673 What are you calculating? (1/2)

Rota was pained to the point of almost vomiting by the powerful impact that shook his insides.

However, he didn't need to worry about vomiting at all, because Seiji grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up!

”Waghhh…”

Rota had difficulties breathing as he felt the new power within him swiftly leaving. This caused his body to feel icy cold, numb, and pained.

'Why…?'

As his consciousness went hazy, Rota felt something icy cold and sharp piercing through his body. The pain surpassed what he could handle and he fell unconscious.

As Seiji defeated the members of the Revenge Alliance, he also went around defeating the weakened members of the 7321 faction.

What about leaving the 7321 faction members alone to all fight against Kanzaki together?

While everyone banding up joyfully and fighting the demon king together seemed like a wonderful scenario, even if the 7321 faction members were willing to do so, what could the tournament participants that had been weakened to the point of barely being able to fight do? Would they be of any use at all?

Seiji preferred to simply remove them from the tournament by defeating them. This would allow him to absorb more black mist to power up his mysterious power.

He left the 7321 faction members that still had power to defend themselves alone.

And out of the remaining 7321 faction members, of course Shigure Tendo was the one he needed to pay the most attention to!

Seiji had no intentions of trying to defeat and remove Shigure from the tournament right now regardless. Who knew if Shigure would go berserk and enter that ridiculously powerful form from the previous timeline?

Although the mysterious power might help Seiji to defeat the berserk Shigure, that would definitely put a great strain upon him. Seiji preferred to keep as much of his power in reserve as possible to deal with Kanzaki.

Thanks to Shika, Kanna, and Izawa's support, Seiji defeated a great number of tournament participants from both sides!

Some remaining Revenge Alliance members realized that they couldn't win and escaped.

The remaining 7321 faction members also left this location and gathered themselves in the rear. Seiji figured that they were reorganizing themselves.

Seiji could keep track of everyone's movements with his maphack. He chose to take a rest together with his companions.

Now then, would Kanzaki directly act after this?

If so, then that would basically be the final boss battle.

But if Kanzaki was mystified by Seiji's new mysterious power and preferred to test things out first, then Seiji would still have some time.

If he had the time, Seiji wanted to talk to the remaining 7321 faction members after they reorganized themselves in an effort to ally against the demon king.

There was also the matter of the tournament participants that were judged to have lost in the tournament.

Seiji didn't know what would happen to them afterwards or if they would be able to successfully leave this realm of black mist.

The ghosts' attacks and the black mist's envelopment all appeared to be connected to the tournament participants' Lifesaving Talismans. After the first wave of attacks when an individual's Lifesaving Talisman was consumed, they probably shouldn't meet with such danger anymore. But, it was still difficult to say.

Seiji hoped that they would be able to safely leave.

Although Seiji hoped for this, he actually felt that it was highly unlikely.

Unless he eliminated this black mist realm entirely, nobody would be able to leave… that seemed far more likely.

As for the tournament non-participants outside, perhaps they weren't able to enter, or perhaps they could enter but had no intention to, preferring to remain outside and allow the Spirit World to be created.

There was no way to count on reinforcements from outside… In the end, the current situation was probably acceptable and even what the 7321 faction tournament hosts wanted to see.

Kanzaki brought a tremendous amount of death upon this tournament. However, the tournament hosts and the relevant 7321 faction members were the ones who allowed Kanzaki to enact his plans upon this tournament.

Who knew just how deep the swamp ran here?

Seiji knew that he himself was likely also nothing more than a chess piece. Previously, when Yui gave him the tournament participation card, she had mentioned that it was because she had ”benefits” to gain. Now that he thought back on it, perhaps she had a deep connection to this tournament that he didn't know about.

'Just what are you calculating, Yui?'

The night breeze blew past and lifted a few strands of the stunningly beautiful Yui Haruta's hair.

She stood there quietly with her black hair and black clothes, watching the events unfold beneath her. She blended in with the night, although there was a sharp glint in her eyes.

”There are many major tremors in the surveillance data wavelengths. It would seem that things are about to escalate to the next stage,” a blond-haired boy reported to her.

”Yep,” Yui responded lightly.