Kaguya-sama: Love Is War wants me to turn myself in.

The screams quickly and completely disappeared.

A short while later, the ghost captain walked through the door and came out of the room.

"The sixth room... huh?"

Amamiya Natsuki suddenly narrowed her eyes.

Behind the ghost captain, a short-haired girl suddenly emerged.

To be precise, it should be the ghost of the short-haired girl—like the ghost captain, her body walked directly through the door.

"Hey, what's going on?"

Kitagawa Kaimu's eyes widened in surprise.

Hayasaka Ai frowned slightly.

The translucent female ghost had a similar eerie blue hue to that of the ghost captain, giving off a very unsettling feeling.

at the same time.

A prompt appeared before Natsuki Amamiya's eyes.

The Desperate Ghost Crew

The ghosts transformed by the Ghost Captain are absolutely obedient to him.

[As the ancients said, "to act as an accomplice to a tyrant," and as the ghost captain, is there any problem with me, David Jones, recruiting a few more crew members?]

Upon seeing the words "acting as an accomplice to a tyrant," Natsuki Amamiya instantly understood the treacherous nature of the hide-and-seek game.

You thought it was a group of players playing hide-and-seek with a ghost captain?

of course not.

The truth is actually a biochemical infection mode!

Each unfortunate player who gets caught will be transformed into a ghost crew member to help the ghost captain find other hiding players.

The main quest requires you to survive for 120 minutes. If you do nothing, you will likely end up with a ghost captain and a group of ghost crew members, making the difficulty level reach hell.

Amamiya Natsuki misses the pink-haired idiot even more.

If I'm not mistaken, in order to maintain balance, the only monster on the ship should be the Ghost Captain. If Fujiwara Chika is by my side, the combo attack to eliminate evil can be used. Amamiya Natsuki should rush up now and rub the Ghost Captain to the ground, making him call her daddy!

It's a pity he's no longer here.

The game's difficulty increased dramatically.

at the same time.

The ghost captain pointed down the corridor, and the player ghosts, who had become ghost crew members, bowed respectfully.

Hey, you've already become a ghost, yet you still don't forget to bow and greet people. Has the rule of etiquette been ingrained in your soul?

"She's here."

Kitagawa Kaimu quickly tugged at Amamiya Natsuki's sleeve.

The ghost captain turned and walked deeper into the area, while the player ghost walked towards the direction of Amamiya Natsuki and the other two.

“I see her.” Natsuki Amamiya’s expression turned serious, and she made a quick decision. “She has become the Ghost Captain’s puppet. We can’t let her find us… Hurry up and hide inside.”

"Where can we hide?" Kitagawa Kaimu asked anxiously. "Should we go back to the deck?"

"The deck is completely empty, there's nothing there. If the ghost crew gets on the deck, we'll be discovered without a doubt."

As Amamiya Natsuki answered, her gaze fell on the box in the corner of the hallway.

Quickly picking up the miscellaneous items placed on the box, Amamiya Natsuki opened the wooden box, which was just big enough for one person to hide inside.

"Hide inside."

Amamiya Natsuki looked at Kitagawa Kaimu.

"it is good."

Kitagawa bit his lower lip, said nothing, and obediently hid in the wooden box.

I may not be able to help much, but I will definitely not be a fool who wastes precious time at crucial moments.

Amamiya Natsuki closed the wooden box, put the miscellaneous items on it, and then opened another wooden box, her gaze slightly narrowed.

Hayasaka Ai's brows furrowed slightly as well.

The second wooden crate was filled with miscellaneous items and was clearly unusable for hiding.

At the ghost crew's walking speed, there wasn't enough time to open the other wooden crates.

Amamiya Natsuki looked at Hayasaka Ai, took a deep breath, and whispered:

"Feel sorry……"

"..."

Hayasaka Ai remained expressionless.

Giving up on yourself is a wise choice.

If it were me, I wouldn't choose to sacrifice myself for a stranger.

