World Championship of Living Spirit Projection
I believe that with your passionate feelings, you will definitely win.
She said to me with a shy smile.
The first-ever World Championship of Living Spirit Projection is being held starting this year.
I was selected as the representative for Japan.
My surging feelings are second to none.
I even swapped them out for the upcoming world championship.
While aged feelings are strong, new, burning feelings suit my nature better.
Now, the moment has finally arrived!
The stadium is packed.
The cheers from the crowd at the announcer's voice are incredible.
The World Championship of Living Spirit Projection is beginning!
A roar like an earthquake rises up.
I wave to the audience during the entrance ceremony while gathering my feelings.
The battle has already begun.
The first world championship features four countries: Egypt, Peru, Japan, and China.
All of them are formidable opponents with deep-rooted cultures of ancient ruins and curses.
But I will not lose.
This sport has a high affinity for the Japanese.
After all, it is a sport that originated in Japan.
Defeat is not an option.
The athletes from each country have gathered. I can feel the strong feelings hidden within everyone's hearts!
The announcer seems excited.
I will now explain the rules.
Living Spirit Projection is a competition to see who can project their living spirit the farthest.
The history of the sport is short, but living spirits are a phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of humanity.
The stadium erupts again.
I am fully focused on refining my feelings during this time as well.
We will place the target for the living spirit at a designated location.
If the target can say the password we provide, it will serve as proof that the living spirit has appeared.
By the way, the current world record is 1,500 km, held by the representative from China.
It is expected that athletes from each country will aim to match this record.
The support for the Chinese camp is heating up.
The intensity is enough to send a living spirit.
“Now, we will ask our commentator, the Onmyoji master, for his thoughts.”
“Master, is it difficult to send a living spirit?”
The host asks the Onmyoji, who is wearing appropriate attire.
“Well, anyone can do it if it's just sending one out, but to send it accurately... it requires a corresponding amount of emotion and precise control. For an average person, being able to send one 200km would be quite enough.”
The Onmyoji explains politely.
“I see. Now I understand the magnitude of the Chinese representative's record.”
“However, the Chinese record was a living spirit of resentful emotions.”
“In this tournament, negative emotions like resentment and sadness are grounds for disqualification.”
“Sending a positive living spirit is the absolute rule.”
Jeers of “Hurry up and start!” began to fly from the audience.
No, this is a living spirit.
The audience's living spirits are swirling around this stadium.
“Whoops, if I don't start soon, my own life will be in danger!”
“Then, let us begin the 1st World Championship of Sending Living Spirits!!”
The excitement in the stadium reaches its peak.
The amount of living spirits has increased even more.
My turn is last.
Not bad.
Going later is advantageous because I have more time to refine my emotions.
The living spirit sending of the other three countries begins.
As expected, I suppose.
All three countries managed to send their living spirits successfully.
China: 1,600km
Peru: 1,200km
Egypt: 1,400km
Artistic points will be added to this.
The rankings will be decided after the records of all four countries are in and the bonus points are announced.
But I won't be satisfied with just winning.
I will be remembered forever as the first-ever champion with an overwhelming victory...
For that purpose, I even got a new girlfriend.
Feelings are stronger the less time you've been dating.
I will let my feelings of wanting to see her so badly explode.
For this day, I sealed away my smartphone and cultivated my feelings through letter writing.
And what's more!
She even promised me a kiss if I win.
Whoaaa!
It's building up now.
“Now, last is the appearance of the Japanese representative.”
“The person he is sending his living spirit to is... his girlfriend, it seems.”
“According to the data, they have been dating for two weeks. I see, this is going to be intense!”
The audience is also getting excited.
“Um, the distance from his girlfriend, as declared, is... 75km... apparently.”
The venue is filled with a buzz of excitement.
“Is this a strategy to earn points for artistic merit?”
“Oh, the judges are now relaying the password.”
I received the password.
This password is a nonsensical phrase to ensure it cannot be predicted.
The password I received is 'Nuunuu'.
Certainly an unpredictable phrase.
Still, the roar of the crowd when they heard that distance earlier... it was amazing.
I am going to make history.
“Oh? For some reason, the Japanese representative is facing the opposite direction of where his girlfriend is.”
“C-could this be—!!!?”
I focus my mind.
My consciousness leaves my body, leaves the stadium, and leaves the Earth.
I imagine looking down at the Earth from space.
Go! My living spirit!!
Circle the globe!!!
A brief silence.
The giant screen in the stadium shows a live feed of my girlfriend.
She closes her eyes, trying to sense my living spirit.
Her lips move.
“Nuunuu.”
The password
[[phN_open]]Nuunuu[[phN_close]] is also displayed in the stadium.A roar of cheers erupts.
“W-what is this!? The living spirit has circled the globe!!”
“The current record... 40,000km...”
The stadium is engulfed in a roar of cheers so loud it feels like the ground is shaking, as if the place might collapse.
I pump my fist in the air right there.
Now I can get a kiss!
Beep!
The referee blows the whistle.
The head referee and the assistant referees gather to discuss something.
The head referee relays a message to the moderator.
"Uh, regarding the living spirit sent by the Japanese representative just now..."
"Because it was a lecherous and wicked living spirit, they are disqualified."
I collapsed on the spot.