703 Let me continue helping you! (1/2)

Regardless, with a helper dealing with the small fry—or ordinary players, there were now far fewer distractions, and Seiji and Shika could concentrate on dealing with players that had undergone Sin Activation.

Seiji used the terrain to help dodge the tigerman's vicious attacks. He then used [Evolved Body strengthening technique—Wind] to speed himself up even more for a swift attack!

Densely intersecting sword attacks sliced at the tigerman's body, causing serious damage and slicing off his right paw.

”Grrrahhhroooaarrr!!” the tigerman screamed out in what resembled a combination of human and tiger screams. He then hurriedly retreated.

Seiji chased right after him without giving him a chance to escape.

Seeing that he couldn't escape, the tigerman roared as he then got down on all fours and crouched down on the ground like a real tiger. All the hair on his body stood up on ends as his body expanded. He widened his mouth as a red glow appeared inside.

*Boom!*

A blood-red light explosively shot out from the tigerman's mouth!

Seiji responded calmly.

Seeing how obvious it was that the tigerman was using some sort of ultimate ability, Seiji had already prepared his own spell to deal with the blood-red light. A large amount of smaller spell formations instantly appeared, blocking the blood-red light and transforming it...

Counterattack curse, [Dragon Counterattack]!

The spell formations flashed as the blood-red light turned into a golden dragon that roared as it rushed back towards the tigerman and exploded in a brilliant light!

The tigerman collapsed from this explosion.

Seiji released Shinobu and had her hammer the tigerman out of the game.

Meanwhile, Shika froze the tentacle monster solid.

However, another player underwent Sin Activation as well, transforming into a large meatball-shaped monster with several mouths that emitted a green gas… The battle continued!

The fierce fighting continued for quite a while.

After all the attacking players were killed or exiled with Shinobu's soul attack, this district was finally cleared and became quiet.

”Are you alright?” Seiji walked over to his helper and checked on him.

Currently, Isamu's clothes were rather tattered, and he had a wretched appearance. However, he didn't appear to be injured.

”I'm fine…” Isamu gave a big thumbs up while flashing a happy smile. ”It was really fun… to play together with you…”

He then remained in that pose as he smiled and collapsed!

Seiji grabbed him in time so that Isamu didn't hit the floor.

Seiji and Shika then saw Isamu glowing a dark red as the shirt and tie vanished, while the tattered black jacket and long pants transformed back into an undamaged T-shirt and shorts.

Seiji now confirmed that this was indeed the same boy that he had been talking to before the battling started.

He was now in a weak state… Seiji wondered if he should exile this person from the game now?

Just as Seiji was considering this, he saw Isamu moving.

”Erk…” Isamu woke up again.

He felt a headache, and was rather dizzy. He also wanted to vomit.

His body felt hot and listless, as well as numb… it was as if he had undergone strenuous exercise followed by an electric shock.

Luckily, someone was supporting him. Otherwise, he surely would have fallen down.

Isamu lifted his head, only to see the angry demon mask boy.

His head started working again, and he recalled what'd just happened. He had activated his power, transformed, and started fighting as a team together with the angry demon mask boy and the strange smile mask girl…

”Are you alright?” Seiji asked once again.

”I… I'm fine,” Isamu told him as he managed to stand by himself again. He indicated that Seiji didn't need to support him any further.

”Thank you for your help just now,” Seiji gave his thanks. ”May I ask how I should call you?”

”You can call me Owl,” Isamu answered.

Since his mask was an owl, the first player he'd met who wasn't berserk had called him Owl. Isamu had taken Owl as his nickname in this game afterwards.

”Owl-san, you can call me White Night. My partner here is the Knight of Zero,” Seiji told Isamu.

White Night and Knight of Zero? These were obviously just nicknames rather than real names as well. But, why was a girl using a name like knight?

Isamu was rather curious about this, but didn't ask, since it was only a nickname here. It was just like an internet username.