810 It’s human nature to repeat the mistakes of the pas (1/2)

Destruction Timeline, Kosui Park, third time.

Seiji tried once again to talk to Destruction Voidfire. Unfortunately, Seiji was unable to learn anything else. In the end, the only knowledge he gained was the sentence ”The Yasakani no Magatama is fake.”

To interpret this sentence in the most basic and literal meaning, it seemed that Voidfire must have discovered that the Yasakani no Magatama was fake when he tried to steal it.

This fake artifact, was it a fake that Soul Society intentionally prepared in order to confuse their enemies, or… was there really something wrong with the Yasakani no Magatama itself?

If it was the latter, Seiji felt like he could understand how the destructive ending for the city's residents came about.

The more he thought about it, the more Seiji felt like this was the case.

Logically speaking, Voidfire's attack on Soul Society must have failed in the end if he got nothing but a fake Yasakani no Magatama. This meant that Soul Society had succeeded in their defense. Yet, despite Soul Society's successful defense, that destructive ending had still come about. Something was obviously wrong… Either there was a problem with the artifact that Soul Society was using to seal the Realm of Cherry Blossoms, or another person must have intentionally created the Destruction Timeline. Those seemed like the most likely scenarios.

If that was really the case, this meant that the true mastermind who caused the Destruction Timeline must have actually been within Soul Society!

Of course, there was also the possibility that Voidfire was just shifting the blame elsewhere. However, was he really the one who'd personally started such a tremendous tragedy on purpose? Was Soul Society not at fault in any way?

Seiji highly doubted this. In his opinion, the very fact that Soul Society had created a cruel plan to sacrifice three thousand ordinary civilians was already a mistake.

Soul Society had a problem.

The Yasakani no Magatama had a problem.

If this powerful mythic artifact had a problem, this meant that the seven major Yin Yang Master families... there was a problem with the seven major families who possessed the three major artifacts of Sakura Island!

Of course, it probably wasn't all of the families. It was more likely that the problem was with a few families, or even just one family.

As Seiji thought this, he also recalled what yet another high-ranking member of the Messengers, Kanzaki, had told him...

”That's because the Haruta Family, as well as the other major families in Sakura Island's spiritual society, never treat the sins they commit as sins at all. Nor do they care one bit about how many people suffer because of their actions.”

Seiji had seen the memories of the dead back when he'd been reviving the dead from the Bloodwine Ritual tournament. He definitely recalled seeing some evil deeds amongst the memories, although he only had hazy impressions of those left. Back then, he had tried his best to avoid reviving those who had committed too many evil deeds.

Some spiritual ability users were so evil that they were no different from demons.

Whoops, he was getting sidetracked.

Seiji told himself to focus.

Right now, all he knew was that the Yasakani no Magatama might be fake. He knew he shouldn't jump to hasty conclusions. However, Seiji truly felt that Soul Society, or rather the seven major families, had the greater possibility of something shady going on behind the scenes. And, it was precisely because of some secret scheme involving the powerful artifact that directly caused the Destruction Timeline, or at least it would be heavily related.

”So is this all just another version of what happened at the Bloodwine Ritual tournament…?” Seiji muttered to himself. ”It's human nature to repeat the mistakes of the past… But I truly don't feel like this cliché phrase is funny at all.”

Seiji then did his best to suppress his negative emotions in order to calm down and think about what to do next.

He then came to a decision. Seiji instantly loaded back to the New Timeline and made a phone call.

”Yui Nee-san, I have something important to tell you face to face…”

”Where did you obtain this information from?”

Yui had a sharp glint in her eyes after she finished listening to Seiji.

”Please don't mind where I got the information from. Just trust me.” Seiji faced her directly with a resolute expression. ”It's highly likely that there's a problem with the Yasakani no Magatama. Sacrificing three thousand ordinary people to fix the Realm of Cherry Blossoms' location is only the overt plan. There's an important scheme hidden within that will benefit one, or several, of the seven major Yin Yang Master families!”

Yui fell silent.

At this critical junction, she originally didn't want to take the time to meet with Seiji again. However, Seiji had been incredibly insistent on meeting her, so she unwillingly came to see him again. She had never expected to hear such a piece of information from him.

Just what exactly had her foolish younger brother done after their last conversation?

”If you won't tell me the source of your information, I won't be able to judge the truthfulness of your information,” Yui stated coldly. ”Schemes are everywhere, being produced every second. The type of scheme you told me about is the simplest and most laughable type of them all.”

”So what? Simple and laughable? That doesn't mean that it's not a real scheme. Sometimes, the most simple and practical schemes are far more dangerous than the most intricate schemes.” Seiji continued being adamant.

”That's why I want you to tell me the source of your information!”

'I want to believe you, but I can't believe you so easily.'

Yui's expression was saying this.