My youth story cannot be a knight war

[“Since you can still speak, it proves that you are not going to die. Hurry up and stand up! Those Gurongi will not be as kind as me and wait for you to recover your strength. Don’t forget, it was you who asked me to help you with combat training.”]

[“Damn it… Mr. Kosaka, are you sure you’re not using the training as an excuse to take revenge on me!?”]

【Zaimokuza stood up with a depressed expression, raised his fist and rushed towards Kousaka Kyosuke and shouted loudly.】

[“I regret it now, okay?”]

[“Of course – no.”]

【Kousaka Kyosuke easily dodged the punch that was coming straight at him, then reached out and grabbed Zaimokuza's wrist, clamped his arm under his armpit, and used the force to pull him over.】

[The two looked at each other at a very close distance, and a strange smile slowly appeared on Kousaka Kyosuke's face.]

[“After all, it’s hard to find a high-quality sandbag like yours that feels so good and won’t get hurt no matter how hard you use it. How could I let you go like this?”]

【"in addition--"】

[His tone suddenly changed at the end, and he spoke with gritted teeth.]

[“——This is to thank you for lying to me that I was going fishing, but you actually tricked me into going on a date with that young lady!”]

[Kousaka Kyousuke quickly grabbed the belt of Zaimokuza's gi with his other hand, and threw him out again with both hands.]

[“That’s why you hit me so hard, Mr. Kousaka! Is it necessary to be so fussy about it!?”]

[Zaimokuza, who already had experience, was thrown out and then caught himself in mid-air. He did a skilled somersault to dissipate the force on his body, and after landing, he turned around and complained.]

[“After all, Mr. Kosaka, you’ve been finding excuses to avoid Xiao? recently. A girl would be sad if you rejected her so many times! Others think you’ve been avoiding her because you hate her. You almost cried when you called me!”]

[“That’s why I agreed when Xiaolu and the others asked me for help. After all, I couldn’t just ignore a girl who was about to cry—ugh!”]

[A heavy punch was thrown towards his face, and Zaimokuza quickly reached out to block it, while Kousaka Kyousuke said with veins all over his forehead. ]

[“So… this is why you called me on the weekend and lied to me that you were going fishing and asked me to pick you up in the car. But when I arrived with my things, all I saw was that lady in a dress sitting alone in the couple’s restaurant with two cups of coffee waiting for me?”]

[“If it was just that, it would be fine, but you actually hid in the corner with those little girls from the light music club and took pictures with a camera! After taking the pictures, you even sent the pictures to your ex-girlfriend. Was this also her request!?”]

[“Do you know that Miss Ebina sent these photos to Makishima, and then Makishima sent them to Gogen, and then... now the entire Metropolitan Police Department knows that I, Kousaka Kyousuke, went on a date with an underage girl on the weekend!”]

【Thinking of this, Kousaka Kyosuke almost vomited blood from his throat, wanting to spit blood all over Zaimokuza in front of him.】

[The higher-ups called him over again for this matter. Although the words were high-sounding on the surface, they were hinting that he had done a good job and served the young lady who is now the largest sponsor of the Metropolitan Police Department well, because she was so happy that she gave us a considerable amount of funds again.]

[The Superintendent of Police even directly praised himself for being a person with a broad perspective, willing to sacrifice his own reputation for the sake of the overall situation, and earning a considerable amount of profit for the Metropolitan Police Department. He hinted that he hoped that he would continue to work hard and become someone's son-in-law directly, so that the Metropolitan Police Department would no longer be troubled by funding issues from now on.]

[This made Kousaka Kyosuke so angry that he wanted to just pick up the ashtray on the desk and hit the dirty old man on the head. The little respect he had for him in his heart was completely gone.]

[And Kousaka Kyousuke no longer wants to think about what his image is like in the eyes of his colleagues. Anyway, it is definitely not a positive image. This can be seen from the fact that when he ran into Gokou Ruri in the corridor recently, she looked at him without the respect she had in the past, but as if she was looking at some kind of non-burnable garbage. ]

[Every time he thought of the other person's gaze at that time, Kousaka Kyosuke couldn't help but feel a myocardial infarction, and he wished he could just commit suicide to preserve his innocence. ]

[“——Go to hell, you bastard!”]

[This frustration that had nowhere to vent turned into power and burst out at this moment. Kousaka Kyousuke's attacks became faster and faster, forcing Zaimokuza to scream and dodge around. ]

[Another punch was thrown, and Zaimokuza ducked his head quickly to avoid it. He could feel the wind from the fist cutting through the air at the back of his head, sending a chill down his spine.]

【but--】

[“There’s a flaw! Now is the time!”]

[The sharp-eyed Zaimokuza seized the opportunity and took advantage of the air attack that appeared when Kousaka Kyosuke threw the punch but had not yet retracted his fist. He rolled behind him and immediately turned around and pounced on him.]

