668 Kanzaki (1/2)

Saitou had a dominating presence.

He had an indescribable aura which awed Seiji.

Saitou had a low tone of voice which wasn't fierce sounding at all. In fact, there wasn't even any crest of emotions as he calmly stated his beliefs.

However, what was contained within his beliefs… If Seiji had to forcefully describe things, this was like the maw of a volcano that you couldn't see the bottom of! It was pitch-black and endlessly deep, possessing unimaginably great power, as if it would be capable of exploding and destroying everything at any moment.

Not only was Seiji awed, even Shika and Rota were awed by the forceful conviction in Saitou's words. And, Rota seemed to be far more impacted by Saitou's words than either Seiji or Shika was. Rota showed an expression of being obviously moved.

”You… you're not Saitou-san,” Rota muttered. ”May I ask… who you are?”

This detective by trade also noticed that the person who spoke couldn't have possibly been Saitou. Those words must have come from someone who possessed or controlled Saitou!

”You can call me 'Kanzaki',” ”Saitou” responded.

Kanzaki… Seiji almost wanted to shout out loud ”Finally, I've met the secret boss!”

The Revenge Alliance leader, and the person who created that black mist realm on the tournament island… Seiji greatly suspected that the person behind the incident which forced him to load was this individual!

Although Seiji didn't know why this ultimate boss suddenly took action at that time, Kanzaki had attacked without holding back right from the very start. Seiji was basically overwhelmed in just an instant, with no way to resist.

Well, this was the best proof that demon kings would only give grand speeches before attacking in games, manga, movies, and so on. Real people as major antagonists wouldn't possibly be that idiotic. If they wanted to kill someone, they would simply kill. Not only did the major antagonist not say any wasteful words, he didn't even reveal himself.

”Kanzaki-san, indeed, I'm ignorant of my family's actions. I apologize if my family has affronted you,” Seiji spoke calmly. ”I have no intentions of trying to whitewash my family's crimes, because I have no idea what crimes they've committed. I don't have the right to try and cover for their sins. However, I'm still a member of the Haruta Family. Even if I've been exiled, I still bear the family name, and there are relatives I view as important among them…

”At any rate, if Kanzaki-san believes that someone as half-rate as me can be useful in some way, why don't you consider cooperating with me? Due to a certain matter, I really want to win this tournament. That's why, I want to make use of any power that I can borrow.”

Everyone fell silent for a moment.

Kanzaki closed his eyes and then took another deep whiff of his cigarette. He opened his eyes again after puffing all the smoke.

His tone changed yet again. He had returned to being Saitou.

”Saitou-san…”

”Don't ask me anything about Kanzaki-sama, because I don't know anything at all.” Saitou littered by flicking the cigarette into the sea, just like last time. ”I'm merely doing my job.”

”Are you the only one who's doing such a 'job?'” Seiji inquired.

”I don't know.” Saitou chuckled. ”Haruta-san, you're really courageous.”

”Why do you say that?”

”Isn't that obvious? You're from the Haruta Family, yet you want to take advantage of the Revenge Alliance, and you even told your intentions directly to Kanzaki-sama…”

'You're outrageously reckless and suicidal.' That was what Saitou meant with his expression.

'Of course, I know that this is suicidal.' Seiji had a calm expression.

Technically speaking, he had basically died once already.

It was just like reaching a bad end in a video game for mysterious and unknown reasons. Seiji absolutely had to learn the identity of the Revenge Alliance leader so that he wouldn't meet a bad end again in this second timeline without even knowing why.

Seiji had already learned the important information that he was after. Everything would be worth it even if he was forced into loading back to the card game on the ship before the tournament's start yet again. But right now, it seemed that it would still be possible to continue in this timeline, so Seiji decided to stick around and continue and gather as much information as he could.

”Stop…”

Once again, he heard that same mysterious voice.

Another unsolved mystery was who this unknown woman calling out to him was.

”You want me to stop Kanzaki, is that right?” Seiji faced the sea and spoke in a low voice, ”I apologize. I'm incapable of doing so.”

After witnessing that black mist domain and its terrifying power, Seiji realized just how truly weak he was in the mystical society.

Fight the demon king until the end? That was something that didn't exist in real life.

When he met Kanna and Izawa on the island, Seiji intended to convince the two of them not to join this tournament at all. He would recommend them to surrender immediately and leave the tournament before it began.

Even if they faced severe consequences for surrendering without even fighting, that would still be better than the upcoming danger.

And after he convinced Kanna and Izawa to surrender from the tournament, Seiji would only have to worry about protecting Shika and himself and do his best to obtain final victory in the tournament.