659 Bloodwine Spiri (1/2)

”I want to return to my home base, the internet café…”

The idle fish in front of Seiji… whoops, Kanna Fujihara was currently collapsed on a table and muttering to herself.

”I don't care about this tournament or whatever… I only want to watch the newest anime, play video games, eat snacks, and surf the internet… I don't want to stay here in such a strange location…”

It was evident that she had zero motivation. She continuously muttered such things while giving off the aura of being an idle fish.

Seiji had finally met up with his only ally in this tournament, yet she was currently in such a condition.

Although he understood why this was the case, as she was an otaku girl who only joined this tournament because her family forced her to, still…

”The tournament is about to begin soon. Is it really alright to let her be like this, Izawa-kun?” Seiji looked at Kanna's Spirit-branded Retainer, Ryuuno Izawa.

”This is how Master behaves when she's under too much pressure. Although it looks worrisome, she'll become more spirited when it's necessary,” Izawa replied. ”And if she really can't energize herself, then I shall take necessary measures to help her to do so.”

'Necessary measures? That sounds rather dangerous.'

Seiji's cheeks twitched from hearing such a comment.

By now, the tournament participants had mostly arrived.

Most of the spectators had arrived as well. They were led to the spectating grounds.

The only ones that hadn't arrived were the ones from the main factions.

At this time, there was the loud sound of something flying through the air.

This sound was… a helicopter?

Seiji looked outside a window and saw a rather science-fiction-like flying object fly towards the spectating grounds and descend there!

He had no clue what name this flying machine went by. Still, it was doubtless that the major faction personnel would ride on such a thing.

Since the major factions' spectators had arrived, then the tournament participants from the major factions should have all arrived as well.

Thinking so, Seiji walked out of the rest area and soon saw a luxurious cruise ship arriving as expected.

Fully equipped tournament participants from the top-level factions disembarked off the luxury cruise ship after that.

The seven major Yin Yang Master families, the three major samurai families, the two major ninja factions, and the Himiki judging clan… Seiji decided to mentally refer to this entire group as the ”7321” faction for short.

The 7321 faction's tournament participants actually all arrived together? Something seemed off about this.

No… this wasn't even at the level of something being off anymore.

Seiji felt that it was highly likely to be related to the Revenge Alliance. More accurately, it would be related to the ”new power of the new generation” that Rota had been speaking about.

The new power of the new generation. What Seiji thought of first were the Awakened and Spirit Worlds…

That's right, a Spirit World!

If all of this was for the sake of a Spirit World, then this ridiculous scene and all the clues of something going on behind the scenes would be explainable!

The Revenge Alliance's ”new power” that they wanted to use was related to a Spirit World.

The tournament hosts knew about this already. Not only did the 7321 faction not intend to stop the Revenge Alliance, they even wanted to ”see it happen” and ”steal” from the Revenge Alliance!

With this deserted island as the tournament grounds, any major incident that occurred could be dealt with out of the public's sight. Since this island didn't have a single human resident to begin with, it didn't matter—regardless of how much of a commotion was caused here.

The military squadron and the naval warship were all sent here as preventive measures. In fact, it was possible that even stronger forces were waiting in reserve for the Messengers faction to act.

The 7321 faction's tournament participants had all arrived together on the same luxury cruise ship. This probably meant that they had set up an alliance amongst themselves in order to deal with the Revenge Alliance.

All of these major precautions were all for the sake of a Spirit World!

Each Spirit World represented tremendous potential benefits to be reaped. Just one Spirit World would be more than enough for a top-level faction to invest so much, including risking their own disciples' and descendants' lives.

Everything made sense now.