797 You actually dont need to be so kind (1/2)

'He's truly so chuunibyou,' Seiji thought to himself.

”Can I ask you why you think I'm a 'divine envoy'?”

”You're currently using a divine power. I can see it,” Voidfire replied.

'He can see that I'm using the White Sakura Goddess's power… I understand now. That's why he mistakenly thought that I wasn't human when he saw me?'

”Let me ask again. Why do you think that I'm not human?” Seiji decided to directly ask.

”You have inhuman qualities. I can see right through them,” Voidfire replied in his raspy voice.

Then, his ”flame” contracted completely and formed into a robe. Voidfire's actual physical appearance could finally be seen.

He appeared to be a youth with short orange hair and a pale face. He had bright red eyes and incredibly dark circles under his eyes, making him look rather sickly.

”If you release your power, you'll become an incredibly powerful existence. Yet, you've restrained yourself instead of doing so, giving you your current form,” Voidfire continued talking while beginning to float in midair towards Seiji. ”You actually don't need to be so kind… Restraining yourself to protect humanity and the world will only benefit humans and the world, but not yourself. You'll become weaker and suffer when you shouldn't. But precisely because of this, I can tell that you're foundationally the pure type, someone far too holy for this wicked world with its ugly humans… That's why I'm quite happy to meet you.”

Seiji felt somewhat affected by Voidfire's words as he watched Voidfire land in front of him.

Although Voidfire's words were indeed quite chuunibyou, it also sounded somewhat like Voidfire had seen through the nature of the world, making it difficult to determine if he was simply insane or not.

Voidfire was a high-ranked member of the Messengers. How likely was it that he had a case of absolutely delusional chuunibyou?

Seiji felt that would be relatively unlikely.

Maybe Voidfire indeed suffered from delusional chuunibyou, but he would still be no simple person.

And what he said about Seiji holding himself back… it was indeed quite true that Seiji had always been ”restraining himself”. However...

”I'm restraining myself in order to protect myself, not to protect humanity or the world,” Seiji stated sincerely.

Protecting humanity or the world? That was far too serious a topic for him.

Rather than saying it was for humanity or the world, Seiji was restraining himself for his own sake.

Voidfire looked directly at him.

”This way of thinking also proves your holy purity.”

Seiji was rendered speechless.

He wanted to comment on this somehow, but didn't even know what to say.

”What did you want from me, divine envoy?” Voidfire asked him a question.

”Foolish humans have always been making mistakes. I was trying to prevent them from making yet another huge mistake. However, their foolishness plus the wickedness of the world was too much of an obstacle for me to overcome, so I failed,” Voidfire replied in his raspy voice. ”There's nothing much to say about the process. The world becoming like this is because of my mistake plus failure creating an even bigger mistake. But, perhaps this will actually be the correct development for the world…”

Correct development for the world? Seiji furrowed his eyebrows.

”You mean that even without this current incident, such a catastrophe would eventually happen?”

Voidfire remained silent as he lifted his head to look at the spiritual cherry blossom tree in the sky.

Was that tacit admittance?

It felt like Voidfire's words contained much information, but also like he was trying to shift blame onto others. Seiji didn't really understand.

”According to Kamitani, eliminating the Sakura Catastrophe Goddess will resolve this incident and return the world to normal,” Seiji stated. ”There's apparently a plan to combine all the remaining factions' combat strength to slay the goddess, although the success rate might be rather low… Will you be participating in this plan?”

”Even if the goddess is slain, the mistake still won't be fixed,” Voidfire told him.

Seiji was rather surprised to hear this.

”Even if the Catastrophe Goddess is killed, the world still won't be returned to normal!?”

”Yes, the world will be returned to normal, but humanity won't be. At the very least, several hundred thousand people in this city will have died because of this mistake,” Voidfire said in a light tone.

Several hundred thousand people… Seiji deeply furrowed his brows.

He had known that there might end up being a tremendous number of deaths, but he hadn't thought about the specific numbers before, because he didn't want to think about it.

The catastrophe had already happened. Even if the Catastrophe Goddess was slain, there would still be countless people that had died already!

Unless…