This mental communication only took one second.
Hoshi's palm glowed even brighter.
He turned around and nocked his bow, which was instantly enveloped in a green glow.
A pure-white arrow of light suddenly materialized and glowed with a gentle light that seemed divine.
* Whoosh! *
The arrow of light shot out, leaving a spiral trail in the air as it struck the slimy alien at the very front, causing a greenish-white glow to explode out!
Half of this alien's body was instantly destroyed, and it stopped moving.
* Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh … * Hoshi continuously shot out white arrows of light, destroying one alien after another.
Every time he shot out an arrow of light, the glow on his palm weakened a little. After destroying the final alien, the light became so weak that it was about to vanish.
Seiji and the others saw that Hoshi's right hand was trembling!
"Hoshi, what's the matter?"
"Nothing …"
"Don't lie through your teeth, your hand is shaking."
"It's really nothing … it's just my own problem." Hoshi clenched his right hand and stopped it from shaking.
"Don't say something like that!" Seiji furrowed his eyebrows. "If there's something you need to say, don't bear it by yourself."
'You should understand this already, right?' That was what he meant with his eyes.
However, Hoshi simply chuckled and revealed an expression of resolution.
"Captain … thank you."
'Why are you suddenly thanking me?'
Before Seiji could ask, his vision suddenly darkened …
Everyone saw a red flash, and then Seiji's figure vanished!
'What's going on!?'
While everyone was confused, another red flash appeared, and Shika Kagura's figure vanished.
"Juumonji-san, I apologize, but I refuse your request." Hoshi smiled at Hisashi. "You need to prepare the best maid attire. It's better for cute girls to wear it."
"Knight of Light …" Tomohisa was unable to finish his sentence as he vanished along with the red flash.
Mika noticed that everyone who vanished had probably returned to reality.
But why did Amami-san have such an expression?
She wanted to ask, but before she could, she was sent out.
Kazuko slowly opened her eyes in the green crystal pillar and looked towards Hoshi.
"Sorry …"
She left behind an apology before vanishing as well.
Hoshi was the only one left.
Those aberrations that were destroyed by the light arrow wriggled and rapidly regained their original form. They began to move again, closing in on him.
Hoshi did his best to remain calm as he placed his right hand on the crystal pillar again.
…
"What's going on?"
Seiji asked Kazuko this question in the Juumonji Group's dojo.
It was great that he had returned to reality, but why hadn't Hoshi returned?
"Little brother Amami is being watched. I can't bring him out."
"Targeted?"
"Yes, when he touched the crystal, I communicated with him through telepathy and learned about his experience. That mysterious golden-haired girl … I believe that she was the one who blocked my door at that time and caused everything that happened afterwards. "Kazuko sighed.
"She has a similar ability to me, but stronger."
"If I'm the person who opens the door, then she's the owner of the room!"
"The domain I opened was accidentally connected to her 'room'. I was controlled by her and then subverted."
"I don't know why, but Amami-san can see her. She probably became interested in him because of this, which is why she left a mark on him. Basically, she's watching him. "
"Maintaining my own existence in her room and bringing all of you out is already the limit of what I can do. As for Amami-san being watched by her, there's really nothing I can do. I apologize … "
"If that's the case, then let me stay behind as well!" Seiji furrowed his eyebrows. "I can't let Hoshi stay there by himself."
"That's Amami-san's request," Kazuko spoke in a soft voice. "He asked me to bring all of you out."
Everyone fell silent for a moment.
"What the hell!!!" Seiji viciously stomped his foot. "What does he want by staying there by himself!? Does he want to die!? "
"He wants to find that girl by himself … He feels that as long as he's alone, he'll be able to see her again."
"What if he can't find her!? How is he supposed to come out!? "
Kazuko fell silent.
"Can you bring me back?" Seiji looked towards her again.
Kazuko shook her head.
"I've used up a lot of my power. I'll soon fall into a deep sleep."
"… How long will you need to sleep for?"
"I'm not sure myself. I think it'll be a few days or a few weeks."
"Is there any way to help you recover?" Seiji looked at her.
"There isn't." Kazuko smiled. "Just wait for me to wake up."
Right after she said this, a blinding red light shone from her body. She then transformed into a jacket-wearing boy.
"Good evening, Ooike-kun." Seiji sighed.
"Good evening, Harano-kun." Kazufuru adjusted his eyeglasses.
Kazuko fell into a deep sleep. Seiji held onto his last bit of hope and asked Yomi if he could return. The answer was also no.
It was far too impulsive of Hoshi to stay there by himself!
Seiji only had two choices left: load or wait.
Wait, because he believed that Hoshi would return. Load, because he didn't believe in him.
Although Seiji was angry at his idiotic junior for acting on his own, he wanted to believe in Hoshi — that the Fourth Knight would return safely!
And so, he decided to wait.
But he couldn't wait forever, so he set tomorrow morning as the deadline.
"Hurry up and return, Hoshi … When you return to me, I'm going to teach you a good lesson!"
…
"Achoo!" Hoshi sneezed.
He didn't even need to think to know that Hoshi was definitely scolding him.
He actually wanted to say "I'm sorry," but Hoshi didn't like to hear apologies, so he said thank you instead.
Staying here by himself would be foolish.
But Hoshi felt that this was the correct decision. There was no need to drag his companions down with him. It would be more likely for him to see the golden-haired girl by himself.
No … it wasn't just possible, he would definitely see her! He had to see her.
Although he resolved himself, he definitely didn't want to die.
He looked at the mark on his palm.
'She gave me this … she probably doesn't want me to die here alone …'
Even if that girl was the cause of all this, Hoshi still wanted to believe that she wasn't an evil existence. He wanted to believe that she would appear before him.
He knew that this was an incredibly naive way of thinking, but … he was unable to give up on this naivety.
Suddenly, he heard faint singing.
It was her!
Hoshi listened carefully and tried to determine where the singing was coming from.
After he determined which direction it was coming from, he placed his right hand on the crystal pillar and absorbed the energy until he couldn't absorb any more. Then, he started moving.
Soon, slimy monsters appeared and chased after him.
Hoshi kept running along with the singing. He only shot arrows to stop the monsters when they were about to catch up to him.
After running for an unknown amount of time, the singing finally became clearer.
He then saw a gigantic stone door! It was the exact same door as the one he saw when he was with his companions.
The singing was coming from behind the stone door.
Many monsters caught up to him. More monsters also appeared in the area around him.
Only a small portion of the crystal's energy remained for Hoshi, and he didn't see any new crystals along the way.
There was a large door in front of him, and a large group of monsters was behind him.
He was all alone and lacked power.
This was definitely a hopeless situation … Hoshi felt a sense of despair when he realized this.
"Arghhhhh!!!"
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