I, Hikigaya, the snake of the red world god's ritual!

He didn't expect that Xiu Denan would take the initiative to challenge him in the Great Ming Psalm.

This is not a bad thing for Hikigaya. On the contrary, this is what he originally wanted to do, and it completely caters to his ideas.

But because of this, Hikigaya couldn't help but suspect that everything was going a little too smoothly, and it was hard not to think that there was a trap waiting for him behind.

However, looking at Shudenan in front of him, Hikigaya could never imagine that the general had any need to set a trap for him.

The opponent's strength is strong enough to crush all ingenuity, making it impossible for any tactics to be effective.

So, maybe this is really just Xiu Denan's random behavior?

"Why, are you afraid at this time?" Xiu Denan's eyes under his sunglasses were smiling, "Although I know there is still a huge gap between us, but you are also the representative of Lord Serpent of Ceremony, And he’s still the terrifying immortal ashes he once was, so he doesn’t have this bit of courage, right?”

"There's no way I can take the bait with this level of provocation."

Hikigaya responded calmly and did not immediately agree to Shudenan's words.

"So you're going to reject me?"

"No, I just want to know, what benefit does this matter have to you?" Hikigaya took the initiative to ask, "Qianbian, you are the three pillars of Xingli Palace, the general of the masquerade, and also a member of the Red World. A descendant of the Serpent of God's Sacrifice, you are almost the most powerful Red Demon King in the world. Why do you take the initiative to challenge me who is far inferior to you? Don't tell me that you have a taste for torturing food."

As Hikigaya spoke, he took advantage of this time to continue playing backgammon, and covered the chessboard with the power of existence to prevent Shutonan from disgusting him like before.

"Indeed, under normal circumstances I really have no reason to challenge you, Hikigaya." Xiu Denan smiled and nodded, "But sometimes, people's behavior is so unreasonable, and the same is true for the Red World Apostle. In fact, I also have desires, whether it is a simple wild desire, a desire to win or lose, or a simple fighting instinct, I want to challenge an existence that is more powerful than me."

"I'm not as strong as you. You've found the wrong person."

"No, no, the so-called strength is not just about strength." Xiudenan shook his head, "Just like your previous duel with Faliagni, it seems that Faliagni is far stronger than you, so it must be We won the victory in the Taimei Psalm, but what was the final result? Faliagni lost, and the winner was you Hikigaya, so are you stronger or weaker than Faliagni?"

"...Is this why you dragged me here to play chess and talked to me so much?"

Hikigaya has completely understood Shutonan's meaning, and also realized that this is the other party's true words.

The reason why the other party comes to challenge me is simply because they want to challenge themselves.

It has nothing to do with strength, weakness, or other superfluous things. He just feels the need to do it and desires to do it.

Of course, the bigger reason for this is probably the visible desire to win in Xiu Denan's heart.

Whether it was the immortal ashes or the victory over Faliagni, these all stimulated the opponent, making him unable to restrain his impulse and wanting to challenge himself who had done all this and prove that he was the stronger one.

In this case, then my answer is very obvious.

Hikigaya silently placed his pieces on the chessboard, looking at the five-star chain that already symbolized victory, he slowly spoke:

"I won."

"Yeah, it's hard for me to beat you in backgammon without cheating."

Xiu Denan spoke very calmly, as if he didn't care about winning or losing in this chess game.

But Hikigaya didn't feel at all that the other person's emotions were not ups and downs.

In fact, the desire to win and lose in the masquerade general in front of him is obvious. Even in a backgammon battle, the result of defeat makes him almost exude a terrifying oppressive force like a lion.

If you were an ordinary person, you might even faint just sitting here.

"So, have you agreed to compete with me in the Daimei Psalm, Hikigaya Alliance Leader?"

"Well, I have no reason to refuse."

"Very good." Xiu Denan's eyes suddenly emitted a strong light, "Although I can't beat you in human backgammon, on the battlefield of the Red World, I will show you what is truly powerful! "

Regarding Shutonan's excitement, Hikigaya nodded silently: "Daimei Psalm is indeed different from playing backgammon. The confrontation there is more unrestrained, and therefore more emphasis is placed on true ability."

"Yeah, so I don't mind if you want to admit defeat."

