Chapter 746: Your justice is within you
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
The weather was gloomy. Normally, Isamu would have chosen to stay at ho and play video gas. But, for so reason, Isamu felt stifled at ho, and chose to go outside instead.
And then, it rained.
Luckily, by the ti it started raining, Isamu had reached his goal—the ga center, or arcade.
This ga center had several floors, each containing many arcade machines of various genres. Isamu would co here on occasion.
Although Isamu preferred singleplayer gas, arcade gas also had their own charisma. Playing an arcade ga would feel entirely different from a singleplayer ga at ho. Of course, part of it was also his childhood nostalgia.
When younger, Isamu had spent much of his pocket money on arcade gas. There were also other kids that played arcade gas together with him, but they had all lost contact with each other.
Isamu first played a new 2D fighting arcade ga that ca out recently. Next, he played a racing ga. After that, he was about to play a shooting ga, when he saw to his surprise…
“Class president?”
A beautiful girl with a cold and calm expression was standing in front of the shooting arcade ga. She wore a white long-sleeved shirt and blue jeans. She had dark brown short hair, half-rimd eyeglasses, deep red eyes, and a pretty face.
She was shooting at the arcade machine screen while holding the gun in a very standard two-hand posture. She shot swiftly and steadily. Clear gunshots, impacts, and enemies’ screams could be constantly heard from the arcade machine.
Not only was Isamu surprised to see this, he also felt that this was a beautiful scene. He felt that his class president seed so cool as if she really knew how to use guns.
This girl’s na was Riho Heijou. She was the class president of Isamu’s class. She had excellent grades, and was considered the reliable type. Although she rarely talked or smiled, she was still quite popular in class. Everyone viewed her as a big sister type.
Isamu hadn’t talked to her much before. They barely counted as acquaintances. He found it surprising that he t her here.
Isamu had never heard before that class president Riho was fond of gaming. He felt that she would be more into reading novels or the like…
Did she co into this ga arcade center in order to avoid the rain?
Isamu wanted to go over and greet her. However, she was currently in the middle of her ga. Not only that, he wasn’t certain if she wouldn’t be displeased at seeing a classmate here… perhaps he should silently leave without saying anything?
Just as he was wondering what he should do, she noticed his attention and turned to look at him.
They exchanged direct glances.
Isamu felt a mysterious shiver run through him when he t her dark red eyes.
Although she was beautiful, Riho had a distant expression that seed empty and devoid, as if she didn’t care about anything in the world.
“Isamu Seima-san… Hello.” She greeted him lightly.
“Er… Hello, Class President… I’ve never expected to et you here, haha.” Isamu laughed foolishly.
Riho only glanced over him before she returned her attention to the arcade screen and continued playing her ga.
Isamu felt rather awkward. He didn’t know if he should leave or stay.
He felt that sothing seed off about his class president. After so hesitation, he chose to stay behind. He walked over to Riho’s side, inserted a coin into the arcade machine, and started playing the shooting ga together with her.
Isamu then discovered that his class president was amazingly strong at this ga! Her shooting was so accurate as if she had really shot a gun before. She had near-perfect accuracy.
Was she highly familiar with this ga? Could it be that she often ca to play it?
Isamu didn’t think so… If Riho ca here that often, he felt that he would have t her here already long ago.
He decided to ask out of curiosity.
“Class President, you’re amazing at this ga. Do you often co here to play this ga?”
“No, this is my first ti playing it,” Riho replied calmly.
First ti… Isamu felt like Riho was unintentionally bragging. He was rendered speechless.
“Did you co in here to avoid the rain?”
“Yeah.”
“I co play the gas here from ti to ti…”
Isamu was unable to continue the casual conversation anymore. He thus started talking about the ga they were playing. Riho listened quietly, and only responded to direct questions.
They shot mobs, reloaded ammunition, and defeated bosses… The two of them skillfully beat all the levels until they finally beat the entire ga and saw the ending screen.
After Isamu put down the ga gun, he was about to ask class president Riho if she wanted to continue playing a different ga together. At this mont, he suddenly heard a scream!
