Chapter 808: I want the you who’s like this
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
As a way to organize his thoughts, Seiji decided to call the previous tiline with so many people dying the Destruction Tiline. This current tiline he was in would be called the New Tiline.
Voidfire from the Destruction Tiline, or Destruction Voidfire for short, had given Seiji a password. As long as Seiji told this password to New Voidfire, the Voidfire from the New Tiline, it was highly likely that he could convince New Voidfire to change his actions and avoid the Destruction Tiline fate for the city.
However, there was a serious problem with this.
Seiji didn’t know what Destruction Voidfire’s password ant.
If this password sohow let New Voidfire learn that Seiji possessed the ability to travel back into the past, the consequences would be disastrous.
Even if New Voidfire didn’t act on this information imdiately, it was highly likely that he might do sothing with this information in the future, perhaps leaking this information to other mbers of the ssengers. This would probably end up causing sothing terrible and unexpected.
Seiji didn’t want to have to worry about this every day. He wanted even less to be forced to load far back into the past back to before this point if this beca a big problem in the future. And, if his ability was leaked, he might not even get a chance to load in the worst case scenario.
That was why Seiji preferred to contact New Voidfire through Kamitani instead of using Voidfire’s password and cell phone number. Seiji would try and convince New Voidfire by saying that he had a prophecy about the future.
Compared to the ability to go back in ti, a highly accurate prophecy would be less risky.
Still, this also had its dangers. A truly working prophecy ability would forever be highly valuable. It was just that the spiritual society seriously doubted the veracity of all prophecies, which was why this would be much safer. Not to ntion, Seiji could make up all sorts of excuses, such as by saying that it was difficult to activate this type of prophecy magic, that there was a great cost, a particularly long cooldown… etc., etc.
While this was less risky for himself, it caused the current problem that Seiji was facing—New Voidfire’s distrust.
It seed quite difficult to convince New Voidfire to change his actions based only on a prophecy.
Or, another way of saying it was that it would be very difficult to change Voidfire’s suspicions, so Seiji had trouble continuing down this path.
In that case, he would either have to say the password right now, or load to the Destruction Tiline to talk to Destruction Voidfire again in an effort to obtain more information.
Seiji felt like loading back to that ti would be a good idea. Still, how could he get Destruction Voidfire to tell him more specific information? There was also the problem of how long they could talk for.
Would he be able to obtain more ti if he went and contacted Destruction Voidfire earlier in the Destruction Tiline?
Seiji figured that this was unlikely. If he contacted Destruction Voidfire faster, this would only attract the Sakura Catastrophe Goddess’s attention faster as well. In the end, the ti to talk wouldn’t be increased.
In that case, the issue was how to swiftly convince Destruction Voidfire to give Seiji more information in a short amount of ti.
…The critical point was still the password!
Seiji managed to co up with a conclusion after organizing his thoughts.
He didn’t need to tell the password to New Voidfire. Instead, he could tell the password to Destruction Voidfire!
Having Destruction Voidfire hear the password would likely be the fastest way to obtain his trust. After all, he was the one who told Seiji about the password… And even if it didn’t work, there would be no harm in trying, since Seiji had already decided to give up on the Destruction Tiline. No matter what the password ant, Seiji wouldn’t have to worry about any potential future consequences.
Seiji made up his mind.
“Indeed, I don’t know the specific connection between your actions and the destruction that I saw,” Seiji admitted after his long period of silence. “Even if you stop your attack on Soul Society, it might be true that the destruction won’t be avoided. I probably thought of things too simply and naively… So, just do as you like, Voidfire-san.”
Seiji then pretended to be disappointed as he started to leave.
“Wait a mont.” Voidfire stopped him. “That’s all…? Are you willing to leave things like this, Seiji Haruta?”
Seiji stopped walking away.
“What else can I do even if I’m unwilling? I believed too much in my own prophecy, so I tried to change the future like an idiot… All I can do is to notify you of the potential danger, Voidfire-san.”
“You can do far more,” Voidfire stated. “Your power should be much stronger.”