The spy maid's mind raced; she was about to run onto the deck. Sitting and waiting for death was never Hayasaka Ai's choice.

next moment.

Amamiya Natsuki suddenly lifted the hamster cloak on her body, grabbed Hayasaka Ai's wrist, pulled the spy maid into her arms, and then spread the cloak to completely cover the girl.

"Sorry, please bear with me for a moment."

Chapter 126 It's time to show off the real skills!

"This guy……"

The moment her wrist was grabbed, Hayasaka Ai understood what Amamiya Natsuki was trying to do.

So she neither struggled nor resisted, letting Amamiya Natsuki pull her into his arms—in other situations, she would definitely have used a clean and decisive over-the-shoulder throw to teach Amamiya Natsuki what it meant to ask for trouble.

Stay steady.

Normal mind.

As a spy, sometimes it is indeed necessary to sacrifice one's body to complete a mission, which is acceptable.

then……

Hayasaka Ai miscalculated.

It's true that she received systematic spy training, but her mentor, who taught her spy skills, was a woman. At this moment, being held tightly in the arms of a boy, with their bodies pressed intimately together, was a first for her in her sixteen years of life.

Hayasaka Ai felt a scorching heat penetrate her clothes, enveloping her entire body and causing the spy maid to instinctively tense up.

"Steady, don't panic."

"It was just a hug...it's not like I wasn't naked!"

Sensing the fresh scent of laundry detergent on Natsuki Amamiya, Ai Hayasaka quickly shifted her attention.

"This guy smells really good...it's a pine scent."

"He didn't abandon his comrades in the crucial moment; he's a good person in front of me."

"..."

In contrast.

Natsuki Amamiya had no random thoughts at all.

In his field of vision, the player ghost, now a ghost crew member, was about to approach the corner.

Danger was imminent. Even if he were holding a once-in-four-thousand-years beauty in his arms, let alone an ordinary stranger, he wouldn't have the mind to think wildly.

The player ghost quickly arrived at the corner.

We can see that this unfortunate player was a short-haired girl in her previous life, who looked like a college student. Her body has turned into a transparent blue color similar to that of the Ghost Captain. Her face still bears the expression of pain and despair, her eyes are blank and empty, and her head keeps turning around, obviously looking for the hiding player.

The hamster cloak provides excellent concealment.

Natsuki Amamiya, cloaked and holding the spy maid in her arms, stood quietly in the shadows. The player ghost's gaze swept over the two of them before slowly moving away, clearly unaware of their presence.

The player Ghost had no intention of rummaging through drawers or cabinets; he quietly walked up the stairs, clearly preparing to head to the deck.

At that moment, Natsuki Amamiya suddenly felt the girl in his arms move slightly, as if she wanted to struggle.

"do not move."

Amamiya Natsuki tightened her arms slightly and quickly held Hayasaka Ai in place, then pressed her chin down on the spy maid's small head.

I was just saying you were very smart, how come you let me down at this crucial moment?

"...Why is there so much murky liquid inside a boy's head?!"

Hayasaka Ai was both embarrassed and angry, and wanted to kick someone.

Just a moment ago I thought Natsuki Amamiya was a decent person, barely passable, but the next second I felt something [beep] on my lower abdomen.

What else could it be but that kind of thing!

How could someone react like that when the ghost was right behind them? Are they a psychopath?

Of course!

Fortunately, their little actions went unnoticed by the player Ghost.

The unlucky ghost silently walked onto the deck and quickly disappeared.

"Okay."

Amamiya Natsuki released the spy maid from her embrace.

Hayasaka Ai quickly took two steps back, distancing herself from Amamiya Natsuki, biting her lower lip with her pearly teeth, her eyes clearly showing a hint of shyness.

"What were you doing moving around like that just now?" Amamiya Natsuki frowned slightly.

How dare you ask that!

Hayasaka Ai didn't speak, her gaze shifting slightly downwards.