771 A heros payment is the wonderful concept of peace! (1/2)

Shingo was unable to win his argument with Chiaki.

He wanted to take his daughter's place, but was completely unable to change her mind.

Since Chiaki wouldn't agree, Seiji naturally didn't go against her wishes.

In the end, the famous artist was half convinced and half chased off by Chiaki as he left.

Before Shingo left, he took a deep look at Seiji. Seiji did his best to smile politely with an expression of ”I'll definitely take good care of your daughter” as he sent off his future father-in-law.

Seiji then had a stern expression as he immediately turned around and frowned at Chiaki.

Chiaki instantly understood his thoughts when she saw his expression, which made her retract her neck slightly.

”Do you know what you did wrong?”

”I know…”

”That's good, then.”

Chiaki had said foolish things that brought her father over to scold and hit her. She deserved what she got.

Shingo had scolded her already, and it seemed that Chiaki knew what she'd done wrong. Seiji didn't intend to say anything else. He simply wanted to show his attitude.

At any rate, at least the result seemed to be good. The icy relationship between father and daughter was beginning to thaw, and would probably start improving gradually in the future.

Of course, the prerequisite was that this incident was taken care of successfully.

”Hey, my bro Haruta.”

”Hello, Kamitani-kun.”

Seiji wasn't surprised at all when he received a phone call from Itsuki Kamitani as he was preparing to go to sleep.

This was because the next day was Soul Society's third planned battle in the Realm of Cherry Blossoms.

”Come be a hero again, my bro Haruta! Just like last time!”

”What's my payment?”

”Obviously, a hero's payment is the wonderful concept of peace!”

”…You mean there's no payment?”

”I told you, the payment is peace. Peace, yo~ Precious, wonderful, priceless peace...” Kamitani sounded almost like he was rapping.

”If you could truly guarantee eternal peace, I wouldn't mind working for you as a janitor for the rest of my life. However, you evidently have no such ability,” Seiji stated coldly. ”That's because you're someone who's not peaceful at all to begin with.”

Kamitani paused on the other end of the phone for a moment before chuckling.

”Heh heh, nicely said. I like it. That's how you should talk,” Kamitani chuckled again. ”Let us talk about the topic of 'peace' today. My bro Haruta, what do you think the concept of 'peace' is?”

”I don't want to talk about this topic with you.”

”Why not? It's so rare that we talk to each other. It's boring to only talk about serious business. We're friends, you know~”

”I don't recall becoming friends with you.”

”I don't have any memory problems. You're the one with memory problems!”

”We can talk about the topic of memory or whatever next time. This time's topic is 'peace.' Let's not get off topic.”

”Do you think that we're in a classroom right now!?” Seiji retorted.

”No, this is simply a conversation between friends,” Kamitani spoke in a joyous tone. ”Let's just talk about it for fun. My bro Haruta, I really do want to know what you think about the idea of 'peace.' You probably also want to know what I think about 'peace,' don't you?”

Seiji: ”…”

If he had to be honest, he was indeed somewhat curious about what Kamitani, a high-ranked member of the Messengers, was thinking.

Seiji did not in any way consider Kamitani a friend, nor did he want to understand Kamitani. Seiji was simply curious.

”Peace means that there is no violence. The state of having no violence equals peace,” Seiji decided to go with this explanation.

”Such a neutral way of thinking.”

”I apologize, I am indeed such a neutral type of person.”

”No need to feel inferior. Being neutral is fine. It's just a little boring.”