681 You seemed just like a god (1/2)

What felt like an eternity finally passed.

Seiji's petrified body began to crack open; as the dark and icy outer shell slowly fell off, something heavy, deep, and serene gradually disappeared, only to be replaced by light which slowly expanded, along with the bright and warm world…

Seiji slowly opened his eyes.

His body hurt… his head hurt… he felt heavy all over… this light was so blinding…

'Where am I? What's happened to me?'

”Brother!” Seiji heard Shika's voice next to him.

Seiji did his best to see what was around him and then saw his adopted younger sister's face.

”Shi… ka…”

”Brother… wonderful, you've finally woken up…” She showed off a delighted expression yet tears were also dripping down her eyes.

Finally?

'Have I been sleeping for that long?'

Seiji wanted to ask out loud, but found it difficult to speak right now.

He was in such a terrible condition… just why was his body in such a state?

He recalled his final memory—he had just drunk the modified Bloodwine.

For the time being, he couldn't recall what happened after that.

A while later, when his body's condition improved, Seiji finally recalled what happened.

After he drank the spiritual wine, he followed Yui's spellcasting instructions and successfully revived some of the tournament participants!

He collapsed right after that.

His memories were extremely hazy.

Seiji faintly recalled that he had used the save and load function during this process. However, he was completely unable to recall how often he had loaded, or how many times he had to try before he finally succeeded.

It was the same for the spellcasting process. He was unable to recall anything specific at all. Only a few hazy scenes remained in his mind.

What Seiji had a deeper impression of was that he had apparently seen all the souls of the dead during the revival process. He had seen their life memories and felt their way of thinking. Seiji had used this to judge whether or not to revive them.

His power was limited. Seiji abandoned trying to revive those with terrible past deeds or wicked personalities. He did his best to save those he felt were worthy of saving.

Still, that was all he could recall. He could no longer remember the specifics about each dead individual. It was as if this was an anime that he had watched when he was young. He only remembered the overall storyline, and rather vaguely at that.

As Seiji rested, he learned from Shika, as well as Kanna and Izawa who came to visit him, that his appearance at the time was rather majestic.

Kanna Fujihara even made various hand gestures as she told this story to add to the impact.

”Those three spell formations glowed so bright that they illuminated everything. You sounded like you were singing a holy song as you uttered your incantation. It also sounded like many people were talking at once… and every time you moved your hand, the ground… no, the entire area would tremble!

”Honestly, I was so shocked at the time, feeling like you had already surpassed humanity to become a godlike existence. I almost wanted to kneel to you.”

”Master indeed ended up kneeling because she was so shocked that her legs became unsteady.” Izawa unhesitatingly revealed this.

”Ryuuno!”

Kanna became angered as she smacked her overly talkative Spirit-branded Retainer.

'It would seem that I got to look really cool… it's a pity that I don't remember.' Seiji could only sigh.

Kanna and Izawa had been shocked and awed. Shika felt more worry than shock or awe.

Her adopted older brother had been asleep for more than ten days. She had stayed in his hospital room for almost all this time.

More accurately, it was for thirteen and a half days.

Many people came to visit Seiji while he was sleeping on a hospital bed for these two weeks.