441 Just one more step! (2/2)

This place seemed wrong to Zankita. Something was off about this man in front of him, and Zankita really hated Shoushi's smile. However…

The eldest son of the Juumonji mafia family slowly clenched his fist as he recalled his earlier nightmare.

One week passed.

Television programs and people on the internet were still discussing the topic of ”what happened during midnight on New Year's.” However, everything was quite calm in real life, or at least appeared so on the surface.

Actually, many people's lives changed already. Perhaps there would be many more whose lives would also change in the future due to the midnight spell.

Mika continued learning from her Spiritual Ability teacher, Ruri Kinsa. It seemed that Mika was making progress as a Spirit Controller.

Chiaki got completely accustomed to living as a renter at the Uehara apartments, having plenty of fun. It was now a daily occurrence for Mika to go over to Chiaki's apartment to drag her out of bed in the morning.

Kaho was rather successful in her weight loss, which drew the attention of some girls in class. However, she didn't intend to expand her circle of friends and kept a low profile as usual.

Hoshi and Yukari continued practicing with their own abilities. Both of them mentioned having nightmares about something horrific, which made them feel like something really would happen soon. They were quite anxious.

Reo's elementary school sent out an important message to all parents and guardians, requesting that they accompany their children to school or ask a trustworthy friend to accompany the children. The school didn't mention any specific reason, only saying that public safety was becoming an issue.

Due to this message, Seiji began taking and picking up Reo to and from school every day. He considered whether or not he should take additional measures.

Seiji had been unable to visit the Soul World after the first time. He also made no progress in finding any Awakened at Genhana High School. He figured that perhaps there were no more Awakened, or if there were, they were concealing themselves quite well… and if that was the case, there would be no need to warn them to lay low.

Friday night.

According to Seiji's dating sim system, regarding the [Yin-Yang Seal] option...

[Read a technique manual detailing how to become a Yin-Yang Master or read other equivalent information. Learn and understand it fully – 100% completed.]

[Cultivate your Spiritual Power and improve your level – 100% completed.]

[Cultivate your Mana and improve your level – 100% completed.]

His Spiritual Power and Mana finally met the requirements by the time that Seiji ate all but two of the silver fruits.

After he fulfilled these three requirements, the newly revealed requirements were:

[Learn beginner level [Body-strengthening technique], [Astral Vision], [Telekinesis], [Cleansing], [Barriers], [Sealing], [Summoning], and [Healing]. Current progress of 91.5%.]

[Accept teaching from a beginner-level or above Yin-Yang Master. Learn and understand it fully – current progress of 0%.]

[Perform the Yin-Yang Seal ritual in a location that's dense in Mana. Current progress of 0%.]

Seiji energetically clenched his fist upon seeing these new requirements!

He really wanted to shout out loudly. That was because there was only one more step!

After learning [Beginner-level Barriers], he had already learned [Beginner-level Cleansing] and [Beginner-level Sealing] as well. He was currently working on cultivating [Beginner-level Summoning].

After he finished learning [Summoning], he would fulfill the requirements for the fourth condition. As for the fifth and sixth conditions, he could use the powerful card that Yui's gift of the cell phone gave him, the Yin-Yang Seal activation card to skip these two requirements entirely!

Basically, the moment that he finished learning [Summoning], he would be able to instantly become a Yin-Yang Master.

That seemed amazing to him!

Becoming a Yin-Yang Master meant he would finally be taking that critical step, seeing a new world, and entering a new realm… er, did that description sound too immature?

No matter what, it was an important step for him.

If it wasn't for the powerful Yin-Yang Seal activation card, perhaps the last two requirements would take him a really long time. They seemed quite time-consuming to him. Since he had this card however, all he had to say was one word: ”Nice!”

Once again, Seiji expressed his inward gratitude towards Yui.

”Let's continue practicing [Summoning] immediately. I'm going to go over to Natsuya's residence's practice field and do my best to finish mastering [Summoning] by tonight!”

He was all excited as he told Shika and Reo he was going out. He put on his jacket and was about to leave when someone knocked on his door.

The visitor was someone that he absolutely didn't welcome.