588 Sister, don’t be afraid (1/2)
The students wanted to know the truth. Unfortunately, they were destined to never find out.
Seigo and Natsuya's relationship was still a mystery. And now, an additional mysterious connection appeared between Seigo and Kazufuru. This made everything about Seigo seem even more inexplicable.
The most excited students were a group of female students with certain interests! They secretly created a new scholar character to compete with a certain trap character in a series of doujins with the Magic-Devouring Dragon as the main character…
And, rumors slowly started spreading on this day that Seigo Harano, the Magic-Devouring Dragon, was actually bisexual.
Seiji felt a rather strange chill inside the classroom. Was it because of the weather?
This type of weather made it easy to catch colds. Apart from Seiji, several others in the classroom were sneezing, such as Kaho.
Kaho was rather lacking in spirit. It wasn't because she was sick, but rather she was worried about her older sister Karen.
Karen's fever went away later on the same day. However, she still seemed rather strange afterwards, which made Kaho worry.
During lunch break, Yui returned Seiji's previous call.
”Why did you contact me?”
”Do you have time to meet up? I would like to ask you some things.”
”…I can give you ten minutes of my time.”
”Ten minutes will be enough.”
After school ended, Seiji and Mika returned to the Uehara apartments.
Not long after, Yui's car arrived. Just like last time, he got on her car to talk to her.
Seiji asked if all Awakened would become ”tainted” if they went to Spirit Worlds or Inner Worlds and fought with the spiritual creatures inside. Yui's reply was...
”It's different for everyone. Some will become tainted, and some won't. And, each Awakened has different resistance levels towards becoming tainted.”
Seiji couldn't help but think of Mika when he heard this.
When Mika was fighting in the Inner World, her Mashiro's Clothes absorbed the spiritual creatures and became stronger. This didn't seem to affect Mika herself one bit. Later, when Mashiro woke up again, Seiji still didn't notice anything wrong with Mashiro, either.
This meant that Mika was probably the type who wasn't at risk of becoming tainted at all! Her risk was only related to controlling her own power. Using too much of her power would harm her body.
”Does becoming tainted have to do with the type of power a person has?” Seiji tried asking this question next.
”Yes.”
”Becoming tainted past the limit will transform a person into a monster?”
”'Fallen?'”
”That's the term which means they become monsters.”
Seiji fell silent for a moment.
Even those that were highly resistant against becoming tainted weren't absolutely safe, so there was still an element of risk. Still, it was apparent that it was still much better than having a low resistance against becoming tainted.
”How can one cleanse the taint?”
”Right now, it's still impossible. The Awakened can only try their best to deal with it by themselves. That's why it's important to pay attention to their condition,” Yui informed him seriously.
Seiji nodded. ”Thank you for telling me all of this, Sister Yui.”
”Do you have any more questions?”
”About the disappearance of the Spirit Worlds…”
The moment he spoke, Seiji knew that he wouldn't receive an answer based on Yui's expression. And so, he stopped himself. ”…I don't have any more questions.”
”Let's end things here then.” Yui indicated that the conversation was over.
Seiji watched her car leave after he got off.
What exactly would happen in the future if the Soul World faction revealed itself to the world?
As he was thinking about this, he suddenly felt something cold on his head. He then noticed that rain was beginning to fall with a pitter patter.
It finally started to rain today.
”Sister, what exactly is wrong with you?”
Back in her sister's room, Kaho was questioning Karen with a rather forceful tone.