Persona: Devil Summoner

No matter how hard you train, humans who can catch bullets with their bare hands only exist in fantasy works.

When faced with an emergency, human thinking is definitely not up to par and one can only rely on instinctive reactions.

For example, if a baseball is flying towards your face, you may close your eyes instinctively before you can react. This is what people often call a visceral reaction.

Jiang Tianwei was no exception. The sudden and rapid pounce of the ghost on his back made Jiang Tianwei close his eyes instinctively...

This is the special move of the Back-carrying Ghost. He can quickly lie on the back of his opponent and use his exaggerated mass to overwhelm the enemy...

The only downside is that, according to legend, he can and can only lie on his back.

If Jiang Tianwei could understand this, he probably wouldn't close his eyes.

It's a pity.

At the same time...the ghost on the back chose Jiang Tianwei because he was talking. When such a person's vigilance is relatively relaxed, the success rate of a sneak attack is very high.

If the ghost had more experience, he would not have acted rashly after seeing the ring-like pattern on Jiang Tianwei's right ring finger.

What a pity.

However, there are not so many ifs in this world. Otherwise, everyone would be saying, "If I bought the lottery numbers drawn yesterday..." Then the world's economic system would definitely collapse.

Jiang Tianwei closed his eyes and his eyelids covered his pupils, which should have completely blocked his vision... Unexpectedly, Jiang Tianwei's vision was still clear.

In his panic, his survival instinct was triggered. While his naked eye vision was sealed, in the darkness, he could see a red gas mass similar to infrared imaging.

His body obeyed his instinctive reaction and slid to the left. At the same time, he pulled his left arm back and clenched his fist. The action of carrying the ghost on his back slowed down infinitely in Jiang Tianwei's eyes. The sneak attack that was originally as fast as lightning became like slow motion in bullet time, just like he was filming The Matrix.

The enemy is fast and you can’t react in time. But if the enemy is slow, will you still not be able to react?

(Why did he suddenly slow down? Never mind, I’ll just punch him first…)

Just as Jiang Tianwei resumed thinking, the speed of the whole world returned to normal.

But Jiang Tianwei was ready to fight back! The ghost on the back who jumped into the air only felt Jiang Tianwei's figure flashing in front of him, and his originally handsome features had turned into a fist as big as a sandbag! This time it was its turn to be unable to react! The cheek and the fist came into close contact! .

Peng!

Just like the effect in comics, high speeds collided with each other, fist bones hit cheekbones, and the result of the tit-for-tat head-on collision was that the compressed air in the middle burst into a circular air wave!

The next moment, the ghost on the back was knocked away by Jiang Tianwei's fist! Like a red arrow, it crashed into the wall behind!

Jiang Tianwei was also surprised. How did he do that punch just now? He looked at his left fist in disbelief, and felt that this old friend seemed a little strange today.

"Too, too strong... I, I will never make him angry again..."

Long Si covered his cheek, as if he was the one who was hit just now, and felt the same pain. The wind pressure caused by the punch even blew to the audience, and Long Si's hair was blown... It can be seen that the power of this blow, if it really hit someone's face, it might be fatal...

"You, you fellow..."

The ghost on the back who was knocked away growled unwillingly, clenched his hands into fists, jumped over and pounced on Jiang Tianwei with both hands.

Jiang Tianwei was about to dodge when he suddenly thought: Since I was able to dodge just now, what about this time?

The mysterious feeling just now... made Jiang Tianwei involuntarily want to try it again... just like when playing a game, when you perform a cool special move for the first time, you always want to try out the conditions for triggering the special move.

Thinking of this, Jiang Tianwei raised his hands to protect his head and made a standard boxing defense posture.

However, the ghost's palm was as big as a human face, and it swung vigorously towards Jiang Tianwei's head. Jiang Tianwei raised his arm to defend, but the mysterious bullet time did not appear. The heavy palm easily crushed Jiang Tianwei's defensive arm, and a big slap hit Jiang Tianwei's face!

Snapped!

Boom!

Two crisp noises rang out one after another! The former was the sound of flesh colliding to vent violence. The latter was the sound of Jiang Tianwei's body falling to the ground. Jiang Tianwei felt dizzy and his eyes went dark after being hit hard on the head.

With just one blow, Jiang Tianwei felt like he had a mild concussion!

Thanks to the first blow, he was knocked down. The two hands behind the ghost hit nothing with a series of high-speed slaps. This is also human nature: his punch just now was so powerful, he must be strong in other aspects too!

As a result, he used all his strength to launch a series of attacks, knocking the opponent down in one go, but all the subsequent attacks missed...

"Are you okay? We'll just..."

When Sakamoto Ryuji saw Jiang Tianwei being beaten, he also became anxious and quickly summoned Captain Kidd, preparing to charge forward...

"No need."

Jiang Tianwei, who was lying on the ground, raised his right hand to stop Long Si.

Yes, I can rely on my teammates this time, but what about next time? What about the future? What about the Demon War? What should I do then? If I develop this kind of dependence now, what will I do in the future?

