MGSFV?! Chapter 469: "The Seeds of Ideal, Nothing More; Hokuto 'Behaving Properly' as a Human"
At this point in the story...
"Trying hard to grow flowers but they won't bloom, accidentally planting willows and they flourish"—this must be one of those situations, right?
[Don't you people ever wonder if you can even beat Hard Mode? How can you just assume that person will behave properly?]
"Uh..."
"Based on my observation, miHoYo has been generally lowering the difficulty of main story battles lately, so Hard Mode this time shouldn't be too bad. Everyone can feel free to choose it."
Seeing some players express concerns, Elysia gave her opinion.
Hokuto: ...
Hearing Elysia say that, Hokuto couldn't help but fall silent.
Because that was the production team's design philosophy from his previous life—it didn't represent his own.
The earlier parts of the story followed the previous life's trend of low-difficulty combat, but most of those were scripted fights anyway, where difficulty didn't affect the experience much.
This battle, however? Yutu wasn't going to hold back. After all, she had more than enough reason to thoroughly defeat the current "Herrscher of Reason."
Of course, the one Yutu intended to defeat was the "Herrscher of Reason," not Bronya. That distinction still mattered.
"..."
Anyway.
The battle between Bronya and Yutu, as designed by Hokuto, wasn't actually low in difficulty.
In the end, wasn't it just obsessive compulsiveness...
He just had to make the combat match the narrative.
Hokuto: ...
...
Meanwhile, unaware that Hokuto had "realistically" set the battle difficulty, Elysia wasn't panicking at all. She looked ready to operate Bronya and [happily] finish the fight.
The game entered the battle screen.
First to appear on the battlefield was Bronya in her Herrscher of Reason attire. Then came Yutu, completing her magnificent transformation.
The big fight was about to erupt... Well, actually, Bronya jumped straight in. No hesitation at all.
She launched a smooth combo—glorious light effects bursting all over the screen.
Granted... it only shaved off a sliver of Yutu's HP, but it established momentum, showed style—a win already in its own right.
As for Yutu, faced with Bronya's clean and decisive assault, she suddenly dodged and retreated backward.
Then, she began to chant calmly.
"The one you now face is no longer an individual ideal... but everything transcribed by me, endowed with a certain definition."
She raised one hand high as she spoke.
"Then—"
"Let all the heroes whose legends spanned history reemerge in this world, in eternal form."
[What does that mean?]
Amidst the players' surprised gazes...
Stone coffins began to rise from the ground and burst open thunderously before everyone.
Out marched numerous fully-equipped Seeds of Ideal, all clearly much stronger than those seen before. They wielded greatswords and strode forward steadily to face Bronya.
[So Yutu can recreate the transcribed data into humans... into Seeds of Ideal?]
[I thought Yutu would be a berserker (since she's fearless), but turns out she's a summoner?]
Why not both?
So limited in thinking.
[Aren't you all going to worry about how this has turned into Yutu launching a righteous mob assault on Bronya? With an overwhelming number, too!]
[Easy Mode says there were just a few kittens (]
[See? Told you, how could you assume that person would behave properly? Heh, I'm ready to watch Miss Elf take a hit.]
[Is it too late to change the difficulty now? Regret jumping on the bandwagon.]
...
"It's just more enemies, that's all, nothing to be afraid of..."
Elysia awkwardly tapped a few attack buttons, then quickly adjusted her mood, ready to show off her veteran gamer skills.
She controlled her character forward and confidently fired the first shot.
A deep blue flame burst among the Seeds of Ideal.
Several of them were immediately blasted into the air—some even collapsed entirely due to high damage intake.
This sight quickly wiped the nervous look off Elysia's face, replacing it with a beaming smile.
"Hmph! Told you—nothing to be afraid of."
"Just Seeds of Ideal—nothing more."
Hokuto: "..."
With more enemies, HP naturally needed to be reduced appropriately.
Otherwise, if they had both high numbers and high HP, even he would think it was overkill.
But still...
Less HP didn't mean the rest of their stats were lowered too.
In actual gameplay...
Just as Elysia started feeling good, judgment arrived.
The remaining Seeds of Ideal, the ones hit by her opening attack, suddenly raised their greatswords in unison, leapt across the distance instantly—
Duang~~!
Multiple greatswords slammed down on the unprepared character.
"Bronya" was left with only a sliver of HP. If not for Elysia's instinctive dodge, she probably would've been wiped out instantly.
Veteran gamer clutch moment—successfully hung in there.
"What was that?! That damage... and displacement??"
But Elysia, despite surviving, wasn't exactly thrilled. She looked shocked.
"Just Seeds of Ideal, right?"
Hokuto echoed her earlier words right back at her.
"..."
Elysia heard Hokuto parroting her own line and, though she really wanted to argue with him, this was clearly not the time.
A mental note to settle this later crossed her mind—and she focused on controlling the game.
Kiting the Seeds of Ideal around the field, she carefully dodged every heavy strike, along with the periodic AOE spells from Yutu.
Dodge, fire, dodge, fire, perfect dodge, fire!!!
After a significant amount of time, she finally managed to take down the "mountainous and oceanic" mass of Seeds of Ideal.
[666]
[She doesn't know how to play unless she's at 1 HP.]
[Gotta admit, Miss Elf really does have some skills.]
"Phew~~"
"You okay? Want to quit and restart on another difficulty?"
"Do I need to?"
"You don't?"
"Of course I don't!"
...
Back in the cutscene, after Bronya dealt the finishing blow to the remaining Seeds of Ideal on the battlefield, she proactively extended a hand toward the fallen ones.
