What a joke that nobody could laugh at.
Seiji didn't want to load in order to prove his hypothesis. He had no obligation to use his power for the sake of the enemy.
But, if his companions found it difficult to accept … He looked towards Mika and Hoshi, who had pale faces.
"Are you guys alright?"
Neither of them answered.
"Do you think that I went overboard?" Seiji asked in a soft voice.
"No," both of them answered in unison.
Then, Mika and Hoshi exchanged glances.
"Although I think that these people were pitiful, they attacked us first, and we were only defending ourselves …" Something flashed in Mika's eyes. "Besides, I was already prepared to face such a situation when I joined the team."
"That's what I thought as well … Although it's a little hard to bear, I don't think that Team Leader went overboard." Hoshi had a resolute expression.
"If I had held back, perhaps they could have survived …"
"Holding back against the enemy is the same as being cruel to your companions," Tomohisa stated. "Reality isn't a shonen manga," Hisashi said. "Things like showing mercy to the enemy and still being able to remain unscathed will only happen in manga, and it's limited to shonen manga."
"That's not necessarily the case." Seiji shook his head. "Shoujo manga also has such plots."
Everyone fell silent for a moment.
"Cough, now isn't the time to talk about manga … I understand what you mean, Tomohisa. Thank you."
After thanking the mafia otaku, he smiled at Mika and Hoshi. "Thank you as well."
"Don't say that, Seiji." Mika looked directly at his face. "You protected us, so we should be the ones thanking you … thank you."
"I should be the one thanking you the most," Hoshi said. "I want to thank you for finding me, as well as Juumonji-san's protection just now …"
"It's my duty to be your companions, but if it's possible, I'd like to make a request!" Tomohisa suddenly spoke up quickly.
"Er … what?" Hoshi paused in surprise.
"Please take a few pictures of this humble one in maid attire!" Tomohisa's eyeglasses flashed. "This humble one will prepare the attire, and I guarantee that it'll fit!"
"Maid attire?"
"That's right! I just need to take a few pictures, please! " Knight of Light! "
"This … this …" Hoshi didn't know how to react to such a sudden request.
"Amami-san wearing a maid outfit … I want to see it as well." Mika's eyes lit up as well.
Seiji also imagined his junior wearing a fitting maid outfit and smiling shyly.
Stop! Her lethality was so great that his understanding of female servants was about to be shaken!
He hurriedly tried to imagine Mai's appearance as a buffer, repeatedly telling himself that she was a real maid.
A maid could be good at shooting or have other special or even strange skills, but it could never be a man! Absolutely!!
"Cough, cough, now isn't the time to talk about such things. Tomohisa, we can talk about what you want with Hoshi after we get back." Seiji stopped the conversation.
"Alright, I'll prepare the best maid outfit when I get back!" Tomohisa took Seiji's words as a tacit agreement.
"Team Leader …" Hoshi looked at Seiji Mukai.
"That's between the two of you." Seiji averted his gaze.
Tomohisa indeed protected Hoshi. It was up to Hoshi whether or not he agreed to Tomohisa's request.
'… Actually, you want to see a trap maid as well, don't you?' Seiji heard a tiny voice say.
'No! Definitely not!! ' Seiji adamantly denied it.
He activated his [Interdimensional Locator] again and set his target: Shika Kagura!
Seiji's vision turned dark as his consciousness entered a mystical realm. He gradually heard faint voices.
"Brother … wait for me …"
"Protect … Ooike …"
He saw green, red, and black … everything was blurry and chaotic, as if someone had overturned a paint plate. He couldn't see anything clearly. He felt calmness, worry, and hope.
"Little Shi is fine, and she seems to be together with Kazuko-san, waiting for us to go find them," Seiji said after he opened his eyes.
He then looked at the spiritual weapons left behind by his three dead enemies.
The originally blood-red greatsword, spear, and twin daggers now had black spots on them as if they were burnt.
These weapons seemed rather ominous. He felt that he should be able to find out something if he brought them out and investigated them.
It would be difficult to carry all of them, so he decided to only take the daggers.
Seiji immediately approached the assassin's corpse, carefully picked up the twin daggers, and put them away.
There was also the black fruit on the red leaf tree.
Although he didn't know what fruit it was, it was highly likely to be some sort of precious resource that he shouldn't miss out on.
However, before Seiji could pick the fruit, the entire area suddenly glowed with a faint green light!
"What's going on?"
Everyone saw white spots of light appearing from the flowers, butterflies, green leaves, vines, flowing water, trees … everything in the entire area melted into the green light!
As a large amount of white spots appeared and melted, the flowers and other scenery swiftly became transparent before completely vanishing.
Just a moment later, the beautiful garden became empty, as if it had never existed in the first place.
"It actually vanished …" Seiji muttered to himself.
He didn't expect that the scenery would vanish … was this merely a change in scenery?
The next second, a large amount of black mist poured out of the cracks in the wall and swiftly formed into a pack of black wolves!
Not only did the scenery change, the entire area had become an ordinary area!!
A safe area wasn't permanent. It could become a wild area! This fact overturned Seiji's previous guess.
If the area could change, then there was no value in using it as a gathering point … then why did the Cliff Squad start fighting!?
Seiji was confused that his own guess was proven wrong, but he immediately calmed down.
"Let's go!"
He decided not to think about the unimaginable. At any rate, he wanted to leave this place.
…
Hoshi followed his team leader as he controlled the spiritual eagles to do their best to fight.
After a while, he felt that his right hand was starting to heat up.
He took a closer look and saw faint green runes appearing on his palm!
"What's this?" He lightly touched these runes, but didn't feel anything at all.
"What's the matter?" Seiji noticed this.
"I felt that my right hand was burning up, and then I saw this …" Hoshi showed him his palm.
Seiji saw with his [Astral Vision] that this was a spell formation.
Although he couldn't see it clearly, it seemed rather similar to the mystical spell formation on the stone door that he saw before entering the garden area!
Was this some sort of seal? What kind of seal was this? What effect did it have? Would it be dangerous?
Various questions popped up in his mind. Seiji furrowed his eyebrows.
"Apart from your hand burning up, you don't feel anything else?"
"Yeah."
"I don't know what this is … it doesn't seem like something that can be removed with a healing spell."
Seiji decided to give it a try, so he cast a healing spell on Hoshi. However, it was useless as expected.
He then cast a cleansing spell, but the result was the same. The mysterious green seal remained on Hoshi's palm.
He could only use his ultimate technique.
"Yomi, I'd like to ask, what is this?" Seiji asked Yomi in his mind.
The female spirit didn't respond.
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