6.7 Remaining Vision

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The pain searing in Itsuki’s body was steadily becoming too much for him to endure. But he wasn’t an idiot to let Otoguri have its way of defeating him. Or worse, killing him. He couldn’t afford to die at the moment. Not when he was only starting to fight as a Seitenger.

Then again, he couldn’t believe that such an illusion would be shown to him and completely distract him. He tried to push himself back up but the injuries he sustained were deep. He had to get out of there or it would be over for him.

“Damn it… Now I can’t seem to stay awake because of this pain…” Itsuki mumbled as his eyes drooped.

“Don’t close your eyes!”

That voice from a young girl soon snapped him back to his senses, prompting him to look around the area to look for any signs of that girl. He couldn’t see anyone there, though.

“Don’t let this get to you. You can fight your way through this. That monster’s illusions can’t hurt you or enchant you.  Okay? Don’t allow it…”

‘Damn it! Who is she?’ Itsuki could only ask in his mind in frustration. But he knew he had to calm himself.

Like what that voice said, he could fight through this. All he had to do was to figure out how.

“Itsuki-san! Itsuki-san! Can you hear me?”

Another voice resonated in the area, and it was enough to fully snap Itsuki out of his frustration and reverie. But he couldn’t believe his ears. Did he hear it right?

“Helen?” he whispered. Even so, he had to make sure. “Helen? Is that you?!” he shouted.

He heard a relieved sigh after that. “Thank goodness! It got through.”

What in the world? It looked like someone was trying to get through to him. Which only confirmed his suspicion that he was indeed trapped somewhere.

“Itsuki-san, I’m not sure if you can sense it from there. But Erika’s transmitting sound waves around the area that will hopefully get through to where you are. She was able to do it with the help of Eichirou-san and Misae-san’s powers,” Helen continued.

But all the while she was speaking, Itsuki did his best to sense his sister’s Hasureiki, mainly from the ground. He wasn’t disappointed. He knew that Erika’s power was transmitted to the ground because of the few things in which sound travels — air and water. The basis of Misae and Eichirou’s respective attributes.

Then again… what would happen now that he sensed it?

“I know you’ll figure out how to use that on your own. But use it to attack Otoguri. Despite that monster using sound to attack and to create illusions, it hated the fact that sounds can be used against it. Think you can amplify it using your own powers? If you can do that, then you can use it to attack Otoguri that can make it retreat for the time being,” Helen’s voice resonated once again with those instructions.

He didn’t even have the need to feel irritated only because it was Helen instructing him. But he knew when to let go of that irritation, especially when his life was at risk here at the moment.

He took a deep breath and tried to sense his surroundings using his Hasureiki, even if his wounds were drawing out his energy. As he did so, he took out his Hyakureider — blade still extracted — and plunged it to the ground. He needed all the support he could get. At the moment, his weapon was the only one that could give him that.

Once again, he transformed into SeitenEarth and tried to keep himself awake for a few more moments so that he could finish the task that he had to do. It didn’t take long for SeitenEarth to know where Otoguri was hiding, probably still watching him writhe in pain because of his injuries and end up getting insane from all the illusions he was seeing. He wasn’t going to allow it to have its way. Maybe his friends could help him discover the reason why the Triske Monster targeted only him.

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