Seiji's body became stiff, as if he had fallen into a strange state.
Xiaoshi disappeared, black mist emerged, and bright red Bana flowers slowly rose from the ground, blooming gorgeously.
Snapped!
A pair of green arms suddenly protruded from the ground and grabbed his feet fiercely! Brings a rotten, foul-smelling breath.
Seiji recognized these hands, they were the hands of a ghoul!
It seems to be called Yamamoto or something
The distorted face that followed confirmed his thoughts.
The hair is messy, the eyes are bulging, covered with green silk... It is the abnormal creature that was once a human being that was dealt with at the beginning! !
"Wuwuhouhouhou—" a shrill cry came from the mouth of the ghoul.
Its claws firmly grabbed Seiji's feet, and pulled it down with great force!
"Uh uh..." Seiji felt severe pain and saw his feet sinking down into a cold, sticky, dark ominous place.
He tried to move his right hand, wanting to do something, but was suddenly grabbed by a hand stretched out from behind!
It was a human hand with a wide blue and white sleeve, but it was strangely pale.
Seiji first recognized the sleeve as the sleeve of Kari, and then recognized whose hand it was—
Yute Akatsuki! ! !
He tried to speak, but no sound came out.
A bone-chilling chill came from Mitte Akatsuki's hand, which penetrated into his arm, quickly froze the blood in it, and spread to his body.
Return of the dead...
Faced with such a terrifying situation, Seiji not only showed no fear, but instead grinned.
This plot is so corny! If you want to scare me, at least do something more novel! !
Realizing that this is the realm of the soul, he immediately used his imagination.
Suddenly, a golden light flashed, and Seiji's right hand instantly turned into a mechanical arm, his fingers shot out laser light, and his palm turned 360 degrees, cutting off Mite Akatsuki's hand in one fell swoop!
Then the mechanical arm stretched down, and the palm expanded to grab the entire face of the ghoul, and violent flames spewed out from the palm!
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-oo-o-wh-" After being burned, the ghoul uttered a more miserable and tragic cry than before, which hurt the eardrums.
"I don't want to die...it's all you..."
"Ah, I killed you! But so what!?"
Seiji burned the ghoul, then turned his left hand into a lightsaber and thrust it backwards, piercing something with a puff.
"I feel guilty, but that's not for you!"
"I feel guilty, but not to you either!"
"The dead guy just shut up and get away! Don't think you can pull me together!!"
Boom... The burst of golden light drowned out the screams of hatred and malice.
"Ding Dong~"
The sound like a bell shaking reappeared, faintly fading away.
The black mist disappears, the Bianhua flower disappears, the sound of the sea breeze is heard again, and Xiaoshi looks at herself worriedly.
"...I'm fine." Seiji smiled at her.
Then he looked around... and saw nothing.
"elder brother… "
"I should have fallen into the soul realm just now, someone may have used a soul spell on me."
"... I didn't see anything." Xiaoshi frowned.
"This means that the caster is very concealed, or..." Seiji thought for a while, then reached out and touched his younger sister's head, "It's not your fault, don't worry about it."
"I'm my brother's shikigami..."
"Well, with you by my side, I feel at ease. I felt something was wrong just now because you disappeared from my side. If I was alone, I'm afraid I wouldn't have reacted so quickly." Seiji smiled.
Xiaoshi felt warm, but she couldn't accept comfort with peace of mind.
As a Shikigami, Yixiong was attacked right next to him, but even the caster didn't notice... This is a shame!
To be able to cast soul spells so covertly, the enemy is undoubtedly very strong.
How to stop the same thing from happening? Kagura thought of a simple method.
She silently took Seiji's hand.
Seiji immediately understood what the righteous sister meant, and held her hand as well.
Holding hands can greatly enhance the connection with each other and effectively increase the resistance to soul attacks.
Of course, if the enemy's spell is too powerful, they will die together... But judging from the experience just now, the caster is not that strong, or does not want to do that.
If it is really dangerous, there is still a dream of Huangquan.
Whether or not the female Yuhun wakes up on her own initiative is already a criterion for Seiji to judge. Huang Quan didn't take the initiative to speak out, which means that the danger is relatively limited.
Of course, you can't rely too much on her, after all, she is not really a cat-shaped robot from the future.
What happened just now was more like a warning.
After explaining the situation to Xiaoshi, Seiji thought silently.
…
When I saw Saito again, the curly-haired man leaned against the railing alone, looking up at the sky with a cigarette in his mouth, his posture and expression were a bit literary.
"Mr. Saito..."
"Uh... Mr. Haruta, are you back from your walk?" Saito looked at Seiji, took the cigarette out of his mouth, and said.
Then, noticing that Seiji and Xiaoshi were holding hands, he immediately smiled, "The relationship is really good~"
Seiji stared at the other person's face.
"Mr. Saito, I would like to ask you, why did you come forward and suggest playing cards?"
Hearing this, Saito's eyes froze for a moment.
This change in expression was subtle, but Seiji, who was watching the other party carefully, noticed it keenly.
"Just want to fight, because sitting around is boring... Mr. Haruta, aren't you too?"
"Well, I was really bored, and I thought you and everyone else were like this, but something happened just now, which made me think about it again." Seiji whispered, "There is probably something happening on this ship, and You're trying to get the attention of other people, most likely the initiators or the participants."
Saito: "..."
"You may think I know something, but in fact, I don't know anything." Seiji said bluntly.
"I think Mr. Saito is a trustworthy person, so I will tell you frankly: I am a child of the Haruta family, but now I am in a state of exile. Although I am related to Haruta Shunto, I have never had any intersection with him, and I have never even seen each other. Pass."
"Boarding this ship is for free and easy, without any particular purpose."
Saito looked at him, eyes twinkling.
"I want to know what is happening, or what has happened, and I hope Mr. Saito can tell me." Seiji said in a sincere tone.
The scene fell into silence.
Saito took a deep breath of the cigarette, exhaled slowly, and finally flicked the cigarette end into the sea.
"Whether what you say is true or not, it doesn't matter if you tell it."
"After all, even people like me can know it, and people in the upper class should... no, they must have known it a long time ago."
"'Avengers'...let's call it that."
"'Revenge Alliance'?" Seiji was taken aback for a moment.
The name reminded him of the famous superhero group from his previous life! This team member seems to have died a lot in the end.
"Well, in the blood wine ceremony, it is an alliance to avenge the upper echelons—the seven masters of Onmyoji, the Samurai Gosan family and other high-ranking guys." Saito explained.
"As long as you join, you will be able to gain powerful strength in battle to kill those people."
"It is said that a mysterious person who has the entire list of participants in the battle approached some of the participants with hatred, proposed this alliance, and allowed them to spread information and attract more people to join."
"'This is revenge, and it is also a revolution. A new era has come, and it is time to overthrow the old order'... the mysterious man said such words."
(end of this chapter)