642 Thank you, my dear knigh (1/2)
Later that night, Seiji was contacted by Hana.
”Those daggers are a spiritual weapon crafted by the Messengers organization. The people you met are from that faction,” the cat-eared hat girl reported to him. ”The Messengers organization is actually a new faction that split off from Soul World. The Messengers were created by some former members of Soul World that believe in using any means necessary to achieve what they desire.”
That was a lot of information to take in at once!
”…Did Sister Yui give you this information?” Seiji inquired.
”That's right, Sister Yui told it to me. She's a member of Soul World,” Hana quietly stated something that should have been an incredible secret.
”Since she's let you know about her identity, that probably means it doesn't need to be a secret anymore.”
”Yep, since it's no longer considered to be a crime to be a member of Soul World.”
”Will she join Soul Society later on as one of their higher-ups?”
”I don't know, but I think it's highly possible.”
They both fell silent for a moment.
”So the Messengers are an evil organization that split off from Soul World, and Soul Society is the organization of justice that opposes them…?” Seiji folded his arms.
”I think that a more appropriate analogy would be to call them factions of chaos and order.” Hana also folded her arms.
”I suppose you're right… so the next classical development will be the battle between chaos and order?”
”That depends on what the Messengers' goal is.”
”Sister Yui doesn't know their overall goal?”
”She didn't say anything about that. She only said that the creator of the Messengers was someone who would stoop to any means.”
Stoop to any means? This typically meant that one wouldn't care about any collateral damage or harm caused to others. No matter what this organization wanted to achieve, being willing to ”use any means” was already the best evidence that they were relatively dangerous.
It was truly unfortunate that Seiji had created a grudge with such a faction… but perhaps it was something bound to occur.
”What about anything else? Is there anything special about those daggers?”
”They're a weapon that's specially created for the Awakened. These daggers are capable of absorbing and storing the energy from defeated spiritual monsters and transmitting it to the holder. However, it should be noted that the transference mechanism is under remote control. Someone else is capable of controlling the mechanism and adjusting the energy output.”
”So, you're saying that this weapon's energy output can be controlled by someone else?”
Seiji recalled the scene from before when he heard this.
Those three individuals who attacked him had all seemed to be rather abnormal. Perhaps they hadn't attacked him out of their own will. Perhaps it was due to that person behind them…
Seiji felt that it was a pity he didn't manage to stop that Spiritual Ability user and the last Awakened there.
Seiji felt pity for the three people under the Messenger organization's control. He now also concretely had a better idea of what the Messengers were really like.
”Is there any more information?”
”That's all about the daggers. Next would be regarding your friend Hoshi Amami's combat uniform.” Hana paused for a moment. ”The damage to his uniform is highly likely to have been caused by spiritual weapons.”
”…Are you talking about all of the damage?” Seiji now had a serious expression.
”Yep, 100%.”
They both fell silent yet again.
Hoshi had stayed behind in that realm by himself for more than three hours. All the various types of damage done to his clothing had been from spiritual weapons… Did Hoshi go fight a battle against an army of Spiritual Ability users!?
Just how many people were there? What faction were they from? What was the result? Those were all important questions.
Yet, the main character of the incident in question had lost his memories!
It would have been fine if Hoshi had only been fighting against spiritual creatures. Yet losing his memories after fighting against humans? That was no laughing matter at all.
”We need to think of some method to help Hoshi recover his memories. Otherwise, we won't even know what trouble he's gotten into.” Seiji sighed.
”Perhaps he met another group from the Messengers and had a huge fight against them.” Hana took a random guess.
”…That's possible, but we'll only know for certain once he remembers.”
Well, it would be slightly better if Hoshi had fought against another group of Messengers, since Seiji and his friends had killed three of them already. It wouldn't change much more if they antagonized the Messengers again… the important part was if Hoshi's identity was exposed or not! Did they see his face!?
The Messengers organization was a split-off faction from Soul World that trended towards chaos. Becoming enemies with them would be no laughing matter. If Hoshi's identity was exposed, that would be incredibly dangerous!