763 Spirited Away (2/2)

Seiji decided not to have any outlandish hopes. A vicious demon level threat like the Snake or Samurai Demon was already so difficult to deal with already. A demon king level threat would definitely be impossible for the current him to handle, Seiji told himself.

But what if he included Natsuya and all his companions' combat strength put together?

Add on his ability to save and load to go back in time, and perhaps he would be able to deal with a demon king level god. But, that would still be tremendously risky…

As Seiji mulled over things, Chiaki sat by his side and quietly sipped on some tea.

It felt rather scary to be watched by a god like this. She also felt scared that she might disappear from the world at any moment, with nobody ever remembering that she existed. However, Chiaki felt reassured because she had such a reliable boyfriend.

Apart from being afraid of that unknown god who was watching her, Chiaki now had a new emotion: anger.

If this god had caused her mother's disappearance and brought so much pain to her father… this god seemed far too evil to her!

Since Chiaki didn't have any memories of her mother, she didn't feel the same pain of losing a loved one. She merely felt sad—sad for her father, and sad for her own lost memories.

Did all of this happen to her because she was a priest's descendant, so she had the ”favor of the gods?”

She preferred not to have the gods' favor at all!

”I'd like to ask…” After some consideration, Chiaki came up with a question. ”Where have the people who were spirited away gone to? What exactly… happened to my mother?”

Mika, who was also present and sipping tea, looked at her best friend. Even Shika looked in Chiaki's direction.

”According to the ancient legends about being spirited away, the people who went missing were brought to mystical realms,” Natsuya explained. ”This is something that regular people know about through folk tales as well… And with your mother's situation, it's highly likely that she became the servant of a god.”

”Is it possible that she's still alive?” Chiaki asked in a soft voice.

”That's possible.” Natsuya looked at Chiaki. ”But to my knowledge, it's impossible to return those who have been spirited away back to the human world. That's because it's impossible even for spiritual ability users to enter the gods' realm…”

But as Natsuya said this, she suddenly stopped herself as something flashed in her eyes.

”What is it?” Seiji could tell that she suddenly thought of something.

”Impossible to enter the gods' realm… that was the case in the past,” Natsuya spoke slowly. ”Now that the Spirit Worlds have started appearing… what if the Spirit Worlds are actually the gods' realm, or if they're directly connected to the gods' realm? That means…”

The gods' realm could be accessed!

Those who were spirited away could possibly be recovered!!

The student council president didn't say those two sentences out loud. However, everyone present was able to come to such conclusions by themselves.

”My mom… may be able to return?” Chiaki widened her eyes.

She had only asked because of her unwillingness to accept the current situation. She'd never expected to hear about such a possibility.

”It's only a possibility,” Natsuya told her in a serious tone. ”I can't be certain that the Spirit Worlds are related to the gods' realm or that they have any connection to the gods' realm… even now, we still don't know what exactly the Spirit Worlds are.”

Since she didn't know what the Spirit Worlds were, everything was only a hypothesis.

The Spirit Worlds possibly being connected to the gods' realm was also only a hypothesis.

But, this hypothesis seemed quite plausible.

”The Spirit Worlds… No, more specifically, I should be talking about the Realm of Cherry Blossoms.” Something flashed in Seiji's eyes. ”The Realm of Cherry Blossoms is actually the gods' realm itself… I think that this is highly possible.

”First of all, why did the Realm of Cherry Blossoms appear? This is something that none of us knows the answer to. However, the Realm of Cherry Blossoms appeared during the cherry blossom viewing festival, right at the time when everyone in Sakura Island was enjoying the sight of cherry blossoms. There must be a connection here! If you treat the citizens' enjoyment of cherry blossoms as a type of 'worship' towards cherry blossoms, then the cherry blossom viewing festival will be the highest point in everyone's 'worship' of the cherry blossoms. This created a related Cherry Blossom Spirit World, or maybe even brought about the birth of a Cherry Blossom God… doesn't this sound quite reasonable?