Chapter 52

After about ten minutes, Stephen and Bailey arrived at the arcade. Without hesitation, they headed straight for the "King of Fighters 97" machine and played for over half an hour. Stephen won as usual, but he felt the pressure—Bailey was improving rapidly. Unlike mainstream fighting games like Street Fighter and Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters was a 3V3 game. Each player had three characters, and the first player to lose all three characters would lose the match. When they first started playing, Bailey's characters couldn't even take down his first character. Now, she could frequently knock out one, and occasionally even two of his characters. There were even two rounds where his third character was nearly defeated before he managed to win. Bailey had only been playing for a short while, but she was already giving Stephen a tough time. She might completely outplay him if she practiced for another month or two. After their gaming session, she pulled out her notebook to take not