304 Anyone That Acts to Save Someone Is a Hero! (1/2)

Seiji shot the claw with his floating cannons while retreating backwards.

When the cannon shots hit the claw, they knocked away many shadowy figures, but the huge claw's speed didn't slow down one bit.

Many shadowy figures also flew down from the gigantic feathered woman. Some were incorporated into the claw, while others flew directly towards Seiji's robot, just like a swarm of bugs!

The robot was slowed down by the countless number of shadows. The black claw caught up with Seiji's robot!

Seiji did his best to counterattack and shot out a barrage of missiles which whizzed towards the claw. Almost all the missiles exploded against it.

However it was ineffective, and the huge claw grasped the robot!

Seiji's robot was instantly crushed to tiny pieces and exploded into golden light. Seiji tried imagining something else again but discovered that he wasn't able to create anything.

His ability to create things in the soul realm using his imagination was gone!

Was it that Natsuya's spell giving him this power had finally expired? Or was there some other reason!?

At this moment, what entered his vision was Mayuzumi and angel-Seiji as well as the black crystal.

He witnessed the crystal containing Reo being sucked into the claw. He saw countless gray-black shadows swarming towards him and Mayuzumi. There was no way to resist.

He could only...

Suddenly there was a flash of light!

Angel-Seiji released a strong yet gentle white light that instantly destroyed the numerous shadows that surrounded them.

Then, he picked up Mayuzumi and carried her in his arms before flying to Seiji and also grabbing onto him.

*Whoosh!*

In that instant, Seiji felt as if he were transforming into a streak of light. Everything around him turned white. When his vision recovered, he discovered that he was on top of a high tower, far away from the giant claw.

He looked around in astonishment. He saw that angel-Seiji was smiling widely.

”Who... are you?” Mayuzumi was the one who asked that question to angel-Seiji.

Angel-Seiji responded by saying, ”Long time no see, classmate Amami-san. I'm Hinako Tachibana... you may know me by the name of Hinako Haza.”

”Haza... President Haza!?” Mayuzumi's eyes widened in surprise.

”What a nostalgic title... I haven't seen you after we graduated from high school, so I never expected that we would meet again like this.”

Angel-Seiji... no, Hinako Haza smiled.

”President... how are you?”

”I was called back by my daughter... my silly daughter...” Hinako sighed as she looked into the distance at the gigantic female monster-shadow. ”During this time, I've always been watching Reo and you guys... I wanted to talk to you, but I was unable to.

”President...” Mayuzumi blinked before she looked towards Seiji.

Seiji, who was similarly astonished, knew what Sensei wanted to ask him.

'Is she trustworthy? Is this the real Hinako Haza? She's already died for over one year already; why is she...'

No matter what, the fact that she had just helped them was undisputable. Seiji had just been about to load, but he decided to gamble one more time before resorting to loading!

”Although I don't know what you really are, that thing there is indeed too strong, and we can't do anything about it anymore. If you have a way to overturn the situation, please go ahead and use it!” Seiji said to Hinako before glancing in Mayuzumi's direction.

Mayuzumi understood the implicit meaning behind his glance. She turned to Hinako and nodded.

”Thank you,” Hinako said gratefully. ”Amami-san, please open up your soul and don't resist. Allow me to temporarily enter your body.”

”Alright... President.”

Seiji then witnessed a white light shoot out of angel-Seiji. A white, half-translucent female figure walked out of angel-Seiji and into the manga author's body.

An expression of slight discomfort flitted across Mayuzumi's face but faded quickly.

”Alright, let's go.”

”Okay, President.”

Mayuzumi appeared to be talking to herself, but due to the different tone of the two short sentences, Seiji was able to determine that it was actually two different people speaking.

'Does this count as... them having combined?'