The ordinary college student, lost in the frenetic glow of the arcade, hammering the joystick in a KOF tournament, was violently ripped from the familiarity of neon and cheap synthetic music by a concussive blast. He awoke not to the smell of stale popcorn, but to an alien, charged atmosphere—a sudden inheritor of impossible power. Now, the lexicon of forgotten combat coursed through his veins: Nikaido Benimaru’s lightning-fast Spinning Knee Drop and Raging Thunder Fist; Robert Garcia’s Hurricane Kick and Tiger-Dragon Collision; Ryo Sakazaki’s devastating Art of the Fist and Earth-Sky Overlord Punch; Iori Yagami's Kuzu-Kazan and Ya Sakazuki; even the terrifying pantheon of Orochi, wielding the Mirror of Yata, the Staff of Heaven, and the Divine Sun... Chen Feng...