680 Cheers! (2/2)

”Just drink it as quickly as possible.”

Alright then. Cheers!

Seiji approached the sticky black liquid.

”Brother!” At this moment, someone shouted out to him.

Shika was unable to watch this for any longer as she ran over.

”What is this liquid?” she asked Seiji.

”This is the Challenger's Bloodwine… after some modifications,” Seiji told her. ”I'm sorry, Shika-chan. I used up your portion as well.”

”Brother is going to drink this?” Shika didn't care about her portion of the Bloodwine. She cared about what her adopted older brother was about to do.

”Yeah.” Seiji nodded.

”Will this be dangerous?”

”Yes… a little.”

”Please tell me the truth, Brother Seiji!”

Shika found it difficult to believe that this would only be ”a little” dangerous as this sticky black fluid appeared quite ominous.

”I'll be fine. She'll be watching over me.” Seiji pointed at Yui. He decided to use her as an excuse.

Something flashed in Shika's eyes as she glanced over at Yui.

”This modified Bloodwine doesn't look very good, I know. But please don't worry, it'll be fine,” Seiji consoled her again.

However, Shika still had an ominous premonition.

This black and sticky fluid truly seemed completely unnatural. If Seiji drank this…

”I want to drink it as well,” Shika stated. ”You said that my portion is in it as well… I want to drink this together with Brother.”

”That's… no good.”

”Why?”

”Because… if we split this up and drink it separately, the effect will be much weaker,” Seiji told her. ”I'll give you something else in the future to make up for this. Please let me have this portion of Bloodwine, Shika-chan.”

Shika's ominous premonition became even stronger.

She wanted to say something else, when Yui suddenly spoke up beside her, ”Let's not waste any more time. The longer you wait, the more unstable the spiritual wine will become.”

Seiji turned to look at the black sticky wine again when he heard Yui say this.

”Brother…” Shika wanted to stop him. However, Yui suddenly appeared next to Shika and placed her right hand on Shika's shoulder. This sealed Shika's movements!

Then, Yui lifted her left hand and pointed at Izawa and the others who were running over. She also sealed all of their movements!

Seiji took a sip of the black spiritual wine.

It was rather cool and slippery. The taste was like a bitter red wine.

Seiji swallowed this mouthful and immediately felt a subtle chill spreading throughout his entire body.

He started drinking more of the wine, causing his body to become chillier and chillier. Yet, he also felt a faint heat starting to move within his body, giving his body an indescribable subtle sensation.

Then, he suddenly passed a certain boundary and Seiji heard something like an explosion as he sunk into an unknown world…

Pain.

A lot of pain.

An incredible amount of pain.

Tremendous, countless, endless, existing, clashing, intersecting, overlapping, combining…

Seiji was within this, being hit, smashed, thrown around, torn, combined…

He felt an incredible amount of pain, pain that no human would be able to withstand, over and over again, countless times, repeated endlessly…

Seiji resisted, struggled, raged, collapsed, went berserk, cursed, and hated… but everything was returned to silence.

This was a pitiful state that no living human would be able to imagine. Not a single existing word would be sufficient to describe this state.

Everything was meaningless. The entire world was the void. So-called beauty was nothing more than a minor impurity. Only death and silence were eternal.

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…No.

Even though he was in incredible pain and such a pitiful state, he would still deny any attempts to reject everything.

Although he was quite an insignificant and tiny existence, he still existed.

Just like the only visible speck of starlight in a dark, long night.