After activating [Susanoo], Sougo Tendo felt it.
He felt an incomparably deep sense of pleasure as well as an equal amount of pain!
Pleasure came from evolution, while pain came from sin.
In an instant … it felt like an eternity had passed. Sougo finally understood.
As the head of the Tendo Family, as a Spiritual Ability user, as a human … Everything that he did had meaning to it, as well as the consequences of his actions, past, present, karma, and future … Seiji understood, understood, and understood everything.
That was why he became a god!!
And at the same time that he became a god, he broke away from being a human. His human senses and reasoning collapsed, and he fell into chaos.
This was the truth.
This was fate.
This was the end.
He understood everything while losing everything. He became a god while also becoming a demon. The end of his evolution was the starting point for him to become inhuman …
"Haha … hahahahaha!!!"
This was the last sound he had left as a human.
Yet, nobody could hear him.
…
The Tendo Family's sin?
"Is this' sin 'referring to something specific?"
Asaka fell silent for a moment in response to Seiji's question.
"You could say yes, and you could also say no," she spoke slowly after a period of silence.
"What I felt at the time … it was a feeling of near death. It's difficult to describe.
"If I really have to describe it, I can feel endless hatred and anger directed at the Tendo Family, as well as endless pain … It's as if I'm facing countless spiritual ability users who hate the Tendo Family and are attacking me with a mental spell."
It was as if it was a physical Concept formed from hatred and pain. But now that I think about it, it could also be described as a tremendous amount of negative energy … even though I don't believe that the word 'negative energy' can describe it.
This Concept or energy is the root cause of the accident. "
What the hell? Seiji had a confused expression.
"According to what you're saying, the appearance of the white dragon … is actually karma for the Tendo Family?"
Asaka nodded. "That's far too simple of an explanation. But, you can understand it that way."
Seiji was rendered speechless.
Asaka Tendo thought about it again when she saw the strange expression on Seiji's face. She explained in more detail.
That experiment ten years ago was connected to the Tendo Family's Dragon Vein.
The so-called Dragon Vein was the Tendo Family's inherited Spiritual Vein. Although this was only a name, it was highly possible that it was the reason why the white dragon had appeared in dragon form.
Putting aside the problem of the dragon's appearance for now, from a relatively objective standpoint, the experiment of connecting to the dragon bloodline went out of control due to some mysterious negative energy. This caused a powerful dragon-shaped existence to appear, which was the Catastrophe Goddess.
This sudden surge of negative energy caused Asaka Tendo, who was the host of the experiment and had a near-death experience, to believe that this sudden surge of negative energy was the "sin of the Tendo Family."
Because she was on the verge of death at that time, her mind might not be very clear. In addition, she was now in the state of a remnant soul and had lost a lot of memories, so this "assumption" was quite subjective.
Let's call this negative energy "sin energy" for now. Where did it come from?
Asaka believed that the Dragon Vein was originally hidden within the Dragon Vein. The Tendo Family had artificially modified the Dragon Vein for a very long time, as well as the Tendo Family's negative influence on the Dragon Vein.
If Natsuya continued to investigate, it would involve the question of what exactly the Dragon Vein, the Tendo Family's inherited Spiritual Vein, was.
However, she didn't know.
All Asaka knew was that the Dragon Vein was related to the Tendo Family's spiritual talent, bloodline, and birthplace. She didn't know what exactly the Dragon Vein was.
Back to the topic of sin energy.
"If my feelings and memories are correct, then this is a major discovery," Asaka spoke in a serious tone.
"A tremendous amount of negative energy is hidden within the Spiritual Vein. Under certain conditions, this energy will be activated and explode, causing destruction and even calamity.
And, this energy is created by the actions of the Spiritual Ability users connected to the Spiritual Vein. The more Spiritual Ability users connected to the Spiritual Vein, and the longer the Spiritual Vein is connected to, the more this energy will accumulate.
From this, it can be seen that it's not only the Tendo Family. The other six major families, and even the other factions with longer inheritances, all have this hidden danger in their Spiritual Veins. "
The accumulated energy created by sin was the retribution for one's actions over a long period of time … This sounded like the materialization of "evil will be repaid with evil".
Was this a good thing?
If this retribution was limited to only the evil doers or factions, then of course it would be a good thing. Who cared how those bastards died?
But, that wasn't the case. Once "retribution" erupted, it wouldn't be limited to who it targeted!
Some people did evil, and many innocent people were the victims … to put it bluntly, this was just a ridiculous thing.
Seiji fell silent for a moment before he sighed.
Although he still didn't know the specifics, he finally had an answer as to how the Catastrophe Goddess was created.
The next problem was how to deal with it.
The first method: defeat it.
"In my opinion, forcefully defeating that existence will only be a temporary solution, not a permanent solution," Asaka stated.
"According to my theory, that Catastrophe Goddess is the incarnation of the Tendo Family's sins. Even if you defeat her temporarily, as long as the Tendo Family still exists, she'll be reborn.
It would be fine if her rebirth would take a long time. But, according to what you said, there's a special environment called the Realm of Cherry Blossoms. Perhaps it won't take long for her to be reborn.
The second method: expiation.
"Expiation is a permanent solution. However, the Tendo Family is the incarnation of sins accumulated over many years. Expiation will doubtlessly be incredibly difficult. Even if it's possible, it will require a major sacrifice."
A major sacrifice meant that people would die.
The Spiritual Ability user who administered expiation would definitely die! Even the top-level Spiritual Ability users of Sakura Island would be the same. Many of the Spiritual Ability users who supported the Catastrophe Goddess would be sacrificed.
And even if there was a group of Spiritual Ability users who were willing to sacrifice their lives to expiate the Catastrophe Goddess, how to arrange and complete the expiation ritual would still be a problem. After all, the Catastrophe Goddess wouldn't possibly just sit still and wait for others to expiate her. Just restricting her movements would be incredibly difficult. It would be even more difficult than directly defeating her.
In conclusion, expiating the Catastrophe Goddess would be incredibly difficult. It would be almost impossible.
The third method: sealing.
This method was similar to defeating the Catastrophe Goddess, but it was more difficult than defeating the Catastrophe Goddess. Although it would be easier than expiation, it would still be quite difficult.
But as for sealing the Catastrophe Goddess, if there was a sacrifice …
"Human Pillar Seal. This is the most feasible method, "Asaka stated in a soft voice.
"Human Pillar Seal …" Seiji immediately thought of a certain famous manga. "Could it be …"
"It's to use a Spiritual Ability user with high talent as a vessel and seal the Catastrophe Goddess within that Spiritual Ability user's body, using that Spiritual Ability user's soul as the shackles," Asaka explained.
"As the vessel, or Human Pillar, the Spiritual Ability user will have to endure tremendous pain and risk death at any moment. The Spiritual Ability user will need to have an incredibly strong spirit and will.
And since the Catastrophe Goddess is the incarnation of the Tendo Family's sins, the Tendo Family members are the best candidates.
For example, the body that Gungo possessed is an excellent vessel. However, it's likely that just one person won't be able to completely contain the Catastrophe Goddess. Multiple Tendo Family members with similar talent levels will be required in order to accomplish such a feat. "
Seiji was once again rendered speechless.
Shigure Tendo's image appeared in his mind. That unfortunate child was already missing an arm. Now, Shigure was said to have the potential to become a Human Pillar … was this the main character of a dark light novel!?
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