[“You’re careless! I’ll win this round, Kosaka—”]

[Before he finished speaking, the figure of Kousaka Kyosuke suddenly disappeared from his sight, and then he felt his wrists being held.]

【“——Puwa!”】

[Before Zaimokuza could react, the scene in front of him suddenly spun around, and a strong impact came from behind. The fall emptied the air from his lungs, and almost made Zaimokuza pass out.]

【call--】

[A fist approaches rapidly in the field of vision, and then suddenly stops when it is only inches away from the tip of his nose. The wind from the fist blows across the white bangs on his forehead.]

[“Gudong…”]

[Looking at all the fists that filled his field of vision, Zaimokuza's throat could not help but twitch, and the whistling wind that blew over told him the power of this punch. ]

[Imagining the consequences of being hit, a drop of cold sweat began to appear on his forehead. 】

[“It seems… I’m the one who won this game.”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke slowly retracted his fist and said, his face no longer had any trace of anger from before, his eyes calmly staring at the stunned Zaimokuza below him, which made Zaimokuza immediately realize that he had been deceived.]

[“Mr. Kosaka, you actually pretended to be angry to trick me. How cunning!”]

[“But this is combat. On the battlefield, everything is used without compromise. I would call this an effective strategy.”]

[Kousaka Kyousuke reached out and pulled up the indignant Zaimokuza, punched him in the chest and said.]

[“On the contrary, you are too easily deceived. The Gurongi you met in the previous battles were almost all straightforward. If they had used a more insidious fighting method, you would have died many times.”]

[“In battle, you must learn to control your emotions, stay calm and pay attention to the enemy at all times. These are the three magic weapons to achieve victory.”]

[“That’s true… but I feel like even if I learn all this, it’s still hard for you to win against Mr. Kosaka without transforming.”]

【Zaimokuza stood up and rubbed his shoulders with a grin, looking at Takasaka Kyosuke in front of him with a puzzled look.】

[“By the way, Mr. Kosaka…why do I feel like you’ve become stronger recently? Both your punching power and speed are much faster than before. Is it my illusion?”]

[“…Of course it’s not an illusion. As long as people exercise, they can constantly improve themselves. Of course, I am better now than I was a few months ago. It’s normal for you to feel this way.”]

[Kousaka Kyosuke shrugged his shoulders and said, then turned around and walked towards the entrance of the venue with a normal expression.]

[“Okay, the morning exercise time is almost over. I still have to go to work later. I’ll go back and change my clothes first.”]

[“Okay, then I——wait! Mr. Kosaka.”]

【"Um?"】

【Zaimokuza subconsciously wanted to nod when he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly called Kousaka Kyousuke, and asked him when he looked back at him with a puzzled look.】

[“Hey, Mr. Kousaka, let’s go to the school festival together this weekend!”]

[“…School festival? What the hell?”]

[“That’s it. Xiao Wei and the others called me to invite me and asked me to ask Mr. Kosaka for your opinion.”]

[“It seems that their school is going to hold a school festival this weekend, and the light music club will be performing on stage, so they invited the two of us to go and visit together.”]

[“How about going or not?!”]

[“Well, for the school festival…”]

[Faced with Zaimokuza's glittering eyes of expectation, Kousaka Kyousuke put his hand on his chin and thought.]

[“I haven’t participated since high school, and I really miss it…Okay, let’s just relax for a while. I’ll go with you.”]

[“Great!”]

2. A happy day starts with screaming (6K)

Chiba Prefecture, Chiba Benbun High School, health room.

"Sure enough...I just know it."

Kyosuke Kousaka looked at the "Kousaka Kyosuke" sitting on the ground in silence on the light curtain, and clutched the bed sheet under him with a complicated expression.

"The first time we used the purely man-made G0 system, it was severely damaged. This time, we used the G1 system, which was made from the God Stones that were dropped from the corpses of the Gurongi after the explosion, which is of unknown origin... How could there be no side effects?"

The world is unfair.

Kyosuke Kousaka is not a child and he understood this truth a long time ago, but at this moment, his future self taught himself another truth by setting an example, which is that the world is actually fair. The former is an individual conclusion, and the latter is a general explanation.

If you want to gain powerful strength, you must pay a price, and this principle is always true in any era.

The difference in power between the GO system and the GO Group's Gurongi is obvious to everyone. Even when fully fired upon, they can't even block a single blow. However, the G1 system can allow "Kousaka Kyosuke" to suddenly have the power to suppress the unconfirmed life form No. 3 and expel No. 63 alone. Just based on the paper data provided by "Ebina Hina", the winning rate directly increased from % to %, a full % jump.

From a less than 1% chance of winning to a % chance, this level of power increase is really too exaggerated. If you say that G has no other side effects, even a child would believe it.

But what scares Kyosuke Kousaka is not this, but the fact that he can hardly imagine what kind of side effects can make "Kousuke Kousaka" silent?

