'So noisy …
'So noisy if you don't want to die don't die so noisy shut up and die don't die so noisy go die …'
Linpu Kotaro's mind was filled with a cacophony of voices. He was no longer able to tell which were his own thoughts and which were just hallucinations.
The scene in front of him kept changing between reality and dream. Disgust and resentment, anger and hatred — these two emotions mixed together and formed a chaotic pitch-black mass.
In his daze, he faintly heard some strange words … was this a language from a dream? A foreign language?
No, no, it was more like …
An incantation …
…
The black mist suddenly exploded!
The moment that Seiji noticed this, he was enveloped by darkness.
He felt dizzy, and in his hazy consciousness, he faintly saw many chaotic scenes and heard many voices. His body became light as a feather.
He did his best to maintain his consciousness. Soon, the dizziness stopped, and his vision returned to normal. He then noticed that the black mist was gone, but the venue was completely dark. All the lights had been extinguished, as if there was a power outage.
Everyone in the venue stood there in a daze. Their eyes were lifeless, as if they had lost their souls.
Before Seiji could take a closer look at the situation, a bright red color suddenly appeared in his vision.
It was a cluster amaryllis flower.
"This is …"
While Seiji was still in shock, bright red flowers bloomed in the venue one after another, emitting a faint red light.
Under the illumination of the red light, everyone's clothes rapidly decayed, their exposed skin rapidly dried up, their hair fell off, their eyeballs melted, and their palms enlarged and transformed into white bones … In less than ten seconds, they had all transformed into skeletons with deformed bone claws!
"Whoosh …" The male host who had transformed into a skeleton pounced at Seiji!
Seiji dodged his attack and then dodged the female host's attack. He then cast the [Body-strengthening Spell] and punched the female host who had transformed into a skeleton.
Even more skeletons pounced at him, waving their sharp bone claws at him!
Seiji speedily retreated and cast a [Mana Shield]. He dodged while counterattacking with punches and kicks.
Boom! Boom! Smack! Bam! …
After he grasped the strength needed to defeat them, he was able to finish off one with a single punch or kick.
There were many skeletons, and their bone claws were incredibly sharp. No matter how he dodged, he couldn't avoid being attacked. Fortunately, his [Mana Shield] completely blocked the attacks.
And he wasn't the only one fighting.
Slightly further away from the stage, there was a fat middle-aged man with a crew cut wearing a jacket and sweatpants. He dodged the siege of the skeletons with agility that did not match his figure at all. He used everything he could get his hands on to block the bone claws or counterattack as he cursed.
"What the hell? Why did it suddenly become like this!? What happened!? "
He cursed and fought at the same time. When he was gradually blocked by the skeletons in a corner, he leaped and somersaulted in mid-air, crouching on the ceiling like a toad!
The skeletons jumped and waved their claws. The fat middle-aged man crawled on the ceiling, kicking the heads of the skeletons that jumped up from time to time … This scene was strange and a little funny.
Seiji noticed that the other party was coming towards him.
"Harano-kun! I'll call you that, okay? Do you know what's going on!? "The fat uncle shouted.
"Sure, and who are you?" Seiji responded, "I don't know how this happened, but it probably has something to do with Linpu Kotaro."
"My name is Tomo Matsutani," the fat uncle answered. "I also think that it has something to do with that Linpu guy … Damn it! I should have left this place the moment I saw the black aura coming out of that middle school boy's body! "
As he said this, he crawled near Seiji, flipped down from the ceiling, and crushed a skeleton.
Both of them felt that it was much easier to fight together than fighting alone.
"Matsutani-san, are you a light novel author?" Seiji asked.
"Yes, I'm your senpai," Matsutani answered.
"May I ask what your pen name and work are?"
"Cliff Rhinoceros Horn, I Can't Sleep When I'm Sleeping Together with My Younger Sister. You can be more casual when talking to me …"
"You're actually Cliff Gang-sensei!?" Seiji was astonished. "Both my adopted younger sister and I really like the light novel 'Sleeping with My Younger Sister.' Before I came here, I was thinking that if I saw Cliff Gang-sensei again, I would definitely ask for his autograph."
"Thank you for your support. Your adopted younger sister actually likes my light novel as well? I'm suddenly curious just what type of younger sister she is. "Matsutani blinked in surprise.
"She's an incredibly cute younger sister. She's an important member of my family."
"Excellent, I've confirmed it. You're a sis-con, brat."
"That's right! With such a cute younger sister, how could I not be a sis-con! "
"This is the first time I've met such a handsome pervert … Harano-kun, you're amazing!"
"Cliff Gang-sensei, you're the one who's amazing. You're so amazing for writing a light novel like 'Sleeping with My Younger Sister!' Your writing skills are so profound that it's at a level that ordinary people can't reach. I'm truly impressed. "
The two of them exchanged glances for an instant and smiled at each other.
"Harano-kun, let's have a good chat after we finish dealing with this strange situation." Matsutani forcefully tossed a skeleton away, knocking over several other skeletons.
"That's exactly what I was thinking, Cliff Gang-sensei … Matsutani-senpai." Seiji spun around and kicked three skeletons away.
…
After spending some time, Seiji finally defeated all the skeletons … more accurately speaking, he shattered all of them.
Neither Seiji nor Matsutani held back. It wasn't because they felt that these skeletons were hopeless. It was because these skeletons weren't real people.
Matsutani sensed that these skeletons didn't have any aura of a living person at all. However, Seiji noticed something even more than Matsutani did: this wasn't reality. This was a soul realm!
The cluster amaryllis flowers blooming everywhere were the best evidence of this.
These skeletons weren't monsters transformed from real humans. They were products of a soul realm.
When they were enveloped by that black mist, they were pulled into a soul realm … as for whose soul realm this was, the answer was quite obvious.
Seiji didn't know why this happened. Neither Seiji nor Matsutani felt that Linpu Kotaro was a Spiritual Ability user who could cast such a spell of his own volition.
An Awakened … that was possible.
But if that middle school boy had such an ability, why did he cast it?
Was it for revenge? Was it because of what happened in the preparation room?
Seiji felt that this was highly unlikely.
No matter what, the incident had already happened. The most important thing now was how to escape from this place and return to reality.
Seiji believed that Yomi would probably have an idea. However, she didn't respond to him. She was still sleeping.
Seiji could only deal with this situation on his own now that his bonded spirit had logged off.
"I only know of one method: head in a direction with more cluster amaryllis flowers. That way, we might be able to find Linpu or something else. Perhaps we'll be able to return to reality after dealing with it, "Seiji told Matsutani.
"Perhaps … that doesn't sound like a very reliable method."
"Indeed. I'm not sure if this will work, nor do I know what we'll meet. I'm only certain that we'll find something. "
"Since there's no other method, let's do this … Honestly, I've already changed my job class, yet I still met with such a situation." Matsutani scratched his head awkwardly.
"Could I ask Senpai what you used to do in the past?" Seiji was quite curious.
"In the past … I was a ninja."
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