414 Possession (1/2)

This girl was wearing extravagant black-red Sakura Island clothing, and her dark-purple hair reached her waist, which was a different length of hair compared to Yukari's.

However, Seiji's female spirit told him that this was indeed Yukari!

”The young lady's combined together with her mystical connection… or, it might be more accurate to say that it's possessed her.”

”How did they combine?”

”I don't know.”

”Is it possible to separate them?”

”I don't know that, either.”

”Then, what should we do?” Seiji furrowed her eyebrows.

”Wake her up and try communicating with her… Although I feel that communication won't be so easy. It's highly likely that she'll attack you on sight when she wakes up.”

”Should I defeat her?”

”I don't know what the correct action to take in this situation is, so I can't give you any appropriate advice. You should decide this on your own,” the female spirit told him.

Seiji fell silent upon hearing this.

If the mystical connection had combined with Yukari, that meant harming it would equal harming Yukari. In that case, he couldn't use any overly powerful attacks against her.

One workable method might be to defeat and suppress her with as little injury as possible, then attempt at communicating with her.

One more method was to…

”Is it possible to wake Yukari herself up?”

”Yes, but I feel that would be quite difficult to do so.”

”…I have to try,” Seiji sighed.

Having to fight a friend who lost her sense of self in order to wake her up? This was an overly dramatic type of scene that he didn't really enjoy.

But, he didn't really have any other methods available to him that he could think of in such a situation.

Seiji didn't want to harm Yukari. He definitely wouldn't do that to her unless he was absolutely forced to do so in order to defend himself. So, if she really did attack him immediately without even attempting to talk things out, he decided that he could only go on the defensive while attempting to call out to her.

After making his preparations, he slowly walked towards Yukari.

The girl on the spiderweb slowly opened her eyes, sat up, and turned to look at him.

When Seiji exchanged glances with her, he saw that her face was the exact same as Yukari's, apart from her eyes—her eyes were completely blood-red and had no pupils.

Those were the same eyes as the large spider monster from earlier!

The purple-haired girl instantly disappeared from the spiderweb.

Something flashed under the moonlight.

Seiji suddenly swung his wooden sword, slicing at something in midair!

*Shing!* …He managed to slice through the thin threads of spiderweb that were aimed at him.

Seiji dodged those that he could, and sliced through the ones that he couldn't.

These spiderwebs had greater slicing ability than even a metal sword! If any normal person was hit by even one, that person would probably be sliced apart.

”Yukari!” he shouted as loudly as he could while defending himself. ”Don't lose to such a thing! Don't be controlled by her! Wake up!!!”

There was no response.

An endless stream of spiderweb silk kept coming for him.

*Smack!*

Seiji was finally hit by one strand. Luckily, he had cast [Mana Barrier] on himself beforehand which was able to block the attack.

Seiji continued shouting.

However, there was still no response. Instead, his opponent's attacks became stronger and stronger.

*Smack! Smack! Smack!* …

It was going to be no good if he only defended himself, as he was gradually getting overwhelmed.

”Yukari, I apologize.”

Seiji backflipped in midair, and sliced out with a wave of sword energy towards the shadows in the forest to his right!

His wave of sword energy was destroyed by the spiderweb strands.

He sent out even more waves of sword energy.

His continuous waves of sword energy clashed fiercely in midair against the spiderweb strands!

This stalemate between attacking and defending continued for several seconds, until a white long whip suddenly attacked from the darkness!

*Boom!*

Seiji dodged this whip's attack as it crashed into the ground, making a loud sound as it smashed a large amount of cluster amaryllis flowers to little pieces.

The broken flower petals flew everywhere, looking just like droplets of blood.

The black-red clothed purple-haired figure rushed out from the shadows, twirling around at a high speed while viciously swinging her whip at him!

*Boom!!* *Smack!*

Seiji blocked this attack with his wooden sword, but he was sent flying from the impact and crashed into a large tree. Luckily, he managed to hold on to his sword.