Itsuka Shiori: My Target Has a Partner?! (Continued)

That Spirit looked incredibly like some great villain, yet he had never caused any destruction at all?

Was he actually a good guy?

She felt ashamed of judging him by his appearance.

But then, confusion arose in her heart again.

If he was a good guy, why had he triggered the highest-level alert?

She looked at Kannazuki, waiting for the twist.

"He truly is the strangest Spirit in history. He is male... though that is not the issue. The issue is that, among all observed Spirit Power readings, his ranks second in intensity."

"Theoretically speaking, his appearance is not the worst-case scenario. Perhaps we should relax a little?"

Using the Rai-style comparative method, he tried to ease everyone's tension with humor and laughed.

Ah...

Second-ranked intensity?

That did not sound quite so bad, did it?

Miss Itsori, who had no idea what was going on, laughed along with him.

Across the vast room, the laughter of one man and one woman sounded so...

Awkward.

Ah...

Had she done something strange?

Miss Itsori's heart skipped a beat.

As though answering her thoughts, a medical worker who looked as though she had not slept in a long time walked over and explained Kannazuki's Black Humor.

"In terms of Spirit Power readings, the one currently in sight really is second."

"If he causes a spacequake, it definitely will not be the sort of apocalyptic disaster that gouges a chunk out of the Eurasian continent."

"At most, it would only make several island nations disappear from the world."

She casually described the terrible catastrophe that would occur if the Ten-Tails were a Spirit and returned to the Spirit World.

Itsori: "..."

Her whole body froze.

Like a reader ordered by Gege Akutami to fight the protagonist of Sukuna's Legend—Ryomen Sukuna.

The Ten-Tails was a