798 I should be able to do better (1/2)

Seiji turned around and saw a tremendous red flame slowly exploding as if it was a blooming flower!

The heat wave that Seiji sensed became even more powerful. Many enemy monsters were instantly vaporized by this heat wave.

Seiji now understood how that giant crater was created when he saw this majestic scene.

He increased the strength of his defensive barrier and kept running away without looking back.

Although he didn't obtain the information that he wanted, he still obtained critical information.

Voidfire was surprisingly easy to talk to—if Seiji ignored how chuunibyou he was. At least Voidfire had a friendly attitude. Seiji had a much better impression of Voidfire than of Kamitani.

If it had been possible, Seiji would have wanted to talk to Voidfire for a while longer. Unfortunately, the circumstances didn't allow for this.

Of course, having a friendlier attitude didn't mean that Voidfire was a good person. Seiji knew that he had only a very limited understanding of Voidfire due to only having talked for such a short time. It would be unwise to easily trust a high-ranked member of the Messengers.

But no matter what, Voidfire's phone number and password might really be able to stop this incident before it even started.

There was also the issue of what Voidfire had said to him… Seiji didn't know how much Voidfire had seen through him. But even if Voidfire was just pretending to have seen through him, it was true that Seiji had been moved.

Seiji wasn't restraining himself to protect humanity or the world. He was restraining himself to protect himself. This was what Seiji truly believed.

However, such a major calamity had happened now. Should he truly continue restraining himself?

Seiji destroyed all the remaining monsters chasing after him and successfully entered invisibility. However, he didn't immediately return to his Spirit House. Instead, he stood on the rooftop of a random building while facing the mist and the gigantic cherry blossom tree. He entered a state of deep contemplation here.

To be honest, he really was incredibly strong… More accurately, he was incredibly strong because of his system that he self-named as the dating sim system.

As long as he stopped restraining himself, or as Voidfire put it, ”released his power”, it was a definite that he could be far stronger than he was now.

No, it should be said that if he abandoned all inhibitions and used his system to its maximum potential, even Seiji himself didn't know how much he could power up by!

Yet, that was also the problem.

If he became too strong, the power he possessed would even make himself afraid. Maybe undoing the seal would end up destroying the world… Such a chuunibyou phrase might really come true with him.

Seiji was honestly quite scared of this possibility, since if he abandoned all inhibitions… He felt like it would be difficult to say if he would still be himself.

But if he still kept restraining himself from not using his powers too much, could he truly just sit back and watch this catastrophe unfold with so many lives lost?

All the scenes he saw out on the road flashed back into Seiji's mind… Such tremendous misfortune and tragedy had been right before him. He definitely couldn't just ignore it all.

This was no game or movie. This was tragedy in real life!

And even if he ignored the fate of strangers, what about all his friends?

Even if he protected all his friends' lives, their friends and relatives would also be harmed.

In that case, should he protect every single connected person, or simply give up?

Protecting more connected people seemed reasonable, but as long as he went down this path, this would only endlessly expand to him needing to protect more and more people who were all connected. In the end, he would still have to take the so-called path of ”saving the world”.

So if that was the case, shouldn't he just stop restraining himself and do everything that he could to protect everyone? Wouldn't that be far more efficient?

The only obstacle was his own way of thinking… or, more accurately, his own ”fear”.

In the end, his own fear was just his worry about what could potentially happen. Things might not develop towards the worst-case scenario that he feared. Yet, the harm that had befallen everyone in the city, along with the massive amount of lives lost, had already concretely happened before his very eyes!

His own mental weakness compared to the tremendous number of lives here? It was obvious which should be more important.

Seiji wanted to resolve himself to use his powers to the fullest.

However, there was still a tiny part of himself in his heart that resisted.

This part unreasonably, selfishly, emotionally struggled to resist like a young child throwing a tantrum.

'This is no good!