Chapter 53

More than ten minutes later, Nathan and Lily arrived at the arcade. There wasn't much to say—they simply made a beeline for the Punch King 1997 machine and dueled it out for a good half hour. As usual, Nathan won by a landslide, but he was really beginning to feel the pressure. Lily was improving far too quickly. Unlike mainstream fighting games like Alley Fighter and Legendary Showdown, Punch King involved a 3-on-3 battle. The two opposing players each controlled three characters. The player whose three characters were completely knocked out first would be the loser. When he first started playing against Lily, her three characters would often fail to defeat even his first character. But now, there was a high probability that she would defeat one of his characters, and a low probability that she would defeat two of them. There had even been two occasions where his third character had been brought down to a sliver of health before he finally managed to take the win. She had only