Looking at the whole process, no one knows better than Kyosuke Kousaka how powerful his future self will be. He is a man whose body and soul are both strong to a certain level. Not only has his physical strength reached the limit of human beings, but his heart is even better. It can be said that he has reached a certain level of "inhumanity".

But such a man, who can choose to die calmly and calmly after arranging all his funeral affairs, never mentions whether the price is worth it. This behavior itself shows how high the price is.

You have to know that even if that is the "Kousaka Kyosuke" of the future, in essence, he is still Kousaka Kyosuke. The two people inside and outside the light curtain are essentially the same person. The only difference between them is the length of time they have experienced.

Therefore, everything that "Kousaka Kyosuke" faces, Kousaka Kyosuke will have to face sooner or later. He just knew about this in advance through an incredible way.

Is Kousaka Kyosuke afraid of death now? Of course he is afraid, but he will not use this as an excuse to evade the responsibility he should bear, but he will be afraid of the price that he does not even want to mention.

In this world, death is never the highest price a human can pay.

If, in the future, when those Gurongis break out of the Jiulangyue ruins as shown in the video and the light screen...

——Can I, like my future self, choose to fight those monsters at a price that even “myself” doesn’t want to mention?

"..."

Kyosuke Kousaka clutched the collar on his left chest, feeling the beating of his heart beneath his chest. His eyes became rarely confused because this time he couldn't find the answer as usual.

A white figure appeared in his mind, and Kyosuke Kousaka pursed his dry lips and thought involuntarily.

If it were you, facing such a future...what would you choose?

——Zaimokuza Yoshiteru.

"Mr. Kosaka..."

Zaimokuza, who was far away at Sobu High School, was also watching everything on the screen in silence, and the confused whispers of a friend he had never met flashed in his ears.

If it were me -

"..."

He looked at his open palm in front of him. Every finger and fingerprint on his chubby palm was extremely white, unlike the "Yoshiki Zaimokuza" who would travel around the world in the future and become rough and weathered.

Thinking back to the video and the self on the screen raising his fists to fight those Gurongi in order to protect everyone's smiles, thinking back to the scene of those fists hitting the opponent's body again and again, the palm in front of his eyes seemed to feel the touch of that fist hitting the other's flesh at this moment.

A trace of genuine disgust appeared in Zaimokuza's eyes. He put down his hands and chose to remain silent.

Because he couldn't find the answer now.

Kyosuke Kousaka is not yet "Kousuke Kousaka", and similarly, the current Zaimokuza Yoshiki is not "Zaimokuza Yoshiki". They have not yet embarked on their respective journeys that will transform themselves into their future selves, and people in different situations will have different answers to the same question.

Therefore, the answer can only be given by the two people who started this story.

[Time passed quickly without anyone noticing, and soon it was the weekend. ]

【Kyoto Prefecture, Shiga Prefecture, Private Sakuragaoka Girls' High School. 】

【 11:54 AM 】

[“Hey~ Is this Xiao Wei and her friends’ school? It’s so lively!”]

[Zaimokuza hopped into the nearly 100-year-old campus like a rabbit, looking around curiously.]

[“It feels so classical, and the atmosphere is much better than Sobu High School, where I attended high school. There’s a cheerful atmosphere everywhere. We used to feel so depressed when we held similar events.”]

[“You are disqualified as a graduate for speaking ill of your alma mater in front of another school.”]

[Take off the usual suit and windbreaker, put on casual clothes and dressed like a college student on vacation. Wearing a mask and sunglasses, Kousaka Kyousuke walked into the school gate one step behind him, straightened the shoulder bag on his back, looked at Zaimokuza who was still dressed in a windbreaker and casual clothes with a slightly speechless look and said.]

[“I’ve always been curious about one thing… that is, how long will you wear this tattered windbreaker? You’ve been wearing it since we first met, from spring to autumn, and now you haven’t changed it once. Do you really plan to wear this windbreaker for the rest of your life?”]

[“This is my soul mate! Mr. Kosaka, will you separate from your soul mate!?”]

【Zaimokuza clutched his windbreaker with both hands and spoke to Kousaka Kyousuke righteously.】

[“…So, you used your soul friend to bet with someone else, and in the end you lost to him, right?”]

【"Well--"】

[Zaimokuza's entire body suddenly sagged at this sentence. He grabbed his windbreaker and spoke weakly.]

[“This, this actually has a very deep reason behind it… Woohoo~ I’m so sorry! My soulmate, it’s all my fault that I didn’t fulfill my dream, and ended up having to mortgage you!”]

[…In a way, I think it might be a good thing for humanity that you didn’t fulfill your dream.]

[Thinking of the 'masterpiece' that someone had given him, which caused him to be hospitalized due to mental breakdown after reading it, Kousaka Kyousuke's mouth couldn't help but twitch a few times, and he spoke with such certainty for the first time. ]

[“This is too much! Mr. Kosaka, you actually mocked someone who was working hard to achieve his dream. Are you still human? You must apologize to him!”]