Chapter 419: Foster Father Becomes Foster Mother, Biological Father Even Resurrects
The act of resurrecting due to high popularity is something various game developers are doing.
For instance, Rugal, who self-destructed early on, directly participated in the plot-less free-for-all of 'King of Fighters '98' and many subsequent titles.
Heihachi Mishima from 'Tekken' is even a king of resurrection, and his resurrections are even part of the plot itself. Despite being the only one in his family without demon-related blood, he's harder to kill than his own son and grandson.
Bombs to the face, falling off cliffs—none of it works. As long as a new game comes out, that old man is bound to be in it.
And the old geezer Geese, standing before Terry at this very moment, is a similar existence.
After falling from a building in the 1991 'Fatal Fury' original, officially surviving in the 1995 reversal, losing a duel to Terry and falling again in 1996, he was then hinted to be alive in the ending animation of the 'Mary, Ryuji Yamazaki, Billy' team in 'King of Fighters '97.
If you don't randomly select characters in 'King of Fighters '97, but instead choose according to specific official teams and complete the game normally, you'll get different ending animations. Some of these animations contain special information, like Easter eggs.
The situation with the old geezer Geese, who has resurrected yet again, is slightly more complex. His appearance here is partly due to his interest in the Fatal Fury Team, and partly because he received news about the Orochi blood's emergence.
However, what he never could have imagined was that Terry had been turned into a woman by some mysterious power!
And when she was repeatedly pulled out in front of a large crowd for countless people to admire her new form, the old geezer couldn't hold back and jumped out.
Seeing this old geezer play dead again, Terry's anger was naturally indescribable. And the old man went straight to the point, hitting exactly what Terry was most concerned about right now.
At this very moment, Terry had a small vampiric wing attached.
Watching these two appear on the TV screen, even Cheng Tian couldn't help but be stunned, but soon, Cheng Tian's expression became strange, because he thought of something.
In the special event of Terry's feminization and Geese's resurrection, who was the most severely traumatized?
Terry? Andy? Mary? Mai Shiranui? Or... Geese?
None of them.
The most severely traumatized was the 8-year-old Rock Howard, who was now stunned in front of the TV, his mind completely blank.
As Geese Howard's biological son, he and his mother were abandoned together at birth. They struggled to survive in the slums with his mother until he was about 6. When his mother fell ill, he learned of his origins and went to Geese Tower for help, only to be rejected again by his biological father. After his mother died and he was left to wander the streets, Terry, unaware of all this, empathized with him and adopted him. (It seems Rock's biological mother also resurrected in the latest Fatal Fury game...)
He was adopted in '95 at age 6, and now it's '97, so he's 8, at a sensitive age where he's like a small adult.
As for Geese, young Rock naturally hated him beyond measure, yet still retained a certain blood connection.
As for Terry, as an adopted son, young Rock was naturally very grateful. Also, after getting proper nutrition, he started learning Hakkyokuseiken, and held a certain reverence and admiration for his master.
But now, his foster father became his foster mother, and his biological father resurrected. Young Rock's not-yet-fully-developed little brain clearly couldn't handle so much complex information.
What young Rock didn't know, however, was that this was only the beginning.
In response to Geese's taunts, Terry naturally charged forward with her Hakkyokuseiken.
However, the truth was that the transition from a male physique to a female physique significantly impacted Terry's combat power, directly dropping her from T0 to T1 level.
After becoming a woman, her muscle density and arm span inevitably decreased. Even more terrifying, Terry now also had the debuff of a small vampiric wing, causing her combat power to plummet.
Before, she had only been fighting third-rate fighters hungry for attention, whom she could defeat with little effort. But when her arch-nemesis appeared, the drop in her combat power became significantly apparent.
If expressed in attributes, Terry's Strength and Agility attributes both dropped a tier due to feminization, but in return, her Spirit and Charm received corresponding boosts.
The strong sense of contrast was even more captivating than Mai Shiranui, who had been exposing herself for many years.
But precisely because of this, Terry could not afford to lose!
Her brother was watching, her sister-in-law was watching, her lover was watching, and her adopted son was watching even more!
Terry might not care about the audience's gaze, but the stares of her loved ones made her unable and unwilling to retreat!
"I! Have a reason not to lose!!!"
As a powerful punch landed, an energy geyser erupted from the ground, directly striking Geese.
Because he uses Aikido, Geese is most skilled in throws and counter-attacks, able to precisely seize the slightest opening when an opponent makes a move.
How powerful Terry used to be, Geese had verified multiple times with his own "deaths." But it was precisely that past strength that highlighted her current weakness.
With just an extreme sidestep, the energy geyser whistled past, merely brushing Geese's clothes, and failed to truly harm his body.
In Geese's eyes, the scale and force of this energy geyser were so much weaker compared to when Terry was still a man that he felt a certain sadness.
But precisely because of this, Geese suddenly had a thought that, upon closer consideration, made him break out in a cold sweat.
Terry being turned into a woman meant that someone was targeting a certain quality of Terry's—was it the person herself, her background, or some other reason? Geese didn't know.
But the unknown also meant that anything was possible. So, would his renewed contact with Terry cause him to also appear in the sights of that mysterious perpetrator?
In an instant, cold sweat drenched Geese's back.
"Eh? Why did he run? Wasn't the fight getting exciting?"
Watching Geese's face suddenly change on the stage, then taking off running, completely ignoring Terry's pursuit, Eileen, representing countless spectators, asked a soul-searching question.
And the same question clearly appeared on Terry's face as well.
"Don't run! Stop!"
Terry was clearly yelling in anger, yet many onlookers showed expressions of enjoyment, but at this moment, she clearly had no time to deal with these perverts.
Suddenly resurrecting, suddenly attacking, then suddenly running away—what exactly does this Geese want?! What is he trying to do?
But just as Terry was completely unable to figure out what was happening, a figure intentionally collided with her, who was alone.
And in the instant of their collision, the "Fatal Fury Team" on the live broadcast channel suddenly switched to the "996 Team."
Many people were confused by this, but a small portion suddenly remembered that this 996 Team was the audition team that had previously successfully replaced the "Olili Team"!