Facing Xiudenan's smile, Hikigaya raised his head and silently stared at the Red Demon King in front of him.

"Admit defeat? Do you think you have won? Yes, your strength is indeed much stronger than mine. Maybe if you fight head-on, I won't be able to win even if you give me a thousand chances. However, this does not mean that I will definitely lose. In fact, just like this game of backgammon, pure strength is not the key to victory or defeat. You can defeat me a thousand times in head-on combat, but this does not mean that you will definitely be able to win in the Psalm of Life. at last."

"Haha, I admire your courage very much."

Shudenan didn't pay attention to Hikigaya's provocative words, but the smile at the corner of his mouth became thicker than before.

He then stared into Hikigaya's eyes and said, "Since you have agreed, let's talk about the bet."

"bet?"

"Yes, this is the Daimei Psalm that Hikigaya you and I are going to participate in together. It would be too boring to simply decide the winner. We still need to have enough stakes to be exciting."

Hikigaya did not refuse Shutonan's consideration.

"What bet do you want?"

"Since it is a bet, it must have a big enough impact, whether it is on you or on me..." Xiu Denan said silently, "After the next Da Ming Psalm begins, as long as we participate in that Da Ming Psalm together , there must be a winner. Therefore, if you win, I can unconditionally obey your order and take action for you like last time, how about it?"

"Oh?"

The opportunity for the general, one of the three pillars, to take action was indeed a very good condition, and even Hikigaya was interested in it.

"What I win means that I defeated you in the Great Destiny Psalm, or did I complete the conditions of the Great Destiny Psalm and become the final winner?"

Hikigaya knew that the rules of Taimei Psalm were constantly changing, and the subsequent rules would most likely become a multi-party melee that no longer relied entirely on head-on confrontations. By then, a pure rule-based victory might occur.

He therefore made a bet on Xiudenan in advance.

"Tsk, tsk, you are indeed different, Hikigaya." Xiu Denan was surprised by Hikigaya's rigor and nodded, "As long as you win according to the rules of the Daiming Psalm, it's fine."

"Okay, I see."

Hikigaya nodded, not caring that there was no ruling on this bet, and no outsider could enforce it.

Because he trusts the dignified three pillar ministers, he will not make any twists and turns to him, and the existence of the ritual snake is enough to prevent the other party from breaking the agreement with him.

"By the way, what if I lose?"

"If you lose as leader of Hikigaya..."

Xiu Denan smiled slightly and said something surprising.

"Then give up your current identity as a human being, join the Xingli Palace completely, and become the leader of the masquerade. When the time comes, you will become the true king of the masquerade."

"can."

Hikigaya nodded silently. Although the condition proposed by Shudenan was absolutely unacceptable to him, he still did not flinch.

In the battle of Daming Psalm, he will definitely win the final victory.

Based on this, he will completely embark on the path of the Demon King, defeating various enemies along the way, until he finally achieves the miracle of fighting against a red world god!

Volume [-]: The Appearance of the Demon King

Chapter 81 Hikigaya, are you dating Hirai Yuan-san?

Chapter 81

"Boom!"

What appeared before him was a chaotic storm.

In a weird world that was so distorted that it was almost impossible to distinguish the direction, Hikigaya was completely confused about the current situation and could only glance around in confusion.

He found that his vision suddenly became very strange, as if he was in a very high place, and his five senses that should have been there became extremely distorted, and he even had the feeling that he was not aware that he was a human being.

At the same time, the place where he was now was filled with twisted storms, raging crazily and twisted towards the surroundings, and even forming a giant network that wanted to swallow up the entire world.

How is this going?

Why are you here?

Trying to think back, Hikigaya could only recall that he seemed to have participated in a workplace internship at school yesterday. After finishing the internship and returning home and lying on the bed, his memory was completely interrupted.

"Have I traveled through time? Will it be my turn to do this?"

Hikigaya instinctively complained.

But then he discovered that when his words actually came out of his mouth, they were an extremely weird murmur, which could even be said to be a synthesis of chaos.

"What is this?"

Suddenly, when Hikigaya felt confused, the stone pillars around him suddenly lit up and turned into groups of astonishing seals, completely covering his body.

