421 Isn’t this just like a secret organization!? (1/2)
Hoshi was attracted by this song and wanted to find the girl who was singing.
While walking around in the forest, what he saw, heard, and touched all felt incredibly realistic to him, unlike any dream he'd ever had. It all felt tangible to him.
'This lucid dream is incredible!' That was Hoshi's opinion at the time.
In the end, he never found the singer by the end of his dream.
”After I woke up, I tried recalling for a long while if I had ever heard this song anywhere before, but I couldn't recall it at all. I found it quite strange why it appeared in my dream.” Hoshi tilted his head slightly. ”Perhaps it's that I heard it once long ago but forgot… at any rate, I was unable to recall.”
A forest of maple trees, red leaves, and a female singing…
Seiji recalled a common SR-ranked spirit in the cell phone game he used to play in his previous world.
This beautiful female spirit with black hair and red eyes had been an original creation by the game's developers, but she was also based on a legend as well. He was uncertain if there was a similar legend in this world.
In his previous world, her legends weren't very famous. Even though she was clearly a beautiful female demon as powerful as Snow Girl, she was quite unknown, which seemed rather wondrous to Seiji. Judging by the contents of the legend about her, she was likely to be even stronger than Snow Girl, and could have been an SSR card's power, but she was only an SR…. Cough, he was getting sidetracked.
As for the story involving that original spirit, compared to the situation in this world… Seiji subtly felt as if he was sensing evil intentions from the world.
He decided not to think too much into it.
”Hoshi, what I need to tell you is that your dream was no simple dream,” Seiji told Hoshi in a serious manner.
”Eh?”
”This was not only an overly clear and strange dream. It's best if you treat it as a second reality… if you dream the same dream again tonight.”
”What?” Hoshi made a foolish sound of dazedness.
He knew that his senpai wasn't joking around due to the serious tone of voice, but…
”Senpai, just what exactly…”
”It's not a convenient time to explain the things your dream involves to your right now.”
Hoshi now had a confused expression.
”I apologize for confusing you.” Seiji smiled. ”Let's just leave things as is for now. After you're done working for today, I'll contact you again and we can discuss it then.”
”Oh… Okay.”
”Go ahead and rest for the remainder of your break. I'm leaving now.”
Hoshi watched his senpai leave and felt like there was a mysterious aura coming from that familiar figure.
Seiji headed to the Juumonji mafia group's residence to find Hisashi.
Hisashi fell silent for a moment after hearing these words.
”Got it. Thank you, Seigo.”
”No need to be polite.”
”Did you come all the way here just to tell me this?”
”Yeah.”
”You went to the trouble of coming here personally instead of telling me over the internet or on the phone. This means that this is some top-secret information?” Hisashi adjusted his eyeglasses as something flashed in his eyes.
”I suppose you could say it like that. I'm not sure either if it counts as top-secret or not. I just feel that it's best to be cautious.” Seiji sighed.
”Understood.” Hisashi nodded. ”I shall only tell what you said to my father and older brother Zankita. I won't tell anyone else apart from them. Is that alright?”
”That's fine.”
After leaving the Juumonji Group, Seiji then went to go find Peach-sensei to tell her what he knew.
”Soul realm… just like that time before?”
”Very similar, but not entirely the same,” Seiji stated. ”I don't know how to specifically describe it, but it felt different from being in Reo-chan's soul realm. It felt more realistic.”
The mangaka looked towards Seiji.
”Did you save someone again?” she asked.