm, he also flexibly turned back and lightly dodged...

"Thank you for coming to my door."

As Jiang Tianwei said this, he saw the metal giant in the air swing his fist violently, and the huge fist hit the bee man's head!

With a bang, a black shadow fell heavily to the ground, and a cloud of smoke exploded instantly.

"——Yasen!"

Jiang Tianwei suddenly heard a loud and sharp shout from behind him!

"Jiang Jiang! Get out of the way!"

Without Fang Zexia's reminder, Jiang Tianwei also realized it. He stepped hard on the floor, lowered his body, instinctively protected his face with both hands, and slid to the side. This is a very common boxing slide in professional boxing matches!

Perhaps many people's first reaction when they hear the word "Chinese" is Chinese Kung Fu. This is also a stereotype. Jiang Tianwei has not learned this... The main reason is that there is no Chinese boxing gym in his city. The Children's Palace only has boxing, taekwondo, karate, judo... and other foreign fighting skills for physical fitness.

This is a tragedy. In China, Chinese martial arts are not as popular as foreign martial arts.

When Jiang Tianwei was very young, his parents decided to send him to learn a martial arts skill. Firstly, it would strengthen his body, and secondly... at least he would have a certain ability to resist when facing school bullying.

When it comes to school bullying, unless someone is killed, the police will definitely shirk their responsibility by claiming insufficient evidence, and the school will often just try to smooth things over. So, when facing school bullying, the best way is to make yourself so strong that others dare not bully you.

(I never thought that this skill I once had could actually work wonders in this situation...)

Jiang Tianwei thought so and turned around.

A strange man was floating in the air, wearing a red cloak and a red top hat. No matter how he looked at it, he looked like the legendary thief. He had a pair of huge black bat wings on his back. The cane in his hand was pointing in the direction he had just gone, and a black mud fire was stuck on it - if he hadn't dodged it, he would have been hit.

And there are only a few people in this space, so it is obvious who this persona belongs to.

"It seems that you two are my enemies."

Jiang Tianwei smiled nonchalantly: "Then let's beat him down together."

There is a saying that goes "water can be drained but cannot be blocked." If a person suffers oppression for many years, even if he endures it silently, one day, this hatred will exceed his endurance.

This is also why there are so many antisocial lunatics suddenly appearing around the world. It's not that there are more lunatics, but that society has finally become harsh enough to drive these people crazy.

"Hey! Hey there, kid! Listen to me! The owner of this palace can't be killed casually! It will cause big problems!"

The one who spoke was the half-human-high cat demon. Jiang Tianwei ignored him and waved his hand. The metal giant flew back to his side, and Pixie also landed on his head. Fang Zexia saw this and quickly stood behind him. He clearly fought against the other two men in black.

Seeing this, the man in black and mask could only climb the short stairs and stand opposite Jiang Tianwei.

"You...you are Amamiya Ren."

Jiang Tianwei looked at him for a moment and then came to a conclusion.

Although I didn't recognize them at first glance before, now that the two of them are standing face to face, the facial contours are very clear.

"I see. That black guy over there must be the black cat in your backpack."

Jiang Tianwei's words startled Yu Gonglian. After a little thought, he nodded seriously: "Yes."

"That's really great. I'm glad you're being so honest with me."

Jiang Tianwei said this and stretched out his hand to him.

He was still in the middle of the fight, but he suddenly stopped fighting. It was really strange. The only possibility that Amamiya Ren could think of was that he recognized him and knew that he was not the enemy.

"You are... Jiang Tianwei?"

Amamiya Lian asked tentatively, and Jiang Tianwei nodded without pretending.

He was not surprised at all that he could guess himself. Although it is difficult for Europeans and Americans to distinguish between yellow people from different countries, the natives can still clearly distinguish them. It is difficult to explain why this is, but in daily life, Chinese and Japanese can indeed recognize each other's nationality at a glance.