Jiang Tianwei said this in his heart, but he himself did not understand: Was this calmness? Or enlightenment? Or arrogance? Or was it some other emotion at work?

Humans are emotional animals, and the ancients were not deceiving us.

"Jiang Jiang..."

Long Si was interrupted by the shouting and stood there at a loss. Fang Zexia floated over and patted his shoulder: "Trust him."

The ghost on his back had just missed his series of slaps, so he adjusted his posture in mid-air and pounced on Jiang Tianwei like a hungry tiger pouncing on a sheep.

Although Jiang Tianwei had just stopped Long Si, his mind was still dizzy and it was difficult for him to think. He only felt a red shadow quickly jumping in front of him. He wanted to think of a countermeasure, but his mind could not think of anything...

Boom!

Jiang Tianwei used his left hand and his feet to support half of his body, and with his right hand, he punched the ghost in mid-air with all his strength, knocking it away.

(I feel like... I seem to have grasped the key point? What is it?).

Strangely, as soon as Jiang Tianwei tried to start thinking, that mysterious feeling disappeared in an instant.

"Actor! Don't think!!! Don't use your brain!"

Although they didn't have the wings of a phoenix, they were still able to understand each other. Although Jiang Tianwei didn't say anything, Fang Zexia had been inseparable from him for such a long time. In addition, the thinking patterns of adolescent boys were indeed easy to guess. Fang Zexia knew what he was going to do right away...

Jiang Tianwei was distracted by Fang Zexia and didn't understand what she meant for a moment. When his mind was in a mess, the ghost on his back had already climbed up again and pounced on Jiang Tianwei again... Jiang Tianwei was obviously looking at Fang Zexia, but his body reacted instinctively!

A swift left hook held off the enemy's attack. A right straight punch pinned the enemy to the ground. Then, he stepped on the back of the kid lying on the ground and hit him hard in the back of his neck...

“Ah?! Too, too strong…”

Sakamoto Ryuji was stunned, not only him, Amamiya Ren and Takamaki An were also stunned. Seeing everyone like this, Fang Zexia snorted twice and puffed out her small flat chest, as if praising Jiang Tianwei was praising her.

(It seems that Jiang Jiang has indeed inherited the bullfighter's unique skills.)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 75 Skill is Instinct

Skills, although I don’t know who first gave the definition, are widely used in various industries.

The concept of skills is naturally most commonly used in the gaming industry.

After listening to too many descriptions of current skills and playing too many games that require acquiring skills, everyone always has a feeling that skills are something acquired through "acquired hard work and practice."

For example, combat skills require you to upgrade or train in the game. In reality, if you want to acquire English skills, swimming skills, carpentry skills, etc., you need to train accordingly.

Therefore, in most people's minds, skills are actually acquired abilities that require practice, rather than innate abilities.

However, as a genius in rhythmic gymnastics, Kasumi Yoshizawa actually has a slightly different perception.

Are skills really acquired?

For example, birds have the ability to fly. Can humans fly by hard work and learning? The answer is no. So far, there is no human who can fly.

Some people may say airplanes or hot air balloons, but those are not skills acquired by humans, but abilities that rely on machines. In essence, they are not [flying skills] but [invention skills].

In Fang Zexia's cognition, skills should be something innate. What skills you can acquire are determined from the moment you are born. For example, no matter how hard a snake tries, it cannot walk on two feet. The quality of a creature depends on its innate form.

Especially after she took the initiative to merge with Pixie through the devil fusion and gained skills close to those of the devil, she became more determined in her previous beliefs.

For example, if you ask Yoshizawa Kasumi, who inherited the ability to generate electricity from Pixie, why the human body can generate electricity, which muscles or cells need to be mobilized to generate electricity, or what special technical means are needed to control the electric current, she can only smile bitterly and say that she doesn't know.

However, if you let her emit electricity, she can release it at will.

It's like, if you ask someone to eat, he can eat. But if you insist on asking him what muscles he uses when eating, what skills he needs to control his throat and jaw, what reactions the food undergoes in his stomach, and how he delicately converts energy, most people will just be confused.

Just because you know how to eat doesn’t mean you have to know the principle of eating. You can still eat without knowing the principle.

This is Jiang Tianwei’s problem now.

By defeating the bullfighter, he gained his recognition and seemed to have also acquired his [skill], the fighting technique called [Blood of Andalusia]. For Jiang Tianwei, it was as if he had an extra organ out of thin air.

He is now constantly trying to study muscle movements, his own skills, spiritual willpower, etc., to use these methods to call on this ability...

That is difficult to succeed.

But on the other hand, if you don't think about these messy things, but simply use it as an instinct to drive it, then there is no problem. Sometimes, there is no need to get to the bottom of things and understand them clearly, as long as you know the general idea and understand how to use it.

Jiang Tianwei was distracted by Fang Zexia's call and didn't even look at the attack of the ghost on his back. As a result, his body instinctively fought back.

