730 That definitely isn’t me… it absolutely isn’ (1/2)

Some said they would immediately leave; some said they would accept the missions; some said they would wait and observe the situation; some said that the ordinary citizens should be evacuated; some even said that Armageddon was coming, so they were going to confess to their secret crush…

Well, those types of non-serious posts were instantly buried.

Seiji looked over all the serious posts. The most common opinion everyone had was that Soul Society absolutely needed to deal with this situation successfully. If Soul Society failed, then this new organization would likely die right here. This was literally a life and death trial for Soul Society.

Because of this, it was highly likely that Soul Society would be offering ample rewards for helping deal with the Realm of Cherry Blossoms. Although Soul Society hadn't mentioned specific rewards yet, people were already looking forward to it.

It wasn't only the matter of Spirit World #1 that needed dealing with. Inner World #1 would also require more people, so there might be missions and rewards related to that as well.

The user named Fan posted to support this, claiming that he got rewarded far beyond what he'd expected for participating in last night's monster extermination. He claimed that he would definitely be joining the next monster extermination as well.

”I think that Soul Society will become more and more important in the future. It's best to help them while they're just starting. It'll be quite beneficial if you get in their good graces while it's still easy. I don't care if you think I'm just shilling for them because they paid me. I'm simply saying what I believe, and it's up to you guys to believe me or not. This is a great opportunity. But, as everyone also knows, this is even more of a danger, a tremendous danger! It's quite possible that many people will die. And, I'm not talking about ordinary people. Those who rashly accept missions are nothing more than idiots. Those who only think about escaping without considering the opportunity are also idiots. Even if you can run away from this incident, what about the future?”

Fan didn't post any more after that, but everyone understood what he meant.

People asked why this happened, what exactly Spirit Worlds were, what the Midnight Incident was about… They hoped that Soul Society would answer these questions.

There was no reply.

These critical questions were probably the highest-level secrets. Even most Soul Society members were probably unaware of the answers, not to mention mere account holders. That was Seiji's opinion.

Seiji refreshed the forum topic, and saw a new reply that caused his gaze to sharpen.

”Darkness has always been present.”

This poster's username was Starcloud.

This was Yui's account!

”What does that exactly mean?” Seiji replied to her message.

He received no response.

After this, he intended to summon all the members of his knight order and tell them all the information he knew so that they could discuss what to do.

But, right now, he wanted to contact a certain person first.

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Miyabi Ishihara was currently by herself in the school library.

There wasn't anything in particular that she wanted to do here. She came here simply because she wanted to be here.

Staying by herself amongst all these books, she faintly felt as if she was a princess alone in her castle.

She felt this seemed pretty nice.

She didn't need to pay attention to any other people or think about anything else. All she had to do was read her books.

She could find anything she wanted in these books. The books could be about reality, or about fantasy.

She could immerse herself fully in a book, or simply be an observer. No matter what type of story or event was contained within, she could quietly experience or appreciate it.

This was the greatest freedom in the world.

After flipping another page of her book, she raised her teacup to take a sip, but discovered that there was no more tea left.

She then picked up the tea kettle to add more tea, when she suddenly heard the sound of light laughter.

This laugh sounded both familiar yet unfamiliar.

Miyabi stood up and walked towards the source of the sound.

She walked in between tall bookshelves on either side. Passing through these seemed just like walking through so many doorways as if she was walking towards another world.

”No, not here…”

”Ahn… Sheesh…”

”If anyone sees… You'll have to take responsibility…”

A seductive sounding voice spoke up. Her voice was identical to the light laughter from earlier… the same girl's voice.

Who was she?

What was she doing?

'How did she enter the school library without me noticing?'

Miyabi became suspicious about this, and felt disgust towards that voice as she felt this girl who was speaking was currently doing… something inappropriate.

This wasn't a place to be doing such things!

'This is my personal castle, a quiet and divine domain! Nobody is allowed to tread upon it!!'