“Ahhhhhh grrrrrwwaarrrrrllll!”
At first, the scream sounded human, but then it started sounding bestial. As everyone in the ga center looked around in bewildernt, Isamu suddenly recalled the strange dream world he previously experienced…
Could it be the Sin Masks from that dream? Could it be that Sin Activation was happening in real life now!?
Before he could think more on this, there were then multiple screams, and lots of loud noises and even more screams!!
Boom!!!
Isamu and Riho looked over to see a figure viciously crashing into an arcade machine in the corner. That person crashed into the machine with such speed that the machine was demolished. The person sank into the wreckage with a distorted body that was spurting blood…
It would be impossible for anyone to throw themselves at such a high speed… He had been tossed into the machine!
Although everyone else in the ga center was shocked and dazed at the sight, Isamu realized what was going on.
No matter what was going on, whether it was Sin Mask Activation, or so other cause, a monster had appeared in the ga center!!!
What should he do!?
He could only escape… this wasn’t the dream world. He didn’t have any special powers in real life! Nor did he have a weapons!!
Just as Isamu was thinking this, a trendous monster appeared in his field of vision.
This monster had a red body and a black bird’s head. Its arms and claws were long, but its legs and feet were stubby and short. Many gray spikes protruded from all over its body, especially its back. The monster was also emitting faint red mist from its mouth. This monster appeared vicious and ugly, and gave everyone a trendous sense of terror!
People instantly started screaming and running. There were also others that collapsed on the ground, stood still where they were in a daze, or trembled all over…
Isamu wanted to escape imdiately!!!
He turned around to leave. Although he felt bad about abandoning the other people present, there was truly nothing that he could do. At most, he could take the class president along with him… wait, where was the class president!?
He turned around and saw to his astonishnt that his class president, the girl nad Riho Heijou, was actually walking towards the monster!!
“Class President! Don’t go over there!” Isamu shouted loudly.
Yet, Riho didn’t slow down at all. Instead, she reached out to the monster with her hand.
Had she gone insane!? Isamu was so shocked that he didn’t know what was going on anymore.
The bird head monster also reached out its hand, and gently shook the girl’s hand… such a thing didn’t happen at all!
This wasn’t a movie filming with a beauty and the beast topic!
What really happened was that the bird head monster reached out with its claw and grabbed Riho, squeezing her hard!
Riho scread with incomparable pain in her voice.
This was only natural.
Could there be any other possible outco when you walked towards such a monster and reached your hand out to it!?
Isamu couldn’t understand why his class president would do such a thing. He couldn’t even curse at her for being an idiot, because he was too shocked at her action.
But, no matter why she did that, Isamu was quite clear on one thing.
His class president was about to die!
In the next minute, right in front of him! She would be squeezed to death by the monster!
And, he had no way of stopping this.
He was about to watch soone he knew die right in front of him, and he wouldn’t be able to do anything at all.
Why?
Because he had no power…
‘No! I do have power!’
But, that wasn’t a power that Isamu could use in real life. That was a power he only had in his dreams, while he was asleep…
‘Give up! Run away now. All you can do now is protect your own life,’ Isamu’s voice whispered to himself in his own mind.
‘No! If you run away now, you’ll live for the rest of your life regretting that you abandoned your classmate to die,’ another version of his own voice whispered to him.
But, even if he didn’t run, he couldn’t save her!
No, he could! As long as he used that power he possessed in the dream world, here in real life…
Transform his dream into reality!
Transform his ideal into reality!
‘Isamu Seima! What is your dream!?’
‘My dream is…’
Isamu’s spirit suddenly reached a certain realm, coming into contact with sothing subconscious.
A certain sentence suddenly reentered his mind. It was almost as if that person had especially given him a hint, or perhaps guidance.
“Your justice is within yourself.”
‘I understand now, Seigo Harano-kun.
‘Appear! Activate! My power!!!’
Isamu’s spirit transford his power into reality and shook his very soul as sothing arose from deep within him and transford into an owl mask that appeared on Isamu’s face.
And then, there was a brilliant light…
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