Silence.
After Seiji asked this question, nobody said anything for a long while.
Such a question … how were they supposed to answer?
Apart from Ling Yang and Nozomi who didn't quite understand the situation, everyone else felt a great deal of pressure, especially Summer Night.
Out of everyone present, she was the one who understood just how powerful Seiji was, which was why she felt the greatest amount of pressure when faced with his question.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that Summer Night could clearly sense that she was at a major turning point in history or fate, and that the future of the world would depend on her and everyone else's answer to Seiji!
Although Seiji was indeed acting like a chuunibyou, he was being serious, and his words weren't fake at all. Everyone could clearly sense this.
He really could save hundreds of thousands of people! In fact, he could even do better.
He had the power to solve this calamity and all similar situations in the future, a power that was as powerful as a god's!!
No … it wasn't as if he was a god, but rather a god himself.
Now that things had come to this, even if Seiji really was a god, or the reincarnation of that legendary individual, there was nothing unacceptable about it.
What type of power did he have? Summer Night was curious about this, but she couldn't bring herself to ask, or perhaps she reflexively didn't dare to.
If she asked and Seiji didn't answer, then so be it. But if he really told her … Natsuya was worried that her impression of Seiji would completely change if she found out what that power was that even Seiji's owner was afraid of.
She didn't want to change.
She wanted to continue liking him … to love him, and not view him as a completely different type of existence.
That was probably Seiji's way of thinking as well.
He didn't want to change.
He didn't want to break free from his shackles and allow himself to casually use such a powerful power, which would allow him to possibly break away from being human.
However, in the face of the current calamity, he wouldn't be able to save others if he didn't use even more power.
He didn't have an obligation to save everyone — although he could say that, when he thought about all the victims outside, including his own family … he couldn't bring himself to say such a thing.
Summer Night had some complaints about her family, but she would never want them to die.
Even if the Wanhua family could survive with their own strength, there were still the ordinary people she knew, such as the members of the student council, her classmates, and her classmates … Even if she didn't have deep feelings for these people, she definitely wouldn't want to see them die.
Seiji did not have the obligation to save everyone. No one had such an obligation. But when he had such an ability, could he give it up so easily?
This was Seiji's dilemma.
He had the power to save the world. On one hand, there were hundreds of thousands of lives. On the other hand, he wanted to maintain his sense of self. How should he choose?
To become a god for the sake of the lives of others, or to give up the lives of others in order to become a human?
How was he supposed to answer such a question?
Summer Night didn't know.
If she were to face the same question, she wouldn't be able to answer it either.
Where are the others?
"Just do what you want to do."
Mai's voice broke the silence.
The maid had a calm expression as she looked at Seiji and said, "This is your own problem. Only you can make the choice. Asking for help from others is just acting spoiled."
There was a subtle change in the atmosphere.
Seiji chuckled again.
"Saying it's acting spoiled is too harsh, Senpai."
"What else do you think it's, Young Master Haruta?"
"Don't call me Young Master right now …"
"My apologies, Great Bright God Haruta."
"I'm not a god …"
"As long as you're willing, you can become a god. That's what you meant just now, no … it should be an existence that surpasses the gods, Kamijou-sama."
Seiji was rendered speechless.
He didn't know what expression he should have right now.
But since someone spoke up first, the atmosphere became one where they could talk.
"I think so as well, Seiji. Just do what you want to do." Mika was the second to speak up. "None of us can make a choice for you or share your burden. You can only rely on yourself … I'm sorry."
Although she wasn't a Spiritual Ability user with a deep foundation like Summer Night, she understood just how powerful Seiji was. In fact, she understood this even better than Summer Night did.
A power that could save someone from the bottomless abyss of darkness (death) would definitely be incredibly heavy to bear!
Even now, Seiji had been shouldering this power all by himself. And only he could decide if he wanted to use this power even further to increase the burden on himself.
'All I can do is stay by his side.' Mika thought to herself.
Staying by his side wouldn't really be helping him … Although it might be of some help, it would still be more of a burden than anything else. She would have to work harder.
"No need to apologize, Mika." Seiji looked at her. "I was the one … being too willful."
"Brother has the right to be willful," Shika Kagura spoke up.
Everyone turned to look at her.
"Brother has already done well enough. There's no need for you to do better," Shika stated resolutely as everyone looked at her.
"If Brother doesn't want to change, then don't change.
Rather than using your power, I feel that it's more important that Brother doesn't change.
The same power will be used in different ways by different people. If Brother changes, he won't be able to use his power like he does now. No matter how powerful he becomes, it'll be meaningless.
"Little Shi …" Seiji looked at his adopted younger sister.
Shika Kagura's attitude was quite clear: Rather than saving others, she cared more about Seiji himself.
She didn't care what happened to others.
Whether it was several hundred thousand people or several million people, her adopted older brother wasn't responsible for their lives.
In order to save others, if Seiji himself wanted to change, that would doubtlessly be a terrible thing to her.
If it wasn't for the fact that she was worried about Seiji's feelings and what everyone else thought of him, she would have told him that there was no need for him to change.
It was only several hundred thousand people. If they died, so be it.
It was the same for everyone present, including everyone they knew and even their loved ones.
Even if someone here was going to die, or even herself, it would be the same.
Brother Seiji didn't need to change. He didn't have any obligation to save others. All he had to do was be himself.
Although he wouldn't be so cold and heartless … it was precisely because he wouldn't be so cold and heartless that she had to say it out loud.
"Brother, you're the most important. Before you save others, you need to protect yourself first," Shika Kagura stated clearly.
If he couldn't protect himself, then he should give up.
That was the correct way to do things. She believed that.
Since no one else could say such a thing, she would.
At this moment, everyone apart from Seiji felt that the black-haired girl's expression was rather cold.
'Even if everyone in the entire city and everyone present died, it'd be fine as long as Seiji can live on …' Summer Night and the others could tell from her expression what she was thinking.
It was impossible for anyone else to have such a thought.
Only this girl … this girl who had once been ignored by the world was able to ignore the world like this.
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