799 Brother Seiji has the right to be selfish (2/2)

”I don't think that now is a good time to be calling me Young Master…”

”My apologies, oh great God Haruta.”

”I'm not a god…”

”You could become a god as long as you wanted. Isn't that exactly what you meant with your earlier words? No… You could become someone above a divine existence, Kamijou-sama.”

Seiji was rendered speechless.

He didn't know what type of expression he should have right now.

But since someone had finally spoken up, the atmosphere was no longer so tense that nobody could say anything.

”I also think that you should do what you want to, Seiji.” Mika was the second to speak up. ”None of us can make the decision for you or share the burden for you. You'll have to do it yourself… I'm sorry.”

Although Mika didn't know Seiji's strength as well as Natsuya did, she also knew that Seiji was incredibly strong. In fact, from a certain standpoint, she was even clearer on this than Natsuya was.

Seiji had already shown before that he had the power to resurrect people from the dead. Just this alone would surely be a heavy burden!

Seiji had been carrying that burden of his power by himself for all this time. Whether to use that power or not, which would increase his burden, was something only he could decide.

'All I can do is stay by his side,' Mika thought to herself.

Accompanying him might not be much help… well, it might be a little bit of help, but Mika knew that she was more likely to be a burden than help with her current power level. She knew that she needed to work harder.

”No need to apologize, Mika.” Seiji looked at her. ”The problem's with me… I'm being too selfish.”

”Brother Seiji has the right to be selfish,” Shika suddenly spoke up.

Everyone looked at her.

”Brother Seiji has already done so well. There's no need for you to do any better,” Shika spoke with absolute confidence in front of everyone. ”If Brother Seiji doesn't want to change, then there's no need to change. Rather than using your full power, I think that it's more important that you don't change. The same power will always be used differently by different people. If Brother Seiji changes, then you won't use your power like how you used to. No matter how strong you become, it will all be meaningless then.”

”Shika-chan…” Seiji looked at his adopted younger sister.

Shika's attitude was quite clear: rather than saving other people, she cared more about Seiji himself.

It didn't matter to her about all the casualties from this incident.

Whether it be several hundred thousand people, or even several million people, their deaths weren't the fault or responsibility of her adopted older brother.

In her opinion, if Seiji was forced to change himself for the sake of saving others, that would be the worst possible thing.

If it wasn't for worrying about Seiji's feelings and what the others thought of her, she would have immediately replied with ”you don't need to change”.

It was just several hundred thousand people? So what if they died?

She would still answer the same way if someone that a person here knew had died.

She would still answer the same way if someone present right here, or even if she herself had died.

Her Brother Seiji didn't need to change. He didn't have the responsibility of having to save others. He simply needed to be himself.

Although he probably wouldn't be so cruel… It was precisely because she knew that he wouldn't be so cruel that she needed to say this.

”Brother, you're the most important one. Before saving others, you need to protect yourself first,” Shika stated quite clearly.

'If you can't even protect yourself, you should give up on protecting others.'

Shika believed that to be correct.

If the others couldn't say something like this, then she would be the one to say it.

Right now, everyone else apart from Seiji felt that the black-haired beauty had quite a cold and distant expression.

Even if everyone in the entire city had died, it would be fine as long as her Brother Seiji was still alive and well… Natsuya and the others could tell that was what she truly thought.

It was impossible for anyone else present to think this way.