Chapter 829: Remnant souls
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Kurisu
Whoops, it was ti to calm down.
Although the Totsuka no Tsurugi was apparently worth 3 billion sakuras, that would only be when it was in pristine condition. This one was obviously only a broken one, so of course it wouldn’t be worth the sa price.
1.5 billion, then?
That would be foolish to expect. Sothing broken would be completely different from a complete and usable item. For instance, maybe a famous painting would be worth millions, but even that would beco nothing more than worthless scrap paper if it was torn apart.
Perhaps that was why Natsuya remained calr than everyone else here.
Although she was also the daughter of a rich family, 3 billion sakuras would be a trendous amount even to her family. If this broken sword still had such value, it was unlikely that she could still remain so calm.
After their astonishnt passed, everyone figured this out on their own, and cald down as well.
Still, they were still sowhat excited.
This sword was still sothing so precious. Even if its remaining value was still only 1%, that would still be 30 million sakuras, an incredible find!
So, how much would this broken sword be actually worth?
Seiji asked Natsuya this question that everyone was thinking about. She replied, “I don’t know. In its current condition, it’s probably only worth the base materials used to craft a new one. I wouldn’t know how to calculate its current value.”
Alright, so it turned out that Natsuya didn’t know about everything in the spiritual society after all.
“So if this was really left behind due to a failed spell, what type of spell would that be? Why would it be left behind in the Realm of Cherry Blossoms?” Seiji continued asking questions that he considered to be critically important.
“Any spell that requires a Totsuka no Tsurugi will be a major large-scale spell or ritual. It will definitely be extrely important. As for the type of spell, that’s hard to say because this spiritual artifact’s main effect is simply to support large-scale spells, so it can be used for all sorts of spell formations,” Natsuya explained. “If I had to guess, the greatest possibility is that it was used for a sealing ritual. That’s because the original purpose of the Totsuka no Tsurugi was to eliminate and suppress demons. It was invented for the purpose of dealing with powerful demons.”
“A sealing ritual… Perhaps to seal away the Realm of Cherry Blossoms? Could this be sothing left behind by Soul Society after a failed sealing attempt?”
That seed possible.
However, Seiji ca up with another possibility that he considered more likely.
Perhaps this spiritual artifact sword didn’t actually belong to Soul Society. Maybe it belonged to the Tendo Family instead!
He had obvious evidence to back this up—Shigure Tendo’s body!
This sword had been found near Shigure’s body. Seiji felt that this was no simple coincidence.
Perhaps… this was the concrete evidence that the Tendo Family was secretly connected to the Realm of Cherry Blossoms!
When he realized this, he felt that it was ti to call his older sister Yui.
…
Capturing the target, Kouran Tendo, didn’t go very well. But at least it succeeded in the end.
Next up would be interrogation. However, this wouldn’t be done by Yui, so she was able to rest for a while.
At this mont, she received a call from Seiji.
Sothing flashed in her eyes as she listened to her younger brother’s report.
Her younger brother had given her a great “surprise” once again!
“I’ll imdiately head over to your current location,” she said instantly, and hung up after Seiji finished his story.
With how Yui didn’t say a single extra word and wanted to co over imdiately, Seiji realized that he had indeed been imnsely lucky.
No, more accurately, Kazuko had been the imnsely lucky one.
When considering the value of this broken sword, he would need to reward Kazuko correspondingly.
Seiji glanced at Kazuko for a while before he finally picked up the broken sword for the first ti to check it out.
He suddenly received a system notification as words appeared before him…
[You have obtained a mystical item that contains Inner World Essence. You may use so points to absorb the Inner World Essence. Would you like to absorb Inner World Essence?]
Inner World Essence?
Seiji’s gaze sharpened as he read this sudden unexpected notification.
What on earth was this new term?
Was this related sohow to the Inner World Crystals? Why could he absorb this essence? What would happen if he absorbed it?
