Chapter 670: I shall fight for the sake of being able to remain an otaku forever!
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
Yoshihara took another puff on his cigarette before flicking his cigarette ash away.
“Perhaps, as you just said, I’m already insane… but why are you telling all this?”
He wasn’t shaken at all.
Seiji noticed that Yoshihara wasn’t shaken by his words in the slightest. This made Seiji feel as if he was facing against a trendous iron-solid cliff.
“Soone requested to,” Seiji replied.
“Who?”
“Who else would care about your life or death?”
Yoshihara widened his eyes slightly.
“You… can also hear her?”
“Just a little.” Seiji sighed. “She worked very hard to ask , a total stranger, to stop you… You truly can’t reconsider, Yoshihara-san?”
Only now did Yoshihara show his first sign of being shaken.
“I don’t know the story between you and Risa. Nor do I know what Kanzaki told you that made you stubborn to such an extent. All I know is that she wants to stop you and doesn’t want you to die like this!” Seiji continued. “Even if you feel like your life is aningless, is her wish aningless as well!?”
Yoshihara’s expression darkened.
“No matter why you’re able to hear her, I’m thankful that you brought her ssage, Haruta-san. Still, let’s stop things here. Please don’t tell anything else. Otherwise, you… might suffer serious harm.” Yoshihara paused for a mont. “You should withdraw from this tournant for the sake of you and your partner. This is the only well-intentioned warning I can give you.”
The assassin turned around and left right after saying that.
Seiji watched him leave, then suddenly noticed sothing behind him. Seiji turned around to see Saitou appearing around a corner!
Another bad end…? Seiji imdiately prepared himself to load at any mont.
“Haruta-san, it would seem that you didn’t want to truly cooperate at all.” Saitou walked over and spoke in his own tone of voice rather than Kanzaki’s. “I’m truly amazed by your courage. You dared to be insincere with that personage.”
Seiji silently remained vigilant as he sensed an aura of danger. Shika also prepared herself for combat.
“Originally, there should have been a punishnt for your actions. However, Kanzaki-sama is the magnanimous type who shall allow your foolish transgression.” Saitou walked up to them and continued speaking in a light tone. “Cooperation will be impossible. In fact, the two of you shall be listed as the Revenge Alliance’s targets in the tournant. Please don’t tell anyone else about unnecessary matters… Forgiving your transgression is only for this one ti.”
After saying that, Saitou left with an expression of “behave yourselves” as he walked off.
Seiji had thought that he would need to start this tiline over for the third ti. However, the demon king was unexpectedly “magnanimous.”
Of course, Seiji didn’t believe that Kanzaki was magnanimous at all. Was Kanzaki sparing Seiji for the ti being because of sothing related to Yoshihara? Or would “dealing” with Seiji on this ship be rather troubleso? Or…
No matter what the reason was, it would seem that Seiji would be able to continue down this second tiline.
Should he continue in this tiline where he had confronted Kanzaki directly, or should he load right now?
Sothing flashed in Seiji’s eyes as he slowly clenched his right hand into a fist. He decided to remain in this tiline to see how things would turn out.
Ryuuno Izawa and his master Kanna Fujihara arrived on Momozu Island.
Although his master was under too much pressure, caving in to beco an idle fish, Izawa believed that she would be able to energize herself.
Soon, they t up with their only expected allies in this tournant, Seiji Haruta and Shika Kagura. However, to their surprise, Seiji imdiately tried to seriously convince them to abandon this tournant and withdraw imdiately!
“Believe . This tournant will be incredibly dangerous. You should withdraw now while you still can,” Seiji spoke in a serious tone. “Once this tournant begins, it’ll be impossible to surrender even if you want to.”
“Surrendering from the tournant without even fighting is strictly forbidden by the tournant rules.” Izawa furrowed his eyebrows.
“Even if there’s a severe punishnt, that’s still better than facing the threat of death.”
“It’s not only the tournant contract’s punishnt. If Master surrenders from the tournant without even fighting, her situation in her family will beco much worse than it already is.”
“But this tournant is truly dangerous…”
“Why? If you know sothing that we don’t, please tell us.”
“Just take a look at the current situation and carefully think about it. You should be able to sense that this tournant isn’t nearly as simple as it appears on the surface.” Seiji sighed. “It’s not that I don’t want to explain, it’s that… it’s inconvenient for to explain right now.”
