823 Youve all done really well (1/2)

He would have to kill the samurai if he didn't want Fuyumi to die?

Koutarou paused in surprise, and didn't know how to react.

The handsome samurai observed him for a while before turning around. The samurai then suddenly pulled out the sword pinning the demon girl to the ground, causing a large amount of blood to spurt out as she screamed in pain!

The samurai then immediately pointed the sword downward, and was about to slice off the demon girl's head!

”Ahhh!!!” Koutarou's body automatically reacted before his mind could work. He suddenly jumped towards the samurai!!

The sword suddenly changed direction before it sliced down.

*Smack!!* The coal seller was sent flying back by an impact with the sword's other, dull edge.

The struggling demon girl was now solidly pinned on the ground again by the samurai's foot.

Koutarou crawled up again and shouted once more while jumping towards the samurai like the last time. And just like the previous time, he was sent flying back.

This scene was repeated an additional two times.

By the fifth time, Koutarou's legs suddenly gave out on him as he tried to crawl up again.

He had now taken four heavy blows from the samurai's sword's unsharpened edge. His body ached all over, and his consciousness was hazy. He felt like he almost couldn't go on anymore.

But, he had to keep going on.

He couldn't afford to collapse here. Otherwise, his younger sister would…

Koutarou did his very best to struggle and stand up again. He attacked the samurai once again with an incredibly clumsy and unskilled attack!

There was another loud smack as Koutarou was sent flying back for the fifth time.

His consciousness then sank into darkness as he fell unconscious.

...

Meanwhile, the dense white mist was spreading.

This was the evidence that the environment here was collapsing.

Seiji didn't know what would happen to this place in the end, but he figured that this town would end up being destroyed.

Basically, this town with so many ”people” in it that was formed so mysteriously through unknown means at an unknown time was about to be completely destroyed soon!

Seiji felt something move in his heart as he understood this.

He was quite clear that the ”people” here weren't actual humans.

However, they really resembled humans. They had their own free will and individual thoughts. They lived just like humans did.

Their will and thoughts might be rather simple and perhaps incomplete, but… would that be reason enough to deny their right to exist?

Seiji felt that it wouldn't.

He didn't want to deny the ”people” in this town their right to exist. He didn't want to harm them. However, they were all going to meet their doom because of his arrival.

”There isn't. These undead are all able to exist only because of the special environment here. When this environment completely collapses, they'll all disappear,” his bonded female spirit answered.

”You think that they're all undead?”

”It's quite evident that they're not living spirits. That means they're all obviously undead.”

You were either the living or the dead. This was very simple and easy to understand.

”According to this description, wouldn't that also make you an undead spirit?” Seiji inquired.

Yomi chuckled lightly.

”Actually, it doesn't really matter what you call them. The important thing is that they shouldn't exist to begin with. It's their destiny to disappear together with this unnatural environment that also shouldn't exist. Even if you pity them, there's nothing that you can do,” Yomi stated in a seemingly casual tone.

Seiji fell silent.

They shouldn't exist to begin with…?

This statement was far too ambiguous, far too cruel, and far too helpless.

Seiji wanted to counter this statement. However, he also sensed that there would be no meaning in countering it.

As a spirit, and as someone who wasn't human, Yomi was more closely related to these ”people” than a human like him was. Even if she said that ”they shouldn't exist to begin with”, she definitely wouldn't actually think that, as that would almost be the same as denying herself.

If she didn't actually think that, why was she saying it?

Seiji arrived at an obvious conclusion. Yomi was saying it for the sake of consoling him.

”…Is there really no method at all?” After a period of silence, Seiji tried to ask this again, unwilling to give up.

His bonded female spirit didn't reply.

That in itself was a type of reply.

Seiji could only sigh as he looked all around.