483 I’m interested in women (1/2)
'What exactly is this?' Seiji furrowed his eyebrows.
He observed carefully but saw nothing abnormal apart from the black mist emanating from the middle school boy's body.
It didn't seem like a demon or spirit was possessing him, nor did he seem like an Awakened… was it a problem with something in his soul levels? A mysterious power similar to Reo's?
'Is Shoutarou Rinura someone who possesses the same mysterious power as Peach-sensei and Reo-chan?' Seiji began to have his suspicions.
”Rinura-san, congratulations to you and your light novel, 'The Undying Indestructible Avenger', for receiving the Gold Award.”
The female anime production company president and award presenter smiled as she presented Rinura with a gold trophy.
Although Rinura's heart was beating quite rapidly, he felt like his chest was freezing and his head was rather dizzy. He stood still for several seconds before finally reaching out and accepting the gold trophy, and his movements were obviously rigid.
”It would seem that Rinura-san is rather nervous,” the male host commented.
”Well, he's still a middle school student, so he's probably a little bit shy.” The female host chuckled. ”By the way, it's incredible how he won the Gold Award as this age.”
”It really is incredible. Only one person in the past has ever won the Newcomer Authors' Gold Award in the past at his age.”
”Eh? There was one other person as well? I figured that Rinura-san would definitely be the youngest Gold Award-winning author in Thunderbolt Literature's history.”
”He isn't, as he's only the second youngest to have this honor. But, that doesn't change how amazing he is.”
After the two hosts complimented him, they handed a microphone to Rinura, indicating that he should give a short speech about how he felt at receiving this award.
But while the two hosts were talking about him, Rinura only felt like his head was getting dizzier. He began to see the scenes from his dream right in front of him.
An execution platform, covered in blood, corpses, and a guillotine…
Rinura did his best to maintain his sense of self as he accepted the microphone and looked towards the audience below the stage.
Rinura suddenly saw an incredibly clear image when he was looking at the audience.
A dark sky, with a dense crowd of citizens, a black-clothed executioner, the enemy kingdom's king sitting high above, the execution platform that was soaked in blood…
An incomparably powerful anger filled his heart, causing his heart to pound violently and his body to turn completely ice cold.
With the most extreme hatred in the world, he sent an eternal curse at his enemies...
”Kfsouwutebgdfjfrcmkj…”
Everyone was mystified at hearing this.
Nobody present could understand the mysterious sound that the Gold Award winner Rinura had just uttered.
”Is that a foreign language?”
”Which country's language could that be?”
While everyone else was mystified, there was only one person who had a grave expression: Seiji.
He just witnessed the black mist around Rinura suddenly becoming much thicker when Rinura spoke in that unknown language.
Seiji didn't know exactly what happened. He only knew that things seemed to have gotten worse.
Seiji prepared himself to rush over and deal with the situation if Rinura seemed like he was going to lose control of himself and go berserk.
”Rinura-san, what did you say just now?” the female host asked him.
Rinura suddenly came back to his senses.
”I… I just…”
His head still felt dizzy, and he wanted to say something but was unable to say anything. He simply stood there in a daze while facing the audience.
”It would seem that Rinura-san is too nervous, so he must have forgotten what he wanted to say.” The male host stepped in to cover for him. ”Let us give him a round of applause as encouragement.” The male host began clapping to lead everyone.