661 Defeating evil spirits! (2/2)

Just as they were resisting against the hallucinations, they suddenly woke up.

Were these sudden hallucinations because of the black hands and ghostly figures?

It would seem that was highly likely to be the case.

Forget about the black hands, were those ghostly figures… the former residents of this island or even that house they were in? Seiji wondered about that.

Could they have been undead spirits?

Seiji instantly recalled what he had experienced during the incident in Reo's soul realm.

Black mist… ghostly humanoid figures… scary hallucinations… that was quite similar to the current situation!

The return of the dead… the current situation and a mysterious power… was this current situation connected to the mysterious power that Reo and Mayuzumi possessed, the power which could even summon the spirits of those who had died already?

He recalled that there was one more person from the Story of One Hundred Demons incident of ten years ago with Mayuzumi and Reo's mother, Riko Tachibana. There was one more high school girl at the time that had suffered the same nightmares as them!

That girl's name had been...

”Risa Kobayakawa…” Seiji muttered to himself.

”Please… Stop…”

Right after he said that name out loud, he heard a faint sound!

This was the same mysterious voice that he heard back on the ship. Now, he was able to hear it clearer than before. He could now discern that the voice was evidently female.

”Who are you?” Seiji looked all around him. ”Are you Risa Kobayakawa!?”

”Please… stop that person… otherwise… everyone will die…”

The words he heard came only in broken succession.

”By 'stop', do you mean stopping the current situation from developing any further? Who is 'that person'? If we don't stop this person, will all of us die!?” Seiji continued asking questions.

He received no response.

The voice stopped saying anything more.

Shika, Kanna, and Izawa were all looking at him.

”I recalled something and then heard a mysterious voice. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to obtain any useful information…” Seiji explained the situation to them.

He felt that the mysterious female voice wanted to express something like this: he had to stop a certain person's plans. Otherwise, everyone on the island would die!

Yet, he had no idea who this person was supposed to be.

'Come on now, stating the name clearly is the most important part of the warning, mysterious lady.' Seiji could only mentally sigh.

At this moment, he sensed that a two-person team on the enemy Red Team was just defeated. His ”minimap senses” of their existence stopped working as they were judged to have lost the tournament.

Were these Red Team participants defeated by Blue Team members, or were they defeated by these ghostly figures that just appeared? Seiji didn't know.

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'I said, don't try to stop me.'

'Besides, I've already started. It's too late to stop now.'

'Heh heh, I really am an idiot. It's just as you say.'

'I never thought that I would be so foolish, and yet not regret anything at all.'

'This is the action I've taken that I regret least in my life.'

'What I regret the most in my life was the fact that I noticed you on that day.'

'If only I ignored you instead… you wouldn't have died.'

'You would have grown up normally, into a wonderful woman. You probably would have found a gentle husband, had cute children, and lived a normal and fortunate life.'

'If only time could be turned back… If only I could go back to the time when I met you, I would definitely stop myself. I wouldn't mind even if I had to kill my past self.'

'Haha, why can't I talk like this?'

'If you want to viciously scold me, then return!'

'As long as you come back to me alive, then you can scold me all you want.'

'I want you to return.'

'I don't care about anything else… this damned shitty world is one where people can only be killed but not revived. That's so unreasonable!'

'There're countless out there that deserve to die. But there are also some that should be revived, such as you.'

'I'm willing to pay anything if that can really happen.'

'If only everything I possessed could be traded for you to come back to life again, that would be the best trade I could ask for in the world.'

'But since that's not possible… I can come to visit you in the next world instead.'