Huh?
Are you looking at me now?
Kitada Kei opened his mouth with a complicated expression, raised a hand to point at Ririko, who was still lying on the ground, then shook his head.
Is it really okay to come look at an irrelevant person like me instead of caring about your girlfriend at a time like this?
In silence, Kitada Kei looked again at the girl whose face was as pale as paper.
Tokugawa Ririko.
Had she just reached the end of Clear Sword Heart and arrived at the "Other Shore" of everything?
Could "crossing the sea of suffering and reaching the Other Shore" really be accomplished through a single battle?
Even more unexpected was that Uesugi Tetsu had actually beaten Tokugawa Ririko, whose Sword Heart had reached the Other Shore, so thoroughly that she could not fight back at all...
Seeing Kitada Kei's gesture, Uesugi Tetsu immediately understood that he was trying to say, "Now isn't the time."
It was not the time to fight.
So that was it. He wanted to wait until the end, then make a show-stopping appearance after all the other battles were over?
Uesugi Tetsu looked at Kitada Kei, then at Minamoto Shizuka, who was likewise staring fixedly at Ririko.
That was fine.
He could completely understand.
They should let everyone behind them fight for a while. Otherwise, if the main event ended halfway through the Seed Battle, the ratings and the number of simultaneous viewers watching the livestream would plummet.
But in reality, the two of them were not thinking on the same wavelength at all.
Uesugi Tetsu withdrew the Spiritual Power infusion from his Flame Armor and stopped the Five Thunder Technique, which had been constantly destroying his bodily tissues. Maintaining only the minimum circulation of protective energy, he let out