838 The main character of a dark-themed light novel!? (1/2)

After activating the Susanoo plan, Sougo Tendo sensed…

...incomparably deep pleasure, along with an equal amount of pain!

The pleasure came from evolution, while the pain came from sin.

In this instant… which seemed like so long... Sougo understood.

He understood himself as the Tendo Family's head, as a spiritual ability user, and as a human… his entire meaning to everything. He understood all cause and effects, the past, the present, karma, and the future… He learned and understood everything.

This was because he became a god!

And right at the moment that he became a god, Sougo Tendo was no longer human. His human reason and feelings all collapsed and sunk into chaos.

This was the truth.

This was fate.

This was the ending.

The moment that he understood everything, he also lost everything. The moment that he became a god, he also became a demon. The moment that he finished his evolution, he was no longer human…

”Haha… hahahahahahahahaha!!!”

These were his final words as a human.

Yet, nobody was around him to hear this.

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The Tendo Family's sins?

”Are the Tendo Family's 'sins' referring to something specific?” Seiji asked Sayaka.

Sayaka remained silent for a moment.

”You could say yes, as well as no,” she slowly spoke up. ”What I felt at the time… when I was on the verge of death... is quite difficult to describe. If I had to say, I felt like the summoned white dragon was filled with endless rage and hatred towards the Tendo Family, and that it also shouldered endless pain… It felt almost as if it was a combined spiritual attack from countless spiritual ability users who hated the Tendo Family. The dragon seemed as if it was a physical materialization of hatred and pain. But, now that I think about it more carefully, I could also say that it was a tremendous amalgamation of negative energy… even though I don't believe that a term like 'negative energy' is sufficient to describe such an existence. This concept, or energy, whatever it is, is the foundational reason why something went wrong with the experiment.”

What on earth? Seiji was somewhat confused.

”So, according to what you say, this gigantic white dragon that appeared… is actually retribution that the Tendo Family deserves?”

”That's an overly simplistic explanation, but you can also understand it as such.” Sayaka nodded.

Seiji: ”…”

Sayaka mulled things over some more as she saw a strange expression on Seiji's face. She explained in greater detail.

Ten years ago, the failed experiment had been connected to the Tendo Family's Dragon Vein's power.

Setting aside the reason for the white dragon's form, when looking at everything objectively, this experiment which was connected to the Dragon Vein had gone out of control due to the interference of some mysterious negative energy that summoned the powerful dragon, or the Catastrophe Goddess.

Sayaka Tendo, the person in charge of this experiment, felt a sensation as if this negative energy's true identity was ”the sins of the Tendo Family” as she was on the verge of death.

Since she was on the verge of death back then, her memories were rather hazy. Now, she was only a remnant soul, so there were also many holes in her memory, and she could only say that she ”felt” this way rather than give any concrete confirmation as to the dragon's identity.

If this negative energy could be called the ”power of sins”, then how was it created?

Sayaka believed that this energy came from the Dragon Vein, having been created from the Tendo's modifications applied to certain humans over the years by using the Dragon Vein's power, along with the Tendo Family's negative influence on the Dragon Vein.