-1057- The beast vessels in the blood

After a while, everyone gathered in the living room.

Rozen and Avrora emerged from their rooms together after the joyous reunion and joined the others in the living room.

Kojou and Nagisa, who had lost consciousness earlier, also recovered and walked out of their rooms.

They all gathered in the living room, chatting animatedly, relieved to be alive after the dangerous events of the previous night, where their lives were at stake.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone here isn't ordinary, encountering such a situation would have left deep psychological scars.

So, when they all gathered together, they immediately started chatting lively.

Especially Nagisa, who was already talkative, became even more chatty. Avrora, on the other hand, was teary-eyed throughout, both moved and overwhelmed with joy. Kojou, still bewildered by the situation, scratched his head, but seeing Nagisa recovering, he seemed relieved. Only Rozen kept observing the other three, smiling wryly one after another.

In this situation, the four of them each received a knock on the head in succession.

"Bam!" "Bam!" "Bam!" "Bam!"

With four knocks, Rozen, Nagisa, Avrora, and Kojou all felt the impact of the lace fan hitting their heads, causing them to cry out in pain and clutch their heads.

And the one who punished them like this naturally was the owner of the house.

"It seems like your spirits are all very good," Natsuki, holding the lace fan, stood in front of them, her gaze unusually sharp.

"But you should not forget that last night, the four of you went out for a night excursion together, right?" Natsuki's words prompted protests from everyone present.

"I... I didn't go out for a night excursion. I have no idea when I went out or what happened. Really, I have no idea, Natsuki-sensei," Nagisa pleaded innocently.

"I... I went to end everything. There was a legitimate reason, not just a simple night excursion," Avrora protested too, her voice trembling with fear.

It was Kojou, scratching his head, who murmured.

"I just woke up to check on Nagisa's condition and found her not in her room, so I got worried, alright?"

This seemed to be the reason for Kojou's appearance in the old southeast area.

After discovering that Nagisa was not in her room, Kojou immediately became anxious. In a panic, he called Asagi and begged her to pull up the footage from the surveillance cameras on Itogami Island to track Nagisa's whereabouts. Upon learning that she had gone to the old southeast area, he rushed over.

So, when Kojou arrived in the old southeast area and, amidst the catastrophic battle, managed to break into the battlefield, seeing Nagisa display inhuman power and confront Rozen, Kojou almost instantly understood that something was amiss with Nagisa's spirit, so he seized the opportunity to jump out when Rozen needed help, rescuing Nagisa.

That was all the circumstances surrounding Kojou's presence there.

Natsuki vigorously knocked Kojou's head.

"How dare you bring that up?" Natsuki said coldly. "If it weren't for the special district security team reporting to me that my students had stolen a patrol cruiser during the chaos, I wouldn't have known that you had done such a thing."

"N... No, if I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have been able to go to the old southeast area at all. I'm not like the spirit attached to Nagisa, able to grow wings and fly. And only that cruiser had autopilot function, and the communication bridge somehow disappeared. I had no choice!" Kojou protested, holding his head.

"Is that so," Natsuki said with a cold tone. "Then even if I let you be arrested by the security team for theft, you can't blame anyone else, right?"

Upon hearing this, Kojou's face turned green.

"N... Natsuki-sensei, please, help Kojou-kun. He just can't distinguish between the seriousness of things and had no choice but to do so. Please, don't let him go to jail. I really don't want to visit him there, but if I don't go visit, Gajou-kun and Mimori-chan will definitely act as if he doesn't exist, and that would be too pitiful for Kojou-kun!" Nagisa pleaded with clasped hands, looking desperate, and her words were absurd but believable, making it seem like Kojou would indeed become like that if he were arrested, leaving his face alternately green and white.

However...

"Only if it turns out that way, it's actually a better scenario than what's happening to him right now," Natsuki snorted coldly, causing both Kojou and Nagisa to fall silent.

They should both know exactly what happened to them, right?

Nagisa was fine, as the spirit inside her had been removed, and her spiritual abilities were recovering. I believe it won't be long before she becomes that rare mixed-ability user again, right?

But Kojou was different.

"I remember it was called 'Togami'?" Kojou said calmly. "That thing ran into my body, right?"

It seems that Kojou remembers this matter very clearly.

"Is that really a god? Did a divine being really possess Kojou-kun's body?" Nagisa worriedly asked.

"Kojou-kun doesn't have the qualifications of a spiritual ability user, so is it really okay for a divine being to possess him?" she continued.

You know, letting a divine being possess someone is something that only extremely talented priestesses and priests can do.

If it were Nagisa, it would be fine, but Kojou himself doesn't have the qualifications of a spiritual ability user. Being possessed by a god is definitely not a good thing.

But...

"You can rest assured about this aspect," Rozen, who had been observing Kojou, spoke up.

"It seems that the divine being inside Kojou doesn't intend to wake up or manifest itself but is content to enter a dormant state voluntarily. It has autonomously sealed itself, so even if Kojou doesn't have the qualifications of a spiritual ability user, he won't encounter life-threatening problems due to being possessed by an overly powerful spirit like you did," Rozen's words relieved both Nagisa and Kojou.

Only Natsuki...

"Then shouldn't you also explain properly how you had the guts to seal such a monster inside you? Who gave you the courage to do such a thing?" Natsuki said in an extremely displeased tone, looking directly at Rozen.

"Ugh..." Rozen immediately fell silent.

In front of Natsuki, Rozen couldn't find any excuses for this matter.

He couldn't just say that he took this risk because he coveted the power of the original, could he?

That would definitely get him scolded by Natsuki.

After all, Natsuki herself sold her soul to a demon to gain power and definitely didn't want to see her brother go down a similar path.

Unfortunately, what's done is done, and Natsuki can only helplessly stare at Rozen and demand, without any room for negotiation.

"Once you sealed that thing inside you, how do you feel? Tell me everything," Natsuki can only worry about this matter.

"Well, there's no problem with the sealing aspect. I'm confident I can control it myself, and I believe no one else can undo it besides me," Rozen scratched his head and, after hesitating for a moment, chose to tell the truth.

"But, it seems that the beast vassal of the Fourth Primogenitor also ran into my body and is being nurtured in my blood."

With that sentence, the expressions of everyone present changed.