612 Don’t come over! You monster!! (1/2)

Seiji hoped that the Hypnosis Academy and the other daring idea were just jokes, but Natsuya was evidently serious.

He felt that loading would be the best way to deal with this incident by preventing the magic balls from occurring in the first place. But although that was what he thought, he didn't have enough information right now on who the culprit was.

He and Natsuya both believed that this incident was caused by a well-hidden Awakened at school. However, this was still only their hypothesis.

It was currently a new generation ever since the Midnight Incident.

Perhaps this was a brand-new mystical phenomenon, or this could even be the reappearance of some ancient type of special phenomenon… At any rate, it was also possible that this wasn't caused by an Awakened.

The second day of the sports competition.

Seiji's Year 1 Class 5 faced off against Year 1 Class 2 for their third football match.

This team which consisted of other students in the same grade didn't have any will to slay the dragon at all. They even seemed to be rather afraid of the Magic-Devouring Dragon.

Seiji managed to score two points very easily. Class president Koji Hoshihara then scored another point as well.

When Year 1 Class 2 saw that they were now trailing by three points, their originally low morale sunk to the very bottom. The entire class was filled with an aura of having given up.

Year 1 Class 5 felt rather bored as it was extremely evident that their opponents had given up. This caused Seiji's class to also stop trying hard.

And so, the football game turned into a very low quality football game to watch. However, very few spectators left despite this.

That was because none of them were here to see the football game at all! Instead, they just wanted to see mystical phenomena! In fact, many spectators even brought digital cameras. However, Natsuya and Hitaka managed to obstruct this using their student council powers.

Seiji withstood everyone's gazes. He had an ominous premonition.

Although he was somewhat annoyed at everyone watching him, his ominous premonition was stronger than his annoyance. However, he couldn't notice anything at all despite constantly maintaining his [Astral Vision].

Things were the same for Natsuya who was watching from outside the football field.

She, too, had an ominous premonition, but was similarly unable to find anything out of the ordinary. This also went for Hitaka next to her, as well as Rana who was hiding in invisibility.

This was quite problematic!

All four of them could sense that something was obviously wrong! But none of them were able to find anything, which was obviously bad.

They knew that there was a problem, but didn't know where. This was a terrible feeling to have.

And then, something bad really did end up happening.

Even though Seiji used such a soft kick, Year 1 Class 2's goalie didn't even try to block the ball. The ball slowly flew towards the goal… but suddenly changed directions at a sharp ninety-degree angle and viciously smacked into the goalie's face!

*Smack!* A loud and clear sound rang out.

The goalkeeper collapsed.

Everyone instantly started a huge commotion now that they saw what they wanted! Someone was actually injured!!

Seiji and Natsuya frowned simultaneously.

Despite constantly maintaining [Astral Vision], both of them only saw a flash of red light on the soccer ball.

It was impossible to determine where the red light originated from or who cast the spell!

Natsuya asked Hitaka and Rana and confirmed that this was all they saw as well.

The goalkeeper wasn't seriously injured. But when he saw Seiji coming over to apologize, he screamed out in terror.

”Don't come over! You monster!!”

His eyes were wide open in terror as if he really saw an actual demon.

Seiji could only stop in his footsteps and inwardly exclaim at finally hearing such a classical phrase.

The goalkeeper's teammates all stared at the Magic-Devouring Dragon with similar wide-eyed expressions of terror.

”Ahhhhh!!!!”

The goalie screamed out loud and crawled up while sprinting at top speed. He ran incredibly quickly, as if he was really escaping from a real dragon!

As if his other teammates were infected with his fear, they also screamed and ran away. All of them ran away at far faster speeds than what they showed during the football game.

Just what were they seeing?

Seiji inspected himself with [Astral Vision] just in case, but saw nothing wrong.

He then looked at everyone else. He saw that his own classmates were looking at him with merely confused expressions.

The referee was the same way. He had a confused expression, but no signs of fear or anything else.

”I didn't do anything at all,” Seiji told them. ”I have no clue why that ball acted like that.”

This was the honest truth.