Seiji could sense that he was being spied upon.
Having Kanna and Izawa retreat from the tournant before it started might provoke a reaction from Kanzaki. Still, Seiji had to try. He was basically testing the limits of what it would take to achieve a bad end.
Sothing flashed in Izawa’s eyes. Kanna also left her state of being an idle fish as she looked towards Seiji.
“What about yourself?” Kanna spoke up. “You’re telling us to withdraw, but you haven’t ntioned anything about yourself withdrawing from this tournant.”
“…I won’t withdraw.”
“Why’s that? Didn’t you say that this tournant will be incredibly dangerous?”
“Even if it’s incredibly dangerous, I still absolutely have to win.” Seiji clenched his right hand. “There’s also sothing else…”
“What else?”
“I can’t say.”
Kanna looked directly at him.
“What will happen to you if we withdraw from this tournant right now?”
Seiji remained silent.
“Since this is regarding sothing secret, you telling us to withdraw from the tournant is basically like revealing the secret… and you’ll pay a price, won’t you?” Kanna continued asking.
“Probably not, if it’s only sothing to such an extent…”
“I don’t want to be the type who runs away while abandoning my friends. And, things are just as Ryuuno just stated. My family won’t forgive if I surrender this tournant without even attempting to fight.”
“…You’ll regret it if you join this tournant,” Seiji told her in a low voice.
“Perhaps, but I’ll also regret it if I surrender right now without even trying. Since both outcos are the sa, then I’d rather regret facing danger instead of regretting the fact that I abandoned my friend!” Kanna placed both her hands on her hips. “If it’s you, you’d probably choose the sa thing… no, you’ve already chosen, haven’t you?”
Even if there was the risk of a bad end, Seiji still chose to try and convince Kanna and Izawa to withdraw rather than wanting to watch them get into danger.
However, this had a slightly different aning from the choice that Kanna made… Seiji could only smile wryly at the Fujihara Family daughter who slightly misunderstood his intentions.
“I support my master. Your attempt to convince us to surrender won’t work.” Izawa also expressed his opinion.
“You guys… why don’t you consider for a little more? The danger of dying in this tournant is quite high.”
“Even an otaku like you dares to take the risk. How could a fellow otaku like possibly back down!” Kanna arched her head proudly.
“If you die, you won’t be able to remain an otaku anymore. You won’t be able to read any more manga or watch any more ani. Nor will you be able to play any more video gas.”
“Er…”
“Master, please don’t be shaken just because of words like these.”
“Shush! The scariest thing in life is to be unable to read manga, watch ani, and play video gas!!”
“If Master surrenders from the tournant without even fighting, this terrifying event will still happen if you return to your family.”
“That’s… true.” Kanna instantly regained her conviction. “That’s why we absolutely must fight! I shall fight for the sake of being able to remain an otaku forever!!”
Seiji was rendered speechless.
Whatever happened to her earlier speech about fighting for the sake of friendship?
“There’s still so ti before the tournant begins. Think things over carefully until then.” That was all that he could tell them.
After the 7321 faction tournant participants arrived, they were surrounded by additional tournant participants from their families and factions’ subordinate families.
Seiji glanced over at them from a distance as sothing flashed in his eyes.
Should he go over there to talk with them, proposing an alliance against the Revenge Alliance?
If he went over there to talk to them, forget about Shuntou Haruta and the others’ attitudes, the most important one among them was Shigure Tendo.
In the previous tiline, Shigure had gone into a berserk state. He likely killed off all his enemies and teammates before coming to attack Seiji.
Why did this happen? Seiji didn’t know. But judging from this event, Shigure Tendo was highly likely to be the strongest individual in the 7321 faction tournant participants!
The strongest individual in the 7321 faction had a direct blood-related grudge against him. That would make things difficult to negotiate. But in the previous tiline, Shigure Tendo had indicated that he was willing to abandon the grudge in order to break free from the black mist controlling him. Hrm…
It was difficult to analyze whether it would be beneficial or a detrint to go talk to the 7321 faction right now. Plus, Seiji had to worry about Kanzaki spying on him.
After further consideration, Seiji made up his mind.
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