Now that I think about it, this is probably the reason why the Demon Bullfighter lost to Yoshizawa Kasumi... He gave up thinking and let his fighting instinct take over. Therefore, once he faced non-combat skills, his fighting instinct was useless, and he couldn't use logic to analyze the opponent's actions. By the time he came to his senses, he had already lost.

Jiang Tianwei looked at his body that moved instinctively, rubbing the ghost on the ground, and felt surprised... He vaguely realized that after defeating the bullfighter, some changes had taken place in his body and mind, but he didn't expect that his fighting skills had reached such a level. He didn't expect that Fang Zexia could actually reveal the truth that he hadn't even discovered.

A circle of black mud exploded on the ghost that was pressed to the ground, and as the twisted desire gradually subsided, the stalker regained his human form.

Judging from his softened expression, he must have repented.

"Yeah...I, I was wrong..."

He muttered this.

"That person... that [Madarame] took everything away from me, and I became a walking corpse. That's why I have such a strong desire to possess her... I, I..."

Seeing his sincere repentance, everyone knew that he had changed his mind.

Seeing that his figure was getting fainter and fainter, and was about to disappear, he suddenly hugged Jiang Tianwei's legs desperately!

"You! You have the power to change people's hearts! Then, you must change [Madarame]! Absolutely... If that guy doesn't repent, countless more people will become like me! Punish the evildoer!!!"

It was as if his frail body was shattered by his own hysterical roar, and his entire body melted into the ground... His final madness was just like a little devil who was struggling to death before being forcibly dragged into the abyss of hell.

It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are good. In the cognitive space, it is unknown whether the last words are good or not, but they are definitely from the bottom of his heart. It can be seen that this stalker believes from the bottom of his heart that his misfortune is caused by this guy named Madarame.

Although it cannot be ruled out that this stalker thought so unilaterally - just like some people who blame the world and Tokiomi when they are hurt. But this person called Madarame is indeed worth investigating.

(What a pity! If only I had my own intelligence network, I could investigate at will whether these guys are really bad guys.).

Jiang Tianwei thought so, rubbing his cheek as he walked towards the car. Fang Zexia had already thoughtfully prepared a recovery magic to cast on him when he came back. After a faint green light flashed, Jiang Tianwei's cheek, which had already begun to swell, quickly disappeared.

Unexpectedly, I thought that my highly individualistic solo fight would have two possible voices: the first would condemn Jiang Tianwei for being too individualistic, and the second would praise Jiang Tianwei's fighting ability.

According to sociologists' research, when there is no opinion leader in a group, the first person to promote a certain opinion will often be recognized by the majority.

In the small circle of the Phantom Thieves, the person who would be the first to stand out is of course Ryuji!

"That's amazing, isn't it?! This is the third time I've praised you, right?! Isn't it too strong?"

Long Si grabbed Jiang Tianwei's right hand with both hands, looked it up and down, and wiped it with his leather gloves while breathing on it, treating it as a work of art.

As a boy, who doesn't have a dream of being a knight with a big horse and a golden sword? Today, Jiang Tianwei was like a superhero in a comic book, performing a high-precision and high-powered punch. How could this not make Long Si excited?

Amamiya Ren was sitting in the front row and silently raised a thumb. From the rearview mirror, she could see the captain's raised mouth.

Gao Juan Xing is not a man, so she is naturally not interested in those fighting and killing techniques. She secretly used the rearview mirror to observe Fang Ze Xia in the back seat. This girl ghost can only obtain a body in the cognitive space, so Gao Juan Xing can only see her in the cognitive space.

Yoshizawa Kasumi's appearance is already lovable, and with the setting of the young ghost, it makes people feel even more distressed. On weekdays, there is no way to get close to her, so Gao Juan An knows very little about her. Looking at her series of performances today, it's just... It's just like...

(Just like a romantic relationship...)

When Gao Juan Xing thought of this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and her eyes were full of curiosity. For a girl of this age, the topic of love is always a hot topic.

(How did these two people know each other? It really makes me curious...)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 76 Student Nemesis

Even the Phantom Thieves of Hearts have their limitations. That is, they are a group of students.

Since you are a student, you will naturally be afraid of things that all students are afraid of.

If there is anything that can be called the nemesis of students, it is undoubtedly... only one thing - exams!

Some people may think that exams are painful for students who do not study well or do not work hard enough, but for those poor students who have excellent academic performance or do not care about their scores at all, isn’t it a no-brainer?

In fact, it is not true. For them, exams waste two or three days of time. It would be much better to use this time to study or play!

Jiang Tianwei is now sincerely glad that he made the right choice... If he had chosen to study in the second year of high school in order to stay in the same grade as Long Si and Amamiya Ren, he would definitely be blind now.

But, fortunately, he chose to go back to high school to lay the foundation. In addition, Mr. Kawakami had taught him some basic knowledge before, and Jiang Tianwei already had a basic knowledge. Now he is attending classes, so his academic performance will not be bad.