473 The ties of blood surpass even hell” (2/2)

A while later, he suddenly sensed something and turned to look at the Juumonji siblings again.

The siblings were glowing with a golden light!

”It succeeded…” Seiji was quite delighted with this outcome.

Kaede and Hisashi had accomplished it! They returned!!

Seiji stopped healing himself and sent his Mana into the spell formations instead.

All the spell formations started glowing in unison and illuminated the three siblings.

The black spell formations on Kaede and Hisashi's bodies along with the black abnormalities on Zankita's body all transformed into a mist that rapidly disappeared.

When the last of the black mist completely vanished, Seiji canceled the spell, causing all the spell formations to vanish.

Kaede was the first one to open her eyes.

She immediately sat up and looked towards Seiji.

”Welcome back.” Seiji smiled at her.

Kaede crawled up and instantly jumped at him! She hugged him as tightly as she could.

”What's the matter?” Seiji was somewhat mystified by her actions. ”Are you alright?”

Kaede didn't say anything and only hugged him tightly.

Then, Hisashi woke up as well.

He also looked for Seiji the moment he opened his eyes. Hisashi sighed a breath of relief upon seeing that Seiji was still alright.

However, Hisashi's expression froze upon seeing the blood Seiji had spat out earlier on the ground.

”Seiji, how are you doing!?” he shouted as he got up.

”I… I'm fine.”

”Are you really fine?” Hisashi pointed at the blood on the ground.

”I was slightly injured, but it's not a big deal.” Seiji smiled.

'It's still not a big deal even though there's so much blood on the ground?'

Hisashi felt that Seiji was truly being ridiculous. However, he found it difficult to retort when faced with Seiji's current expression.

”More than me, you should be more concerned about yourselves… how are you currently feeling? Does anything feel off?” Seiji asked in concern.

Hisashi fell silent for a moment.

”It feels like I had an incredibly long nightmare… my memories are incredibly hazy, and I can only remember some scattered scenes… apart from that, there's nothing.”

”That's good, then.”

This was an effect of the spell to help shield people from the influence of having visited hell itself. If it wasn't for this mental suppression of their own memories, then the Juumonji siblings would definitely mentally collapse due to the tremendous pain they'd suffered while in hell.

However, even with a spell helping to maintain their minds, something still might have been left behind. After all, that was the scariest abyss of all, and its evil curse was impossible to completely block out.

”If you ever feel that something's wrong with your body in the future due to this, let me know,” Seiji told him.

Hisashi nodded.

Then, he looked towards Zankita.

”Although we successfully dragged this idiot back with us, but… with the shape his body is currently in, can he still recover?”

Seiji mentally asked this question to Yomi and received a response from her.

”He should be able to wake up after resting for a long while. However, it's highly likely that he won't recover completely. There might be aftereffects.”

”I see…” Hisashi adjusted his eyeglasses. ”…I suppose he's lucky that he's even alive still.”

”He's not lucky at all. You're the ones who helped him to survive,” Seiji told him sincerely. ”You and Kaede successfully saved him from the pits of hell. That's truly amazing.”

Saving a family member from the depths of hell seemed like a legendary feat to him.

”You're the one who's amazing. If it hadn't been for you, we wouldn't even have had the chance to save him.” Hisashi smiled as he looked towards Seiji again. ”I'm truly grateful to you.”

”I only acted as the support this time. The success depended largely on both your efforts.” Seiji smiled in response as well. ”At this time, should I say something like 'the bonds of family have defeated hell?'”

Hisashi was rendered speechless.

Things indeed sounded like how Seiji described it. However, Hisashi reflexively wanted to deny it as complex emotions welled up within him.

”I don't like that line you came up with.”

”How about I change it to 'the ties of blood surpass even hell?'”

”That doesn't sound good, either. Stop making lines up.”

”The two of you just accomplished something legendary. Don't you want something cool to express it by?”

”We merely dragged our idiot older brother who did something incredibly foolish out of a terrible place. There's nothing else to say about it.” Hisashi looked towards Zankita.