The only foreigner Amamiya Ren knew was Jiang Tianwei. After seeing his face, she didn't even need to use the process of elimination.

Seeing how friendly he was, Kuroneko breathed a sigh of relief, and Amamiya Ren also reached out and held his hand...

But...is it really so peaceful?

Before, there were three beemen! One failed to attack and was killed, and the other was knocked down by Jiang Tianwei using a road-blocking cannon and fists... Then, what about the other queen bee?

"You all go to hell!"

The queen bee raised her legs and pointed the huge stinger behind her butt at everyone. It wasn't a stinger at all! It was a pitch-black machine gun!

This is the cognitive space of the human mind. People's self-awareness will be reflected here to a certain extent. Some clues can also be seen here. I am afraid that in this boss's mind, the most powerful weapon is the machine gun.

"Well?!"

When Yu Gonglian saw this, he tried to dodge, but he didn't expect Jiang Tianwei's hand to grab his hand tightly like an iron clamp! Yu Gonglian tried to pull his hand away, but he was completely powerless! The difference in wrist strength between the two was too big!

"Don't get in the way—"

Under Jiang Tianwei's mask, his smile was full of pride.

"Xiang Yao!——Smash it for me!"

Following Jiang Tianwei's order, the metal giant behind him soared into the air, and his broad heavy fist flew towards the huge machine gun on the Queen Bee's butt! At the same time, Jiang Tianwei also clenched his right fist, aimed at Yu Gonglian's temple, and hit him directly with a swift uppercut!

This handshake! It's not a gesture of goodwill at all, but a trap to contain the enemy!!!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 25 Separation of Desire?

Jiang Tianwei's attack was so perfect that Amamiya Lian was at a loss.

He never expected that his opponent stretched out his hand to ensure that he could not dodge and hit him on the temple with a precise right hook!

This is a fragile acupuncture point in the human body. Because it is close to the brain, hitting here can easily cause a mild concussion!

Of course, Jiang Tianwei didn't intend to take his life, so he deliberately adjusted the landing point of his punch and hit the edge of Amamiya Lian's white mask. With this thing absorbing the damage, the impact force was immediately reduced.

Amamiya Ren suffered a lot at once. For a moment, she felt stars in her eyes, her vision was blurred, and a feeling of nausea and vomiting surged from her stomach!

Jiang Tianwei didn't make things difficult for him. He let go of his hand and at the same time gave him a push. Yu Gong Lian was already feeling dizzy, and after being pushed by him, she sat down on the ground.

Jiang Tianwei had confirmed it himself before. It takes a lot of energy to move around in this strange world. Conversely, attacks on the brain (spirit) will be extremely effective.

"This is a matter between him and me, it has nothing to do with you..."

Before Jiang Tianwei could finish his words, he saw a black giant appearing from the side. He was even bigger than Xiang Yao, wearing a black suit and holding a rapier. He looked like an inverted triangle superhero in American comics.

"Zorro! Bring on the wind!"

At the command of Black Cat, the huge black giant Zorro swung the rapier in his hand, drawing a Z shape. Then, a light blue wind blade flew out from the scratch and attacked Jiang Tianwei fiercely.

Fortunately, Jiang Tianwei had just let go of Amamiya Lian. Now that his hands were free, he quickly protected his face, lowered his body, and took the impact of the gust of wind.

In the strong wind, Jiang Tianwei only felt that the wind penetrated his skin, seeped into his body, and cut his flesh like a knife.

"Hey! JOKER! Are you okay?!"

The black cat ran to Amamiya Ren and shook him hard.

"It's okay, I just feel a little dizzy..."

Amamiya Ren covered her head with one hand.

Jiang Tianwei succeeded in one move, but did not continue to attack the two people. Instead, he quickly retreated and focused all his energy on the flying queen bee. After all, this guy was his core target.

