321 Kneeling down

"Why? I clearly saw you just now..." Hachisaku-sama's dim eyes came alive again.

But it was strange.

She had clearly seen Kamiyagawa charge towards Lord Anglerfish in a suicidal frontal assault.

But why was he now, unscathed, appearing in Yukino's house?

Moreover, in the battle just before, not counting that last attack, the injuries Lord Kamiya suffered were very severe.

With his human body, many of the wounds were irreversibly grievous, the kind that, even if he survived, would definitely leave lifelong aftereffects.

Yet now he seemed completely unharmed, at most just a bit fatigued.

"Substitute combat."

Kamiyagawa explained, his gaze fixed on the tips of Hachisaku-sama's two slippery tentacles, following their movements.

And his succinct explanation was indeed not a lie.

It even made a lot of sense.

Using the Divine Cabinet and the Substitute Paper Person system to enter the Inner World and fight in an undying state, calling it substitute combat wasn't wrong.