‘That’s right, imdiately after I finish talking to you, I’m going to jump back into a future tiline to obtain more information from your future self, and then co back here to talk to you again,’ Seiji thought to himself.
Seiji didn’t want to use his save and load ability right in front of Voidfire. Maybe he was being overly cautious, but Seiji felt it would be safer to say goodbye and leave first.
However, Voidfire seed to have a different idea.
“What do you want to from , Voidfire-san?” Seiji asked Voidfire the sa question that Voidfire started out with.
“You can help . We can act together,” Voidfire said raspily.
Now this was a truly incredible suggestion!
“I don’t wish to beco enemies with Soul Society.” Seiji rejected this proposal.
“You believe that their plan is wrong. Yet, you don’t want to stop them from making this mistake?”
“I would if I could. However, I don’t have the power to fight against Soul Society.”
“You will if you co along with ,” Voidfire insisted.
Seiji fell silent for a mont before replying, “This is only our first eting, Voidfire-san. You said that you were happy to et , and you even told your real na. I’m grateful for that. However, this doesn’t an that I’ll instantly trust you, just like how you can’t completely trust .”
“Even if we can’t completely trust each other, cooperation is still possible.” Voidfire continued insisting.
“Yes, I also realize that it’s possible to cooperate without complete trust. But, even cooperation requires both parties to know a decent amount about each other. That’s not the case with us.” Seiji turned around and looked at Voidfire again. “Kamitani told that you were really strong. I also agree now that I’ve t you. You’re indeed strong enough to attack Soul Society all by yourself. So, why does soone like you want to recruit soone like that you’ve only t for the first ti? All I’ve done is tell you about a shallow prophecy that I have which says your attack will be a mistake. Although you seem to like , you don’t really need to join your side, do you?”
Voidfire fell silent this ti for a while.
“Because… I think that perhaps you might be able to beco my companion,” Voidfire spoke in a low voice.
“Hmm?”
“Seiji Haruta, I don’t have a single companion. Not even one. Nor have I ever t a single person that I’ve ever wanted to beco my companion.”
“…You’re a high-ranked mber of the ssengers.”
“So what?”
“Don’t you treat the ssengers as your companions?” Seiji furrowed his eyebrows.
“I don’t. They aren’t my companions at all. They’re only using , and I’m using them in turn. That’s just how my relationship with the ssengers is.”
“Since you don’t agree with the ssengers, then why don’t you leave them?”
“Because I have nowhere else to go,” Voidfire stated raspily. “I have nowhere to go, nowhere I should go, and nowhere that I want to go. The ssengers use , and I use the ssengers. There’s nothing else apart from that. I don’t need anything else. I thought that this was fine… until I t you. When I t you, I felt for the first ti that maybe even I can have a companion. Perhaps you’ll beco my companion, or perhaps you won’t. It’s only a possibility. But, it’s exactly this possibility that makes want to invite you to join my side.”
‘That’s all it is.’ Seiji felt like he could hear Voidfire saying this.
He felt that Voidfire was telling the complete truth here.
Voidfire didn’t need his assistance in attacking Soul Society. His invitation was simply because he had gotten interested in Seiji. However, even this interest was apparently incredibly rare. His interest also seed to include a certain type of need.
A subtle yet concrete and mysterious need.
Seiji sensed all of these emotions coming from Voidfire. Suddenly, Seiji felt like he understood why Dousei Ashiya had chosen the code na Voidfire.
Fire obviously represented the magic that he was most skilled at. And Void… that represented his foundational essence.
Voidfire—Dousei Ashiya—was incredibly strong, but he lacked a soul, or at least he lacked a soul like the one normal people would have.
Seiji felt that this was all incredibly subtle as he thought about Voidfire’s words and notorious family history.
“Because I’m not human… I’m not human, yet I’m like a human, or maybe I should say that I’m human yet inhuman. Is that why you want to beco your companion?”
Sothing flashed in Voidfire’s eyes as he nodded rapidly.
“Yes. I want the you who’s like this, Seiji Haruta.”
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