At this critical point of madness, Hikigaya saw his 'huge' body through the light emanating from the barrier.

It was a dragon's body covered with countless pitch black scales, winding like a giant snake, with several sharp claws and a long tail!

……

"Am I awake?"

When he opened his eyes, what he saw in front of Hikigaya was the familiar ceiling of his home. The doll Marianne was standing on the bedside in a dormant state as always, and the clock on the desk flashed five o'clock.

It seems that what I just had was just a dream...

Bi Qigu heaved a sigh of relief.

Although he was actually aware of the fact that he was dreaming in the dream, it was not until he woke up from the dream that he was completely relieved and felt slightly trembling at what had just happened in the dream.

After all, that dream was so real that even a rational person like Hikigaya couldn't detect any feeling of dreaming in that dream, as if he was experiencing something real.

Wait, the self I saw in my dream seemed to be a dragon?

Although not to mention that the dragon seemed to be very different from the dragon in my impression, but I had such a real dream for no reason, was it really just an ordinary dream?

Thinking of this, Hikigaya sighed slowly.

He knew that he could no longer sleep, so he quickly climbed out of bed, but in the next moment he inexplicably forgot how to walk upright normally.

"Snapped!"

Hikigaya's legs were tied and he fell to the ground with a loud sound.

"H-Hikigaya-sama, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm fine, I just fell."

Hikigaya patted Marianne's head, and then felt her body.

His movement just now not only woke up the sleeping doll Marianne, but also awakened the ritual snake in his body.

"You seemed to be in sync with my body just now, Hikigaya."

"The true body?" Hikigaya was stunned on the spot, "What I saw in that dream was indeed the place where your true body is, the Ritual Snake. Is it a real picture?"

"Well, although I don't know exactly what you saw, it should basically be like this." The Snake of Ceremony confirmed Hikigaya's guess, "I have established a deep connection with you Hikigaya, which means The connection between us is far deeper than the normal Red World Demon King and Fire Mist Warrior. Therefore, even the mutual transfer of memories is completely possible. "

"This...then you can also see my memories?"

"Well, you can see a little bit, but most of them are very bad pictures."

"Uh, sorry..."

Hikigaya couldn't help but apologize.

After all, he himself also knew how unsightly his past experiences were, and being seen by a being like the Ritual Snake would only cause trouble for the other party.

"You don't need to apologize. Those memories are also very rare for me, and they can greatly increase my experience." The ritual snake said calmly, "It's just that I think some of your actions are too hasty, such as sending love letters When I put it in the girl's shoe cabinet, I put it in the wrong place, so that the love letter was spread to the whole school..."

“Don’t reveal other people’s dark history on the spot!!!”

Hikigaya severely condemned the Ritual Snake's act of exposing history on the spot.

Marianne, on the other hand, looked at Hikigaya talking to himself and found it inexplicably strange, so she waited silently aside without saying a word.

"Anyway, what I just saw is real. It's the picture of the place where you, the ritual snake, were sealed... In this case, the big storm that seems to be destroying the world is also real, right?"

In order to change the subject, Hikigaya immediately spoke.

"You saw that." The tone of the ritual snake became slightly more serious, "That is what I once said, the great storm that existed between the two worlds caused by the red apostles devouring a large number of humans. "

"Big storm?"

"Yes."

The ritual snake spoke in a deep tone:

"Once upon a time, when the Red World Apostles first discovered the human world, the Red World Apostles thought they had discovered a beautiful paradise and committed various wanton behaviors in the human world. However, as time went by, the Red World Apostles They soon discovered that an endless storm had appeared in the gap between the two worlds when the Red World went to the human world. As the Red World's apostles devoured more humans, the scope of the storm became larger, and in the end it even vaguely spread to the two worlds. The edge of the world."

"At that time, the Red World Apostles, including the Heaven and Earth Tribulation Fire, immediately realized that everything the Red World Apostles did in the human world was not without cost. If the Red World Apostles continued to act recklessly in this world, the great storm would completely swallow up both of them. The world will destroy everything! Therefore, many Red World Apostles chose to sign contracts with Huo Wu and fight against fellow Red World Apostles in the human world, in order to maintain the balance between the two worlds."

Hikigaya already knew what the ritual snake said.