The Seeds of Ideal summoned by Yutu transformed into runes and flew toward her.
"This is... the thoughts of those 300,000 people...?"
Bronya pondered.
So then... what should she do?
"..."
Actually, there was no need for hesitation.
She had decided what to do before the battle even began.
Bronya absorbed the Seeds of Ideal's thoughts into her Herrscher Core.
"You're... absorbing those consciousnesses into fragments of the core? Just like... Joyce once did?"
"A guaranteed victory strategy... so that's your true intention?"
"But with only a three-hundred-thousandth portion of their power, you... probably can't keep doing this forever, right?"
Yutu watched Bronya's actions, still looking composed and unbothered.
She raised her hand again.
"Now, I shall similarly integrate those renowned rulers throughout history into a clear concept—"
"The powerful will of conquest shall awaken here—this is the Sovereignty of No-Nightmare."
As Yutu's voice fell...
Once again, stone coffins rose from the ground and burst open, with even more Seeds of Ideal emerging.
"Again? And even more than before?"
Elysia froze.
She could already see herself being chased across the map.
"Not a big deal. First time's tough, second time's easier."
However...
This wave turned out to be surprisingly simple.
Practically a freebie.
All you had to do was locate one Seed of Ideal holding a blue greatsword and take it down—done.
"That's it?"
When Bronya, using Project Bunny, punched that blue-sworded Seed of Ideal and recovered another large number of "consciousnesses"...
Elysia found the unusually easy fight hard to believe.
After all, in the first wave, she was kite-running all over the place before finally "stylishly" clearing it.
[Is that guy behaving properly now?]
Players watching were also a bit shocked.
Well...
Of course not.
"Indeed... one must go through the darkest hour before witnessing the first dawn."
Yutu began chanting again.
And then, once more, summoned new Seeds of Ideal in a way that made players' brows twitch.
However.
Hmm? This time...
"There's only one enemy?"
"And it looks... much more normal than the previous ones."
Looking at the single "ordinary" Seed of Ideal standing alone, Elysia frowned.
Was it really ordinary? She didn't think it was that simple.
So... instead of attacking right away, she circled around it a few times, carefully observing.
That Seed of Ideal surprisingly didn't attack while being watched—it only made things more suspicious.
But unfortunately...
Even knowing something was off, Elysia couldn't figure out what.
"Why not just hit it and see how it reacts? What are you going to find just staring at it?"
Hokuto offered a little... suggestion from the side.
"...I guess that's the only option."
Elysia thought for a moment, then accepted Hokuto's advice and had her character launch an attack.
Pow!
Project Bunny, under Bronya's control, punched the Seed of Ideal with unrelenting force.
Hit confirmed!
But then—
Ding!
A clear, metallic clash sounded.
Before everyone's eyes, the Seed of Ideal blocked Project Bunny's attack and successfully countered—slashing Bronya in return.
"This... impossible..."
Bronya stiffened and collapsed.
That single counter completely drained her HP bar.
Elysia: "..."
"Now you know what its move was."
"???"
[So dirty. If I were Miss Elf, I'd be throwing hands already. Hahahahaha]
[Strong condemnation on behalf of Miss Elf!!! (laughing)(laughing)]
[Come on, if you'd just changed your expression, I might've believed you were genuinely helping her.]
[Elysia~ I can supply the weapon ()]
After the game returned to the difficulty selection screen, the livestream chat blew up with laughter.
Watching streams is all about these moments, right?
Of course, Hokuto didn't create a counter-parry enemy just to make things hard for players—it actually...
Perfectly matched the Herrscher of Reason's attack pattern.
Remember: the final hit of Herrscher of Reason's basic combo with the drill is immune to frontal damage.
Used properly, the parry isn't hard to execute.
No one still doesn't know this... right?
...
"..."
"..."
After a long, long silence...
"It's fine. Winning and losing is part of war."
"So, you still want to try Hard Mode again?"
"Of course!"
She firmly clicked "Easy."
The story content was already viewed, the "gameplay experience" had already happened—what was there to hesitate about?
Hokuto: ...6.
Seeing this, Hokuto had nothing more to say—just silently gave her a mental score.
Since Elysia made her choice, the rest was simple.
She breezed right back to the parry Seed of Ideal and truly breezed through defeating it.
Then, the story continued.
"Powers—confirmed fully restored."
Bronya spoke as she remounted her motorcycle.
At the same time, she assumed the same pose from "Cyberangel: ZERO Exception," when she charged at Tlaloc, and maxed the throttle.
"All systems on."
"Ride on."
Side armor slid open. Blue flames ignited—like wings unfolding from an angel.
Bronya pushed the throttle to the limit, rushing toward Yutu at speeds far beyond safe parameters—smashing through all barriers in her way.
Finally, the wheels slammed into Yutu.
"This ends here, World Serpent's operative!"
The game screen turned white.
Was everything settled?
Well...
Some players soon felt something was off. Wait, if it's over—then what was that short video she mentioned going to show?
Could it be...
Yup, exactly that "could it be."
If there's no accident...
An accident is about to happen.
"Not a transformation... but a direct breakthrough?"
Yutu's voice, completely unfazed, echoed out as the screen returned to normal.
Despite taking Bronya's full motorcycle strike, she floated midair, expression unchanged.
Then she pointed at Bronya.
"The Herrscher of Reason's core ultimately still follows a distributed structure..."
"Though I don't like it, reclaiming all I've granted—this is something we're both quite familiar with, isn't it?"
The world paused for a moment.
Next, the Herrscher of Reason armor on Bronya disappeared... inexplicably.
[???]
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[This is... License Revocation Jutsu.]
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