796 Youre not human! (2/2)

Seiji tried shouting three more times and still received no response.

He could only approach closer in order to check things out.

Seiji cautiously entered the pit and began to move towards its bottom.

When he was only about ten meters away from that mysterious ”flame”, a small portion of the ”flame” suddenly split off and rapidly approached him!

[Emergency Flash]!

Seiji instantly decided to activate the third ability of Mika's character reward card, blinking away instantaneously to dodge this attack.

*Boom!* The ”flame” crashed into the earth, exploding with a violent heat wave that also created a large hole in the ground.

After this attack missed, the ”flame” immediately turned around and appeared like it was about to attack again.

”I come in peace!” Seiji raised both his hands while shouting and swiftly retreating. ”Itsuki Kamitani told me to come here—”

*Bam!* The second impact created yet another large pit with an explosion.

Seiji used the momentum of the shock wave created from the blast to swiftly propel himself back to the edge of the pit.

The ”flame” stopped attacking him and retreated.

Was this something that the spellcaster personally controlled, or was this a completely automated magical defense system?

Seiji furrowed his eyebrows as he tried to figure this out.

”Voidfire-san, my name is Seiji Haruta. I just learned about you recently from Itsuki Kamitani.” After a period of silence, Seiji decided to shout this towards the ”flame”. ”I heard that you were a person filled with a sense of justice, and that you tried to stop Soul Society from sacrificing innocent citizens, but you failed. I want to know what exactly happened… and if possible, I would like to help resolve the current situation. I truly do come in peace. Please come out and talk to me!”

After he shouted this, Seiji waited around.

Approximately one minute later, the ”flame” started moving again.

The ”flame” kept contracting and becoming lighter until a humanoid figure was revealed within.

”Seiji Haruta… what are you?” A raspy voice came from the hazy white figure.

Seiji paused in surprise when he heard this question. He thought that perhaps he might have misheard.

”You're asking me what I am?”

The white shadow remained silent.

”I am… a human.” Seiji decided to answer like this.

”Liar!” the white shadow—Voidfire—shouted in his raspy voice. ”You're not a human!”

Seiji was rendered speechless.

What the hell? What was all this?

He was utterly confused.

Being asked ”What are you?” by a person he'd just met for the first time, responding with ”human” and having this answer rejected… What type of expression should he even have here? Why was this even happening?

”Answer me, what exactly are you!?” Voidfire asked once again.

'Hey, that's what I'd like to know here!!'

Seiji really wanted to retort like this, but he could sense that Voidfire was being incredibly serious. Casually retorting might cause Voidfire to react negatively.

And so, Seiji seriously thought about this question.

”Actually… I'm an existence who came here from another world.” After thinking about it, Seiji decided to answer seriously in this manner. ”After I arrived in this world, I melded together with Seiji Haruta and began to live here with his identity. But, as for who or what exactly I am, even I don't know.”

'Since you asked me so sincerely (in such a chuunibyou fashion), I'll be kind enough to reply seriously (in the same chuunibyou fashion!)'

Voidfire fell silent once again.

At this moment, the ”flame” became active again, appearing like it was burning normally, just as if it reflected Voidfire's emotions.