667 You have no idea how many sins your family has committed (1/2)

It appeared that Shigure Tendo wouldn't be able to last much longer. There wasn't much time for Seiji to consider.

Seiji decided to control his [White Calamity] spirit to move closer to Shigure and try touching him.

The pure white spirit moved in front of the pitch-black demonic figure. It reached out with both hands and touched the latter, which instantly caused a large amount of black mist to begin erupting!

”Raghhhh!!!!” Shigure screamed pitifully while the three spiral runes on his forehead and eyes glowed with a blinding red.

Seiji blocked the black mist with a barrier and cautiously watched what happened.

Suddenly, all the sounds stopped! The demonic figure stopped in its movements.

The next instant, a tremendous number of black hands shot out of the black mist behind him, and dragged Shigure's entire body into the black mist!!

”What…!?” Seiji was astonished by this scene!

He then saw an immense amount of dense black mist rushing directly at him!

This black mist didn't only come from the front. Left, right, above, below, behind, black mist poured in from every direction and enveloped Seiji entirely!!

Seiji's vision was filled with darkness as his personal barrier was instantly shattered. [Bullet Time] activated to slow everything down, Yomi was shouting something, and he was filled with an immense sense of danger and tremendous, irresistible terror…

Load!!!

Seiji used his true ultimate technique when faced with this sudden unexpected threat of death where he didn't even have the time to think.

The world around him darkened as everything vanished.

Seiji returned to the passenger ship heading to Momozu Island.

”Just sitting around like this is rather boring. I want to play cards with somebody. Is anyone interested in playing with me?” A man who wore a bright and colorful t-shirt and shorts scratched his hair as he spoke up in a loud voice.

Seiji calmly watched this scene that he had experienced already. He had previously made a save file at this point in time when deciding whether to play cards or not. Once again, he raised his hand and indicated that he would like to join.

”Brother…”

”It's fine for you to just say here.”

This time, he had Shika stay where she was and entered the card game by himself.

Yuuma Saitou, Daikawa Rota, Mitsuko Kitajima, and Yuuzou Yoshihara… Something flashed in Seiji's eyes as he faced these people again, particularly Rota.

At this point in time, it would seem that Rota hadn't joined the Revenge Alliance, as Rota hadn't talked about the Revenge Alliance at all in Seiji's first meeting with him in the previous timeline. Basically, Rota only met the Revenge Alliance leader and joined their faction while on this ship.

He was a well-known assassin who had the nickname of ”Judge”. Perhaps he was the Messenger of Revenge who wanted to kill all the 7321 faction's participants and start an entire ”revolution…” This all sounded quite plausible.

However, Mitsuko Kitajima seemed suspicious to Seiji as well. And from another standpoint, perhaps Saitou who was the first to draw everyone's attention but then was mysteriously forgotten about afterwards might be the true ”culprit”.

Well, guessing seemed meaningless to Seiji. He was no detective, so he decided to use the simplest and most direct method.

Everything happened exactly the same as in the previous timeline. Rota proposed the idea of betting half-truthful information, and everyone accepted. Seiji then lost the first round to Rota.

Seiji answered Rota's first and second questions about his name and his free time hobbies in the same way, claiming to be Shuntou Haruta once again and telling the truth about his manga, anime, and light novel hobbies.

”My third question. I'd like to ask, why did Haruta-san ride this boat, instead of taking a personal boat to the island?”

”Because I want to get in touch with the Revenge Alliance.”

When Seiji made such a statement, it felt as if the entire atmosphere in the ship's dining hall had frozen over.

”Due to my personal experiences, I'm quite interested in this alliance. I'd like to talk to one of its members… of course, it would be best if I can meet the person who created it.” Seiji smiled.

Spying on Rota on this ship would be one possible method, but Seiji didn't feel that this method would be the most successful.

If Seiji wanted to truly be able to meet the hidden boss character, then directly expressing interest in the Revenge Alliance in public seemed like the fastest and easiest path to meeting this hidden person.

The rest of the card game was completely unimportant.