Various questions popped up in his mind. However, his system remained as eternally silent as always. All it did was offer him the options [Yes] and [No] on whether he wanted to absorb the essence or not.
He didn’t know what would happen if he absorbed the essence… but since his system’s options were usually beneficial, he decided to try!
Seiji imdiately chose the [Yes] option.
He then saw a progress bar on the absorption, which also listed how many points he was using up. Seiji simultaneously felt sothing flow from the broken sword through his arm and into his body!
This warmth made Seiji’s body begin to heat up as the warmth started flowing within him. It felt slightly discomforting, yet also slightly good. Seiji could faintly feel sothing deep within him becoming slightly stronger.
As the progress bar for absorption swiftly increased, the number of points he used up also increased at a shocking rate.
Luckily, this absorption soon finished. In the end, it cost him 392 points to absorb all the Inner World Essence from the broken sword!
He had spent almost 400 points just like that. And what he obtained in exchange was…
[Absorption complete. The Spirit House now has a new room, the Soul Room. The Soul Room can be used for storing and saving spirits and souls. Every day, the Soul Room will produce and store Mana. You may obtain additional Mana from the Soul Room.]
Seiji widened his eyes in surprise.
He actually gained an entire new room for his Spirit House, and this room could be used to store spirits and produce Mana!
He imdiately wanted to check it out.
“Seiji, what’s the matter?” Natsuya noticed that he seed to be behaving strangely.
“I… just absorbed so energy from this sword,” Seiji explained. “I’m not sure what this energy is… After I absorbed this energy, I gained a new room in my Spirit House that’s capable of storing spirits and producing Mana.”
What?
Natsuya widened her eyes in surprise.
Absorbing energy led to a new room appearing in the Spirit House… Was building a personal dinsion that easy!?
Not only that, she hadn’t noticed that the broken sword contained any type of energy at all. Just what the heck was that energy supposed to be!?
Compared to Natsuya’s shock, the others didn’t really react that much. This was because the Spirit House already seed miraculous enough to them, so they felt that there was no need to be astonished over a new room appearing. Although they were surprised, they didn’t feel like this was such a big deal.
“I’m going in to check it out.” Seiji opened the door to his Spirit House and entered.
He didn’t have Natsuya or anyone else co with him, since there was no need. Besides, the now one-handed Kungo still needed soone to keep guard on him.
When Seiji went to the living room in his Spirit House, he saw that a new door had appeared along with a sign that said “Soul Room”.
Seiji opened the door and instantly felt chilled.
Inside this room… it was snowing!?
To his surprise, the environnt inside the Soul Room was filled with snow.
The ground was covered in snow, and snow was also coming down from the sky.
That was right, the sky!
This “room” had a trendous area. It was impossible to see any of its walls. Seiji could only see a dense mist for a few ters. And, everything above was also gray and hazy!
Yet, the environnt wasn’t the most important part… What attracted Seiji’s attention the most was a group of different orbs of light that floated on top of the snow at differing heights!
These orbs of light had many different colors, including red, yellow, blue, orange, and green. They seed like burning flas, as well as water flowing in a zero gravity location. So orbs were large, and so orbs were small. So floated up high, and so were low next to the ground. So were almost completely still, while so were moving slowly. So had nothing on their surface, while so were flashing… This all seed quite wondrous.
“What are these?” Seiji muttered to himself while looking at an orb of light close to him.
“These are remnant souls,” Yomi spoke up to answer him. “These are souls left behind by dead humans. You could call them soul shards.”
“Soul shards… whom do they belong to?”
“I don’t know.”
Seiji fell silent as he contemplated.
His system had absorbed the so-called “Inner World Essence” from the Totsuka no Tsurugi in order to create this room… no, this dinsion. The soul shards here could only possibly have co from the Inner World Essence, which ant that broken sword. The sword was a spiritual artifact… used for powering up large-scale spells…
“Could these be the soul shards of the people related to the failed spell involving this broken sword?”
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