He hated this boss, whose narrow-minded racism had caused him a lot of trouble, so he would not become such a racist bastard. Of course, he knew that although Amamiya Ren was Japanese, the hatred between him and his boss had nothing to do with him.

He wants to meddle in other people's business? Just drive him away and tell him not to meddle. There's no need to expand your attack area.

This is also what his parents repeatedly told him when he was learning boxing: It is for self-defense and cannot be used to bully the weak.

With this in mind, Jiang Tianwei looked up, and sure enough, judging from the fact that the machine gun had not fired just now, the beeman boss had been knocked to the ground by a punch from his persona!

The three people lying on the ground were emitting a dark aura all over their bodies. It was something that was difficult to describe. It looked like smoke, and as sticky as water. It condensed from the bodies of the three people and floated in the air.

As the black gas surged out, the three people lying on the ground changed from half-human, half-bee appearance to normal people again.

The three of them looked at each other, not knowing what was going on, and acted a little dumbfounded.

"What's going on? The twisted desire has separated from the palace owner?!"

When the black cat saw this, he couldn't help but exclaim.

"You are...ah, it's you, a Chinese..."

The boss who had returned to his original state recognized Jiang Tianwei at a glance.

"I don't know why, but until just now, I felt such a huge hostility towards you... It's so strange..."

Jiang Tianwei wanted to punch him to death, but he didn't expect that his attitude suddenly changed 180 degrees. As the saying goes, there must be something wrong when things are abnormal. Jiang Tianwei asked the metal giant Xiang Yao to stay behind the boss and be ready to execute him at any time. Then he crossed his arms and looked like he was listening to what you said.

"I, I obviously hate you... but you have always been an important means of making money... Why would I suddenly want to kill you..."

The boss muttered to himself, and this indeed made Jiang Tianwei curious.

What the boss said made sense. From the boss's perspective, one option was to continue to beat and scold, and use himself as the store's signboard - a Chinese restaurant with Chinese people. The other option was to kill himself and then get into trouble. Even if he really had connections and could kill people without taking legal responsibility, the negative news that someone died in his own store would have a huge impact.

No matter how you think about it, the former is more in line with the interests.

why?

This also includes the two people next to him. Although they bully him on a daily basis, they have not really reached the point of fighting to the death.

"Dad...could it be that guest..."

The store manager's son with blonde studs also came over.

"That person...ah, yes...that person...he told me...that [arrogance] is the cornerstone of success. Since ancient times, those who are in a superior position have all been arrogant...that person...ah, that person, that person!"

The store manager widened his eyes and repeated this sentence over and over again.

Immediately afterwards, all three of them turned into light particles and disappeared in front of Jiang Tianwei.

"Huh? This, this has nothing to do with me. You all saw it. I didn't do anything."

Jiang Tianwei's first reaction was to pass the buck quickly. He couldn't bear being charged with the murder of three people!

Amamiya Ren and Kuroneko beside them naturally understood what was happening, and judging from their calm demeanor, this scene seemed to be within their expectations.

"This is the first time I have seen twisted desires escape from their master..."

The black cat's words made Jiang Tianwei notice that the black mud-like smoke that the three people had expelled from their bodies was still suspended in the air, slowly changing its shape.

As it continued to surge, the entire golden beehive gradually turned black and red.

Although Jiang Tianwei didn't know what this meant, it was obvious that this was not a good sign!

The dark will gradually dyed the entire cognitive space black. As the boss and the other two suddenly disappeared, the erosion speed instantly accelerated. In just a dozen breaths, the originally golden honeycomb had turned into a dark honeycomb. In this surging black space, the black mist condensed and turned into a monster! He was wearing solid red armor, riding a majestic black horse, and holding a silver spear in his hand.

Although it looks like a medieval European knight, its oppression far exceeds that of the half-human, half-bee monsters! Dark desires entwine around its red armor, like a silent declaration of war.

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At the same time, in the real world, inside a Chinese restaurant.