654 Messenger of Revenge (2/2)

As for the special items or equipment, Seiji decided to mentally refer to this as the ”Sword of Revenge”.

Saitou mentioned that the higher-ups definitely knew already about the Revenge Alliance being formed to take revenge on them… Seiji agreed with this statement as he refused to believe that the major factions would have such a poorly informed information network. There would definitely be eyes on this Revenge Alliance.

Seiji felt that it was also possible that perhaps there were hidden powerful individuals in charge of investigating the Revenge Alliance on board this ship. Perhaps that was why the Messenger of Revenge hadn't attacked Seiji with a more powerful soul spell—the Messenger of Revenge couldn't expose him or herself!

Once this ship reached Momozu Island, the Messenger of Revenge would use some method to give the Revenge Alliance members a Sword of Revenge. This might be the only opportunity to catch the Messenger of Revenge.

If this person was captured, this entire incident would end there; the Revenge Alliance would fail and be disbanded.

But if this person wasn't captured, things would then depend on the Sword of Revenge.

If the Revenge Alliance members obtained the Sword of Revenge and used it successfully against the tournament's higher-ups, the Revenge Alliance would have succeeded. Otherwise, the Revenge Alliance would still fail.

This was a secret battle behind the scenes.

Seiji felt that someone who dared to establish such an alliance and even shout about revolution would definitely be at least a relatively powerful individual who wouldn't be captured so easily.

If the higher-ups wanted to prevent the Revenge Alliance from succeeding, the critical factor would be to identify just what the Sword of Revenge being used against them was.

A great amount of power… a killing item or weapon… the Messengers faction…

Seiji recalled the Kazufuru cursed item incident with that green crystal.

Would it be something like that?

No… such an item should be easy to discover, so perhaps it would be something that appeared completely ordinary on the surface.

For instance, a talisman.

A seemingly ordinary talisman that wouldn't show any signs of strange power yet actually contained a great amount of power… was it possible for such a thing to exist?

Erm…. Seiji figured that it was a waste of his time to think too much about such an unknown matter. He changed his train of thought back to the Messenger of Revenge.

The Messenger of Revenge was tournament-wise an outsider who was using top-level concealment magic to hide on this ship… but that was only an inference of Seiji's.

Perhaps the Messenger of Revenge wasn't an outsider at all. Perhaps he or she was actually one of the participants sitting right out in the open in the dining hall!

In that case, who could the Messenger of Revenge be?

Seiji glanced over all the people in the dining hall.

The Messenger of Revenge was sitting among them… thinking like this made this all seem like a detective story.

”The murderer is among us!”

Seiji really wanted to shout out such a classical line.

But right now, he had no clue who the Messenger of Revenge was. He felt that it was truly regrettable that he didn't have a chance to use such a line.

Seiji sipped on some tea.

He was no detective or anything else like that at all. He was merely a tournament participant. He decided to let the tournament higher-ups, the major families, worry about how to stop the Messenger of Revenge and the Revenge Alliance as they didn't have that much to do with him. All he needed to do was take care of Shika and himself.

By the way then, just who sent him that mysterious message of ”Stop” then…?

He heard that message twice already. There was no way that he had been hallucinating. And, it didn't seem likely that the Messenger of Revenge would send him such a message.

'That Haruta is so annoying.'

'It seems that he has a special power that can invisibly affect me… is it a special power inherited from his bloodline as a powerful Yin Yang Master family?'

'Honestly, I never expected someone with his bloodline to board a ship like this.'

'His female partner is no ordinary individual at all. I can feel a faint sense of danger from her, as if something bad will happen if I even get close to her.'

'I have to pay attention to them.'

'I have to control myself well.'

'What happens next absolutely has to succeed.'

'I'm willing to sacrifice anything for that purpose!'

'I'm sorry… You told me to forget about you, but I was unable to do so.'