His hand touched the black veil, but he didn't feel like he was touching anything.
"Eh?"
Seiji discovered that his hand had actually passed through the black veil.
"Is this … an illusion?"
He tried to touch her body, but his hand passed through her body without feeling anything at all.
This was indeed an illusion, a shadow that seemed to have a physical body.
"No, I can't touch her."
Seiji retracted his hand and looked towards Summer Night.
He saw that the Grand Mistress didn't seem surprised at all. It seemed that she had expected this.
"We need to use the correct method to communicate with the Guardian Spirit, but the problem is that we don't know the method."
"The method … could it be that we have to play this game?"
Summer Night blinked in surprise.
"That's possible. But you guys cleared the game, and she didn't show any reaction, which means that it's not a normal game. "
"Hmm … Do we have to gather the number of men and women? Step on a certain grid? Or do we have to beat her in the end? "Seiji guessed.
"Both are possible, and we can try various methods, but …" Summer Night said in a soft voice.
"That's too troublesome." Seiji sighed.
The two of them fell silent for a moment.
"Let's leave it for now and look at it again after we finish our investigation. Perhaps we'll learn more about this board game by then," Seiji suggested.
Summer Night nodded in agreement.
The two of them looked towards the black-veiled woman again. She was still silently standing there without making a single sound.
…
The next morning.
Seiji told Mika about last night's test results.
"… Summer Night will send someone to investigate today, and she'll notify us if she finds anything important. All we can do now is wait."
The twintailed girl nodded.
She then looked towards the television.
On the television, two small people with large noses wearing plumbers' clothing were jumping around, trampling over pitiful monsters, stealing shiny gold coins, touching strange objects to transform, and causing destruction everywhere …
Feng Wu and Ling Yang were playing a game together, and they seemed to be having a lot of fun.
Seiji looked at Mika's face and felt that there was something wrong with her. He wanted to ask, but he opened his mouth and didn't say anything.
He kept quiet and watched the game on the television.
After a while.
"I thought a lot last night," Mika said softly.
Seiji looked at her again.
"I suddenly started thinking about it. As I thought about it, I fell asleep."
"When I woke up, I felt that I was thinking too much, but …"
A complex expression appeared on the twintailed girl's face.
"I always thought that my father was an ordinary person, my mother was, and I was … Our family was just an ordinary family."
"But now … the father who has passed away might not be ordinary … When I think of this, I feel a little … I don't know what to say."
"I know I shouldn't let my imagination run wild, but I just can't calm down … I don't know how to describe this feeling."
"You're just a little uneasy," Seiji said gently.
"What you've encountered has shaken your inherent understanding of the past, so you feel uneasy."
"It's normal for you to have such a reaction when faced with something abnormal about your father and the possible secrets hidden within."
Mika looked at him.
Their gazes met.
Seiji smiled gently.
"Mika, you need to know that no matter what the truth is, or what secrets there are, you are you.
"No matter if you're actually the daughter of a powerful Spiritual Ability user, or the daughter of an aristocratic family with the bloodline of an aristocratic family, or even a Jinchuriki with a vicious and evil demon sealed within your body … you're still yourself. You won't become anyone else, nor will you become anyone else."
"Our relationship won't change … Didn't I tell you and Chiaki before that no matter what our actual backgrounds are, we're good friends, and you're someone important to me? None of that will change."
"Seiji …"
Mika recalled the words he said to her at that time, as well as the moving smile on his face.
The scene in her memory overlapped with the scene before her.
The emotional feelings she felt at that time overlapped with her current feelings.
Something flashed in Mika's eyes, and her face flushed red.
'This person is just like this.
I like this person just like him.
This feeling won't change, so … just what am I worried about? '
'Just as he said, I won't change. I'm me, no matter what the truth is.'
"… Thank you."
She spoke to him from the bottom of her heart.
"There's no need to thank me."
Seiji smiled in response.
As always.
…
After Mika returned home, Seiji received a package.
It was a package from Hana … which he had purchased online.
He took the package to his study and opened it.
There was a sports camera, a rechargeable battery, a Bluetooth headset, a signal booster, a camera stabilizer, and a stabilizer …
After taking everything out, he tried to equip it.
He read the instruction manual while working on it, and it wasn't long before he was done.
He turned on his computer, opened up his livestream, and uploaded the video.
'Success!'
The computer displayed the video.
He set up the password for his livestream and contacted Hana. She soon responded.
"The video is very clear. Not bad."
"That's because the quality of the equipment you purchased is good."
"Of course, I took great care in choosing them! Did you connect your headset? "
"It's already connected."
A voice call request immediately popped up in his chat box.
Seiji clicked [Accept].
He then heard a clear female voice in his headset.
"Hey, hey … can you hear me?"
"I can hear you very clearly," Seiji responded.
This time, he didn't use voice changing software. He used his real voice to talk to Hana.
Hana's body tensed up when she heard this familiar yet unfamiliar voice.
It was the same voice as "Haruta Seiji," but it sounded quite different.
"You … my familiar! Walk around and take a look. "
"Yes, my master."
The livestream screen then changed and began moving.
The camera was quite stable, and the entire scene didn't shake too much. It seemed that walking around normally wouldn't be a problem.
Hana saw a Sakura Island style living room. There was a tatami on a tatami mat, and a blonde beauty and a green-haired little girl were sitting next to the tatami mat. They were playing a game together.
"Who are they?"
"They're a child who's temporarily living here, as well as a neighbor who lives upstairs."
"Temporarily living here … is that little girl the person you mentioned living together with before?"
"No, she only recently moved here for some reason. The person I mentioned living together with before is someone else."
"… Is it a boy or a girl?"
"A girl."
"Is she very beautiful?"
"Yes."
Hana was rendered speechless.
"So you're saying …" Her voice rose in pitch.
"You're currently living together with a very beautiful girl, as well as this cute little girl in the video right now? And you're on good terms with the blonde beauty who lives upstairs? "
"That's right."
An indescribable feeling welled up in Hana's chest. It even surpassed the level of what made her shout out the phrase "explode!", to the point where she blurted out …
"Pervert, explode!!"
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